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The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
Cremation In England.

The report of the council of the Gre
nation Society of England for 1896
shows that 1877 crematiOns were carried
out at Woking during the year as com
pared with 100 in 1895. The decrease
is not important as the figures for 1896
still show material advance on any
previous year, 1895 excepted. The fol
lowing table of the cremations at Wok-
ing from the commencement of opera
tions will show the growing popularity
of the disposal of bodies by incineration:
1889 1890 1891 1892 1898 1894 1895 1895
% "a 90 104 lGl 125 l50 137
1t has to be remembered that three
crematories are now open in England
and Scotland besides that belonging to
the society at st. Johns, near Woking
namely, at Manchester, where 90 Gre
nations took place during 1896; at
Glasgow, where there were ii crema-
tions, and at Liverpool, where crema-
tions have been performed. -Westmin-
ster Gazette.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
HOW FEAR WAS BANISH6Q.

George Kenuan's Method for Over.
coming His Natural Timidity.
when l was II or IS years Of age"
said Mr.. KEENAN,, Il went as a tele
graph operator to Cincinnati. l had
become so morbid and miserable by
that time that l said to myself one
day, I'm going to put an end to this
state of affairs here and now. If I'm
afraid Of anything I'll conquer my
fear of 1t or die If I'm a coward
might as well be dead, because | can
never feel any self-respect or have any
happiness in life, and I'd rather get
killed trying to do something that I'm
afraid to do that to live in this way /
was at that time working at night, and
had to go home from the office between
midnight and o'clock in the morning.
cinnati was more lawless city than
1t has ever been since Street robberies
and murders were of daily occurrence,
and all Of the might mem in our office
carried weapons as matter Of course
L bought revolver, and commenced a
course Of experiments upon myself.
When l finished my night work at the
office, instead of going directly home
through well-lighted and patroled
streets, directed my steps to the
slumS and explored the worst haunts
OF vice and crime in the city. If there
was a dark, narrow, cutthroat alley
down by the river that l felt afraid to
go through at that hour Of the night
l clenched my teeth, cooked my revol-
yer and went through it-sometimes
twice in succession. If l read in the
morning papers that a man had been
robbed or murdered on certain street
L went to that street the next night.
explored the dark river banks, hung
around low drinking dives and the
resorts of thieves and other criminals,
and made it an invariable rule to do
at all hazards the thing that thought
l might be afraid to do. OF course l
had all sorts of experiences and adven-
lures. One night saw a man attacked
by highwayman and knocked down
with slungshot, just across the street.
l ran to his assistance, frightened away
the robbers, and picked him up from
the gutter in state of funconsciousneSs.
Another night, after o'clock, 1 saw
a mans throat cut, down by the river
and ghastly sight 1t was, but al
though somewhat shaken l did not be-
come faint nor sick. Every time l
went through a street that l believed
to be dangerous, or had any startling
experience, l felt an accession of self
respect.
"1n less that three months l had sat
isfied myself that while l did feel
fear l was not so much daunted by
any undertaking but l could do 1t If
willed to do 1t, and then 1 began to
feel better
soon after this time l went on my
first expedition to Siberia, and there,
In almost daily struggles with Difficult
ties, dangers and sufferings of all sorts,
l finally lost the fear Of being afraid
which had poisoned the happiness Of
my boyhood." Atlantic Monthly.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28

! plenty fierce. Mkango mkaN nditu.
Master must take care; better climb
tree and look all around-not go into
grass" But there is no tree anywhere
near. A boy hoists himself to the slen-
der summit Of the ant hill and reports
that he sees the grass moving in the
direction whittier the lion had with
draWn-moving as though sta
tlonary animal were shaking 1t with
convulsive thrOes (all of which Is ex-
planned more by gestures than by
words. The doctor, clambering up be-
side the boy, thinks he can descry (as
the grass stems bow and droop before
some writhing object the lions way
ing tail and yellow gray haunch He
fires, descends from the ant hill to re-
load. A rush comes through
the grass, deafening roar some great
yellow object in the air above him
momentarily dark
against the sky yellow eyes
Qnsensibility).
"'Click clock, click clock. click clock
wonder what that funny sound
Is am l in train? No, it is
the engines Of the steamer-or is it the
pulse beating in my temples? They
have been asleep, and in broad day
light, with the blue sky above me and
in the broiling sun! How foolish! But
not must be something more. l know
there has something happened-let me
think the Lion, of course
a lion jumped at me. Then
must be wounded? Let's see" (raises
himself painfully on mis- right ARM
my God! a pool of my own
blood my left arm has no feel
ing chewed by the lion, hand
almost detached, rest of arm a mass
of blood muscle, bone and khaki
= Oh, God! I'm going to die
can't live-he has torn open my stom-
ach - that must be the pan
creas. I'm like a butchers shop"
(Whimpers. A blubbering sound at
tracts his attention) "Hullo! you here,
Juma? Plucky chap; thought you'd
have cut and run. Where's Saldi? Eh!
Speak louder I'm deaf Oh,
gone to gunboat; quite right
What? the lion?" turns his head slight
ly) ''there, still living; looks pretty sick
too" (The lion is lying four yards
away, partly on his side, one crippled
forepaw turned back, the other out
stretched and the great head resting on
it, eying the men with solemn yellow
eyes no longer fierce, the pupil shrunk
to a pin-point. With each convulsive
shudder of the lions body the blood
pool round him widens slighcly) by
heavens, if I've got to die, I'll die like
a man, and he shall go first. Who can
tell? He might recover and hurt the
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
Diet and Hair.

The relation of the diet to the hair
has been tested by good authority. a
diet consisting of beef, starchy materi
ais and milk causes atrophy of the roots
and falling of the hair. Probably no ar.
ticle of diet nourishes the hair so we'll
as oats A bald headed Scotchman who
takes his porridge regularly is rarity
The poorest diet for the hair is milk.
1t is claimed that the loss of hair as
the result of fever is largely due to the
habit of feeding the patient almost ex-
clusively OH milk diet, and it will be
interesting to note the cases where those
having fine heads of hair are known to
live principally upon vegetable and
grain foods.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
A Hopeless Case.

Carlyle was terribly bored by the per-
sistent optimism of his friend Emerson.
ST thought, he said, "that would try
to cure him, so 1 took him to some of
the lowest parts of London and showed
him all that was going on there. This
done, / turned to him, saying, And
moo, man, dye believe in the deev;l
noo?' oh. nop he replied. All these
people seem to me only parts of the
great machine, and ON the whole l
think they are doing their work very
satisfactorily. Them" continued the
sage, 81 took him doun to the hoose O.
commons, where they put US under the
gallery. There l showed him ae chiel
getting up after anither and leeing and
leeing' Then turned to him and said,
And moo, man, dye believe in the dee
vii noo?' He made me, however, just
the same answer as before, and 1 then
gave him up in despair. -
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28

mentary halD and asks inQuiringly:
"ElephantsY "No," says the negro In
a painting whisper, Lion! There, there;
no, not there. You see that ant hill?
Well. climb on to its side and you will
see the hon lying in clear space just
beyond. A male lion, truly; its body Is
nearly white and its name is black"
With Express rife at full cock, the
doctor advances gingerly through the
interlaced grass, bent nearly double,
keeping the muzzle Of the gun directed
straight before him and shields its SEN
sitive trigger from the intrusive grass
stems. The ant hill is reached; he clam
bers to it's sloping side. Good God,
the boys right What beauty! And
asleep, toow But something in the doe
tors coming has aroused the lion, not
ten wards away; aroused him partially,
for there is a sudden movement. He
raised the great head set in a collar Of
yellow, brown, black name; slowly the
dim nictitating membrane passes over
the yellow eyes, but as they are focus
ing to meet his own gaze the doctor
fires. fires precipitately (his position on
the sloping ant hill is insecure), wounds
the lion somewhere, somehow, but does
not kill him. The beast gives a sharp
explosive roar, seems to jump into the
air with all four feet and then in three
bounds has crashed off into the grass
Jungle. Silence. "Weu, I'm a muffp'
thinks the doctor. HE wasn't ten
wards away and | didn't kill him dead!
I don't know quite where l hit him !;
In the chest, think. But he can't be
far away and l must finish him off.
He descends from the ant hill into the
clear trampled space where the lion
had been lying. At the spot where the
beast had made it's first bound into the
dense grass hedge there Is a great
SQUIRT of blood over the tangled green
ery-the dark crimson liquid still drips
from leaf blade to leaf blade ''Ah!
thought so; he must be pretty badly
hit.''
Two black faces, with starting eyes
and anxious grins, now cautiously peer
around the ant hill. The doctor, rails
ing his head, recognizes his boys and
beckons them down. The three con-
verse in whispers. The situation is ex-
nlained-how the lion was wounded.
the direction in which he bounded
away. The boys urge caution. Lion
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
T e Is young doctor and a sur
4 geon on board one of the small
Il gunboats placed on a great AZ

Il 4 gunboats placed on great At
r1can Lake. Fresh-colored still, though
slightly tanned by exposure to the lake
winds, with merry, Irish eyes of blue
gray, a square-cut jaw and obstinate
chin, long upper lip, little whisker
at the temples and short wiry black
brown hair. Like many men of his
class, he Is potential Darwin, and,
having no means to travel and study
natural history, has entered the navy
as a surgeon. He has landed on the
shores Of the lake for a days shooting,
hoping to get an elephant at least, but
meantime content to study sunbirds.
Let us In Imagination enter his mind,
see through his eyes what he saw and
Lay bare his thoughts.
Grass! forest of grass, with stout,
knotted stems six or eight feet high,
and abundant leaves starting from ev-
cry joint. Each stem ends in a droop-
Ing plume of ripened seed. AS the
doctor forces his way through the tan.
gled herbage and cane-like stalks the
seeds shower down upon him, each one
cry stipule. The seeds are sharp point
ed and barbed at the ends, so they
pierce their way through his khaki
clothing easily and scratch the per-
spring flesh beneath. This raises to
evaporation the discomfort already
felt to be well-nigh unbearable, for the
doctors face is now the color Of raw
beef from the sitting heat and the
frightful exertion Of forcing his way
through such thicket Of grass, and
his hands are scratched and cut by
contact with the razor-edged leaves.
His Terai hat is constantly being
dragged off his head and 1t is all he can
do to carry his gun and elbow his way
through the obstructing herbage, pro-
tecting his face as well as possible with
the left hand. So he is in an i'll tenn
per and cannot stop to notice the weav-
er birds of fame color and black, the
extraordinary stick insects Exactly
Stimulating stalks of grass and the
green, leaf-like mantises which throng
the dense brake on either side. He is
after bigger game. The most expe-
rienced Of his boys pioneers him
through the sitting grass jungle, anoth-
er boy with second rife follows be-
hind. The idea Is Elephants ele-
plants having been reported hereabout
the previous day, when suddenly (they
have reached u space where the grass
is little drier, little less dense) the
niOneer th0y' cOnac dolJhlino hack on
his master with every gesture express
i've Of "Hushw The doctor stops, mops
his boiling face (thankful for the mo-
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
The Political Handkerchief,

There has just been sold by auction
in France the complete set of an old
newspaper which was probably unique.
It was called the Mouchoir de Poche
Politique political Pocket Handker-
chief and was published in 1881.
The proprietors hit upon the idea of
printing it OH cheap cotton stuff for the
purpose of evading the high paper duty
The complete collection consisted of IA
numbers-just gross of pocket hand
kerchiefs-for it is evident from the
title that the publishers believed the
newspaper would serve two purposes.
The price was pence-3 shillings
per dozen-not high price to pay for
news, articles, theatrical criticisms and
pocket handkerchief combined.
Unfortunately the cotton required too
much ink, and the scheme had to be
abandoned. London Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
ANIMALS AND MUSIC.
A Strange Experiment Made In ZooIog-
icai Garden.

A Strange Experiment Made In a ZooIog-
icai Garden.
A violinist was playing various airs
before the cages of the animals. The
bow, which had been passing backward
and forward half drowsily, took up a
gait that would have distanced one of
the deer in the pen by the buffaloes
yard Then there was a transformation
scene in the home of the lioness as rap
id and as complete as that of the tune.
The cubs went into ecstacies. They roll
ed about, jumped, fell over one another,
raced over their mothers recumbent
body, and danced unrebuked on her
head. They ceased their tantrums only
with the ceasing of the music.
Then they gathered at the front bars
of the cage again and silently and pa
thetically pleaded for more. Their plea
was successful, and in response to the
delicate fiattery conveyed by their man
ner the player gave the lullaby once
more. They simply sat and listened to
it as silently as they had at the first.
The transition to the jig music was
once more made speedily. The first note
Of the lively air had barely left the vio
lin before its riotous contagion had
once more caught the cubs. They roll
licked and rolled about and stopped on
ly when the professor, fearing to tire
their little limbs, took his bow from
his fiddle and told them they had danced
enough for debutantes.
The hyena is an uncanny brute. His
very appearance goes great way to-
ward bearing out charges of graveyard
robbery brought against him. He has
no music in his soul nor room for any.
Sweet sounds are to him so antipodal to
everything in his nature that they in
spire him with nothing but fear, and
the most abject fear at that. When Pro-
fessor Baker tried to interest the two
skulking hyenas in his performance on
the violin, they began trembling visibly
at the first notes utterance, and then as
the music swelled they sought the far
thermost side of their prison and tried
their best to squeeze their ungainly bod
les through the bars to escape the mel
dy.-PhiIadelphia Times.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
Finnigin to Flanagan.

Superintindint wuz Flannigan;
boss av the siction wuz Finnigin;
Whiniver the kyars got often the thrack
An muddled up things t. tn divil an
back,
Finnigin writ it to Flanagan,
Afther the wrick wuz all on again;
That is, this Finnigin
Reported to Flannigan.
Whin Finnigin furst writ to Flanagan,
He writed tin pages-did Finnigin.
An he tould jist how the smash occurred:
Full minny tajus, blunderin' wurrd
Did Finnigin write to Flanagan
Afther the cars had gone on agin.
That wuz how Finnigin
Reported to Flannigan.
Now Flanagan knowed more than hin
nigin-
He'd more idjucation-had Flannigan;
An it wore'm clane an completely out
To tell what Finnigin writ about
In his writin' to Muster Flanagan.
So he writed back to Finnigtr
Don't do sich sim agin;
Make 'em brief, Finniginv'
Whin Finnigin got this from Flanagan
He blushed rosy rid-did Finnigin;
An he said: "Ill gamble a whole months
pa-ay
That it will be minny an minny a da-ay
Befoore Sup'rintindint, that's Flanagan,
GIFTS whack at this very same sin agin.
From Finnigin to Flanagan
Reports won't be long agin."
Wan da-ay ON the siction av Finnigin,
On the road sup'rintinded by Flanagan,
A rail give way ON bit av curve
An SONS kyars went off as they made
the swerve.
''There's nobody hurted," sez Finnigin,
'But reports must be made to Flanni.
gan"
An he winked at McGorrigan,
AS married Finnigin.
He wuz shantyin' thin, wuz Finnigin,
AS minny a railroader's been agin,
An the shmoky OF lamp wuz burnfn'
bright
In Finnigin's shanty all that night
Bilin' down his report, was Finnigin!
An he writed this here: Muster Elan.
nigan:
"Of agin, on agin,
Gone agin.-Finnigin."
S. w. Gillian, in Atlanta Constitu.
ton.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
Tedious Work of Old Bookmakers.

Tedious Work of Old Bookmakers.
During the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries monks frequently isolated
themselves from the world and repro
duced the Bible in Illuminated manu-
script. The work was necessarily slow
and In no instance was 1t accomplished
in less than thirty-five years. Guido
de Jars was producer of these illumi-
mated manuscripts and a beautiful
specimen of his work was sold along
with the books of Sir. w. Burrell in
1870. This copy of the Bible had occu-
pied half century in it's production. A
note in the beginning of the manuscript
In Jars handwriting indicates that he
began his task in 1914 and did not con.
clude it till 1894.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28

boy. See here, Juma" (to Juma, who is
supporting his back, 'be very gentle,
take cartridge out of my belt, put it
in the rifle y so. now
........ mind my arm now,
give me the rife in my right hand and
come between my legs So
stoop very low down, like that. Now
I'm going to rest the rifle on your shoul-
der and take aim. Keep very STILL l
won't hurt you keep still
I'll aim just below the brute's
eyes," CA minute pause Bang! Doctor
falls back fainting. Lion stretches out
his head three times with spasmodic
upward movement, the tail and the
limbs-all but the crippled one-stiffen,
the claws stand out from their SheathS
and beast dies.)
"Juma, is that you? Water, how
delicious! more-and on my forehead
so what brick you
are! Upon my word, I'd like to leave
you something, Juma. You must tell
them that / said so, you know, for
sticking by me. GOD bless yOul Is the
lion dead? (The sobbing boy mods
"Yes'O "Well. then, l must die too.
I'm enough of a doctor to know that.
Don't cry. Tell them l bore 1t like
man. But it's beastly hard! Who'd
have thought my days shooting would
have ended like this?' (Whimpers.)
''Beastly hard. I'm so young, and I've
done SO we'll up to now and
there's mother. Who will break it to
her? She'll never get over it
and Lily and, damn it all,
can't even send them messages! How
can one tell such things to black boy?
Spose I'm dying primarily from the
shock know I'm dying some
how-can't raise my head to look
Mother! Mother!
What rot to go on like that, as If it
could do any good! Now, lis
ten. Inc ndirini ANAL, ndi miongo,
1--we Oh, God! How can l tell
him? It's all slipping away from me.
For the blood is the life.
Where have 1 heard that? That blood
is the life slipping away-sIp-
ping away must be in a boat,
it is so soothing; up and down, up and
down; so restful" (Sighs gently.
Dies.)-Sir II. H. Johnston, in the Sat
urday Review
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
THE LITTLE OLD SHOE.

IL Is only tiny shoe
That she touches with tender care,
4 cunning little bit of thing
That baby used to wear.
And she gently raises it to her lips
And lovingly holds it there.
It is worn and faded and old,
But it brings up the happy past.
She sadly signs as she thinks of the joys
That were too sweet to last.
In fancy she sees little child
AS it gambols upon the floor.
An elfiike creature with golden hair
Is cooling baby song once more,
And a tear drops down on the tiny shoe
That the beautiful dream child wore.
"Ah, well,' she sighs to herself,
IS 'Tis, alas. the will of the fatesi
l used to be able to wear this shoe.
But now l take number eights."
-Pearson's g Weekly.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
THE BEST HAND.
1t Was Held by an Outsider, and /. Beat
an "Ace Full"

AC WAS delu Oy an outsider, and Il Beat
an "-Ace Full"
Say" said the drug clerk to his
friend at tie soda water fountain, Il
ran against a play last night that made
me think that was the unluckiest man
that ever drew card +"
What was it," asked the man at the
fountain
"Why, l had all ace full beat by an
other full. I'll tell you how it hap
pened. Yon know we have quie. lit
tie game over here on Dearborn street
nearly every Saturday night. Well, last
night we got into a five handed game.
There were Julius, chattel mortgage
man, in whose Office we were playing;
real estate man, clerk for a bicycle
firm, lawyer and myself Well, it was
small game cent ante and a 90
cent limit. Along about 12 O'Clock I
opened the pot on pair of aces. The
lawyer raised me half dollar, and
Julius stood the raise. OF course | had
to stand it too. | was the first to draw
cards. ] drew three cards. I thought I
was pretty lucky when picked up an
ace and pair of tens, making me an
ace full. The lawyer, who had raised
me on three queens. drew down to his
hand and caught pair of sevens, which
made him queen full Julius asked
for one card and made spade flush.
'Well, bet check on the go, the
lawyer raised me another half dollar,
Julius called the raise and l raised
back We raised each other till we got
abort 81 in the pot. Just then the JAM.
tor of the building appeared on the
scene He had been out attending a
wedding and happened in at this rather
unreasonable hour. He was pretty we'll
loaded with some kind of Scandinavian
wine. He was good and ugly. 1t was a
great surprise to him to see a game Of
cards going on in the building over
which he had control, and he knew that
if the facts ever came to the ears of the
owner of the building there would be a
janitor looking for job
Now, what do you suppose that fel
low did? Why, he just walked over to
that table, kicked it over and sent the
cards and chips flying in all directions.
Then he told us to get out, and to do it
quickly; that he would call the police
and have US pinched.
I'VE got out and hunted up a small
room in hotel to continue the game.
When we got settled down again, ]
made kick for the pot on the last
hand. I told the boys that had an ace
full and that there wasn't t another full
could beat it. Bot old Julius spoke up
and said: "Oh, yes, there was. Vat &c
you ink of janitor full?" Chicago
Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
Larding Pork.

In larding with pork the fattest piece
procurable should be bought clean salt
pork is not available for any use) and
the strips always cut from that part be-
tween the streak of lean and the rind.
This is the only portion firm enough
for the purpose. The bits should then
be laid in ice water to become crisp be-
fore using.-New York Post.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
Catch Fish With Wheels.

A curious plan for catching fish is
used on the Columbia river. A number
of wheels are set up in the middle of the
stream, which, as they turn round, catch
up the fish and cast them into troughs
by the river banks. The salmon are
then timed and sent all over the world.
AS much as five TONS weight of fish a
day has thus been taken. City
Star
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
CanuibaIistic Tendencies,

''Who is that young fellow"
That's Jim Bowling, better knowp
as 'Cannibal.'"
"Why cannibalT'
His father is a retired missionary
and Jim lives on him."-Cleveland
Plaindealer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-28
"A BUNDLE OF NERVES"

This term is. often applied to people whose
nerves are abnormally sensitive. They should
strengthen them with Hostetters Stomach
Bitters After a course of that benign tonic
they win cease to be conscious that they have
nervous systems. except through agreeable
sensations. 1t will enable them to eat, sleep
and digest well, the three media for increasing
tone and vigor in the nerves, in common with
the rest of the system. The mental worry
begotten by nervous dyspepsia will also dis
appear.