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A LAST INTERVIEW Carpenter's Talk With Ex- President Hayes. HIS BEAUTIFUL HOME. LIFE. Interesting Reminiscences Daniel Webster and henry How Tom Corwin Died. Correspondence of The Morning Call.

Two weeks ago The CALL published the fust part of my interview with President Hayes and to-day 1 give you th" remainder. It was the only long interview that was ever held with bim as ex- President, and it contains the last words which he has given to the public. When I met him at his home in Fremont, Ohio, a few week- ago President Hayes had the best of prospects for outliving the century. lie walked from his house down to the hotel, a distance of more than a mile, and his step was brisk and he came into the hotel looking fresh as a daisy. It a biting cold Jay and his cheeks, i csv with the cold, shone out against the silver of his hair and whiskers and his blue ryes fairly with life.

Dining my staj with him I was and again surprised it his wonderful intellectual and physical health, and 1 could not realize that he was TO years of age. While I was at Suiegel Grove my photographer took severallpbolographs of him aad these are undoubtedly the lust photographs that were ever made of General Hayes. He gave me license to photograph everything in his house from attic to cellar, and I took pictures of lis library, his dining-room and a number of other rooms. Before I left he gave me a photograph, which he said he liked better than any other. It was taken about five years ago, but he aged so slowly that it is a good likeness of him at the time of his death.

Much of my time at ihe house was spent in silting with the Tie-, in his sanctum s-iuciorum, the bedroom which he an Mrs. Hayes occupied. It was here I think that he died, and here be spent a great part of his leisure hours. The room many portraits cf Mrs. Hayes, and drawers in his buieaus contained thousands of photographs, a number of which represented croups in which was Mrs.

Hayes. He seemed to like to speak of his departed wire, and he referred to her again aud again during mystay. He told me that he had to keep busy aud to fill his life full of work to prevent himself from brooding upon her loss, and 1 found, through ray talk with him and with his Ohio that be was one of the busiest men of the country. President Hayes was by tar the most respectable of all oe.r ex-Presidents. His life as 1 found it at Fremont was an ideal one, and it did honor to the great office which he had held.

He never allowed himself to drop into Delng an existing nonentity, and his days spent in doing good. lie was connected with nearly nil the great reforms of the race and of the country. He spoke to me of his prison work and he talk enthusiasticaliy of the movement for giving industrial education to ihe colored children ol the South. I found his mode of living perfectly simple and unostentatious. Tiiere was no led tape about Spiegel Grove, aid he told me he answered every letter he received.

He did in a hundred ways which I cannot mention here, uua he had tbe highest ideals of life aud duty. I was armed with liis relations to his family and with his ideas as to the value of time in comparison with the value of money. He was worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars, and bis estate was one of tie tones of Ohio. Still, he did not ailow his time to lie eaten up by its and when I asked hitu some question which related to money-making he said: "1 do not allow mutters of that kind to bother me. I have given all my business over to my boys, and I call upon them whenever out of funds.

To-morrow 1 expect to make a trip to Baltimore, and iv the morning just before 1 start I will get dolvu to the bank and ask Bud for some money. I will probably say to bim: 'Rod. I mn going to Baltimore, and I think I had better have about 5290 for the and jr'st as like a3 not Rod will answer: that's too much; I think you need mure than And I suppose 1 will take it. That's the way 1 used to do with him, and it's the way he does with me vow." And with this tiie roiilionalre ex-President laughed, and the conversation turned to other matters. I spent some time with Rutherford li.

Haves or "Rud" Hayes, during my stay. He is cashier in one of the banks or Fremont and is a manly young of, I judge, about 30. Like the rest of the Hayes boys he is a ness man, and I found that President Hayes was proud of liii. children. They are all of more than ordinary ability and every one of them seems to be possessed of practical common -sense.

Webb Haves is a very lawyer in To-1-do, and Webb's boy, Sherman Hayes, is as bright a little r-year- a- you will lind in the country. He eraboed his grandfather around his knees when he came iuio the house during my stay, and President H-ives told me little Sherman was the best of all things he had to show me. Another of Die boys Is connected with a large factory in Fremont which manufactures the carbons which are used in electric lights all over lite country, and the youngest son promises to be a bright, energetic business man. Miss Fannie Hayes, the President's only daughter, is the head of tha household at Fremont, She is now a charming young lady, and ihe fact that she played in the White House when her father was President has not affected her manners. She iswell educated and accomplished, is a SDleudid keeper, and she has kept the large at Spiegel Grove for years In apple-pie order.

Speaking of Mis 3 Fannie Hayes recalls a curious conversation which 1 bad with President Hayes as we sat together with ihe family at luncheon. The lunch was served in the diuiug-room. Miss Fannie "Who, Gem-rid Hayes," said I. "do you consider the greatest of our Presidents?" "I think." replied President Hayes, "that Abraham was the ablest and the greatest of them. Bd was the broadest minded, ha was closest to the people and be was our most representative American.

Next to him, 1 suppose, comes George Washington. But Washington had a tendency to admire English ways, and he was not the typical American that Abraham Lincoln was." "I suppose you knew President Lincoln quite said I. "Can you give me your idea of him?" R9P "Yes," replied the ex-President, "I had some acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln. 1 knew him when he was a young man just on the edge of his prime, and I have a picture here winch shows him as I knew linn then." (President ILiyes here showed me a large photograph takes of Lincoln when be was a young man.) As we looked at it he went on: you Is a far different face than Hayes sat at one end of the table and "Rud" that of the Lincoln of the war Lincoln at toon the place of host at the other end. At that time had no board.

His face was full the right of Miss Fannie sat President and free from the of care end worry Hayes with your correspondent next to He always wore his hair ruffed up as It is him and further down the table on either here, and he was really a not unhandsome side were the other members of the family, young man. The first time I really became including Mrs. Webb Hayes and her little acquainted with nim was in 1858, during Ins boy Sherman, who, In a high chair, had Ins caiupaiin tour in O.do. had acquired a seat next to his aunt Fannie. At the begin- reputation through his debate with Stephen iiing of the meal the resident asked me if A Douglas, and he was already a rising I would dritik ApoliinarK and upon my man.

We bud a close contest in Ohio that saying "yes" ha went out and brought in a year. William Dennison was the Re-pubbottle and filled my glass with his own lican candidate, and he was by bands. During the meal the conversation Ruins P. Rannoy of Cleveland. must to Russia, from which country I had remember him.

He was one of the war just returned, and we chatted of Tolstoi's Governors of Ohio, and when Lincoln ideas for the improvement of the world, called for 10.000 trooi-s he sent 30,000 and I asked President Hayes whether be instead, and sent men to Washington to tbaught the world was glowing better as it urge their acceptance. Lincoln made bim grew older. the PostmasUr-General in 1801. and he lle replied: "Of course it is. The people died, I think, about leu years ago.

Ranney of the world are better and purer every was a great lawyer, and as such was very year. Why, the old Greeks were the great- popular. He was in some respects the suest scoundrels who ever existed. By the perior of Dennison. but Dennison was the way.

1 have been lying a good deal of shrewder politician. The situation was the Greeks lately. i'ou probably have not such that we wanted outside speakers, and heard of it, but lam a college student. My we called in Lincoln to make seven or eight daughter Fannie and myself are both fresh- speeches for us. When he came to Cincinnati in the Chautauqua University course uati to talk I met him and aboarod him to and we wni graduate in 189 G.

That is, if we his hotel. Alter we bad talked a few mo- merits he told me that he would like, if pcs- Oh, if we die," said Miss Fannie, in an sihle, to be left ab.ne during the afternoon. undertone, 'we will carry on our studies on and that he would prefer that no cards be the other sent up to him. continued the President, "this re- menu by that, Mr. said view of Greek hislorv surprises me as to the "that you want to receive no one whatever.

mora ity of the Why, the other day Well. I will tell the cleik to say to all who read all about the Greeks, from their begin- call that you i.re and upon this 1 ning to the days of Columbus, and they rose to go. were the worst rack of liars, traitors and "'So, I don't mean be replied 'I 'iiitthrnats that you could imagine. Such mean that 1 n't want to see strangers. 1 would not be tolerated in tins day and want you to stay with me and we will have generation.

In all their ware there were a chat plenty of men on both sides who were "I then sat down and the conversation willing lo sell out to the enemy, ana soon turned to the debate with Douglas. they Ind more to fear from treachery in Lincoln was full of it at the time and he their own ranks than from the strength of told me Cam whole story, describing the aittheir foe 9. At Thermopylae, you reniem- uatlons very As he went on her. the phss wan b-st by treachery, and in his talk I could see that the President al and Ins 300 Spartans met their bee had already begun to buzz mini death by a traitor wiio sneaked over to the bead; that he was study ng the signs of tbe enemy. The leaders were as bad as the times, aud was ready to take advantage of and no one was safe.

During, war, anything that might arise. Ho was yer with its millions of men. such treachery modest about his statements and he prowas There were more posed everything for the sole advancement in any oue of the Grecian companies than of the party Out the logical conclusions there were in tut millions ot soldiers during 1 from all bis statements seemed to the selec- Tom Cortcln of Ohio. the wOole civil war, and the standard of patriotism honor is Higher to-day than 11 has ever been before. This ia ao la every sense of the word, and you will find it ibe case in business, iv politics and in society." President Haves paid no attention to politics after he left tbo White House, and he did uot meddle with party matters.

As wa walked through the altar lunch, however, he chatted with me about his Southern policy, and he told me that he was thoroughly satisfied that it was the proper one for that tuna and the future. He said his Southern policy had long been accepted by the country as being correct, and that though the force bill entered into tba last campaign every one knew that it amounted to nothing, and it cut no figure in the making of voles. He was very decided as tothe length of the President's term, and he told me that it would be a good thine for the country if the term could be extended to six years and the President ba made ineligible to a election. Said he: "Half of the bad government of the oast has resulted from the possibility of the Presideut securing re-election. If be has been once President his old officials feel bound to work for his renominatton and reelection if be should ever be a candidate in years to come.

1 think it would be better to limit the President to a single term even if the duration of thai term tie left at four as it is now, and I think that such a limitation would ri-totm the civil service and make it mire efficient than it can possibly under the present rule." Much of mv time with President Hayes was spent in his library looking witb him over his thousands of books and taking peeps into his valuable papers. He showed me drawers which contained autograph letters from the distinguished men of the world, and he has left thousands of letters which are full of unwritten history. His conversation sparkled with reminiscence, and I him if he would not leave something in the shape of a book of memoirs, and whether he had arrauged as to the publication of his papers. He replied: "No, I am doing no literary work of that nature, and I doubt whether my tapers will ever he published. I find my days so full that I have n't lime for an autobiography.

I have all mv life kept a diary or sort of notebook in which 1 jot down from day to day things which interest me in the way of events and thought. A large part of my intellectual life has, I suppose, into this set of books, and 1 keep the work up still." Here President Hayes showed me one of his diaries. It was a little notebook about an Inch thick and of the size of an ordinary octavo volume. The writing was in the fine hand of President Haves, and as I looked at it be went on: "You note that much of tne matter is personal matter abe-nt myself and family, but there is in addition mE AT SPIEGEL GROVE. to this quite a number of items abjut public affairs, and I find it very interesting to look over tiie notes which I have made in some of the exciting times oi the past." Speaking of President Haves' diary made me think of that of John Qtiincy Adams, and I asked President Hayes if he was acquainted with it.

"Yes," he replied. "I am the one man who has read it It is full of interest and it contains a great amount history. Bg the way, I once met John Quincv Adams." President Hayes went on. "I saw him when I was East attending law school. I studied at smbi and some of us boys decided to see all the great men we could.

Wo went into It in and called upon the vsrious dignitaries there, meeting Rufus Choate, Edward Everett and others. One day we made up a party to go over to Quincy and call upon John Quincy Adams. We found bin at home, and as we entered we introduced ourselves by Baying that we were Ohio boys, aud that we had come over to Quiucy with the hope of meeting him and slinking bis hand. Mr. Adams received U3 very kindly.

tie was silting in his library writing upon a speech which he told us he was soon to deliver in Ohio. 'An said he, 'has been erected on a mountain near Cincinnati and I have been Invited to make a speech at its dedication. I hare been working on it for the past three week-- and I have just struck the last blow on the anvil. If you boys would like to boar ii I will read you some of it it will do me good to read it and it will not hurt you. 1 will not tire you, however, and 1 will only ask you to listen for fifteen He then took out his watch and laid it down in a chair beside him and read the last fifteen minutes of bis speech.

It wis a good one, and in it he used an expression about which he spoke to us. That was that Observatories are the watchfires Ira the sky which light the road to '1 said President Adams, 'been laughed at and abused for using that expression before, but I like it and am going to use it In this speech. I am told that they are going name the mountain after me and it will be called Mount Adams. By the way, what kind of a mountain is it "I here told Mr. lams that I came from Cincinnati and that the place where they were going to put the university ought to be called a bill rather than a mountain, and 1 described where it was located in respect to the city.

He did go to Ohio and make his speech, and the hill was mined Mount and the observatory was placed upon it. As manufacturing grew, however, the smoke obscured the view to such an extent that it became practically useless as an observatory, aud It has been abandoned. I think one of the most interesting parts of John Quincv Adams' diary is that which contains his description of this trip to Ohio." THE MOCKING CALL, SAN SUNDAY, JANTJAIIY 29, SIXTEEN PAGES. tion of himself as the Presidential candidate. I had seen him before this when he came to Cincinnati to argue a case there in connection with Edwin M.

Stanton, and in which Stanton was said to have snubbrd Lincoln. 1 was connected with the and I remember him. but I do uot recall anything about his being snubbed. "Do you know," President Hayes went on, "that Abraham Lincoln was in many of his ways like Henry Clay. I.

had seen Clay some time before I had heard Lincoln apeak, and my first thought as 1 listened to him was, "Here is Henry Clay over The two were very much alike in their speechmaking. Both were earnest, simple and easy to understand, and their methods of reaching their hearers were much the same." "When was It thnt you heard Henry Clay last speak, Mr. President?" said I. "It was when be was an old man. He spoke clearly, melodiously and forcibly, and his manner was that of talking quietly to his friends except nt last, when be warmed up and closed in a burst of eloquence which contained something of the lire he always exhibited in his prime.

It was the same time that I heard Webster. lie was the very reverse of Clay in his manner of speaking, but like Clay be did not warm up until the c.ose, when lie ended in a powerful effort. I remember he spoke in tbe open air. and shortly after beginning he begged the pardon of the people for putting his bat un his head. He said, '1 am an old man now and I know you will excuse ate for wearing my He talked for two hours, and it was during this speech that he denounced those who were trying to load him out of the Whig party-.

It was about the time that he left Tv lei's Cabinet, and he had many enemies for his action in reman. log in it. He said: 'J warn these gentlemen who are trying to read me out of the party. 1 belong to tho party of Washington, to the party of Hamilton. I am a Whig, and I warn those who are trying to read me out of the Whig party that they bad better be careful or they will hud themselves outside of "1 appose you have known all the great Ohio men of the past, Presideut Hayes?" said 1.

"Yes; 1 knew Edwin Iff. Stanton Quite well, ami 1 was well acquainted with lieu Wade and Tom Corwin." "Tell me something about Corwin," said I. "He indeed, a wonderful man and a wonderful orator," was tbe reoly. "lie -as in the field of oratory what Joseph Jefferson was on the stage. He was the story-teller 1 have ever known, and bis power as a speaker was such that I have heard him make the same speech over and over again, and it seemed each time fresher and more interesting than before.

I have heard Jefferson many times in the same play and he was always fresh and new. 1 could see him a hundred times la the same part and not tire me. It was the same witb Tom Corwin. He was an actor as well an orator. He had the most wonderful facial power of any man 1 have ever met.

By the mere movement of his without uttering a word, he could throw an audience into tears or convulse them with laugl.tir. "He could imitate any one, and I have beard it said of bim that he was the only 11.au on earth who could move bis ears and his Base at the same time cr separately at will while keeping the rest of his features in Speaking of his powers of Imitation, 1 remember one speech 1 heard him make dining the great campaign in which Z.ch Taylor was elected, and in this speech he imitated Zaoh Taylor, Martin Van Buren and Lewis At the start he spoke of the three by name, but as he went on he dropped the names, and by the mere imitation of the voices and actions of the men and by throwing into his voice and gestures their well-known characteristics, he cave bis ideas of them. When he spoke of Van ren voice became oily, and he appeared to be llie gentlemanly diplomatic politician. He made the Index finger ot his right hand go up and down through the air, illustrating the galloping of a fax, and without Van Burcn's name that fox-like statesman was apparent to ail. When speaking of Taylor he put on the tierce features and bluff tones of old ich, and when he referred to Lewis Cass his appearance brought out the Whig Idea of him as a -lending, grasping politician.

About this time there had been story published concerning Cass, which staled that while he was civil Governor of trie Northwest Territory he had taken a poor woman's cow because she could not pay her taxes. Corwin brought out the idea by making bis hand move 111 and out like the running of a cow, and when he spoke of Cass his face was the personification of that of the ideal Sbylock. Cora in was cue of the most wonderful Ikon I have ever met. He was the center of every crowd he entered, and If he were here with us to-day lie would monopolize the conversation and would talk for hours. We would be glad to listen to bim, and it was so everywhere even to the time of his death." "You were present at his death, were you not." "V'S," replied President Hayes, "and I shall never forget it.

It happened in Washington in December, 1865, at a reception at which a collector of the military debts which the General Government owed to Ohio give to the leading Ohio men at Washington. This man lived on street, in what is now the most business part of the capital. His rooms were comparatively small, and it was known that the assemblage would be large. We knew there would be no chairs. Corwin was not well and he could not stand for any time, and be told me before the event that he would not aud could not come.

1 knew, however, that he couldn't keep away, and as soon as I came into the room I took possession of Daniel Webster on the Stump. the only chair In it. and though there were older people in the room I decided to held It for Inm. I pushed it back into a corner and sat down in it and waited fur Cerwia. The room was soon filled and the assemblage was a noted one, for Ohio Ihen.asal whys, very sirong at Wcshngton.

There was bluff Ren Wade, who was still in his prime, near him stood Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The two Sherman brothers, thegeneial and the Senator, were there, and among other military men were generals Bob Scnenck and Phil Sheridan. We had then me of the strongest men in Congress from Ohio, and all the. Ohio members of the House were there, and atMoat them James A.

Garfield. Shellaharger and Bingham. These and many others were chatting together in different knots about the room when Tom Corwio walked in. He had stayed at home as long as he could, but his old colored servant woman, knowing he would want to come, had laid out bis clothes for him, and as the time approached she told him to get up and go. He was lying in his bed reading 'Cicero de or 'Cicero on Happy Old in the Latin, and he laid the book face down on the bed and dressed himself and came.

As he entered the room a cry went around. There is Corwin and every one rushed forward to greet him. I can see him now as he walked through that room, his face shining and his eyes glistening, and I can almost hear his vim as it rang out when he said "Gentlemen, we are all boys and made an apt quotation from Cicero. I caught hold of him and asked him to take my seat. He resisted, but i got in front of him and slowly but surely forced him back Into it.

Then the crowd gathered around him and he began to talk. In three minutes the other corners of the room were deserted and the party had all gathered around and were listening to him. Men were down on their knees to get to hear him and to let those behind them see over their beads. This was the case with Garfield and Schenck, and later in the evening I remember that Ben Wade stood just behind Garfield. Corwin had recently returned from Mexico, where he.

had been Minister, and In response to questions be talked for an hour or more about the country, while these people hung on his every word. In pontic language be described the beauties of the Mexican country, and he gave glowing pictures of the beauties and grncis cf the smoritas. He curd el ear Ll with his tales of the brigand- ai" he kept the crowd laughing most of the time and cues or twice moved their tears. When he was In the midst of his jesting Pen Wade, who bad been listening intently and now and then bursting into a horse laugh alter all the others were thiough, suddenly asked: 'They say, Corwin. those Mexicans want to be annexed to the United States.

What do you think of that "Corwin's face changed from gay to grave, his eyes became serious and every one bent forward to hear what he might say. He raised his hand and attempted to speak. His lips moved, but no words came, though hand still moved in gesture. Then it was seen that something was the matter and we moved back to give him air. He raised himself suddenly from his seat, reached forward his heads and fell into the arms of his friends.

We carried him into the next room and laid him upon a bed he never spoke again. He had been struck with paralysis and that nizht be died. tin was a great man aud we all loved him and admired him. He was one of the best classical scholars of his lime and be was fond of rend lug trie classics in the original." As President Hayes thus chatted of Tom Corwin's last words death seemed to be afar off from him, and I recalled the fact that Corwin bad that nizht told the story of a meet who died, as lie did an hour later, of paralysis ot the heart. Now II ay as tells the story of Corwiu's death, and within a lew weeks he falls lv the same way from almost the same disease, neuralgia of the heart.

The coincidences of tho story of life and death are indeed strange FItANK G. Cau ii ik. Washington, Jan. 22. THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Items of Interest to Members of Many Denominations. Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, the president of the Hebrew Union College, has delivered a remarkable discourse in defense of the Presbyterian Dr. Briggs' doctrine of biblical inspiration. Be maintains, as a Jewish theologian, that the Christian idea of the divine origin of the language of the Bible is not in accord with the faith of ancient Judaism, and be appeals to the Talmud iv support of this allegation.

Miss Lena Aronsohn, a handsome 'and intellectual Jewess of Hot Springs, has decided to renounce the world aud live for the faith ol her fathers. She will serve seven years in a Hebrew convent in Cincinnati, and then enter religious ranks as a rabbi. Financial misfortune and sorrow over the death of her mother have influenced this step. The Rev. J.

P. Hearst, formerly of the Japan mission, and during last summer supply of the Presbyterian church at Santa Rosa, in the absence of tue pastor, the Rev. C. B. PitMaow, has accepted an invitation to supply tor one year the church at Hastings, until recently the pastoral cnarga of the Rev.

R. M. Donaldson. The Rev. Dr.

11. M. field, the editor of the Evangelist, is to sail for Gibraltar February 4. He- will spend several weeks there and in the different resorts on tie Barbery coast, partly, as he says, so get rid of the echoes of the trial and partly to get material for a third volume of Impressions Of Northern Africa. The Sisters of Charity, Batlsghaderio, County Mayo, in order to stem the tide of emigration which annually drams that part of Ireland, have opened a hosiery faclory in connection with their convent, where employment is given to a number of people.

The nuns are most anxious to enlarge their industrial premises. Saturday, January 7, Rev. Dr. Henry S. of B'nai Jeshurun congregation.

New York, closed his active administration; He preached his quasi-farewell sermon, having been appointed "Rabbi Emeritus." Dr. Jacobs landed in New York thirty-nine years ago. He lias celebrated bis jubilee in the ministry. The American Catholic at their recent conference, voted to invite the Dasilian monks to establish themselves in this untry and assume charge of the United Greek parishes, which are becoming quite numerous tn certain sections of the C' untry, notably in Pennsylvania. At the Franklin strwt Presbyterian Church this week, each evening, except Saturday, there will he special preaching services, in which the pastor will be aided by Dr.

Mackenzie and "'hers. Communion service will follow on February 5. A religious census of Australia just completed shows 1,485,986 members of the Church of England. 8 .118 493,369 Presbyterians and Methodists. These are the bur most numerous denominations On June 4, 5 and G.

1883, the convention of Catholic societies .1 Ohio i- to be held in Cincinatti, and it is the rates two of the chief officers of these societies to invite all the Catholics of the State to attend. The new President of the Swiss republic, who has held the office during six previous terms, is a clergyman and was regarded until lately as one of the best all-round athletes in Switzerland. '1 he Presbytery of Chicago has taken. an advanced position. On a vote of thirty-six to tub it derided in favor of a revision of the Confession of Faith according to more liberal and popular opinions.

The Dr. Easton, pastor of Calvary Church, is improving In health, after a tedious illness, and bones soon to be out again. Professor H. C. Miutoo, D.D., continues to supply bis pulpit.

Extensive preparations are being made for the fortieth anniversary of the V. M. C. which will be observed at Metropolitan Temple Monday evening, February The Rev. 3.

W. M. Williams; D.D., has been pastor of the First Baptist Church in I.i ll more for forty-two years, and is still serving that congregation actively. The Presbyterian Church at IF Mister has made rapid progress during the past year. INSOMNIA.

Its Cause Mental Overwork and Strained Energies. Dr. Win. A. Hammond In Mactti a war If Review.

Now, It happens in this stirring age of ours that and women too- -are so much intellectually worked, or so emotionally disturbed, that their brains have mora to do than they can accomplish and yet preserve their normal balance. Mental work, whether it be simply perceptional, intellectual, emotional or volitional, requires thai an increased him. tint if blood shall flow to the brain; hence, during mental exertion of any kind. the cerebral vessels become distended owing to the increased volume of blood they contain, and they remain in tins condition as long as the exertion is continued. If it is too intense, or if it be persevered in for too long a period without there being alternations of rest, the vessels lose their eonlractlbility, and remain a permanently enlarged state.

They are. therefore, not i able to contract to as to produce sleep. A state of cerebral congestion is established and wakefulness Is the result. Such persons go to bed perhaps feeling as If they would sleep, but no sooner do their heads touch their pillows than their minds become inordinately active and they lie awake hour after hour recalling the events of the day or else indulging In the most preposterous thoughts. The blood vessels will not empty themselves, simply because they have lost the power to do so.

They are like the indiarubber bands that wo nut around bin packages and leave undisturbed for a long tune. We try to use them again and we find that the elasticity which they once poiuessed has gone. Construction of Locomotives. New York Hun. The number of locomotives built (luring the past year baa fallen below ihe figures for the two preceding years.

Thirteen companies last year constructed 1882 locomotives; fifteen companies in 1891 constructed 2300, or 418 more. Taking twelve companies from which reports have been received for both 1891 and 1892, it found that in the former year 1933 engines were built against 1703 in the latter. In 1890 thirteen companies built 2210 locomotives, that year being the best 'of the three. As regards frelghtcars. fortyeight companies turned out 93,293 cars in 1892, a figure that compares favorably with the 95,514 built by fifty companies during the previous twelvii months.

The fortytwo companies reporting in both years, made 90,340 cars in 1892, and 77.620 in 1891 while their output of passenger cars was 9396 and 1636, respectively, for 1998 and 1891. .1 mitring from these returns, it appears that the car business has been better than the locomotive, although neither shows the expected increase on account of Columbian Exposition traiiic. It must be remembered, however, that the railway companies themselves are large builders, and if their returns were public, a different showing might result. Definition of Cheek. Texas Sittings.

Vat means dot veu dose Ameiicaners say dot a man has some ciieeck, or some Kails, eh? I dells how dot vas. Some time ago I lends my friend yon hundred dollars. Ho bays me not a cent pack. So I prtngs suit dot court in, und I vms mv suit, Den Schmidt he comes to me mine office in. "He prlngs vi.

dot money pack?" "Not mooch, but he wanted me to lend him 50 more to pay his lawyer and dose gosts. Dot ish vot dose Americans calls some cheeks and Mutually Agreeable. CbicatKO News-Becord. Mr. Oh, how 1 should love to seek the sunny south In this chill weather.

Miss Dibbsey (upon whom he has been calling Oh, howl should love to have you. A RADIANT PLAIN. The Surface Sparkles and Trembles Like Silver. A GREAT MICA DEPOSIT. The Story of Its Discovery as Related by an Old-Time Prospector.

Correspondence of The Mousing Call. The wonderful stories related by that erratic individual Arthur llisuzios, alias Gold Dust Arthur, who c-ime to Spokane, like a comet blazing in the glory of diamonds and gold and then went out of sight as suddenly as be en these stories are entirely without foundation. Hifjeins stated to a reporter tbat he bad discovered a vast plain or basin in the Cascade Mountains which was completely filled with a deposit of pure platinum, making the surface appear like a sea of frosted silver. Since these extravagant yarns were given currency, the writer, believing that there was something more than imagination at the bottom of them, at once began an investigation among the prospectors wiio frequent the Cascades during the prospectin season. One of the oldest and best prospectors of the northern range of the Cascades is Jens Pedersen, -a hardy Norwegian, who has spent thirty among the hills.

During the winter months he lives in a rough log cabin on the Columbia at the point where the Wenatchee River empties its waters into the former stream. And in this cabin the writer found Jens Pedersen one after-, noon during Christmas week when earth and air and sky were white with snow. The grizzly old prospector received the half-frozen newspaper man with the usual hospitality of the old pioneers. After the writer hail been warmed and fed and irrigated with hot whisky the subject of recent mineral discoveries in the Cascades was Drought up. Pedersen's deep blue eyes sparkled with delight when he learned tnat ha had secured in his guest an appreciative and attentive listener, lie was a fluent talker and stoke Kugilsh without any noticeable foreign accent.

When the natter of Siestas' great platinum plain was mentioned Pedersen was much amused and laughed heartily. "I'll tell you all about that," he said, when his fit of merriment bad subsided, "1 know something about that fellow, Higguis, and 1 have laughed a good deal over what I've read about him in the newspa- fa hi great gold, silver and platinum discoveries. lie Is sort of fly-un-the-creek cuss, not much account. He is no pood as an all-around prospector, because in- doesn't know tbe difference betweeu mica and virgin gold, nor white mica from native silver or platinum." "What kind oi a place i- this plain or basin which he claimed is full of platinum and was discovered by him?" the writer asked. "It is one of the great winders of the mountains," replied Pedersen.

"Hut Biggins was by no means tho first discoverer of it. I stumbled into that remarkable basin three years ago and made soundings there, itis a magnificent; a thrilling sight to stand on its mountain border on a clear day and look across the smooth sloping plain as the sun makes the surface burn and sparkle and tremble tike a sea of boiling silver. But the mineral is and for that reason I have paid very little attention to it since I made my soundings." "Where is this basin situated, what are its dimensions, and hut does it COS tain iv the way of minerals "The basin can be most readily reached by inilc wing the south fork of the Wenstckee River and rounding the base of Mount Sluart, then turning due north, gradually ascending for a distance of about fifteen miles. It was by pursuing this up to three years ago untraveled route that 1 first discovered the great mica basin. 1 had reached the top of a high and barren elevation that circled to ihe nortb, northwest, south and southwest, i being on the intern rim, so to speak.

It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the sun's rays came slanting just right for a most magnificent effect. As I reached the summit of the elevation already spoken of I was almost blinded by the radiant sea that stretched out before me. The entire surface of the basin wasbazing with reflected light like the suu itself, and straight before me, between mo and the sun, there seemed to be suspended a gigantic bridge of colors, gold, amethyst, ruby, and all the lights and ides of the rainbow. "It was lnlly half an hour," continued Mr. I.

dersen. "before 1 had sufficiently recovered from my astonishment to act rationally in the premises. Finally, when I bad fully enjoyed the novelty of the scene, the spirit of the prospector arose within ms and curiosity asserted its sway. Taking with me my small pick and a long sloe! drill, I descended the slope, which is composed of bare rock, and wis soon on the surface of the glittering plain. Toe basin is nine miles across, almost circular in form, and its bottom dips considerably to the southwest, where it opens Into a winding canvoti.

the bottom of which la covered with mi. deposits. The slope of the basin's bottom insures a clean washing of lis surface by rains and the water that comes from the melting snow, hence its clearness aid brilliancy. It did not take long to ascertain that the substance on which I was walking was mica, and knowing that this mineral is valuable if found in the proper condition I began to investigate the vast deposit. Rut to my great disappointment I found thai it was crumbled, small and scaly entirely unfit for mechanical uses to which that mineral is put.

.1 the following day," tie went on, "I walked to the very center of the basin and opened a prospect bole Ova feet deep, but without any better result, The mineral grew softer as I went deeper into the bed of it and seemed to have been in a state of acfive ferment at some previous period, clearly indicating the presence of a large percentage of alkaline salts. Without spoil ding any more time and labor .11 digging a useless prospect hole, 1 still determined to sound the ground as deep as possible with mv drill. Acting on this idea 1 set the drill into the bottom of iho prospect and went 10 work. It was easy enough to sink It. In less than two bouts 1 ha I the drill down six feet and lbs substance through which I was working seemed soft as wax.

Suddenly, as 1 made an extra hard stroke the drill slipped from my grasp and went almost out of sight, having descending fully four feet at one blow. Enough of the instrument projected, however, to give me a bold and I at once withdrew it. From the tin four feet up it was covered with a gummy Bold that immediately congealed la the atmosphere and formed a coating of suow-whlte very like the substance that composed surface oi the basin." Here Mr. paused, lit his pipe and drew several draughts. "Well, what was the value of your discovery?" I Well, I'll tell there's no harm In that," ho replied.

"I secured specimens of the gummy stuff as well as the surface deposit. i -sent thorn East for analysis and sneut $75 in doing so. One of the best chemists and metallurgists in the United States did the job for me. in about six weeks I received an answer giving the result of the assay, which was to the effect that the mineral I had sent contained a large percentage of mica, some borax, some sodium, three or four different kinds of unnamable natural acids, a little calcium; and closing the report was the cheering inhumation that, owing to the peculiar composition and condition of the mineral, it was worth in the commerce of the not one cent. As I said, it cost me seventy-five hardearned dollars to find this out "As for Gold Dust Arthur Higgins," he added, "he is quite welcome to claim this great deposit of platinum, notwithstanding the fact that 1 discovered it long before he ever tried to prospect In the Cascades." Spokane.

Jan. 24. RoBSItX St. Cyk. FACTS ABOUT LONDON.

Statistics of the World's Greatest City From Recent Returns. Pall Mall Gazette. The total population of the county of London on the (lib of April, 1891, was 4.231.431, the Increase in ten years being 397.237, or 10.36 per cent. The number of inhabited booses was 567,134, an Increase on 1881 of 68.249, or 13.96 per cent. The total expenditure on the local government of London In the year 199999 was £10,726.000, or as much as an Australian colony.

This was equal to £3 8d per bead of population. The rates were levied upon a ratable value of £31,586,000, so that the amount per £1 was fit ML but the ratepayer ouly paid 4s Kid of this amount. The central rates fall equally upon nil the parishes, but the rates for parish purposes are' very unequal, ranging from down to For Imperial and local purposes combined London pays In taxation approximately £17,000,000. The Inland Revenue returns show that the total Incomes earned in London amount to so tnat the burden of taxation amounts to 14 per cent. The balance of the loans outstanding at the end of 1891 was £48.032.000.

On January 1, 1891, the paupers numbered 112.547. and the oust of pauperism was in £2.349,000, the cost of each pauper being £21 Id. The number of persons committed for trial dnring was 29b0, while 100,748 were convicted tumniarily. The habitual offenders known to the police pot committed durmg the year numbered 2392. The total represents a percentage of 27 in the whole population.

The cost of the police was £1.799,000, per head of the incriminated class. Industrial schools cost £20,052. In tbe schools of the' metropolis the pupils numbered in 1890-91 652.354: the total cost of the board schools was of which £1,272,000 was thrown on kcal rales. The death rate London In 1891 was 21.4 per 1000 of the population, which compares favorably with other lame, towns, Liverpool rising as high as 27 per 1000. The open spices in London, without reckoning the disused burial grounds, extend to 5449 Besides, there are ooen spaces on its borders which bring up the total of parks accessible to Londoners to 22.000 acres.

The fires in the metropolis in 1891 numbered 2802, of which 193 were serious. The lives lost numbered sixty-one. thirty-one of these having been taken out alive. The total cost of the brigade was £120,723, or per head of the population. The Ore insurance companies contributed £27,190.

Property was insured for no less. a sura than FORBEARANCE. Nay let It pass 'Twas but a lusty word, I nilonkinj; uttered as unwilling A lull upon my ear it strangely jarred, A lifelong friendship shall not thus be marred; Nay I let It pass! Nay let It paw! I will not answer so. Lest ward on words to greater grow. Unguarded moment!) come to me needs the trust of loving ctiurlty 'l lieu let It pent Then let It pass, And not a thought remain To pain my pert or give another's Let hearts be true, and let the friendship end That bears not wltn the fallings uf a friend.

Test let It pass! James Kock. TAPESTRY ROOMS AT WINDSOR Not Large, but the Most Interesting in the Castle. I'hiludelpliia Tunes. The Grand Duke and Duchess Sergius of Russia were treated with extreme courtesy by the "Queen at Windsor, and were lodged in the charming suite of apartments known as the tapestry rooms, the windows of which look straight down the finest avenue in Europe. The rooms themselves are not very large, but they are about the most interesting iv the castle, for they are always allotted to the most distinguished of the truests of the Queen, her most intimate friends or members of the royal family.

It was in the tapestry-rooms that the late Emperor Frederick and bis English wife stayed during the jubilee week in 1887, and more interesting still is it to recall that it was in these same rooms that they 'pent ilu-ir honeymoon nearly five and thirty years ago. The Empress still has the rooms allotted to her when her Imperial Majesty visits her mother at Windsor, and among the other distinguished visitors to the ensile who are also located In the same apartments is the Empress Euzeuie, who is now one of the Queen's as well as dearest friends, and confidante. The rooms contain some very fine pieces of old Gobelin tapestry, and there are -nine wonderful hits of old china, one very curious being a spray of white thorn in full flower, made In Worcester porcelain, which was presented to the Queeu when a girl by the workmen on the occasion of her visit to the lattery with her mother, the Duchess of Kent. It was at the time impregnated with ihes-eeut of the hawthorn bloom and, although so many ye-irs have elapsed, it is said still not to have wholly lost its fragrance. HE WENT INSANE.

And There Was Ample Justification for His Doing So. Chicago News llecur.i. I bad just taken my seat iv the car when an elderly gentleman entered, closely followed by a young man of decidedly fashionable aspect. They secured seats near mine and were soou absorbed iv their news- papers. Finally the elder lowered his paper and said: "By the way, Frank, what has hecome of Singleton? 1 haven't seen him for some time." "He was adjudged insane and now in an asylum," said Frank.

"Cm that be possible? Why. what was the cause "Oh, be was a crank, and his mind was continually agitated in his frantic endeavor to start some new society fa I. When Mrs. II gave her first dove-dinner his actions and efforts to counterbalance it some wrinkle of Ins own were a source of great amusement to all the fellows. He finally dropped th.

f. and everything went smoothly with him until Miss Richly gave a pink tea. Singleton's wheel again started to revolve, and be issued invitations to all the fellows lo attend a white breakfast, to be given at his home." "Did you go?" "Yes." "Of what did the breakfast consist?" "While bread, celery and absinthe." "Well," said the old genlleiiiau.as he arose to leave the car, "I don't wonder that he was sent to an asylum." An Important Discovery. St. Louis lobe- Democrat.

The removal of sulphur from iron has long been .1 subject of investigation among metallurgists. A recent English process winch is attracting considerable attention abroad is also adapted to remove narts of the silicon. A mixture of equal paits of calcium chloride and lime are thoroughly ground together into a moderately tine powder and placed on the bottom of a ladle or receiver, pressed down and consolidated by heat or kept in position by some other suitable, means. The ladle is then filled wit li iron, which may be drawn directly from the blast surface, the heat of which is sufficient to melt the mixture. This rises through tne molten metal, and is said to remove the sulphur very completely.

It is interesting to that if the calcium chloride is dry before being mixed with the lime then only the sulphur will be removed, while it is wet before the mixture is prepared a portion of the silicon will also be removed with the sulphur. The cost of the calcium chloride about 18 cents per ton of ingots, but the reduced consumption of ore and scrap where this method is us- is said to reduce this additional expense about.onehalf. A Valuable Suggestion. York I'it-ss. The young man had married the rich man's daughter and wasn't killing himself with work lo support her.

One day the father called bim up to call him down. "Look here," he said, emphatically, "why don't you go to work?" "I don't have to," the son-in-law replied, with brazen tffronterv. "Well, you will have to." Wnv will If 'Pe-Niiise. sir, I can't live always to support you." "Put you will leave us somethine?" "Not much 1 won't. There won't be anything to leave." The son-in-law was alarmed.

"Great 'he exclaimed. "You don't mean to tell me that you have nothing?" "That's about the size of it." The son-in-law devoted himself to profound thought for several seconds. "I have a suggestion to offer," lie said, In a busisesa-lika manner. "What is it?" asked the old gent. "Well, I suggest that you take out, say, $106,000 life insurance on yourself to save wear arid tear on my mind." Three Wives Each Man Marries.

Loudon I). illy Mews. Kosegger, theStyrlan poet, who is battling with death just now, publishes a Christmas book called Sorts of Human Things," in which he the following thoughts on marriage: "If you think -of marrying a woman remember you marry three creatures, a young one, a and an old one. Unless one or two die before their time, you marry a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. In her you marry a lot of people you do uot know.

You don't marry for to-day, or for to-morrow, but for life, and for all sorts of situations. If she is gentle and wise and true, you have a bride not only for the wedding day, but for sickness and poverty and old age. If she is only handsome, she will some day grow ugly; but if she is good and true, she will stand wear. Try to know her before you take her." A Snowstorm in Kansas, Here is something from the Guff Advance which beats' the of the shipwrecked marker all hollow: "As we write this Item Wednesday night the force of this office is completely snowed in. A huge snowdrift envelopes the entire building, and we have bad nothing to chew on tot twenty-four hours except an old roller and an empty.

ink can. The situation its getting serious. The editor and the devil are glaring at each other, each looking for an opportunity to eat the other, with chances about equally divided. We roasted, the office cat and baked the towel for dinner, and if help does not arrive before morning one or the other must give iv. If gel this paper this week you must know that the editor came out on lop (if that help arrivod In time to avert a Calamity." STORY OF AN EGG.

It Fell Into a Rabbit's Nest and Was Hatched. THE FOSTER MOTHER'S JOY. She Reared the Chicken as a Member of Her Own A Singular Story. Written for The Mornino Call. Old hens have grown quite used to having their eggs hatched in all sorts of peculiar methods, so that they are not usually surprised at anything new.

For several years all their honest efforts iv the work of incubation have been discouraged strongly. No matter how a respectable old Biddy wanted to do the work, her owner preferred to bare it done in an old wooden box, with a lamp in oue corner. The old egg-producers have grown used to litis sort of thing, and know that should they manifest a desire to do their own work they will be tied up in some lonely spot or else rut to soak in a tub of water. But a case of incubation look place near Woodbridge last summer that would be sure to call forth obj-ctions from any hen with common pride for her calling. A rancher named Marshall while cleaning out his barn one morning heard the chirping of a young chicken near by.

It seemed strange to him, but tie looked in every nook and corner and then came to the conclusion that he must have been mistaken. He went on with his work, but was surprised to hear it again. It chirped loudly and appeared to be in great distress, but its voice did no: come from any particular direction. He wondered where it could be arid where It came from. None of his chickens had been setting, and there was no house near that it could come from.

The floor of the barn had been thickly covered with liny, and this was what Mr. Marshall was clearing out when attracted The Chick and the Rabbits. by the sound. He made a most careful search without success, and was about to reach the conclusion that his miud was de rarged. He would have sworn that there was no chicken in the barn, and yet its wild iialffrichieued chirping seemed to come from every direction.

It came from the roof and the next moment came from the walls: it seemed to be outside and seemed to be near by. It was impossible to locate it, although it was everywhere nt the same time. all dropped his pitchfork and held his head in his hands, wondering how long it would be before he was insane and sent to the asylum. The terrible chirping was everywhere and bis mind was iv a whirl, but no chicken could be seen. While wondering why he should be afflicted that way a tame rabbit belonging to bis children came in and ran to a hole ia a corner and disappeared underground.

At the same instant the chirping ceased and a load was lifted from Marshall's brain, as he now knew the chicken must be in the rabbit's hole. What a fool he was uot to have thnuebt of it sooner. But how did it get there? This was another serious question about as hard to answer as the first. There were no setting hens on bis place that it could belong to and if It did belong to i tie she would be near by trying to coax it out. A pair of old rabbits had occupied the hole for some months and had just brought out four young ones.

The father rabbit staved away, but the mother ran to the hole every few minutes, and whenever she went in the chirping ceased. Mr. Marshall puzzled over the means by which the young chicken got into the hole and finally concluded it would soon die if not take- our. He lay down on the ground and reached down the full length of his arm and found he could just reach the soft warm nest at the bottom. The little chicken ran around as if very much frightened and finally ran into his hand and was pulled to the outer world.

It was very young, not more than a day old tie and was of the buff cochin breed. These weie the only kind of chickens on the place and it seemed plain that it must have been hatched from one of their The little thing was placed on the ground, and, as old mother rabbit was near by. it ran under her at once aid peeped out its head contentedly. This was a very peculiar occurrence, and Mr. Marshall reached down in the hole again to see what else lie could find, as curious things were coming from all Rrections.

He managed to get hold of the lining of the nest and pulled the whole thing out. It was a finely built being made of paper, wr.ol and straw. All these were carefully turned aside, and in the center were the two halves of au eggshell. It was plain to an accustomed eye that the egg had been lately hatched, and there was no doubt that the shell was the one the young chicken had come out of. It was plain no hen could have gone into the rabbit's home and hatched the egg, and there was only one way in which to account for the presence of the young chicken.

Some of the liens must have laid an egg in the straw that was on the dirt floor of the burn, right over the bole, and as soon as she cot away it rolled down to the nest at the bottom. As the rabbits saw it would not hurt them they paid no attention to it, but owed it to remain where it fell. As the weather was very warm the rabbits spent a good deal of time in the hole to escape the heat of the sun, and when the young ones were born spent all their time there. In this way she egg was always beat al a proper temperature for incubation, and the eventual hatching of the egg would be mire to occur. After the chicken was given to the rabbit It was perfectly sappy, and the aid bunny did not seem to object to being used for a brooder.

In fact, she seemed to think it was the proper thing to do, but the old father rabbit did net like the idea in the least, lie remonstrated very forcibly with the old lady, but she simply sat still and did nothing. He did not like the idea of being the father of a thing with feathery fuzz on It, but the old mother rabbit, was not sure it was not hers and she didn't intend to run any chances. She finally retired to the hole, into which Mr. Marshall had put back all the old nest, and the young chicken followed. A few minutes later the father rabbit attempted to go in also, tint the old lady would not.

allow it. and that night he had to sleeD in the ash-barrel. The young ones were allowed to enter and ail passed the night in quiet. When morning came the father was ready to make peace nnd allow the feathered curiosity to remain a member of the household. Alter that all got along very nicely together, the little chicken sleeping in the rabbit-hole every night and running around with the others all day.

Shu was friendly with the other chickens, but would have nothing to do with them until she got so large she could not get into the rabbit-hole. Sue finally left foster-mother and roosted in the henhouse, but she always spends several hours a day in her company, and tbe chances are she will never forget that she was born and raised in a rabbithole. Will Sparks. ANIMAL -PARADOXES. Some of the Curious Things Which the Close Observer Notes.

"snorts Afield. no birds spend more of their lives ou the wing than irrots and pigeons, the latter being also among the most graceful and rapid of the inhabitants of the air. Iv New Zealand a species of parrot is found that, finding Its food entirely on tbe ground, has lost the power of flight, It differs from the rest of its family only in this particular and in being almost Among recent breeds of is the parlor tumbler, which has not only lost the power of flight, but has very nearly lost that of walking as well. queer motions when it attempts to walk have given it its llie tumbler. "As thick as.

the hair, on a dug's back" expresses nothing in Mexico, for the Me.xican dog is utterly devoid of hair on bis back or auy where else, The hotcliiaato having rendered it superfluous, Mother Nature kindly divested him of it Nor does "the little busy bee improve each shining hour" in that country. On tba contrary, it soon learns that, as there is no winter mere, there is no necessity for laving in a store of honey, and degenerates into a thoroughbred loafer. "As big as a whale" might De rather small, as there is a species of the cetece.m genus hardly three feet long. "As cunning as a fox" would have sounded idiotic to the discoverers of Kamschatka. I hey found foxes in large numbers, but so stupid because they had never before seen an enemy, that they could be killed will clubs.

The "birds of a feather" that "flock together 'do not belong to the penguin family, as they are entirely destitute of feathers, having for a covering a kind of stiff down. Another penguin peculiarity is thai it swims not on 'but under water, never keeping more than its head out, and, when 'fishing, coming to ttie surface at such Oriel and rare intervals that an ordinary observer would almost certainly mistake it for a fish. Ducks swim the world over, but geese do not. In South America a domestic species Is found that cannot excel an ordinary hen in aquatic accomplishments. It has lived so long in a country where water is only found in wells that it baa lost its aquatic tastes and anilities entirely.

"As awkward as a crab" does not applyon some of the Sea Islands, for a crab is found there that not only runs as fast as an average man, but climbs trees with the ease of a schoolboy. A SNAKE'S FEAST. He Tackles a Hornet's Nest and Gets Away With Its Owners. Fredericksburg Lance. A young professional gentleman of this city recently traveled overland to Tappahannock.

On the route he discovered a large black snake slowly crawling among the branches of a tree that stood by the roadside. Following the snake with his eye, the observer saw an unusually large hornets' nest attached to one of the branchesof the tree, and toward which the snake was advancing. When close to nest the snake coiled itself about a limb, released its tail, and gave it several hard raps upon the exterior of the nest, as if knocking for admission. The noise of the blows and the swaying of the nest caused the hornets to leave their home and urepare for an attack upon the intruder. The snake ceased tapping with Its tail as soon as the hornets left the nest, uncoiled itself and quickly disappeared, taking the place of the hornets within their nest.

Presently the snake's bead was seer, to peer out, and his bright, black eves 1 isteoed as be anticipated a feast from which the bravest man would shrink with fear. The snake drew his head within the entrance hole to the nest until nothing was seen of it except an occasional forked tongue that darted in and out with lightning rapidity. Thinking the coast clear, the horuet3 began to return to their nest, when the snake took them in as rapidly as they could enter. Watching ihe proceeding for some time, our informant concluded that all the hornets had been safely hived, and he stood up iv bis buggy, tapped thnest with his whip and awaited the result. No hornets appearing, the nest was then knocked to the ground, opened and his snakeshlp discovered in a torpid condition, with his size greatly increased.

The snake was killed and a post mortem held, with the following result: Stomach stuffed with dead hornets. INVITATIONS TO SMILE. Are you going South on business Mr. Well, business and pleasure combined. It's to attend the funeral of the uncle who left me a fortune.

Chicago Inter Ocean. R9SI A Bright Boy. want to see your mother, Willie. Has the lady who called ou her gone yet? Bright So. sir; and she won't be gone for an hour yet.

F. How do you know? B. They've just begun to say good-by to each New York Press. It Was His Girl. ls it correct for me to say the girl is beautiful, or the girl are beautiful? Boy Neither.

lndeed? Then what is correc She's clean out of sight. Detroit Press He Hesitated and Won. The young man hesitated. The clock struck 10. "My dear Miss Battle," he sai "I am going He again.

"Oh, don't be in a hurry, Mr. Felix; it is early yet." He hesitated again. "I am going "So early?" and there was regret in her voice. He hesitated once more. "I am golac "Don't," she pleaded.

He hesitated more than ever. Then he braced himself. "1 am going to ask you to marry me," he exclaimed. "Do," she whispered, yearning And he did. with phenomenal success.

Detroit Free Press. He Got Tired. "Don't vnu get tired of answering fool questions?" inquired the lounger at the railway station. "Awfully!" replied the ticket-seller, wjtit a dreary yawn. "I've answe-red that one more than fifty times this Tribune.

Modern Heroism. Miss Bewty (romantically) -Men never do brave deeds nowadays to show their love for women. Mr. They don't, eh? Don't they marry Puck. His New Suit.

Here's a sample of the cloth my husband's uew suit will be made of. Mrs. Does he like it? Gnzziim exactly, but it matches my walking-dress so perfectly I decided to get Judge. One Good Effect. Ktljordan Well, old buy, have you sworn off from any of your old habits this year? Yes; quit chewing tobacco.

Couldn't keep that up and lick the new Columbian stamps Chicago Tribune. The Fashionable Kind. What drove" the poor fellow crazy? Keeper He was an architect and went crazy trying to construct plans for a threecornered summer-tiou-e with seventeen York Truth. A Severe Test. Teacher Why did Jesus select Simon Peter and Andrew, his brother, to be ap Robby Because they were so honest.

How d.d be know they were honest? -Because the first time he met them they owned up that they.had been fishing all night and hadn't caught Gray iV Monthly. He Was Stupid. Near to her cheek his lips he brought: tils he treat spake it. "So. she said, lint this she thought "Why duu't the stupid take it?" Indianapolis Journal.

An Appropriate Charge. What is the charge. Mr. McGobb? Officer Congealed weapons, y'r aimer. "Wha-at "Congealed weapons, y'r anner.

lie slugged a man wld a chunk o' ice." New 1 oik Press. Easily Satisfied. do you love love, so much I cried. She l. iiuisf.i.

tueu said And 1 was suiibtieJ. Not a Polygarnist. "So you want Is marry Emma. But she is mv only daughter." "Or, that's all right, 1 only want one." Life. A Dreaming Typewriter.

New Mm. A common effect of long attention to 9 new subject is that the mind is put to it strain and the subject present's itself in dreams until it becomes an annoyance. The experience of a beginner in typewriting was.be says, that when he bad finished practice for the night and gone to bed the keyboard got in front of him nnd he was plagued almost into a delirium by a desire la spell out certain words "ii it. Often his fingers would work unconsciously as II picking out letters on if, just as violinists and pianists are otten seen to thrum imaginary Instruments. As he gained facility the nightly appearance of the keyboard grew shorter, and at length ceased altogether.

Another Defeat for the Machine. Charleston News ami Courier We have no fear as to what ibe result will be if the cabal which forced Mr. Murphy into the Senate shall attempt to make the Senate control the White House. Last summer Ibe machine exhausted all it- resources in an effort to ruinate Mr. Hill for President.

The machine wen- to pieces. Next March it will probably try to manage the President whom it could not that will bo the last of the in tioual Dolitics. 15.