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Show PUZZLE PICTURE. A NEW ZEALAND . HOTEL. Hospitality In the Wilds of the Antl-pode- s. The bush hotel keeper is a person of no small importance, wherever he may reside, and, in proportion to the distance hia establishment may find itself from the centers of civilization, the more varied become his functions, whether official or merely devolving upon him from the force of custom. To class him sole as an ordinary server of meat and drink would be to do him a wrong which he, fully alive to the exigencies of his post, would be the first to resent, says "The London Globe." For his house, humble In outward appearance though it may be, represents to the sparsely scattered lnhabitants of the surrounding country their owp link with the busy outer world. If there is news to the fore, who can circulate it but him? Should the matter concern gossip for even in the bush there is gossip he outvies even the traditional village barber, and has, furthor, in his usual office of postmaster, a supreme advantage over the latter worthy. The building in which he reigns possibly within hail of another, but, more probably, miles distant from a neighbor Is impressive only by reason of Its significance. Its architecture is often but little removed from that of the lowly, everyday shanty; nevertheless, by the Invoilable law of the bush, it Is an hotel for all that. However minature it may be In Blze, a less exalted term of description would almost certainly cause its few planks to fall,' shuddering with horror to the ground. For it represents to all about the hub around which slowly perhaps the district revolves, and from far and near the bushmen look to it as the center of their lonely world So little, indeed, Is the establishment regarded by them' in the light of a meredeposltory for creature comforts that the nearer neighbors, at all events, rarely, if ever, use it for the purpose usually understood to be serv ed by an hotel. It is the wayfarers, the drivers with their cattle, the stockholders with their "iflobs" of horses, who, passing through on their way to some distant market, halt by its hospitable door for the business of refreshment solely. and it from these that the news to be doled out is extracted. Although. during the summer, such visitors may be comparatively numerous, yet in winter, when the roads wallow deep In mud, and the rivers are up, the travellers are few and far between: the gossip and news, in consequence, filter through In more meagre driblets. But, even then, mine host is the possessor of information of a more vital order. Should the ford lie a fathom deep below the' swirling flood, or a crevasse, newly torn, lurk in the sodden cutting, it is he who knows of It and spreads the warning word. The very nature of his office, in fact, constitutes him something of a friend and adviser to all men. Of the number of bu6h hotelkeepers the proportion of Irish or of Irish descent is astonishingly large. So much do these preponderate. Indeed, that one is almost safe in alluding to them as the normal representatives of the class. Fine, Jovial fellows they are for the most part, suffering from no surfeit of education, but connoisseurs In human nature, and, mercifully, entirely unvexed by politics, if from these may be expected the burning questions of the local liquor regulations. Imbued with an intense passion for the turf as they are, it is seldom that a racehorse of greater r less pretensions, as the case may be, may not be seen grazing somewhere In the neighborhood of their homesteads, between the more thrilling Intervals ot training near the faraway townships. Not Infrequently, too, he Is a fancier of sheep dogs, and.ln his leisure hour, which naturally enough, are plentiful, will break the raw youngsters Into a knowledge of t!.e work expected of them. Should he prove a successful breeder, his dogs will probably sell for a higher price than his race horsey a state of affairs somewhat Gilbertian. If the dogs be Judged from their outward appearance, which usually apd pears to deteriorate in proportion the Increased extent of their men'il Occupations such capabilities. these, remunerative enough in themselves, serve as pastimes without which the winter days would le dull and dreary Indeed, - r--. 'gv ...... "Too bad the doctor's out. I i wonder where he can be?" In last week's puzzle, by using the upper part of the picture as base, the dog may be found formed In the flames. STORIES OF NOTABLES. Frlck's Retort Uncourteous. II. C. Frlck denies the report that he is to be made president of the steel ! t "Have you dusted the pepper?" "Yes. sir." "Have you chlcoried the coffee?" water fondness for his but combine, "Yes, sir." creas Is a fact so well known that It "Then you and your young friend would be quite impossible for him to come up to prayers." deny it. Slgnor Marconi's Wise Dog. From-bis boyhood Mr. Frick has Marconi, of "wireless" fame, Slgnor been devoted to this crisp, freRh is fond of dogs, and used to own a growth, and there is a story about him aad it that la often repeated amongBt cocker spaniel of unusual Intelligence. The young Inventor says that one Ironmasters. he took this dog to a saddler's day Once, in his youth, Mr. Frlck was with him and there a whip. dialog in his boarding house, and the That afternoon "bought was dis animal the watercress being excellent, be was obedient and he punished it with the eating it with gusto. whip he had. Just purchased. But in Someone, remarking the animal-likthe evening when he came to look for look that the eating of green food the weapon again it was nowhere .to fires to human beings, said: be found. "Frlck, you remind me of NebuchadJust then there came a ring at the nezzar." bell. It was the saddler, the whip In Mr. Frick retorted, without looking his hand. "Your dog. sir," he said, p: this to the shop In his mouth "brought "It must be because I am eating this and laid It on the floor afternoon, anong the brutes, then." ran oft quickly." and i. . t I.L.. Mrs. Langtry's Father's Wit. V Jay Cooke, the financier of the clril Mrs. Langtry was discussing In New war. Is at 80 hale and cheerful, with a York the other day the recent marfund of stories about the great men of riage of the octogenarian marquis of the past. Donegal with a young Canadian girl. According to one of these stories. She said It reminded her of an inciQen. Grant and his family visited Mr. dent in the life of her father. Cooke after the civil war at the great Her father was a clergyman, and Cooke mansion at Ogontz, Pa. There there came to him to be married one the talk fell, one evening, to hotels, day a man of 70 and a girl of 18. The xzi t!sa host related some of his minister whispered, when this novel experiences while traveling couple came and stood before about the country negotiating the war him: loans. They had been harrowing ex"The font Is at the other end of the periences in many Instances, but In a church." certain southeastern town tliey bad "What do we want Jth the font? been worse than harrowing. We are here to be married," said the said old man. "At the hotel In this town, Mr. Cooke, "I had for my supper one "Oh. I beg your pardon," the clergyegg that was not good, two pieces of man rejoined. "I thought you had stale bread and a glass of buttermilk. brought this young girl here to be In my bedroom that night, though It christened." was freezing cold, I had nothing but A Good One Teld by Senator Hoar. two sheets to cover me. For break-: me Senator Hoar, at the New England fast the next morning they gave another bad egg. And for this aeeom-- Society dinner that was recently held modatlon they charged me, the cheats, In Philadelphia, told the following at the rate of $7 a day.' story of his 'r!end. the Rev. Joseph "They treated you." said Gen. Grant, Erskine of Edinburgh: "The good Mr. Erskine at one time "according to the scriptural injunc In his life lost handkerchief after tlon." "How was that?" asked Mr. Cooke. handkerchief. He found, on Investiga"Why, you were a stranger and they tion, that It was on Sundays these losses occurred, and accordingly, one took you in." Sabbath morning, Mrs. Erskine sewed Told by Could to Morgan. his handkerchief In the tall pocket of J. Pierpont Morgan often tells with his coat. a humorous chuckle a story of Jay " 'N'oo.' said she, noo lat us see Gould's boyhood. what wull happen." Gould, when a lad, went to spend a "Mr. Erskine. with the sewed In week with a young friend of his. a handkerchief, passed down the Isle of The loys the church that morning as usual to clerk In a counry store over the ascend to the In an attic lept together pulpit, but as he sailed was warned that ly the amen corner he felt a gentle and Jay duly shop, he must be up early the next mornin?. tug 1ehind, a gentle nibble among his to as to te In time for the family de- coat tails. Thereupon he turned on votions, which In that household the disappointed old woman. In the ushered In each day. corner, and said, with a triumphant Accordingly Gould arose betimes, smile: and waited downstairs In the shop " 'No' the day, honest woman, no' with his friend. After a while the the day ' " voice of the boss was beard calling: l he world produces 650.000,000 tons TCphriina!" -of coal a year. Two thirds of this Is Sir! dug In Great Britain and the United "Hava you sanded tb sygarr -- e ft 1 1 Taw. itr." Slat. Tfsts In tenement houses show that In five minutes after sweeping germs settled on a saucer thret lnche across. In the same length time before sweeping seventy fh I germs settled on the saucer. 2,500 BIG TREES BY THE ROADSIDE. Their Beneficial Effects Are Coming to Be Generally .Recognized. Mr. Laney, superintendent r.: our park system, said, in his report cn "Ornamental Trees and Shrubs," to the Western New York Historical si clety a few days ago: "During the last year in Monroe county alone a good many miles of country r iatl were macadamized, and during this year andfor years to come much more of this useful work will bo done. To preserve these roads from wearing out too quickly a row of trees ou each side will be beneficial, as It will delay the drying out of the roads and hinder the blowing away of the fine top layer of crushed stone. Besides, the trc-ewill afford grateful shade during the hot days of summer and shelter from the cold, sweeping winds of win ter." We suppose Mr. Laney's opinion of the value of roadside trees is derived from long study, and an intimate knowledge of the subject resulting therefrom. It is a pleasure to know that arboriculture has demonstrated the usefulness of the roadside tree in a respect aside from the relief its fine 6hade affords the weary traveler in hot weather. We can contemplate with feelings of gratitude this modern science which has rendered impossible of repetition, we hope, a crime which we saw committed a score of years ago. On the ground that the overreaching and majestic willows prevented the sun drying the roadway In the spring, an ignoramus called by virtue of his election for his township a road supervisor, cut down more than a mile of trees which lined both 6ldes of the "State road" under his charge. It did not seem to our untrained notions then that it was anything but a mischievous piece of business, and if we have any satisfaction In the discovery that our intuitions did not play us foul it Is that progress has removed us far from the likelihood of witnessing another such blunder. And that the science of arboriculture has shed light even into those dark places is evidenced by the enthusiastic response with which a proposition to plant trees alongside the highways of a certain Western state was met last summer. The discussion which followed, however, brought out a fact which It is Just as well that we should take cognizance of before the rural trolley roads and the telephone lines in this vicinity do as they have done there "literally cut to pieces every tree along their routes." The telephone and the electric lineman does that same piece of develtry right here in the city, occasionally, though not to so great an extent as he did a few years ago. The birds and the trees are having a pretty hard time of it In this grasping, reckless age, and their friends cannot be too watchful or take too many precautions for their preservation, either In country or city. Rochester Herald. AltO LITTLE MEN. Curbstone Philosopher .Discourses on the Trials of the Large. "D'je ever observe," remarked the man with the stockyards stogie, "how a big man Is always at a disadvantage In any kind of an altercation with a smaller man, and how the runts invariably take advantage of their Inferior size to lambast the big man with their tongue3? The little chaps know perfectly well that the .big fellows vlll hesitate to lather them, no matter what they say or do, and they know, too, that when a big duck hits a little fellow the sympathy of the crowd which la always with the sawed-off- , some mean in a fellow and the big puts I've times In a dangerous position. noticed that the little snoozers regularly take a hold of this edge when with they get into a wordy mlx-u- p men much larger than themselves, and It has always struck me that this la pretty cheap work on the part of the bantams that wear boy's sizes in clothes and hats and shoes. "In Baltimore the other afternoon a crowd was gathered around a hospital ambulance that had clanged up In front of a saloon. Among the people In the crowd were three small, perky little chaps, ranging from 30 to 40 years old. They were together and looked pretty well satisfied with themselves most undersized men do carry themselves in that way, according to my observation. A large good looking chap, wanting to take a look at what was coming off around the ambulance, edged up, and. In a lubberly, untentlonal sort of way, brushed rather closely past one of the -- i -.e . na-ture- little men. "'Say, who are elbowln'?' testily demanded the little man of the big man. ""Scuse me, son.' said the big fel- low, apologetically, beaming down upon the scrappy little man. 'Didn't see you.' " 'Who you callln' Bon"? snapped the iy tie fellow. 'Just because you're a big fellow " 'G'way, Buddy,' said the big man 'First thing you know Indulgently. you'll get yourself all bet up.' " 'Don't call me Buddy, you big lummox,' snarled the sctappy little chap with the chip on his shoulder, 'or I'll hand you a swift' " 'G'wan, now Algy, or I'll bite a fin off you, lnterrupeted the big man, grinning. " 'Will, hey?' chirrup the little fellow angrily. 'Say, you big bum, maybe you think that because you wear a No. hat and have your collers in a cheese box that you' "Get your little playmates in with you Reggy, and perhaps I'll talk a little business with you,' cut In the big fellow, beginning to look a trifle annoyed. "The other two little chaps were Just as perky and chesty as the one who had started what seemed to be quite an unnecessary chaw with the big man, and when the latter made his remark about the 'little playmates' they actually put their maulies upind the three of them made as If too rush STA1 OF BETHLEHEM. the heavychap. David Forbes Says Christian Era's "Well, the big man picked them up, Herald Will Reappear. one by one, and earn of them squirmIt has been supposed that the star ing and iggling like an eel on a hook, of Bethlehem, the herald of the Chris- carried them to the other side of the tian era, was In conjunction with two street, where a sewer pipe excava'lon was being dug and coolly dropped planets. Mr. David Forbes hazzard the supposition that it was the comet them Into the hole. The last one of railed llalley's comet, which has an them that he picked up, was the Interval of approximately 75 years. grouchy little fellow who had 'sassed 10 months and C days. It was last him so much and before dropping visible in October, 1815. and wtil prob- this one Ito the damp, clayey excavaably, therefore, be seen again In I til. tion, he placed him across his knee Halleyi who saw the comet in K.&2. and deposited a couple of swift Ups predicted its return In 1759. Several on his person allee samee the schoolreappearances have b'v.i observed. master of the little red school housnf Pompey's defeat of Mtthridau in 152 other days. "The crowd laughed. If the big man II. C. was signalized by one appearance; Josephus mentions another at had handled only one small man In the destruction of Jerusalem about 75 that fashion the crowd would probably have growled, but when he took eare A. n. of them in a simple, lubberly fashion Mr, ForlKs contends that one of lh" returns of the comet between these they figured that it was about an even two dates must hvse ben about the tip J'b. and roared tumult uously. The c'ltc of the birth of Christ, Some l5g man pulled down his cuffs, wih a months before the birth the wise men grin, and wsiked away, and a enitpl of aw "his star" in the east; the comet diggers lid to pass a rope down to would then ! on its course toward the mouth f the bole when they came the sun: on its return, six r.fonths and they dared and oouUe do? dare I man to show himself aeain later, it would be in the rmih above the I 't h" had alreidy turned the corner lJthl"hem. about the- end of Decern- ' Wa f n Post. hirc ber. if the j'.S"q'ienl dates: are rompuled U will be noticed that the comet, ' t'eewhiz! its simply raining ralf was apparently fifteen yeas out. and an d gs." Ah yes; what you might should have reappeared in 1S20 InJy call 'beastly weather,' isn't pre pei stead of 1S.15. Mr. Forbes surmounts it? Philadelphia ledger. Ihis difficulty by remarking that it was not until the tith century that , Moldy Mike dls yer paper says th Dionysius made out the present rhrnn secret of aristocratic appearance is th plogy, and that be then made an erroi repose of mannT. Wearie William f fifteen years, which sterer Dat's me, New York Weekly, lyped. This year, therfore, t 18S. Globe Democrat, Two million of Indou's Inhabitants ra fa church-j - j 1 Ictc sh-jtil- d sr |