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Show clear voices! of boys steadied and weighed by one deep bass. The sound came through the windows of the ENBUSH PARSON. "Enerlishv chavnol" TipsMa tVm Tlnlre "What's that?'" Jueried Muckie Rob, suddenly, like a dog as it pricks its ears, and Gilbort firav. nnmrnnnb aW Pow-hea- d e as led called Rob, L cnid Miickle Gibby, explains the rfa-matter tor him. with green, thP many chuckles nuoiting from bursts of tray and; open laughter. But, "Na, bad stopped the game, Muckle Rob did riot" curiously enough, ,.r lie nor laugh at all. .lie was' indeed baud Wi' the Papishes more I wadna And than as grave he ordinarily Englisbers. listened, so that Gibby wondered if after all mai , one o' ye u he had not his congot for the to pay that's nae reason for you tract "over the! water." ' At the end of the story Muckle Rob ve lad's bit serbice wi' your said never a word. But he slowly ' ,in' an' the nngnus w i" took his arms off the dike and stepped Uiner folk of Lochfinny were over in the field. He strode forward inclined to religion at toward the rinks as if more closely l?Snv , special Muckle Rob Would have to Inspect the game. The players made haste to welcome so mighty in Scotland had a clearer chiand the was right champion, - but Rob went solemnly ,:i? Uat tee, and kicked out the steel f ,in2 Jo do. "priest," with to theat the end of! the rink to the back puis ,new English Bnv services and early commun- back at the end the rink to the back of and which acolyte, the pot Jtds is signal paper was tucked. Incense COnieSSlOil ituu ma vuu- - He sent the quoits spinning on their i fr quiet, nms into the distant hedge. He took ;itmot for their own Presbyteriana ministers, Tarn Galletly arid Pate Miller by the little hard ne?' and' knojking their heads more than ;2Ser been for indeed he marcliied them off the field.' had Tbere co DeiPs "Catholic buckles!" said he, between time a Chaypel" a in outhouses every no the hale quiet shake, "hae among 5 the v i liege. But as Muckle greentoto nlav ort. thntye Panishes.' here raise a; disturbance. I'll learn , what to expecY so he ye!" i? It was not often that Muckle Rob nae oetteri e(J for so active 4 hand in matters ectook considered at as, therefore !t w a sort of Quoitimr club jest clesiastical; andj While nobody dared to contradict Tvfinnv it flic hip, all were naturally v r cartpri fnnr of Its vonnsr- .id' Doisiest rinks on a vacant "i hf ETTOUnU jusi uuioiuc iiic ucit : i ; : I 'pn ' r I ony-thin- g. I 1 i 1 see-that- i . i - ! . n, . , ' 1 1 . j ! n' Globe-Democra- t. t ' ' : ;Sy to-geer- . not-an'o- X' - A w-Yhi- ck ot :-- i s- - - half-deserv- ed ir.r ' " ;'." . lospre priest St. fit i - ) . bell-ringer- ), ! ' v . ill-s- ; ut H back-tal- k j A ban-dagi- n', t i ; i : i ., i of the mission j the Less, Ethelreda iJh i ttjated evensong at the hour when ' fEme was apt to be briskest. Ae gravity of the choir boys and I id the acolyte (who f or many rea-- ; f;, Wd a had time of it outside, ;,5tfe parson made him his gar-L-n was liable t and by the jests of Wull Sproat, of the village. WhIJt '.diampion ' j rilemnity of the observances wt rf tihiproved by the "language" were who ';he !e4haners" sinking "The settled mtn-- i new pit. '(ofa looked down a little upon these who are here J inters as wild asses, haf and away to another job to-- I Qw. put they make "big money" expected the license of a cavalry id as to language. Kev. Eustace had indeed, pro-miicuy ana tnen ven- ltiv. first over the wire rence. jsut I'GaDetly and Pate Miller, young loons bolhr of them, had at the ringend, and, as the vil-pit, "hnd set up a manner o' to the man- - in the jmr !e sark." The village did not in- 'j entirely approve. It considered "there was nae need for the like" iat",But no active measures of ration were taken,; 'till Muckle came home It was currently reed that Rob could lick any two in the village, vvith one Jhand tied his back. It is not; clear that particular wager of jbattle was brought to an issue; but the fact with his two hands normally; n Eob could handle a! large of the male population of the :e to their damage, was sufficient ire the weight of a full bench of to his slightest utterances. :ckle Rob had been away on a i: to a place "in the: Lowdons" e there was a good job. and had returned at the end of his full pockets and an air of verity which in any other person 'i have been considered exceed-- r ere ' ' effensire. ere. :ea any ere f the inhabitants went ere a jaunt, it always took a day ere :nstom them to Lochfinny upon ere ere rsrarn, so Rob took the time out Ml :i tour of inspection. He heard its. Andrew Grieve was lying up and sending out his wife to nst isMng. So he called on Andrew srore by .the powers above and that he would break: every in his body if he was not found on the "face" by the first Andrew complained pain in the sma' of his back. so.' : pain wfil be in the braid o' tack, gin ye are no forrit wi tools as soon as the1 lave "o' us porn!" said Rob, as he slouched with elbows very wide of his ia the in whichhe held position - when he was maKlng ready for "ard sundown atur Rob, In his of survey Lochfinny, ar--s at the new quoiting' green. He , as if he had seen an angel fro, HIS HEART IS GONE. heeven. " 'I can dee noo!' he cried. "And there the Englishy chiel sat, wi' my boy's hand in his, a' the nicht NOT IN A SPIRITUAL, BUT IN A till the mornin' while speaking a wee . PHYSICAL SENSE. an' while no. " And so they sat till Airchie heard the doors opening up and doon the Frederick Moras Was Annoyed with. One raw and the men gangin' awa to the of the Most Peculiar Diseases Known to pit" wi' their cannies and their lamps. Physicians A Marvelous Case of Heart 'That is the day shift, minister,' Drifting. he said, 'I maun gang, too!' "An that was the way oor wee AirREDERICK MOR-achie gaed oot wi' the day shift!" the man with And at the road end, there was sithe ml grat or y. lence a little when the tale was done, and Muckie I Rob sat with his hand heart; has been dishis brow. covering charged from the ber fower the nlcht the engineman At last Pete Miller - spoke. Alameda county got fu' careless drucken deevil he "Well, hae nae man- quoitln1 ower by (C&l.) infi rmary, wasi an' wee Airchie got the nip. So the chappel," he said. and he Is going we took him hame to his mither, "Na," said all the men, rising toback to hia former marchin slow, and carefu', ye ken very soberly. "Nae mair quoit-if as chef. ower weel the way that brings the gether vocation at the chappel after this!" St. women doon the road like bees, to Louis Moran's heart ken's wha's man or bairn it is they're seems to have been X"' 1:. :: j .THE WISE GRAY SaUIIUlESU carryinV Its actions, and about irresolute Very "They brought Airchie to the bed, most peculiar and,! to Mo ran, unthat he had risen fra sae brisk that His Art of Keeping a Tree Between the pleasant feature of the case is that it mornin', ta'en his bit can and set oot Himself and a Gun: whistlin' like a mavis. They laid him may shift its position at any moment "Of course," said a hunter, "every-- ; and doon and .syne oor doctor cam'. He start on its way back home withbody knows that when a man with ai out any warning to the owner. Moran's was kind and quiet touchin' and and aye wi a joke an' a heart-som- e gun comes along, the gray squirrel heart has been wobbling around for word " goes around on the other side of the years, apparently trying to get "Three cheers for the doctor," said tree; he doesn't get killed If he can help some from its original anchorage. 'Dur-- ; away some one in the background, But well. himself can he and pretty the last few months, however, the help Ing Muckie Bob took no heed, but steadily It, across a v gray migratory heart has shifted complete-- s told his tale. I remember once coming 'Neel he bade Airchie be a guid lad, up a big oak; he was out on a ly to the right side. In the last shift to mind his prayers, and jdo what his squirrel the it has moved just as far as it was posforty feet from mither telled him, an' he wad gaffer branch about as Ididj sible away from the normal position ground. He saw me as quick himV quicker, I guess, and when I was; of hearts In general and its own original ready to fire he was around on the place in the make up of Mr. Moran. other side of the branch. This branch "Moran's case is one of the rarest was very small, only a mighty little known to said Dr. Clark, bigger than the squirrel; .but he.i. vrko is the medicine," superintendent and resident hugged it so close and he was in such; Tin la. sMu. tan of the Alameda county inperfect line with me that you couldn't physician MM a see anything of him at all except lit firmary, and who had the care of Moran tle bit of the tip of his tail that was and his wandering heart. "It was not blown out by a strong wind. I blazed alone the fact that his heart was on the lit fi, iiftu rk away at him and never touched him. right side of his body,: hut it was the Then I went around on the other side fact 1 11 icT that it moved there from the left I of the tree, thinking that possibly I could get at him from there; eide while he was alive. A heart that is but, as I went one .way he went the. almply located on the right side from other, and by the time I had got over birth is not such an unusual case, but on the other side he was on the side I when it moves from one side to the had come from and in just as perfect other and is not stationary it becomes 6t line with me as he was at first and one of cases that attract the attenjust as safe. I tried him again, with tion of the the medical profession. just the same result. to "As what causes the change in "Then I, pulled a stake out of a rail fence near by and planted It in the location of the heart it is almost: imground on one side of the tree and possible to say, but it seems to be doing hung my coat on it and went over on duty just as well on the right side the other side. I thought that possiblv its as on the left." I might make the squirrel think that Tli at Ii the Dar Shift, I Mann GanJ, Too. there were two men there, or put him in doubt Jong enough to enable me to anxious to come at the explanation of the pit some day yet. TRICKS OF INDIAN JOCKEYS. get a shot at him; but he .never paid the matter. "But, lads, when he gaed oot, he the he Speed of the Hone Counts for 'fWhat's tane ye, Rab, since ye gaed gied yon thraw o' his nose ower his slightest attention to the coat. I ' in the Bce awa?" asked one of his mates. Ye shooder at me, where I was standing don't suppose it would have made any Nothing used ' to be sair aeain the PaDes? like a useless lump in the corner. I difference to him if I'd opened a clothThe gambling par excellence among saw he wanted me to speak at the ing store there; he knew the man with Indians is in foot and horse racing. Hae ye turned your coat?" "Na."! said Rob. "I hae neither door, an my heart gaed down like the gun, and It was the gun that he Every tribe of Indians possesses at least was looking out for. turned Pape nor yet Methody in my lead. race pony. On this pony the wealth dodged around that tree one auld age, but for a that I'm tellin' '"Rob, he said, layin' his hand upon for"Well, we 6f every member of the tribe is quite a spell longer. There wasn't airm, 'better let Airchie get what ye that the roadx iwha meddles wi' the my wants. He will no want it lang.' any other tree near by that the squir- squandered when he is pitted against English' chiel will ken the smell o' he was near the greetin', I rel could go to, and he knew his only some other pony, eays the St. Louis I An', lads, my knuckles!" to lay in sticking to the one he need tell ye hod near, for ye safety dinna It must not be supSev There was a resnpptfnl silence. was the Inland he did to stick ken.. way it the Indians depend this that eral had tried tjhe perfume mentioned, posed by and around on keep other Airchie the "But wanted always of their pony. only naething, fteetness out naa misiiKea it. entirely upon the side after-nun- e of that branch was 'in to Sae be the letten alane. something end "Come your ways to the wood wonaerrui. 1 nred five or six shots at In fact, it is generally the swiftest his mither said to horn, 'Airchie, him If an I'll tell ye the tale," said Rob, in and I filled the branch pony; that loses the race, especially to ye had better ken yje are gaun to underaltogether, a more persuasive manner, as one who, lad, his owner his upon speed depends leave us, Airchie to leave your faith- touchedhim half full of shot, but never is conscious that he has hardly done er The Indian jockey has more win. and when him; I ocht mither. Is I there that an' your thought had justice to the softer emotions. wasted time and 'ammunition tricks than were ever dreamed of even wad like dune?' "Noo,- hearken," said Muckle Rob, ye"But II left him." nae enough New York Sun. Airchie lay still and made at Guttenburg, and these tricks are conwhen all the company had subsided mair sign, him she had telled if stantly brought into play in order fel-to into the convenient nostnre'of atten to gang to than BEAUTIES LOVE THE BEASTS. 'hush-a-ba was he when compass the downfall of the other; tion known as "hunkerin" "an when bairn. But in a while he said, 'Mithlow. The writer has: seen hundreds new a on I hae dune, ye'll agree I maun dee, I wad: like awsome Vgly Men Have Generallyif er, of Indians yelling and shouting over the Successful With Women. quoitin' green Or else well, we'll well to see the chap in the white goon, on ia new quoitin' green! gree The illustrious men in who! preliminaries of a race to be participatthat preached when I was wi' Auntie sorriest-lookin- g have kindled in women's history "It was my wee Airchie, him that Marget.' inex-hearts f ed in by two of the 13. was ta'en last Drear when he was "But we talked to himj an' argufied tingulshable passions have been, as a! speciments of the equine family imaginYm mavbe mind o' him. He keened wr him, to ;'. pit mmty tne notion, say-iplain. Julius Caesar, as great a able.: the second door on the west side o' that the man was some great rule, were spent in hours three Probably No. 4 Pit. He tvas a boy like the rest Englisher and besides a that, it was victor over the fair sex as over his of the race .with the details the reckless loons con7d lee and an awf u' lang road off. And it wasna own, was far from beautiful. He had arranging Indian! was bets. sweer, and aiblins, when I was na to be expected that he could leave his distemper in his head, Plutarch tells? the variousinterested,Every for he had somewithin hearin', tak' a drap drink and wark an' come awa' to j see a collier us, and was syHsct to epilepsy. Yet,! personally on the result. The ponies bet thing smoke his nine wi' the aulder anes. lad here in Scotland. Sae we asked when a mere sfe. to the were before his fame JAng, scratch, haggard brought Fine do-- ken that my lad was nae him gin the minister here wadna do, In Rome, girls f his own age sighed; and worn' out. The riders had great wee white hen that never laid away! for he was a decent man and weel for him and mature women longed for difficulty in forcing them to the front. "But ae pay Saturday, wha should liked. come frae Ma ichester but the lad's "But Airchie was michty set in his his love. ; The; word was given, and presto, what auntie, our Elizabeth's sister, ye ken mind, and he said, 1 ken it's no to be Sir Phillip Sydney, the accepted patJ a change! The ponies went off with a whats man has done so weel at the expected, but if I canna lhae the chap tern of Elizabethan chivalry, whom' bound that would have, unseated the to speak me, I women in the white-gooto; 'pack.'; An she telled, Airchie aboot "' of all ages .adored, was plain best white jockey that ever rode a race. the grand place that the toon . was, want naebody,' says he. to a degree of ugliness. He fascinated Over the course they went, neither gain"Sae as I was writing to his auntie by his and the big p4ys, and the theayturs, mind, not his person. the to tell aboot the accident at ony rate, ing until near the end. As one began an' a' the ongauns, till she had Paul re4 comic the Scarron, d poet, to draw a little ahead, the rider of the I put in a aboot what Airchie had said nowned in his laddie! fair by himsel'. I and day rememj hardly but wad thinkin' never that it her for a daft haverel' pittin' notions juist bered now, dazzled the imaginations ether suddenly let fly his blanket; and mindto ken Airchie that her head. into the bit bairn's pleasure controUed the sensibilities of th4 completely blinded thei gaining pony. "But after that we had nae peace. ed the preachin', wi' nae thocht ava o' and finest women in France, during the It hesitated and partially stumbled. Airchie fleeced and cried on, till nocht ony thing maire. reigns of Louis XIII. and Ixuis XIV The other jockey flew ahead and was "But Marget was ever; as ye ken, a Nature; wad serve but he maun gang awa' had been miserly to him as re- the winner.". No trouble ensued over forritsome woman, I think it maun spects his back to Manchester wi' his auntie even before disease this sharp practice, but it was taken and giein' him hae been wi' company in', so muckle wi' had made person, her payin' his passage a him wretched cripplel as a legitimate piece of work in a race. it wasna o' her Even then he had no Englishers, for meat, as it were. So that we ihad no thae o' trouble in win- The losing Indian was berated soundly folk. Sae as soon as she got kind jonly his day's wage. great loss, but the and young ning lovely women for allowing the blanket to be thrown, "Noo for a woman that was sic a the letter what does the daft woman who, as Mme. de Maintenon, y for do but pits on her bonnet an'j awa' to but the bets were paid with a warrior at the eatin' an' drinkin', her stMsubi most the fa ugated Cox Maister whaur hoose stane an' wak the graund twenty her weight philosophical air and hnother race was ious and fickle of French kings. name was the! o' was the Noble that stone ale, (for drink Marget .'v. customary Baron Trenck was a great favorite arranged lor. leeved. But he wasna Lin. He an awsome wjoman for meetin's an chap) sentimental sisterhood, and was awa' on his holidays that verra withhethe unbelievable , was preachin's jus: fair cheated of attractive yet Blnk'i Good Luck. , In the where awa could she Cornwall, mornin', and as for texts, boys-OaU to his emotional owing was comes Mr. Binks 'Don't you think it's He frae. miners o' like a string empties Methody rattle them aff book. once as he uncomto his wrote, to at his our workln' wi' revivalin', fair dune about time She never; got daughter began to think gaun doon the o' are There promising ugliness. many said. the ither the hoosekeeper about a husband? She is getting on, the end o' yin them, afore me records, besides his own interesting and says she, 'ye micht tell "'But,' cam' she'll he an old maid the first thing was at its tail, j no a secret. memoirs, of how, when he sought to it's if what aboot, ye laddie the what weel kenned knows." she win women, they were incontinently "So I For the master likes to hear when he won. ' There was comes Mrs. Binks "Indeed, It is time, high wad get in Manchester. her telled Then hame.' Marget: ' diuckle Englisha baggit uncle with all his cleverness Voltaire, his time. But she's me over again. I had been o' silver by a' aboot the puir lad that a never would as been heap have chosen a man that had made 31 of marriage until my she never t hurt awa in the north. to jalooe but prentices to the was lover. He was ugly of feature, mother thought tell. typical keepin' nocht to ;And hae me warned somebody that if I ever marglad ' but capable of delighting women, notand sackin' them before.,totheir, hame. back her pack, was ways sae she no all gaed had at I the ried time, to lose. I tell oot. He took Airchie r his ugliness. withstanding sent time maun the hae woman the "But his next was scared." Itousseau was plain and his manner you I theaytur the ae nicht-- an' himthetrot awa preacher word on the instant. For it awkward. "Urn I suppose so." Mr. Binks was There in his garred auntie Marget was the very next mornin' that we had appearance to charm anothing o' her revisome to woman's Binks Mrs. unwillih', eye; "Yes, indeed. I made michty a telegraft to speer hoo Airchie was, nevertheless he was a most successful to mind take the first stick that he val meetin's! thocht doctor wad Up. my was no yin an' hoo lang the lover. NoM. Cox ''But o' them a',a there that and that very evening you ttU on last. It said forbye John Wilckes was admitted, even by offered, for,; and a aff that Airchie cared docken was came." lang journey ble a o juist word a himself, to be the ugliest man in ail the Saturday Marget gets verra tired, but to let him ken In case England, e Methody but no woman whom he chose terrible genteel were By Accident. o' need. could resist him. Washingto IOIK address The J1was at in the time metin'. doctor as the "So French Miss (Octave Thanet) thus in because itwas hadden.was on his rounds he said that he wad send ton News. it how she got her nom de plume: explains 'head kirk o the Place, that for a message. But what he said I never name of a school was the "Octave cal'd the cathedral. Though what 'the kenned, for he has his ways, the docKissing Unknown in Japan, caa'ed French and Scotch. 'Strange as it may appear," says M. Ifriend. It ifisI both is no easy man to speet at. H wasna juist decently and tor, tell can find another name could ye. I thought wi' Airchie de Guerville in his account of Japankirk ' is mair than was at ony rate "We were a' sittin' up to was; both French and it with that d it see he wadna ese women, "a kiss is an unknown go I could night and Airchie got there. that ower would I in I wae ridScotch the far that 'was squeezed like herrings and be lang.on Itthe back o' twa, that there thing in Japan not unknown to the gay ing on a tran oneadopt Thlr we timewhen stopped back f orpin' warm as lying on your the door. The laddie's maidens of Yokohama, Kobe or Na- at a way station, and on the siding near at cam chappin' The roof. St howkin' at the . in a mither gaed to it, thinkin' it was gasaki,; who have so much to do for where I sat was a freight car painted !7h? a'done up Q.bS to speer hoo the amusement of foreigners, but unaiblins a neebour corned red. On one side was chalked the word PrE? hSf fScTlike chalk, hair like Airchie she when was. But opened it, known to the Japanese in general. A Thanet.' What it meant or how it got Jenllike .fire. Marget kisses his sweetheart, a holy fhfeZ the step wi' a wee bag in his lover never she had there onwas that never home kisses her child. He there I have not the slightest idea, but mother an' she parson, the Englishy said when hand, h a great mistake, the man who I decided then and there ;to adopt it. lnd0?e ii fickle the sheet he had preached in, wi' the made heard 'a kiss Is nature's Volapuk, Lots of people still think that wrote that Octave in his head wi' fair sunk e'en o' him want r nocht In a' her travel of universal love. o You Sax the language i3 man." mJAut .VJVJ- wash tbat hunder Thanet a sleep. and chap. He come to see my wee Air- can kiss any Japanese girl. She will had he mile TPlUIng to Chanse. e?IetnhCe folk UP he twisted them, We couldna speak to him, we not object, for she cannot possibly unas chie mean. De what Fadd "The latest fashion is juist derstand She will Mrs. you war' that pitten aboot. '"What queer people these to have the piano built into the wall." and ye should hae only think, "So he cam' ben,face " are.' as Mr. De Fadd (wearily) "Well, that's pleased like foreigners Vai In great fettle (o ber seen the laddie's 3ible. Let's wall up our." ! 1 man said) when sh gat hame to her stone ale an' mutton pies. 'It was the grandest 'season she had ever had. But my wee Airchie never said But cam' his ways back trs Lochfinny an' gaed to his wark at No. 4 as lie had done afore. "But for a' that he was! a different lie gaed aboot boy, I could that quiet, the day by the length ye wadna hae heard him lettinV an ill word oot o' the mouth il him. His mother was fair feared that he was guan in a decline. I asked Airchie what ailed him. But he looked doon and said, 'Nocht particular, faither.' So as he aye took his meal o' meat regular, I took nae mair heed either. "But there cam' mat smash in num- i ; : ; s : i ; . pro-jio- ; con-twi- th 2 : j . ' ; com-psi- re ' . ; ... wnr Htflf : 'Jt t ! (Ml t i . .? - 1 & ' !' Globe-Democr- at. : " m, n. to MS, ..mm. d dialogue that is extremely tragic and touching the property men turn out the lights produce thunder and lightning and open the trap door, precipitating the would-b- e actor Into depths that give him the impression that he has landed in the infernal regions. The distance he falls is not more than two feet and the property men see to it that he is not hurt and that his feelings are atoned lui Huusequcuujf. Their jokes are numerous and versatile. One bt their favorites is to send-green hind to the billposter's room for a key to the curtain. There he is given an Iron bar that requires all his-, strength to carry. Sometimes the vietims get real angry and there is indication of trouble, but the jokers always manage to smooth things over and eventually make the victims themselves : laugh. a Steam and Electricity. Electricians and electrical experts are very fond of declaring that the de cadence of steam power has already j - begun. - y' - Been-Mos- t i i ' ll n' i ; 1 : ; !. L The. Royal Academy of Engi- neers in London is of Jthet opinion that steam will not, ai present at iwaai,, superseded by electricity? on the ordinary railroad. One objection to elec tricity is that it would take sucn an enormous amount of power to operate trunk lines of railway that k would be unmanageable and insufficient. There is as yet no Igiown means of distributing the electrj current in such away as to make it available. The steam locomotive carries its power with it; the electric must tap a line somewhere-iorder to be effective. The proper handling of electricity for long distance power is as yet an unsolved problem. Combinations of electricity n I and steam work admirably, and short lines, city transportation and the quick and expeditious tranference of people and property in and about cities is ! I mis-caa'e- j j ;' . i mi ; i sue-ces- s, ; I 1 laughter. The particular mark of these jokers Is the would-b- e actor, who constantly haunts the stage entrance. One of the property men plays the role of manager and requests the wpuld-b- e Thespian to recite some ex- -, step on the stage-antracts from Hamlet. This he is only too glad to do and the "manager" places him on the stage immediately above a trap door. The property men conceal themselves behind the scenes and await the fun. Just as the poor aspirant to histrionic honors reaches a point mills ! fea-tures- 5 Property Men Make Thingg Llrely by llavlng Fun with Green Hands. When the auditorium of the theater is deserted and dark and dreary the space behind the curtain ia full of life, says the New York Herald. It Is then that the property men get in their work and anybody who has ever come in contact with them knows that they are the greatest Jokers living. They play Jokes on the first victim that cornea along and afterward appease his anger by taking him out for a drink. In a theater not far from here is the jollieat set of property men I ever met: A young carpenter, who proved to be a green hand behind the scenes, was employed to assist on some woodwork recently. The property men in- mediately snapped him up as an easy victim. There being a lull in work, they sent him to the manager of a. downtown theater for a bag of wrinkles. That dignified and portentous gentleman was rather nonplussed for a moment, but he soon saw into the joke and gave the young carpenter a bag filled with iron and scraps that was enough for any man to carry. The property men roared when they saw him coming with the bag on his back. The young man was as mad as a March hare when he saw through the scheme, but the property men took him out and filled him with exhilarating drink, so much so that he roared himself with ' subse-auentl- tun-- JOKERS BEHIND THC SCENES. . . " i street car motor it Is an unqualified success, and will before long entirely drive the horses out of business. But for through freight and passenger; traffic where, there are long distances to be annihilated, the steam locomotive Is likely to hold its own for many" years to come. -- Glow Worm Cavern. -- The greatest wonder of the antipodes is the celebrated glow-worcavern, discovered in 1891, in the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness. The cavern or caverns (there appears to be a series of such caverns In the vicinity, each sepj arate and distinct) are situated near the town of Southport, Tasmania, in a limestone bluff, about four miles from Ida bay. The appearance of the main cavern is that of an underground river, - m the entire floor of the sunterranean passage being covered with water about a foot and a half in depth. These wonderful Tasmanian cavernw are similar to all caverns in their limestone formation, with the exception that their roofs and sides literally shine with the light emitted by the millions of which inhabit them. glow-wor- ms j I kid-glov- - m ,. AlrcUIe Get AVliat He Wants. arms on a dyke and at-th- e points of the game with " a past master; Tam Gal-'.ringing in the clanking fair on the pin. Then with his next quoit would Tv': -- a cot o' that!" It was a fa33, point about, and even twenty Jf1. At leastwere cheering favorites, and the noise was ?erie at the time of feed- s, ' L mln-shanker- ',";; V s, the uproar there stole Muckle Rob it v2.s music an unwont-- and thero r;ir;?, solemn about it an '' A;e the First Psalm on uuiiw. ne neuru it 7 ?hr the quieter blinks rghqtiolters. The hlh ; . i ' "Jam-packe- W target Brick from Babylon, In the British museum are bricks taken from the buildings in Nineveh and Babylon which show no sign of decay or disintegration, although the ancients did not burn or bake them, but dried them in the sun. The baths of Caracalla and of Titus 111 Rome and the Thermae of Diocletian have endured the ravages of time far better than the stone of the Coliseum. China Prospective Navy. Captain McClure, who with a commis- sion from the Chinese government, is where war visiting various countries a view to with vessels are constructed, new a of for navy China, is the creation at present in England. It is stated that when he decides what firm can best supply the needs he will place the most extensive single order for war ships ever given. . |