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Show I I THE BEE FAST FIRE HORSE3. rainy day in September 'he met a near urchin of little the v ere written. camp ragged TU In One A young man who has charge of n, the V.orld Ara la Quickest of the Yours very truly, last the representatives Kansas of Pity. on tho routo to party tribe, whose wigwams are Henry W. Longfellow. the Klondike sends a full account by F. 3. Dtdlenbaugh writes of Tho located not fur from Mr. Vanderbilts One of these would be sent to the letter to a in companion Spokane of thin Quick Horse in Ht. Nicholas, Ins ar.,plicant by a member of his family to means by which he ha been trans- home. The boys clothing was thin, ticle telling of the training of horses toes were blue and red v nom he passed over their requests. his supplies northward. One and his little for tho lira department. Mr. Dellen-baug- h porting cold. the from wero of these means was a pack-doBut the autograph-seekerwhich t.ibfe a number of slips upon "which "ICInnrtllie Freight Tari." Passa-maquodd- gobl-seokcr- y s ii i s with a mere aigna-- t .re and he often sent a verse from iO of his poems, signed with his The most remarkable request, i line. .wever, came from a lady in Boston, bo the poet said, sent him by express package of 150 blank visiting cards itli a letter requesting that he in ribe his name on each of them the xt day, as she was to have a grand i i eeption at which a number of literary ople would be present and sho I I ' ished to present each one of her r lests with the poets autograph. This was too much for even Long Hows good nature, and would seem t be hardly credible had I not heard r from the poets own lips. t t i t always sati-'ie- d r - i t i S I g urchin started The day? as if he had suddenly stepped upon a fharp stone, and, flashing his eyes at the man of millions, who was a stranger to him, said, half angrily: riay, Blister, do you take mo for and then broke into a run to warm his freezing feet. Bangor (Me.) Commercial. half-froze- n He is not a largo dog, either, but lie will says the letter writer, e tli pack seventy-fivrough tho pounds snow after the snow-shoe- s have made tho trail. Dogs that will pack forty or fifty pounds are common. The Indians at Madison Creek move everything with dogs. They handled something like a million feet f of logs in that way last season. Some of the logs were forty feet long and five feet in diameter. They use no" horses in this country in winter. The; dogs are fed only at night, and then) but half of a dried salmon. Tho na-- i tives live on the same food. Burial Places. The priest is the high ruler among them. It was he who caused this The ancients looked on Death as the daughter of Fight, the sister of years extra supply of fish to be kept;.' ike told them to put up enough for two Sleep and the friend of the unhappy. Their artists pictured the giim mes- years. Now they eat the 'fish they, senger who knocks with equal foot at caught the summer before last. It is. the cots of the poor and the palaces of not uncommon to see fish piled as to thirty feet, all d high as twenty-fiv- e the rich, as a drowsy, dried. on rests It posts set in the jouth, not as a fleshless monster, such ai horrifies us moderns. The Greeks ground, and on tho top of the posts' called their burying ground Coemet-trion- , are kettles to keep mice and squirrels, Hasty t ; ? from from getting at the fish. h Another Klondike which comes our word cemetery. Tho this expedition came across old Jews, who had no horror of the was a klootchman, or Indian womgrave, called it Bethaim, the house who did not weigh more than 125 of the living. an, The Germans, with poetical simplicity, call the graveyard pounds, but who would, nevertheless,, o Tho carry a barrel of provisions weighing Gods Acre, or field. Indians call the grave The pot less than 150 pounds, nailed to a In Morocco they board and the board strapped on her Spirits birthplace. never say a man is dead, but that his back. With this burden she marched destiny has closed, and the grave is thirty miles between daylight and where he ponders. The burial dark, making camp at night, and keepare tho most beauti- ing it up. grounds of y ful parks near the cities of civilized " The Americans who have taken the lands, but there are those who believe Klondike trail need no convincing that that burying must soon give place to .the notion that an Indian wont cremation; indeed, societies are formed work is a fallacy. But for Indian, for that purpose, and wo are told that packers, male and female, no gold, cinerary nrns will take the place of would have been brought cut of Alastombstones. But the fashions of bur- ka, for no supplies for the miners, ial seem to be as unchangeable as death could have been taken in. Youths Companion. himself. New York Ledger. freight-car-whic- Ara-pah- .J well-to-d- to-da- r?, i J I Its Meaning1. Benefits of Olive Oil. Medical authorities are generally Ha, here it says a agreed as to the value of olive oil1 man was half seas over. What does mediciually, finding it also a potent that mean? agent for any defects of the excretory Pa time for ducts, It means a red-ho- t especially the skin; eczema has him when he gets home, if hes marrapidly dissappeared upon a disconried. Cleveland Leader. tinuance of starch foods and the substitution of a diet of fresh and dried A Useful Invention. milk, eggs and olive oil. The Hobbs has a great head for inven- fruits, beneficial effects of the latter, when tion. thus taken in conjunction with a fruit What has he got up lately? diet, have frequently been remarked A rough-sho- d $ cake of soap war- in respect to the hair, nails and scalp,' ranted not to slide when you step on quickly clearing the latter of scurf, it. Chicago Kecord. and supplying to the sebaceous glands the oily substance which they secrete Weighty Consideration, when in a healthy condition, and the Minnie I want to introduce you absence of which is the cause of deto a young lady a very nice young bility of the hair, frequently ending.' lady and shes worth her weight in in baldness. It has long been ob-- l go!d. served that those who treat olive oil Bob Tit- - as a common article of food, and use Stout girl, I hope. iBits. it as such, are generally healthier, and in better condition than those, A True Sister. who do not, and its therapeutic and She said she would be a sister to prophylactic properties are very favor'ue, and she kept her word. ably regarded by medical men. It is Tu what way? known to be destructive to certain She objected to all the girls I forms of micro organic life, and for 'veiled to marry. Eecord. Chicago the eradication of such from the system its internal use has been success1 he Bight Thing in the AVrong Place. fully resorted to. New York Tribune. And he kissed you? Tes, and right under mothers lie Met Vanderbilt. t e U Mr. George W. Vanderbilt passed a ( I should think he would have pre- - greater part of the summers in Bar rred to do it under your own. While walking Harbor till recently. from his home tp til 9 villpargone cold,; I n, sagely about and added: That young lady, pointing to a damsel on the front seat near the platform, has a domestic sanguine temperament, tastes, quick but not vindictive temper and a arm and loving disposition.. There, and he pointed to a young man! near the center of the room, is- one who would make her an excellent husband. Their lives would blend harmoniously,, and no matter how slight their mutual regard at first the union could not fail to be a happy one. The damsel was Miss Hattie Weaver, o merchant cf daughter of a Scranton. The man was J. W. Ellis, a stock raiser living near town. They had never met, but the professors words naturally caused an exchange of glances. The inspection was mutually satisfactory. So Ellis asked Miss Weaver alter the lecture what she thought of acting on the professors suggestion. Miss Weaver saw no objection, and added that there was no time like the present. The County Clerk was in bed, but he donned his. clothes at Ellis summons and issued a license. A justice of the peace was roused from his couch, and in less than an hour after the lecture the ceremony was completed and the two had been made one. Detroit Free Tress. the sleeping place, i Marriage-by-Seleetlo- Let not blind' passion guide you in your choice of a life partner, advised a lecturer while lecturing at Scranton (South Dakota) on Love, but aim Courtship and Marriage, rather to select one of congenial tastes, fitting age and temperament similar to your own your physical and. mental The professor looked complement. poppy-crowne- I nays: As Mr. Vanderbilt passed him he stopped and said; My liUlti lad, why dont you put on your shoes this cold lias been denominated, on account of bis importance, a Klondike freight-car- . Little Johnny The Plea of an Indian. An educated Arapahoe Indian, speak, ing recently of the wholesale arraignment of the Indians by the whites, as lazy and dirty, and that tent life was not conducive to cleanliness; that he himself had often watched white people when they were camping in the summer, and he was positive that even two weeks of it they emerged far less immaculate than when they af-jt- er went in. ' How w'ere your own ancestors of Gaui, Britain of Germany? saiil he, warming to his subject. T&nk of them and realize that the Indian is not the only dirty, lazy one, even in the United States, and tho! white people are in advance of the Indian in having soap'. Trenton (N. J.) American ( The quickest horses in the world were at one time in Kansas City, at tho headquarters of its fire department, directly under tho otUce of the Chief,' Mr. George C. Hale. To Mr. Hales genius, more than to any other factor, tho quick horse owned liis first development; for Mr. Hale is the inventor of the earliest swinging-bar-"nes- t which made the quick horse possible. . When Mr. Henry M. .Stanley and his wife were in this country, they witnessed an exhibitiou.drill of the. Kansas City Fire Department. The drill so impressed the. visitors that an account of it was published in a London journal, and this Euglish article (brought an invitation to .Mr. Ilale to, visit England as the representative of the American Eire Service at the International Fire Tournament. Mr. Halo and a picked corps went to England, taking with them the reJoe and markably quick horses and becamo Dan, they As the quickest harnessing time of tho London Fire Brigade is one secf minute, seventeen and onds, and the Kansas City horses were r harnessed in one and seconds, and were out of the engine-hous- e in less than eight seconds, there could be no competition. In Kansas City, four fine bays were harnessed to the truck almost as as even and Dan could Joe quickly jump into their harnesses. It was a pretty sight to see these four well-kehorses spring to their places at the stroke of the gong, and in two or three seconds stand ready to, run with the apparatus. Joe was killed by an accident; but Dan, with a nqw mate, is still in service, and as quick as ever. The record for quickest time from to the throwing of the engine-hous- e water on the fire is held by a Kansas City company. In this instance the horses were harnessed, a run of 2194 feet (a little less than half a mile) was made, and water thrown from the hose in the wonderfully brief time of one minute, thirty-on- e and one-haseconds! wrorld-fam-oil- s. oue-hal- , three-quarte- hook-and-ladd- er - pt lf . The Modern Shark. . The modern shark is deteriorating. In ages gone by there were ferocious sharks, such as would make a mouthful of you without blinking, seventy feet in length. 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