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Show A I 000000000000-00000000000- 0' GO FIERCE WINGED, DUEL IN MIDAIR A L BENEDICT ARNOLDS MANSION IN PHILADELPHIA. weight waa testing his strength. It trailed In tie wake of the bird and the. lower and of it came In contact THE DEATH. with the hornet and the bee. And In some way the sparrow lost his clutch. Instantly the aparrow darted downTWO FORMER START BATTLE ward to recover the wisp. The sparhut a fighter. This bird row la made a dlj for the wisp and came Bird Cornea Along and Become between the fighters. For a second ho fluttered as if he had been shot Mixtd Up In Fray la Swollen to In leas thaa a second the plucky bird Twice Ita Normal Six. recovered and made another attempt Than Expires. to got hi property. New York. "The fiercest fight I For a instant there was a fast, er aaw took place In the air. The fractions and fierce commingling of combatants were a hornet, a bumble- the three. The last round had come All the Hagues bee and f. aparrow The bamblebee fell to the earth, in history- couldnt have stopped It. pursued iy the sparrow. They hit There was nothing In the appear- the dust together. At the tame Inance or manner of the man who made stant the hornet went off In a zigzag the statement to Indicate that be was direction I lost sight ot him and otherwise than truthful. The gathering that bad been talking of champions and knockouts and gate, money stopped and listened. 1 was on the porch of my house, thinking up for the summer, when the continued the hornet came along, man, who saw that he was expected "He to make good his statement was building a nest there and I watched him on several trips carrying material. "A few minutes later a bumblebee of unusual aixe and brilliant color took a bust about the premises. His buxs was deep toned and earnest "I'm an out o'door man, and I hare always noticed that headon collisions between aerial navigators are almost unknown. 1 wonder that humana haven't imitated these fiyert more than they have in this respect "1 was surprised, however, to dee that In the case I am telling you about the hornet and the bumblebee dodged each other several times. That's a hat made me quit my own job and take notice. I soon discovered that the bumblebee was Intent upon It Was a Desperate Battle. Invading the nest of the hornet, but was absent. when the hornet only The bumbler was evidently on the west to the contest between the bee lookout, for as soon as the hornet an$ the sparrow. The bee was dead. He had been showed up he flew In another dlreo-tlon- . No sooner did the hornet finish literally perked to strings. The spar-roswollen to twice hla normal size, and fly as ay than the bumblebee sailed back with a bllf from his lurk- we helpless. He fluttered feebly and He had been stung to death. expired. ing place. T returned to my porch and waited. He returned once too often, or, rather, he tarried too long on his last Nearly an hour elapsed when I saw visit. As he quit the hornets nest, the hornet come back. He fell In his the hornet gave him a bat that sound- efort to fly. Finally he crawled ed like the explosion of a percussion ares the floor, climbed up the aide of the house feebly and reached his cap. It made my blood tingle. "They were together quicker than a wink, up and down, butting, backing JHe never came out. . When I out and coining together again until ought it safe to do so I mounted my both dropped to the floor ot my porch. jtepladder and carefully examined the . While they were at It along cornea test through a magnifying glass. The an English sparrow. He had a bit of or net waa dead. So alt three fighters : rag 'of wisp of something. whose er accounted for. 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The his- applauded. The applause grow Into toric event in which a queen, a coat, gossip, until every student and nearly all of Evanston's 25,000 other clUxens znd a muddy street, played a promtook up the refrain. inent part is forgotten at NorthwestMIsa Benoit has retired to her room. ern university. The envied place long held by the knight of old has been The doors are beavlly barricaded and usurped by a girl student, a wet the telephone is disconnected. sidewalk and a pair of creased trous- end can glee you good acrrlcc on abort notice. Price Juat Right THE Coalville Times ers. O000000000000-0000000- - The girl is Miss Hazel Benoit, a senior In the school of oratory, and the man In distress Prof. Robert L. Cumnock, head of the school Miss 0 'Next! GIRL Ef)IDS TRANCE. FIFTY-DA- Perry, la Music Tsscher Now Spsaks Nsw Language. After having been In a 50 daya Miss Prudence Van Gilder, a music teacher emerged therefrom, but In a condition which to family, friend and medical and psychological experts, Is as full of mystery as ever. Power to use the English language appears completely gone, but from the 11 pa of the young woman another language, which no one hero can Interpret, drops from her tongue with a fluency and musical expression which is the marvel of all who listen. During the 50 days of trance Miss Van Gilder's Jaws were rigidly set, and food could only be admitted by Inserting a tube through a tooth especially removed for the purpose. At periods of consciousness Miss Van Gilder would not speak, but communl cated with friends by deaf and dumb signs. . Unable to speak s word of English, she motioned for her Bible, turned to the tenth verse of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Psalm, and by ges tures. asked her sister to read the following: 1 believed, therefore have I spoken. 1 was greatly afflicted. While friends gazed upon the scene, the mother suggested food, which was brought. But a strange The girl pushed thing liapened. away the tray which her sister sought to place upon her lap, and not until she had doubled her knees under her after the fashion of orientals would she consent to eat a mouthful. Perry, la. state of trance for exactly g GRASS CREEK COAL AT I GRASS CREEK MINES We have the very best Coal there is . on the market for domestic or steam purposes. f WELL SCREENED DOMESTIC LUMP AND STOVE MIXED... C O Og (o She Deftly Turned There Is no shoveling or waiting, as we have a SPECIAL CHUTE TEAMS. FOR LOADING GRASS CREEK COAL CO. Trousers. Up i distress aa Benoit saw the signals she followed the profess" out of the one school building at the! Of the classes. ' At the bead Prof. Cumnock slopp Of the stone steps snl looked with condidismay first at the vtherStooptions and then at his Uuerthem tip. ing, over, he tried to ini But the professor is portly and hit back not aa supple as In bis boyhood. h, A great gap yawns Firet Life Insurance Company. the bottom downstretched bands The Society of Assurance for Widdistressed of bis trousera. and i P . usually ow and Orphans waa the look grow apace Ilf insurance company and was eJ " jovial face. In 1699. look and un tahllshed in MIsa Beloit saw awe-struc- first-know- A WEIRD ABODE OF TRAITOR House Is One of the Few Specimens of Colonial Architecture Left In the Country Now belongs to the City. Mount Pleasant, In the East Park, near Columbia aveuue entrance, which Is almost equally well known to park rlaltors as Arnold's mansion, is to be the headquarters ot La Mortganta Klambo, the newly formed organization- of fashionable women motorists, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Few buildings in the park equal Aount Pleasant in intereat, and none la older. It Is one of the few well preserved country mansions built in this country in Colonial times. As a specimen of architecture modeled upon the atyle made popular by 8 Jy Christopher Wren, It is one of the half dozen or less which remain in thla country. The house, which John Adams who dined there In 1774 declared waa the most elegant in Pennsylvania, was built for Capt. John McPherson In 1762. In 1779 MacPherson grew tired of the place and sold It to Oen. Bene- diet Arnold, who had married Peggy Ship pen- .- In iu tlmathe manalonhas MacPherson borne three names. called It The Hills and also- - Clunie. and subsequently it wa known as Mount Pleasant CapL MacPherson was one of the moat original men In the province. It he had not been Immensely wealthy he probably would not have been tolerated; but aa a privateersman In Englands wars with France and Spain before the revolution he waa lucky and came home with a genuine gold galleon. He bail two sons. One waa an officer in the British army, but resigned hla commission on the breaking out of the revolution and became a major In the Continental army. The other aon waa wit the colonists from the beginning of , the struggle and Vaa killed at the attempt jo take Quebec, being the first Philadelphian of Importance to give up hla life for ' r the cause. Old CapL MacPherson made himself tiresome to congress, begging for command .of a ship, hut did not gain hla desire. He published the first directory of Philadelphia in 1785, Thla book la really one of the curiosities of literature, for the captain canvassed the city himself and printed the replies he received at each door in answer to hla request for names. He died In 1792 and lies in 8L Paul a churchyard. When Arnold married Peggy Ship-pen- , daughter of Edward Shlppen, subsequently chief justice of Pennsylvania, he bought Mount Pleasant and settled it on himself for life, with the remainder ot hla wife and children! At the time Arnold was military governor of Philadelphia, and Judge Peters, who occupied Belmont, the seat across the Schuylkill from Mount Pleasan t,acc used the general of having converted $56,000 to hla own m O L. l r 1 t .1 t the purchase of Mount Pleasant. Arnold did not long remain. Mount Pleasant After his treason he of course had to leave the country, and the state of Pennsylvania confla cated hla life Interest in the beautiful estate. Baron de Stenben became the next tenant of the place and Arnolds life Interest was sold to Colonel Richard Hampton for $850. In the Shlppen correspondence, published a few year ago, there are several references to Mount Pleasant In 1785 in a letter from Mrs. Arnold to her father It appears that Arnold had an Idea of privately getting title to the property for hla family. He changed bis mind, however, and suggested that the place be sold at public sale for aa much at It would bring, in 179$ Mount Pleasant was sold, hut for barely Enough to satisfy the mortgages upon It Gen. Jonathan Williams, a revolutionary patriot and commercial agent of the United States in France from 1777 to 1786, bought the country seat The and lived there for yean. property remained In hia family for many years and wa purchased by the park commission by virtue of the act of 1867, which permitted the acquisition of what are new park :1 a4 TALE. Outer Brand of Liquor Must 'In Tennessee. Bs Used Walter Stephenson,' while 'Out train-la- g a pair of bloodhounds near the Dikemao springs, was subjected to a the Nashville unique experience,-say- s American. He was juat finishing a long chase with his dogs - and - eal down on a log to reat, when he espied upon the eastern horizon a speck, which he took to he a large kite. He paid little attention to the object,' and shifted bis gaze temporarily to other scenes. Soon hla attention wae attracted' to a whirring noise, and . Uxfking upward, he saw that the speck which he had a few moments before discovered in the eastern sky bad approached almost directly over hi in, and that the object waa In realtty a huge balloon, but of a pattern and appearance he had never in hla life before seen. He discovered that the floating masa waa rapidly approaching the earth. Of a sudden, the observer says, strains of music calculated to charm the spheres buist from the balloon, which circled round and round and finally landed at Kldemaa ' springs. A number of strange people emerged from the car, which waa elosesly curtained with a substance that fairly glistened in the sunshine that temporarily burst through the ob- scurlngcluudsaiKL alt going to the big, flowing spring, knelt by It la a supplicating attitude and so remained for a minute or more. Mr. 8tepbenson says that while thla was going on be sat quietly within apeaking distance, and whe tb strange visitors aroee to their feet and he supposed their de. votloual exercises were over, he asked if be might be permitted to Inquire who they were, and ,what their mission? He said that Instantly a visard was lifted by one of the company and the benign face of a lady showed from underneath and said 'In German: "Haben sie BetenT (did you pray?) and instantly all were aboardtbe airship rose, circled about for a mlaute or more, and waa gone In a westerly direction, Mr. Stephenson aaya that the Inch dent left an impression upon him that he can never forget.aod while he knowa that it was some human invention, it looked and the music sounded more like that of angels than or mortals. - On on th Ticket Sailer. Step right up this way, ladles sad gentlemen said the fiashy youth In the circus ticket wagon. Step lively, please. Get your tickets the show is , Just going to atari Two for you, alrr- - ' . benevolent old rube and hla flockof children stood at the edge of the crowd, a bunch of gaudy tickets In one hand and k handful of silver In the other. His pursed lips suddenly turned Into a broad mile, be hesitated and then walked doubtfully toward the ticket window still counting the change. He edged his w$y through the crowd and addressed the fashionably dressed youth above him: , , . Yon made a mistake la yer cb"w, -, A l- round-cheeke- d r 1..4 hia had "No 'mlsiakee nee r leave the window, Rube dus t you ee the sign? Move along. Make way for the other. . "But, expostulated the farmer. No but go with me, - Get along." "Now, see here," said the Rube, seriously. Cut It out,-- Rube yer wastin' my time. No mistakes In change recti fled after you leave the window. D'ye hear?" Well, all right," said the rustic, turning to go, 1 wus only try in to tell ye that ye guv m five dollars toe much." t. Danger in Single Passion. Prince Haseba o i Japan, In aa later-vieIn Spokane, said recently: Japans danger now lies in her prosperity. She is in danger of making money her god. To make money, ones god is a bad thing, it la a passion like the maternal instinct, like the mother's love for her young, which causes the mother to be and cruel to husband, servants all the world save her Ub tie child. Thera la a young mother here in Spokane at whom I laughed the other Y day. Sandwiched! She had engaged a new nurse for At a five oclock tea in handsome home the one man present sat be- her baby. The nurse came to her tween two very talkative young girls. and aald: "T don't know whats the matter, They plied him with tea and talk the little one criee and till hia brain was well nigh reeling madam,I bat do can cries. nothing to quiet it with surfeit of both when a merciful "The mother thought . moment matron came to the rescue: abe said: np, Then, brightening I want she with Come me," said; T remember now, ' Babys last you to know some more of thee love- nnrse waa a southern mammy. You ly girl here.", on the third stove find will the polish "Oh, you cant take him," said both shelf of the kitchen closet" a weve made at once, just girl sand with here with him between ' The June Bride. ua The June bride frowned. A sandwich with the tongue on "These tomatoes," she said, "are the outside, said the sandwiched twice as dear as those across the man. just young treet Why is It?" ' Ah, maam, these" His Poaition. And the grocer smiled in pity of Why do you advocate anarchy? Dont you perceive that 'even if gov- hor ignorance " -- "these are ernment could be abolished r . . She blushed. be formed anew? she Of said, hastily, I course, Certainly." answered the habitual me a bushel, Give known. have If And took a might thlnga agitator. brand-nestart I might torn up aa please. one qf the bosses." Washington-Sta- r. An Inopportune Rescue. Down on the Whole Sex. We found your husband w Rescuer Hewitt Do you think that red-ha- ! rptf tried to commit anlcide, maam, hut women are apt to be bad tempered? w cut the rope In time , yelJewett Ye, and Considerate WJfe Oh, what made and any you do that? Poor, dear William does low haired. brown-haire- so hate to be token down. other old color, natural or artificial , t -- hand-picked.- - black-haired- d |