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Show 1 L.UCE AND LASSO. in VUlor St, CUIr. E 18 A 8 TKEACU 4y' t-- crous as a puma, I Ton, and I advise you to keep your 1 ee open. Mark Jmx word, ho Intends to harm you at the ;Y opportunity.' yV firstWhat can be hi reason for wish ins to harm me, Arlo? - j V-- -- fisre" never harmed him Jealousy, Loon; Jealousy. 1 saw his oy kindle with the venomous light of a snakes yeaterday, when you beat him You did do In throwing tba bo I a wonderfully well after o little practice." It was an accident. Arlo. I could not do It again If I should try a thousand times." "Well, accident or not. It came in nt Ihe right time, and ft la no wonder Tlp-p- o envies you your victory. But belrare of him as you would of a puma. The youthful speakers, neither being over IS, were cantering leisurely across that remarkable pampa region lying between the Parana and Paraguay rlvcra, the Cran Chaco. They were on the extreme southern border belonging to the vast relate of Manuel Strain, who lay claim to the ownership of more than a thousand horses, forty thousand head of cattle nnd nearly a hundred-thousanat will on Ills domain sheep, of pampas. Arlo Strain was this wealthy estan-eleronly son, and ir rompintnn, Leon Lyons, was an American boy, whom Arlo bad met and formed a strong atUibrwnt for while he wrs In this country getting his duration. The grandfather of Arlo had gone from the United State to settle in Ihe to.tntry north of Buenos Ayres. Leon had been glad Xoscicpt an Invitation to visit his South American friend, and never had he enjoyed himself better thin oa his wild rides over the panipaa. How ho slept at night! And he often declared that he had never known what It ns to have an appetite before! It was then the season fur rounding tip the cattles;' At first he had to content himself with seeing the gauchoa. or d herdsmen, aa they rode down and the animals, but finally he had ventured to Join hfa companion In tho exhilarating work. wonderful how these sons of It the pampas performed their feats of lance and lasso, hut wTienArlo explained that they had been trained to It from Infancy; that long line were given them to practice throwing, and that by the time they were 4 years old they were put on the back of a spirited horse, with a genuine lasao to use, he did not marvel to much at their aklli Arlo had acquired a good deal of that kill and Leon waa fain to believe that few of the gauchoa could outdo him, but when he said as much the other laughed, saying: Walt till yon ee what Tlppo can do. He can throw a lance farther and a lasso surer than anyone on the The faueho Ouleslppo. whose name with his lame poised to be hurled at his bead the moment he shottid gpt near enough To be surf of Els aim. A dense dump of mimosa concealed the approaching bull'ftom the sight of the 1 las-aoe- u th ' f.f But Arlo realized , that this. , mnt prove fatal to his friend If not to himself. and he suddenly raised his dauee, and with that quick, dexterous movement peculiar to the master of this pliant weapon, he sent the long line whirring through the air, the nooae at Its end settling over Leons shoulder, anjuat aa a loud bellow from the bull nounced that It had seen him. At the tame moment Tlppo threw hla lance. Arlo turned hi horse sharply to the the tauUasso Jerked Leon right, and ' f or w a rd u pon the groli n d T i p i o lance him over whizzed harmlessly mtir-derAnd then, before the would-b- e was aware f his peril, the maddened bull was upon him, goring and trampling him to death. Having wreaked hie vengeance upon the enemy that he had found In hla path, the brute daubed on across the pampas, leaving the two boys unhurt You may be sure that they were thankIn spite of ful for their drlivrranre, Tlppo'j awful fate til Cream unit s Man I f j with , a newt. There is hardly a catlr or ancient manor house in ail England that ha-- , tint some ghostly tradition eonneeted with It, says the New York World. In some mansions the sport res are said to Htals and gibber and shriek night after night, while in others they appear only at long intervals. The latter sief,mfta house, near be the case at L'londnn Guildford, whith belongs to the earl of Onslow, but which is nt prefer. t let by ' him to a tenant. Here the ghosts, for there are three of them, hive but re- cently made their appearance, and, though they seem quite familiar with structure which they j the centuries-ol- d inhabit, no one of this generation haa been able to recall anything-- about them. The first la that of a beautiful ' lady, richly attired In a cream-colore- d ailk robe and wearing a profusion of ( great Jewels. Sometimes ihe covers the d allk with a black cloak, and occasionally she carries a dagger or a tumbler In her hand. All the domestics ay they have secu her many tlmea, and the under footman stoutly maintain! that he once saw the lady i in cream take a book from the library shelves, and, after glancing through Its , j i Th f'ond spectre la more terrifying, for It appear In the form of a very ugly female black dwarf, with a guttering ring la her nose, and whose dress indicates a condition of servitude. She always bears In her hand lighted lantern. A g man makes up this he haa a great beard and trio, phantom that la evidently the pride and Joy of hi ghostly existence. He u not so often seea as tbe lady In cream and her hideous companion, and haa the bearing of one oppressed by a great sorrow. A lady spiritualist haa had the hardihood to visit the house and converse with the d apparition who, It la reported, related to her aa aad a atory as ghost ever told. In her time ahe had ainned. ahe aald, and her husband found her ouL He accordingly bribed the black dwarf, hla wife's attendant, to kill her mistress, which she did, and she has ever since been going about with a lighted lantern looking for forgiveness. The appearance of these gboats haa caused great excitement In the quiet country neighborhood, and RIDING LIKE THE WIND. besides the domestics Into corrupted Tlppo, waa a many people h4 seen all three. g tall, swarthy, native, claim to have whom few liked, but many feared. He was kaowa to be a desperate fellow Frvth Water te Drink. On calm day the crew of the lightwhen arenaed, and hla passionate nature would brook little or no opposition. ship anchored three mtlea off the mouth It waa he that Arlo meant in hla warn- of the Columbia river, Oregon, are able ing to Leon, for it had been The Tatters arebbttd to lower a bucket over the mlafoftune to Incur ti$ enmity of Tlp- aide and bring up water fresh enough po at a game of bola the day before, for drinking purposes. This fresh out over Ahe mrf!ee of the whenriuUe aceldentally. the American spread lad bad won the laurels from the boast- ocean In the shape of a fan, the apex ful gauebo. being the mouth of the Columbia. It1 Little dreaming of what waa likely is only about two leet In depth and to follow tho simple affair, however, the bucket la allowed to sink below Leon Joined enthusiastically in the that depth the water with which it wlldt work of g on the la filled 1 strong ocean brine. There pampas. He had nerer known such are not many rivers tn tho world with port before, and feeling hi blood atrength sufficient to send their waters tingle nnder the excitement of mad ao far out to sea, the principal exception races, bo dashed hither and thither, being the Amazon, which freshens the ocean for twenty mile off it mouth, with more pluck than prudence. It waa the agreement that be and ships having filled their casks with Arlo. should keep together, but It la not freah water from the Amazon when out always easy to carry out the plana on of sight of land. ueb occasion, - Thus, toward midday , Jafum and Opium. aa tho latter daahed through a clump of A Japanese native paper states that date palm a to head off a bunch of catJudgment was recently given by the tle. be suddenly missed bis companion. Yokohama local court In the rase of Knowing the importance of quick Tel Kelhe, a Chinese residing at Us 150 action then, he wheeled bis horse and settlement and Mlsawa Hatsugord, a glanced hurriedly over the scene. He naturalised Japanese of Chinese birth, did not look in vain, for away to his whn were whllo InAnlpIng ! Ttfh t he saw Leon standing over the ot 0pum the residence of an ue dead body of hla horse. Ryo-sChinaman named Ryo-zrWhat had happened to bring about otherwas sentenced to hard labor for six thra calamity be did not have time to tor, having sold he opium and consider, for at that very mo- years to major confinement for others two ' ment a more startling aspect two years. Remembering much of the waa lent to the scene. From medical evidence given before the comLeon 'a left, concealed from him what perverted noIn mission India, no doubt by the tall grass, waa one of opium the Japanese the oid bulls that were the terror, of tion! Concerning tbe'hwda sweeping furiousfy toward authorities must have! Exchange. the dismounted boy; It waa doubtful BmI !! CoRld Do. if the enraged animal bad seen the help-Mr. Gotham The doctor says I need leae victim la hla pathway yet, but that rest and quiet and must move to the fact could not change the Inevitable country. I want to find a small house result, for he was sure to catch eight lh a perfectly quiet neighborhood, V of him soon. Where therear ho noisy children, no Arlo waa about to ahout to Leon or "barking dogs, no crowing roosters, no hia peril and dash to hia rescue, wheu disturbing sounds of any kind. the cry froze on hla lips at the eight he Suburban Agent (thooghtfullylLet-me-ee- e. beheld on the other hand. The second Hadn't you better buy a cemeperil was nothing less than Tlppo, ridtery lot and biilM on it? New York ing like thr wind fiown upon the boy, Weekly. rough-lookin- cream-colore- bn meals, the house, the whole domestic routine, is ordered for the little folks. The training of Lycurgus couldn't prevent atih children from being selfish, exacting and Inconsiderate. At home conceded everything, abrjid they exact everything. Household rule Is a tyranny of the smcitl boy and saiafl gir!' tempered by weak indulgence.' The result is seen in the schools, railway trains, in hotels wherever the small person has a chance to exhibit bis spoiling. How can good manners be expeted from children thus trained or untrained? In college they are uninfluenced by the example of the professors, because their relations are purely per functory. The natural bent, taken In lu harder egotism a more boorlHh lark of for others. It Is a commonplace to say that to be ghntle one mut be born gentle, yet It H hardly the fact. In other days, when the home was not devoted entirely to the pleasures and pastimes or the young folks, good breeding was as general as ill-ceding is now. In a society where children take on all the airs end go through all the social funt-- , tions in miniature of their elders, there se ins to be no place for the coirec- lions and refinements once thought part of very ydung people's training. The pres of the country Is perpetually Milrlxlng the public conduct of Americans in travel, in watering-placein theateis and public places, and It is an extraordinary fact that the hotter tanks of the social system seem to lie the most culpablp. Women who manUei-- their indignation when a woikman declines to give her hK complace Jn the street ar ments on the selfishness of men will In their household entourage thh, very selfishness by making every thina in the house beud to tho whims of a blu!Ud boy or girl, demanding the find service at table or tbo entire house for a playroom. Colleges can not make fine manners a natural part of youthi. who have been thus ill reared at home Good manners must to a .certain degffte be the expression of good heart; but conventional good manners are attain able by watchfulness, and are often by the extremely selfish. flerce-lookln- water-- 1 t te d L ' el j ald-fas- laMphir lurk ritfitr of lriMtitPut Po-rtt- lf Ha1 lUir a (hnttma Hiottrr in f w family uf of ltreal for 1 Ight 1 ito.r 8 there an rcudi i who dJ. ..&M . have -- enough. to -- -- eat- - on -- Christmas day ? Is there any reader of this page who did not have a Christmas dinner? Is there any reader of this article who tan really understand what it means to be ld poor that half a loaf of bread must do for your Christman dinner yes, half a loaf of bread, divided among father w Ife. Between Mamie, the little housemaid, mother and six little ones' Y'ork and the baby of four months, Willie, ChrlHtrnas afternoon a New Niue Woild repot ter and a photographr there are four little Sullivans. started down Into New Yorks east side came, in all, to this household, the most tenement district to find just such a of them In the days of Sullivan's prosperity, but three have picture of suffering and want as this. In X"tO firesides, happy children and died. The six living aie Mamie, who 11 ds fair to be the u i n and women were clustered, 5O.0IIO prettiest gill on labl.s were spread with bright silver, Cherry Hill within a few years, with nils' .iiiig glasses, lu- - ious turkey, i ieh. her piquant mouth, her prettily tinted mi com-parsti- i mi vnberriet, and flaky pumpkin and skin and her beautiful black hair, LizIn loh 000 o her household; , zie, aged ten, Johnnie, six and a half; ; i WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US. Mots, 4 Interesting Tales freni th Foreign - Megeslnes. One must read the English magazines to find out what queer things we do in lias country, says the New York Press. Americans have. It Is admitted, a deep interest in potatoes In many parts of the country potatoes are considered of equal importance with hominy. But that the potato flower was born to greatness had never dawned upon us until we read that; The millionaires of the United States arc gening weary of displaying their wealth In gorgeous hot house flowers, palms, orchids, lilies and other botanical rarities. Instead of some hundreds of pounds being spent on the floral decorations at some big dinner or reception, sweet and pastoral or, more correctly, agricultural simplicity is now the fashion. Th.e modest potato flower reigns supreme. There 'ayways have been fashions tn flowers, but we do not remember that the fickle goddess has ever yet sought her favorWas it ite In the kitchen-gardechosen as a delicate compliment to tho Irish nation? Did the Americans sudthat duo denly feel conscience-stricke- n honor had never been paid to the harm less, necessary vegetable? So now, with cultured Boston leading the way, the potato flower adorns the proud beauty In the ball room and blossomB In the buttonhole of the dandy. Americans themselves believe such foolish stones in regard to the ',wild and n. h'. p'i 'ml toil-wor- n oa 1 rtV k V4 H f THE MILKY SEA, It I Du I a Mlat or to rhonplioroirent Animal. In 1618 the expedition to the Eaa Indies under Martin Tllng when in the tropical Pacific had one night what was to the members of that expedition a vcry mjstlfvlng Fpectade.SRaya Blackwoods Magazine. They beheld the aca all about them pale and white, resembling a vast eheese vat. aojbat one might have imngined tbe ship to hare been sailing in whey instead of salt water, it carried such g milky appearance along with It, The air and ky at the same time looked white and hazy, without doubt the effect of the reflections from the surface of the water so In February, disposed and colored. 1S81, Mr. Daniel Pidgcon. a very acute observer, witnessed the phenomenon of this milky sea of the Pacific when, he aays, the w hole ocean, from the ship to the visible horizon, looked exactly aa If It were covered with snow. The snowy surface evidently reflected tbe light of the sky, for Venus, being very bright, threw a distinguishable line of radiance across it, while the phosphorescent crests otwavea were now and then seen breaking above the layer of shining matter which oxerlaid the waier. He convinced himself that the appearance waa due to a thin lajer of mist, produced when the sea surface happens to be considerably cooler than the moist atmosphere abate It, so that the air In immediate contact with the water is Chilled below the dew point and becomes misty, while tbe air above remains transparent. It would be Interesting to know whether the same explanation will apply to all displays of the milky sea or whether the effedt should aometlmes be attributed solely To phosphorescent animal a and plants, and If not, whether In an case those sources of light contribute to illuminate the sea from below. Crains of cold. cattle-huntin- arrx-ste- that iS WHAT SOME WILL SAY OF SULLIVAN'S D1NNEK. almost enLrrJy through The mattress-- j es re of the coar-edraw. A small, cheap pine table stool oer by the window, a took stove by the mantel. There weio four wooden chau. and one oned ro. kcr covered What all. in Itoischair Tii.it ilothlug the family possessed, save what they weie ailua'lv wearing, was hung up on nails in a little rerew. A few p'au s. cups and saucers weie scattered in a lonely wav on the tow of shelves along by the mantel. , Cpoa one of fbg woouen chairs Sullivan at- - bis-- faeev buried- - in hi hands. On another ehuir. e lose by the stove, was ms wife, holding a puny," pallid babe to hr breast. By tuf shelves stood the oldest child, Mamie, a giii fourteen years of age, endeavoring in her poor little way to tidy up and make things nice for mother. "Mother needed to lie helped" no oue more. For It is not one of the least of lohn Sullivan's tioubles, terrible and hard a they are, that he has a crippled s, cream-colore- fL Ta(ht It public. J TblTTKI! THAN NONE. -- THREE ENGLISH GHOSTS. Th REN, to the Heir nl The home 1 now ordered for and wholly controlled by the children. The grown person receives no consideration among a houseful of children. The gauebo. If Arlo failed to give hla warning to his friend, he did not remain Inactive, but urged his horse ahead at the top .of its speed, and so evenly were these onsets made that it seemed cer talnJhat.a triple me. ting woull take place at. the converging point. fit-din- oi LOVE TH Ml 0. hue Being - A knavebeats others; a fool Lim-eel- f. of Waiting is the stumbling-bloc- k progress and reform. Doing is the lover that moves In the world. We should not too much rejoice in hope, if we would enjoy in reality, for the most agreeable- pleasum in general are those that wo have least expected. Aversion from reproof it sot wlac; It is the mark of a little mind. A great man can afford to lose, a little Insignificant fellow is afraid of being anuffed out. Hhom levity; ger-erowithout waste, secret without craft, humble without meanness, bold without Insolence, cautions without anxiety, regular yet not formal, mild yet not timid, firm yet not tyranlcal, passes tha ogdenl of honor, friendship, virtue. Free Silver Knight. But few men comparatively have an opportunity, to accumulate large fortunes; but, when men fan t lay by what is necessary for their comfort or Independence, almost without exception it is owing to their calculations and management not being right It is true there is a liability to Illness, and to Other overpowering' cause, but It not to such things that disastrous results, In the great majority of cases, can be attributed. - us 1 The Income of cardinal fur The first year, Jd.COa frinu-pen- t in fees. A-- hc DINNER FOR SIX LITTLE CHILDREN ON HALF wdiile there was Ksa plenty, Christmas cheer reigned over all. But on the slope of Cherry Hill, nt No. 20 Cherry street. In a tiny room on that uark nnd noisorao byway known as Murphyc alley, the Sullivans, father, mother and six youngsters, sat desolate, despondent, with barely the half of a loaf between them nnd starvation. It was an instance merely; not an exceptional case. The reporter could have found a thousand more equally wretched families. No fancy picture this. Merely an actuarstory In almple and unexagger-ate- d detail of what actually is. The photographs here reproduced were taken with difficulty in this little room, ao tiny that the photographer found It almost impossible to focus the camera, Indeed even to set It up. Alone, almost, with the need of hardly a line of letter press, these photographs tell vividly the story of the hapless Sullivans. You have seen at night time, out in tfceopen country, the headllght of a locomotive far away, but growing brighter and brighter as It swept on towards you. So, for the past two years. alvely by and watch starvation creeping closer and closer to his little family. When the World reporter stood before blm Chrlstnm afternoon, the mans head was bent, and he sat crouched In a low chair, a figure of de.pcir itself. 1835, was to this ChrlsUnast'de, . a man mockery-strong to even work, a man keen, willing, clean limbed, who looked as If he would bo a prixeto any one wanting a pair of good hands and a dear head, he had yet not a cent In his pockets, and but little more than half a loaf on the bare shelves that d!J diitya a cupboard. Lp to two years ago he was a prosperous workman, sure of $60 a month, and sometimes making a trifle over that Neither drink nor Incompetence has brought thla man down to where he is today, hut simply the Implacable Juggernaut of Hard Luck. This waa the picture presented in the one room of John Sullivan, statlon-sir- y ergine fireman by trade, how longshoreman by necessity, and out of work a good part nf the time. The room itsel( was about 1? feet square. It was on the ground floor of the begrimed tenement In the alley. Just One step up from pavement. The the broken, door did not even open upon a hallway, but on the alley itself. One small winroom dow lighted the another opening from the court-yaroa a dismxl narrow room In this eight people hal to eat. live and sleep. Ha-d- ly tho barost necessities of III we-- e between tt" four walls. At the hack flood, md to end, two tumble? down bedsteads and a rsnshackle crib. They had no sheets ctnUlorasefini the oedfpicads vrero rafio 1 and worn Able-bodie- d, Ill-ke- pt d, air-sha- ft. A Tommy, nearly five; Joey, one and a half, and the babv, whom they call Willie, Troubles, of eource, never come singly, It is not aloqe poverty .that this man Sullivan has to fight. Besides his maimed wife, and his baby, that looks almost aa if a breath of air would blow It away, the next to the youngest child, Joey, is a pitiable sight. Joey was born with what are called in the talk of the great east side rabbit feet. That is, hia delicate little limbs have been twisted from birth so that they cross each other almost and are shrivelled and do not grow. The toes turn In instead of out, and the sight he presents la a very aad one. It was at Bergen Point, aald Sullivan, as he looked with Bad eyes towards his wife, that she hurted herself. You know the houses out there have high stoops, and she slipped on the ice on ours one day in the wlnteivten years agone, and had a bad fall. "Id little money saved up then, went on the strong-limbe- d man in the blue Jumper, but we had to spend it all. She was la bed nigh three years. I got a doctor out from New York, anti he thought at first that he could pull her through. But he couldnt manage LOAF OF BREAD. woolly west that there Is more excuse for the following account of a Colorado girls bravery which is taken from a London womans magazine. This is the story: When Eva Bates, the girl In question, was teaching her class an enormous mountain lion sprung Into the room, and, falling upon a little antelope, which had been brought here by the child whose pet It was, killed It and at once began to devour 1L The children were panic-strickand fled to a corner ot the room, w here Ahey huddled together for mutual protection, while the lion, which had left the dead antelope, seemed to be preparing to attack them. As soon aa the antelope bad fallen the little teacher saw she would have to be prepared to defend her charges, and, remembering that there waa a gun loaded with small shot in the next room, ahe decided to get It. To do this she was compelled to cross the room and get out by the door, which opened near where the lion was crouching. She hurried by and in a moment had seized the weapon. Then she lay flat on the floor, and, creeping along qnietly. with the gua ltt front oOier, pushed It until the muzzle reified against the head of the beast, and a it. moment later as be was about to spring What will be the fate of Sullivan, his she drew the trigger and the brute fell I don't want charwife nnd childien? back, with hiB head blown to atoms. ity, he sakl manfully, stretching 'out hla good right arm and looking at his wife w ith the baby at her breast and at flotsam and jetsam. his six children. "I want work, and I The largest creamery In want to meet the man who will give it United the is States located at St. Alall.to me. That's bans, VL In Philadelphia a concoction known KxpRtT Smoking. There are several wealthjLmeDLin aa hotpectoral ls sold by the erstLondon who are reputed to spend over while Ice cream vender. This ia con$2,5C& per year on cigars. Private companies In Japan have subsidered very large over there, but sev- mitted to the government plans for eral American millionaires are said to about 2,000 miles of new railways. exceed this. One of them is reported One loan makes nil the burglars' aa spending $10,000 annually on cigars. Jimmies used in London. Tbere la An English nobleman who married an no law by which their manufacture may Amerfcnra womao..who brought, a hag be stopped. of money with her, haa astounded LonPublic-spirite- d citizens of Birmingdon with hla extravagance in cigars. have given United States ham, Ala., He pays about $500 monthly for them, flags to the schools of the city, both and always trades with one dealer, who white and colored. posts a sign to that effect tn order to national Philadelphia has forty-on- e attract customers. Several prominent forty-fiv- e trust companies and Englishmen, among whom la said to be banks, prtvats Labourchere. buy cigarettes imported savings banks and ninety-si- x from Turkey, at a coat of 10 cents each. bankers and brokers. The Scotchmen of Cleveland are planOne of them smokes and gives away 100 in a day, which is probably the recning the erection of a building to serve aa headquarters for the several Scotord for expensive cigarette smoking. tish societies of the city. This season there has been good sport Tk Sfwi Comet. It will require line telescopes to catch in Connecticut on partridge, woodcock a glimpse of the newly discovered com- and gray squirrels, but the quail shootet. It Is. now about 84.000,000 miles ing has been simply poor. An enormous flight cf carrier pigeons froft lbe'Bun. The distance will decrease and reach a, minimum of about waa recently held In Paris, 80,009 birds will uadoubt-e-il- y having been set loose In one mprnlng 20.000.000 cn Dec. be vkible with lflescepic asstst-arc- e front the neighborhood of lheEiffel tower. within a few weeks. , 13It en |