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Show It I DRESSED TO KILL Breathe th with soul At Walter Scott aanjf in a ballad. Who nvver tu hit fntoda hi kM I I alone ran mix a Who ahen his varlet meki4d' and low t a!) "count of time, as a nan t.c docs when he sleeps, but when the ttewaid sunimoreO him hurriedly an cmr after midnight he bad evidently not btc-- i ir bed; a light was, burning in his -- abln, he was still dressed, and his face was wan and bis eyes heavy, as if he were In pain. Mr. Ashton's worse, sir. Edwards Is with him, and nailed me to fetch MUSEUM has prize gorilla. He can't sleep. Keeps silting you. the Woods 8laln by Ger-maup, Edwa.ds says, staring as if he Monster could see people, an' talking very Traveler. There has just been placed on exhisinglar Delirious, I expect sir. bition is the I'mlauff museum, at We must try a sleeping draught," I'll be there Hamburg the blj,k.t known specimen said Yalden dully. of gorilla, it was shot In the Cameroon Tsrrlioij. in Barrow being gone, he busied himAfrica. After it was removed to self in the medicine cupboard, and much hastened after him, carrying some-thiL- Hamburg smiled, mounted and placed on exhibition h measures 6 feet 10 in a glass. Drawing near to No. 16, he could Inches from the crown of the head to hear the sick man babbling monoton- the middle toe, and across, from midously. and the very sound of his voire dle finger to middle finger, 9 feet 8 stung him and quickened a fiercer Inches. It was largely a matter of flpme within him; till suddenly be chance that the commercial traveler, caught a word of wbat the man was Herr Piflen of S.hwerln, shot this saying merely a name, but the utter- gigantic gorilla When t;ie natives came to the ance of It checked him iubtantly. as If a hand had plucked $t his sleeve. agency at Cameroon with stories of He stood trembling, and In that the big monkey Herr Pabchen did same instant saw, shaping white in not take mui h stock In their yarns, but the darkness before him, a sweet, sad when the nathe troops started out to face, grown pale with weary years of hunt for the gorilla the German travlonging the pure, wistful eyes looked eler took his carblte and went along into his, and their calmness calmed After some hours' travel they came to him, and their sadness made him the patch of bush wnere the gorilla was supposed to be hiding The naashamed. , tives surrounded the bush, and sudWith a something breaking like sob in his throat he swiftly retraces denly the beast's head appeared Herr his steps, pauslrg in the unllghted 'PtfCken made a path through the saloon to open i .e of the portholes bush with his bush knife and when and fling the glass be carried far out within range took air and fired. It was a lucky shot, for the beast at Into the dark. fell with the bullet through bit Thereafter he sat till well into the once head. He fell with a crash and was day watching and tending the maa almost instantly dead. It was not an she loved and had loved so long. matter to remove the gorilla to In on deck the morning, he easycoast Going and thence to Hamburg, but the leaned over the side to tear up the lifelike In apletter he had written and scatter its there it Is now, almostwas so the mount- pearance, carefully sea. It was the fragments Into the burial of a great hope that had died In the night. As he walked away, the captain, coming from breakfast, met him, and lingered to make Inquiries. Morning, doctor; hows the Youre not going to make a funeral of it, 1 hope? Not quite, Yalden laughed careHe has taken a turn for the lessly. better. Black and White. Quaint and (Burious Things ; Gathered Here and There sb de-a- he himat-'nhou'd Fx it uggstj with Exclaimed No vh petulance Give me the cruet and i 11 fix ij n craze on him with ciIl smile If we his strong esteem would WTe capture Our optic organs rod the whte In throes of simulated rapture bound the erdant lents to spoil. lies This lettuce notoriety seeker. With too much vinegar or oil Or oversurfeit of paprika 0 Still w maintain our placid grin. Although tis saiud much too fully. And garlic cloves galore rubbed In. We voJp ths eulogistic Bul! For conscience prompteth us this way To revel in the product gladlv Well knowing on some future dy We'll mix another just as badly New Yoik Herald. The steward knocked, and put hla bead In at the door. "Cabin passenger, sir, No. 16." he brevreported, with a business-likity. "Very bad." Dr. Yalden glanced up from bis desk irritably. Whats the matter with him?" "Dun no, sir. Uncommon bad." "Usual thing, I suppose? "No, sir. Not sea sick. Queer when he came aboard yesterday, I thought. Been In bed all day. Wouldn't let me get him anything. Till just now he asked me to fetch you." The steward withdrew, and the doctor only delayed to finish the first paragraph of a letter he had been writing when he was interrupted. It was not precisely an argent letter, for he had no intention of doing anything with It until the ship arrived at Liverpool; but it was to contain much that he knew he could not possibly put Into speech, and it was to tell the recipient that he would at-riv-e less than half a day behindjt The lamp that shone from be wall ef No. 16 showed him a haggard, man stretched on the bunk apparently asleep. While the doctor was taking s preliminary survey of him he coughed and awoke. "Steward! I'm the doctor. You sent for me. Whats wrong?" I dont know, "Ohhanks. doctor. My head's all afire, and my bahds, too. Keel that.". The doctor took his hand and laid a finger on hla pulse. The hand was hot and dry, the pulse was galloping furiously, and a brief examination was sufficient to diagnose his ailment. "A touch of pneumonia, said Yalden. "You must take more care of yourself than youve been doing lately. You were not fit to travel; you must have felt ill before you sta.ted," 1 wanted to get home, the other answered, wearily. "Ive been away a long time. "We must see what we can arrange about nursing, the doctor concluded. Ill give you some medicine; you've got a good constitution, and with care, youll pull round all right." "Think ao?" He mustnt be "Oh, yea. The doctor turned to left, Barrow. the steward. "Somebody will have to 1 11 see him it np with him turn and I before Ill get in, again the captain to let you havd assistance." After fulfilling which latter duty he retired to his cabin avtf resumed the laborious composition it his letter. Three years ago he met In London the girl he told himself he hau been looking for all his life. She was nearly twenty years his junior, but wbat did that matter? Her people had been rich and proud, and now, through recent financial disasters they were poor end prouder, but wbat did all that matter, either? She heard him with pity In her e it, once for all, when he came home from hla next voyage. He was speeding homeward now, and the letter was to prepare her for hla coming. He wrote it with so many pauses for reflection that by 10 o'clock it was still unfinished, when, mindful of his patient, be relocked it In hla desk. No. 16 was awake, but drowsy with sheer weakness. "If I dont pull through thlsdoc- - " ter "Dont you worry about that; you will. But If I dont Im not afraid of dying. I've been . hear It too often Rare Intelligence Displayed by Pet of Famous Writer. That delightful writer on natural history, the late Mr Frank Buckland, used to be particularly fond of watching the various ways In which his pets would thieve. He told a good tale about a rat that be had which not in- frequently terrified his visitors at breakfast Mr. Buckland bad made a house for his pet rodent by the side of the mantelpiece, and this was approached by a kind of ladder, which the rat had to ascend when he had Frank Bucklanda Rat been foraging on the floor. Mr, Rat was very fond of certain aorta of fish and was aura to venturs forth gly if the savor were strong. Ons day Mr. Buckland turned hla back tn order to give his pet a chance of seizing the coveted morsel, which he was not long in doing. Hastening up the ladder with his piscatorial prize, he had It fixed by the middle of the back, and found that this prevented him drawing the fish through the nap row portal of his den. This, however, did not disconcert the rat at alL He laid down hla capture on the little platform before hla door, went In him self, turned around, poked out hla head, caught thp fish by the note and pulled him tn with easy triumph and shortly dined sumptuously. What is more, Mr. Rat never again tried to bouse bit provender sideways proa-pecti- t? PROFESSOR IN HARD LUCK. Flung the glass far out into the dark. for that; and yet, now it seems hard er than It ever did before." Youd better not talk. I donl want you to excite yourself." "Not me! What I mean is. It would be hard luck to die on the way home I've been away nearly nine yearr. 1 went away as poor as a rat, and Im going back rich. Thats something, isnt "It itra - . great deal. "And I'm not dead yet, though Im supposed to be! the other chuckled, One everlasting, terrible grimly. winter we were snowed np miles away from everywhere, and we were pul down as done for. Only two of ns managed to worry through, and we wandered heaven knows where, and we lived well, we didnt live. But we I'm going worried through and home." His eyes closed and he rambled on' dreamily: "Nine years; bat she'll be waiting. I told her that it wouldnt be more than, two and she said It's till yon come, Ned, and if you never come, I shall wait till I meet you, at the end. " He lay quiet a minute, and then, opening hla eyes and finding the doctor regarding him intently, he continued: "We've never written to each other. We promised her people we wouldnt She was to be free to change If she would; they said It was best I had no money and no prospects, but If I went back a rich man and she had not changed. I knew abe never would. Whether i lived - or died, she said she would never change and she wont Did you say your name was Edwin AEhton? The doetbr was startled by the alien sound of his own voice. The sick man nodded, and, pointing across the cabin "Her portraits in my bag, doctor," Do you mind getting it for he said, me? My wills in there, too. I made it as soon as I struck my first luck, In case. , . . Oh, what I wanted to ask you, doctor, was If I dont pull round, will you have, my bag and everything went to her?. YpuU.ftnd Early Arrival Spoiled Hie Chances for Fame. We can recall no rainmaker from the time of Plutarch, or any rain doctor of the Indians, or any rain sorcerer of the African tribes, who has played Inha'rdef luck than Prof. Meyers has just encountered In the Adirondack. He arrived a few days ago with a fine collection of balloons and bombs and got all ready for operations on Tuesday. On the evening of that day he announced that he should vend np some balloons with powerful bombs with lighted fuses attached, and that rain would follow the explosion almost ' Immediately. - a . . , As a matter of fact, rain preceded the explosion. Just as the professor was about to cut the ropes of his balloon a , tremeijdous thunderstorm came up, advancing with terrlfflp speed and deluging the region with water. Ycu see, nature had got on to the professor's little game and forestalled him., But imagine the sirs of the professor if he had got his balloons up shout fifteen minutes ahead of the shower! No rain doctor that the world has known would have been in It with him then. New York Commercial Advertiser. One Dog's Intelligence. The Jntellgence of animals seems as s rule to be underrated rather than A dog breeder described overrated. the other day a wonderful collie that had belonged to Sir John Lubbock. This dog," he said, would, when It was hungry, lay at Its masters feet a card marked Food.' When It was thirsty It would fetch a card marked Drink. When it wanted to take I walk It would bring a card marked Out Sir John Lubbock trained it to do this trick in less than a month He put the food card over the dogs food and made It bring the card to him before ho would allow It to eat, and in the matter of drinking and going out he usdd A like method. The cards were similar In shape and color. Nothing but the writing on them differed. Since, therefore, the dog distinguished them by the writing alone. It may truly be said that the animal oould read." More Criminals f To-da- y. "The number of criminals Is on the Increase, and the number of helnoss offenses grows less as civilization advances, said a New York criminal lawyer the other day. "This may seem pgridoxjcal, but It is easily explained. New laws are continually being mads constituting new. crimes, and while the number of the violations of the law grows larger, the number of atrocious crimes diminishes. If you will cor suit the criminal statistics you will see that the increase la almost and lighter entlrely in the-ne- w-- The Ktndty8irmere. It only kindly sinners yes. But not now. Yalden Could rule this world's affairs," Youve talked Interrupted harshly. . Wed alt at better dinners . . too much And spend lees time tn prayers; . Come already. And at Ufa's sparkling banquet along, Barrow, he hailed the advent care, of the steward with Ineffable relief. . ItWed drown cerroding only kindly Sinners Call me If he Is worse In tie night Could rule this worlds affairs. He ws dased and stupefied by the knowledge that bad come upon him Safety- - In N umbers. so unexpectedly, and yehrned to get home an lech Brannlgan---Co; away and be alone wberd he might supper wld me. Handgun. r think of It One thought only burned Flarnigan Shore, its past yer to a clear and fiercely steady blaze time now. Yer wifell be nui as . a sinister, hellish thought that he a hatter. dared not face and could sot exBrannlgan Thata Jest It; she caa -. lick the two of us. , tinguish. her address Yes, me imp-pe- K n It Is One ef the Greet Civilizing Forest. of the Muscovite Empire. The ciar ts ln fsvor of unlversal peace, but be has the largest army of tbe world. He has more officers than wt have officers and men In our regular army and, even in these piping times of peace his troops exceed 1,000,-00writes Frank G. Carpenter. Should war be declared bo could Increase them to 6,000,000, and could put Into tbe field 660,000 of the best horse in tbe world. For the past thirty years military service has been obligatory upon all Kusslana Every boy on becoming of age Is liable to service, and there are 870,000 new recruits every year. Of these 219,000 are taken Into the active army and fleet and of the rest the majority go Into tbe militia." They serve off and on until they ars 8 years old, and are always ready to he called out in case of war. It takea a vast number of troops, to keep this great empire in order. Dup lng the Chinese war 200,000 men were sent Into Siberia and a great wall of fortifications has to be kept up along the western frontier to guard against invasion from Europe. The frontier guard now amounts to 86,000 men and tn addition vast numbers hava to he scattered throughout the various state and the Russian territories in Asia. . Tbe Cossack are dark-facerough' looking fellows from about ths Black Gigantic Wedding Feast monster banquet has just been given by a wealthy landowner at Storm's ... What's the matter with him? eyes, hut not love; and .she told him, with only pity In her tones, that the Bian she loved was dead and her heart was buried with hlm, Later he learned the story that'lay behind her words, and saw more hope In it for himself than sht had given him. for surely hla living love of her oould, in due time, win her away from dead rival. He the memory-- ' of would not take her answer then, but begged her to think of all it must mean to him, and let blra ask her for I I g ... ... et THE CZARS GREAT ARMY. RAT SHOWS ITS SAGACITY. A Qulmperle, tn Normandy, to celebrate the simultaneous wedding of Ms four children, two sons and two daughters. No fewer than 1,600 guests sat down to the feast, which took place In the open air. The bill of fare Included Bo five cattle and sixteen lambs. lavish was the scale of ordering that, though tbe 1,600 guests are reported K I 3 to" have had magnificent appetites, Alongside is there was more than enough for all lag and stuffing dons, tbs gigantic skeleton. Since the gop Nor was their thlrat neglected, tor the A Cossack Officers Dla was placed on exhibition the guests emptied ten large barrels of trowda at the museum have been enop ! vine and fifteen of cider, besides dis- tea. There are about 8.000,000 of theta upon Its posing of much elss of a liquid charao-marke- all told and they furnish 160,000 tnea joins and Jthe comments resemblance to the human ter. for the army. They are sent out by species have been general. The gorths various Cossack states, each. cl. illa might have something to say on which equips, clothes and arms its this subject If slivs. own soldiers. They belong mostly to tb cavalry and are among the finest Ths Biggest Hanging Bell. horsemen of the world. Indeed It la What is perhaps tbe largest hanging said that the average Cossack can rids bell in the world la to be seen In bareback, standing up Ilka tbs athlete of ths circus. Mandalay. This is the Mingun bell, on the right bank of the Irrawaddy, The Russian army is one of ths almost opposite the city of Mandalay, great civilizing forces of this country. lMM This Immense bell measures as folTbe peasants are very Ignorant and a vtz lows: Height to crown, 12 feet; 21 there are but few schools. Those feet high to the top of tbe griffln-llk- e drafted Into the army are taught to read and write and they are sent hack monsters; diameter at tbe lip, 16 feet 8 inches; thickness of metal, from 6 home with new ideas got through tbelr inches to 12 Inches.' It weighs about - nnse-- f service Is different parts of ths Rus.it,' 80 tonB, and Is suspended on three sian world. Indeed the change Is so massive round beams of teak placed marked that a man who has had mill-tar- y service can command 25 per eent horizontally the one over the other, their ends resting on two pillars of higher wages in almost any pursuit enormous size, composed of masonry than those who have not served- .This and large upright teak posts. . Ctlcs Globe, j bell was cast at the end of the eightf eenth century under the superintendHas Outlived a Century. ence of the reigning king. . The oldest recorded minister of the Society of Friends In the world, link Making Trees Eat. Phoebe Ann Gifford, recently cel In the Crimea scientists have been b rated the 100th anniversary of h eg making queer experiments wtth fruit birth at her home la Providence. A trees. Instead of ' trying to Increase large number of congratulatory mestheir growth and yield by heaping fersages wore received by Mnt Gifford; tilizers around their roots, they hove' who retains her powers to a remarls been cutting tiny holes 1010' their able degree. trunks and Inserting salts of iron in ; acf An ' both Mild and liquid form. Profeeelonal Bible Readers. Harry Ehratins of Mulberry Grove, count of these ottrious experiments has ' IIl( Bible-ern now e only 18 years old, has '.Readings from ths read before ths Imperial socletyj f.redthough fractures of the arms and legs being given in Berlin by profession! -- recently and It was declared by the M ghown kboTk . reciters. men who have been thus feeding tbe trees that the method has proved itself FIRST OPEN AIR THIATRE IN ENGLAND. to be highly auccessful. Photographs were ehown of nine hundred trees that had been thus treated, and tbe pictures appeared to prove the truth of the allegations, for all tbe trees were beautiful with foliage and flourishing excellently. L ' . ! auf-bee- -- n - , Boy Buried Alive. Immediately after the burial of her only, son at Naples, Signora Cupola cried out that the.airgels were whispering to her that tbe child was still alive, Sbe attacked tbe grave diggers and began throwing out the earth, while friends, takipg pity on her, assisted. Finally thedid unscrewed, and It, was found that the child had suffocated; the little body was lying on the stomach, the clothing tors' into shrodg and the finger nails red with blood. Tbe body was still warm, but efforts to revive the poor boy were 1 ... 'Tfiir . T'g T.:,1 -- i ' - I -- t ., " i-- .. futile. Protest Against .Profanation. British residents of Greece are much wrought np over the action of tbe government In accepting the offer of a foreign capitalist to erect a gambling raslne In the old British cemetery ln Corfu. W'hen the Ionian Jslands were An open air theatqr the first ef Its kln4 In England and of wklch we present a special sketch above was opened at Port Sunlight recently. Ths Greeks and Romans held many of their ceded by England to Greece In 1864 gatherings in the open air, and many it was specifically' provided that the of their sports were witnessed under cemeteries would remain undisturbed. the canopy of heaven. Our .climate does not always permit us to Dnltat them; but, even to England, who fcgp not felt, on. nr warm summer's dzy, how much preferable s suitable sit to the fresh air would be to n stuffy, unventtlated and abominably uveas erowc d lecture hall or church? Liverpool Mercury. |