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Show t t bnmly, which I placed on the flout J4 thn left. I have never seen him shce. fur I feel sure the greatest kind-n- s to him is to let him alone and I hive exerted all my influence that he sUll remain unmolested." A MYSTERIOUS HERMIT. A VISIT TO THE CAVERN HOME OF A RECLUSE. Kviilxne of Great Artistic Talent Ireed In Skint and Wearing a Mask He 1 Seldom Seen and Never Talks. Wilburger county. Texas, boasts of a mystery in the form of a hermit, liv-ing near Willow creek in a small cav-ern, says the Philadelphia Times, partly natural and partly excavated by him, lined with skin and decorated with drawings on the wall, which are said to bo tho work of an artist of cultivated taste and great talent. Very little is known of the recluse beyond the fact that he is a white man, an Englishman or American by birth, and has lived in his cave for the past fifteen years. He always wears a closo-fittin- g mask of buckskin, which, fall-ing to his breast, completely hides his face, and dresses in skins in the winter, while in summer he is clothed in a loose garment said to bo woven of, the prairie grass. This strange being, by some regard-ed as 11 myth, is only seen at long intervals, when some traveller runs across him by accident, when he will make no attempt to escape, but respond pleasantly, if briefly to any question or groeling and quietly walk away. If followed or molested he first mildly protests, and then, if the attempt is persisted in, has been known to draw a weapon, which has usually tho effect of l idding him of his tormentor. He carries a small rifle, which, however, he has never been seen to uso, but snares all his game after tho manner of poachers, or fishes along the creek. On such faro as ho secures in this way and a patch of ground which he culti-vates the recluse lives, for he has never been known to visit town, though several attempts havo been mado to induce him to abandon his solitary life. His cavern, though known to a few, is never visited, for it is believed that he would resent any intrusion in a very unplea-an- t manner. The only man who has ever entered tho cave is Col. J. Nixon, who, on one occasion, was invited thero by its mys-terious inhabitant. His story is: "I had driven out from Harroldto Lloyd's ranch, when I was overtaken by one of our sudden prairie, storms. My ponies soon grew unmanageable nnd I got out to hold them by the bit, when a tremendous peal and blinding Hash caused the little demons to break away from mo and go tearing across the prairio. After relieving my full heart by a few words suitable for tho occa-sion I trudged on, but soon found the road so heavy for mv thin shoes that I abandoned It for one of the cattle paths which seemed to run parallel with it. Now, I know the road well, have trav-elled it often, but with what tho dark-ening sky, the sheets of rain and the lightning, it did not tako me long to lose my way. At some distance I could seo the line of timber marking tho course of the creek and made my way to it, following tho stream for a mile or two. "All at once, as I plungod in, I heard a voice hailing mo, and looking closely about saw sitting in the mouth of a dugout or cavo in the side of a good-size- d hillock a man with some-thing over his face. I hallooed in answer, when the stranger called to mo to come in out of the ruin, so I marched boldly up to him. I knew him in a moment, for I had often heard of the veiled hermit of Willow Creek, though up to the time I actually beheld him I had never believed in his existence. "He led me into his cave and light-ing a fire of pine knots, piled up in a rude fireplace with a funnel leading up into the open air, revealed to me a scene which for wildness I never saw equaled. Snakes so well preserved as to appear nlive, in nil tnolr ugly hung pendant from rafters that supported tho clay-daube- d roof; grinning heads of panthers, cata-mounts, bears, juguars, and every wild beast to be found for hundreds of miles around added to the weird of the place, while their skins carpeted the cavern and made the hermit's bod, which was all the furniture the place afforded, except a low stool before the fire. "The walls of the cave were of clay, evidently hardened by heat, and were covered with drawings mado by some sharp instrument while the clny was yet soft I am sufficient judge of art to know that the hand which executed the pictures was that of a skilled artist and they were fine indeed. They were, for the most part, from the Bible and represented Peter's denial of Christ, Judas kissing IUb cheek, and the dis-ciples asloep in the garden of Gethse-man- o, but I also remember one or two scenes from the Odyssy and 1 Iliad. "My host brought out some cold venison and a plate of beans, of which 1 nto thankfully, after which ho re-sumed his seat in the door of the cave. I tried to talk to him, but his mono-syllabic replies soon silenced me, and when, presently, the ruin ceased, he said: You must excuse mo, but I am under a vow to hold communication with no one.1 I rose at this hint, and prepared to go. I had a late news-paper in my pocket, and tendered it to him, but he thanked mo and shook his head. 'My ono desire is to forget the world and be forgotten by it' Here he hesitated a second and said: 'I would like, however, to ask you one question. Has Fngland ' But he checked himself and groaned. 'No, no; better not! Sir, go quickly. I am a wretch who expiates deadly sin in solitude and pain.' He ran to the back of the envo and falling on his knees groaned and sobbed. I had some tobacco with me end some other trifles such as a pocket-knif- e, matches, quinine and a flask of i AMONG THE BMGAXDS. HOW THE FREEBOOTERS OF THE LEVANT CATCH PREY. Method and Manner ot a Great ItaMern Industry Kidnaping a a Vocation Has Hern It educed la an lixacl Science. he d with his well-lade- n donkey at the first point he made a signal as directed: tiiis was answered by a return signal from behind a rock anil and an order to pMcrml in a certain direction until he heard a sheep Meat three times. On hearing that signal the messenger stopped, made a prearranged reply, ami was directed to go on until he should hear the cawing of a crow, thrice repeated; he would then receive further directions. In this mysterious manner the messenger finally arrived in the presence of the rohher chieftain himself, who was holding a cocked re-volver in his hand, alertness in his mien, and a quick, tierce, yet anxious, hwk in his eye, as if suspicious of treachery. The messenger was at once conducted into the cave; on his stating that he had brought the full amount of the ransom demanded he was handed a flask, or rather a gourd, containing spirits. After saying, "with your per-mission," the messenger took a some-what copious draught of strong waters, and then the money was carefully counted; the amount In-in- found cor-rect the chief turned to his prisoner ami respectfully said: 'Sir, you are ut lils-rt- to go when you please. Two of my palikaris will attend you to the foot of the moun-tain, after you have solemnly pledged your word as n gentleman that you will never give any one a single clew to the wherealMHits of our cave. A day's de-l:- y would have cost you an ear. On the lifth day we should have been ajllE CArTUKE, the other day. of a train of well known passengers by brig-- " amis in Turkey, brings to notice one of the thriving in-dustries of the East. Fancy an Ameri- -' can lady of wealth and refinement to Ih traveling in Asia Minor, on the way, perhaps, to the ruinsof Kphcsus. It is toward evening, and the inclosing mountains cast cxd shadows over the road. The scene is, indeed, romantic. Tranquility reigns over the landscape; no Hound is heard but the tinkle of the sheep-bell- s, the twittering of birds, or the hoot of her-mit owls, and sometimes the click of a horse's hoof as the travelers slowly wend up the mountain toward the heart of a ravine. Turning in the sad-dle one may see in the distance the faint blue expanse of the Kgcan tea flecked with white sails. Suddenly, without warning, a voice issues with startling sharpness from the ticket, crying: "Halt, on your lives'.'' The gentlemen of the party in-stantly draw their revolver i, peering into the bushes to find to:n "thing to shoot, liut the muleteers urged them in the most frantic tones on no account to draw trigger or they will le massa-cred on the spot, as they are covered by the rilles of a band of brigands. The voice from the thicket is again heard summoning the party to surren-der their arms and deliver themselves up and no harm will come to them. At the same moment a tall fellow issues from the ambush, dressed in a manner sufliciently gorgeous nnd picturesque to please the fancy of the most romantic graduate of Vassnr. lie carries a mus-ket and is followed by a band of a dozen brigands senrely less picturesque that he. They surround the party, seize the bridles of the horses, and re-ceive the firearms of the travelers, who yield them with visible reluc-tance. A certain foreign consul did not get off so easily. His chiliick or farm was on the outskirts of the village. Ac-companied by his two children he was standing at the rear gate with a fowling-- piece. As if springing from the earth four bold, handsome, but un-masked brigands gathered him in, as it were, and after giving directions to his boy as to how to reach them made off to their mountain den at a smart run. The tidings struck the town like lightning out of a clear sky. Natural-ly the first thought was to send a regi-ment of soldiers to the rescue, display-ing them in a cordon uround the. fast-ness of the brigands anil gradually closing them in the toils. THK MAIL f'AllIUKn'S PKIlir.. under the painful duty of reducing your length by ahead. Happily the faithful punctuality of your friends en-ables me to wish you a pleasant journey home, with the hope that your health may long continue as good as it now is, thanks to our brisk mountain air." Hut one of the most romantic phases of the brigand's veuturesom career in Turkey, and also, although more rare-ly, in l'ersia, Is tho capture of the mails. Excepting on one or two rni na-ture railways in Turkey, the postal service in the interior of these coun-tries is still largely dependent on post-carrier- s, who dash across tho lonely roads on horseback. The men eipploy- - ed in this arduous service mdst 1)8 hardy, intelligent, and brave. S. O. W. Bexjamim In the meantime, the victim of this nigh-hande- d proceeding was not so badly treated. His suffering was chief-ly on account of his family: he was too well aware how keen their anxiety must be. l!ut for himself he knew the unsom would In? raised and his re-lease be safely accomplished, provided no one discovered their retreat nor at-tacked his captors. The latter treated him with sniliclcnt respect and guvo him plenty to eat of what they had. liume was abundant in the neighbor- - as Ar.nfcTiox rr.i'STiiATKn. hood, but they did not venture to shoot it down for fear of discovery. Some of these brigands or klefts, as they are called, are men of prodigious strength, small in waist, but lithe, wiry, and muscular to u degreo. I heard of one klcft. a chieftain, who when seated on the ground by the camp-fir- e would stretch out his arm and order one of his men to step on the open palm. Thus he would hold him a few seconds at arms-lengt- and then gradually lift and toss him for-ward like an orange. The klefts are almost invariably Greeks: occa-sionally a Maltese or an Italian is found among them. But they are all Christians, and good Christians at thnt. They fast with the utmost strictness in Lent and on fastdays. A drop of human blood from a victim spurting on their lips on a fast day would give them severe twinges of the conscience. From time to time they go carefully disguised to church and confess with the solemnity of crusaders engaged in fighting for the holy sepulcher. Tf-wa- Mohammedans they exhibit especial horror. They do not even con-descend to take paramours from the hated followers of the prophet. But while we are discussing the vir-tues and habits of the Levantine bri- - gand our captive in the mountains has been smoking innumerable cigarettes of Stambouleo tobacco in order to soothe his growing impatience. As the time approached when the messenger with the ransom was expected great restlessness and intense watchfulness was exhibited by tho troops. The chief detailed two brawny fellows to guard the prisoner, knife in hand, with orders to stab him to the heart at the first sign of Bn attempt at rescue. At various pre-concerted points other brigands w ere distributed to guide the messenger with the money to their hiding place. When pantry, lavatory and water ciosets ad-jacent. The appropriation for the home was lio.uoO. The house has been so arranged that there shall hy groups, or families, thus affording greater harmony and a better feeling among the inmates, and to enhance a spirit of concord, each inmate has been provided with a lock-er or closet besides his own bed. The buildings are roomy and com-fortable. The administration build-ing is a wooden structure, '2i stories iu height, Gix&l feet on the sills, and contains the otllces of the Home, the Surgeon's room, the dispensary and the residence of the commandant, Capt. 1$. 1". Hall, a Rhode Island vet-eran. lien. Hovry'a Ulx Heart Gen. Alvin 1'. llovey, (Jovernor of Indiana, has shown recently that he has a big heart in his brace body, by refusing to order the arrest of Mrs. Laura Jones, of Rockport, Ind., on a requisition from the (Jovernor of Ken-tucky. Mrs. Jones is the daughter of John Bonhommie, of Owensboro, Ky., who objected to her union with young Jones. The latter paid frequent visits to Owensboro, but each time he found the Bonhommie mansion barred against him, and ho soon learned through mutual friends that Miss Laura was suffering a great deal of bad treatment ou ac-count of her love for him. He man-aged to communicate with her, and an elopement was planned. Miss Laura was taken from an upstairs room while the father was sleeping below, and the lovers escaped to In-diana, where they were married. In the papers accompanying the requisi-tion the father accuses his daughter of having committed perjury in swearing that sho was of marriageable age, when, in fact, she was but sixteen years old. Only the father's allidavit accompanied the requisition, and (Jov. Hovey at once detormined not to honor it. In closing his reply, he says: "This ease seems very strango to me, where a father seeks to have his daughter arrested and mado a felon because of a natural desire to marry the man she loves. It is not an ad-mirable spirit shown on tho part of the father, to say the least " Swallowed Nothing. Col. Michael C. Murphy, of New York, has had a remarkable experi- - t or War. The following letter was written to Senator Hawley, some time ago: IIok. Joseph R. Hawi.it, Washington, I). C. My Dear Sf.xatok: You will recall me as a member. 3'Jth and 40th Con-gresses, from this State, and as hav-ing actively aided you in your State in your first fight and victory for (Jov-ernor. In the Senate debates some time since, and also recently at a Fourth of July celebration, I have seen you quoted as .hostile to the bill reported in the House to pension prisoners of war. A strong admirer and friend of your?, I havo greatly regretted this. I was fourteen months in Libby I'rison, from March, 1X03, to May, 1SG1. I have a personal experience, but my own was surpassed in misery in many respects by thousands. Could the senators and members only believe (they cannot realize) the stories of mental nnd physical agony told of those prison-pen- s of torture and death; picture only one-ha- lf the actual suf-ferings we endured, 1 am sure every one of you would reflect upon your-selves every night before you retire, bo long as you fail to pass this bill. I am quite sure you cannot And a survivor of rebel prisons, who was in their hands after June, lSi3, who will rot tell you he would have gladly charged the enomy in the field every day of the year, and taken his chances for life, in preference to remaining a day, as tho situation was, in rebel prisons. Grant and tho war department mny havo been right in refusing to ex-change prisoners, on the theory that by so doing we gave to the other side an army of strong men in exchange for our starved soldiers; and that to allow us to starve and suffer and die, saved thousands of soldiers who wore in our armies in the held; and ren-dered new recruits not needed. That is, we were thus weakening the y. So we wore. War is always cruel. This was the cruelty of cruelties. It was a most extraordinary position of most heroic sufferings, which our government" compelled us to undergo, and it en-titles us to extraordinary considera-tion, and special honors. Aye, if you wish to put it so, "rewards." It is the basest of slanders to pay that any soldiers in our armies after June, 1803, when the cartel was bus-.- .. ponded (yes, and before), was volun-tarily a prisoner. The history of our war and its battles show that the men who went farhtest to the front, fought fiercest In the fight, remained longest on the field, and wore last to retreat, are the men who were cap-tured. I cannot think, my dear General you have looked at this matter in its proper light. I knew you were a brave soldier, and I think you are a t J Christian man. I believe you have l I unmeaningly done the prisoners of lS war an injustice, and I appeal to you to correct it. That 65,000,000 with more wetfth and luxury than Solomon in all his glory ever thought of, and all this, and this magnificent country and its marvelous splendors, with its glorious freedom shculd stop to count the cost of pensions; all figured up, even to two thousand millions of dollars, par-celed and doled out until we are all gone and we survivors are old men now Is to write down this great peo-ple as inexcusably mean and wholly wanting in gratitude to those who took their lives in their hands and mado this mighty people what they are. I am sure you will pardon my writ-ing to you, and my hope is to cause you to use your power and influence to help as many soldiers who survive as possible to carry a certificate of pension, not as a beggar or pauper, but a paper bearing the seal of his country tnat he is ono of those who caved the Republic. Samuel McKeb, ence with starvation, lie uvea seven months without swallowing a morsel of food or a single drop of drink, and during that time ho endured one sur-gical operation of great severity and equal delicacy and danger, and any cumber of ones of smaller conse-quence. He suffered so much from dyspepsia that in 1889 the physicians concluded that he had an ulcer in his stomach. To treat of involved an enforced rest it the important organ of digestion that lasted fifty-nin- e days. In the meantime, by the use of me-chanical appliances that involved the swallowing of a good deal of rubbor tubing, the stomach was washed out daily with a solution of nitrate of sil-ver. He got better, but soon after had a stricture of the asophngus. He could swallow nothing, and food was administered by enaima. When his wasted strength made it necessary that liis life might be saved, his stomach was opened, a rubber tube inserted and ho was fed through this. Finally the stricture was curer" Grand Army Note. The tomb of Gen. WinSeld S. Han-soc- k was decorated on Memorial Day by a delegation from the Hancock Legion of Philadelphia. Gen. Fitzhugh Leo is expected to deliver the address at the anniversary festival of the Confederate Soldiers' Home of the Maryland Line at Pikes-vill- e, Md., June 4. The engineer charts which wore prepared by Gen. Robert K. Loe when ho was a member of the United Suites Engineer Corps, over fifty years ago, are still in use at St, Louis. Mo., for river improvements. Storer Post, G. A. R., of Torts-mout- h, N. 11. will present portraits of Admiral Farragut and Gen, Thomas J. Whipple to the Farragut and Whipple schools of that city respect-ively. The artist will be Mr. U. U. Tenny. One of the sophomores who lef Princeton college during the civil war Captain, Fourteenth Kentucky cav-alry, 216 Fifth street, Louisville, Ky. A New Home. The Rhode Island Soldiers' Home at Bristol was dedicated on May 21 with appropriate ceremonies by the ' Department of Rhode Island, G. A. R. The town of Bristol donated the Greene farm, worth $10,000, to the State for soldiers' relief purposes, and upon this very desirable site, com-manding a fine view of Fall River and ML Hope Bay on the east; Karagan-set- t Bay, the ocean, and the island of Rhode Island on , and the bay, the west shore and Providence to the west and north, was erected this home for the country's saviors. The home opened with nearly 100 inmates, 81 per cent of whom receive no pen-sions. The domestic building is also of wood, 93x50 feet, with kitchen, store rooms, amusement hall9, library and officers' dining room on the first floor, and nine sleeping-room- s, a bath and several fctorerooms on tho second floor. There are four pavilions, 25x81 foot, each with a wing on each sido 18x37 feet six inches. The central part of each pavilion consists of a dormitory containing twenty-tw- o beds. One of the wings has the wardmaster or sergeant's room and eight beds, tho liter is for the dining-roo- with a to enter the army is to enter tne class of '94 of that institution to finish his course. He is now 53 years old, and obviously convinced that the little difficulty is completely wound up. The late Col. L. M. Dayton, who was an officer on Gen. Sherman's staff, left an estate valued at over $300,000. Among his bequests, outside of the family circle, are these: To the home of the F'riendless and the Children's Home in Cincinnati, each $5,000; to the Society of the Army of the Ten-nessee, $5,000; and to the Ohio Com-mande- ry of the Loyal Legion, his portraits of Gens. Sherman, Grant and Sheridan. Senator William F. Vilas, of Madi-son AVis., recently received news that his namesake, William F. Vilas Hill, had killed himself at Memphis, Tenn. This young man was spoken of in some reports as a nephew of Senator Vilas's but he was not a rela-tive of the of the Interior. Senator Vilas was stricken with yel-low fever at Memphis while a soldier in the war of the rebellion. Ira Hill, a prominent citizen of Memphis, took the young soldier to his home. Mr. Hill and family nursed him back to health, and. ns the Senator still claims saved his life. A strong at-tachment sprang up between the two families, and in 1861, when a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill, they named him after Mr. Vilas. Mr. Hill, the father, died some years ago. T - , " ' ' V UP POPOCATAPETL. Tadioiit and Arduous .Journey to th Top of Mexico's Mouutaln. The train drops ono nt the station Of ropocatapetl," said a traveller to a Ft Worth Gazetto reporter, "wher you get a guide and burros, blankets and provisions. Then you trail to tht hase of the volcano and up its steep zigzags, where the timber and vegetat-ion are thick, and cool, bubbling springs numerous, until the timbei line is passed. You travel miles to advance one. When we reached that line tho snow camo down to meet the. stunted trees. Then we camped and the guide shot a mountain goat and w herd tho Mexican lions iu tho dark. Next morning the burros were left behind, and with blankets and pro-visions wo packed on. A blinding snowstorm obliged another camp and the next morning wo pointed for tho groat crater. "At midday the yawning bowl was reached. It is probably --,."0 feet across and 500 feet deep, with a bottom pierced with tunnels like a gigantic sK)nge. Outside was all snow and ice. Ten steps inside and all frost vanishes; the thermometer leap 70 degrees. At the ragged lips of this 'chimney of hell' tho guide is on his knees Implor-ing the protection of Santa Maria. "Across tho crater and ,r00 feet aliove rises the long spur. It is cov-ered with snow and ice. It took us an hour and a half to make tho perilous ascent, but wo made the trip and stood on tho highest icy spur. "Then for the descent, which we found more hazardous than tho ascent. Darkness and a fearful snowstorm caught us 1 , .100 feet below. Wo had to camp in the snow, but the next morning' made a quick trip to tho tim-ber line, where wo found our burros, and soon reached the base, where we could look back and see that icy peak reaching into a naked sky." A l'lali Mory. Crows are commonly said to live for 1O0 years, and turtles are said to have even longer life, but the greatest amount of longevity is possessed by fishes. A naturalist, once said that as a Ssh had no maturity thorc is nothing to prevent it from living indefinitely and growing continually. Ho cited, in a proof, a pike in Russia whose age is known to dato back to the loth cen-tury. In the Royal aquarium in St. Petersburg thero are hundreds of fish that were put in over 150 years ago. The Collection. When a minister does any man a gross injustico by what ho says trom the pulpit he cannot bo expected to do more than apologize for tho mistako he has made, it would hardly be fair to ask him to return tho collection. Philadelphia Times. No Counterfeits Even wrong doers seem to have re-spect for Undo Sam's mail privilege. In twenty years there has been no counterfeiting of Uncle Sam's postage stamp. LOVELY WOMAN. . A woman's glory U her gown. Woman is the complement of a perfect kiss. Women ore not angels, here or here-after. A widow Is the sandwich botween a tear aod a smile. The ugly temper of a pretty woman snows through. Fomo women are horn fools; some achieve it and some have it thrust upon them. A BUDDHIST REVIVAL. Over 500.OO0.000 Hcllevers on the face of the Earth. The Buddhist congress soon to be held in Paris, says a letter from Paris to the New York World, attracts atten-tion to this remarkable religion. The congress is to have the importance of the great ecumenical council convoked by Pius IX. twenty years ago. Bud-dhist delegates are to come from all parts of the world, and intense is the interest manifested in Paris. Five hundred million people on this globe are Buddhists, and, although Buddhism in Europe is confined to great minds, in France alone there are h)m m t 30,000 Buddhists. It is not gen-erally known that Richard Wagner was a fervent Buddhist. But the European thinkers do not practice the doctrine of Buddhism. That is why the young Viennese student Udo llalsmeyer has caused such consternation in tho church, lie. is ascetic, fasts, or eats only fruits and vegetables, envelops himself in a hempen bag, and already treats with indifference physical suffer-ing. Continuing in this manner he would soon be the incarnation of Buddha, and the authorities talk of ex-pulsion from the university for fear of his influence on the other students. The practice of Buddhism cultivates a sixth sense that in is la-tent. Jiy this sense is foretold good or bail fortune and the meditation that calls out this sense is always physical, phscyological, and physiological. Physically the body must obey the mind, psychologically all human organic forces must be concentrated on this sixth sense intuition, and physiolo-gically respiration must be regulated to control the expenditure of vital force. As soon as this sixth sense is acquired the Buddhiists are capable of knowing nature's secrets and of pro-- ducing phenomena that seem super-natural, but are in reality the mani-festation of forces very natural but not yet understood. Buddhism respects everything that has life, and Buddhists believe in rein-carnation, not in metempsychosis. The Buddhist, believe that if a rich man sin after death he enjoys a certain repose to repay him for the sufferings in this life, but obliged to return on this or another planet, where his spirit enters the body of some miserable per-son, and the more guilty he has been in tho previous existence the less chance ho has in this. In the same way a person who has led a righteous life in a previous existence is in this re-incarnated in the body of a rich person. .Morally and intellectually Buddha surpassed all men, and his name means illuminated, or perfect wisdom. Who can tell? Perhaps Parisians, enervated hy the f truggle of modern existence, will look with longing toward the fas-cinating delights of Mrvana and adopt a religion taught by the sage of Kapila-wast- u many, many centuries before the Christian era. MASCULINITIES. There is nothing a man is go proud of at a child that is sound asleep in bed. I envy no man who knows more than myself, but pity those who know less. It is hard to understand why playing foot ball is considered easier than sawing wood. The man most anxious to maintain his rights become celebrated for circulating his wrongs. A man never finds out how little be knows until his children begin to ask him questions. By the time a man realizes that he is a fool it is usually too late to realize ou his realization. You may doubt a man's Christianity who is always complaining of his dinner on wash-day- A man in Athens, Oa., owns an antiquity in th form of a water bucket, hewn out of the solid rock. It Is more natural to a man to lie in bed In the morning and wish he was rich than It is to get up anl earn a dollar. The young man who thinks that he could marry any girl he likt-s- , is generally a joung man who has never tried. A contemporary says the most dillicult surgical operation of all is to take the cheek out of some of our young men. It was probably the man who married a rich wife who first started the joke on the difficulty of finding a woman's pocket. If a man is neithor very good or very bad, it is very good evidence that ba has never at any time been greatly influenced by any woman. It Is only one person among a thousand who becomes a centenarian, and hardly six persons among a thousand who attain 75 years of ago. When you hear a man blowing up the preachers you can write it down for a fact that there is something in his life that they are preoching against. When a man begins to think that it ij shout time be was making money faster tlian he can honestly earn it, the deril ii g'sttiug very close to him. There are four metollic qualification which help a man through the world iroD in his heart, brass in his face, silver in hii tongue, and gold iu his pocket. Editorial Ourllns In Hungary Journalistic criticism is a dangerous .. ,. calling in Hungary. An article w hich appeared recently in a journal at, Klausenburg gave so much offense that it led to no fewer than thirteen duels. The editor c f the paper fought four duels, in one of which he killed his op-ponent; the author of the obnoxious article passed safely through three en-counters, and the su'i-edito- r took the lion's ihare with six jmbats. ' ' ' f |