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I1IE HAST1NGS MZETTE. VOL. L. ---NO. 16. rMINNEQOTA HI8TORICAL SOCIETY. HASTINGS. MINN.. SATURDAY. JANUARY 11, [908. et per Tear to a e. per Tear it es in Advance. THE M[ICAN ROROEO How Both Sides of the Line Are Watched and Guarded. UNCLE SAM'S BRAVE RIDERS. Th. Work That Is Performed by These Well Mounted, Well Armed and Cour- ageous Patrols --The Mexican Rurales and Their Methods. If business or recreation should to you down to that long line which for the boundary between the Unite Iiia and Mexico, you may by chance m a well mounted rider, armed with r and pistols, , pacing observantly alo some bypath or canyon. He is one the United States boundary rider pointed by the treasury departmen patrol the border on the lookout smugglers, cattle runners and oth persons whose presence on the Am lean side is generally undesirable. For this position the man selec must possess courage, judgment a no little physical endurance, for h duties may call him forth at all hou and seasons, and he may be reepon hie for a stretch of border land ma miles in length. For example, between San Diego, the Pacific coast of California, a Yuma, in Arizona, there is but o boundary rider to patrol a line of ov 150 miles, and this is in part ov sparsely settled mountainous regi and partly through the waste of th Colorado desert. As opposite, him, on the other aide the line, the Mexican government main tains from fifteen to twenty rural for the same work, ft Is a good Ills tration of the trust reposed In a sing American citizen by his governmen It is probable there is no other' in the United States whom it wont be harder to find at a given mo than the boundary rider of the Diego -Yuma district He may be down on the Cobra desert, watching near I>ome wat • for a venturesome band of ca runners, or in some canyon of the moue tains on the lookout for a wagon- loa of prohibited immigrant Chinamen bat, wherever he is, one may be fair! sure it is not where the transgressor o the customs laws expect him to be. That he must possess both judgmen on.,ragw._the _ !allowing--- which took place during the career the former boundary rider in this dis- trict, will aptly illustrate: For some time a band of cattle run ners had been working successful back and forth over the line in spite o the boundary rider's vigilance. They seemed to be able to divine his mov ments, so that while be was watch -11\ trail through the mountains th were rushing a bunch of cattle ov the desert. • But at Last he managed to sure the band and, rifle in hand, drove tw of them into Campo. Then, however, arose the question as to the method of taking them down to the (omit He hired a double seated vehicle, the only one in the place. But at once another question pre- sented itself. How was he to seat his prisoner's, for either they must be placed together on the front or the back seat or separated, both seemingly a hazardous choice? He finally decided to separate them, and so, with one on the front seat with him and the other behind, he started for the coast. The two cattle runners managed to communicate with each other by signs and at a rough part of the road made the boundary rider, In turn, their prisoner. Needless to say, they then made the beet of tl it opportunity to escape over the bog but as they fell into the hands of the unsympathetic rurkles they would have been better off if they had submitted to the law of their own country. This brings one of the somewhat dif- ferent methods pursued by the Mexi- can government in guarding their side of tbe border. From a cursory inapec.- tlon of the line one might suppose that the Mexican side is not guarded at all. You may cross the line ten times ates different places and never set ayorta rurale, but it is well known that yon have done so nevertheless, and on the eleventh excursion you are likely to find yourself surrounded by a pictur- esque group, who will carry you off to jail if your explanation is not satis- factory. As a rule, the rurales patrol back and forth in detachments at a distance of from ten to fifteen miles from the actual border. Many a headlong dash for the American side has been made by perfectly law abiding citizens, with they the rurales at their heels, because have been heedless in obtaining a per- mission to cross the border. True, an American citizen may crossthe border at will, as far as he himself Is concerned, but as he is almost cer- tain to carry some article liable to duty it is upon that charge that he may be arrested.—Michael White in' Youth's Companion. ke ms tes A.et ifie ng of ap to for er er- ted nd 1e rs s!- ny 00 nd ne er ger on e of a a- le t nun d went San do ter file d y f incident, of iy s- lag ey er rise 0 An Engltsh Superitttion. The most popular superstition to many parts of England is that every remnant of Christmas decoration must be removed before Candlemas day. Should a sprig of holly or other ever- green be left in any hoose one of its occupants will die within the year. If thou addest little to little and doest so often soon it will become a great heap.—Hesiod. A STRENUOUS RULER. Daring, Cc-olness and Bravery James IV. of Scotland. One of the interesting characters history is Jame IV., king of Scotland from 1478 to 1513. Ile was athletic. Courageous and fond of adventure. In putting down insurrections and im- proving the criminal administration of the country be was foremost In the ranks and did not shun a hand to hand contest. He married n daughter of Henry VII. of Englaud and made a treaty which secured peace between the two countries. He labored to build up a navy and develop commerce and showed skillful diplomacy In dealing with other nations. He was killed In battle at Flodden, where his army was disastrously defeated by Henry VIII. Those were strenuous times, when it was necessary for a king to be a fight- er and to inspire his obstreperous sub- ject]] with some degree of terror. Ring James used erten to go about the coun- try in different disguises, not only be- cause he loved adventure, but because he could thus secure information on the state of the nation at first hand. It is related of the vigorous Scottish king that once when wandering through the hills during the night be was over- taken by a violent storm and was obliged to take shelter in a cavern near Wemys, which is ane of the most re- markable antiquities of Scotland. Hav- ing advanced some way in, the king discovered a number of men and wo- men ready to begin to roast a sheep for supper. From their appearance be sus- pected that he had fallen into evil cone pany, hut as it was then too late be asked bospltTity from them till the tempest was over. They granted 1t and invited the king, who was un- known to thea,, w sit down and join them at supper. They were a notori- ous band of robbers and cutthroats, and this fact soon dawned upon James. As soon as they had finished their supper one of them presented a plate on which two daggers were laid In the form of a St. Andrew's cross, telling the king that this was the dessert they always served to strangers; that he must choose one of the daggers and fight him whom, the company selected as his antagonist. The king, realizing that he was to be murdered, instantly seized both daggers, one in each hand, and plunged them into the hearts of the two robbers nearest to bite. Ile then dashed out of the cave and made his escape, returning as soon as pos- sible with a body of soldiers, by whom the Valleband was arrested and pub- licly hanged.—Punxsutawney Spirit. COSTLY DRUGS. of 1 Some Rare and Peouliar Subetanoss Used in Medicine. A writer in Wiesen fuer Ails throws of i some Interesting light on rars and pe- culiar drugs. Saffron, he points out, would strike an ordinary observer as decidedly expensive at *18 a pound (to change marks into our coinage) until told that it is composed of the central small portions only of the Sowers of the crocus, 70,000 of which it takes to make a pound. Attar of roses sells at $112 odd per pound, and 1t takes 10,000 pounds, or nearly Ove toes of roses, to obtain one pound of the oil. Aconitine, extracted from the root of monkshood, -is said to be the very strongest poison extant, the doss being one six -hundredth of a grain. It is sold at the rate of 1108 per ounce. Turning from the vegetable to the animal world 1n search of rare drug, the writer refers to the musk of the Asiatic deer, which at *24 to *80 an ounce must 'De a prize to the wily hunter. In some of the tropical seas a floating, sweet smelling mass of am- bergris is met with worth at present *80 per ounce, or 1480 per pound in the market. The ambergris is said to be the diseased biliary product of the whale. Another peculiar product Ls use as a drug is a solution of the pure venom of the rattlesnake, given occasionally in malignant scarlet fever. A BRAHMS ANECDOTE. The Man Who Spoiled an Evening For the Great Composer. Among the Brnhme nnecdotes which are popular In Germany this one was contributed by Frau Luise Pohl. Brahms liked Baden-Baden and took as mach pleasure in a winter visit to the place as in the crowded summer time. The residents knew this when they in- vited him in 1876 to come and direct some of his works. After the con- cert the friends of the master assem- bled at Goldemen Kranz by invitation of the oberburgermelater ganner to "drink a glass of wine." The session lasted long, but gradually the company grew smaller. Presently they had all gone except Brahma and Cornelius Rubner. Atter awhile even Brahma suggested home, and bis young com- panion eagerly agreed to adjourn the session. On the way home Brahms asked his companion, whose name be had not heard, "By the way, do you know this young director Rubner?" "Are you interested in him?" he ask- ed by way of answer. "Certainly. Adolf Jensen thinks he is not only great, but genial. Don't you know him?" "I know him very well. He is an ar- rogant, concetted fellow, who can do nothing and knows nothing." The pleasure of the evening was spoiled by this harsh opinion as to a man whom Brahms bad made up his mind to like. The next morning be at- tended, with some others, a breakfast at Jensen's, where he told the story. He bad hardly finished when the door opened and Rpbner walked in. "That's the man who slandered your friend," said Brahma, and when ev- erybody laughed he suspected what was told to him as soon as the first man recovered Using -the Flre Buckets. In many business offices fire buckets are placed, filled with water, In readi- ness for an emergency. It Is seldom, says the Scientific American, that in- structions for use are pinned near the supply. The wrong way to tackle an Incipient dre is (usually) to hurl the whole contents of a bucket on the spot Most of the water 1s wasted by this means. A heavy sprinkling is more effective. The water may be splashed on the blaze by band, but a more nse- fn1 sprinkler is a long haired white- wash brush. One of these should hang beside every nest of fire buckets. Important to Him. An old lady was telling her grand- children about some trouble In Scot- land In the course of which the chief of her clan was beheaded. "It was nae great thing of a head, to be sure," said the good old lady. "but it was a sad loss to him." Soft "Should a man shave up or down?" asked a youthful city clerk, and the barber replled with a grin: 'That depends. When I shave you, for instance, I always shave down." THE "COUP DE JARNAC." A French Adage and the Iaeldeet Open Which 1t Rests. The "coup de Jarnac" hu become a French proverb, and It serves to dia- tingulsh a stroke as decisive u un- foreseen which intervenes for the set- tlement of any affair. The adage rests upon an incident In the life of Gui Chabot, Seigneur de Jarnac, a noble of the court of Francis I. The lie pass- ed between him and Le Chateigneraie, the dauphin's favorite. King Francis, however, forbade the duel. At the suc- cession of Henry II. the old quarrel was revived, and the overdue duel was fought on the nlPin of $t- Germain with all the formality of the ardent judicial combats and 1n the presence of the whole court Jarnac was weak- er and less agile than his adversary, who was one of the noted swordsmen of the time, but he had taken lessons from an Italian bravo. In the duel Jarnac wafted for an opening and then dealt La Chatelgnerate a heavy and unexpected stroke which ham- strung him. This was In 1447. Tei years later Jarnac was a captain in the defense of St. Quentin. Eventual- ly he met his fate in a duel. But the "coup de Jarnae" Is historic in the as. nets of sword play.—Argonaut Monkeys and Parrot. A lung spectallet was talking about a famous scientist who had contracted consumption from a lot of consumptive monkeys that he had been experiment- ing npon. "This should be a lesson and a wars. ing to us all," he said, "tor nothing 1s more dangerous to the lungs' health than to have a monkey about the house. Practically all monkeys have consumption in this climate, and it is just as easy to take consumption from a monkey u from a man or woman. It is the same with parrots. They, too, have consumption, and they, too, are most apt to give the disease to those who pet them. As for me, rather than live in the same house with a pet mon- key or a pet parrot I would take a cot in the hopeless ward of some cos- sumptives' hospital." — New Orleans Times -Democrat. A Wedding Day Reminder. William James, the famous pyehol- ogist of Harvard, said at a dinner to Boston: "An odor often brings back mem- ories that we had thought buried for- ever. As we regard some strange landscape it often seems to us that we have been just here before. The oddest, the most momentous moat. tions oftentimes attach themselves to the most trifling things. "Thus at a Thanksgiving dinner that I once attended the hostess said to a sour faced man on my left: "'May I help you to souse oft the boiled rice, Mr. Smith? "'Rice? No, thank you—no rhe for me,' Smith answered vehemently. 'It isassociated my life.' " with the wont mistake of Costs of O111os. On the day after his election the chief magistrate of a certain town to tbe Midlands who enjoys the muta- tion of being rather "near" la money matters wee, asked for a subscription to the local football club. "I really can't do 1t," he replied. Just look at the outlay I've already been put to through accepting omcer And he produced a small ledger hi- rcribed on the cover "Mayoralt,, Ex- penses." On the top line of the first Inside page was the entry, "Dreg suit, 12."—Reynolds' Newspaper. An Exception. The Philosopher—Tell me what a person reads and I can tell you what he le. The Dyspeptics -Not Alwafa. There's my wife, for instance. She's always reading a cookery bock. The Philosopher (confidently)—WW? Ills Dyspeptic—But she's no cook! A Humane Woman. The Cabman—Gimme your bag, lady, and I'll put it on top of the ab. Mils. Oatcake (as she gets In)—No; that poor hone of yours has got enough to pall TP11 carry It on my lap.—LLoadon TN - Bi Econoniv�,.•*�" �✓ CF1thrst Baking Powder Best by Test AN ILL FAT.;SHIP. Mystery and Tragedy That Engem passed the 0100 Eastern. There was a mystery about that 11 tated ship. Nothiu welt right with her. She stuck at tire launch, and it cost an extra *350,000 over and above the enm set aside for the purpose to get her into the water. On her trial trip her bolters buret, killing some of the stokers. Then she ran aground and carried on so outrageously that her crew thought her surely bewitched. She bad started badly. While she was building a pay clert sent by one of the contractors with *6,500 In wages for the men disappeared. It was not unnaturally assumed that he had bolt• ed with the money. His wife and family were left unprovided for, wltb the stigma of his supposed crime upon them. Thirty yeare after her launch the Great Eastern went into the cemetery at Birkenhead to be broken np. While she was belug taken to pieces the ship breakers discovered between her inner and outer casings of steel the akeleton of a man. Papers which had fallen from his clothes enabled bis identity to be traced. It was the skeleton of the pay clerk who thirty years before had distil geared. There was no mon- ey; that was never recovered. The supposition is that the poor fel- low on going ou to the ship was pounc- ed upon by workmen who knew that he had the money with him; that they Manned him and, ht ,t{}ia tma41,piece in the alio of the crammed his body it 7e..) in it No reward would have Induced a sailor to sail In that vessel had he known of the terrible secret sealed up la her walls.—Chicago News. LAFCADIO HEARN. TM! Py .Ow writer Get Sven With_ the Heartless Editors. "Lafcadto Hearn, that wonderful writer, worked on newspapers in his youth," said a publisher, "and the ruthless way his studies were chang• ed, cut and butchered was a great woe to his heart "In after years Hearn took a mali- cious joy in collecting stories about editors—editors and their superior and omniscient way with manuscript "One of his stories was of an editor to whom a subscriber said: "'I enjoyed that poem on the three ages of man In today's paper, Mr. Sheers; I enjoyed It Immensely. Do you know, though, I thought that It was originally written the seven age: of man!' "'So it was, sir; so It was,' said Edi tor Sheers pompously. 'Yes, the ex tract was originally written the sever; ages of man, but I had to cut it dom. for lack of space.' "Another story concerned a weatlee report. A reporter, dlecus�fad ' t�, weather, wrote that winter still Ila gored In the lap of spring. 'The editor as he rend over the aril cle called the reporter up to his (leak and told him that he would cut on' that aenteuce about winter lingering in spring's lap. He said the idea war good enough and original and alt that sort of thing, but It would not do to publish because the high moral tone of the paper had to be maintained in a town full of school girls." Staring at Royalty. Royalties are early cured of any shy - uses of being looked at. They are there to be seen, and bath the king and gown when they go to the opera and turn their glasses on the occupants of opposite boxes are openly amused by the disconcerted looks of person who feel abashed under the Inspection. Sot a trace of self consciousness is lett on the face of an English royalty, with the exception of perhaps a single princess under an ertillery of glances. Such attentions are anything but re- sented. Indeed, the beautiful Dochese of Devonshire used to say that when this botcher boy ceased to tarn round after her 1n the street she would know bar reign was over.—London Chronicle. Didn't Agree With Him. A Carolina man wu recently In- vading a farm owned by him and op- erated by an old friend who had press- ed into service every meairber of his family, including hie aged father. "The old man meat be getting along 10 years," said the owner. "Yes; dad's nigh on to ninety," was the reply. "Is his health good?" "Well, no. The old man ain't been Woolf for some time back." "What seems to be the matter?' "I denno, sir. I guess . farming don't Wes with biro no cote,"—Success Mapslae. A Dkstinettoe. "!Tell me," sald Wes Wltherupp, "Ms, Newman remarked to you that I MINI show my age, didn't her "Not exactly. as said yoffas/re varied to 11sks It." replied Kiss THE MULE IN THE JUG. An Arab Proverb and the Legend That Gave It Birth. Who can arm that the mule en- tered the jug? This proverb is frequently quoted to show that, though one may conscten- tloualy believe in a thing which may seem extravagant in itself, it is better not to repeat It from fear of being dis- believed. It arises from the following Arabic legend: Au Arab who dented the existence of genii once bought a mule and took it home. When per- forming his evening ablutions, he saw the mule enter a jug, and this so scared him that he ran shouting to the neighbors and told them what he had seen. They, thinking him mad, endeav- ored to appease him, but all in vain. He vociferated more and more, so that the authorities sent him to the mad- house. When the doctor came to see him, he repeated the account of what he bad sees, whereupon the doctor or- dered him to be detained. He contin- ued upon ench visit of the doctor to repeat his statement until hie friends succeeded In persuading biro that if he wished to regnln his freedom he must recant. This he did, and the doctor set him at liberty, to the great joy of his family and friends. On making his ab- lutions as before he again saw the mule, this time peeping out of the jug, bat on this occasion he contented hlm� self with remarking to the mule: "Oh, yes, 1 see you well enough, but who would believe me? And I have had enough of the madhouse." Needless to say that the genii to avenge them- selves for his disbelief in them had transformed one of themselves into'a mule and as such entered the jug.— Cairo (Egypt) tiphinz. A ROCKING STONE. New York's Souvenir of the Remote Glaoial Period. Though tens of thousands of persons yearly see the great rocking stone of Bronx park in New York city, few realise that it is the city's most con- spicuous souvenir of the glacial period, when all of this section was covered 1farm,gt ocean of ice some 1,500 feet thick that was moving slowly toward the south. That pinkish bit of granite, weigu!re thirty ton, standing seven and one- half feet above its rocky base, being ten feet broad and eight feet thick, came from the tar north, carried In the resistive; icy arms of the glacier that swept over the continent down to this latitude, marking Its path by de- positing great bowiders as It moved and leaving scratches on the firm rocks beneath, from the eliding, grinding bits and masses of granite that set- tled to Its base and were pushed along as it moved. This same bowlder left its mark on the bare face of the rocky hill to the north of it, in which lies the crocodile pool. There the scratches are visible today, pointing to where the bowider stands and telling the story.of part of its travels. When the melting ice departed from the great block of granite, It left it standing through the ages a rocking stone so delicately poised that a pres- sure of fifty pounds exerted on its most northern angle causes its apex to away north and south about two inch- es.—New York Herald. A Considerate Reporter. When the Maine was blown up the wife of Lieutenant Commander Wain- wright was at her home in Washing- ton. She had heard nothing of the news when she was awakened about 4 o'clock In the morning by a violent knocking at the door of her house. Fi- nally Mrs, Wainwright rose and looked out of the window, asking what was the matter, A voice called out, "Are you the wife of Lieutenant Command- er Wainwright?" "Yes. What do you want?' "The Baine has been totally destroyed. We are reporters and wish for some information about Mr. Wain- wright" Only this and nothing more. The shock caused the poor lady to fall in a dead taint, from which she did not rally for several hours, and, fortu- nately for her, It was thus known her husband was not among the lost. `. Hippophagy. Hippophagy being in low water in these later days, somebody has set himself to show what an exceedingly respectable history attaches to the practice. Among the ancients, especial- ly in China, rating horse5esb was general, and 1t was only killed in Eu- rope by a papal d4cree of Gregory IIL, though whyh should have been interdicted not appear. It was only the famine caused by Napo- leon's invasion that revived the prac- tice in Germany, where it has survived ever since.—London ©lobe. Net •Sreedened. "They say that travel broadens a man," said the dark woman. "Well, I don't know about that," re- plied the light woman. "My husband has been a conductor on a trolley car to seven years and sae how thin be Isr—Yonkers Statesman. Peer Het au , Littke Ella—i'm neve' going to Rol• land when I grow up. Governess --Why not? "'Cause our geography says its a low, lying country "—Lite. Family Division. Friend --So that is your little boy? E. looks very intelligent, Proud Mum* ma—Just as I was at I $ age. Hy daughter, now, le mere like bee 1lar Seg.—Nee LoUiBL DATES AND FIGS. Frugal' Fare of the Desert Wanderers of the East. While journeying across the desert Mrs. A. Goodrich -Freer, author of "In a Syrian Saddle," met a lonely travel- er bound for Medeba. On hearing that the caravan was bound for the same place he asked permission to join them. Incidentally he furnished an illustration of the difference between necessities and luxuries. We were very grateful, says the writer, for coffee and an excellent lunch of sausage, potted meat and Am, with white bread, brought from Jerusalem. We ate our dainties with some sense of guilt, u the newcomer produced his lunch of dates and Age. Dates and flips, be informed us, were the natural food of desert wanderers, sufficing to the body, stimulating to the mind. The wheat, the flesh, above all the alcohol of civilization, were mere Irrelevancies. Was it not diet such as this --and he waved a pair of sensitive hands over his ascetic larder—which had enabled him to reply to the inquiry of a per- sonage as to how many hours a day he could ride in the desert, "Twenty- four, your majesty, since a day doee not contain twenty-five?' Was it not on a diet of lip and dates that he had ridden sixty hours without dismounting? Wu it your jneat eater, your wine drinker, who remained sound and wholesome when necessity obliged him to refrain from ablution for twenty-one days? At this point he carefully counted his 'late stones, observed that two more were yet due to bis appetite and finished his frugal luncheon. ONLY A TRAMP. Raising the Curtain For a Moment on One of Life's Tragedies. A recent incident which bolds in its simple outlines the possibility of past tragedy Is described in the New Tork Times. It is another Illustration of how careless the world le of the indi- vidual and how thick is the cloak which one may wrap about his per- sonality. Not long ago a laborer em- ployed by the Erie railroad in Jersey City was run over by a train and had his leg cut off. policeman telephoned for an am- bulance. The injured man lay on a grass patch, ..r;sarently bleeding to death. Just then a Typical railroad tramp in dirty rags saunter -d along. 110 tapped a policeman's elbow. "May I ask what's the matter, om- cer?" he inquired. „Man bleeding to death," replied the policeman. "Would you mind if I looked at him?" asked the tamp. "I might be of service." "Go ahead," responded the oMeer. Bending low over the wounded la- borer, the tamp asked for water to wash his hands and then begged the crowd for clean handkerchiefs. With a half dosen deft, rapid twists he made a tourniquet and stopped the Bow of blood. "Are you a doctor?" some one asked as the man slipped away through the erowd. "I used to be," he replied as be bur- ried off. Patriotism In the Making. Patriotism in New York is cosmopol- itan. They have a gag drill in the schools in which the children of every race and clime, as the hymn book says, are taught to salute the stars and stripes and give "their beads. their hands and their hearts to their country." And in some of the big downtowd schools you may see chil- dren from homes German, Italian, Syrian, Scandinavian, Jewish, Hunga- rian, Chinese, Armenian, Greek and heaven knows how many other nation- alities all joining In this picturesque ceremony. It gives one a realizing sense of the variety of material which It put into this crucible we call a city and which in another generation or two will be simply American.—Boston Transcript Talking Through the Nose. 8o called "talking through the nose" is not talking through the nose at all, but rather failure to do so—that is, instead of letting the tone flood into the nasal cavity, to be re -enforced there by striking against the wails of the cavity, which act as sounding boards tor the tone confined within that cavity, we shut off the cavity and refuse the tone its natural re -enforce, trent It takes on as a result a thin, anresonant quality whish we call na- sal, although it is thin and mapieasing because It lacks true nasal resonance. The only remedy lies in ceasing to shut off the cavity.—Katherine Jewell Evert in Harper's Baser. Frog's Narrow ieeape, A correspondent writes: "My aoa, aged ten and a half years, was working to the garden when a viper about two feet long glided put him. A good shot with a stone about the sloe of a ericltet ball broke the reptile's pine. while a sharp edge of the granite cut open the belly, thereby restoring to freedom a frog which bopped out of its prison unhurt."—Madras Matt Some Other Fellow's. "With *100,000," said the man of expansive ideas, "I could make a tor - tune la Wall street" "Yes," replied the piker, "bat whose fortune would you maker—Washing• ton Star. - Little do you know what a gloriously Gain Wag the kw ft—Plastes. ■ THE MONEY QUESTION. An inquisitive Youngster and an in- genious Father. "Papa," began Gunton junior, "when the government of the United States began to coin gold and silver money It wu necessary to buy the gold and diver, wasn't it?" "Yee, my son," replied Gunston sen- ior rather cautiously, "Of course, papa," resumed the youngster, "you'll be able to tell me where the government got the money to buy the gold and silver." "Why—er—ot course," stammered Gunton senior as he put down the pa- per and gazed thoughtfully at the boy. "Now, let me understand you. The government wanted to Coto money, and in order to do so it was necessary to purchase gold and silver. You want to know where the government got the money to buy the gold and silver?" "That's right," chuckled Gunston junior gleefully, and a great joy filled hie being as he thou,;ht of his all im- portant sire struggling with the simple question. "Why, sonny, the government simply issued dollar bills and bought gold and silver with them. Anything else?" "Yes," said Gunston junior. "Where did the government get money to buy paper for the' dollar b11ls?"—Har-per's Weekly. THE HORSE WON. - Beat the First- Locomotive on the 8. and 0. Goad. The first locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio had sails attached. So did the cars. These sails were hoisted when the wind was in the right direc- tion so as to help the locomotive. The rivalry between the railroads using locomotives and those using horses was very bitter. In August, 1880, au actual trial of speed was held betwee>1 a horse and one of the pioneer locomotives, which did not result in favor of the locomotive. The race was on the Baltimore and Ohio, the locomo- tive being one built by Peter Cooper, who also acted as engineer. The horse, a gallant gray, was in the habit of pulling a car on a track par- allel to that used by the locomotive. At first the gray had the better of the race, but when he was a quarter of a mile ahead Mr. Cooper succeeded in getting up enough steam to pass the horse amid terrific applause. At that moment a band slipped from a pulley, and, "though lir. Cooper lacer- ated his hands trying to replace it, the engine stopped and the horse pa :ue3 1.• and came in the winner."—Van Nor- den Magazine. They Don't Like Funerals. "It you want to know just how sensitive some Washington folks are, listen to the reasons some of our ten- ants give for canceling their leases," said a renting agent. "Hero are the complaints from five families who want to move because they live on 'fu- neral streets.' A lot of people, it seems, are sensitive about that, There are certain streets in town—those near churches where many funerals are held and those leading to the various ceme- teries—which are usually traveled by funeral parties. Houses in those streets are becoming a poor investment There is more moving from those houses than from any others we have anything to do with, and generally the movers give as the reason for their dis- satisfaction the fact that the sight of so many hearses gets on their nerves." —Washington Star. The Saragossans. It is said that tbe queer, composite race of people that dwell upon the waterlogged hulks of the Saragossa sea, in the mid-Atlantic, have a pretty theory about death. They believe that those to whom the messenger comes when the sun 18 shining brightly are transported straight away to a heaven of warm fresh water only four feet in depth, in which they may wade and disport themselves to all' eternity. Oa the other hand, those who receive the call of death is hours of darkness must needs endure a probationary pe- riod before they can enter into the future life. The Saragoesans are in addition firm believers in premoni- tions, omens and foreordination. Instincts of a Woman. A little girl who had for some time wanted a dog was taken very 111. One day when much better she told her mother of her desire and begged her to ask her grandpa to buy her one. The mother answered that grandpa did not like dogs and probably would not be willing to buy one. Then, see- ing the little invalid look sadly disap- pointed, she said, "Well, wait till you get well, my dear, then we will see." "Oh, no," answered the child, whose few years had taught her some wis- dom. 'The more sick I am the more likely be will be to buy It for me."— Exchange. Hoarding. Boarding is not only an economic mistake, but an economic crime as weld. It is, in fact, a'survival of the evil days of maladministration. It comes down to as from the time when nearly all governments were conquer- ors which pconiddered themselves en- titled jects. Thus hoarding le founded upon distrust of the government—Statesman, Calcutta. NO Dattgen Tommy, you mishit go >M5hingo��g th Pater' Blaba+s. Be is Tessa .moi oar the niesalm. won't lbsnmy idanger lib! tf.-Laden 7 n. . RV•