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PERSONAL AND LITERARY. A BATTLK WITH A BEAR. TEMPERANCE. Two Hunters Narrowly Escape a Terribla Dentil in the Ktrujrgle. ASK YOUR JUG I A man who looked as if he had been UNACQUAINTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THI8 COUNTRY WILL OBTAIN MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF THE trying to hug the cylinder of a thresh ing machine when it was in motion was seen recently offering a pack of furs to a dealer up town.

HOT WEATHER NOTES. A Few Hints on How to Keep Cool with the 3Iercury nt 00. There is much time spent in complaints of the excessive heat ot the weather. Whenever people meet each one relates the harrowing details of the various phases of his suffering, and when they separate no one feels cooleJ for listening to the experiences, but rather warmer. Each has lived over, not only his own wretchedness, but his neighbor's.

Much tact and skill are needed by the head of a family in safely guiding the family churiot without a creak or a break-down during the reign of the dog-star. The reign is not such a long "You are rather late getting your furs to market," said a reporter, who happened to be present. "Yes," was the reply, "but I have been laid up and The queen's head pipor, William Ross, died a few weeks ago in Windsor, aged sixty-nine. He had piped for her majesty since 1854. John Loudon Macadam, the inventor of the road that bears his name, labored for years to perfect his ideas, and although the English parliament voted him $30,000 it hardly covered his outlay.

"His monument is the roads of England." George William Curtis gracefully says of Holmes: "For just sixty years, since his first gay and tender note was heard, "Holmes has been fulfilling the promise of his matin song. He has become a patriarch of our literature, and all his countrymen are his lovers." Prof. W. Clarke Robinson, of Ken-yon college, who recently wrote a text-book on "Anglon-Saxon Literature," has gone to Europe with the MS. of his translation of Prof.

B. Ten could not get to town before." "Why Is my hou.se so suuuuy and old, At every crevice letting In cold, And the kitchen walls all covered with mold!" Ask your jug I "Why are my eyes so swollen and red? Whence Is this dreadful pain in my headf Where in the world is our nice feather bedf And the wood that was once piled In the shed?" Ask your jug I "Why is my wife heart-broken and sadf Why are my children never now glad Why did my business run down so bad? Why at my thoiiKhts am I well-nigh mad?" Ask your jug 'Oh I why do I pass by the old church door, Weary of heart and sadly foot sore, Every moment sinking down lower, A pitiable outcast evermore?" Ask your jug. Ham's Horn. "What has been the matter with you?" asked the reporter, who was anxious to know how the man had been so fearfully scratched. "The matter with me was an attack of THE HORRORS OF DRINK.

Reii8tlns of Victim or Delirium Tremens. Perhaps no bettor idea of what the disease consists of can be given than by relating the writer's own unvarnished experience, which was as follows: "After a protracted debauch, Handed in an institution for the treatment of inebriety, and was assigned to a room in the hospital department, where in a few hours my trouble commenced. I was continually seeing shadows of pictures on the walls faces, some angry and distorted, others very beautiful would appear. At times I would see some wild animal gazing at me through the ventilator or window. These made no noise, but there were invisible people who persisted in talking to me, sometimes giving me friendly advice, and at others using the vilest epithets, and threatening me with some fearful punishment unless I 'went but that I was unable to do, nor did I cars to, for I realized that all this confusion existed only in imagination, although I would forget myself and answer back occasionally and then laugh at myself for it afterward.

This state of affairs continued for two days, and then changed from mania-a-potu to delirium tremens, or from imagination to reality. That is I knew it was imagination before. After the change from the first to the second stage of the disease, I was equally sure that everything I saw and heard was real, and no power on earth could convince me to the "You had it bad, judging from your looks." one, but it is long enough to make it wisdom to study how easiest to live under it. I The family laws, which we regard ordinarily as the laws of the Medes and the Persians, must be held in abeyance. I "Yes, I had it bad and no mistake, but you just ought to see my partner." ONE CAUSE OF POVERTY.

"Is he in a worse fix than you?" "A great deal worse. He had so of A Potent Factor In the Production much moat scratched off one side of him that he has to carry a weight in his iacket pocket to enable him to walk ve must be bold enough to break through routine. We must not be shy of new ways. Discipline may have to be somewhat relaxed. Health and comfort, for a short time, must be considered before custom and appearance.

Many matters generally thought, and rightly, of consequence must yield to the grand end of keeping cool. It is not obligatory that there should straight." The sale of the furs having been com Brink's "History of English Literature," to have it revised by the author in Stratburg. A new "four generation" photo- graph will soon be on exhibition in the British shop windows. There will be first the empress-queen, then the little I Fife baby, and on each side, looking exactly like sisters with less than a year's difference between them, will pleted, the old trapper was asked for the story of his encounter with the bear. He said his name was Hans Olsen, be every day a hot dinner served with that he lived on the edge of the big burn, in Clackamas county, and last winter he went out on the headwaters the same number of dishes and the same' pose the Princess Alexandra of Wales Chicago, Eoct Islaiii Pa Bj, THE Dirett Route to and from Oiratfo, Joliet.

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A recent report of the city board of health gives the number firms and persons engaged in various occupations. From that report the Tribune takes the figures in the following table, which shows the number of inhabitants to each saloon, meat market, Saloon: 377 Meat market 770 Drug store 8,000 Lawyer 700 Cigar shop 90JOfflceholder. 11 The officeholders are at the head of the procession, and the saloons come next. Notice the great jump there is from the saloon to the grocery and meat market, both of which cater to the-prime necessity of mankind food. The Tribune remarks that "there is one municipal and government employe for every one hundred and twenty Chi-cagoans, men, women and children; They had good luck for awhile, caught hot s'ff11 a Minneapolis because ol real es- food and such a demand during weather.

Something lierhter and cooler. I tate entanglement He says ill- atyj 13 many minks, some fishers, and found a swamp and small lake, where there were many beaver, and were getting a "The change came about almost instantaneously and in the following lot of them, when deep snow came on something eosting far less trouble and estate was worth fifty thousand dol-thought, as well as money, would be lars three or four years ago, but to-day more grateful to the already over-heat- it will not bring more than the in-ed people who are expected to eat it. It cumberance upon it mortgages to the and about spoiled their trapping. After awhile the snow became so deep that they could hardly move around, and could not get out of the mountains at all. Then provisions ran short, and they had to rustle and try to kill some is not even necessary that it should bo a dinner.

A slight meal, tea or supper, might be more appropriate and sufficiently satisfying. Perhaps an entirely different arrangement of meals, as to time and kind, would be found better. People, from habit and custom, usually eat far too much. One might do with a fewer number of meals and obtain advantage in health and comfort It might be a good plan to rise two all important towns, cities and sections in Southern Nebraska. Kansas and the Indian Territory.

Also via. ALliiiKi LEA KOI TK from Kansas City and Chicago to Watertown, Sioux Falls, Misnkapolis and St. Pai connecting for all points north and northwest between the Lakes and the Pacific Coast. hours sooner and get over the most tiresome and exhausting work in the cooler morning hours, taking absolute rest when the day is hottest. It might be prudent to do violence to one's sense of the eternal fitness of things so far as to For Tickets.

Mans, to ders. or desired infor One of Pittsburgh's distinguished residents is an African prince of royal blood, the heir to the throne of the Ga tribe on the gold coast. He is a fine-looking man of thirty-eight, with a coal-black skin, and is known to civilization as F. Z. S.

Peregrino. By profession he is a tailor, and he has no longing to return to the barbaric splendor of his ancestors. Some one gives the following as the nicknames of certain authors: Emerson The Sphinx. Schiller The Republican Poet. Goethe The Poet of Pantheism.

Shelley The Eternal Child. Keats The Resurrectionized Greek. Byron The Poet of Passion. Moore The Butterfly. Jeremy Taylor The Shakespeare of Divines.

Coleridge The Insulated Son of Reverie. Bunyan Sponsor of the People. Shakespeare The Myriad-Minded. Ben Jonson The Divine Bully of the Old English Parnassus. Spenser The Poets' Poet.

Chaucer The Well of English Undefiled, or the Morning Star of English Poetry. Caedmon The Milton of the Forefathers. mation apply to any Coupon Ticket Office iu the tinted States or Canada, or address E. ST. JOH JOHN SEBASTIAN.

iron out in the hall or in the dining- (ien'l Manager. (len'l Tkt. Pass.Agt. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. room, or in any cool spot obtainable, instead of the regular and proper place, manner.

For a wonder, I was lying on the bed, and distinctly heard the physician in charge talking with a policeman concerning me, by which I learned that I was there under observation, and in a few days was to be sent to an insane asylum. He told the officer when to come after me, and gave special instructions to take me away in a herdio instead of the patrol wagon, as a matter of safety. He also cautioned the attendants to keep a sharp watch upon me. I opened my door and looked out into the corridor, but of course no one was visible. I called the attendant and asked him about the matter, but he denied it, as did also the physician.

I persisted that it was a fact, just the same, and, could I have done so, would have made my escape, even though nearly in a nude condition, and to guard against that I was placed in a room the windows of which were grated, and here the real torment commenced. "To describe all I saw and heard would make a very large book. The scenes were constantly changing from one extreme to another. Sometimes it would be pictures, whose beauty would defy the most noted artist to reproduce, beautiful women in resplendent dress, then, like the dissolving views of a stereoptican, change to women in a nude state, from whose sight and actions I would turn away in disgust. Again, my parents (who have been dead for years) were being murdered, and I demanded my clothing and liberty that I might protect them, and swore like a trooper when I was denied.

I claimed that there was nothing the matter with myself, that those who had locked me in were crazy, if anyone, and that I was unjustly detained; but I could not make them believe it In the twink thing to eat. They went out on the lake one day and cut a hole through the ice to see if they could catch some trout, but did not get ay. On their way home toward night, as they were crossing a little ravine on a fallen tree, Olsen slipped and fell near the roots of the tree and came down plump into a bear's den. The bear was very lively for an animal supposed to be asleep, and at once attacked him. He had a knife and a small hatchet in his helt and he got out the hatchet and began to chop and yell.

who was behind, had a gun, but he was afraid to fire down in the dark for fear of killing his friend, and at length, drawing his knife, jumped down with him and the bear. There was a lively time there for awhile, and the fur and cfothing and flesh flew, but finally, Hansen, who was the worse used-up man of the two, managed to reach a vital spot with his knife. The bear keeled over and the two trappers keeled over also. They managed to make a little fire with some of the leaves and twigs from the bear's nest, and there was plenty of rags to bandage their wounds, for they were all rags. It was several days before they could crawl to their camp with a hunk close beside the hot stove, while the thermometer stands in the nineties.

It might even be best not to iron at all if mm the day be too warm, but to let the that is a good record, and it shows where the taxes go;" That paper might well also remark that there is one saloon for every 217 people men, women and children in Chicago, and that this shows where the money goes. It shows why there is so much poverty in the slums of Chicago; it shows why vice is so rampant there; it shows why it is the breeding place of anarchy and the hot bed of socialism. Probably every one remembers how in his childhood, the familiar adage was dinned into his ears: "You can't have your cake, and eat it, too." This adage has its application to Chicago, and in fact to every other city in the land. Poor men desire to become wealthy, but they desire also to satisfy their appetites and passions at the same time. If an intelligent man, of sound body and mind, and with a good trade at his command, desires to accumulate property, there is no country in the world in which he can so easily do so as in the United States.

The rate of wages is higher here than in any other country in the world, and higher, too, in proportion to the cost of living. It is not difficult for a young man, unmarried, and with no one dependent upon him, to save half of his wages. All he has to do is to open an account with a clothes cool off in the basket and the irons cool off on a fireless stove until a time when one felt equal to the task. We must allow ourselves a little extra HEADQUARTERS FOB leeway. It is good and praiseworthy Topic Cards, Constitutions, Badges, to do many things, but it is extraordi Send for complete Price-list of Christian En nary how many a good thing we can HUMOROUS.

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Mass. too, if we can only make ourselves sat isfied not to do them, As to the spirit, we should try to keep serene. But it is idle to speak of this, for it is so largely a matter of Eailwav! of the bear's flesh, which had been their only food during their stay in the den. Portland Oregonian. temperament.

Some people could not North, East, South and West- keep cool with the thermometer at zero, 'Tween Grins and Grunts. Mrs. Laffagen "Reaching after the unattainable, dear?" Mr. Laffagen "It appears so. I can't seem to reach the end of the broken suspender under the back of my waistcoat" "What is the matter with me, doctor?" the patient asked in despairing tone.

"Matter with you, man?" was the doctor's cherry reply. "Matter with you, do you say? Why, man, you're sick." Soraerville JournaL The country boy cried to the boy from town, "Don't you envy my health and ray skin so brown? I get tanned by the Bun as through meadow I roam. And some never get heated through, LOVE IM THE BIG WINDY. savings bank, hgure out how mucli is Solid daily trains between St Louis absolutely necessary for his living ex A Wild Tale of Human Emotions from the much less reach the boiling point It is better not to worry about what we can't help if we can help it! And it is penses, and when he draws his weekly Kansas City, Pueblo, and Denver, Suburbs of tfiicairo. The wind sighed wistfully through surely better to defer crying over the pay to immediately deposit every penny above this sum and leave it with ruined dress and the broken china the trees that lined the quiet street.

The cheerful hum of the suburban mos Cars Pullman Buffet Sleeping quito pervaded the sultry air, the pale Right there comes the test It is not difficult to make this first accumulation pitcher until October, when it can be done more comfortably. Any plans, in short, which conduce to our comfort or the comfort of our families although such plans should upset all our theories yellow moon shone biliously down on a landscape that looked tired, and the the nest-egg of the future fortune if And also by mother when I get home." Washington Post a man once makes up his mind to do so, voice of Penobscot Bellamus, the young and chang-call the rules of the house but it is the indisposition of the average workingman or employe to do this, His Choice. Proud Father (show are good. Indeed, yes. Is not our life ing off his hov before company) "My man from down town, had a fuzzy and precarious sound like an string getting ready to break at the close of a warm evening devoted to solos from the which is the great cause of poverty.

Men desire to have their cake and to more than meat or raiment? Let that thought be put first, and make every son, which would you rather be, Shakespeare or Edison?" Little Son (after eat it at the same time. They wish to old masters. thing else fall into its rightful place after. So shall our time be passed in meditation) "I'd rather be Edison." Fond Father "Yes? Why?" Little Son "You do not pretend to misunderstand ling of an eye the scene was again changed, and I was surrounded by venomous reptiles of all sizes and kinds, and by dangerous animals of every known and many unknown species, and whose number would test the capacity of Noah's ark and the descriptive ability of a Dante. "Thus it continued, ever changing from one scene of horror to another, and these sights were living, moving objects.

At one time, and for to me some unknown reason, former acquaintances were boring holes through the wall to shoot me, and to guard against that I crawled under the mattress. They then decided that as they could not shoot through that they would set it on lire and cremate me, and I screamed: 'Help! murder! to the extent of my lungs. The next moment I had a new trouble. Small doors in the side of the room would open, through which would come troops of small animals of a strange kind. They seemed to be playful and harmless.

Others came that were not so, and I was obliged to be very active to keep out of their reach. Again, I get all the possible enjoyment which their money will procure at once, un me, Miss Naggus?" he said, appealing quiet and the heated term gone before "Cause he ain't dead." ly, and moving forward in his chair till Not Her Fault "Mary," said her we have thoroughly realized it is here or finished planning how to accelerate mindful of the fact that the extravagant habits which they are acquiring will hang like a millstone around their he sat on the extreme edge. mother, "you'll have to make that Mr. via the Colorado Short Line. 5 DAILY TRAINS 5 Kansas City to St- Louis, 2 DAILY TRAINS 2 Kansas City to Omaha and Kansas City to Texas points PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS.

H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, ST. LOUIS. JIO "Why, Mr.

Bellamus," she replied, its flight and soften its severity. N. World. "I I am not exactly 6ure that that Golosh leave earlier." "Its not my fault, mamma." "Not your fault? necks and utterly prevent any saving when the care of a wife and Didn't I hear you last night at the front family are added. After a few years a HORACE GREELEY'S BOYHOOD, The young man moved forward still man finds that it is a constant struggle further and dropped on his knees before door say: 'Stop Edward, half a dozen times? If he wanted to go, why did He Stood Well In School But Was a Poor to make both ends meet and he Bees no her with a mournful thud.

Penman. you want to stop him?" "Why do you suppose I have been By the rules of the school the young A Surprise. Widower (to his daugh coming to see you all these months?" est of the pupils sat nearest the fire' ter, aged ten) "Dora, do you know he exclaimed. "Kate Naggus, look at place, in which great logs burned, and, me!" that Susanne, our housekeeper, is going to be married?" Dora "Oh, I'm so "I suppose, Mr. Bellamus, you have therefore.

Horace soon warmed his toes, but soon after that was done he wished he was farther away from the glad we are getting rid of the old peli had to go somewhere, you know, and can. Won it oe joiiyi isut wno is go but of course, when I see a young man fire; for while those at a distance were ing to marry her?" Father "Well, I before me on his knees, why, then, I too cold, those near by were too warm. am!" Mainzer Tageblatt NEYv He studied the English geog "You know he means business, of A Thonghtlul opouse. I ve a raphy, arithmetic, and spelling. He course," he said, coming promptly and also learned to write, the teacher mend' great notion to go and jump into the river," said Mr.

N. Peck at the end of a Vest i I cheerfully to her assistance. "That what he means!" little domestic discussion, as he picked ing his pen; for those were the days of quill pens only. Steel pens were first introduced into England at about that time, but they did not The high-keyed voice of Mr. Penob up his hat and started out "You come right back here," said his wife.

"If you intend any such tricks as that just had exposed the secrets of some order and a delegation visited me and gave me a choice of the manner of death, the penalty I must suffer; but 1 compromised with them by joining the order. Rats and snakes by the million, animals of every known species, and thousands that no one ever saw but myself, besides many people to injure me in some way were present with me in a room about ten feet square, but which at present seemed as large as a public park, and here I remained in this living hell for two days and nights, until the proper time arrived and I was given a dose that put me to Bleep most of the time during the next thirty-six hours, after which reason resumed her throne and I was cured. Imagine yourself in the "nightmare' lasting two days and nights and you have some idea of delirium tremens. "The Voice. come into creneral use until long after.

Of writing he made a bad march upstairs and put on your old clothes before you start." Indianapo fist, and he was a poor penman always. lis Journal. scot Bellamus suddenly broke, but without a moment's pause he went ahead on the A string. "Kate Naggus, the supreme moment of my life has come! On your decision now rests all my hope of earthly happiness all my dread of earthly misery. The time has come when I can bear the suspense no longer.

Bewildered by PULLMAN TRAIN With Dining Car from Kans. City to Chicago. New Vestibule Let Him Down Easy. "Well, did in me later aays wnen ne became a great editor, only a printer accustomed to his hand-writing could set up his you get the money from Short?" "No," hope of any betterment of the future. If he gets an increase in wages or salary he finds that by some strange process his needs or desires increase suddenly in the same ratio, and month after month goes around and finds him either with empty pockets or struggling with debt.

Some men cease struggling, give themselves up to selfish indulgence and go swiftly down the declivity which lands them in a drunkard's grave. Others become soured and embittered at the world, look upon all men who have made savings as their natural enemies an -J fall into the communistic idea that "all wealth is robbery." It is a peculiarity of human nature that a man very rarely places the fault where it should belong on his own shoulders. He does not blame himself for being extravagant and reckless with his money, but blames other men because they are not so. and therefore because they save. It may be laid down as a maxim that a man who has nothing to depend upon but his own exertions is certain to die poor man if he becomes habituated to drinking.

A man cannot be a drinker "one of the boys" and save money. Aside from the wastefulness which the habit entails in paying for the liquor which the man himself consumes and that with which he treats others, it also causes a considerable waste of time each year. A man will drink too much, and be obliged to take a day or two off in order to sober up; or he drinks when his bodily functions are deranged, becomes ill and loses time until he recovers. The ways are very numerous in which the drinking habit, directly or indirectly, keeps a manuscript without losing half his time answered the collector, "but he made his refusal pleasanter than I expected. in trying to decipher it But of spelling he was always a master.

He could out- Pleasant! What do you mean?" "Why, he was careful enough to have a SLEEPER AND CHAIR CARS, spell every boy and girl in school; when the minister of the village tried to pick your glorious beauty, intoxicated by the magic of your smile and the music of your voice, I have let precious time go to waste! Enchantress of my heart, this moment must deoide my fate! My whole future, my destiny for weal or woe, is wrapped up in it! If the pure out words from the Bible with which nice thick rug on the floor, so that when he threw me down stairs I fell on the rug, and didn't break my neck, as he intended." Philadelphia Times. Night and Morning, TOPICS OF INTEREST. The other day a visitor entered the Kans. City to St. Louis.

public library and passed some time in looking at the list of new books. Then and honest love of a faithful heart, the earnest and self-sacrificing devotion of a life time can move you, dearest, let me offer you Pullman Sleeper Parlor he went to the counter and in a few car, every night, A tempera kcb scholarship has been founded in the Magee college, London-berry, Ireland, for stimulating interest in temperance work among the students. Hfer hasn't been actively engaged in driving out whisky the last year, though it has had a better chance than it ever had before. On the contrary, while the consumption of beer in He paused. He seemed to listen a moments the librarian stepped along to attend his wants.

Some time was passed in inquiring about the latest KANS. CITY to LINCOLN, moment With a look of wild alarm he glanced at his watch, jumped to his feet and grabbed his bat when he suddenly asked: Hare you my lata books by Charles Miss Naggus," he exclaimed in Dickens?" Iiangor CommerciaL and Solid Train every Morning. Pullman Buffet Cars, breathless haste. "I have just time to to puzzle the boy, he had to give up the attempt as a failure, for Horace had already by himself tackled every hard word in the Book. His avidity for knowledge and his industry in acquiring it were so remarkable that a neighbor offered to send him to the academy of a town not far distant; but both his parents and he himself were too proud to accept the favor.

Moreover the family were poor, and Horace must get to steady and uninterrupted work as soon as possible. He could not afford the luxury of an education, and there was no Chautauqua system in those days to direct and help him in his home study. It could not have existed at all seventy years ago. The facilities for communication were not many and rapid enough. Books coat too much and were too hard to get Postage was high, the mail routes were few and the mails slow.

Theodore Temple, in Chautauquan. One of Us. Miss Oldrasyde "Yon creased thirteen per cent, per capita, the consumption of spirituous liquors increased twelve per cent, per capita. catch the last train in! Good night!" Chicago Tribune. wretched man, how could yon break into my house at midnight and carry KANS.

CITY to ST. PAUL. He Mistake. Astonished Bill Clerk Isn't there Pullman Sleepers and Chair away all the silver we have cherished in the family for so many years?" Burglar "Well, yon see, mum, I'm col- Cars to Denver and Omaha every some mistake about this order from Banker's Corners for eight hundred day in the year. pounds of bacon and two bags of TJtio Burllnston man down in the groove of poverty.

There is no more potent factor in the production of poverty and pauperism than this habit; and those economists who are vexing their souls in the endeavor to find the cause and core of poverty, if they desire to quit theorising and adopt practical work, cannot do better than to join in the effort to pulverize the rum power. Toledo Blade. The Voice. A I.ITT1.K boy, whose father was a rather immoderate drinker of the moderate kind, one day sprained his wrist, and his mother utilized the whisky in her husband's bottle to bathe the little fellow's wrist with. After awhile the pain began to abate, and the child surprised his mother by exclaiming: "Ma, has pa got a sprained throat?" Union Signal.

lectin souvenir spoons." Miss Old-mayde "Let him go, officer, right away! And so yon, too, are collecting spoons, my man? That puts a different aspect on affairs. I am something of a Is the BEST EQUIPPED Railway Traveling Salesman No. That's all right A fellow went there -a week or spoon enthusiast myself Somerville JournaL I on the continent. For full information address H. ORR, Genl So.

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