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TH E FIRST BALL.
Ah! she comes u—trlpping softly
Down the shadows on the stair,
With a ray of lamplight falling
On her lovely shoulders bare;
How they gleam like sculptured marble,
Mellowed by her young life‘s flush,
Greater though than charms of chisel
Is that swift, unconscious blush.
How her eyes shoot little sparkles
From their lustrous shadows deep;
How they droop and through their darkness
Tender, dangerous flashes leap;
I can almost see her heart beat
In its snowy, shimmering nest;
Oh, the hope, the mirth, the gladness,
In that gently heaving breast.
All the roses of life‘s spring time
Burst to bloom within her cheeks,
And her lips1 sweet dewy freshness
Jewels every word she speaks.
I am tempted, I am falling;
Will she calmly stand and see
How my thirsty lips are stoobing
To a thief‘s dire ignominy?
Then she takes the flowers I give her
In her dainty finger tips,
Pauses, smiles and then demure-1y
Passes them across her lips;
IVhile her dimples deepen coyly,
And the spirit darting through
Veiled glances, questions slowly,
“Don‘t you-don‘t you wish ’twere you: "
Does she know how she has triumphed?
VVoman’s Woman, and alas! '
I could swear that she’s been flirting
With her image in the glass!
Then I gently fold her mantle
J ealously upon it all;
Heading with my heart the list she
Soon will lengthen at the ball.
—New Orleans Picayune.
Daniel Boone's Letters.
John H. Rochester has found among the
papers of his uncle, the late Henry E. Roches-
ter, two letters written to the latter by Dan-
iel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky, at the
time Go]. Rochester resided in that state.
The letters are addressed to “Colo Nathanel
Rochester at Danville,” and are written in a
plain hand. As to orthography and punctu-
ation they speak for themselves, as follows:
FLYA’I‘TE COUNTY, July 17th 1785
SIR—The Lands Mr Me fadden is ofering you is
In Qulaty Eacqzd to any you have Seen on the
South Side the Cantuck and never has been Dis-
pueted by an y man as it was known to be the first
Clames th’are by Satelment and preemtion and I
believe his Wright to be good from John Hart and
Hix it Lycs on Silver crick Joining aSatelment
and premtion of Willeam Hoy ussee of William
Deal on his South and Capt Ervings also on his
south and Capt astels on his West and Luis Crage
on his North thare are a Smart Crick Runs through
the Midel of it and Sum Likely Springs on the
Land J esse. Bentons in No wise Consams With it
tls Near 3 or 4 Miles from it and Your own Land
Lyes at the fork of Millers Crick on the North Side
Cantucke Near 2 Miles from the Rever a bout 12
Miles from astels Station up the Rover this from
your omble servent DANIEL Boone
July the 17th 1785.
Dun Sm rIlimes are a. Litel leegult at pres-
about Indians 2 or 3 Companys have Lately
been Droveen from that Qurter Col Harts Land
Lyes Which is about 18 Miles from Limestone
and 9 miles from the nper Salt spring however
the Land Shall be survvayed at all avents if I
live before the time you mentioned So as the
May be Returned to the ofis at your Lasure
When you come over Sir I must be plan With you
I am intirely out of Cash and the Chane men and
Markers Must be payd on the Shot and I want 2
or 3 ginnes for my own use Sir if you will
Sateledouour first meeting by Sir your omble
sarvent DANIEL Boone.
~Rochester Herald.
Why Mr. Stebbins Did Not Respond.
There are crack military companies enough
through the country. They have their man-
uals down fine and look as, pretty as abasket
of peaches; but ask your grandfather, who
remembers the militia. companies of a half
century ago, what he thinks of them, and
listen to the old gentleman’s snort of disdain.
The modern ones are the better, but you will
never make him think so. Away back in the
forties, when war had been declared against
Mexico, every southern town of any size had
its militia company and sent its quota to
serve under Scott or Taylor.
The town of Hillsborough, N. 0., was no
exception. The alurums of war had reached
its laggard ears, and its small company was
mustered for volunteers. The roll call was
read by the recruiting sergeant, who got
gong all right until he came to the name of
ill Sfcbbinfi
“lVilliam Stebbins," he called.
No answer.
“William Ste‘obins,” be repeated, with a
rising inflection.
No answer.
“I am sure William Stebbins is here. I
saw him gallivunting around with the girls
not half an hour ago.”
“William Stabbins,” he shouted at the top
of his voice. ”If William Stebbins is in the
ranks let him answer at once to his name.
William Stabbins. ”
“Yer I am,” came up sullenly from the
rear tank, “but I hain’t goin’ to no Mexico.”
-—Washlngton Post.
Strange, Very Strange.
Several years ago in the town of Beloit,
Kan, a young man who was boarding at
the hotel sickened and died. While waiting
for information from his friends in regard to
the final disposition of the body it was taken
across the road and laid out in a vacant
room belonging to Mrs. B. The body was
afterward interred in the cemetery. In a
few weeks Mrs. Laura C. moved to Beloit,
and having rented the rooms belonging to
Mrs. B. set up housekeeping in them. One
morning, a couple of months afterward,
when I called on her, she said that the night
before she saw a. coffin standing in the mid-
dle of the room where she slept. It was
moonlight, and she saw it very plainly. She
turned her eyes from it for a moment, and
was no little surprised to find it had disap-
peared when she looked back. It stood east
and west in the center of the room, and
seemed to Contain the body of a man whom
she had never seen in life. I said: “You
mean you dreamed you saw a coffin.” “No,"
was the answer, “I was wide awake. I saw
it as plainly as I see you now.” The de-
script n was that of the body of the young
man w ch had lain there the summerbe-
fore, and of whom Mrs. C. had never heard.
—Wat Union (13.) Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Berries with Handles.
A bright little fellow in the suburbs visited
thp home of the Saunterer the other day,
and while roaming about the yard caught
Sight of some cherries which had fallen from
the overhanging tree of a neighbor. The
cherries were in a flower garden somewhat
out of Master Precocity’s reach, and so, rush-
ing into the house, he called his mother into
the yard, directed her attention to the fallen
fruit with the request: “Oh! momma, get me
some of those berries wi’ handles on ’em.”
—Boston Budget.
The name “Johnny cake” is said to be de-
rived from “journey cake,” because emi-
grmts journeying from New England to the
west were obliged to bake their Indian meal
cakes in the ashes of their cunp fires.
The Chinese luck appreciation of the stage.
As soon as a Celestial enters on the stage he
is deprived of citizenship and his children
after him for four generation
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Send meSixginnes by my Litel Sun it shall be '
CATCHING A BIG HORN ALIVE.
The Only Instance on Record of This Very
Remarkable Feat.
“There is only one instance on record of a
man actually capturing and holding by his
unaided strength a. wild Rocky mountain
sheep,” said A. P. Horton, an old Montana
ranchman, “and that apparently impossible
feat was performed by a Pennsylvanian
named Frank F. Baker. Any one who knows
anything about the big horn sheep of the
Rockies knows that, generally speaking, it
wouldbe about as easya thing to get his
hands on one of the wary and agile animals..
as it would be to grab a streak of lightning.
In the first place, to get within even long rifle
range of a big horn, unless by accident, is
something that the most expert mountain
hunters have been able to do only by the
greatest strategy, the severest toil and great
risk to life and limb, to such almOst inaccess-
ible fastnesses does the sharp eyed, keen scent—
ed, sure footed big horn retire with case at
the first indication of danger. The animal is
instinctively suspicious, cautious beyond any
animal that lives, and possessed of marvelous
powers of speed and skill in making its way
over places that are inaccessible to the most
nimble footed of any other American beast.
The Rocky mountain sheep is the Chamois of
this continent. I have known a hunter to
follow a big born for two weeks, day after
day, until he had trailed it almost to the
clouds on the breast of the Sierras before he
managed to get it within reach of his rifle.
For this reason the capture of one of these
sheep in a struggle at close quarters must
stand as one of the most extraordinary of
physical feats. Although it was only five
years ago when it was accomplished. big horn
sheep were then comparatively plenty in
Montana. It isn’t likely that one could be
found today within a. thousand miles of the
spot where Baker distinguished himself with
this particular one.
“Baker had a. cattle ranch near Boulder,
Mon. He was not out hunting the day he
captured his sheep, but came upon it sudden-
ly at the foot of a sloping bank, which was
crowned by an almost perpendicular clifl
twenty feet high. Baker was accompanied
by one of his shepherd dogs, which had been
trained for hunting. The sheep bounded up
the sloping bank, closely followed by the dog.
The high cliff cut off its flight up the mount-
ain, and on reaching it the big horn took in
the situation at once and turned on the dog.
Standing with its rump against the cliff the
sheep presented its formidable front to the
dog. The dog was wise enough to keep out of
reach of the tremendous battering rum the
sheep wielded, one blow from which would
have smashed the skull of a buffalo bull, but
kept the animal at buy by safe and noisy
maneuvers.
“Baker quickly took in the strategic points
of the situation, and made up his mind that
by a bold and risky movement he might be
able to do what- he had never heard of any
man doing before, and that was to make the
big horn his prisoner. He sneaked around
and gained, the summit of the cliff, and
climbed along it until he was directly above
the big horn, which was still standing on the
defensive against the dog. Without waiting
to calculate on the probable result of his at-
tempt, Baker jumped from the ledge and
alighted astride the sheep’s back, and throw-
ing his arms around its neck locked his fin-
gers'together and brought all the pressure he
was capable of to bear on the big hom’s
breathing place. The instant Baker struck
the sheep‘s back the big animal lost all inter-
est in the dog, and madatwo or three tre-
mendous bounds along the hill, and then
threw itself on the ground and rolled over
and over down the bank. In that brief but
terrific journey Baker was stripped of nearly
all his clothes and was mashed almost
breathless, but he held on to the sheep like
grim death. The dog took an active part in
the struggle, but the sheep paid no attention
to him, putting all of his energy into efforts
to loosen himself of Baker’s burden.
“The yells that Baker set up, and the noise
made by the dog, “prelim-d by one of Bak-
er’s men at the ranch, a quarter of a mile
away. The struggle between Baker and the
sheep had taken them some distance from the
hill, and they were in sight of the ranch.
The hired man grabbed a. gun and hurried to
the scene of the struggle. Baker was naked,
bleeding, and covered with dirt, but he shout-
ed to his man, when he arrived breathless on
the scene and was about to send a bullet
through the big born, not to shoot, but to go
back endg‘talariut. Baker was bound to
bug that sheep alive or not at all. By the
time the man got back with the lariat Baker,
sheepand dog were all about in tiresome
state of abousthn. The man threw the
noose over the big horn, and the capture was
luau-ed. It was about all that Baker could
do toga. back to the ranch, and the man,
with other help that had arrived, got the
sheep to the ranch and penned him up.
“Baker was several days getting over the
effects of his fight with the big horn. His in-
tention had been to send his prize east, but
finding that the sheep persistently refused to
eat or drink, and was visibly dying in its cap-
tivity, be ordered the animal set free. In less
than a minute after regaining its liberty it
had disappeared among the rocks far up the
side of the mountain. ”-—New York Sun.
Taken at His Word.
About a hundred miles below Abbeville we
' Burcket’s ferry. Standing on the
bank of the stream was an old man with a
long, gray beard. He supported himself with
a. stick and was trembling in every limb.
“You see that old man,” said the captain;
“his right arm and tongue are paralyzed.
Thestoryisa sadone anda lesson to men
who are extravagant in their words. The
old man had been running this ferry for
many years, but he runs it no longer. About
a year ago he was a. strong and vigorous man.
He was fond of deer hunting and always left
a born at the ferry to be blown when any one
defired to cross. He was on a deer hunt a
year ago. The dogs 'were in the heat of the
chase and he was thoroughly enthused, when
suddenly the sound of the horn called him to
duty. He wheeled around to return to the
ferry, leaving the dogs to run the race out,
and with an oath said:
“ ‘If I don’t give up that ferry I hope to
be paralyzed.’
“As he uttered the words his right arm fell
lifeless to hisaide and his tongue refused to
articulate. He was paralyzed. ”—Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Governor Cornell’s Clock.
A lady from Ithaca, the birthplace of ex-
Govemor Cornell and his wife, told me yes-
a good story apropos of the perils of
wedded life, which the governor told at his
own expense. It seems that when in office at
Albany he would sometimes return home late
at night, after his wife had retired, and when
she asked him what time it was, he would
answer: “About 12,” or “A little after mid-
night.” One evening, instead of making the
inquiry, she said: “Alonzo, I wish you would
stop that clock; I cannot sleep for its noise."
All unsuspicious he stopped the pendulum.
In the morning, while dressing, Mrs. Cornell
inquired artled : “Oh, by the way, what
time did you get Iomel” “About midnight,”
replied the governor. “Alonzo, look at that
clock!” The hands of the clock pointed to
half past a. The governor was crushed; but
he afterward concluded that the story was
too good to keep—Philadelphia. Record.
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VICTIMS or IMPULSE.
MANY MEN ARE FORCED TO DIE BY
SELF DESTRUCTION.
Mysterious Fascination in a Great Eleva-
tion or Watching a’ Swiftly Turning
Wheel—Men Who Dread to Cross 3
Bridge Lest They Are Impelled to Jump
There are suicides and suicxdes, and they
have been written about and commented on
so much by people who “never can account ~
for men doing so unless they' are insane”
that possibly it is to.) much like thrashing
old straw or letting the will do that that
some one has said cannot be done—“grind
again with the water that has passec ”—to
tell of some of the peculiar suicides or at-
tempts, or desires to attempt that have come
under the writer’s personal observation.
In the first place the assertion can be truth-
fully Inade that one-half of the so called
suicides are not suicides, but emotional in-
voluntary accidents. TI'y among your
friends to find one who has not at some time
in his life had an insane desire to throw him-
self olf of “an high eminence” or cast himself
under a rapidly passing train or allow him-
self to become entangled in the large drive-
whchl of some immense machine, and you
will find that they have to a man had some
such experience. Many men who tell of
struggles with irresistible desires to make
away with themselves and think nothing of
it, but if we happen to lose a. friend by the
suicide route we forget all about his strug-
gles and endeavors to fight off the desire to
do away with himself and like the average
coroner’s jury we say: “Killed himself while
laboring under a fit of temporary insanity. " I
This verdict more than half of the time is
wrong. It should he “accidental suicide
brought on by the victim’s inability to resist
a morbid involuntary impulse.”
HE WAS AFRAID or HIMSELF.
A young man was killed in a suburban
village whose case this verdict would have
covered. He had repeatedly told me of the
struggle he had with himself whenever he
stood on the platform of a station while a
train was passing. “John,” said he one day,
“if anything ever happens to me don’t let
them say that I was crazy. I have as happy
9. home as the sun shines on and am blessed
with as interesting a family of little ones as
you would find in a. month’s journey. Unfor-
tunately for me I' allowed myself to be talked
into buying a home in the suburbs and on
that account find that I have imposed upon
myself a daily struggle with the hydra-headed
monster self destruction. I cannot help it.
Every time I go near a railway track I have
an almost uncontrollable desire to throw my-
self under the wheels of the passing train.
They seem to say ‘Come to me, come to me,’
with a. voice of command that I have, up to
the present time, been able to resist, but I
fear that my power of resistance is weaken-
ing and I shall soon give way. If I do, old
man, I want you to fight the insanity theory
and explain my feelings to my friends. Of
course I might move into the city and have
had it on my tongue’s end to suggest it to my
Wife, but this would necessitate explanations
and only worry the little woman. I may sue-
ceed in fighting off this foolish desire, but if
I do not and am ever picked up on a shovel I
want you to let the world know it was not a
suicide, but an accident.”
I promised that this should be done and
tried to make light of what I called his fool-
ish fears. He smiled a sickly, faint, no—
laughter-in-it smile and walked away. Half
an hour later I was told that he had “com-
mitted suicide; thrown himself in front of a
passing train; had stealthily hid behind a
water tank, and as the train dashed by flung
himself in front of the engine and been ground
so fine that he had to be gathered together
with a shovel.”
People could not understand it. And final-
ly all, with the exception of myself, believed
that the coroner’s jury made no mistake when
they brought in a verdict of suicide While in-
sane.
I told my story, but it did no good. His
friends and relatives could not see how a man
could be other than insane who killed himself
when he had everything that the heart could
wish for. His wife finally acknowledged that
she did not wish to bear any one say that her
poor dear husband’s mind was not affecte‘
as she knew full well that he would not have
left her in the horrible way he did if he had
not been insane.
WALKING 1N rm! nowwnr.
The foregoing account of one man’s inabil-
ity to resist the morbid desire to do something
horrible is only one case in thousands. If the
struggles that are going on daily, made some-
times by nearest and dearest friends, could
be laid bare the expose would be a frightful
one. In a certain building in this city which
I frequently visit there is a large rotunda.
Around this rotunda. runs a spiral staircase,
the bannister of which is low and is made to
continue on after leaving the stairs at the
sixth floor and acts as a guard rail forthe
top floor. It is altogether too low and any
six-footer falling against it would probab‘
fall over into the pit of the rotunda. I have
heard several of the. men engaged on the
sxxth' floor of this building tell in a matter of
fact (but to me horrible) way of the destre
that took possession of them whenever they
approached this guard rail to throw them-
selves over, and must confess that I have
found myself edging away from it, with the
indisflnct' ' , undefined, inexplainable fear that
I might throw myself over if I got too close
to it; and have told others, who spoke of hav-
ing experienced the same feelings, to let the
world know that it was not a premeditated
suicide if I should ever be picked up at the
bottom of that pit a. shapelaos, broken mas.
There is a young man in this city of Chi-
cago who has a. dread of the bridges and al—
ways takd: to the wagon way when he crosses
the river. He has been fished out of the
muddy, sticky water at Clark street bridge
once, having thrown him-M” over the rail.
When brought to terra firma he could not
explain Why he had jumped over.
“The desire took possession of me and I did
it; that’s all,” said be, when questioned about
it. “I had jumped about a foot when I
wished from the bottom of my heart that I
hadn’t,” he continued, “and now, to avoid a
repitition of that act, I always take to the
middle of the road when crossing the bridges.”
Suicides (so called) are increasing at an '
alarming rate, and opposite t'hepame of many
a man who is alive and well today, with
bright prospects, good health, happy home,
and everything on earth to live for, the word
“suicide” will be written as the cause of his
death, when he was simply the victim of one
of those irresistible impulses—Chicago Times.
Does Personal Care of the Health Pay?
This is a question constantly asked
often answered in the negative. Many _
to be with the idea. that a man can.
not take care of his health without worr
about it, and making himself constantly un-
happy for fear that he will do something he
ought not to do. . Never was there a. more
erroneous opinion. A person who takes 13-
tional care of his body does not necessarily
become a crank or so notional that it makes
every one uncomfortable ' to live with him,
but just the reverse. He should become more
interesting, more intelligent and inspired by
'gher ideas, and be a. more delightful com-
panion.—-Herald of Health. '
Norwalk Chronicler