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T. C AT. W CAIN. rubllt-hara.
BAST HOP, : : : TEXAS.
PASTURF AND FARM.
Winter gardens linve 'lone well.
Rockdale wantB a $.">0,tVt0 cotton mill.
AV>l ot & Evans of San An nolo bought
1200 mutton sheep at (J.
Two mules suffering with glanders
were aliot In Fannin county.
Cattle In the Abilene country are re-
ported ns being In good condition.
Swift A1 Co. of Waco sent a trainloud
f cattlc fattened a* East Waco to :it.
Louis.
A strawberry farm, consisting of
several acres, is an addition to the in-
dustries of Orange county.
Eighty-two cows and calves were rn-
cently sold at Abilene to the highest
bidder, and brought $!•-().
According to advices a number of
mules have died on the way from New
Orleans to the Transvaal.
A Greenville commission house ship-
ped out during llie holidays 10,000 tur-
keys raised in Hun', county.
Winners around Kemp, I. T., are act-
ively preparing for Ibis year's cropa
by getting the land cleaned.
W. J. Turner has brought from par-
ties at Ballinger 3227 acr a of land in
Runnels county at $-.."0 per acre.
Abilene parlies have received an or-
der from the British government for
COO more mules for the Transvaal
country.
A carload of hay passed through
Corsicnna a few days ago en route from
Texas to the British army in the Trans-
TLXANETTES.
New Tear was generaly observed.
Corsicana did not have u buslues*
failure iu 1800.
Terrell clergymen havo organized a
iia^tor.*' association.
Old net Hers of Tarrant county will
organise an association.
Joseph Gonzales was seriously
wounded ut El I'a so.
John llaynes had a thumb amputat*
cd by an Abilene printing press.
Robert ltadln died (mm injuries re-
ceived in a planing mill at lionham.
The city tax collector of Sherman
recently collected $25,000 In one day.
Judge T. P. Hughes, a pioneer citi-
zen of Williamson county, died sudden-
ly.
Hob I.owden's gin at Cartwrlght
Switch, Kaufman county, burned. Loss
*3000.
A child of Mrs. Eliza McMahan of
ilowland, Lamar county, was found
dead in bed.
At Sheffield, near Fort Stockton,
lllanton Ramsey was. fatally shot
through the lungs.
The cash receipts at the Galveston
custom house for 18HU were $207,450.
The receipts for 18t)K were $'96,112.
Miss Carrie names, who has been op-
erator at 'ho telephone exchange at
Mmtshall for the past ten years, has re-
signed her position.
Mrs. V. A. King of (Jreenville has
presented the *renien of that city with
$100 for their work li the recent heavy
fire in that city.
The Dallas postodlce receipts 'or the
past calendar year were $175,000, which
represents a gain of $10,000 over the ro-
cclpts of the last fiscal year.
Charley Doherty, section foreman on
vaal
The big cattlemen are pulling out of 1 section 402 of the Cotton Belt rnll-
Ihc Creek country. Most of the bis
road, died from injuries received on
Texas herds will next year go to the 23rd ultimo from Injuries received
Osage and Comanche reservations.
TamtPrifc-Jft^expected to b'gin on the !
This win add aeVerwyio;"'! Irrigation
to the rice acreage in that co.mry ^.h.
year.
More fine rains have fallen recently
around Lampasas and the farmers re- 1
Joiee. Small grain never promised
better at this season of the year. There
have been more wlnttr rains nlreuly
than during the whole of last winter.
Reports from all parts of CSrayaon
county, as well as contiguous counties
in a difficulty.
Albert R. McFall, aged 83 years, a
veteran of the Mexican war, whose
name is on the pension rolls of the
A died at his home in Cor-
unlforms, together wttn
plies, reached Texarkana tor the Shep-
pard Rifles. The company is now 100
strong and the drilling has almost ar-
rived at Al.
Jinimie Orr was knocked down and
robbed of $17 at Milfoiyl on his way
home from his father's drug store. He
There seems to be no
In Texas and the Indian Territory, are j had oUu>r wt>l«'h his assailants
that the wheat stand is excellent r.nd fa""d to gut.
in condition to Btand the vicissitudes e'ew.
of much rougher winter than is apprc- j
bended.
R. M. Diggs. a well known traveling
man of Fort Worth, was sandbagged
A company with a capital of $r .000,-
! and robbed of his money near the Tex-
000 has been incorporated under the
laws of West Virginia for the purpo.se
of placing on the market a cotton pick !
ing machine. It is shaped like a giain
reaper, though with higher axes and
with 7-foot wheels.
There has been a great deal of new j
Oround put in cultivation east and
notrheast of Denison, in the Chickasaw
Nation this fall and winter. A great
deal of wheat has been sown this fall
and winter, and the crops look line
Up to Jan. 1 Corsioana received 33j- !
105 bales of cotton.
Four thoroughbred race horses werf j
sold at Marshall at public auction
Weird was purchased by Hon. F. T ;
Rembert of Ixtngvlew, for $200; Littb !
Peggy to Mrs. J. E. Merrett, Marshall
$100; Emma Ray to S. E. Perry, Mar-
shal?, $100; Ferryman II. to Fred Hor-
ner. Marshall. $155.
The Stockholders of a tobacco farm
of thirty-five acres nine miles north-
east of Marshall held their annual
meeting. The barns on the farm con-
tain 1000 poinds of leaf tobacco, which
■was grown this year. The experiment
was pronounced a success and the acre-
age will be increased this year.
There are millions of feet of tuptdc
gum, oak, ash, walnut, hickory rmc
cherry timber accessible to Orange thai
would afford all the mat -n il nece-sa- |
ry for a furniture factory and Or.ngf
is an Ideal location for such an enter-
prise, says an Orange paper.
I)lck Plnchaw of C<<ldwat"r, Uhermac
county, says: "Cattle looks weed I:
this part of the country aixl we havr j
lots of feed if we should need It W< ,
had a great deal of tain tills fall and
winter, which 1:«h hurt the gnus somr !
for winter,"
The shipments of horses and millet !
In southern plantations for severs
as and Pacific depot at El Paso. He
was en route to catch a train. He was
rendered unconscious.
While Mrs. Stanfort was driving a
team attached to a wagon near Gon-
zales the vehlck) was overturned,
throwing the lady out. The wheels
passed over her breast, causing injuries
which resulted In her death. Her hus-
band was driving another team.
Jack Daniels, an aged negro, was
found frozen tu death In the road
about a mile from Caldwell. He was
on his way home and fell from his
horse. Not being able to get up and
walk he lay In the road.
The department of education sent out
notices that $150,000 of the available
school fund !iar been received by the
state treasurer during the month ol
Dvcember. 1899, and the treasurers ol
the school fund may send in their cou-
pons and recleve their pro rata share
thereof.
The rainfall for 1899, as kept by C. B.
Moore, of Collin .♦junty Is as follows:
January, 1 5-8 inches; February, 11-16;
March, 7-16; April, 2 1-4; May, 1 10-11;
June, 4; July, 1 1-2; August, 3-8; Sep-
tember, 1 3-8; October, 3 5-8; Novem-
ber, 3 7-8; December 2. Total 23 11-10
Inches.
Gov. Sayers has Issued a requisition
on the governor of Coahuila, Mex., foi
Antonio Torres, who is under arrest at
Cuidad, Porfirlo Diaz, and wanted In
livable county to answer to the charge
of murder.
The records of the county clerk's of-
fice show that there had been Issued
since Jan. 1. 1899, 522 marriage li-
censes. This Is the largest number of
marriage licenses ever Isued in Navarro
county iu any one y nr,
In i\ difficulty near Clear Springs,
Gaudalupe county, four miles east of
New BraunMs, Wm. Henke, a young
weeks have run up to a weekly aver farmer of the neighborhood, was shot
aae of more than 100 cars. Nearly *1
these have gone to the south, where
they will be UHed to prepare the lam
for spring work.
Gustavo A. Jahn, who Introduce?
Japanese rice In l.oulftian'i, in com-
pany with several New York capital-
ist*, will examine Home rice Nnds be.
tween Beaumont n. id Houston with r
▼lew of constructing Irrigating cannli
and establishing large rice farms.
Texas buyers have a contract to pur
rhase WW additional mules for the Iblt
Isb government, and It Is expected that
Ute last shipment will be made I • tww r
the 15th and SOth of January Foui
hundred mules were shipped last w« el.
from Fort Worth
and killed. Heuke was a young man
of about 28 years of age, about 6 feet
7 lnchcs high.
A $50,000 bank deal was consummat-
ed at Cleburne. Col. H. E. Moss dis-
posed of Ills Interest in the National
Bnuk of Cleburne t<- IJ. E. Wagner of
Ladonia. J. W. liaydln of lionham, J.
II. Keith, J. C Blakensy, Wlllllam
James au«l l\ W. Itamsey of Cleburne.
The records of the county clerk's
office of Kills county show that from
Jan. I Im'j'.i to D«m . 31, 1899. Inclusive,
there w« re .'<40 marriage licenses It-sued,
an I for the ...me length of time 4990
chattel ummigagi.* were Hied m the uf-
lice.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Much cold weather In the north.
The latu Evangelist Moody left no
will.
LI Hung Chang has been appointed
viceroy of two provinces In China.
Mrs. Emma Calson was korribly
burned at Earl I. T., while attempt-
ing to smother a lire.
The Indian Territory Teachers' as-
sociation held a pleasant and profitable
session at Wagoner.
While mounting u horse near Lon-
don Richard Croker, the New Yorker,
clipped and broke a leg.
The stockholder of the Meridian,
Miss., cotton mills have advanced the
wages of ail employes 5 per cent.
The caneudar year 1900 will be
marked by the statutory retirement
:u' a number of prominent army and
navy officers.
The public revenue of England for
the nine months ending with Decem-
ber reaches .C <12,777,014, as against
178,340,408 for the preceding period
of last year.
William Yager, the boss of a saw-
mill at Boggy, Ark., was caught In
the belt of the flywheel while the ma-
chinery was in full play and was
severely injured. His hip was broken.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary of stat-j of New
Jersey for the Montezuma Lend Com-
pany, capital $3,000,000, to mine lead
und other minerals in Mexico.
Mlkt iJourke, who was arretted at
Savannah, Ga., on the charge of hav-
ing choked bis aged mother to death,
was released front custody upon the
vi rdlct of the coroner's jury exonerat-
ing him.
W. T. Whitaker, of Whltaker's Or-
phans Home, Pryor Creek, I. '1'., left
for Washington for the purpose of urg-
ing congress to make an appropriation
for tbo benefit o£ the Whitaker Or-
phans' Home.
Near Carney, O. T., A. Harris drilled
a well for water on his form and struck
a good flow of oil at a depth of a lit-
tle over 100 feet. The well has been
plugged and much land Is being leased
ten-
don Chesney WViJlcJsoners who
Sarah Wilson, and five ofnVi' o
whose names they refuse to give, were
wounded In a recent sortie from Mar-
eking.
Dr. Van Bloch, the Russian writer,
announces thai the proposed Russian
war exhibit at the Paris Exposition
will be omitted ujon the czar's order
Conductor McCrary of the Helena-
Wynne Iron Mountain route was ar-
rested at Helena charged with taking
a man stricken with small-pox Into
the city.
Near Numa, O. T.. as Ben Ai.thony,
aged 30 years, was attempting to draw
a loatled gun from a wagon, it was
discharged and the load entered his
head, killing him instantly.
King Humbert of Italy proclaimed
amnesty for all prisoners convicted or
charged with crimes against the public
security of freedom of labor, as well
as political press offenses. This im-
plies a pardon for those punished for
participating In the riots that startled
Italy during the early part of last year.
It Is announced that the historic
Battle house, the principal hotel in
MobUe, Ala., wltVh was opened In 1852,
is to pass to Anthony Vizard and
others of New Orleans by purchase
ol the Battle house company. The
price Is not given, but it is in the
neighborhood of $150,000.
District Attorney Wm. B. Johnson
at Ardmore, 1. T., has received notice
to the effect that all p*sotiers receiv-
ing a sentence of more than ten years
would be hereafter confined in the
Columbus (Ohio) prison instead of
Jefferson City, Mo.
I'nknown parties fired Into the resi-
dence of Alfred Downs at Grove, I. '1'.,
and seriously wounded Mrs. Downs.
Capt. McC. Baker, for many years
a commander of vessels of the Morgan
I Hie, hence to New York, Gulf and Cu-
ban ports, und more recently a mem-
ber of the board of United States In-
spectors of steam vessels, died at New
Orleans, aged t>2.
Two carloads of colored Immigrants
en route to TexaH from the Carolinas
and Georgia passed through Memphis a
tew days ago.
The navy department has been ad-
vised of the death of Commander
John W. Carlln on board the Culgoa
from an attack of peritonitis, He
was on bis way to the naval hospital
at Yokohama for treatment when ho
died, Dec. 30 last.
United States Minister Brlilgeman,
at Lampa, has cabled the State depart-
ment that the president of Bolivia has
accepted for his country the invitu-
tiou extended through the department
to participate In the Pan-American ex-
position to be liehl ut Buffalo this year.
Foi ttier Congressman Ben Clover
committed suicide at his home ticnr
Douglas, Butler county, Kansas, by
..Looting himself. Despondency, iu
suiting from sickness and poverty, was
(Ut imike. < io\er formerly represented
Uiw thud district in ct-ngress.
THE LICKIKST MAN.
"Ho, you beggars, why don't you
ratge a row an' give us a chance o'
tlghtln' and' glory, un' maybe promo-
tion?"
Corporal MacBean shook his fist
savagely at the colossal barrier of
mountain peaks that barred the hori-
zon, rummaged among his pockets for
his tobacco anil pipe, and sat himself
down to smoke furiously and to think
upon the Incomparable beauty of Miss
Janet Sloane.
Indirectly Miss Kloane was the
cause of the remarks with which my
story opens, remarks addressed not to
the mountains, but to the swarthy,
turbulent throat-cutting crew who in-
habited them, for there was, for
once in a way, peace upon the north-
western border of India, and Corporal
MacBean was thirsting for war and
promotion all for the sake of the
bright eyes of Miss Janet Sloane, the
daughter and heiress of Sergt. Sloane
of the Sappers.
Miss Sknine was certainly a very
pretty girl.
So It happened that many gallant
sergeants and privntes without num-
ber, and even a sergeant-major, who
possessed house property at home In
distant Woolwich, were all sighing
got hold of her! Ifl Ashamed o' ye I
am. Mlsther Corporal MacBean!" In-
terrupted a clear voice from the crest
of the rampart.
II.
Corporal MacBean sprang to his feet
like a shot. Then he saluted and
blushed down to his heels, for there
stood Miss Janet Sloane, In all the
glory of her white-stringed bonnet,
regarding him with a none too friend-
ly look iu her line eyes.
"I beg your pardon, Miss Sloane,
said Corporal MacBean humbly ami
ponderously. "I was not aware that
you were in any anxiety about Miss
Victoria, or I would have brought her
to you at once. 1 wais just telling
mlssie that I was going to make her a
Noah's ark.
"A nice Noah's ark you'd make!"
replied Miss Janet with scorn. "I
wonder you don't try and improve
your mind, instead of loafing about,
reading a lot of trashy novels, and
putting Ideas Into that child's head!'
The rank injustice of this charge
reduced Corporal MacBean to tin
dumb silence of utter astonishment.
"You ate unkind, nurth," piped
Chubby's little voice. "An' you told
me that Corporal MacBean was so
brave an' good only Just now when
Private Doolan hollered."
"Hold your tongue, miss, and come
tho love of Janet j q' mo at once!" cried Miss
more or less for
Sloane.
But Miss Sloane encouraged none of
them, but smiled impartially upon
them all, protesting all the time that
she couldn't a-bear soldiers.
Anil eveu to the most hardened and
callous warrior i> smile from Janet
was an experience not easily tc be
forgotten.
Corporal MacBean was not a recent
victim of Janet's wonderful smile.
Over six months had elapsed since he
had first fallen under the infiuenco of
that fatal smile, and, unlike most of
ills fellow-victims, he had not recov-
ered.
On this particular afternoon he
could find no refuge In day dreams,
for that very morning he had seen
Janet smile with divine sweetness up-
on the sergeant-major,and the thought |
of that smile, und of the legendary
house property at Woolwich, runkled
in his bosom.
In this Inventory he was ungrateful
enough to forget a very important item
In his claimo upon the attention of
Janet Sloane.
"'Alio, Beano!" cried a little voice i
at his elbow.
Corporal MacBrnn turned, and the
caroworn puckers In his bronzed face
< mooth#*Vo ' •• v<h gaze met two
Vie«. r!u fH- 'pon him.
heiress of ('apt. r .rel'i.rj item—Miss
charge of Miss fgloane, and tntf
Ing of the whole garrison of Fort
Curzon.
Miss Victoria was just three and a
half years old, and was already begin-
ning to develop the faculty of observ-
atior o an abnormal extent. She
knew sv.ry man in the garrison pretty
well by name—even the Ghoorkas,
whose names were beyond all pronun-
ciation.
She was very much attached to
"Beano," as she called Corporal Mac-
Bean, In accordance with the tradi-
tions of the garrison, and Beano
shnred In the popular adoration ac-
corded to tnla frail, motherless baby.
Beano was always good for a game
of horses, and once in harness would
toss his head and paw the ground and
curvet more nimbly than any real
polo pony. Furthermore, he could
dress rag dolls better than any other
man in the garrison, the regimental
tailors not excepted.
"Good afternoon, mlssie," replied
Corporal MacBean In answer to a long,
Inquiring stare.
"Private Doolan got the toothache,"
announced Chubby solemnly.
"Has he, mlssie?" replied the cor-
poral.
"Yeth," lisped Chubby, with Import-
ance. "1 heard the doctor pull It out
In the 'othpital juth now. Private
Doolan did 'oiler!"
"Did he, mlssie?" Inquired Corporal
MacBean absently.
He was wondering where Janet
Sloane could be, for her little charge
hod evidently given her the slip dur-
ing their afternoon walk round the
cantonments.
"I don't think Private Dooln'th a
very brave man," continued Chubby,
judicially.
"Why not, mlssie?" asked the cor-
poral.
"You wouldn't holler If you had a
tooth out, I know. Nurth said you
wouldn't, because you are too brave,"
added Chubby emphatically.
"Did she, though?"
Corporal MacBean sat up with sud-
d< n Interest.
"When did she say that, mlssie""'
lie added, his face growing pale under
the tan.
"When Private Doolan said, 'Yow,
yow, yow
would 'oiler like that."
"Did she, though, now!" said Cor-
poral MacBean with animation. "D'you
know what I am going to make for
you, mlssie?"
"A wockln'-'orse?" Inquired Miss
Victoria affably, as she squatted down
comfortably by his side.
"Better than that. A whole bloom-
in' Noah's ark, full of lions an' tigers
an' camels an' cows an' Jackals. An'
then there'll be Shem, 'Am and Ja-
cob, in green hats air yellow
breeches-- "
"All' red coaths!" Interposed Chub-
by breathlessly. "Of courth they'd
have red coaths If :hey were iu the
i et vIce, Then there'd be yahhlth —"
"Of course there'd lie rabbits, mis-
-le, with long ears
"Like some other donkeys I know
f leading that child away when I in
• .iking f"i her ever> where, thinking
I at some o' tho.c gun stealing heath-
.it from over the border had gone aud
Sloane, blushing furiously and seizing
Chubby's arms. "Don't I keep telling
you that no good'll come of you always
talking to a parcel o' nasty common
soldiers, learning their bad manners
and their Impldence? I wish you a
very good afternoon, Corporal Mac-
Bean," she added. "And I'll troublo
you not to go asking sneaking ques-
tions of a poor little Innocent child
about people who don't want to have
anything to do with the likes of you!
A corporal. Indeed!"
Janet snorted Indignantly as she
; disappeared down the other slope of
! the rampart. And Corporal MacBean
sat down again in despair, for he did
not understand women. One thing, he
decided, he u.ust distinguish himself
i m on that lie might have an opportun-
i Ity of asking Miss Sloane to share his
i lot us a sergeant.
The opportunity came a few nights
afterward. A half hou>- or so before
dawn three shots rang out. Then a
sentry was found lying curled up on
the ground, with a long Afghan knife
through his shoulder.
"More rifles stolen!" suggested
those who came running up. The gar-
cried from a neighboring bowlder: "Oo
It. Beano!"
The other two men had dismounted
and were crouching behind a bowlder,
which quickly Bent forth two Jeta of
flame, seemingly emptying MacBeun a
saddle. He had fallen on the body
of one of the men who lay bo still, and
his enemies urose as they buw his
body twitch. Corporal MacBean was
simulating the last agonies of death
as h« slipped one of the scattered car-
tridges Into the breech of his fallen
foe's rifle. Two inlves snicked out
of their sheaths as his adversaries ran
toward him. Then the corporal, cud-
dling his rifle between his knees, Bls-
ley fashion, sighted and fired. '1 he
rigi.t-nand man toppled and fell, while
the other doubled und ran Just 300
yards before the pursuing bullet took
him between the shoulder blades, so
that his soul went out In one great
cough.
Than he ran and picked up the little
white figure that danced excitedly on
the bowlder, straining her to his
broad chest In a paroxysm of relief.
"1 was fwlghtened a little bit until
1 saw you coming," admitted Chubby,
"but I d'dn't 'oiler. What makes you
shake so. Beano? Are you cold, too?
"It is a bit Chilly, mlaslt, Isn't it?"
said the corporal, as he wrapped her
In Ills Jacket and carried her to his
horse.
"What's the matter with those
naughty men?" added Chubby.
"They've gone to sleep."
"Yea, mlssie; they're very tired
through being up so early," answered
the corporal, grimly. "Now yo.i go to
sleep, too, while we ride back and find
Janet."
• • • •
"Why do you keep on kissing Ben-
no?" asked Chubby of Janet, ever so
long after they had found her.—Lon-
don Answer.
THE BOER AS
H<t Mill sit
A FISHERMAN.
I nd
s
SALUTED AND BLUSHED.
rlson of Fort Curzon were well accus-
tomed to night, visits from the*well-
greased and slippery rifle thieves from
the hills.
But the word soon passed that
something more precious than rifles
had gone this time.
Chubby was missing.
Then It was remembered how ven-
geance deep and dire had been sworn
against Capt. Donnelly, in that he had
procured expatriation to the Andaman
Islands for vho last pair of rifle thieves
who had been captured within the con-
tines of Fort Curzon.
The bugles blared out the "boot and
saddle." Corporal MacBean heard a
scream from Janet that cut through
his heart like a knife. A red ml;U
shut across his eyes, and he rode
like a madman toward the mountains
ahead, losing all sense of time iu tho
beat of tho wildly galloping hoofs.
The best horse In the garrison was
bis.
The dawn broke In a swimming mist
of blue-gray. Then the distant moun-
tain tops grew pink, and ('apt. Mac-
Bean rode on with Ills eyes fixed on
a doud of dust a mile ahead.
There were four of them. One, two
three, four, he counted. Then he re-
membered that he was unarmed.
A rocky defile opened around him
as he drew steadily up to the group of
horsemen that galloped wildly ahead
of him. One of them turned In his
saddle, nnd a shot came whistling
And 1 asked her if you back. Then they all drew rein, and a
corporal's heart beat thick and fast as j for
lie saw n white patch drop from the '"
saddle bow of the lender.
It was Chubby, unharmed; for ahe
ran a little way, then pausod, and
perched herself on a small bowlder.
The horse beneath him thundered
on. He saw the horsemen draw to-
gether, while four rifles were leveled
nt his breast. A spurt of flame, a
sharp whistling about his ears, and
he was upon them. One horse rolled
over before his as he crashed Into the
group and felt Ills outstretched hand
grip the beard anil the Jaw of the man
he had marked. There was a sharp
jerk. Ills knees tightened on the sad-
dle with a grip that twisted the mus-
cles of his thighs to writhing knots of
redhot Iron lie heard a crash behind
tiiin arui .'V. tl. it his rlglu tlst giipped
a handful of dark bait H« reigned
his horse upon IiIm haunch** and
turned again. Two men lay on the
Ciuuuil very Mill and u small vole*
for llour* AiikIIkk
H .ii ok inf.
The Boer is uo mean fisherman.
Given a pipe and a supply of his favor-
ite weed, he will sit for hours angling,
says the London Mail. Very fine sort,
Indeed, may be had in any of the
streams north of the Orange river. The
only tackle required consists of the
usual coarse fishhooks and a strong
rod. On the authority of Mr. Roland
Trlmen, F. L. 8., and curator of the
Cape Town museum, it may be stated
that no less than fourteen different
fresh water fish, varying from a bar-
ber of seventy pounds to the culper, or
burrowing perch, of less than a quur-
ter of a pound weight, exist in the
Transvaal streams, the latter being the
only fresh water fish of the country
"known to take a fly. The most com-
mon specimens, however, are the twen-
ty-pound yellow tall aud a thirty-five
•"•nnd nondescript sort of fish which
the Oran*t- ^r«. hooking and hauling
water fishing Is very p.,.,i.ntip. From
north the rivers and vieis are genem.'
ly well stocked. Even lakes which are
only filled with water during the rainy
season are often stocked with fisii.
which preserve life, when the bottom
Is dry, by burrowing deeply in the
ooze before it hardens, and corning
forth again from their muddy retreats
when the flood returns.
Hindoo !<li>! Ful lll««l l «-* nil.
Mystics will be Interested In the dis-
covery that Mine. Carnot, the widow
of the assassinated preHident of France,
in her will, has left a request to her
children to rid themselves of a certain
Hindoo Idol which was in her posses-
sion. This Idol a little one, of stone
curiously carved, as are most of these
objects was presented to Carm/t by a
learned friend on his return from in
dia. Carnot then was merely minister
of finance, and did not expect to attain
the presidency. The friend warned
Carnot that the legend connected with
the luol was that It assured supreme
power to It'i owner and also that the
owner would die a violent death by the
knife It bail belonged to the dynasty
of the kings of KhadJurao, and the last
rajah, having arrived at power by Its
means, and fearing the dagger, sought
to conjure death by giving It away. In-
terested by this story, Mine. Carnot ac-
cepted the little fetich with pleasure.
M Carnot attained the presidency, and
Mine. Carnot wrote at the time to the
friend iu India that It was "all due to
the fetich." Carnot died by the knife.
Sell .Mil l.ojr
Among u number of amusing school-
boys' essays contributed to Cas-
■ Bel's Saturday Journal is the fol-
lowing by a youthful essayist, aged
10: "Krugcr and Kannerbulism is
one. He is a man of hlud. Mr.
Chamberllng lias wrote to him
sayln come out and file or else give up
the hlud of the English you have took,
he Is a boardutchman nnd a wtckld
heethln, lord Kitchener lias !)•• sent.
his goary bind and to bring
back his seanderlus head tied or alive."
By another Juvenile writer Tennyeon
Is thus summarized; "Tenyson wrote
butlfull polms with long hair and
studld so much that he sed mother
will you call me airly dear, his
most greatest polm Is called the
liloll King. he was made a lord
but he was a good man and wrote
many hoads. he luved our queen so
much that he made a polm to her calld
the fairy Queen.''
A MllvM MUtske.
Actor (Just aroused from his stupor
while being hauled to the police sta-
tion In a wheelbarrow) What! Have
iny admirers again unhitched my
horses. Meggendorfrr Rlaettcr.
j.
ir
\
Nm IM fT«-r««firr.
Pill mill i Yo tlomr l '#'<1
to lie fenr d oh ine, fowl; I s er iittnU-
tah ob d • i;o pel, Musical rooster—All
oouia look h 11 k e it me Judge.
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