TRICKY BABY PETE,

is : 1th and munched away like a man c.iing dry crackers on a wager, He kocw that his big companion in c1ime would get the most of the oats if he lost uy time, Bykylon put away al-

mos i. lf the cats at the first jump out

*f th. box, and poor little Pete, with

E his mouth full, looked at her with his watery little eyes, as much as to say,

> ‘Ob, \. bat a hog!’ and gulped the oats

i 4 dow: bis litt'’s throat at the risk of

2 chok* sto death.

af **f thought it was about time to make anc: just to discencert them. I had

seen ¢iough to asstre me that a hostler

i who i:.d been discharged hadn’t been

; Instrc:uental in the disappeurance of id civez: end sundry bags of oats, and, as Twalted around toward the other end

of tle clephant house, I wondered what

at 2 shc- i do to purish tke thieves, The

“& big < had hed a puinful operation

aa i perf: ied a few months bef cre, al nd 1 Fe thoc: .t that ax ¥ sight of the insire- tet men‘: that had been used at that time if would give her a good fright. When I ark had rc ched my own sleeping room, I mf purpescly made a noise aud heard the fj ehutil:ug sounds of sly little Pete as he ai? sham icd back tu his place. He picked res his ¢* ‘:e up, put it down in the ground, PTS) and v culd have put it through the ring clas in the chain if he had had time. When f Icarm:. along, he was leaning against AS the will asleep. I gave him a gentie a prod, and he awakened suddenly, with that sicepy stare that a person has when awakened from slumber. Bat he soon

knew that I was cn to him, o r, when [

ordered him to cpen his motrth, he

didn’t want to do it. He finally obey yed,

and there were the oats. His mouth was jummed full of them. I didn’t do

anything to him, but walked over to

big Ezbylon. She was his partner iz

eri ue. but she was playing possum too.

oT had a good deal of trouble to wake her up and more to make her open her

mouth. Much toherchagrin, Iimagine,

it was full of oats, and she had the

empty sack closely rolled up and packed

in with them. She was sheepish and

ashamed, I assure you, if ever an ele-

: phant put on that expression. To pun- q ish her I ordered her to sit down and open her mouth and made a motion as

bs if to pass a great pair of forceps into it,

which had been used during the opera- tion I referred to. She shut her mouth and cried like a baby, and was so thor- oughly frightened that she never tres- passed again. But that sly little Pete— why, he is more trouble than the entire herd, and he just gets loose whenever he wants to.’’—St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat.

Women as Soldiers.

“T do zot see,’’ said a clever woman, “why the newspapers should feel called upon to poke fun at the new law in Col- orado which permits women to serve in

the state militia. In time of battle ; woman is just as necessary aS man. i Just wearing a uniform and shooting a

eun are not all that constitute a soldier. What about woman’s place in the bos- pitals during time of _— Joes it not require a brave heart and ¢

to walt on the wounded or not a woman a scldier who the surgeon as he amputates binds a fractured bene? Are not the Red Cross nurses soldiers? It seems to me that a woman will make att as good @ soldier as a mim aud always find he place in time of war.”’

strong nerve dying? Is can assist a limb or

HE COMMITTED THE THEFTS FOR WHICH A MAN WAS DISCHARGED. _ A Midnight Adventure In the Winter i Quarters of an Elephant Herd — How A: Siy Pete Got Away From His Stake and .S Stole a Bag of Oats. a : I is the baby elephant of one of $5 the ; circus herds. During his con - fin uf in winter quarters he played a } tric, on his keeper, which the wan re i lates as follows: : . is a tiny little fellow and dees = | bot weigh more than 600 or 800 pounds, if but I actually believe he would eat as ! +] ci: ounds of oats if he had acces \ to i The elephant house was dark T: on cht, and I sup; every one of P , t! mals was sound asleep, when my \ attention was attracted by a subdued Bie: Yr: @ noise, apparently caming fron re th ther end of t ry herd. Inst , i if ing down in fr of them all i a iround and came ia at the othe rte e! I ing behin ad some bales of TG st d« ously ove ywhere | ie t! i was chained, an aa e i hi _careta y lifting his sta ut | ie ( ound. I saw in an instant that 2 te he han the stake out before that { i tims, for all he had to do was to lift it : cia’ Ul i it came out. He slipped his foot | | ih ci wh over the tapering end of t i : ' t l was fre wis oss the room, distant perhaps 20 Big fi re from his place, were piled a s ks of grain, containing about : 1 unds each. Picking up the f ¢} ery carefully with } trunk, th: would m attle or jangle upe th he | 1 the Geiicate, | Slit motion ss the sj } tha arated him fy the grain I ey rw, and I never imagined an ele- | Hi ould go q Uy I crou bel he bales of straw, afraid to move for he would hear 1 UL tcp ] ’ 1) he went, cautiously, slowly, but | ste: ¥, until he was within reachine t | distui.ce of the sacked grain. Then he laid chain down and picked up a ba; oats with his trunk. His journey ba: ) the herd, 20 feet away, was pericrmned even more canBounly than FA. had un his advance, for he had to thor dr:s chain without making a neise. baie All the time he beld the sack of grain gis tight!y in his trank, and his mouth nis must have watcred when he thought of ETS the fcust he was going to have. He TH reachc*! the herd at last and went up to ete great big Babylon, as stced like a 5g brouz: statue, her massive sides loom- i? ing «=p like the sides of « house in the gloo: Fete stopp d, aud Babylon, wher. I hed imagined fast asleep, took the c.is. They got into the bag in a jiffy -ud then began a feast. Pete filled

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HORSE TALK. Frank Agan’s by A. H. Moore.

The Robert McGregor horse Secaza still winning in Fra

yearling sister is owned

is nce.

ae Railey has charge of Railey Bros.’ stable of trotters at the Lexington (Ky.) track.

San Telmo is the name of the brown yearling colt by Arion (2:07 34 )—Houri (2:17), by Onward.

Sclavonic, 2:1544, by King Wilkcs, is in the stable of the New England

trainer Bard Palmer.

Cloud Pointer, the full brother ta Star Pointer, has been returned to his home at Chicora, Pa.

Trainer Fred McKee has moved his stable of tretters from Versailles to the Lexington (Ky.) track.

The 82 head of trotters seld at public — at Palo Alto April 20 brought $5,405, an average of $106.

Volney French of Geneva, O., will take his stable of horses to the Glen- ville (O.) track for final preparation.

Famous old Trinket, 2 714, went un- der the aucticneer’s hammer at Boston

and brought the magnificent sum of $110.

The five pacers with records to be campaigned by Village farm this year have average records a trifle below 2:0914,

Mr. William Davis of West Elkton, near Gratis, O,, has a youngster by Island Wilkes, and it is reported that he can step a 2:20 gait.

Robert 7. Knéebs, having concluded his term in the Berlin prison, has shaken the dust of the inhospitable fatherland from his feet.

Albina de Mer, the Stamboul mare that produced the redoubtable Wiggins and Mabel Money Penny, is represented in the Kentucky Futurity of 1897.

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_ PITH AND POINT.

It t an awfully smart man who knows enough to know when he is being laughed at.

We have never heard 4 man referred to as one of nature's uoblemen until after his death.

In breaking himself of a bad habit a man usually accumulates the bad habit of boasting about it.

People are like silver plated knives and forks—good care makes a big dif- ference in their looks.

There are very few people in the world who admit their faults to those whom they have married.

It is a rare husband and wife who ca look at each other without feeling ashamed about something.

We have noticed that a lenpecked husband is s¢dom a smart Aleck and neatly always a good citizen.

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GRANT AS A WRITER.

T@s Style Was Vigorous and Terse, With Little Ornament,

General Horace Porter in “Campaicn, ing With Grant’? in The Century ex- presses the following opinion of Grant as a writer: His powers of concentra-

tion of thought were often shown by the circumstances under which he wrote. Nothing that went on around

him, upon the field or in his quarters, could distract his attention or interrupt him. Sometimes, when his tent was filled with officers talking and laughing

at the top af their voices, he would turn to his table and write the most a&mportant communications. There would then be an immediate **Hush!’’ and abundant excuses offered by the ener but he always insisted upon the conversation going on, and after wach his ofticers came to understand his wishes in this respect, to learn that

cise was apparently a stimulus rather than a check to his flow of ideas, and to realize that nothing short of a gen- eral attack along the whole line could

divert his thoughts from the subject upon which his mind was concentrated. Iu writing his style was vigorous and

terse, with CONSspicnor

little of ornament. Its most is Ccharactcristic was perspi-

cuity. General Meade’s chief of staff once said, ‘“There is one striking feature about Grant’s orders—no matter how

hurriedly he may write them on the

field, no one ever has the slightest dou bt as to their meaning or ever has cad them over a cecond time to un-

ce rstand them.’’ The generai used An- glo-Saxcaa words much more frequently than those derived from the Greek and Latin tongues. He had studied French at West Point and picked up some knowledge of Spanish during the Mexi- can war, but he could not hold a con- versation in either language, and rarely employed a foreign word in any Writings. His adjectives were few and well chosen. No document which ever came froma his hands was in the least ‘tentious. He never laid claim to any knowledge he did not possess and seemed to feel, with Addison, that ‘‘ped- antry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion-——a form of knowle dge without the power of it.’’

Re rarely indulged in metaphor, but when he did employ a figure of speech it was always expressive and graphic, as when he spoke of the commander at Bermuda Hundred being ‘‘in a bottle strongly corked’’ or referred to our ar- mies at one time as moving ‘‘like horses in a balky team, no two ever pulling together.’’ His style inclined to the epi- erate without his being aware of

here Was scarcely a document writ- 0 by him from which brief seutences could not be selected fit to be set in mottos or placed upon transparencies. AS examples may be mentioned: ‘‘I propose to move immediately upon your works,’’ ‘‘IT shall take no backward steps,’’ the famous ‘‘I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all sum- mer,’’ and, later in his career, ‘‘Let us have peace,’’ ‘‘The best means of secur- ing the repeal of an obnoxious law is its vigorous enforcement,’’ “I shall bave no policy to enforce against the will of the people’’ and ‘‘Let no guilty man escape. ’’

FIRST WHITE HOUSE BATH.

Ven Buren Was Criticised For Introduce: ing the Tub Into the Mansion,

In an article on ‘‘The Domestic Side of the White House,’’ in The Ladies’ Home Journal, ex-President Harrison gives this interesting view of the home portion of the executive mansion: “ Prop. erly spenking,’’ he says, ‘‘there are five be@recais in the executive mansion, though by the use of twodressing roonis and of the end of a short hall that for- merly opened to a large north window, but has now been closed up to make a small bedroom, the number may be in- creased to eight. There are no suitable servants’ quarters. Those provided are in the basement, and only these open- ing to the south are habitable. The north rooms cpen upon a damp brick arena and are unhealthy. One of the basement rooms, having a southern ex- posure, is fitted up as a billiard room, but very plainly.

**It is said that provision for a library fcr the White House was first meade dur- ing Mr. Fillmore’s term. Neat cases are arranged about the room, and most of them are filled with books—old editions of historical and classical works. There is no catalogue, aud the library has not been kepé up.

“*Presiaent Adams introduced _ bill- iards into the White House, purchasing the first table, balls and cues at a cost of €61, paying for them out of his own pocket. President Van Buren was charged by a political adversary and scathing critic as being the first of our presidents to discover that the pleasures of the warm or tepid bath are the proper accompaniments of a palace life. For it appears that our former presidents were content with the application, when nec- essary, of the simple shower bath. Mr. Van Buren’s critic then refers with high approval to the salutary side of Myr. Adanis’ hercic habit of bathing in the Potomac ‘between daybreak and sun-

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Color Run Mad. Are we not losing any innate percep- tion of grace of line and harmony of

coloring that we may once have pcs sessed threugh our weak minded sub-

mission to chameleon coated Dame Fash-

ion, who plays pranks that at times are positively sardonic? I saw a woman the

other day in « bonnet that boasted three shades of pink, two of magenta, four of green, three of yellow and a fine blob of scarlet like a ‘‘little round button at

top.’’ And at first I thought she looked nice! It tock time to realize that each tint clashed with the other tint. so de-

cadent had hecome in piilii-

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my taste nery

Necessarily So. Mand—Is iife worth the living? Ah, that is a great conundrum! Cynicas—-Yes. We ail have to give it up.--Drcoklyn Life.

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EDMUND. KEAN.

To See Him Act Was Like Reading Shakes- peare by Lightning.

Before the third century after the birth of Shakespeare had reached its first quarter there was born in England to a stage carpenter and a strolling actress a child destined to grapple with the poet’s highest thought and interpret it with a vividness that to this day stands unrivaled. Coleridge’s terse com- ment, that tosee him act was reading Shakespeare by lightning, reveals him with the fullness of ayolume. Edmund Kean, along with most people early trained to an art, had little, if any, ed- ucation of the schools. He was when a boy provided with instruction by some benevolent people whom his smartness aud beauty attracted, but he rebelled aguinst the tasks of study and went to sea. But life there was too rough for his fine nature. He returned to England, and at the age of 7 began the study of Shakespeare’s characters with his un- vie I This he continued with an actress named Tidswell, who taught him besides, as well as she knew, the principles of her art.

At that early age he had the credit of originality so surprising as even then to challenge the supremacy of Philip Kemble. At 14 he played Hamlet. King George had him recite at Windsor eastle, and it is said this incident led some gentlemen to send him to Eton, but there is no record of it. At 20 he wus in a provincial troop, a member of which he married, and for six years thereafter, until his glorious night at Drury Lane, his life was one of hard- ship, struggle, obscurity, but, thanks to the faith in himself, not hopeless. His Louden debut was made at 28. He had fought for it hard and long and would then have missed it but for the falling reputation of the theater. London de- buis in first roles are not easy for pro- vincial actors, and none knows better how hard they are to get than Henry Irving. Kean seems to have been at his full splendor, and made a hit. After that his habits were altogether prejudicial to the refinement of taste or the acqui- sition of knowledge. —St. Louis Glebe- Democrat.

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