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The vote of Nevada fluctuates very little. In 1S92 It was 10.878; in 1894. 10.008; in 1896. 10.305; in 1898. 10,011. and in 1900. 10,196. No other state in the Union has such a record of an almost autionary vote. ——— The co-eds in the Wurzburg unlveralty, Germany, persisted in wearing their hats in the lecture rooms, and the Janitor was forced to post a notice In the entrance ball that unless they were voluntarily removed thereafter the offending women “must expect to < have their hats taltoAway-by force" After that the bats came off.

A league against dueling has Just been formed in France. Its organizers Intend to found local branches in all the departments, and their aim-is to bring about the settlement of all affairs by tribunals of honor. The absolute principle to be observed by all the tribunals Is that in no case can a cues lion be settled by the force of aims. The Frenchman’s weakness for government situations is shown by the fact that for JO vacant posts as offlee. | guardians, caretakers, porters, etc., at the prefecture de la Seine, there were so fewer than 70» applications and 35,800 applications were received for 320 vacancies among the office sweep ere. These candidates were recommended by municipal-councilors, depu ties, senators, and even ministers.

said I, one evening.

Ashing had been well done an: -re loafing blissfully on the shore, "that you had an adventure here.” "About 60 seconds long,” said he "Not long enough to turn a man's hair gray.” said I, with a laugh. I don’t know about that,” he responded. soberly. "I don't know about that. Seconds seem to be very long sometimes. A minute is not like a minute when death stares you in the

face.”

"But you escaped." said I. "That's the ridiculous part of it,” said Ellerton. "Well.” said 1, "you’ve time to tell le story before we take a swim.” •Swim!” said he. with a shudder. "I think I'll not go in tonight I’ve already recalled vividly enough the minute of horror 1 had off the point

there."

’’And that Is the story?” said I. "Yes,” said he. "you’re right It was my first summer on the Kamichou. when I was in happy Ignorance of how dens a real-Kamichou fog may I was here with Jack Black, of company, who had made this

The total output of the eight locomotive building yards in the United States for the year 1901 was 33*4. yhis is 231. or 7.3 percent more than in 1900, and is the largest output for any one year. It is especially interesting, because the two previous years were also record-breakers, and the new record was made with one works closed for six months. Of the 3384 loco motives built last year 337. or not £ulte 10 perecent were for export; 825 were compounds.

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In n .few brief lines from the rockbound Massachusetts coast is con : | densed a pitiful tragedy of the sea. A . distressed barge in the offing; a life boat with a crew of seven to the resale; a rush of angry waters engulfing the little vessel, and then swift jlcatb tor six hardy life savers. Not even on the high seas when hurricans rage is maritime adventure so dangerous ms ^ the oft-repeated experiences of the government life-saving crew. And these heroes, who value not their own lives, and take.mo heed of fame, are paid starvation wages by the government for 19 months in each year, and are laid otf without pay during the remaining rwo months! Unenlightened selfishness, indeed Idexclalms the Philadelphia Record. .

The neglect of Voads that ware r

a little e

cently good, and that with .a

pendlture of money, work and sense, J might be kept so forever, is, without L * doubt, a consequence of the disuse of the bicycle. Whatever may be said of that vehicle, remarks the Brooklyn

“it* value in extending well-

paved streets and well-laid roads is

wnquestioned. So long a* a million of plentiful. That man is after them,

wheels were in ose there was a etna- Neith«

# can dampen tha ardor with which he

mon demand for roads on which one could ride them. With pleasure riding came collateral advantages. The country inns, roadhouses and More* _ were better kept than ever before; work was found for mechanics at repair shops; the farmers had a more active demand for their products, in view of the increased business of provincial hotels and restaurants; real estate values. even, were favorably affected. But the riding of bicycles for pleasure has almost ceased. It is too bad.. Our well-made paths and wheel wags, which four or five years ago were gay with a whirling throng, which at night sparkled with moving lights, which were lined with inns whence canM cheerful sounds of music and merrymaking. are scenes of melancholy, the occasional and toqely rider emphasizing their deserted aspect. The-road-houses are closed and falling into de- - eay. weedc springing about their llt- - tie lawns and gardeni, or snow drifting over their once populous verandas.

} ASTRAY IN THE NIGHT. }

L

In order to i where Ellerton

she was empty, when we had

| her out. the day before. ‘If she were full of water now.’ 1 thought, ’she

would flutter from under our

third

country, and

Jolted over |00 i rickety road, y<

miles c

By NORMAN DUNCAN. J

In order to reach Lake Kamichou, "It was an inoffensive thing at first,

ind I saw no danger in it. It lay close o the water—a fleecy, white cloud, iweeping gracefully toward us. It was only when we were enveloped—when the shore line had become indistinct and. glowing dimmer yet, disappeared :hat 1 was startled by tho thought that there might be some difficulty in

making land.

’I say.’ I called to Jack. Im^ylarm. •you know your way about herepretty

well, don’t you?’

"Jack glanced up and a perplexed look overspread his face. He gazed about him in every direction for a iment. but he saw nothing save a cle of black water about the boat and a white wall roundabout and 'rhead. I wondered which way the camp lay—even, in fact, which way shallows lay. I was utterly confused. The breeze had failed, and there was no perceptible current. Nowhere was there visible any object by which our position might be fixed. " 'I think,' said I, ‘that the boat was

i have been more of that

are put off In a

wilderness of pine and tangled under-brush-in the dusk a forsaken, ghostplace—fearfully silent when the n has puffed out of hearing. Thence you go by canoe down a Horsy little stream—dodging boulders, picking the way through noisy rapids, paddling laboriously through long stretches of slow, back water—until you sweep out into the head waters of the Kamichou. In the twilight you make the lower end

i lake, i

and a clear space to pitch your camp. If you love this patcl

ted w ‘ ~

of the lake, where you find hard ground and a clear space to pit

p. If you love this patch oi ipolled wilderness as some men do. i look back over the quiet water.

and upon

to the sky, now all agl

rise

you know that you

a time

mped fo ve left ii

the wooded shores, which

;low, and r to have

e happy 1 om the 1

» day’s ind we

fishing ground for ye* guest, in fact, and there

I i

PPlD

loose brook, and down the lakt

e streams above

casting from the boat,

mile.

lolnt, and well out over deep water. Then we let the boat drift, and

both took to fishing.

’It had been lowering all day. Dull mds hung in the sky from the hills the hills, and turned the waters of the lake black. It was hot. gray, damp—oppressively ’muggy.’ indeed. Jack had said. It was not long lore a roll of thunder sounded from ■ northeast Then on the Instant a certain -nervous denression. which cvariably falls upon me with tha approach of a storm, strongly asserted Itself: and I looked about in some

self; and pprehenslot

‘Jack.’ said I. 'it's going to blow hard, probably: It’s going to rain hard, anyway. I think we’d better pun in.’ "•Oh, pshaw!’ said Jack!: ’Rain won't hurt fis.' £ “Black clouds were croyBlng up from the northeast I could -readily distinguish them from the unbroken *ray of the sky overhead, and it :med to me that a wind had torn their edges to tatters. The rain had hidden the hills, and I could see it sweeping over the lake toward us. "We caugbf only the edge of the storm, however. It was nothing more, after all. than a heavy summer shower. It cleared the sky tot a Qme and left the water unruffled. We were drenched, to be sure, and I had the boat to ball out, but we were well content; and so we fished on until the evening came down, and I caught

it of the first

better

sight of the first star.

" 'Now, jack,' said I, 'we had b

get in.'

"Jack is at this moment-somewhere is the interior of Newfoundland, where the mosquitoes are as big as horseflies. and gather, so the vis Hops say. clouds which darken the sun. The Imon are proportionately large and itlful. That man is after them.

ipen l the |

wonder, then.

rdor

fish. You will not rben 1 say that all the

n I could bring

CCl.

"Your wife will be growing anxsaid I. at 1 "'Oh, no.' sa onH expect me

no.' said he. placidly, ‘she rpect me foe an hour yet.'

"We were then half a mile ott —Just beyond the edge of the sandbars. The lower end of the lake, here, for something less than half a mile ft can the outlet, is not at any place, more than four feet deep, and In man] spots it is much less than that

though t . water is turbid, the depth might be unfathomable. Beyond, through the twelve miles of the lake, it is deep —even to within a few yards of . the shore. • • . "We were lying, as I say, Just beyond the sand-bars, thick, white mist begin to creep from ‘the shore out upon the water. Then -to gather In all directions out the heaviest cloud came an the marsh-lands Is the

ding due

shore, but I'm not certain. It was most certainly northerly, at any rate.’ " ’Why,' said Jack, confidently, ’I know this lake so well that I could sipell my way ashore, if there was no

other way.’

"We were In no danger whatever.

d, the discomfort on the water war

At most, it appeared, of spending a night on

How, in a twli i a safe place ii

ling, men pass from t

iclmlng itnatioi

by the very slightest miscalculate

"'Now 111 row

an overwhelming, deadly danger? And how the situation may be precipitated

ttion?

ow m row you as he put up his

turn

ack.

nd took the

“He t

began

pulled vigorous]

and backed water quit:

ly with his right. This he kept up

tinfe than I thou

the boat about on his left oar as energetlcal-

mch longer

sufficient to turn the boat's head

In ai

lought to the

south. 1 was not however, in any position to make suggestions. The power in Jack’s strokes gradually decreased, until he came to a full stop. He gazed intently this way and that Then, finding nothing to arrest his eye, he turned

suddenly to me.

' ‘Which way does she head now?’

he asked.

" ’I think you have turned too far.’ " 'I don’t think I have turned far enough.’ said he. “ 'If you were to row on a straight course as she beads now.’ I said, 'you -would land somewhere near the head waters of the lake.’ d doggedly on the course Ing for half an hour or more without developing anything to give us a clue to our whereabouts Night added to the obscurity. We might have been on a shoreless waste of water for all that we were able to The midst made the night impenetrable. I {puld but dimly distinguish Jack's form, although he sat not more than five feet from me; soon I could not see him at all. At last he lifted bis oars and. as I Inferred, looked over the bow. 'It's a wonder.’ he said, ’that they don't show a light at the camp.' still think your course is wrong.' said I. ‘At any rate, no torchlight at the camp could possibly penetrate this mist Had we not better decide to lie that.' Jack answered, with a kind of fierceness in his tone. 'My wife would be too anxious. We must make the camp-’ "I heard the oars rattle In the rowlocks and the splash of the bfeles in the water. The boat moved forward. Jack was rowing strongly—almost angrily. It was plain that he was losing his temper. It is hard enough for a to walk in a straight line with his eyes blindfolded; it is much harder to row a straight course over smooth water in the dark. Ntf inexperienced man realize that his right arm is much stronger than his left; even though he may do this, he cannot measure out equal strength to I was reasonably certain that Jack was rowing in a wide circle. When Ills breath came in gasps and his

‘ labored, *

‘Let me have a go at ft:, Jacl

' veil

have better luck than I.‘

my

chin!

strokes were slow and labored. I said:

'Let i

'All

haps

'Be careful.’ said L

I he, ‘well change.

Perbaj

'We’re over

deep water here.’

"He let the oars swing to the side, and I made ready to steady the boat I heard him rise. The boat rocked a little. He Is a h^avy man. and what unsteady on his feet It ^

dark that I could not see him then did' I know that he

waitli

man. and somewaa so

•ly

; onl]

I ting

stern myself,

ad van

i on his ! in the

for me.

and with the utmost cau-

tion advanced a step, stretchii

i advanced a step, stretching out my bands as I did sa I swayed to the left—fairly lurched. Have you never, in deep darkness, suddenly felt A loss of power to keep your equilibrium? You open your eyes to their widest Nothing Is to be seen. You have no longer, if I. may do phrase it a sense of perpendicularity. You sway this way and -that groping for something to keep you from falling. Thus I

felt.

" ‘Are you ready?' said Jack. " 'AH ready,' said L "I made a second step forward; again the boat rocked, againg the darkness confused me. and 1 had to regain ifiy halgnce. In that pause it struck me with unpleasant force that we were both poor ewimmers. weighted with

we had s

ht.

feet’

half-crawling advance brought !thin v roach of Jack. He caught my outstretched hands and drew me forward until we were very close. " ’Look out!' he cried. "I had crept too far to the right The boat teetered alarmingly. We caught each other about the middle and crouched down waiting, rigid, un-

keel.

til she had come to an " ’Now!’ said Jack.

a my A the

him.

The foothold Was uncertain; the darkness was Inconceivably confusing. I

moved to the side, but so great was agitation that I miscalculated, and

boat tipped suddenly under my weight The cold water syept over the gunwale. I should have fallen bodily from the boat bad it not been for Jack's strong dutch upon my arm. In the

ht we might have steadied oureelvee; the dark we could not. Jack drew i back—but too hurriedly, too

strongly, too far. The side of the boat over which I had almost fallen

high In the air and the opposite le was submerged. Jack released me, and I collapsed into a slttli Uon in the bottom. Instinct] the gunwales, and endeavored lly to right the boat. I felt the water slowly curling over. “ ‘She's sinking.’ said Jack, quleUy.

"'Yes!’ I gasped.

"The boat sank very slowly, gently swaying from side to side. I could nothing, and all I could hear was

1 hiSKil

aped hi mwale

grasped the gunwi frantically to rig

ing positively I

gurgle a curled o

owly. gently I could see

s the

aissing of the water

the gunwales and eddied

it the boat. I felt the water rise my legs—creep to my waist—rise ■y chest—and still ascend! I think through those seconds all my faculties re suspended, although one great problem was clear enough befbre me: If I could not row ashore, how cduld I swim ashore? Where was the land? A yard or a mile off? In which direction would it be best to strike out to make

most of the little Id Jack take care

not, how coaid I best help him? These [uestions were before me. but 1 was

if answering them. I had

icapable c

vering th i that I c

answer!] one clear

calk ! did ci move. I waited. The water rose to shoulders—to my neck—to my Then I felt a slight shock, and it rose no more. There was a moment of deep alienee. 'We have grounded.' said Jack, tremulously. Your course was right,’ said I. ’We have been over the sand-bars all

e night, to the waters off

it been rowing in a

lerton paused for a moment, looked over the Kamichou, now almost

covered by the i

the point.

'It was Just oi itinued. “We

circle over the shallows—probably very seldom in deep water. We sank in three feet and a half of water. It was not difficult to make the land. We lifted the boat and turned the water of her. Then we waded ashore, guided by the depth of the water, and dragged the boat after us. In half an hour we were at the camp. As I said in the beginning.” Elkrton concluded^ "the escape was the ridiculous part of the adventure. But sixty seconds sometimes make more than a minute.”— Youth's Companion. CUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The largest sum ever spent in improving one street was $14,300,000 on the Rue de Rlvoli, Paris. New Cannon street, Ixmdon, cost $2,950,000. The greatest bey in the world is that of Bengal. Measured in a straight line from two enclosing peninsulas Its extent is about 420,000 square miles. Farthing breakfasts, consisting of coffee, bread and butter and Jam, are now being provided by the Salvatlop army for poor children in Newcastle,

> Bakin estllng.

e a queer manner wrestlers sit down

arms. A wrestling match Is a test of strength to determine which can straighten out the other's arms.

moves it first on one side and then on the other, using his fins as balances to guide his motion. If the fish is moving fast and wants to stop, he straightens out his fins, Just as the rower of a boat doe* his oars. Carp are wild animals, according to a recent decision of a London police court. Seven hundred of the fishes had been exposed for sale In a small tank, where they naturally died, and It was held that the owner was guilty el a violation of the cruelty to wild ani-

Persian* still believe that human tears direa remedy for certain chronic disease*, reports a physician Just returned from Persia. At every funeral tho bottling of mourner’s tears is one of the chief features of the ceremonies. Each of the mourners is presented with a sponge with which to moy off his face and eyes, and after burial these sponger are presented to the priest, who squeezes the tears into bottles, which ho keeps. This custom is

one Of the oldest known in the east, and has probably been practiced by the Persians for thousands of yean.

She—Well. I think It’s unlucky to

lose a chance of I

f getting one.—Phils-

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