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"MY M?; SHE KNOWS;? -, My pa, he Bcolds me jes' becuz .' He Baya I'm gittin "tough ;" He says my face is never clean, My hands are always rough; Tm not behavin like I should. An goin wrong, I s'pose, But ma, shf>. takes an pats my hand An emitas, becaz she knows! tty ps hain't got no use for boya; " Ho wants 'ern always men. I wonder if he's clean forgot .The boy he must 'a' been ? ;Fer ma, she says they're all alike .'Bout fa?e an hands an clothes, ' .An says I'll learn to beta man; . An ma-I guess she knows! .My pa, he says I ain't no good At doin anything; Fd ruther fool away, the time An whistle, play an sing; But ma, she smiles an says I'm young, An;then she np an goes -An kisses me on shows me how, "For ma, you bet she.knows! JMy pa. he says I'll* never be , A business man like him, Beena I hain't1 got any "drive" An "get up," "pluck" an "vimi" But ma/sfce says, so solemnlike, > A man's a boy that ?rows, Ah boys must have their playin spell. An ma's a tromp an knows! t My pa, he shakes his head an sighs [ An says he doesn't see "Wher?? I get all the careless ways That seem jes' bonv in -me, An ma,' site laughs an laughsan laughs, Till pa'iv face crimson.grows, : An then she says, ** ^Tis-very .qneer,M~~ I But somehow ma, she knows I My mo, ste knows most-everything 'Boat boys an-What they like; She's never scoldin "bout the muss I make with. kites?an bike; She say 3 the wants me to be good An conquer all-my foes, ;; An yon jes' bet I'm goin to'be, i 'Cns my sweet ma, she knows! . ?-Biirch Arnold in Detroit Journal. I ll? DUI! BT EUD YAED KIPLING. They tell" the' tale even now among rfche sal groves of the Berbulda hill and ?orconjuration point to the roofless and windowless- mission house. The t<^great god Dongara, the god of things as ?they are,; most terrible, one eyed, bear ing the red elephant inst, did it all iand be who refuses to. believe in Dun ligara will assuredly be smitten by the madness of Yat-the madness that fell - xrjwn tWso:as and the daughters* of the "Buria Kol when they turned aside from Bungara and .put on. clothes. So says Athon Daze, who is high priest of the shrine and warden of the red elephant j rtusk. But If yon.ask the assistant col lector and agent in"1 charge of the Buri a Kol, he .will: l?ugh-not because he . [bears any malice against missions, but Jbecause he himself saw the vengeance '. ;of Dungara executed upon the spiritual .children; of lkhe Rev. Justes:Ilrenk, pas iLbtta, his virtuous wife. ; . Yet if ever a man merited good treat ment cf tho gods .it was the reverend /?Justas, ?n? time of Heidelberg, who, on Jthe faith of a call, went into the wii , fernes* and ' took the. .blond, blue eyed ?Lotta with, him. "We will; these hea then now by idolatrons practices so dark ened better make, " said Justus in the . "early days of ?is career. "Yes."headd j. -led, with conviction, "they-shall be good ^nd shall with their hands, to work learn. For all good Christians must ? -work. " An S upon ? stipend more mod : jest even .;'th'sn that of an English lay v reader;-Juaitaa-Krenk kept housCbeyond ' Kamala and the gorge of Malair. be jyond the Berbnlda river close to the fcoot 'cTthe blue hill of Panth on whose summit stands the temple of Dungara r-in-the heart of the country of the Buria Kol-the naked, good ; tempered. . , timide shameless, lazy Buria Kol. Do you know wh?t life at a mission qutpo??t means? Try to imagine a lone liness exceeding that of the smallest ?station to-which government has ever . (sent you-isolation that weighs upon jthe .waking eyelids and: drives you per jforce headlong into the ^labors of the Iday. ; There is no post, there is no one ?of your own color, to speak'to, there are rio roads. There is indeed food to keep ,you alive,, but it is not pleasant to eat, and whatever of good or beauty or in terest there is in your life must come from yourself and the grace that may , :be planted in you. j In the morning, with a patter of soft feet, the converts, the doubtful and the open scoffers troop up to the veranda. ?You must be infinitely kind and pa tient, and, above all, clear sighted, for jon deal with the simplicity of child 'hoodt the experience of man and thc subtlety of the savage. Your congrega tion has a hundred material wants to be considered, and it is for you, as you jjelieve in your personal responsibility to your Maker, to pick out of the clam oring crowd any grain of spirituality . that may lie therein. If to the cure of ^?"fioul?i you add that of bodies, your task will be all the more difficult, for the sick and the maimed will profess any and every creed for the sake of healing and will laugh at you because you are simple enough to .believe them, j """As the day wears and the impetus of ?the morning dies away there will come tap?n you an overwhelming sense of the .uselessness of your toiL This must be striven against, and the only spur in your side will be the belief that you are playing against the devil for the living souL It is a great and a joyous be lief, but he who can hold it unwavering for four and twenty consecutive hours must be blessed with- an abundantly strong physique and equable nerve. Ask the gray heads of the Bannock burn medical crusade what manner cf ?ife their preachers lead. Speak to the Hacine Gospel agency, those lean Amer icans whoso boast is that they go where aio Englishman dare follow. Get a pas tor of the Tubingen mission to talk of his experiences, if you can. You will be referred to the printed reports, but these contain no mention of the men who have lost youth and health, all that a man may lose except faith in the wilds, of English maidens who have gone forth and died in the fever strick en jungle of the Panth hills, knowing from the first that death was almost a certainty. Few pastors will tell you, of these things any more than they will speak of that young David of St. Bees, who, set apart for the Lord's work, "broke down in the utter desolation and returned half distraught to the head mission crying, "There is no God. but I have walked with the devil!" The reports are silent here, because .heroism, failure, doubt, despair and eelf abnegation on the part nf a mere cultured white man are things of no weight as compared to the saving of one half human soul from a fantastic faith in wood spirits, goblins of the " and'river fiends.. -. AD? Galilo, tne assistant coiieuiu the country side, "cared for none these things. " He had been long the district, and the Buria Kol lo him and brought him offerings epeared fish, orchids from the d moist heart of the forests and as m game as he could eat. In return he g them quinine, and with Athon Di 'the high priest, controlled 'their sin policies. "When you have been some yean the country, " said Gallio at the Krer table, "you grow, to find one creed good as another. I'll give you all assistance in my power, of coarse, 1 don't hurt my Buria Kol. They good people, and they trust me." "I will them the word of the L ! teach," said Justus, his mund f ! beaming with enthusiasm, "and I \ ? assuredly to their prejudices no wrc hastily without thinking make. B i ob, my friend, this in the mind imp tiality of creed judgment belooking very bad." * "Heigh-ho!" said Gallio, V"I hi their bodies and the district to see but you can try what you c*an do : their souls. Only don't behave as y predecessor did, or I'm afraid tha can't guarantee your lifo." "And that?" said Lotta, sturdr handing him a cup of tea. I /"He went up to the temple of Dr gara-to be sure he was new to t country - and began hammering c Dungara over the head with an ni brella; so the Buria Kol turned out a: hammered him rather savagely.- I w in the district, and he sent a runner me with a note saying: 'Persecuted f the Lord's sake. Send wing of reg ment' The nearest troops were 2 miles off, but I guessed what he h; been doing. I rode to Pan th and tal ed to old Athon Daze like & father, te ing him that a man of his wisdom oug to have known that the sahib had sn stroke and was mad. ' You never saw people more sorry in your life. Ath( Daze apologized, sent wood and mi and fowls and all sorts of things, -and gave 5 rupees to the shrine and to Macnamara that he had been injud cious. He said that I had bowed dov> in the house of Bimmon, but if he hs only just gone over the brow of the hi and insulted Palin .Deo, the idol of tl Suria Krol, he would have been impal( on a charred bamboo long before I cou! have done anything, and then I shoul have had to . have hanged some of tl poor brutes. Be gentle with them, pad -but I don't'think you'll do much." i ""Not I, " said justus, "but my Ma? ter. We wiH'with the little childre begin. Many of them will be sick-tht is so. After the children the mother! and then the men. But I would greatl that you were in internal sympathi( with ne prefer." Gallio departed to risk: his life i mending t?he rotten bamboo bridges c his people, in killing a too persister tiger here or there, in sleeping out i the reeking jungle or in tracking th Suria Kol raiders who had taken a ie'\ heads from their brethren of the Buri clan. Aknockkneed, shambling youn man was Gallio, naturally fovoid c creed or reverence, with a" longing fo absolute power which his undesirabl district gratified. "No one wants my post, " he used t say grimly, "and my collector onl; pokes his nose in when he's quite cer . tain that there is no fever. I'm monard of all I survey, and Athon Daze is rn; viceroy." i Because Gallio prided himself on hi .supreme disregard of human life though he never extended the theor* beyond his own-he naturally rode 41 miles to the mission with a tiny browi baby on his saddlebow. "Here is something for you, padri,' said he. "The Kols leave their surplut children to die. Don't see why the] shouldn't^ but you may rear this one I picked it up beyond the Berbuldi fork. I've a notion that the mother ha: been following me through', the wood: ever since. " "lt. is the first of the fold,'' saic Justus, and Lotta caught up the scream ing morsel to her bosom and hushed il craftily, while, as a wolf hangs in th? field; Ma tm, who had borne it and, ir accordance with the law o? her tribe, had exposed it to die, panted wearily and footsore " in the bamboo brake, watching the house with hungry moth er eyea "What would the omnipotent assistant collector do ? Would the little man in the black coat eat her daughter alive, as Athon Daze said was the cus tom of all men in black coats? > Matui waited among the bamboos through the long night, and in the morning there came forth a fair, white woman, the like of whom Matui had never seen, and in her arms was Matui's daughter, clad in spotless : raiment. Lotta knew little of the tongue of the Buria Kol, but when mother calls to "mother speech is easy to understand. By the hands stretched timidly to the hem of her gown, by the passionate gut turals and the longing eyeR, Lotta un derstood with whom she had to deaL So Matui took her child again-would be a servant, even a slave, to this won derful white woman, for her own tribe would recognize her no more. And Lotta wept with her exhaustively after the German fashion, which includes much blowing of the nose. "First the child, then the mother, and last the man, and to the glory of God all," said Justus the hopeful. And the man came, with a bow and arrows, very angry indeed, for there was no one to cook for him. But the tale of the mission is a long one, and I have no space to show how Justus, forgetful of his injudicious pred ecessor, grievously smote Moto, tho hus band of Matui, for his brutality; how Moto was starked, but, being released from the fear of instant death, took heart and became the faithful ally and first convert of Justus; how the little gathering gaew, to the huge disgust of Athon Daze; how the priest of the god of things as they are argued subtilely with the priest of the god of things as they should be and was worsted ; how the dues of the temple of Dungara fell away in fowls and fish and honeycomb; how Lotta lightened the curso of Eva among tho women and how Justus did his best to introduce the curse of Adam ; how the Buria Kol rebelled at this, say ing that their god was an idle god, and how Justus partially overcame their scruples against work and taught them that the black earth was rich in other produce than pignuts only. All these things-belong to tho history of many months, and throughout those months the white haired Athon Daze meditated revenge for the t ribal neglect of Dunerara. With savage, cunning he i:rieiiusniM iowa.ru di?suua, ev hinting r.t his own conversion, bnt the" {.ung: elation of Dungara he ss darkly : 4-They of the padri's flock ha pin t,n clothes and worship a busy gc Then:fore Dungara will afflict the gricvonsiy till they throw themseft hoaliu?; into the waters of the Berbi da." At night the red elephant tu boomed and groaned among the hil and the faithful waked and said: "T god of things as they are matures i venge against the backsliders. Be me ciful. Dungara. to us, thy children, ai give its all their crops!" Late in the cold weather the collect and his wife came into the Buria K country. "Go and look at Krenk's mi sion, " said Gallio. "He is doing got work in his own way, and I think he be pleased if you opened the bambi chapel that he has managed to run u At any rate, you'll see a civilized Bur Kol." Great was the stir in . the missio: "New he and the gracious lady wi that we have done good work with the own eyes see, and-yes-we will hi: our converts in all their new clothes t their own hands constructed exhibit. '. will a great day be-for the Lord a ways," said Justus, and Lotta sai "Amen." Justus had, in his quiet way, fe jealous of the Basel weaving missioi his own converts being unhandy, bi Athon Daze had latterly induced son: of them to hackle the glossy silky fibei of a plant that grew plenteously on ti Panth hill. It yielded a cloth white an i smooth almost as the tappa of the sont ! seas, and that day the converts were t I wear for the first time clothes mad therefrom. Justus was proud of hi work. "They shall in white clothes clothe I to meet the collector and his well bor lady come down singing 'Now than we ali our God.' Then he will th chapel open, and, yes, even Gallio- t believe will begin. Stand so, my chil dren, two by two, and-Lotta, whyd they thus themselves scratch? It is nc seemly to wriggle, Nala, my child. Th collector will be here and be pained." The collector, his wife. and Galli climbed the hill to the mission station The converts were drawn up in tw lines, a shining band' nearly 40 strong "Hah I" said the collector, whose ac quisitive bent of mind led him to be lieve that he had fostered the institu ti on from the first "Advancing, I see, by leaps ant bounds." ? Never was truer word spoken. Th mission was advancing exactly as h had said-at first by little hops ant shuffles of shamefaced uneasiness, bu soon by the leaps of fly stung horse and the bounds of maddened kangaroos From-the hill of Panth the red elephan tusk delivered a. dry and anguishec blare. The ranks of the converts wav ered, broke and scattered with y'el? anc shrieks of pain, while Justus and Lotti stood horror stricken. ' "It is the judgment of Dungara!' ?ihouted a voice. "I burn! I burn! Tc the river or we die!" The mob wheeled and headed for thi rocks that overhung the Berbulda, writhing, stamping, twisting and shed ding its garments as it ran, pursued bj the thunder of the trumpet of Dungara Justus and Lotta fled to the collectoi almost in tears. "I cannot understand! Yesterday,' panted Justus, "they had the Ten Com mandments- What is this ? Praise thi Lord, all good spirits by land or by sea. Nala! Oh, shame!" With a bound and a scream there 'alighted on the rocks above their heads Nala, once the pride of the mission, a maiden cf 14 summers, good, docile and virtuous-now naked as the- dawn and spitting like a wildcat. "Was it for this!" she raved, hurl ing her petticoat at Justus. "Was it for this I left my people and Dungara -for the fires of your bad place? Blind ape, little earthworm, dried fish that you are,, you said that I should never burn I Oh, Dungara, I burn now l I burn now I Have mercy, God of things as they arel" She turned and flung herself into the Berbulda, and the trumpet of Dungara bellowed jubilantly. The last of the converts of the Tubingen mission had put a quarter of a miie of rapid river between herself and her teachers. "Yesterday," gulped Justus, "she taught in the school A, B, C, D. Oh! It is the work of satan!" , But Gallio was curiously regarding the maiden's petticoat where it had fallen at his feet.. He felt its texture1, drew back his shirt sleeve beyond the deep tan of his hand and pressed a fold of the clot?x? against the flesh. A blotch of angry red rose on the white skin. "Ah!" said Gallio calmly. "I 'thought so. " y "What is it?" saidJustus. "I should call i tibe shirt of Nessus, but- Where did you get the fiber of this cloth from?" "Athon Daze," said Justus. "He showed tba boya how it should manu factured be." "The old fox! Do you know that he has given you the Nilgiri nettle-scor pion - Girardenia heterophylla - to work up. No wonder they squirmed! Why, it stings even when they make bridge ropes of it, unless it's soaked for six weeks. The cunning brute! It would take about half an hour to burn through their thick hides and then" Gallio burst into laughter, but Lotta was weeping in the arms of the collect or's wife, and Justus had covered his face with his hands. "Girardenia heterophylla!" repeated Gallio. "Krenk, why didn't you tell me? I could have saved you this. Woven fire! Anybody but a naked Kol would have known it, and, if I'm a judge of their ways, you'll never get them back. " He looked across the river to where the converts were still wallowing and wailing in tho shallows, and the laugh ter died out of his eyes, for he saw that tho Tubingen mission to the Buria Kol was dead. Never again, though they hung mournfully round the deserted school for three months, could Lotta or Justus j coax back even tho most promising of their flock. No; the end of conversion was tho fire of the bad place-fire that ran through the limbs and gnawed into I the bones. Who dare a second time I tempt the anger of Dungara '! Let the little man and his wife go elsewhere. Tho Buria Kol would have none of them. An unofficial message to Athon Daze that if a hair of their heads wero touched Athon Daze and tho priests of Dungara would be hanged by Gallio at the temple shrine protected Justus and uan? irom tne stumpy pois?ne? arrowa of tho Buria Kol, but neither fish nor fowl, honeycomb, salt nor young pig was brought to their doors any more. And, alas, man carnot, live hy grace alone if meat be wanting 1 "Let us go, mine wife," said Justus. "There ?3 no good here, and the Lord has willed that some other man shall the work take-in good time-in bis own good time. We will go away, and I will-yes-some botany bestudy." ii any one is anxious to convert the Euria Kol afresh, there lies at least the core of a mission house under the hill of Panth. But the chapel and school have long since fallen back into jangle. Tauprlit Him n Lcstion. In the life of Henry Bradley Plant is a story which shows that mercy may sometimes temper justice to good effect by awakening in an offender a loyalty which he has never before shown. Mr. Plant was one day traveling in a baggage war when he saw an express man, in handling a box marked "Glass," turn it wrong side up. "Here!" he called to the man. "That box is marked 'Glass' and should be kept glass side up, as indicated. " "Oh, I know it's marked 'Glass,' " said tho expressman, "but I never pay any attention to that." Mr. PJant said no more, but later, when the superintendent of the office was alone with the man, he asked him : "Do you know who that gentleman was who spoke to you about the box marked 'Glass?' " "No, sir." "Well, that was Mr. Plant." "Then that means my dismissal." "I think it does. I shall have to dis miss you." Later the superintendent i>aid to Mr. Plant, "I shall dismiss that man, of course?" "No," said the president, "don't dis cbarge him. Call him into your office and impress it upon him that that is noi the way the company does its busi ness. Be won't forget it." He did not forget it. No more loyal employee was to be found in the com pany. Expected Too Much. A well known man who gives much to charity was walking along Grant street when he was accosted by a "pro fessional macer," who said he needed "a dime to get abed." He was-given a quarter. After that the man who gave it was marked. A few days later the same "macer" met him. "Please, sir," he said, "will you give me a nickel to get a cup of coffee?" He was given a dime. The following week the man was stopped again. This time the beggar wanted a "dime to get eomethin to eat. " "See here, my man, " said the chari table one, "don't you think you are pushing this a little too far? It is not eo very long ago that I gave you a quarter and again a dime. Isn't it time to stop asking?" , "What do you expect of a man, any how?" indignantly asked the "macer.' "Do you think I can live on 35 cents for two weeks?"-Pittsburg News, So Eu?}' to Go Down HUI. A recent traveler, in giving a descrip tion of hip climbing Mount Popocate petl, in Mexico, and visiting its crater, s ay 3 that he was able to return from the top of the mountain to the snow line in 15 minutes, covering a distance which had required six hours to as cend. One sees things like that often in common*life. A man struggles for years to build up a good reputation for honesty and integrity among his fellow men, and then ?n an unguarded hour he takes a fatal toboggan slide that hurls him in a single act below where he be gan to climb 20 or 80 years ago. It is those who persevere unto the end who win the crown, and no one can afford to grow careless or to cease to be watchful against temptation.-Homiletic Re view. Rlff&t Mn? In. the rtierlit Place. Manufacturers' Agent-Is the head buyer up stairs ? Accommodating Employee-No; he's ont But the subsellex is down stairs. -Chipago Tribune. Too Democratic. "In the senate restaurant," says the Washington correspondent of the Chi cago Record, "pie costs 10 cents, and the waiters levy a tip tax equal to 50 per cent of the cost of the food con sumed. Cigars are sold two for a quar ter and upward, and it is regarded as an evidence of low breeding to accept change. "Into this aristocratic environment came one day Associate Justice John M. Harlan of the United States supreme court. With all the impressiveness of his G feet 5 inches and his two hundred and odd pounds weight, he walked up to the cigar counter and laid down a bright new dime. Then in that deep, full voice, which his son and namesake in Chicago has found such a valuable legacy he said. 'Give me a mild 5 cent cigar. ' "Whereupon a poor committee clerk, who had just exchanged his last quar ter for two cabbagios, went away to ponder on tho democracy of American institutions. Peculiar Toy?. Most mothers, if they wero asked, could tell of the love shown by their children for various articles tobe found about tho house and certainly never intended as toys for children. One child will take a violent love for her mother's curling irons; another will pin his affec tions to the metal pudding mold or the feather duster. As a rule, when the child is discovered with either of these possessions, it is promptly taken away from him, and then follows either keen disappointment or tears and howls, ac cording to the nature of the child. Now, why should not such an article te bought specially for him as a toy if tho possession would give so mach pleasure ? It would not cost more than an ordinary toy and in many cases would he more valued.-New York Telegram. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of - Tbs consciousness of duty per formed gives us music at midnight. TEACINCT CEIMINALS. THE HANDKERCHIEF AS A FACTOR IN THIS WORK. Some Prominen t Casca In Which the Little Sanare of Linen Was a Silent lmt Effective Accuser of the Sus pected Culprit. Among the varions exhibits in fa mous criminal cases 'that have held the civilized world spellbound with their frightful disclosures it is interesting to note how often &n accused criminal's life has hung, not by a thread, but by threads, by that little square of linen, of lawn, of silk-a handkerchief. "Apparel oft proclaims the man," and there are about a handkerchief cer tain indications that can trace, it to its owner, or, rather, vice versa, by the perfumery or sachet upon it in some instances, by its size whether it be a man's or a woman's, by initials in one corner, by its quality and by the laun dry marks upon it, as in the case of the notorious desperado and stage robber so well remembered by Californians "Black Bart." One of the cleverest pieces of detect ive work ever accomplished in this state was done in this case by J. B. Hume, special officer for Wells Fargo. When news reached his office on Nov. 3, 1883, that a stage had been held up and robbed near Tuttleville and that a handkerchief and some other articles had been found behind eome cliffs near the place of attack, Mr. Hume imnie diatly telegraphed to have the things sent down to him. He carefully inspected the handker chief, a plain hemstitched man's hand kerchief, and noticed a laundry mark in one corner, F x 0 7. Upon this evi dence, a handkerchief with that fatal laundry mark, was Black Bart arrested. Mr. Hume set " to work to find out where the handkerchief had been laun dered, and after several days of careful inquiry and diligent search it was traced to a laundry down on Bush street kept by a man named Ware. This laun dry office was also a sort of lounging. room, with a tobacco stand on one side, and here Black Bart, known there as Charlie Bolton, a mining man and cap italist, spent a great deal of his time. When the handkerchief was brought to Ware and he was asked to whom it belonged, he said: "Why, that is Char lie Bolton's handkerchief. He brought his laundry here just before he returned to the mines a short time ago." ? Detective Hume sent instructions for j the arrest cf Black Bart, Black Bart, after years of depredations, during which time he had rebbed 28 stages and had kept the stage drivers in con tinual fear of their lives, this clever felon, was at last trapped by a handker chief. The shrewd criminal, who had held the sheriff as well as the Wells Fargo detectives at bay fer so long, did not see that there was enough differ ence between one handkerchief and an other to disclose a man's identity and convict him of crime. Two handkerchiefs figured in the Durrant case. One, identified as belong ing to Minnie Williams, was found cov ered with blood behind the Emanuel church, where the murders were perpe trated. The Botkin poisoning case will go down as one of the strongest cases in the criminal records of California ol the conviction of a murderer based on circumstantial evidence. What the key stone is to the arch so is the 25 cent handkerchief sent in that fatal box ot poisoned candy to the chain of evidence in this famous case, a case where all the eloquence of California's most bril liant lawyers could not swing the jury to the side of acquittal. The important part a handkerchief played in this case was apparent when one saw how hard the attorneys for the defense worked for days on that one bit of evidence, trying in every way possi ble and impossible to break the testi mony of the woman who sold the hand kerchief to Mrs. Botkin. If that little cheap embroidered handkerchief had not been slipped into that box of choco lates Mrs. Botkin might be walking the streets of San Francisco today a free woman. A handkerchief convicted her-a lit tle white square of linen sent her to a cell with a blackened character, where she will exist sans friends, sans hope, sans name, sans everything! Mrs. Whitten, a famous woman crim inal in New York, was finally captured and imprisoned by the aid of a certain perfumed handkerchief. She resided in a large and fashionable boardinghouse, and at frequent intervals valuable pieces of jewelry had been stolen from the various guests. The woman, who was afterward convicted jf the crime, was never suspected, as she, too, claim ed to be having her valuables stolen from her room. Detectives were put to work on the case, and finally they traced the culprit by means of a handkerchief, dropped in a hasty retreat from one cf the rooms. The detective to whom the handkerchief was given noticed upon it a peculiar perfume, a subtle odor used at tliG boarding house only by Mrs. Whitten, and to her the handkerchief was traced and then thc- crime. Persons who havo committed suicide by jumping off ferryboats have, in many cases, destroyed every other moans of identification except theil1 handkerchiefs. These, thoughtless]}- rip fained and bearing certain initials o! marka, have led to the disclosure of tb< suicide's name.-San Francisco Call. A Fit Gunrnnteed. Customer (at shirt counter)-Here's a shirt I bought of you the other day. It's too small forme. I tore it trying to put it on. Salesman-That's too bad, but you've spoiled it, so wo can't take it back. I'll tell you what you can do, though. Go over to tho drug department, and you can get a small bottlo of antifat for 10 cents.-Chicago Tribune. - -- - The oldest university in the world is at Peking. It is called th ''School for the Sons of the Empire." Its an tiquity is very great, and a granite register, consisting of stone columns, 320 in number, contains the names of 00,OOO graduates. Happy is the man ur woman who can cat a good hearty meal without suii'ering afterwards. If you cannot do it, take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests what you eat, and cures all forms of Dyspepsia and Indigestion. Evans Pharmacy. SPLITT) N G BAN K N ?TES. Thc PrnccHB In Simple Enongh When You Know How. Some years ago the commercial world was taken aghast by the announcement that a certain scientific man could ac tually split a bank note so exactly into halves that it was impossible to distin guish the separate pieces of paper from genuine notes. The authorities of the Bank of Eng land took alarm, for it appeared that this invention would speedily open the way to a new kind of fraud. The imi tation of the engraved plate, however well performed, was always discover able by experienced eyes, and he must be a good forger indeed who could pre pare the paper on which the plate was printed so as to imitate the peculiar water, marks on the Banir of England notes with anything like success. But here was a discovery which set at naught the precautions of paper makers, engravers and printers. It was really a serious matter. A long correspondence ensued between the proprietor of the secret and the officials of the bank, the former asking a large sum of money for his knowledge and the latter requiring actual proof of his ability to perform the alleged feat Paragraphs began . to appear in the newspapers, and public attention was drawn to what seemed a very extraor dinary fact-that the thin tissue paper of which a bank note is composed could really be divided into two leaves. It be came necessary tn test the truth of this remarkable discovery, and so it was ar ranged that trial should be made with an actual note of tho Bank of England. Preliminaries were settled, and a note, properly marked, so that it might be afterward identified, was submitted to the inventor. In the course of two or three days back came the note to the owners actually split in two. It was eagerly examined, but in a little time the bank officials ceased to feel any alarm, and confidence in the commer cial world was quite restored. It was true the bank note was com pletely split, but it was also true that on only one half of it was the printed impression sufficiently plain to allow of its being circulated. Any attempt to pass the other or back half of the note would, it was declared, be immediately detected. Still, tho discovery was curious and might lead tb disagreeable consequences should any person attempt to increase his wealth by means of split bank notea Another k.^d of ink was therefore or dered for the future to be used in the printing of the bank securities, so that in case any one chose to try the experi ment the one half would be left blank. The secret, however, did not long re main hidden from the world. Indeed, its very simplicity seems to have pre vented its being discovered by the clever men who felt so much anxiety about it. The method of splitting paper is just this: Two pieces of calico are firmly glued to the sides of the paper, leaving the ends of the calico loose, and the whole is perfectly dried. By a gentle and equable pull on each side the paper is split completely in halves, one of which adheres to the calico on ene side and the other to the opposite. The fact that the adhesion between the paper and the cloth is greater than that between the surfaces of the paper to each other is the cause of this phe nomenon. Having now divided the paper, the two halves may be removed by damp ing and so loosening the glue between the calico and the paper. What was once a great and puzzling secret is no longer in the possession of one person. Those happy individuals with bank notes to spare may while away a win ter evening in trying this experiment -Chicago Chronicle. Loyal and Subtle. In its essence the following story, found in the Rev. Dr. Newman Hall's autobiography, recalls an instance of flattery in a maid of honor in France, who, being asked by the queen what o'clock it was, answered, "What your majesty pleases. " The royal librarian, Woodward, at Windsor castle was showing the prin cess royal the large collection of min iatures. As Crowmell turned up she cried out: "Oh, Mr. Woodward, you cannot like that mani" He replied, "Your royal highness? must know that my admiration andi loyalty to your royal highness' mother, are such that I cannot but reverence the' memory of the man to whose struggle, for liberty we owe the unspeakable blessedness of possessing such a monarch on a constitutional throne. ' A HUSBAND " Before wife began using Mother's Friend she could hardly get around. I do not think she could get along without it now. used it She has for two months and it is a great help to her. She does her housework without trouble. " Mother s Friend is an external liniment for expectant mothers to use. 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We will send Free, upon application, pamphlets that will interest every cotton planter in the South. GERriAN KALI WORKS, oa Nassau St.. New York* Making a Dictionary. Nearly every one has had the bright idea that it must be a tremendous amount of work to get up a dictionary, but few have any notion of the real size of the task. When Johnson got his famous dictionary started he cal culated that with six assistants he could complete the task in three years. It took him nine years instead. He received the small recompense of $7,500. and nad to pay his assistants out of that. Webster worked 24 years before his dictionary made its bow to the world. Webster was very punctilious in his definitions, and so painstaking that it was a wonder he completed the work when he did. The words which give the compiler of a dictionary the most trouble are the little one-syllable Saxon words. Their history extends back into the . Saxon period, and their meaning has become twisted in many directions. Words with pedigrees are the hardest to trace. When a new dictionary is projected one man is selected as editor-in-chief, and he appoints his sub-editors. Then appeals are sent out to literary people in general for voluntary contributions in the nature of rare and curious words. There are over 1,000 people who have offered their servioes in the case of a dictionary now making. They are to read standard works, ancient and modern, in the search for curious words, their origin and meaning. These words written on slips of paper, are filed in thousands of pigeonholes* Over six tons of slips have been put away. This means 6,000,000 words. But only 1,000,000 will be printed. The amount of work necessary to properly sort these is evident.-Chi cago Neves. NOTICE. NOW is the time to have your Buggy Revarnished, Repainted, and new Axle Points fitted on. We have the best Wagon Skeins on the market. All kinds of Filth Wheels and Dashes. Headquarters for Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Repairs. PAUL E. 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