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. ?w2UB3l' *"'* ** ? Hoft kalotf torr lte? la place of Um awki Mi Aid daaolag. tttl ww ? Imral Aft the tab Or AMI tMMW lfe? waaMMd oaplda Ttatharlmi'i will a lite wtre to Maplds KSSs&s.,c&^ Whea tlM ml (nw man A lull toIoh, that |wr romance had Whispered down to her heart, and, oon unttd, She gore op herself to hie lot. \W J A, |? , *. For. dream ae wo mar, the condition* Per which we have languidly yearned Ace eooo lost In the solid fruitions Which faith and strong purpoee hare , earned. Left makes Me own world for the hum* We, Which may well beahearen on earth. In whoee beam* all our fantaslee crum ble ' When a wife's palace-hall Is the . hearth. Now and then a regret for old fancies May eause a shy tear-drop to swell. Make her sing about helmets and laqoes. Or pound thf piano a spell; But a kiss from the good man, or, may be, ? K light, eager step at the door. Or a full-throated summons from baby Will content with the real restore. ?New York Weekly. A GLEVEB GAFTDBK By "THE CAPTAIN." "Take care of it. Hush." "All right, sir. Good morning." Randall put on his bat. and passing through the bank, took his way into the town with ?11,000 under his charge. He waa frequently employed in the execution of such tranaactiona as the preaent between his uncle's bank and the other banks. On reaching hia des tination he marched up to that portion of the bank oounter which waa appro priated to such business transactions. The elderly and precise clerk who oc cupied the high stool on the opposite site of the counter waa almost ahaken out of hia propriety by Hugh's start and confused exclamation, aa. after searching valnjy in the depth of his pockets for the precious notes, the fact dawned upon him that they were gone, unmistakably gone. "What's the matter, Mr. Hugh? What la it?" was repeated more than once be fore bis scattered senses were recall ed and then the query was only met by another, and one which, alas! was not to be so easily answered. "What am I to do?" were the words which he at last stammered out. He returned in a most crestfallen condition, as fast ?? a hansom cab could carry him. to the room which he hod left so complacently less than an hour before. Once in possession of the facts of the loss. Mr. Randall's views instantly ahaped themselves 4nto the definite form of "the police station." He and his uncle were ushered Into the inspector's presence. The examin ation?which. Indeed, elicited little else?being ended, an ominous silence ensued, broken after a few minutes by the Inspector, who ejaculated. "I have your man!" Further explanation put them In pos aeaalon of the fact that a celebrated de tective was at the moment in the po lice station itself, having come down from London In the course of an inves tigation In which he was engaged. Mr. Taplln soon added his presence to the council of war, and the story of the loss was gone over with him. The detective was not one of the people who carry on all their mental processes outside their heads, and a si lence fell on the whole party for sev eral minutes, during which, with amaz ing rapidity of thought, he laid his schemes, the first step in which was to visit the poet office Just before the bags were mads up. In accordance with the detective's directions, the registered letters were spread out before them. As he bent over the letters. Hugh saw a flush of pleasure In the grey eye as It rested on an envelope addressed, in a scrawling hand, to MRS. O. HOPKINS. . 19 P street, ? ' Harwich. * The detective Juat laid one finger on ft, turned to Hugh, and said, with an emphasis which carried weight with It: ' ' "Your money Is In that lettor. or It's gone lteyoad our reach. You must como to Harwich with me tonight." A few hours later the two were shooting along the line on their way to Harwich. The curtain next rises upon a trio passing along the streets of Harwich. This trio consisted of our two friends and the postman in whose beat P atreet was posted. All hope of seeing the money had faded from Hugh's mind ngaln and again; but his heart baat faster than usual as they turned Into the dingy looking street, and by the time they reached the door of No. 19 It was beating like a sledgehammer. The double knock was quickly an swered an^ when the door opened It diacloaed a rather showy looking wo man. Mr. Taplln stood back, Just hidden from her alght, but in the quiet of the dull street every word came dis tinctly through the frosty morning sir, "Registered letter. 'Mrs, O. Hop kins.' Can she sign the paper?" Then the anawer: I "I am Mrs. Hopkins. Give it here." ? In accordance with his ordsrs, the tatoa place, oOrttt't Mat cry o( "Ifa an ? with ?)" ttonU. Tto let? tto _ "a mutered. "Am ttan m sHwaahlBi la tto tower fee left Ike Hugh hear* the Arm eta ?dee oalllag sTSSlW of tto ? slatternly naald-orall-work aa la aa eMail it at the sight of two straage aad to tor charge Mr. Tap* 11a Mt tor mlelieea while to ea? Hack aaearad tt?aelfM of the Mea* tltjr aa4 uoapUaaiw of the aotee. Mrs. Hopklde coca mepTeqd- wtf fldeatly to poar oat a flood of tears aad bewildered lamentations, bat with calm patience tto detective at length drew from her'the facte which he need ed. "Ah!" eh cried, bitterly, "to told ae to would make oar fortune this time, and I should have plenty tha*. He dreak everything he made before, the wretch, and left aw tore In this miser able hole. But I'll be revenged on him yet!" As they left tto room, when Ifr. Tap had made each arrangements as suited bis good will and pleasure, he desired Hugh to look at a photograph hanging In a frame over the chimney piece, and no eooner were they in the street than Hugh beheld lmulng from Mr. Taplln*s pocket book the duplicate of the carte. "That's the man," observed Mr. Tap lin at last, with a ring of triumph even In his calm voice, "after whom I came down to your parts. Strange, now. Isn't It? That was a little matter which took place weeks ago, and we were altogether off the scent. Well, we get a new track early this week, and I went down believing. If I caught my bird anywhere, it would be there. Then your business turned up, snd, like a flash, it crossed my mind that In find ing out the one I should be carrying on the work 1 came after. 1 knew enough of the fellow I was after to be pretty sure that if your notes were in his hands, they would either come here on their way to the Continent or go direct to America. When 1 saw 'Mrs. Hopkins' I was as sure as thst 1 was a living man that the money was there, for I knew 'Hopkins' was one of my man's aliases." And so Hugh Randall went homo again, not grudging his hundred mile Journey, inasmuch asv he csrried with him ?11.000?but not In his coat pocket.?New York News. The "Msde-Up" Woman. A very pretty subject for discussion has been opened up by the assertion of a lady novelist that the made-up woman invariably reigns supreme despite the rulings of moralists and the prevalent superstition that the; sweet, gentle woman who is neat in her dress and nothing more is really man's ideal. That virtue is literally its own reward in such cases is the substance of the lady novelist's at tack. Certainly clothes alone will not give a plain or an unpleasant woman the advantage over one whose wardrobe is demode, if the latter have beauty and grace, for it is possible to recall many instances where the family gov erness or the vicar's daughter has scored over a veritable bevy of fault lessly dressed women. Still, on the whole, perhaps, it is safer for every woman to make the best effort she can to enhance such charms as she may possess and to simulate them as artistically* as she can when nature has not been liberal. Beauty unadorned may and often does have a very good chance, but when by no manner of means can beauty be claimed, even in unadorned fashion, then assuredly it is decidedly risky, and ono might almost say un dutiful to one's neighbor, not to seek artificiality's artful aid. No woman with the slightest self-respect would go about toothless or bald; she would assuredly expect if she did that the "faked woman" would triumph over her. And if she is Justified and in deed compelled by the laws of de cency to supply dental and hirsute de ficiencies, why should not a woman who is pallid, Inclined to wrinkles, small eyed or of Indifferent figure sim ilarly Improve herself? The Experiment Failed. Mr. Appleby had read somewhere that a judicious planting of old files In the exposed parts of one's garden would protest It from the depreda tions of chickens. He decided to give the plan a trial. By visits to all the carpenter and blacksmith shops he succeeded in get ting a larre collection of old flies. These he placed Just below the sur face of the ground in his garden, with special reference to the snots where an old hen and chickens belonging to his next-door neighbor had been doing the most damage. A few days later one of hlR friends who know of his plan, met him. ano asked him how It had succeeded. "For several days 1 was a good deal encouraged," said Mr. Appleby. "They didn't seem to know what was the matter with the garden. Then all at once they began to do more mis chief with the growing plants than over before. I watched that old hen, and after a day or two I caught her. She was sharpening her bill on the files!"?Youth's Companion. A Love Letter 3500 Years Old. In the British Museum Is a love let/ ter to an Egyptian princess 3500 year* old and Inscribed on a brick. What must the court have looked like dur Ing a breach of promise case In those days? * rated upon. With all that laa Tlttt CM MS pniwry of lltflfMt writ worth dour fctHpltoi The bindery dlrWoa to so coaapfe trtol tbIm to tbo mechanic, the lowr of machinery and the trained eye of the artist that It to quite naturally one of the most *sought departments of the printing oAce work. # The work of the bindery to aspi rated Into departments also, and doubtless none to mors Interesting to tbo student of Industrial life than that done in the flnlihtu room It to cer tnlnly one of the busiest rooms In the big new building, and to the most up to-da^e and largest book tntollni room in the world. It 1s locatsd now on the fourth floor of the new building, and 1s not yet tally equipped to the extent of plans In contemplation. Finishing to really the most Import ant and artistic branch of the bind ery work. Here the finest kind of tooling and lettering nnd line work Is done by hand on Levnot, Morocco and Russia leathers, and also nil the blank books used In the governmentafoflloos throughout the country. Probably the largest portion of these blank book* go to the various branches of the treasury department, yet the extension of the tanctlons of Uncle Ssm's big government to the Islands of the Pa cific has largely Increased the demand for blank books to other departments besides the treasury. There are 60 men employed In the finishing depart ment and they belong to the most skilled and educated class qf artisans in the government service. Your Ubcle Samuel has secured his trained force of workingmen from the very best private workshcps of the country and Inquiry among them reveals that they hall from nearly every state In the Union. The work of the finishing depart ment is that which the name Implies. Here the line binding in leathers and best grades of cloth Is done and the books come in from the forwarding division, where they are prepared for the binder or finisher. One sees piled up many line volumes frcm the Con gressional library and departmental libraries under processes of binding. it is estimated that fully 7800 books of the very best dark gold leaf are used by the letterers in finishing dur ing a year. This is the real thing, too. A system of checking is used on material and tools employed. The workman receives so many bocks of gold leaf or so much leather, and it must be duly accounted for. When closing time arrives material and tools are put under lock and key. This is a procedure that is mutually agree able, because the workmen are par ticular people engaged in particular work .and they are only too glad to work for your Uncle Sam. who, bless your heart, is particularity itself. Now, if the visitor will watch the man who is using the gold leaf to do his lettering of the fine books, he will notice that he has a three-sided paste bcerd frame placed in front of him. which psrtly incloses the cloth pad upon which.he lays his gold leaf. The frame is to keep any draught of air from blowing away the leaf or disturb ing It. When the leaf or any portion of it is laid upon the book where the lettering Is to be made a piece of cot ton twine drawn tight across the face of the leaf makes a temporary line for a guide upon which the lettering is done. Brass type Is used, for the type must be heated before it can be used, and, as you will readily per ceive, If you have ever melted and molded old type into fish-line slugs or bullets when a boy. the ordinary metal would never stand the degree of heat necessary to make the lettering per fect. After the lettering or lining is done with the gold leaf you will notice that the workman picks up what looks like a small ball of putty. It is not the glazier's well known material but It is a ball of sort, crude rubber, whese adhesive qualities are best adapted to picking up and retain ing all the waste particles of gold. Dut soft: was the words waste used? It was a case of lapsus calami. There is no such word as "waste" in the use of gold-leaf in the bindery divi sion. Hero the rubbers are collected when they are well filled with gold waste and sent to the refineries, where It |s extracted and Uncle Sam given due credit. The government receives a considerable sum of mc-ney each year from this apparently inconsequent source. By way of parenthesis, It is stated that in another section of the bind ery division where the Job binding for the government is executed a gocd alzed force of young women is em ployed handling the gold leaf. Here arc machines and methods thafcfrill be made subjects for later refeflftce. The prlhtefy is certainly a palace of wonders! i One of tne main requisites for fin ishing and lettering books is good light. It is an*absolute necessity. The large new rcom of this department most admirably meets this require ment with 1? double rooms .affording ample northern and southern light. I?ng work tables occupy both sides of tho room near the windows, and there is, besides light, plenty of room to work and good air. A lavatory and closet at one end of the room would be a credit to any of the finest hostel rles of the city and is superior to many. It Is natural that there is an air of neatness and order about the room, because of the workmen are neat themselves. Here, tco, where one can see genius with tools and artistic Intelligence and taste to a marked degree, the time saving machine has entered and taken Its place alongside of brains and tfc> took. To* P?ttln? yon woald call eor _ fl( tho book, la aa boar or two tkaa a nu cm lo la a day. But tka ?oimiaa that will at tmet you tad bold yoor attention ? ' la tha eillag mcUmi la HO of tho atreot. It to a It to tl* cnaUoa of a aaa who sold fee coal* do It whaa every dyrto. of ^rdb^ard ttat tom'ito't^kZdZ tor the bock of tha book pta lato the , . .? ? "" ? ww? otwry body else who bad for yeon used prim itive methods said no. The two nto<?. machine. Tbo cloth, cat to oorroct measure for tbo book's back, goea lato tba machine at tbo aaaae time. It paaaea around a cylinder covered wttb ????? A mecbaalcal device equipped wltb tubes raloes the two ptoceo of cardboard by suction. They are lifted aad placed on the cloth, and. carried along to another human-like appliance which pmsson aad crimpe the corner* with a neat ness aad accuracy that doubly discount any band operator. Each machine re-, qnlrea two me noperators. and It will <)<> a day'a work not only equal to a half-dozen hand laborers, but of su perior workmanship. -. There are 26 cabinets filled with all ?tytoa of brass type, two workmen sharing a cabinet. * Slues are used for lettering the names of senators and rppresuntntlves on their books, and the work can be done very quickly. What Is a slug? Why, It Is a word or name made In one solid piece of metal. There Is another machine, operated by one man and occupying a small corner to Itself, which does its wcrk r.ulckly and cleaaly. It cuts the in side edge of the pages for the index letters. There are three of theae ma cnlnee, but two of these are usually sufficient to keep up with that kind of work.?Washington Star. EARLY DAY HUNT IN OHIO. In the "Bag" Were 17 Wolvea; 21 Bears, 300 beer and a Few Foxes and Raccoons. Doubtless the moot successful hunt ever conducted in Ohio took place on Dec. 24, 1818, in Medina county. It is known in the annals as the "Great Hinckley Hunt," and It was certainly great from any point of view. Hinck ley Is the northeast township of Me dina county, snd the centre of the township Is only about fifteen miles in the air line from Cleveland. In the time of the great hunt It was a heavily wooded district, and was es pecially well stocked with game. All of the settlers In and near the woods bad guns as effective as any of that day. Bears raided the pig pens at times, and wolves were a great obstacle to keeping sheep. Partly to stop these losses and fscilltate farming, and in part, no doubt, for love of sport, the most elaborate prepartions were made to clear the wild beasts out of the great forest In Hinckley township. Captains of companies were appointed by th.e committee In charge or chosen by common consent, and the coming of the hunt was well advertised for many miles around. Men and boys from Cleveland joined in the "beat." and more distant (owns were repre sented. After all the firearms with in reach had been put In more or less reliable hands, wessons were impro vised by mounting bayonets and butcher knives on poles snd using ax es and hatchets for work at close quarters. Many of the hunters reached the edge of the woods the night before the grand raid on the home of the wolves and bears, camping out for the night. At sunrise about 600 men and boys were ready for action, and the signal to start wss passed clear around the forest, some six miles square, in 40 seconds. The lines of advancing hunters, deployed like skirmishers In battle, made a great noise with horns, shells and voices, and they gradually penned the game In the woods closer and closer to the centre of the narrowing circle. The final slaughter at the centre of the forest was great. Most of the large animals surrounded were killed, and when the hunt ended, late In the' afternoon, the "bag" was no less than 17 wolves, 21 bears, 300 deer and a few foxes, raccoons and wild turkeys. Many of the hunters remained in the woods all night, camping by the scene of the flnsl round up, and the occasion was one of much festivity. Only one man wss hurt by glanclog buckshot, and he wss not much In jured.?Cleveland leader. Honest. This story,Is being told bv a well known man of affairs In Now York, one of whoie hobbles It Is to observe human nature In the street cars: He met recently in one of his trips about town an acquaintance who. like him self. chose to ride In public rather than private conveyances. "I was riding In the Flftynlnth street cross-town car day before yes terday," said the acquaintance, "and the conductor gave me by mistake a twenty-dollar gold niece instead of a nickel?my proper change." "Is that so!" exclaimed the other. "And did you return it to him?" The acquaintance hesitated. "Well ?to be honest." he said. "I didn't" Harper's Weekly. Grstituds. Mr. Sklnalong?t hope, dear, that you will be happy now that undo has left us a fortune. Mrs. Sklnalong?Yes. but don't you suppose we can break the will? He has left a thousand dollars to char. Ity??Detroit Free Press. The harbor of Valparaiso, the Im portant port of Chllo, Is only an open loadBtoad, In which 152 ships have been wrecked through storms causing them to drag their anchors. ?f WMkle A story vhkk OftL. to iMtoMMt of WUkto After $t una II ?t two to It to earsfnily OoL Jot secared ud tor a htif a ?fry ton retained tto ^ Indian I?I Seeoad. tkat Preaklia aoald hava stolm It, while under tto toft* of laudanum, and th? knvt re hls theft. a 7Mr later, while to the Km of soldier* of for stranger things have actually than the theft oT a great from tho hood of aa Idol. Now and actual occurrence coot to prove that tho laudaaum In eldest to trod need by Collins Into kk faaoua ?tonr wm not a wild flight of tho oov ollst's lmaglaatkm. Tho Oakland story la to tho effect that a painter fall from a scaffold and was aorloualy Injured. He was ptooed under an aneathetlc and oper ated upon. In hla unoonadouaneeo he babbled coot I no ally of a fortune of $108,000 which awaited him to Bng land. When the man regained con ackmaneaa and the surgeons joked him of the supposed wild dreams which the aneathetlc had caused.* the man'a brain completely cleared from the shadow which had Ions buns over It and he proved that the fortune did ac tually await him. {Subsequent devel opments ahow the man'a atory to be aubatantlally true. It wsa something like 32 years ago that WUkle Colllna used thla very Idea aa the chief mystery of hla fa moua atory. Readera of "The Moon atone" will recall that Collins. quotes scientific works In his novel to prove his theories. He tella of a London porter who was Intrusted with a valu able package to deliver, who became Intoxicated, and on sobering could not remember where bad left the package. The next time he was drunk, however, he remembered the entire affair and secured the package where he had left It. Collins then adapted this incident to his own needs. Franklin Blake, un used to laudanum, was given a heavy dose, and while under the intoxicat ing effects of the drug went to the room of Rachel Vandiver and stole the Moonstone. Next day, when the sedative effect8 of the drug had paased away. Blake had no knowl edge of hla night'a action. Collins keeps Blake in this ignorance for a year, and then gives him an Inkling of the truth. The experiment is tried of reproducing the surroundings as nearly aa poaaible as they had been when Moonstone disappeared, and un der the influence of another dose of laudanum Blake repeats his visit. The Oakland story differs in some particulars from the CoUins incident, but the dominating idea is the same. For almost two decades "The Moon stone" has been looked upon as one of the best examples of imaginative writing extant. But Collins is in a fair way to follow Jules Verne. Imaginary fiction has a peculiar hab it of becoming practical fact almost before the scoffing is over.?Des Moines Register. Retort That Cost a Lawyer $50. The appointment of Judge Stafford of Vermont to the district bench to succeed Judge Prltchard, who has been named aR circuit judge, calls forth this story from Representative Foster of that state: "When Chief Justice Chase, a man of great abilities and marked charac teristics, was presiding in one of the country courts of Vermont, an appeal case from a justice's court camo up before him so small and contemptible in its origin that he ordered it stricken from the docket. The case was where a turkey had trespassed upon the gar den of a neighbor and got shot for his depredations. The owner brought suit to recover damages, and, falling before the justice, had appealed the case. Judge Chase was angry, and when he ordered the case from the docket, said: " 'The lawyer who consented to ap peal this case ought to be thrown from the window of the court room. Why didn't he have the case referred to some of the honest neighbors for set tlement?' " 'Because, your honor/ retorted the attorney, getting hot under the collar. ?It was our intention not to let honest people have anything to do with It.' "True, this was a neat retort, but it cost the lawyer Just an even $60 for contempt of court."?Louisville Times. So-Callsd Prophecies. Any man of a lively fancy, who knows enough of human nature to realize its abiding needs, can enum erate future discoveries by the doz en with fair chance that perhaps one in a thousand may be realized within a century. To the same class belong the curious anticipations by native tribes, which generally take the form of news known, when by ?no conceiv able means could information have reached them by ordinary channels. The present writer believes that this phenomenon, which some have ex plained by telepathy, Is simply a form of anticipation. The native Is an In veterate guesser. and since his tongue never ceases and his Invention Is ac tive, he makes enough attempts to be fairly certain of stumbling now and then on the truth.?London Spectator. Roses Old at the World. Rose cultures beginning goo? back beyond records. The flower Is mentioned in the earliest Coptic man uscripts. India's traditions take the rose to tho times of the gods on earth. Egypt had roses, wild and tame, be fore the Roman occupation mado it, in a way, Rome's commercial roso garden; yet, cttrlmtsly enough, there is no reference to tho flowor In paint ing. sculpture or hieroglyphics. Jap an. In our time, parallels Egypt. Ros es flourish there, but do not serve as a motif for artists. There is this further likeness?neither Egypt, nor Japan has s rose song or a love song proper.?Chicago Journal. MAIIU Or THOOBMT. te M aoaahlp without nlW always Ujn the Mum ?b Wtk com oat M?1 Audit ?tw? Is mot always a foo4 When angels sine they do aot hav? to wait for cultivated Nothing la aon unpractical than the neglect of the spiritual. He cannot trust God tor his past who Is trembling as to his future. Many a courtship begun la Jest hss ended In a divorce la earnest. To torsive your enemy Is one thins; to lire him your keys Is another. JAPE LOVE THEIR BATHE. Everybody In the Land of the Chrys anthemum Likee to Bo Clean. Prom time Immemorial the bath tab has been nn honorable Institution In Japan. Instead of a cold dip In the nxfrnlng, the Jape take thler baths hot In the afternoon, at about I o'clock, and. beslanlns at 100 do frees, the tendency Is to rnlso the temperature as one becomes acclim ated, so to speak. One. traveler tells of the Kawarayn bathers, who stay In the tub several weeks at a time with stones in their laps to keep their bod ies from floating while they nre asleep. The ususl thins 1* to hnve the tub on the lnwn with a charcoal Are be neath It. so that one cen get Into the wnter at 80 desreea and alt in It until It reaches 100 desrees. At this point a "srtflln." which is to say a new chum, a sreenhorn or n tenderfoot, uaually has to sot out, for It becomes literally too hot for him. But, after a year or two of practice, ho can man ase 115 or 120 desrees. The Japs themselves can enjoy a bath even at 128 desrees. A traveler tells an amusing tale of how he visited a Japanese friend on at home day, and accepted the offer of a bath on the lawn. He sot in when the water was tepid and enjoyed'it Im mensely up to 90 something. Just as he was thinking of getting out, his friend's wife and daughter put in an appearance and began to wash rice at a well near by. Now the regula tion bathing dress of Japan is like a footless stocking without, a leg. or a bunghole with a barrel round It. and our traveler hadn't it with him at the time. He endured another Ave degrees and then, with death by boiling star ing him in the face, he was forced out with an involuntary yell that attract ed much attention. The fact Is that in Japan everybody bathes in purls naturallbus. It is their way. and It is not till a Euro pean has lived among them for years that he or she realized that after all there is nothing very terrible about it.?Modern Society. Marked Kansas-Nebraaka Boundary. An iron column marking the south eastern corner of Nebraska has been found after Its location and even its existence had been forgotten, by John Wright. The column was set by sur veyors about 1854, and Its site is now overgrown with briers and weeds and was only located after a diligent search. The position of the mono ment discloses that, the Missouri riv er has changed its course almost throe miles since the time the sur veyors did the work. Mr. Wright was sent out to locate It and by following the state line he Anally found It. It is set In a rock base, which, though badly weathered, is still above ground. In raised let ters on the south side of the column is the word Kansas, on the north side Nebraska, on the west. 1864. on the oast 48 degrees north latitude. While it was set about three miles from the river, It is now only about forty yards away. It is about eight miles south cast of Rulo. , The Aeld notes show that It weight Is 800 pounds, and that It was carried across the river In a skiff by an old Indian who ran a ferry at that early day."?Nebraska State Journal. Bovine Fire Alarm. Fire broke out In the rear of Tra chler's restaurant. Loss not over $200, mostly from water. One of our citizens who has liberally used his tongue and pen in denunciation of the old "fog horn" alarm, resulting In Its removal from the present electric alarms, knew nothing of the general alarm being rung in until Mrs. Cobb's calf, which had In some way become loose, running up and down the streets with a megaphone voice, gave one vocal blast with a B-r-r-r-r direct ly under Whit's window, which brought him out of bed to see the crowds rushing by. Following the pfocesslon he heard tho alarm ring ing and subsequently heard the calf at hlB heels, but he declares he never would have heard It had It not been for the quadruped, and at the next precinct meeting will have an article Inserted in warrant to abolish the electric system and employ the afore said vocalist.?Granite State Free Press. Japs Carry Tans in Battle. The cool and deliberate actions of the Japanese may In part be due to the fans they enrry, writes Corre spondent Palmer in Collier's Weekly. After descrlbng n fierce morning bat tle Mr. Palmer tells of their use of fans as follows: "Some Infantry re serves nearby were fannini; them selves. To a Russian wl.o had not fasted their flre these 'Makakl' might have seemed quite effeminate. "The 'ars which the little men use to cool themselves on the march are presents from the emperor. On them Is Inscribed In the handwriting of the commander-in-chief of the army, Mar quis Oyama, the words: 'Do your best for your country.' "On a hot day a fan may beat up a breeze in front a soldier's n<>B0 which will save him from succumbing." Oovornor-Oenoral Tsen of Canton Is aald to have urged the empress of China five times to declare war against Russia, and to have sent telegraphic messages to all the leading mandar ins In the empire to support him. \FARM TOPICS. BHUTTO. TBI BOO. The hag la vary Muitlw to cold and hoeld be wall iMMrei whan the ma mi be WW NTm. Ha frill try t? keep vara by bemwiag lato hla litter, and when boss are li brg> number* tbej will crowd together, or upon each other, for the mm pwpM. Thla la iajirtooa, as it to opposed to a tupply of per* sir. "*? ?'* TO PRBVBKT VRRMIN. S .. '? hurtful of sawdust sprinkled with carbolic add aad thrown ftn a neat bom will preteol Tennis. If Mwdnat. s? treated to acattered lu the atalla and ow the doors of atablee, lies and Insect* of all kind* will be lees trooMeaome. Grade petiolea? will be found excel lent aa a llntoaent for seres and will atao aselst h hwf*"! win awnjr. . TO EXTSRlflNATB PLEAS. *1 Tleaa become pest* on some Iocs ttans. An excellent mode of exter minating tbem Is to ose the weft known keroeene eMkhn, drat adding to every gallon of the emntolon a gill* of crude carbolic scld, and then ten gallons of water, applying with a sprayer. Add the add at the time of mixing the soap sml kerosene. It is I slso sn Excellent wssh for lice on cat tle. Apply the mixture on the build lugs and ground with a sprayer. THE HEAVIEST TAX. 4 The heaviest tsx s farmer pays fa tbe one be Inflicts upon himself by, economising in room In tbc stables. He keeps too many animals in propor tion to spsce, and tlicy do not thrive. In conncctlon with this Is the tsx palct in food by keeping stock in quarters tbat are not warm. Iu tbe -winter season the snimsl in warmed by the food, and the greater the exposure to cold tbe more food required. Warm shelter saves food and also prevents the chilling of young animals and the checking of their growth at an early age. TEACHING A COLT. Here is a good method to (each a wild colt, or any horse unaccustomed to being tied iu r. stall. Put a halter on the animal and fasten a rope some ten or twelve feet long to it. Wore a hole large enough for the rope to pass through in the side of the manger near est the horse, fasten a board on front of mangor about four feet from tlio floor, pass the rope through bole iu side of a manger and over the boards in front of manger. Tie a weight of about flfty-flve pounds on end of rope; now give the horse just so much rope that when it passes back farther than the distance you wish to let 1L have, it will be compelled to lift the weight. Animal will soon yield to this gentle mode and cannot break anything, as rope will let him hack as far as the stall permits. I.IGllT IN ST A III.MS. V? Sunshine is just as essential to horses and other farm animals as it is to human beings. l>o not lose sight of this fact when building stables and pens. This is too often done, antl stables for both horses and cattle are too dark. The eyes of horses are not infrequently injured by being kept In dark stables. Our houses, as a rule, are much better lighted than our sta ples, yet we all know how uncomforta ble it is to go out of a well lighted house into the glare ol* sunshine, espe pially if there Is now on the ground. The effect is even worse on horses and cows. Aside from any special effect on the eyes, light and sunshine in stables are of vast importance to the general health and thrift of farm stock, and they should always be con structed with a view of admitting as much as possible of both. lu old barns and stables where the. stock quarters are dark, and, as a necessary consequence, damp, it would be a good idea to put In some windows to admit light and sunshine into them. The present is a good time to attend to this, and the considerate person will do it.?Thomas W. l.Ioyd, iu the Trlb* une Farmer. ? WATER FOH SW1NK. One of the best preventives of hog cholera is a clean range and a clean pen. If the hogs or pigs on the range have made a hole in which to wallow, change the quarters flt once. Give them a place on a heavy sod under some trees if possible and see that they have plenty of fresh, clean water from the well daily, Do not permit them to drink front a stream, for they will be befoul every stream they can get to, and suffer tlio conse quences of their own tilth. If kept, so that they must be watered from a trough, have the trough arranged so that they cannot get their feet Into It, nml it should be built also so that the surplus water can be let out. through a hole lu the end. A stout plug will easily arrompiish this. A good plan In watering swine during the summer is to add a little charcoal to the water to remove any impurities there may be in it. We consider it practically impossible to have the water for swine too pure or too dean, and never offer them water which we f would not willingly drink. In reed ing vegetables and apples to swine we never give them more than they will eat tip clean, and in this way we not only keep them in ??hm1 condition but prevent any fouling of ihe pen or the range. A clean hog ts a healthy hog, and a healthy hog takes on weight rapidly, hence is the profitable hog.-* Indianapolis News. , I'ltcli-Blend*. Trsls have been made In Vienna with pitch-blende which was taken from the ground as long ago as 1807. ISM and 1M.YI, and the strength and quality of the radium in these samples has been found to be ideiitleal with that in a portion of pitch-blende only newly extruded?a fact which further proves that the powers of radium incur no diminution with time. The aliovo experiments were carried out in the m In era logical museum quite recently, -Fall Mall Gazette,