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GROWING OLD. Some day, looting in my mirror, m discover, here and there. Slowly on my hoad intruding, Scattering threads of silver hair; Bat I do not think Til marmor, J Ind I do not think TU ?sold. Aid my heart will not.be saddened TVhea I soe Pm growing old. I n'ffl make no lamentation J aidno tear will dim my eye. ? . There will be so touch of sadness, Nor a vain, regretful sigh; Yo nth will be a mere remembrance, ' Just a story that ia told . But IH nos wish to recall it Whan I see rm growing old. I shall think that, of Life's battle. Of the hard, relentless grind. There ls less ahead to conquer^ There is more that's left behind. J! ~^sarer,"theh, my rest from labor On Life's-path BO bleak and cold. '?'.' Bo the gray hairs will be welcome : When I seo Tva. growing old. . -Joseph Bert Smiley. How She Wrote lt. One of the qualities necessary to sue- ! t in any 'faa of work is the ability tc | think aid act practically upon the every ; day qu?tions of life. A young woman who had charge of the cataloguing of the accounts of a Philadelphia bank employed aa an as . fdstant i girl apparently intelligent and well educated, to whom she gare the necessary directions for the work. One of the instructions was that, while she was to write out the full name where au - abbreviation was used, she must never . **' abbreviate a name.. , . .' One clay the young woman in charge - found the-fottowing peculiar name'and . : address, neatly written out by the as ?rsistant;*-**San*uT*^Brown^ trustee for I Georg? and Minnie Section, Academy ol I Natural Sciences," v Somewhat surprised at the address, ? 8he:asl:ed: to the ledger^from which it was copied. The ledger read, "Sam! Brown, trustee for Geo. and Min. Seo - 'fion. Academy of Natural Sciences.'' ** The- young woman had never studied -^ either-' geology or mineralogy, but wher. ? the v matter i was explained to her she . found fiat the word "Section" is not al ways a surname, and that "Geo." may be an abbreviation for. something quite different from George,-Youth's Com pardon. . . The Flimflam. A Customer-Give me a dozen shirts. Shopkeeper-Here you are, sir, the bestquahty. . . Customer-How much? . Shopkeeper-One fifty each. Customer-All right, wrap them up Now, how much are these socks? Shopkeeper-Fifty cents a pair. Customer-Well, HI take three dozen | pairs instead of the shirts. The socks are done up and the cus tomer starts for the door with the hund?a Shopkeeper - Hold on there, yoo haven't paid fur thost socks. - Customer-Certainly not. I took there fal exchange f or the .shirts. Shopkeeper-Yes, but you didn't pay j for the "shirts. (Sterner-Certainly not, because 1 j didn't take them. .Shopkeeper-That's a fact, and he spends the next half hour trying to make his cash balance.-New York Herald. ?pilo Office in China. The Chinese system of government lacks entirely 4he progressive and uni fying t?emci*-Jf popular election. The v people haveno; voice in the choice of 'V their ruler^^Snd the rulers consider the .'so many sheep to be fleeced, ^officiais are paid stirringly low and many ?nices are openly lit. Corruption and extortion may therefore IX? said to bo almost sanc tioned, the only restraint being the dread * of insurrection and the power cir guilds, - dans and secret societies. There.is im perfect protection from- robbers and, pirates, man y villages preferring to sub sidize robber bauds rather than to have to deal ' vi th the woree form of robbery practiced by the officiais.-Westminster . Beriew. . . _ Emile Zola's Working Honrs. Emile Zola's habits are extremely regu- j lar. Ho takes a walk every morning, usually leaving' his house, whether at Medan or at Paris, about 9 o'clock. He lunches at midday,' and writes from 1 o'clock till 6, receiving no visitors and transacting no business in the afternoon. He has & particular liking for large and massive pieces of furniture, so his writ ing table and his library chairs are of colossal proportions, as is also his ink stand, which is in bronze and represents a hon.-Paris Cor. Philadelphia Tele graph.*' ? ??. ' _-' "What Pain no Animals Feel? When the sensitiveness to pain of the negro, compared with that of the Eu ropean, is hut one to three, as Dr. Fel kin concludes it is, what relation to the .latter is horne hy the sensitiveness of the monkey? of the hurd? of the reptile and the fish?, of creatures lower still? London Sunday Magazine? An Automatic Applauder. A Frenchman has perfected an inven tion by which managers of theaters can ascertain on first nights, in a practical . manner,; the feelings of the public. The contrivance is an automatic applauder, set in motion by a five centime piece New York Journal. The irregularity of Mame's coast line is indicated by. the fact that a Lubec man. who bought a horse in Eastport was obliged .to drive the animal more than forty-miles to reach his home, al though the two towns are only three ] miles apt pt in a straight line. , . To the EsMmce of Labrador belong the honor of having discovered that the moon was the paradise of tho good, an ? that the wicked are to be consigned to a cold cave in the center of the earth. The man who never went to the thea ter in his life is usually the man who declares loudest'agaiiist tho immorality .of tile stage. -. Several women have been permitted to practice dentistry in Denmark af ty having passed the regular examinations 'We suppose-Parson Hiott will be posing as a martyr pretty soon. The Tillman press and people are after him with a vigor that is appalling. One of his churches has suxnmoued him to trial for degrading his calling. He is on trial foiNoeiore all the people! fdr. being a deep dyed Judas Iscariot political fool. Many, people who long ago became disgusted with his abominable bigotry now have an opportunity^ to render their verdict in a substantial manner. Oconee News. One of the cotton presses de stroyed in the recent fire at New Orleans was named the "Fire proof." Thst name is as gooda "non-explosive oil*" A wester man says he always envies a fat person when he sees him laughing. There seems to be so muoh of him having a good tim.e A GREAT CLIMATE. AN ENGLISHMAN GIVES HIS OPINION OF CALIFORNIA. lome Features of ? Waitera State Com pared tn Kag!and-Good Advice fox Thoa* Who Thin* of Making Theil Roma ta That Marvelous Country. I wa writing on Jan, 14. Over in the | mild elimata of England my fellow gar de nert are protecting their plants from frost nd sheltering carefully all those potted plan ts which they are going to force for the market. California is large-twice the size of England, 1 should say. But If you want to find a place here where you would have to do the like in your profession you would h?ve to hunt the cool and somewhat treacherous bay surroundings of our me tropolis, or yon would have to climb the peaks of oar Sierras, and then you would have to reach an elevation of 8,000 feet before finding places with a real winter. We have no winter here, and what is generally called winter is understood to be the rainy season. This season is very mild, and we work at our places here in the foothill* of the Sierras in shirt sleeves today and call it a most beauti ful day. Our foothills rival the valley; we have the high mountains at the back of ua protecting ns from the dry winds of the plains east of them and giving us the j benefit of the warm reflection of the sun, | which shines here almost every day. Our grapes ripen at 2,000 feet elevation, but seven days later than those from the Fresno region; while our climate is not so hot, being easier reached by the winds which blow every day from the ocean. We can dry raisins iii the sun in spite of the occasional early rains which set in' once in awhile in the hay ing season, at the end of July. The highest temperature I have re corded for four years was 112 degs. Fahr, in the shade. I must say for s person coming from a cool climate, like that of England, this is anything but agreeable. But then 112 degs. up in the mountains feels nothing like that heat in the valley, where no air may blow at the time. Hot spells last usually from three to five days, and then again we record AO degs. to 95 degs., or even 85 degs. Fahr., for weeks at a time. By the time a person has been living aere for say five years he gets pretty Well used to it and lives'through it just like everybody else. A HEALTHY CLIMATE. - It is healthy here. The air is won derfully pure, and the fogs which visit us from the ocean are quite pleasant, pure and refreshing. The Coast range is different altogether. It is affected by the evaporation of the ocean, and conse quently cooler and temperate. The Coast range cuts the valley sharply from the ocean border, and its peculiar ity is best demonstrated by alluding to the fact that, while the grape never ripens at San Francisco, ten miles from it, just behind the Coast range, there lies the land which supplies the city nearly all the year round with the most j j delicious strawberries. Most people who come to California usually stop and stay at San Francisco, i The climate is more agreeable, and there are more fellow countrymen, and all the advantages which city life offers. But the most acceptable openings are in the interior. Gardeners, as a rule, are peo ple who are least afraid of anything, and if they cannot get a job at their own trade, very well, they try another. . Fruit growing is at .its very best in California, and ite climate is adapted to every kind- in every part The grape will grow and ripen, rich in alcohol or sour lite a Riesling, just as you choose to pick your location. The orange is at home south and north up to 1,600 feet, ? a&, wonderful to note, the apple will ripen side by side with this subtropical I fruit Olives seem destined to shade ? every hillside which now gives ground . to pines and underbrush, and peaches and apricots bring such' wonderful re turns that it is not surprising that Eng lish capital seeks investment by the million. GOOD ADVICE. If only the ground is kept cultivated it needs no irrigation, and shoots of ten, twelve or even fifteen feet in length on - two-year-old trees are something a per- j son may see from the railroad car while ( traveling through our glorious state. The population of California is still ( small. One million and a quarter is all j this state's census gave as the number erf inhabitants. There will be homes for ] just as many as may. choose to come and [ work their way. The great danger is that the warm climate and the ease with which the soil gives a return will make the people too lazy. The young genera- 1 tion springing np at the present is not as energetic as their forefathers, from whatever country they. came. Times have been too easy for the old folks-if they did not make any money through labor they did so in trading, and as a last and most important resource they can fall back upon their real estate and turn into money what the emigrants are -willing to buy. The estates are too large altogether at present, and the more they are cut up the better it | ] will be. The man who comes here ought to know a trade, and be a handy man all around. He should be content to work for other people for a time until he gets accustomed to the ways of this climate. And he should work at the wages which the trade unions have established. As ho works for other people he has the best opportunity to watch his chance without running any risk.-Jackson (Cal.) Cor. Gardner's Chronicle. The Sile of Solomon's Temple. Solomon's Temple, as described in the Scriptures, would not be regarded as a very imposing structure in this day and age of the world. Its length was 107 feet, breadth 38 feet, and it was 54 feet in height, with a portico or veranda 86 feet long and 18 feet wide. We have private houses that overshadow such an unpretending structure.-St. Louis Be o^blicL Vee The!- Feet for Paddles. The Banaka tribe, the most famous can oem eu on the west African coast, will impel their Hght canoes with great velocity over the waves and at the same time use the feet to bail out the water that happens to be dashed over the sides of the light craft If from any cause a Banaka breaks or loses his oars he throws his legs over the sides of the boat and propels it almost as fast with his feet as he could with the paddles. St. Louis Republic The Mystery Solved. Mrs. Yerger is not handsome, and her voice when she sings is dreadful, but Colonel Yerger is very demonstrative. "Why is he always kissing herr asked a friend of the family of another gentle man. "I can't imagine, unless it is to keep her from singing."-Texas Siftings. Hardening Plaster Caste. A new method of hardening the vari ous plaster ornaments so largely used in the arts has been suggested. The proc ess consists in saturating the article-to be hardened with a solution of silica, and following this by the application of a baryta solution.-New York Journal Washing Kittie Indiana. We were camped at the Hat Springs on the Lo Lo trail, made famous in In dian annals by the escape of Chief Jo seph and his band of Nez Perces. Just above ns was a large camp of Flatheads who were making their fall hunt. One morning we were awakened by shouts and cries. Evidently there was great excitement somewhere, and we promptly jumped up. It was just after daylight and cold clouds of steam were rising from the big4 basin shaped pool at the Coot of the. granite .wall, from which poured a thick (stream of boiling water. The pool was so large that at the lower Bdge the water- was almost cold. The dearer yon approached to the place where the water burst from the rock the better chance you stood of getting boiled. At the edge, at a point where the water was of a comfortable temperature, stood two Indians,-one on the bank and tho j [>tber on a stone in the water. Near by were a dozen other Indians guarding a number of little Indian boys and girls who hacl nothing on and were howling ind crying. When we looked ont of the tent the two Indians at the pool had an Indian boy, one holding him by the feet the jther by the hands, and were gravely swinging him backward and forward through the warm water, while he yelled it every dip. As soon as they had fin ished with him he waa set upon the bank, md ran to the willow brush near by. Then the noise redoubled, for each ?h?d in the group guarded by the In dians feared that it was his turn. They ill tried to escape to the brush) but their alders pursued, and caught them, nu ti. tlie very last one had been put through ?he cleansing process.-New York Sun. Big Field Oona-and Their Effect. If you insist on high velocity you'have bo add so much additional machinery to pour gun carriage and have to so greatly strengthen its construction that you lestroy its mobility, while even if you jain a long range you are still unable to make use of your most efficient projec tile at it Moreover, since the remain ing velocity of its shrapnel is a truer measure of the value of a gu., than its nitial velocity, and the two are by no means directly proportional, it does not follow that we benefit as much as we might expect by submitting to these lisadvantages. Thus', the 12-pounder las an initial velocity of over 1,700 feet per second and a remaining velocity at J.000 yards of 862 feet; while the LS-pounder, with an initial velocity of mly 1,0GO feet, has at the same range a remaining velocity greater by six feet per second than that of its rival. One of our highest authorities on field ixtillery has, indeed, recorded his opin ion, that, as regards the efficiency of shrapnel, we gain nothing by the in creased muzzle velocity of "the best field run in Europe" at all practical ranges. Moreover, it is the attempt to squeeze mt the last few extra feet that does all the harm.-London Saturday Review. Modern Education. With all its novel modern powers and practical sense I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably mechanical; it seems to have become a splendid sort of self directed machine, an incredible automaton, grinding on with its analysis or constructions. But for pure sentiment, for all that spon taneous Greek waywardness of fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtler thrill of_ ideality, you might as well look to a wrought iron derrick. Science found education blundering peacefully along, cultivating half of the mind with charming results and letting the other die of disuse; it worked the startling, miracle of electrifying this dead half into life and bringing it to perfect activity, and straightway, satis fied with this remarkable achievement, it proceeded to neglect the ideal half which the classics had made so much of and caused it to perish. It has substi tuted a new sort of half maa for the old one.-Clarence Klug in Fornm. Skill in the Wrist. It is wonderful what a part the wrist plays in exercises in which physical skill and delicacy are required. After a man learns to play billiards well enough to be familiar with the cushions and the English, the important thing to cultivate is his stroke. It is the hardest thing xbout billiard playing to get a good stroke, and sometimes the greatest play as "fall down" because they lose con trol of it Now, the stroke wholly de pends on the action of the wrist. Jake Schaeffer, or any good player,will make i shot of seven cushions with less ap parent force than a beginner will exert in getting three. This is due to the su perior wrist movement It's the ..same way with violin playing. Ehe quality and touch all depend on wrist manipulation. So with ourving a oasebalL Great pitchers always work a strong wrist movement on the ball as it leaves the hand. If they didn't it couldn't curve at all.-St. Louis Globe Democrat _ Good Story About a Saco lawyer. A Saco lawyer lost his office key and svith it, on the same bunch, the keys to ois safe and house. There is a spring lock on his office loor, and he concluded that he must have left it in his office and have come Dut and locked the door. He accord ingly borrowed a long ladder and crawled through the back window of bis office. No keys were to be seen, and after cogitating over the peculiar state of af fairs he at last let himself out, and there on the outside of the lock were hanging the keys.-Bangor (Me.) Commercial. Beating the Barth. The highest velocity ever given to a cannon ball is estimated at a mile in 3.2 seconds. The velocity cf the earth at the equator, due to its rotation on its axis, is a mile in 8.6 seconds. There fore, if a cannon ball were fired due west, and could maintain its initial velocity, it would beat the sun in his ap parent journey around the earth.-New York Journal. A white headed vulture which was caught in 1706 died in the aviary at Schonbrun, near Vienna, in 1824. What Free. Silver Means. By "free silver" is meant the free coinage of silver, the placing of silver on an equality with gold in the mints of the United States. At present any man who has gold can get it coined without charge; but a man who has silver bul lion mtist sell lt to the government, which coins it or issues certificates against iL-New York Sun The Armless Huntsman. The feet of Thomas Roberts, the arm less huntsman once in the employ of Sir George Barlow, were made to serve in place of hands. Roberts manufactured most of the instruments which he used while on the chase, and could shoot or throw with as much precision as the average hunter in possession of both arms and handB.-St. Louis Republic. Unornamental Public Functionaries. If you see a pung of a cart drawn by a moribund horse, and containing three or four galina young fellows and a home made wooden cage marked "D. C." in wavering lines of chalk, you may know that you are in the presence of a metro politan dog catcher's outfit The New York dog catcher is no dude.-New York Truth. PITILESS PARENTS. CHILDREN MALTREATED BY CRUEL MOTHERS AND FATHERS. Some Horrible Instruments of Torture. Cases of a Startling Nature Brought to Light by the Pennsylvania Society for the Protection of Children. It hardly seems possible that a man with the figure of an athlete and the strength of a Samson would deliberately strike a child of six years full in the face with all the force of his brawny fist, and, as if io make it further deplorable, the poor, defenseless little creature, his own offspring. But such brutes "exist, and this case is considered a mild one in the annals of pitiless deeds that come under the notice of the Pennsylvania Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty. At the. society's new home Mr. Crew, the enthusiastic secretary and prime mover in all the good work done, in a conversation yesterday unfolded experi ences such as would appear to belong to the times when torture was a recognized mode of punishment for old and young. Some of the cases would put to blush even the most cruel practices of those olden days, and yet they are occurring daily here in Philadelphia, and the victims one and all are children. To the parents who regard the treasures in their homes as the most priceless boon that heaven ever bestowed, and whose every thought is for the care and com fort of their little ones, this society pecu liarly appeals. How a mother's heart will bleed if through accidont or disease a little son or daughter must endure the pangs of suffering, and if punishment must be in flicted it falls more heavily on the parents than on the little offenders. Yet there are mothers, and fathers, too, who somehow seem to have been given the children, but the lovo that comes with the first weak cry has never found a place in their hearts. To them they are a burden, a constant source of annoy ance, and only fit to slave and toil, and as their reward receive cuffs and kicks, scars and bruises. A CHAMBER OP HORRORS. In their new building the society has secured a long felt want. Supplied with every convenience and many comforts it must appear a veritable haven of refuge to the little waifs that are rescued from the streets or out of the clutches of the inhuman monsters they call father and mother. In a room set apart for the purpose is a collection of straps, whips, bludgeons, knives and chains, an asortment worthy of a chamber of horrors, yet each one has been taken from tho hands of some fiend in human form, and bears a history that seems almost improbable in this city of homes. A heavy chain, thirty inches long and weighing from four to six pounds, with links strong enough to secure some wild beast, was taken from around the neck of a frail little boy, whose case had been reported to the society by outsiders, who heard the child's cries at the torture inflicted. His little sister, frightened at the ter rible punishment, attempted to escape by crawling under the table. The in human father ceased from beating the boy and turned his attention to the little giri. - He dragged her out by the arm," then holding her by the ankles he thumped her head up and down on the floor until the child became unconscious. When the officers of the society arrived at the house it was discovered that the child's wrists and ankles were broken and she had to be at once removed to the hospital. AN INHUMAN MOTHER. Another case in which a woman and a mother figures is one of the most heartless instances on record. Along, cruel knife elicited the history, and for cool, hard hearted indifference it has no equal. A woman with her three chil dren, living in one of the worst sections down town, reveled in all sorts of vice and wickedness and regarded her little ones as obstacles standing in her way. Of a very excitable and ungovernable disposition ? u all times, she was, when under the influence of drink, a veritable fury, and had frequently beaten them with heavy clubs, bludgeons of wood with protruding nails, and, in fact, any thing she could lay her hands on, until their bodies and faces were in the most fearful condition. Not content with this, she turned, them out in the streets one bitter win ter's day Insufficiently clad, and too ter ror stricken to attempt to return. Neigh bors saw them and warned her that unless she speedily gave them shelter complaint would be made against her. Owing to this threat she took them in, but only to vent redoubled fury on the already half dead children. That night one little chap, worn out with the trials of his lot and exhausted by lack of food and ill treatment, fell into a sleep only to be rudely awakened by heavy blows because he breathed too loud. The final act which brought her before the magis trate was that of stabbing her little girl because she asked for a piece of sugar. On being brought up for examination she expressed no regret for what she had done, but said she hoped the child would die, as it would only take fifteen dollars to bury her, and Bhe would be through with "the brat."-Philadelphia Times. _ How a Hindoo Uses Clocks. The Hindoo places a clock in his show rooms, not because he ever desires to know what the hour is, but because a clock is a foreign curiosity. Instead, therefore, of contenting himself with one good clock, he will perhaps have a dozen in one room. They are signs of his wealth, but they do not add to his comfort, for he is so indifferent to time that he measures it by the number of bamboo lengths the sun has traveled above the horizon.-Temple Bar. If you want your umbrella, and es pecially a good silk one, to last twice as long as it otherwise would, always leave it loose, whether in use or not, and dry it open, handle down. Marriage by Proxy. A curious custom among the rulers of the Old World is marriage by proxy. For instance, Francis H, the ex-king of Naples, was wedded by proxy in 1859 to Maria, a duchess of Bavaria. Of course the marriage by proxy goes no further than the c^emony. Exactly why it should be done at all is not clear by past or present history, unless to save the prince the trouble of going after Ivis wife and give her a decent excuse for coming to him. In the case of Francis, he had never seen Maria, and their first interview is 6aid to have been attended with consid erable disappointment. In fact, if the young man had not been already mar ried by proxy he would probably have never married the lady at all.-Drake's Magazine. Used to Smoko in Church. The Rev. Dr. Parr, when perpetual curate of Hatton, Warwickshire, which living ho held from 17S3 to 1790, regu larly smoked in the vestry, while the congregation were singing long hymns, chosen for the purpose, immediately be fore the sermon. Tho doctor was wont to exclaim. "My people like long hyinns, but I prefer a long pipe."-All tho Year Round. HOTELS MUST COME TO IT. Mr. Merrifield Tells of Fanny Things About Future Hotel Keeping. "The day will come, and long before we date our letters 1919, when the hotels in this country will have improvements which will make the guests feel that they have nothing to find fault with. Certainly that will be a great period-a surprising one to the much abused hotel keeper." ?. li. Merrifield, president of the Hotel Keepers' association, looked very serious as be uttered these words, "What will those improvements be? Many, very many; but just now 1 will mention only one or two, lest some hotels begin tho new styles before peo ple are used to the change from one sys tem to another. Here's one, for in stance: The hotels will lie so big In a fow years that when a guest gets up, say on the twenty-ninth floor, he'll find as he steps ont of the elevator that his room is a quarter of n nulo away, count ing all the halls and corners LoTJ hav to travel through before be gets there. "Well, the halls will be broad, and electric cars, light and airy as wicker baskets, will pass along every few min utes. AU he will have to do when he gets on his floor is to press a button the car w?) do the rest It will whiz down his way with th? conductor at tho wheel like any cable car outdoors at present, pick bim up and-he's in his room before he's had Cima tu sar Jack Robinson. "You smile. I dont, for Pm serions. More than that, hotels will probably have private elevators for every larg*? parlor room on top floors after the elec tric car gets *behind the age.' "Take space? Of course. Bnt what ofthat? The hotel keeper is supposed to be the only mau who must spend all he makes to benefit his guests. He does not work for a living, like ordinary men. Not he; his fate from boyhood is mapped out to do everything ho can to nnika others happy at his expense. /int to re sume. The private elevator of each room will be soon followed if not ac companied by pueumatic tul>es for trunks and baby carriages with the ba bies in them, and amalle* ones for let ters and bundles. "More than that. A visitor will, I feel certain, be shot up through the tubes after the guests have soon their cards ind piped down, 'AU right, send him np.' It will be very stagelike to see an apparent closet door tty open quickly and the friend of your better days in full dress and hut in hand step out as one does in and out of a carriage in the street and greet you with a smile, 'How are you, old man?' or words to that effect. "Then think of the way overtaxed tailors can be avoided, too, by their cus tomers among the guests who have 'for gotten' to settle np. How? Easily. There will be no hotel registry, for the moment a guest is assigned to a room he will probably walk np to a machine, rattle over a few keys with a pen wldle writing his name, and just as he signs it it will appear on a card on the inside of the proprietor's private office. Names are signed miles away now by wire or dispatches. Well, hotel men are close at hand in this signature business. I hope to live long enough to seo all the im provements." Mr. Merri fiel d's eyes twinkled as he concluded: '.'When the Hotel Keepers' association meets oue of these great im provements is to be tested. Which one it will be I don't know yet, but that the electric car in the hallways is a near future event in hotel improvements is a dead certainty."-New York Herald. An Awkward Blander. At a certain court of justice an awk ward blunder was made by the prisoner in the dock. He was being tried for murder and the evidence was almost wholly circumstantial, a chief portion of it being a hat of the ordinary "billycock" pattern that had been found close to the scene of the crime, and which, more over, was sworn to as the prisoner's. Counsel for the defense expatiated upon the commonness of hats of the kind. "You, gentlemen," he said, "no doubt each of you has just such a hat as this. Beware, then, how you-condemn a fel low creature on such a piece of evi dence," and BO forth. In the end the man was acquitted, but just as he was leaving the dock he turned in a respect ful manner to the judge and said, "If you please, my lord, may I 'ave my 'at?" -London Public Opinion. Being impermeable to air, newspapers form excellent envelopes for vessels con taining ice and fresh liquors. CHARLEY'S PRECI0U8 HAIR. Heartless Deception of a Tro sting Maid by a Bald Toting Man. He had the sir of a man of the world. His dress was becoming .and not. too showy. He seemed to be an individual who had dined well, who would tell good stories at the club. Stretched out in the barber's Chair in the hairdresser's room on School street, instead of settling down with that in different, self satisfied air that usually comes over a man in that situation, he seemed troubled. He looked about from chair to chair, and yet he was not happy. The barber shaved him and was so im pressed that he even forgot to talk him to death. Then the man sat bolt up right in the chair and took an envelope from his pocket It was scented; the barber could tell that It was written in a lady's hand too. The strange man opened it, took out a note, read it over and over again, then from its folds withdrew a lock of hair. It was golden, and the victims who were waiting for their turn in the chair saw him kiss the sunny lock and put it back in the envelope. "Hair cut?" asked the barber, as he rubbed the tufts of hair which sur rounded a bald spot on the strange mans head. "No, no, not for the world," he re plied, "I cannot spare any." "Man in next chair has hairlike yours, only a little more of it," suggested the barber. "By Jove, he has," said the troubled man, and he darted out of his seat and almost jumped to the occupant of the next chair. "Going to have a hair cut?" asked the strange man. "No," was the rather emt reply. "Well, will you have a hair cut at my expense?" said the man without hesita tion. "I must send my best girl a lock of hair, and I can't spare mine. Come, how much is it worth?" and the eyes of the colored boy who brushes coats bulged out beyond his forehead. "Sell it for a small bottler replied the man with a good growth on his head, and the stranger answered, "I'll go you." The barber began his work, and a lock of the man's hair was handed over to the stranger, who put it in a little silver locket that bore a monogram. Then, when the work was finished the two walked out together. The stranger was smiling contented ly, the clubman grinned, the barber laughed and the customers gazed on in astonishment "Wasn't Charley a dear, good fellow to keep his promise and send me a lock of his hail-?" said the pretty giri that night as si 3 took the daintiest sort of a lock from tho little box And all was still but for the beating of her faithful heart-Boston Herald. Washington's First Ix>vo Affair. George Fairfax was the companion of Washington on his surveying tour for Lord Fairfax. Washington first met Mrs. Fairfax at Belvoir, near Mount Vernon, when she was brought home as the bride of George William Fairfax. Miss Mary Cary accompanied her sister Sarah to Belvoir, and there met George Washington. She was then but four teen years ot age. Washington was only sixteen. He had never visited the low country near Williamsburg prior to this, and therefore could not have met Sarah Cary until her marriage. It is said that he fell in love at sight with Mary Cary, and went so far on his first visit to Williamsburg as to ask Colonel Cary for the hand of his daughter. The big rawboned lad found scant favor in the eyes of the patrician planter. He was dismissed in terms so curt that I we must bear in mind paternal pride and other extenuating circumstances if j we would keep intact our idea of a fine] old Virginia gentleman. "If that is your business here, sir, 11 wish yon to leave the house! My daugh ter"-the swelling emphasis rumbles down the corridor of years-"has been accustomed to ride in her own coach." Tradition asserts that the chagrined suitor took the choleric parent at his word, and that the next time he looked upon the face of his early love was when he passed through Williamsburg on his return from Yorktown after the surren der of Cornwallis.-Marion Harland in !?s Weekly. Walk Fruit Before Eating lt. The following curious instance is re ported by M Schnirer of the ease with which consumption germs may be dis seminated. While at work one day in the laboratory of Weichselbaum, he sent for some grapes to eat. The fruit had been kept for some time in a basket outside the lavatory and was covered with dust, eo that the water in which it was washed was black. On examining it ho reflected that, inasmuch as the neighboring street was traversed by con sumptive patients going to the clinic, the dust probably was charged with tubercle bacilli. To settle this, M Schnirer injected into three guinea pigs ten cubic centimeters of water in which the grapes had been washed. One ani mal died in two days from peritonitis, the two others died on the forty-eighth and fifty-eighth days, respectively, pre senting marked tuberculous lesions, especially at the place of injection. The water in which the grapes had been washed was taken from the faucet, and the glass containing it had been sterilized; neither the boy who had bought the grapes, nor the merchant who had sold them, was consumptive. The cause of the infection was, beyond doubt, the dust on the grapes. This ex periment illustrates the danger arising from the dissemination of desiccated tuberculous sputa in the air.-Hall's Journal of Health. A Sort of Digital Depression. Did you ever notice when a man smites his thumb with a hammer while putting down a carpet under^-wifely supervision and criticism how quickly he thrusts the bruised and throbbing member into his ready mouth? People think it- is because the application is soothing. But no; it is an involuntary movement, same as winking. The man cannot help it Nature knows what the man would be apt to say under the cir cumstances, and so she has provided him with a stopper and has ordained that whenever he hits his thumb hard enough to hurt-and it doesn't take very much to nearly kill a man when he is doing something he doesn't want to-by a sort of in t er lockin g system the thumb flies into his mouth and stops him up, so that he can't say anything. Some men whom you and I know should be fvro vided with an extra thumb which they might carry about in their hand all the time it wasn't in active use. It would be a great thing, wouldn't it?-Robert J. Burdette in Ladies' Home Journal. An Anecdote of Washington. It was while plunging through the "leaden rain and iron hail," at the battle of Monmouth that Washington's horse was shot under him. The chief coolly stepped from the prostrate charger, and having received from the hands of an attendant orderly a fresh horse, ready caparisoned, he turned to the sable body servant who followed him close through all dangers, and without the presence of whose ebon visage a picture of Wash ington and his family would not be complete, and quietly said* 'Here, Billy, take the saddle from that dead horse and look out for it" And then he dashed away to direct the planting of Oswald's battery. "Golly!" exclaimed old Billy, as he related the incident to one of the family on his return home, "who ebber did see such a man as Maar Washington? Who'd ebber a' thought ob dat saddle but him? I tell ye, mas'r remembers eberyt'ing eb'ryt'ing down to de bery littlest" New York Ledger. A Lover. A lover is one driven hither and thither by doubt and longing; whose everjjsjiction gives to himself dissatis faction; whose every sensibility, merged into that of anxious excitability, poised delicately as a magnetic needle, fluctu ates between hope and despair. Who experiences the involuntary departure of his own self worthiness to the in crease of that of his idol, thereby ren dering that object seemingly beyond his reach.-Cor. Philadelphia Music and Drama._ A Remedy for a Bad Habit. An efficient remedy for the nail biting habit is to dip the finger tips after every hand washing into a strong solution of quinine and glycerin. Any druggist will prepare it of requisite strength; the bitter taste will stop children from fur ther biting, and will remind an adult as well.-New York Times. The shoemaking business in Califor nia is controlled almost entirely by Chinese. 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