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A FABLE. From the French. A, plowshare that long bad idle lain. Tarnished with rust's corroding stahl, Seeing bis brother poss that way, -All ralliant from work at ojoso ot chy, Addressed bim thus: ".My brother, why Hore brilliant and polished art thou than 1? Our substance, is it not one in name? Were we not forged by hands the same?" His brother ri (.Wc) in proudest tone: **i am what 1 am through work alone!',' . -William West. 1 Will THE CAPTAIN. I i. "Women aboard ship," said the "bo'sun of the British Queen, " is like oats in a conservatory. They won't keep still for a mi iure. If they ain't >ip and asking the skipper 'ow far it is to the next port, they has to be get ting themselves in a muddle with the ropes and spars, and a-trying to turn a businesslike ship into a sort of 'tar ait! boudoir, or whatsoever they calls 'em, as is decked ont with ribbons and fancy touches. "We 'ad a woman once aboard the Li2a Jane, as was crossing from Car diff to the Thames with steam coal, and back agen with auything as we could get hold of. She was on the books as a passenger, and when she came aboard at Gravesend with a red parasol and a brown 'andbag and asked the way to her room we knowed on the instant that there was some thing going to happen, and we changed .our lives just as if we'd bin born agen an' couldn't help it- Why, afore we'was off the Nore blest if she 'ado't begun a-talking to the cook about the greasy knives and teaspoons, till the poor feller was in such a flutter that he took a two hours' tnrn a-polishing every bit o' brass as might 'appen to come under 'er eye. And then she started on the men. The ropes was /?all sticky anet nasty, she ses, and so was the bul'arks, as she couldn't lean iagenst without messin' 'er blouse. And 'the men never said nothing, but just 'went below and fished out their best togs and took -to scraping away the coal dust and tar when they ought to ha' been below and in their bunks, r "The fact is, we was all knocked 'ead-over-'eels and silly with fear and --admiration. For, no mistake, Bhe was .as trim a gal as ever set a parasorl. That is to say, we was all struck 'cept the skipper, and he wasn't that Bort They did say as 'ewasaNvoman 'ater,and didn't see no'use in 'em; and I dare say as that was so, for when she was ion deck a-airing her best things, and a-making us poor chaps wish ve was good-looking enough to lay our hearts at her feet, 'e was a-slinking out of the "way and only came on de_*k when he knowed she'd be below curling 'er 'air or getting 'erself up for another at tack. "Well, this state of thinga con tinued for a couple of days, and then one morning she came right up to me as I was a-s pl icing lashings and poked me in the chest with 'er parasorl. : " 'Sailor,' she ses. 'What's your name?' " 'B?1 Suiggs, miss, if yer please, ? knees a-shaking as if '?.?, 'you look to ' .Sd and the "ant you '?T?t,.:- ^ver .?ut I - "ue deck ses, Tm a-go *?r ; ^j*??o my confidence. ?&^??^^??*r*muat tell you I'm in love? I was almost a-falling on my knees to tell 'er I knowed it. 'Now, c in't you guess with whom? Why,of course, with your dear good skipper. 7iutt ob, dear; he is so horridly back ward. He won't even look at me. He knows I came here on purpose to be near him and to talk to him, and see how he neglects me and keeps ont of my way! Oh, sailor, am I so horrid and ugly?' " 'I told 'er as well as I could as I didn't think the old man need take on so 'cos she wasn't 'arf bad to look at. On the contrary, t-he was about as pretty a pieter as you'd see in a month's cruise. " 'Well, sailor,' she went on, 'what do youjthink I've determined to do? I ?believe he won't havo anything to do with me simply because I'm a woman, aud some silly people think a woman eau do nothing but receive admiration. Now, if I could show him that I am brave and strong and can think aud act for myself perhaps he would learn to love me. So I want you to help me. I want you to fall overboard, and let *ne jump after you.' "It come on me a bit sudden like, and I sorter reeled with astonishment. But she took 'old of my 'and and squeezed it till I thought I should faint away in 'er arms. ".'Now, don't look surprised,' she ses; 'I'm au. awful good swimmer! I've won lots of prizes at our baths, and I'll see that we throw a buoy or two overboard, so that wo sha'n't be in danger. And when it's over, sailor 1*11 give you ?5. Now you can't say no to me, can you-you dear, kind mau?' ?"No, I couldn't, and that was a fact. It's bad enough when you've got a (lovesick maden grasping and ?-leaning on yer; but when it comes to five quid in 'ard cash dangling be fore your nose it's too much. , "So we arranged it that next day, if the sea was smooth and the weather fine, I'd sprinkle a few life-buoy's 'over-board and accidentally tumble among 'em. Then, with a cry as 'nd bring the skipper on deck, the gal would dive after me, and we'd go through a sorter life-saving perfor mance; and if that didn't make the old man fall on 'er neck and ask to be forgiven- well,!hen we'd 'ave to mrow 'im in next, and let 'er 'ave a try at saving 'im." IL "Well, next day was fine, with just a bit of breeze as kept the barque steady nuder all sail, and as we were only making about four knots an hour, I reckoned this was the time for the final scene. So I whistled to the gal to get ready, and then 1 got'old of all the " buoys I could find and pitched 'em astern when nobody wasn't looking. Next I slipped off my boots and dropped quietly over the side. . "When I looked up 1 seed the gal a-looking an if she was a-wondering 'ow cold it waa. And then all of a sudden she give a yell, and dived in and come swimming toward me like a fish. "Lor, the commotion there was on board when they heard that yell! First.up come tho skipper from below. He .looked astern and saw the girl in the water. Off went 'is coat, and splash 'e carno after 'er. Then I seed the cook rush out of the galley. '? took in the situation, and the next moment 'e was taking a header from the stem. Two Beaman as 'ad 'card tue cry next tumbled over, and before I 'ad time to 'oller out and tell 'em it was all right the other two seamen and the boy was a bobbing about in the water. ' % "By this time the gal 'ad got to me, and we was each of us 'anging to a buoy. Away in the wake of the barque we could see seven 'eads a-bobbiug about, and one by one they'they came up to us and collared 'old of a b?oy, to wait for what was going to 'appen next. And all the time that blamed barque was standing away under full sail as ii nothing 'ad 'appened. "Suddenly the skipper looked round and said something as didn't seem to just fit the occasion. " 'Who's left in charge of that bar que?' he yelled. "Nobody answered, and then 'e looked round agen and counted us all as we was a bobbing : Lout together. 'E counted us twice, ?ud then he swore agen. " 'How dare you leave the ship without my orders?' he shouted. 'Don't yon see that there isn't a man on the barque, and that we're left here like a flock of fools while she drifts on to the nearest lee-shore?' "Somebody begun to giggle, and the skipper swore as 'e'd blow 'is brains out if 'e found out who it was. The gal said it was 'er, and sure enough she was a-laughing away as if It was the best fun in the world, while there was the crew of the Liza Jane a-bobbing about in the water, while our ship waB a-sailing steadily away by 'erself, without a 'and to guide 'er from the cruel rocks. It was an awful moment for me, as 'ad bin the unwilling cause of it all; and it seemed as if the utter uselessness of women was a fact, after all. "But there was the gal, still smil ing, and when a tramp steamer picked ns up and carried us to Plymouth she wanted the skipper to report ns to the authorities as a picnic party as 'ad got ont of our depth. But the old man was wild with the loss of 'is 6hip, and 'e couldn't do nothing but stamp abont and threaten to kill us all. "We did 'ear afterwards that the Liza Jane 'ad stood out to Bea and went down in a squall somewhere in the region of the tropics. And that's as likely as not, for we never set eyes on 'er again. "And when the skipper got over it and come to look upon things in the ! right spirit he sorter veered 'round to the conclusion that a comfortable 'ome and a good-looking wife wasn't such a poor couclusi?u after all. No more was the fifty pounds each of us got for our share, either. "LIFT YOUR SKIRT, PLEASE!" ? Being tlie Annoying Kxperlonce of a Young Al omen and a Strange Man. She had noticed that men would stare at her. It wasn't exactly her fault; beauty in a woman could hardly be called a fault, but the open admi ration of men annoyed her, just a bit The strong wind had blown on her cheeks the hue of the red rose that is full blown, and mon looked' after her with a detaining expression that seemed to say, "Hi, there, miss, you have dropped a flower." Of course she hadn't, but it seemed so natural to think she had. Ono man-and he was every inch a man, and a good many inches,- too -actually turned and followed her. -jere was no doubt that he was.fol Jwing her. She loosened the grip on the trailing skirt she was ho'ling and quickened her pace. There was that man just behind her. bhe turned to. go into Petticoat lane, when the mau actually accosted her. "I beg your pardon, madam, but would you mind lifting your skirts just a little?" Heavens, the man must be crazy! She turned to him, and looking over, under, around and throngh him, but not at him, said, "Sir!" "Beg your pardon, but would you mind lifting your skirt just a little, the fact is-" "Officer, this mau is annoying me," Baid the young woman, tnrning to the big policeman. "Say,you're rather a decent-looking chap to be a-speakin' to women you don't know," said the officer. "She's got my hat and is carrying it away." "What!" gasped the young woman. "Your hat! Officer, this man is sim ply crazy" "Xo, I'm not," 8aidthe man. "The wind blew my hat off anc! into your trailing skirt. Now, if you'll please raise your skirt just-" Sho did, and out rolled the hat, but what was the .use of explanations? This explains, however, why our young women in Kansan City wear short skirts.-Kansas City Star. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. No action of love was ever in vain. ? A trust is no honor till the trustee honors it. The personal ideal is the only pow erful one. He who takes the pains will take the prize.' Kestitution is the right hand of repentance. The best things are not always in the beaten tracks. A man with an aim, will soon be a man with a name. Justice is not m ado for the law, but the law for justice. Idealizing the lowly, really helps to realize the lofty ideal. Selfishness is the substance of sin and sorrow its shadow. Only toy boats are disturbed by every wavelet of change. The great man's greatest discovery is the greatness in other men. The heart's reservations are the lim itations of the life's usefulness. There is n good deal of difference between giving up and giving out. Advertising other people's faults, is a kind of advertising that does not pay. The man who cannot put the steam on the brakes as well as on the driv ers, will have trouble.-Ram's Horn. A Feline Patron of Football. Portsmouth has a novelty in the shape of a cat who patronizes foot ball. She is a supernumerary belonging to one of the messes at Whale Island, the home of the naval gunnery school officially known as her majesty's ship Excellent At Whale Island there is a football ground, where the Excellent j team display their prowess. On the i occasion of a match there this cat is in j the habit of sedately marching to the ! ground with her two-footed mess com j panions. She sits in the front row of i spectators while play is in progress, ; and on the conclusion of the match i trots back to quarters.-Westminster j Gazette. TRICKS OF DESERTERS. Sl'EER EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO LEVANT FROM THE ARMY. Many of the Deporte? Re-Enlist-Odd Cane of a Soldier Named Devine-Im pudence of a Fellow "Who Took French Leave of the Navy. "Deserters from the army and navy occasionally stack up against some queer experiences when they re-enlist, as a good many deserters do," said a Washingtou man who has served in both outfits, "When I entered the army for the second five-year stretch, about twelve years ago, I 'took on'at David's Island, N. Y., then the big eastern recruiting .station. I was as signed, as is the usual custom, to a company of recruits, and they made me a sergeant until they decided as to what post they wanted to send me. Among the 'rookies' in my company was a good-looking chap named De vine. He was every inch a soldier. I knew that he had been a soldier. So did all the old-timers who sized De vine up. It made me feel foolish when I took Devine out with a lot of rook ies for an awkward squad drill. He tried with all the skill he had to act like a man who had never seen a gun in his life, but I felt all the time that Devine was just laughing at me. One day, in the middle of the manual drill, I gave a somewhat unusual or der - an order that recruits wouldn't be supposed to know anything about -just for the sake of trying out De vine. I caught him unawares, and ho made the first movement toward exe cuting the order. Tb en he tumbled to himself, gave a sly look out of the corner of his eye aud relapsed into as sumed clumsiness. When the drill was over I happened to run into De vine outside the company quarters. *' 'You're an old swaddle.' Baid I. " 'Forget it,'said Devine. " 'Aren't you afraid they'll nail you?' I asked him. " Tt's me that's taking the chance,' said Devine. "Well, after the couple of months at David's Island I got my orders. I was to join an iufantry regiment at Fort Assiniboiue, Mont, and take charge of a large batch of recruits as signed to the same outfit. The whole bunch got their orders simultaneously with me. Among the batch was De vine. I ran into him at the canteen about half an hour after we got our orders. *"Say,? said Devine, 'I don't kuow whether to duck or not' " 'For why?' I asked him. . " 'There's a captain out there at Assiniboiue that knows me,' said De vine. 'I was in his outfit when I jumped. And I was a sergeant, at that. He is a pretty square old geezer and I soldiered up to the handle as long as I was with him, bur, all the same, I'm afraid he'll land me if I go out there.' " 'It's you that's taking the chance,' said I. 'If he's such a square officer, all right and proper; maybe he won't know you.' " '111 take the odds.' said Devine. "Well, we went out to Assiniboiue. and ien we lined up in front of head quarters on the morning we got in, who should bo the officer of the day but this captain Devine had served with when he jumped. The captain didn't see Devine until, in calling the roll of the newly-arrived recruits, he scanned the countenances of the men. I waB watching for him to pipe off De vine. As soon as ho olapped eyes on Devine he gave the slightest possible start-Devine standing like a statue and looking ten ' paces ahead-and then he went on calling the roll. I knew he-had got next to Devine. "'Devine will fall out," said the captain when we were about to be or dered to march to the quarters, and, said I to myself: 'Devine, you'll do your little three'yearsat Fort Leaven worth for a mortal cinch. ' About ten minutes later Deviue came strolling into quarters. I nodded him over to a corner bunk. " 'How do you happen to be loose?' I asked him. " 'I told you he was a square old geezer,' said Devine. 'He said to me; " ' "Your name's Devine, you say?" " ' "The same," ' said I, giving him a No. 4 salute and holding my face as if I had never clapped an eye on him. " * "Aud you never saw me before, did you, Devine?" ' said he. i, ? ??T>ve got a bum memory, sir," said I. " ' "Um-you never saw me before, Devine?" 1 said he. "I'm certain of that. Um-very well. Now yon go to your quarters. And if the idei should ever enter your head to desert, Devine, why-well, you go to your quarters. " ' "Devine did his five years, aud he was seageaut-mojor of the regiment when he got his honorable discharge. But he surely did take a chance of a fat term at Fort Leavenworth wheu he went to Assiniboine. "Deserters from the navy take long chances, too, once in a while. I was down in Honolulu haibor on my last ship. There was a coal passer from San Francisco named White in the black gang. He was dissatisfied and he got to be a sea lawyer quicker than auy man I ever was shipmates with. He was always talking up iu the fo'c'sle alout the superiority of the merchant service-the comparative freedom when the ship was in port, and all that sort of thing. Well, Whito went ashore one night, and he didn't come back with his liberty par ty. Along about 10 o'clock all hands on our ship were startled to hear a lot of Comanche howls from a bark that was passing alongside of us, bound out for China. It was the bark Kenilworth. When we looked over the rail we saw our bravo White sit ting 'way up iu the maintop, and ob viously as drunk as a lord-and the mate down below on deck calling him out of his name in all languages and ordering him to lay below. There White stuck, however, calling us names and reviling tho whole Ameri can navy until the Kenilworth was out of earshot. Our skipper was tak ing his constitutional on the poop, and it would have been the simplest thing in life for him to have ordered a shot to be fired across the Kenil worth's bows and mako the merchant man heave to and disgorge our de serter. "But he didn't do anything of the sort. He simply grinned-saturninely, and I guoss he was deuced glad to get rid of White so easily without having to rig him up in double irons and car ry him back to 'Frisco for court mar tial Yet White took a very long chance wheu he hooted defiance at the ship he had deserted from, squat ting up there in the main rigging. "Another piece of undefiled gall was shown by an npprentioo lad who had jumped the pame ship at Acapul co, Mexico. This boy kept casos, through the papers, on all the trans fers in the navy, and he knew, a year after he had quit the ship without a discharge, that there wasn't a single officer'aboard of her that had been attached to her when he was an ap prentice aboard of her. So, when the ship pulled into Napa creek, the stream on which the Mare Island navy yard lies, this boy comes bravely aboard in the capacity of assistant to the bumboat man. He knew that none of his enlisted shipmates would give him away, and he served out beer at moss call every clay for three months just ns cool and complaisant as if a year before he hadn't gone over the side of the ship and forgot to come hack. MANILA'S WATER FRONT. Scene* That Interest tho Stranger and Native Alike- Bringing in the Wounded. There is an air of similitude in all ports.. The same forests of masts, the same Llnek-fuuneled steamers, the same weather-beaten men with sun tanned faces, speaking all sorts of languages, the same neat men-o'-' warsmeu dressed in immaculate white. Whatever the town may be doing there is always movement going on at the water's edge. Either it is the waterboat or else the Cavite ferryboat or a casco of soldiers singing happily as they are being towed out to some troopship bound to tho old country, or a squad of jackies on shore leave. Sa>ipans and other native craft are busy threudiug their way in and out among larger vessels. Then there is the roar and rattle of machinery and the grinding of the jute mills, inter mingled with the hoarse cries of the Chinese coolies as they pile their bur dens on the different vessels. White shirted clerks, dressed spick and span as though just out of the bandbox, aro taking tally in dainty little note books of the goods handled by brawny stevedores, with muscles, that rise up on their arms like small, inflated foot balls. Then there are the invariable loafers, always ready to "strike" a passer-by for a dime or "work" a sailor on the spree for his hard-earned wages. Every day you see the little old weazened native woman fishing in front of the captain of the port's otlice. When she is fortunate enough to catch a fish it is no longer than my little finger. Many a time I have seen her counterpart in San Francisco, only he was a man. How they eke out a live lihood nobody knows or cares. There are "wharf rats" here as in San Fran cisco they style politely, the urchins who work round the docks. They only differ in the shade of their color from their white confreres, for they are just as full of mischief and lead the China men a dance. One of them is just now putting a crab down the neck of n carpen tor as he is bending over his work. Catch him? As well try to harness a cyclone. What is that crowd? A train just in with the wounded men from the front. ."An other mau wauted here!" Immediately there aro a dozen willing hands to lend their assistance. Gently! Gent ly! as you place him in the ambulance to avoid all jar. Yes, that's an ugly wound in the neck, but he'll pull through. He is full of grit. Here is something, however, thnt I have seeu in no other port It is a gang of native workmen fixing the loose cobblestones in a position un a piece of road that needs mending. Twenty of th?m line up facing each in a doible row, the foreman at the head. As they work their wooden rammers they sing. Happy the fore man who can keep his men working to the sound of his voice. There is plen ty of music and jollity of the rough and ready description. A stout, red-faced captain, wiping the perspiration off his jolly counten ance, conies rolling along, and is imme diately tackled by a Chinaman richly dressed in silks, as to ? the price of freight on his coaster to the Island of Negros. Immediately the smile fades on the face of the skipper and he is strictly business. For if you would eat you must work is an axiom all the world over. The soldier to the sword, the sailor to the ship, the shoemaker to the last and the poor scribe as best he can.-Manila Times. Dewey After the Manila Bay Battle. Admiral Dewey in conversation with some friends, told an interesting chapter in his Mauilia experiences after he had destroyed the Spanish fleet The battle itself he declared, was nothing, but it was after the bat tle had been fought and Spain's power on the sea destroyed, that his troubles commenced. "There were at that time," he said, "thirteen ships of all nations in the bay, all of them, with the exception of the British, unfriendly, all of them officered by experienced men, all of them watching for the slightest mis take that we might make. "The situation was full of complica tions. There were any number of delicate questions coining up to be decided, questions which ought to have been decided by a lawyer well versed in international law, and not a * sailor who know only such law as had been able to pick up, and whose law library was extremely limited. "The situation at one time was such that it took almost the entire time of two officers lo search the books to see what we might do and what we were not allowed to do. Why," said the admira!, with an expressive gesture, "a good lawyer at that time, a man familiar with international law, would have been worth his weight in gold and diamonds and rubies." "And probably, if yon had had a lawyer on your staff," said omi of his audience, "he would have made ?ny amount of trouble for you and the government, which you avoided be cause you have made common sense take the place of law."-Bo3ton Daily Globe._ Feathered Experimenten. When the telegraph was introduced into Norway the bears, on hearing the wires moaning in the wind, thought that the posts were beehives, and set to work to root them out of the ground; the woodpeckers thought that the poles were filled with insects, and they bored holes in them with their bills. Such illusions disappeared gradually; animals became wiser with time, and took tho trouble to turn the telegraph to account for their personal uses. Thus, a small bird in Natal, which had been woutto build its nest shaped like a cradel in the branches of trees, bnilt its nest on the first telegraph wires set up,and the snakes could not get at it. The new positiou was found to be so secure that the bird added a convenient little side door to the nest, which had hitherto possessed only a small opening on the'sido farthest re moved from tho overhanging branch. A Brazilian bird also builds its heavy 1 est of earth on the telegraph wires. The artful parrots take a seeming delight in uniting the currents' between different wires, and also in breaking the porcelain cups on which the wires rest. Spiders cover the wires with their webs, and thereby great confusion is wrought in the tele graph svstem, as the most unlikely connections are thus brought about -Tit-Bits, 2?th Century Almanac ( Not the ordinary kind) A handsome year-book ?lied with beautiful illustrations, ind a complete calendar. It is sold on all news-stands for 5 cents, and it's worth ?vc times that amount. It is a reliable chronology of the progress of the 19th century and a prophecy of what may be expected in the 20th. Hore ure a f ow of the great men ?tao bare written for lt: Secretary Wilson, on Agriculture , Sen. Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics Russell Sage, on Finance Thomas Edison, " Electricity Gen. Merritt, " Land Warfare AdmL Hichborn, " Naval Warfare "Al" Smith, 44 Sports You will enjoy reading it now, and it will be a book of reference for you through the years to come. Sixty-four pages, printed on ivory ?ni6u paper. If your news-dealer cannot sup ply you with it, cut out this ad. and send it with three one-cent 'stamps and receive this ?l?gant book free. Address J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. One on the Musician. Here ls a good story of Joachim, the violinist, as told by himself. Dur ing one of his visits to London some rears ago the great virtuoso had occa sion to enter a barber shop for a shave. The barber's acquaintance with Illus trious musicians was limited, and Joa :hlm preserved his Incognito. "Hair cut, sir?" demanded the obse quious assistant, eyeing Joachim's Bowing locks with an air of proprie torship. Joachim Intimated his perfect satis faction with the existing length of his hair; but the barber was not to bo so saslly baffled. 1 ''Trifle long at the back, sir," he sug gested, diplomatically. Joachim explained that that was the way he liked it, and the barber waa silent for a little. "Rather thin on top, sir," was his next remark, whereby he sought to convey his own firm conviction that to pacifico thickness to length in the mat ter of hair was altogether a poor pol icy; but Joachim only glared a.i the barber and tossed his lion mane. And the barber went on shaving, but in a moody, discontented kind of way. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, and the barber's breast was no exception. "Just trim the edges for you, sir? Half ail inch all round, sir?" Joachim remained obdurate, and the barber's stock 01 patience and ingen uity deserted bim at the same time. He vented his indignation in the most scathing expression of contempt that suggested itself to his tonsorial mind. "Well, of course, if you want to look like a German musician," he remark ed, "it's no good talking." How News Will Travel. "While on a visit to the south re cently I obtained a box of your Tet terine, recommended for all skin dis eases. I find it to ba a marvelously good thing. I wish to get some more, and would like to establish an agency here for its sale. Please let me know the price of one dozen boxes. W. C. MoOall, Granville, Ohio." At drug gists or by mail for 50c. from J. T. Shuptrine, havannah, Ga. The Uncertainty of Fishing Pishing is notoriously an uncertain calling. The motions of Usu me past all understanding. One season they will visit every part of these shores and those of Labrador in their count less shoals. The next season certain bays or even a whole shore will be al most deserted. The herring are espe cially fickle, and there are placea that were once good herring grounds that have scarcely seen a herring for many years. All sorts of theories are ad vanced to account for this,, some of them ridiculous enough. But the fact remains, and when the fish fall to turn up in numbers at the accustomed place destitution follows. From a very eanly period the Government has granted relief in such cases. It is far easier- to start doling out public funds than to stop, and it has now become a regular affair. The effect of such doles may readily be 'imagined. The baser look for them, ana the higher minded soon accept the philosophy that they have as much right to get a share as any one else-New York 3un. All goods are alike to PUTNAM FADELESS DYES.BS they color all fibers at one belling. Sold by all druggists. Found the Perpetrators. "Mamma." exclaimed Johnny, tearing Into the house In wild excitement, "isntthis Indian summer?" "Yep, dear," replied hlsmother. "Well, Isaw the Indiana that brought lt! They're over at the rall road depot righ t now." Attention is called to the vory useful articles contained in the premium list of tho Continental Tobacco Co.'s advertisement of their Star Plug Tobacco in another col umn of this paper. It will pay to savo the "8tar" tin tags and so take advantage of the best hst ever issued by the Star Tobacco. PIBO'S Cure for Consumption relieves the mostobstluate coughs-REV. D. BUCHMUEL liEn, Lexington, Mo., February 21, 1891. Condensed Milk. "Yes," 6ftld Httl*3 Amy's aur.r, "you sbMl come to the country and sec me milk the cows." "What's that, auntie?" "Why, that's how we get mU.'i for our cof fee for breakfast." "Obi" said Amy, knowingly, "we do it with a tin opener!" The best remedy for Consumption. Cures - Coughs, Colds, Grippe, wVrU D Bronchitis, H oars e J- m ness, Asthma, Whooping cough Croup. Snaall doses; quick, sure results. Lr, Bult s Pilh curt CoHflipatioH, Trial, so/orjc SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A new method for overcoming lessness has been suggested bj fessor J. H. Baldwin. It consists in trying to picture another person as asleep. The more clearly the other person's sleep is pictured, the stronger becomes the subjective feeling of drow siness. Professor Nussbaum of Hanover claims that the plastering of walls seriously affects the acoustic properties of a room. The admixture of saud with plaster spoils the reverberation of tones. The best results are obtained by using pore gypsum that has been heated to white heat The sponge which grows either on rocks or directly upon sandy bottom is encased in a jet black membrane. When the sponge grows in caves or under rooks away from the sun the membrai'" is pale in color, but it always is full of a thick milky fluid. As the sponge is torn by hand or cut from its roots the diver gives the mern* brane a squeeze that bursts it, the milk being scattered over the bottom. The milk is vile smelling and pro duces an eruption wherever it touches the human flesh, but the operation of scattering the milk is considered very necessary and also a diver's duty, since the Ashers believe that it holds the seed of the sponge. A new textile plant is being experi mented with in Russia, says United States Consiil Atwell of Eoubaix. This is the "Apocynum venetum," a bush about six foet high yielding a silken fibre. It grows in Europe, Siberia, Asia Minor, North of India, Manchuria and Japan, and" it has long beeu used by the Turcomans in the manufacture of cords and woven goods. It has never been cultivated, aud grows best in laud under water for part of the year. The fibre has great strength nud its cultivation would require no care. In 1895, the Russian govern ment began to use it for bank-note paper, and tho results were so excel lent that the plant has since been cul tivated at Poltava. In England, as is well known, the resources of the mining engineer are often taxed to their utmost in the en deavor to work coal and iron mines on a paying basis. The latest instance of this is afforded at the Hodbarrow mines in Cumberland, where it is pro posed to build a large sea embank ment, to keep the sea out of the workings of the mines. Ton years ago a wall was built, costing more than $600,000, but the proposed work will go much further out in the water, and will be 9750 yards (3.8 miles) in length, enclosing a large tract of land, under which the iron mines will, be worked. The ore here is a rich one, and well worth the enormous outlay of mouey required, as it has been proved to exist in vast quantities. The estimated cost of the new work is $2,500,000. Perhaps nothing so well illustrates the accuracy of modern astronomy as the receut investigations into the vari ation cf latitude. Professor Charles R. Doolittle, director of the Flower observatory of the University of Penn sylvania, announces that the result of a long series of individual determina tions shows that the latitude of Phila delphia varies about forty feet an nually. Thotsuch a small change can be recognized is certainly one of the triumphs of science. The first sus picion that there was a systematic va riation in latitude was aroused by cer tain observations made at Berlin in 1884-85. This result was subsequently confirmed by investigations set on foot in various parts of Europe, as well as Honolulu and Cordova. Dr. S. C. Chandler has shown that the matter can be explained by supposing the earth's axis to revolve in an exceed ingly small elipse about its mean po sition, the period of revolution being about 427 days. The greatest p ;si ble change in the position of the pole is not mbretban twenty yards, so that it will be seen that no very startling rt^ults are likely to follow the discov ery. It is just possible, however, that the matter may be developed into something or importance in the case of boundary lines which are fixed by latitude determinations. The most striking fact is the emphasis on the point that nothiug knowu to astron omy is fixed or immovable, not even thc position of the earth's axis from year to year. Truth und Fahle About tho Carnet. There are many fables told about the camel. Riding him is supi?osed to make people seasick. He has the reputation of being very vicious. He is supposed to have several stomachs, and to go for several weeks without water as a matter of choice. I can only say that iu nearly four years of experience I have never met with a case of seasickness or heard of it; neither have I kuown a really vicious camel, except wheu they are in a state called hythe Arabs "saim," which means "t'astiug, " and corresponds to the "rutting" periods in stags. As regards tho camel's stomach, I believe it is identically the same as that of any other ruminant, or that, at any rate,there is no formation of stomachs which would enable him to do with out water. His abstinence is merely the result of training, and it is a fallacy to sup poue that he is better without water or can work as well. In tho camel corps we watered our camels every second day in the summer, every third day in the wiuter, giving them their fill of water morning and even ing ou those days, but if iu the sum mer we expected a long desert march without water, wo trained them be forehand by only watering every third day. . But I never found that this im proved their condition. The Arabs keep their camels longer without water, it is true, but theu they travel slower, and their auimnls are grazed on soft food, containing a certain amount of moisture. This lowers their condition and makes them in ferior to a corn-fod camel when hard work and long, fast journeys have to be done. We always found that if we put a grass-fed Arab camel alongside of ours it failed in work and endurance. If corn-fed, it cried out for water as soon and sooner than ours did. I say 'cried out," because a camel, when it wants water, moans continually, and there is no more painful sound at night in tho desert thau the ceaseless moaning of thirsty camels.-Cornhill Magazine. An Anglo-Saxon. Simson-Willie, where did you get that black eye. "It's all right, pop. I've only been civilizing the boy next door. "-Tit Bits. The death rate from disease in the D?ttch navy in 1898 was only 3.55 pet 1000. There vore four suicides. Eighteen daatba were caused by cholera. Laying a Cable With Locomotive? A locomotive cable layer was cm ployed recently In relaying the tele graph cable connnectlng Randall's and Ward's Islands with the Bronx dis trict in New York v-.ty. The distance across Bronx Kills was 600 feet," and the new cable weighed about three tons. The method pursued was as follows: The cable was stretched across Randall's Island In the line of crossing and 1,000 ?eet of V/? inch rope was attached to it and led to a powerful freight locomotive, stationed on the track running across St Ann avenue, and this rope was passed over a snatch block, placed on the line. When all was ready the locomotive moved off and the cable was pulled across in ll minutes 33 seconds, though the strain on the rope was considerable as the cable pushed through the muddy river bed.-Engi neering News. Tbe Jewels of Meoelek. The Emperor Menelek continues his orders, and has the ambition to form a crown of Incomparable jewels. Neck laces for himself and his wife, brace lets to adorn the wrists, the arms and the ankles, rings in large quantity, dia dems with very beautiful diamonds, have been selected from the richest fording to the latest eccentric fashion, will receive sixteen diamonds specially prepared to be inserted In false teeth. As a detail of luxury not yet adopted by Parisians, superb diamonded gai ters will complete her adornment. Prosperity for 10OO. Indications everywhere point to great'pros perity tor tho coming year. This ls an Invar iable sign of a hoalthy nature. Tho success of a country, os well as tho success of an individual, depends upon health. There cari be no health il the stomach ls weak. If you havo any stomach trouble try Hostetter's Stomach Bittors which cures dyspopsla. indi, gestion and biliousness. It make? streng, vigorous men and women. Montreal's Big Church. All the exterior of the great Sacre Coeur Church, in Montmartre, has been completed, and the scaffoldings which have marked the hill for MI many year-* will be soon taken down. So far the church has cost about $P,500.00O and as much moro will be needed before the decoration is finished. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by ilall'e Catarrh Cure. F. J. COENET <fc CO.. 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