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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA tu C. ?AtN?, Pr?Tt F. G. FO?D, Citehler. Capital, $250,000. ?Hdmdld'ir^flt? } $110,000 L fad?itj.oB of. oiir ri?aeH|fic*iit ,#e* .Vanlt 5??talnici 410 t?fety-Look irfoxeA pifies. ?ent Sisea aro ottered-to oiir patrons the public at $3.00 to $10.00.per annum. and VOL. LXVII. ?fl*?ftr irV ?rV fftt rflr ?Ai rfh A ? jfo ?fe irY AAA AAJLA A .? ~* A V1?T?M_ how th's Captain of i he Co By join X ^ftip Sari( Antonio >vas ? squ?re:stsrd ?<l| liender funneled coaster, not beau; ti?iil or shapely, but-profitable. Sc profitable, indeed, that she was now being painted and her skipper had goae . East to get married. To the friends of Captain Van Olin da th's two facts wtre indicative of a revolution. To think that the grimy San Anton' should glory in fresh col ore! To think thr. her st'ff-toggctl, neav^-h?fidenV hcarse-vOiccd tyrant sii?ul? take" ft wife! Now that the day approached when tile bridal g?if wer? expected, the mate and ?ngineer grew strangely uneasy: "I don't like it .i bit}** said the mate: "I tell you, Beti; wlveh ft scarred old ruffian like the Skipper .gets ? ttife, there's trouble brewing. Why, he can't even get along with usV' Sen Harris, the chief engineer,- grunt ed amiably; "Oh, you take it toe hard, S?iii. One 'ud think it was you, in stead of Van, that was getting spliced: ti won't ih?ke any such1 tremendous difference lb you and me: We'll just WOrk oil twenty-four hours S day",- same1 as. usual: Old man m?y b??f ftrdund a little more? may tat thc rdesp-boy a little oftener, but I reckon we'll make about the sallie number ot* revolutions j?r minute; Nothing make;, much dif ference t? me, s' long as I have boilers in??e 6f tomato-tirlS: i horrify t? think what'll happen some d?y when they get really het up." "Go on," grumbled the mate; "you sit around in any old weather and watch your stew-pans, and run that egg-beater engine of yours, while I'm tfylng to tell by the color of the wa ter wher? W?,'r? ?tj find hanging Old clothes Oft ? rotten clothes-line to try Rftd claw1 ?lt a l?e-shor?i And" theil, when the old man firi.ls We've go^ie back twenty miles instead di fetching fifty, he blames me." "So he does, so he docs. And 1 I s'boee you'll be pretty pore when they J b?.twO of 'eflt to ?uss youi Likeiv I sa ar en ni 'et do mi an; i D? tw? of 'etti tO cuss youi Likely eil6?gh the flew niissuB is ten feet long, ftlld has an arm ?s he?vy as ? packidg c?s?. But she cafi't fool with me* If Bh? d?e?, i'll accidentally r6ck up against the mai?-ateam ?ht scald her to death. Bay' Sam, have ye got some good, Stiff putty? The donkey-boiler's got a hole in it, ana I'd like to patch it I've used up all the oiler's shoes ?lre?djf Oft th&t h01e: Somehow, leath er won't hold.'' The mate gave no response to this pleasantry,_and Went forward to hit Jc?wk^d wac was over-anxi?nslv tlgnteniit? a fa.tf_ --=-r"?.? :rrVviT,>. VB? nUTvrit were brc Sar San An^ let war quit of." Tl wan casie "fi a bi Staci Th gin'es sm?l "Pres in" o prog astoi supe tion "C chee han wit! bit w?i ho\ coe to his I'n that Captain and Mrs. Van Olinda were met at tte-gangw ay of the San Antonio by th$ matai Hello, Sam!" shouted the skipper. "How's every-thing?" "First-rate? sir," answered the mate, with one;eye on the "missus." "Sab, this is my-wife, Mrs. Van Olinda," said the captain, proudly. "Mrs. Van, this ie Mr. Twizzle, my mate." "Mr. Twizzle, I'm glad to meet you," mah responded the lady. "1 "So'm I," said the mate, after a pause feeb of desperation. For the lady, into whose face he was looking, was a cool wholesome, clear-eyed matron of per- han haps thirty-five-thc opposite of all he had.fancied. The husband did not no tice his mate's embarrassment, but in stentorian notes he was calling: "Ben! Ben Harris! Hang you, Ben, where mo do you keep yourself?" ter The engineer rose out of the engine room depths and walked steadily up with outstretched hand. "Glad to see you back, sir. Congratulations-com pliments"-this last to the lady. "Mr. Harris, I'm pleased to make your acquaintance," said Mr's. Van th? Olinda, without waiting for her hus band, bu "Hope you'll never regret it," an- fo swered the chief, politely. He, too, was surprised, but he plumed himself st on never showing his feelings. VJ It was late that evening before the San Antonio reached her new place- bx on San Francisco water-front. When a all was fast for the night, the mate and. ft engineer washed away the most of the grime, and went aft to dinner. The lit- P tie saloon was spick and span in new ci white paint, and, to the mate's dis gust, an inadvertent placing of his * hand on the bulkhead left a smut un- f mistakable. , "And I just washed it," a he muttered to the engineer. "P'raps it was th? other one," sug- c gested the chief. < This did not mend matters, nnd they devoured their meal in silence. But < with a full stomach there usually steals 1 over the normal. man a sense of the 1 completen of Jife. and a vague ap preciation of blessing. Both the offi cers of the San Antonio yielded to this, and over their pipes they sought each the other's opinion on the new mistress of their ship. "She's too good for him," said Har ris, finally. "I'm not so sure of that." replied Twizzle. "It doesn't lower any wo man to marry a good, skillful seaman. And he evidently sets his course to please her. They're gone to the play tonight." ' So the rr. ess-boy told me v hen I was cleaning up." "Well, now, Ben, doesn't .hat show he's bound to do the square thing? Not but that I agree with you that she's all right. Somehow, she reminds me of my mother." "Lookee here," suggested the mate. ' ''The old skipper's married, see? What's to hinder us getting a few wed ding presents ourselves? I need new stores-sails and such-and you are forever cussln' your boilers. D'ye s'pose we could get 'era?" "Sort o' mean," answered the engi neer, "sort o' mean to mix her up with our troubles. Though, by jinks, she , will be mixed up anyway if the lid ever comes off those pots below. We don't know but what he might welcome some trouble like that. Marriage is uncer tain In its effects on some people." For thre days they stowed cargo foi a run north to Portland, and the cap tain watched "operations without anj suspicion that his vocabulario matt and tinkering engineer had eonsplret OP REFOR?l. aster San Antonio Was Undone. *lemin? Wilsorb \ j. against liiriS fer his oWR good1: The li ? I case was io'wcred irito the. .Hold; t last unruly bundie of iron blalsphem into its place, and the San Antonio p out into the channel and headed for tl Golden Gate. It was clVur and war; and under the declining sun the bi stretched into a shimmering glory < dazzling, sparkling beauty. Mrs. Va Olinda answered her husband's call an came up to the ridiculously sinai Bridge: With quiet eyes she watch ed th-? ?cdemn ferfy-b??t? truffle by the ?hiys* iying in th? i-tream .wi tl yards trimmed tb ? h?ir, the busj moles; fioniiheered 6ver By lif/sy eoal craft; and above, and about,- and through all the wonderful light of the sud: W>th a gesture of comprehension of wh?t ail this was t? Ile to her, she put one hand over the i ?ugh fist bf her husband; TH? mate turned modestly away, but h? heard Her murmur'} ''Oh, Van, how I love this!" That night Twizzle sought Harris iii the engine-room, and, after relating the abov? event, asked his opinion on it: "D'ye reckon he's goiflg to fufl her :d suit fiiiri?elf?" he said in codci?sio?: Th? ?hief swung himself ?pob ad )il-barr?l lashed i? the corner, ?nd lit tis pipe. "Who knows?" he said; inally. "I don't;" the mated admitted. "Weli, i'll tell ye what I think. I ling ail Women ?re very easy han led, if you kndw h?w tb get ?bo?t "How do you go about it?' "Um-m-several have wondered." id the engineer. "Personally, I have i opinion that they're summat like gines, Look after 'em, keep 'em run ng id clear water, don't let 'era race nselves sick, ?nd-whatever else ye -never take your eyes-Off 'em ort? nute? COax, Wheedle, pet, talk nice, ? never cuss; Save your cussili' fOi dace where it'll do good.'* If Van ever cusses her," the mate >ke out, "I'll hit him sure as I'm Quel Twizzle." You're racing flow; shut off steam, i. It's not your business, nor mine, /way, that ifen't the question^ And me tell ydu?" continued Harris* mly, "that you'll get into trouble :ker that w?y than any way I know ie mate felt foolish and started to 1 the deck. "We might suggest oc mally," he hinted, 'h, yet, Suggest if you like-not ld ide?^tji?t__*Yj^^ r u t; s tl H ii; (a th fie Mi yo in ?yo\ 1 b ne; thi vit at cai no ste ri< bi sa jo If d< e: a r y i c f e next day:the chief- left the en ; in charge of his assistant; and ted a pipe on tho forward deck, ently he thought he would look lr the 'cook and see how malters reused in the galley. To his utter lishment ?ic found Mrs. Van Olinda rintending some culinary opera that was wholly strange to him. !ome in, Mr. Harris," she said rily, "come in, and try some mar ide." ?arma?ad?!" gasped the engineer, ly. ?es; I'm making it myself. It's not yet, but it's good. Here-" She ded him a piece of bread covered a the delectable preserve, and he into it wonderingly. "Yes," she it on, "we people from Iowa knoW v to make things like that. To rrow I'm going to make apple-but Why don't you leave it to the >k?" he asked. 'To that'dirty man?" Why, I had tell him just now to go and wash i handy. He doesn't know anything, i going to get a good kitchen-girl it'll keep things decent." . The engineer gazed at her critically, t his thoughts were too profound r expression. "You haven't a big kettle down airs, have you, Mr. Harris7" Mrs. Ul Olinda inquired with anxiety. "I can't let you have the donkey >iler," said Harris, gravely. "It's got hole in it, but I might patch it up ir you." "Is it copper or iron? You know ap le^-butter ought really to be made in Dnper." "I'm afraid it wouldn't do them, Irs. Van," responded the engineer, earing he had gone too far. It's iron, .nd rather dirty." "I'm sorry, Mr. Harris, for all the look's pots are too small. It might lo, even if it is iron." Ben Karris, with a face of prodigi ous solemnity, thanked her for the narmalade, and descended hastily to iiis own realm. An hour later the mate came down, !K>O full for speech. Harris, who was reading a novel with one eye on his engines, looked up at him inquiringly. "Anything happened?" "Ye know, Ben, how filthy the foc's'le is?" "Never was in it" "Well, it's dirty. Ye see, the deck above it isn't well caulked, and the skipper never would have it done. The water that comes in doesn't hurt cargo, so there's no money lost." "What of it?" growled the engineer "What of it! Why, the missus snoop; for'ard, see's a new place she's no been into, and down she goes. Thei up she comes." "Are ye sick?" "Go topside and look." With thi the mate collapsed. Ben Harris shut his book on a bit c waste (to keep the place), and wer slowly up the ladder. When he thru! his head out of the door that gave c the deck he looked forward. A hal dozen dirty sailors squatted dumbly c their blankets, while the captain ai his wife faced each other in anger. "Filthy hole," si.? hoard Mrs. Vi Olinda say, "and tho.? men sleepii there! I wouldn't put : dog into cellar like that." "Plentv good enough for dec hands," her husband responded. "I won't have it on this ship,' torted his wife. "That's settled. Tl place has got to be scrulb'd and pai ed before they set foot bn it again.' "But-" the skipper* protested; "No 'buti' about it." me Captain glared ?rd?ttd, B.D. caught an urie?sy grid oil a sailor f?c-a: ''Yd? dirty scare-crow," li thundered, "jump down there and clea, that dut; ail of y?: jump! What d'y mea? by keeping your end di trie shi] in such condition? Fly, now!" The sailors tumbled around, and UM e?gifi?fer withdrew his head. "Thal settles il," ii? nl?'rmhred to himself ist "Now for new ridii?rsV' he Thai evening the captain tailed dowri ed {bespeaking tube td the engineer: ut . "I'?ni .going to bring r?y .t?ife down ie to see the engines. Is it ali fight?" n. "Sure." With this answer, Harris iy called the oiler and told him to wipe )f down the railings on the ladders, n The captain and his wife were receiv d ed most gallantly by the chief. The ll motion of the steamer was very gen - tie, and tho machinery ran smoothly :; and Very evenly. Mr?. Van Olinda i iook?d and adnirt?d. Harii? had never T approved of "wornen-foik messing ? around art engine," but he carefully j I ooricc?lefl any such feeling, if he ex perienced wit. on this Occasion. ''Is there any danger?'" asked Mrs. Van, as scon as she recovered from her first curiosity. ''Norie in particular," said Harris, with ? Very apparent attempt at evas i?n. "Norie, iii particular!" sin- echoed. "Is there any? Might the boiler ei plode?" "Not exactly explode," responded the engineer Slowly, "The'boilers"are too oki for that Tiu.r? wouldn't be much pop td them. They'd just oppn out sort of gentle and easy.- No; they wouldn't explode." The skipper figeted violently, but > the chief did not (apparently) notice it. * "But the f-team would come out?" ' She cdrltimi?d, ? ''Yes.- iri?'?iflj it come? out now. Of c course, it would corrie Out- more then, ii and kill, whoever was dowii lier'.1." fl Mrs. Van Olinda moved back hastily, a "We had steam heat in our house in a: fowa," she explained, "but I never ti inew it was dangerous.'^ - "Oh, then you would~n't mind this Ot ittle affair. Why, I s'pose this would- ? ft heat that house, even if we fired ? p extraordinary. Do tell, to think ? hat after living iii a house with real O team heat, you should care to soe ? lis." Harris's voice was very gentle. p1 'e was talking for the skipper's bene- $ t. But retribution was swift. Q QA "I imagine," the captain rSxred out i-? itel long repression). "I imagine vou I T mk this is funny," ',, "Funny: ? ftnythi R Harris u Proraii 1-lT-tOi horror. Yes, to n i put tha ope it wi 'Excuse i ?r hastil: ng." He ?itors were gone. But his soul was peace. A couple of hours later the titain appeared alone. Harris looked n-committal, and handled a heavy ;el spanner gently. But his supe )r was past fighting, and simply eathed heavily. "I think, Ben." he id. presently, "that you might have ked about something else." "Look out for that main steam-pipe, you lean on it, it'll break, sure." "Hang you and your engines! Why I 3a't you keep them in repair?" I "If you can find anything about my * agines, Cap'n Van Olinda, that ain't ll repair, and re-pair, show me it. ve nursed your blasted pots and pans_ list as long as I'm going to. Anybody tut me couldn't make that heap of heap tinware turn a peanut-roaster.' ttt* "Well, why didn't you say so be- ? ore," growled the slapper. ba "Say so! Haven't I said so? Then tbi rou risk your wife down here, and J ion't want her death on my head." wi "She seems to 1 e afraid of your life. ?D She don't know me, you old lummox!" "Does she still want-the donkey-boil- ^ er to make apple-butter in? I ain't got any further use for it." The captain turned away, but half Is way up th? ladder he stopped. "Bm," ff he said meekly, "III pu' new boilers in her next dip. I'll be clean broke, but I'll ito it. Twizzle has already made a list as long as a woman's tongue of what he wants. Now, let itie tell you. Ben Hams," he w^nt on with sudden temper'. "Don't you ask me for anything more. Yo won't got it while I'm boss." - This is the h is toi y of t he reform of the Sun Anton", instituted by Ben j pamin 'Harris, engineer, and Samuel I Twizzle, mate.-San Fi inc ?seo Argo? j nant. Cnrion? Os? of Snperntltinn. A singular example r:f supersti". was made public-recently through the medium of the law courts at Berlin. A tree growing opposite the gateway of a farmer was noticed to be wither ing away and dying. On further in vestigaron it was found that a deep hole had been bored in it, probably by some person who wished to kill it. As the trep somewhat incommoded the entrance lo the farmer's house he was charged with tho deed and fined. Ho, however, appealed to a higher court and succeeded fn proving that the hole had been bored by some superstitious person who believed in the obi super stition that if illness attacks a house hold it can be driven away by "bury ing" it in a healthy tree. A hole is bored in the tree and all kinds of med icines are buried in the hole, which is then carefully stopped up. amid the rtnging of weird incantation?. This could have been done by any supersti tious person in thc neighborhood, the farmer pointed out. The judge ac quitted him. No Iwpon?l?t?ncy. Ding-Miss Boude is nothing if not up-to-date; yY- know she refused Chol ly by wireless telegraphy. Dong'-A woman's no is often yes. "But this was a 'yess-less' no!"-Bal tlmore Herald, re- I .. ,~~ ut> j cently drlv?fi ashore ar. Juan les Pim f j near Antlbes, ail Unprecedented occu \ renee on ?hat part of- the Med.terrai ?jv 1 I?? coast: _ ul !k j BRINGING HOMj; The Grewsome Work ? ] Pus The work of thc Burin 1 Corps otp \i anion;; the most uninviting tasks tf hclosed in massive deal cases are SUE he Burial Corps proceeds from station ntcrring the ionia ins and preparing ;e Jnited States. Tho actual work of ri oflins aro placed in rows, one oppit iterring begins all along the li??e. Ti*' rlth irou hooks, and a bottle contain! nd broken opon. The slip is compaq re pl?cetl in a shoot along with th? on Is taken to prevent an j' mistakes* ?XJQGOGOOQCOGOOOGQSGSQCOO ; G 51 ? V AND CUSTOHsil _ . . o; f ?he Sultan ls tho Sovereign, But the ? ? Dato.'? Aro thc Iteal lt tilers. O OC3?OOOGGOOOOCOOOOO'3000? here is not much known of the .nc /??-*-!>.. Twl?iifl nt. Xtlnriowi*" MOROS OF THE .TOLO lao. Even if they did not demand outiou on account of their turbulent tracter and the influence which they re exercised over the population of ise islands, they would still he in csting on account of the tenacity I th which they hold to their beliefs d their adventurous life, as well as cause of the place which their con est occupied in the history of the lilippines. Referring to the Moros of the Suhl lands the Jesuit Father Margadas ys: To begin with their government, A MOBO OF JOIiO Wi ra P'??O AND CRB3E tho Sultan is their sovereign, and hh< absolute arbiter of persons and ev.tf In the whole region subject to his on dates. As a matter of fact he doeso: enjoy so absoluto a power, except) those districts which form his prit domain, and ?n thc districts of t>s< datos (chiefs) who aro his relativco allies. The datos, or feudal lordsir tho actual sovereigns in their citais and they haw subject to their o:r chiefs of lower rank, from am whom they select the "tao moray (good and brave mein or free men A' the others are "sacones" (vassale slaves. As for their warlike and hostile r each .Moro ?s a soldier, and is al} armed with a kris, oampilan or lt ami sometimes with two of those a Ho never leaves thom, not oven \ at rest, but each sleeps with thom Moro soldier is astute and fa r. i cal for his beliefs, obst?nate, cow; u. in ibo open 'ioid. or when he sees und decision on the part of his e and can readily escape, but t R ^SOLDIER DEAD. lufi?l Corps in the Philip tnds. American Army iu the Philippines assumed to human beings: . .Coffins. d from San Francisco to Manila, and ' ) station throughout the islands, d?s m for transportation back to the mining is done by natives. The e each grave, and the work of dis top of the buried coffin is torn ol? ; an Identification slip ls removed with tile death record. The bones ientification slip, and every precau identity - Collier's Weekly. lashing and audacious to the point of erocify when be sees himself surr ounded and unable to escape. Cou picuous for his sobriety, he nourishes limself with a handful of rice, with the hilts which he gathers in the forests, be herbs of the plain and the fish bf be streams. cowing in part at least to the warlike pirit which animates them, the Moros (ave alwavs hoon rm*h*iio??* -* -? liOR SULU) ISLANDS. manuscript, with vignettes and oma inents not lacking in elegance. Those who are condemned to dent! have their heads cut off, or serve th datos as targets for their revolvers, c as objects for trying the edges of tbei krlses or tombions. Sometimes the are given over to the populace, who cu them to bits with kris blows struck i tune to a certain dance, during wbic each individual strikes the victim. Their costume is similar to that bf tl Malays. It consists of pantaloon which are loose, except in the part b !ow the knee, which fits the legs close] ind a small jacket almost invariably i black color. It is closely Utting ai das tight sleeves. F>oth articles i dress are so fashioned ns not to inte fere with the movements of the wenrt On the head they -wear a 'kercbi rolled Into a turban, and some indi vi uals wear shoes on solemn occasior The chiefs and Important officials dre in silk, embroidered with gold or s ver, and often add a sort of niant with broad sleeves slit open at t end. The distinguishing features the costume of the women are the I tadion, a simple red skirt fastened the waist and reaching to the feet, a a mantle in which the&can envelop t whole body. Frequently they wc only the former or trie latter in nd tion to the short camisa, which read to the waist. Their religious beliefs ore very ci fused, and they greatly neglect th religion, failing to observe the prece; of the Koran in religious, civil a criminal matters. It is rare to am tate a hand as a punishment for r bery, nor do they cut out the tom as a punishment for blasphemy, the other bnnd, they Inflict the de penalty for all sorts of faults, exe MOKO BOYS. for gross immorality, which, novel less, is absolutely prohibited. For the rest their superstitious ridiculous. A cloud which crowns s billi for ?sample, is the ilgn ot death of a ctaf?. He who can seize a snake changing Its'Sk'tn Mri Jflflkc him self Invisible as well, n?ti tfey have many other similar ideas. They' stain, or rather pretend to abstain, from1 eating pork on account of peculiar scru ples? It 1? customary among them to take oath's ty WU Christians,' and they hold lirmly to the b'e'itef that the re ward for this ls a prompt trip' (0 J'rfrtf dise on the back of a white horse. 'Phelp defensive arms are a circular or elipt?c??i Sfe?ltd for the body, or big enough to cover i?? WhttlQ person. The shield ls either made of woc7?? ffi#iffl or is covered on the outside with b?&?io hide. From this same hide which, wilvil well cured Is extremely hard, they ?rJrtJifc brennt plates and helmets. Tiley' have filtro ?onie coats of mail, al Ihongh Hot many'. Their arms of of fense are either arm's ot' steel Weapons. Among the former are cafitioiis, of which" they possess a great variety. They neglect them greatly, as they do their rifles and shot guns, except for one cannon, which in cadi fort occu pies a chosen position anjd which they regard as the principal one, trusting in it superstitiously for defense and vic tory. G'Ul Vf HMS of great length have been taken from them occasionally. Some people have wondered that they have had and still have artillery lu abundance, but in addition to the fact that it is obtained easily in Borneo when they need it and at other points, and that they took possession of all they used to lind in the- numerous ves sels whieh they captured, when, strong MOB03 OF THE INTE1U0K. MM. .ju.diijeoB UL minigin, tuugiiiiijj .ti tile strokes of his opponent. It seems that he flees when he suddenly rushes furiously at his opponent and hardly has he delivered his blow when he is seen ten paces away, leaping and whirling again, all of this accompanied by sharp cries and horrible grimaces, which serve, according to thom, to con fuse and alarm the adversary. Collisions at Sea Prevented. .To venture a guess as to the nature of the odd-lookiu.?? machine shown in the picture one might say it was a torpedo or a submarine boat. Neither , of these guesses is right, however, as the apparatus is the invention of Nich olas Gherassimoff, of St. Petersburg, ADVANCE FEELEn FOU TOE SHIP. Russia, for preventing collisions' at 'sea. As thc majority ol' snell disaster? results from striking an obstruction either on the surface or at a depth les^ than tile draft of the ship, -mid whlcl has not been perceived in l?nv.- or i> due to an error in calculating the posi tion of the ship, this invention is in tended to serve as a never-sleeping ad vano:1 watchman, to apprise the com manding officer of the ship of dange tihcnd. Tile apparatus consists of : double-pointed tubular shell, couta In ing an electric motor, supported hy ; surface float and having a vertical am descending underneath to Hie deptl corresponding to the vessel's ilrafi Two cables leading from the ship t the "feeler" supply the medium throng which the curren! readies Hie moto and returns. When the device come in contact with any solid'substance th current is interrupted and a sign; given on hoard the ship. Tho invente intends that three ol' these feelei shall be used hy a ship, and provide for uso in connection with them a sy tem of projecting arms for sending di feront signals lia ck to the ship to ind cato whet lier tho obstruction is st tionary or in motion, and if tho latte in what direction it is traveling.-Ph adelphia Record. Hallway KuintoycH of th? World. In tho Railway .Magazine some i marka hie ligures are given showing I Immense number :of people employ on railways -throughout S lite worl There are over 4.000.UOO of them-? man out of every .'?WO of the worh entire population works on a railroad and these.tigiiiios ito not include stn or electric rnii\\ay?. Kor thc work 450,001) milos of railway tho avera number of mer. per mile is nine, ibo United StatesT,350.000 of tho 4.UU OOO aro employed. :'* Slate '(Marr?le ilin !&>Icnhonc*. Guernsey lias O:K> .telephone lo eve forty-six inhabitants of the island.. 'X system li i tate controlled, BABY KILLED BY PET CAI >. STRANGE CASE VOUCHED FOR BY DENVER PHYSICIANS. The Animnl CUUH.?.' ?>e?tfl hy Tnlinlinc tho Broatli of Its Littlo fl el lin - How tho Doctor Explain* It-Mont .Stiff (ll Off Theory from a .Scientific Stiindpoint. Th?rfl ls no longer, apparently, any chance to dispute with those who hold the belief that a eat can take the breath of a sleeping cniL-l and cause tao child's deatn. The only question ftow open is how the animal does Its deadly work*. Ever since the recent death of the eight-months-old baby of Gustave Brown, in Denver, Colo., this question has been a dominant topic in Denver homes. With a mother the feeing that a cat can harm her offspring is more than a belief; it is an instinct which for ages has caused the banishment of t^e cat from the same room with the sleeping baby. There is, according to the highest medical authority, not a shadow of doubt that Baby Brown was killed by a large pct maltese cat. The physician who tried to resus citate the child says death resulted from the stoppage of the supply of air io the lungs. The coroner's certificate says death was due to suffocation. The baby and its mother were both in absolutely perfect health, and there is not one chance in a million that the child died of apoplexy or heart uisease. The circumstances of the child's death are told by the mother as fol lows : "About the middle of the forenoon I put the baby in its carriage for its morning nap, and, as i have always done, left him in the back yard with tiie parasol lowered to keep the light out of his eyes and to prevent the ad mission of too much cold air. I had a man engaged to clean the house and was so occupied that I did not run out to look at the baby as often as I gen- L ?rally did to see that he was well cov ered and sleeping quietly. "At noon when we were at luncheon I left the table to look toward the baby's carriage, and at that moment I saw the parasol moving. I thought the baby had awakened. "He wan ?n -* a mane 01 UI?II5UICUK.UV KM_ white face." This part of Mrs. Brown's story is corroborated by Mrs. F. S. Knox, a neighbor, who also saw the cat jump down from the baby's carriage, and .who ran over to the Brown yard when the mother's scream announced that something terrible had happened. . Dr. PJ E. Waxham was hurriedly summoned, and two other neighbors helped their friend in the effort to restore life to the child by rubbing and by all the other methods they* knew. Dr. Waxham's efforts proved equally fruitless. The child had prob ably been dead, he said; for some time. This startling corroboration of the old theory that a cat can cause a child's . death by sucking its breath has called forth many theories and ex planations. A majority of people believe that the tat put its mouth Into that of the child, who breathed back the animal's breath till suffocation resulted. Dr. Waxham, who was called in the CP "It is my positive belief that death came to the baby in just this way, and to my own satisfaction the old saying is proved. I have heard of death having' been caused in this way before, but I have never believed it until now. This is the first instance that ever came under my observation i or that I have ever heard of directly." The assigned cause for this strange tendency in the cat is that the smell of milk in the child's mouth first in duces the cat to put its own mouth v. ?thin that of the child. As it gets i he taste of the milk it sucks tlu child's breath, and finally becomes overpowered by an unexplainable fas cinatiou. Those who have heretofore scoffer at the old saying hold that the theor;. of Coroner Horan is the most reason able. This is that the cat lay dowr upon the child's face, and the li ttl* one, unable to draw its breath, sooi 'suffocated. Against this must be placed the ar gument that a strong eight-months old boy in a struggle for breath wouli easily displace an animal the size o a cat. The most startling theory from scientific standpoint is that the breat of all animals of the cat family act as a chloroform to all other specie! This theory is explained in an articl published some years ago in a sciei title magazine and preserved in scrapbook by Assistant District-Atto ney T. E. McIntyre, of Denver. Tl article says: "A recent published story criticise the nntion that a cat sucks away child's breath. This is merely an e pression, erroneous in its form, of physiological fact. All the felidi possess poisonous breaths, intendc by nature to act as an anaesthetic c their prey. If a person cares to e I p?riment by inhaling, for instance, 1 cat's breath, he can easily realize tl truth of this statement. Careful watch a cat playing with a mouse, y< will discover that the mouse does n suffer, but is sort of stupefied, as by chloroform. In the "Life of Livir stone." written by himself, of exploi tiona in Africa, he states that ont when ho was seized by a lion and i arm broken, the crunching of t roKen arm gave ww nu lumbed were his senses by the ani ual's breath. "A cat seeks the child, its soft bed. :nd the warmth of its body, and lies lown on the chest of the infant. Its /eight impedes respiration, its* ireath anaesthetizes the child, and leath fellows. This circumstance has ictually occurred, and medical rec irds conclusively -prove it'"-New fork World. HUNTING BEE TREES. rhore'8 a Knack In Locating tho Stow of Honey. "I used to hunt the bee trees when I vas a boy in northern New York," ;aid Assistant Secretary Taylor of the reasury department "It is great ?port and requires art to find the home )f the bees and secure the honey. Wild bees invariably hunt the hollow 3? some tree in which to make their lome and store up honey for the win ier season. "The way I used to find out where i bee tree was located was by going into the woods and fields and taking svith me a little box containing a lid, in the bottom of the box being some honey. With this little box in my left hand I would slip along through the trees and bushes until I found a bee sucking honey from some wnu flower. Taking off the lid of my box, I would quickly knock the bee into the bot tom on the honey, cover it with the lid and let it remain there until it had fi?e'd itself with honey. Then pulling off the lid, I would allow the bee to fly out. "The little insect would generally crawl out on top of the box, look around to get its bearings and then fly off in the direction of the tree. By watching this direction I could get an idea of where the tree might be lo cated. But I.always remained in thc same spot until the same bee came back again and of its? own accord en tered my box lor the honey. Fre quently the bee would bring a com panion with it. Sometimes it did not do so on its first trip back, but always on the second it brought one or more Companions, i ney enjoyed the honey . very muci., and, by watching them fly away, 1 was soon enabled to tell for certain the direction of their tree. Then moving two or three hundred yards in the right direction I would, catch another bee and go through this - - - ..nf H j In the Arctic regions early explorers were astounded to find large areas of I red snow: but the phenomenon is now familiar to men of science, who know ! that red snow, like a green garden I fence, is due to the presence of uni cellular algae, the only difference be ing in the coloring matter of the pro toplasm. It is said that acres of snow ara frequently covered in a single night by these tiny plants. Before the English occupation of India it was estimated that the Ganges carried to the sea every year 1,000,000 dead bodies. It was then considered by the Hindoos that the happiest death was one found in the waves, and all pious Hindoos who could do so were carried to the banks and placed in its waters to die. The decaying car casses along its banks were probably responsible in nn small degree for the pestilences which formerly desolated the peninsula. An eminent violinist, Herr Baker, has recently tested the sensitiveness to music of each of the animals in the soological gardens of Germany. The influence of the violin was the greatest on the puma; whose moods changed rapidly as the nature of the music changed, becoming very much excited and nervous when quicksteps were played. Wolves showed an apprecia tive interest, lions and hyenas were terrified, leopards were unconcerned and monkeys curious. For nine years an aged New Yorker has lived in his wife's tomb in thc Evergreen cemetery. Devotion to her memory has robbed the once powerful, man of all his physical strength and his vitality, sapped by years of bitter exposure, is ebbing away. He has al ways had a melancholy pleasure in sit ting in the tomb by the side of his dead wife, and has found his only hap piness there, for he docs not believe he will meet her in another world. Though he lives in tho tomb the old man does not sleep there. He leaves the cemetery every night and goes to a little room tn a house in Williams burg. Early in the morning he creeps out of his bed and go?s to the ceme tery. "Good morning. Mary." he al ways says to his wife when he enters tho tomb, just as if her deaf ears could hear his voice through the thick walls of her metal coffin. Medoc lake, in' Transylvania, ac cording to a Hungarian chemist, has a very remarkable peculiarity. The sur face temperature in summer is 70 de grees, but at a depth of about four feet the temperature is 132 degrees, which declines to 66 degrees at the bottom. The surface water is fresh, but the warm water beneath is intensely salt. He explains the diflerence in temper ature by saying that, as the specific heat of salt water is less than that of fresh water, the salt water is more eas ily heated by the sun; and, having ris en to a higher temperature than that of the overlying fresh water, it retains its heat because the fresh water pre vents its escape by radiation. With the modern tendency to convert every phenomenon of nature to a practical use, it is suggested that such a reser voir cf heat, might be made of ser vice, particularly as there are other lake* of the same kind In that region.