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?MY MA, SHE KNOWS." " VT P?. ?? ?Colds 1110 iea* k?C.US , ivj I'm gittlu "tough;" gays my face is never r.:?n, y v ii:imia are always rough; rm not .Hihavin like I should. Kn Roln wrong, I B'PQSO. Hui nw. ?be taltes nu i)*,tH ,nT hand An Bttiil"* becuz ?he knows! Uv pa hain't cot no uso for boye; H\. ?vanta 'cm always mon. 1 wonder if be's clean forgot Tho l".v be muBt 'a' been? 7,-r rua, ?'h0 Bnvs they're all alika 'Bout face an hands an clothes. An say* I'1' learn to bo u man; An rna-J guess shu knowsl uT ?a, ho says ? ain't no good " At "I""1 o-iytlnng; rd ruthcr fool sway tho time An whistle, play an Fing; But ni'Ji ?'1"' ?miles aM ^ay? I'T young, ?n then UP an ?oes An kisses me nn shows mo how, t\r mu, you bet sho knowsl ?jv pn. Ii" say? I'*' never bo X business man like him, twuz I hain't got any "drive" An "ge* "P." "pluck" an "vim;" But mu, sho says, so solernnlike, A man's a boy that Brown, An boys must have their playln spell. Au ma's a trump an knows I Uv ps, ho shakes his head an sighs An cays he doesn't see ffbere I get all tho careless ways Tbst seem jes* born in -me, in ma, she laughs an ianghs on laughs. Xiii pa's foco crimeon grows, An then she says, " 'Tisser/ queer," But somehow ma, sho knowsl Hy mn. she knows most-every thing ?Bout boys an What they Uko; ghe'a never scoldin 'bout the xuusz I make with kites.on bike; Bho says sho wanta mo to be good An conquer all my foes, An you jes' bet I'm goin to bo, ?Cuz my sweet ma, she knowsl -Birch Arnold in Detroit Journal. DV RUDYARD KIPLING. They tell the tale even now among be eal groves of the Berbnlda hill and ?for corroboration point to the roofless ??cd windowless mission house. The Tent god Dongara, the god of things as hey are, most terrible, one eyed, bear ng'tlie red elephant task, did it all, nd lie who refuses to. believe in Dun ra will assuredly be smitten by the sadness of Yat-the madness that fell x>n thc sons and the daughters of the torin Kol when they turned aside from undara and put on clothes. So soys ,;!iou Daze, who is high priest of tho ?brine and warden of the red elephant tnik. But if you aBk the assistant col ector and agent in'cbarge of the Buria lo), he will laugh-not because he ars any malice against missions, but canse he himself saw the vengeance ^Dongara executed npon the spiritual hildren of the Rev. Justus Krenk, pas of the Tubingen mission.'and upon otta, his virtuous wife. Yet if ever a man merited good treat nent cf the gods it was the reverend [listas, on<2 time of Heidelberg, who, on he faith of a call, went into the wil dness and took the blond, blue eyed etta with him. "We will these hea ben now hy idolatrous practices so dark ned better make, " said Justns in the rly days of hi? career. '4 Yes. "he add i with conviction, "they shall be good nd shall with their hands to work a. For all good Christians must york." And upon a stipend more mod si even than that of an English lay ador. Justus Krenk kept house/beyond amala and the gorge of Malair, be ftmd the Berbnlda river close to the ot cf the blue bili of Faath on whose cmnrit stands the temple of Dnngara -in tho heart of the country o? the ria Kol-the naked, good tempered. ??mid, shameless, lazy Buria KoL Do yon know what life at a mission Qtpost means? Try to imagine a lone cess exceeding that of the smallest ation to which government has ever ot you-isolation that weighs upon be waking eyelids and drives you per ce headlong into the'labors of the ay. There is no post, there is no one iyonr own color to speak'to? there are i roads. There is indeed food to keep on alive, but it is not pleasant to eat, nd whatever of good or beauty or in fest there is in your life must come pm yourself and the grace that may ?planted in yon. I In the morning, with a patter of soft et, the converts, the donbtf ul and the scoffers troop np to the veranda, lon must be infinitely kind and pa .al. and, above all, clear sighted, for pi deal with the simplicity of child tho experience of man and the bbtlety of the savage. Your congrega on bas a hundred material wants to i considered, and it is for you, p yu "?eve in your personal respons ty . yonr Maker, tc pick ont of the duni ng crowd any grain of spirituality >t may lie therein. If to the*, care of Inls you add that of bodies, your task !? be all the more difficult, for the and the maimed will profess any every creed for the sake of healing will laugh at you because you are opie enough to .believe them. i the day wears and the impetus of . morning dies away there will come on yon an overwhelming sense of the ^essnesa of your toil This must be iven against," and the only spur in ar side will be the. belief that you ?playing against the devil for the [mg son 1. It is a great and a joyous be but he who can hold it unwavering four and twenty consecutive hours st be blessed with, an abundantly ! physique and equable nerve. : the gray heads of thc Bannock medical crusade what manner of ? their preachers lead. . Speak to the feine Gospel agency, those lean Amer ns whose boast is that they go where I Englishman dare follow. Get a pcB fof the Tubingen mission to talk of J experiences, if you can. Yon will be Fred to the printed reports, but contain no mention of the meit bave lost youth and health, all ; a man may lose except faith in the of English maidens who bavo 1 forth and died in the fever strick (langlo of the Pan th bills, knowing the first that death was almo?t a i?nty. Few" pastors wiT? t?l?yoij of things any more than they will BK of that young David of Ht Bees, set apart for the Lord's work, ta down in the utter desolation and led half distraught .to the head ion crying, "There ia no 0od, but jve walked with the devils* tn* reports are silent here, because foiarn, failure, doubt, despair i-r.fi Eabnegation on the part of a mere "ired white man are* things of no wit as compared to the saving of "alf human soul from a fantastic in And Gallio, tno assisiaut collector ut the country aide, "cared for none of these things. " He bad been long in the district, and the Burin Kol loved him and brought him offerings of speared fish, orchids from tho dim. moist benrt of the forests and ns innen game as ho could ont. In retnrn he gave them quinine, and with Athon Dare, the high priest, controlled their simple policies. "When you have been some years in the country, " said Gallio at the Krenks' table, "you grow to lind one creed us good ai another. I'll give yon all the nssistunce in my power, of course, but don't hurt my Buria Kol. They are good people, and they trust me." "I will them the word of tho Lord teach," said Justus, his round face beaming with enthusiasm, "nnd I will ! assuredly to their prejudices no wron* I hastily without thinking make. But, oh, my friend, this in the mind impar tiality of creed jndgment belooking is very bad." * "Heigh-ho 1" said Gallio, V"I have their bodies and the district to see to, I but you can try what you can do for their souls. Only don't behave as you predecessor did, or I'm afraid that I can't guarantee your life. " "And that?" said Tx>tta. sturdily, handing him a cup of tea. . '"He went up to the temple of Don gara-to be sure he was new to the country - and bogan hammering old Dongara over the bead with an um brella ; so the Burle Kol turned out and hammered him rather savagely.- I was in the district, and he sent a runner to me with a note saying : 'Persecuted for the Lord's sake. Send wing of regi ment.' The nearest troops were 200 miles off, but I guessed what he had been doing. I rode to Panth and talk ed to old Athon Daze like a father, tell ing him that a man of his wisdom ought to have known that the sahib bad sun stroke and was mad. You never saw a people more sorry in your life. Athon Daze apologized, sent wood and milk and fowls and all sorts of things, and I gave 5 rupees to the shrine and told Macnamara that he had been injudi cious. He said that I had bowed down in the house of Bimmon, but if he had only just gone over the brow of the hill and insulted Palin Deo, the idol of the Snria Krol, he would have been impaled on a charred bamboo long before I could have done anything, and then I should have bad to have banged some of the poor brutes. Be gentle with them, padri -but I don't think you'll do much." "Not I," said Justus, "but my Mas ter. We will with the little children begin. Many of them will be sick-that is so. After the children the mothers, and then the men. But I wonld greatly that you were in internal sympathies with ne prefer." Gallio departed to risk his life in mending ^he rotten bamboo bridges of his people, in killing a too persistent tiger here or there, in sleeping out in the reeking jungle or in tracking the Suria Kol raiders who bud taken a few beads from their brethren of the Bnria clan. A knockkneed. shambling young man was Gallio, naturally devoid of creed or reverence, with a' longing for absolute power which his undesirable district gratified. "No one wants my post," he uBed to say grimly, "and my collector only pokes his nose in when he's quite cer tain that there is no fever. I'm monarch of all I survey, and Atho? Daze is my viceroy.M Because Gallio prided himself on his supreme disregard of human life though ho never extended the theory beyond his own-he naturally rode 40 miles to the mission with a tiny brown baby on his saddlebow. "Here is something for yon, padri," said he. "The Kols leave their surplus children to die. Don't see why they shouldn't, but you may rear tbis one I picked it up beyond the Berbnlda fork. I've a notion that the mother has been following me through the woods ever since." "It is the first of the fold,' said Justus, and Lotta caught up the scream* lng morsel to her bosom and hushed it craftily, while, as a wolf hangs in the field, Matui, who had borne it and, in accordance with the btw of her tribe, had exposed it to die, panted wearily and footsore in the bamboo brake, watching the house with hungry moth er ey ea What would the omnipotent assistant collector do? Would the little man in the black coat eat her daughtei alive, as Athon Daze said was the cns . torn of all men in black coats? Matui waited among the bamboo! through the long night, and in thc morning there came forth a fair, white woman, the like cf whom Matui bac never seen, and in her arms was Matui': daughter, clad in spotless raiment. Lotta knew little of the tongue of thc Buria Kol, but when mother calls t; 'mother speech is easy to understand By the bands stretched timidly to tin hem of her gown, hythe passionate gut tur?is and the longing eyes, Lotta un derstood with whom she had to deal So Matui took her child again-woul< be a servant, even a slave, to thia won derfnl white woman, for her own trib would recognize her no more. An< Lotta wept with her exhaustively afte: the German fashion, which include much blowing of the nose. ' "?irat the child, then the mother and last the man, and to the glory o God all, ' ' said Justus the hopeful. Am the man came, with a bowand arrowc very angry indeed, for there waa n one to cook for bim. But the tale of the mission is a loni one, and I have no space to show hoi Justus, forgetful of his injudicious pr ed ecessor, grievously smote Moto, the hue band of M^tui, for bis brutality; hoi Moto waa startled, but, being release from the fear of instant death, too heart and became the faithful olly an first convert of Justus; how the litt] gathering grew, . > the huge disgust c Athon Daze ; how the priest of the go of things aa they are argued subtile! with the priest of the god of things a they should be and was worsted ; hoi the tines of the temple of Dungara fe away in fowls and fish and honey corni how Lotta lightened the carse of Et among the women and bow Justus di his beat to introduce tho curso of Adan . how the Burla Kol rebelled at thia, ea] ing that their god was an idle god, an how Justus partially overcaiuo the: acrnplea against work and taught the: that tho hlanir on?th -ss rich is oi'?, produce than pignuts only. ? All these thinga.belong.to the fcistoi of many months, and throughout tho: months the white haired Athon Das meditated revenge for the tribalnegle <'ofDmiir.-ir?. With rivage.cunning I i-1:-..;.?!? . i U'tiu.-niii tonam ??tJCUS, oven l)ii ;i:;.t :;t his own conversion, bnt to lilt' congregation of Dnngara ho said darkly- ' 'They of tba pa dr i's Hock liavo put < ii clothes und worship u busy god. Then for. Dnnguri) will afflict them grisvpnsS;' till they throw themselves bowling Into the waters of tho Berbnl da." At night th?'rod elephant tusk boomed and groaned among the bills, and the faithful waked and said: "The liod of things as they aro matures re venge against the backsliders, lie mer ciful, Dangars, to us, thy children, and give us all their crops!" Laie in tho cold weather the collector and bis wife came into the Buria Kol country. "Go and look at Krenk's mis sion," said Gallic "Ho is doing good work in bis own way, and I think he'd be pleased if you opened the bamboo chapel that bc has managed to run up. At any rate, you'll seo a civilized Buria Kol." Great was tho stir in - the mission. "Now he and the gracious lady will that we have done good work with their own eyes see, and-yes-wo will him our converts in all their new clothes by their own hands constructed exhibit. It will a great day be-for the Lord al ways, " said Justus, and Lotta said "Amen. " Justus bad, in his quiet way, felt jealous of the Basel weaving mission, his own converts being unhandy, bnt Athon Daze bad latterly induced some of them to hackle the glossy silky fibers of a plant tbat grew plenteously on the Pantb hill. It yielded a cloth white and smooth almost as the tappa of the south seas, and that day the converts were to wear for the first time clothes made therefrom. Justus was proud of bis work. "They shall in white clothes clothed to meet the collector and his well born I:?dy come down singing 'Now thank we all our God." Then he will the chapel open, and, yes, even Gallic to believe will begin. Stand so, my chil dren, two by two, and-Lotta, why do they thus themselves scratch ? It is not seemly to wriggle, Nala, my child. The collector will be here and be pained." The collector, bis wife and Gallio climbed the hill to the mission station. The converts were drawn up in two lines, a shining band nearly 40 strong. "Hah I" said the collector, whose ac quisitive bent of mind led him to be lieve that he had fostered the institu tion from the first. "Advancing. I see. by leaps and bounds." . Never was truer word spoken. The mission was advancing exactly as he bad said-at first by little bops and shuffles of shamefaced uneasiness, but soon by the leaps of fly stung horses and the bounds of maddened kangaroos. From the bill of Pantb the red elephant tusk delivered n dry and anguished blare. The ranks of the converts wav ered, broke and scattered with yells and shrieks of pain, while Justus and Lotta stood horror stricken. "It is the judgment of Dongara!' shouted a voice. "I burn I I burnt To the river or we diel" The mob wheeled and headed for the rocka that overhung the Berbnlda, writhing, stamping, twisting and shed ding its garments as it ran, pursued by the thunder of the trumpet of Dongara. Justus and Lotta fled to the collector almost in tears. "I cannot understand I Yesterday,' panted Justus, "they had the Ten Com mandments- What is thia? Praise tba Lord, ell good spirits by land or by sea. Nalal Oh, shame I" With a bound and a scream there alighted on the rocks above their heads Nala, once the pride of the mission, a maiden of 14 summers, good, docile and virtuous-now naked as the dawn and spitting like a wildcat. "Was it for this I" she raved, hurl ing her petticoat at Justus, "Was it for this I left my people and Dongara -for the fires of your bad place? Blind ape, little earthworm, dried fish that you are,, you said that I should never burn! Oh, Dnngara, I burn now! I burn now 1 Have mercy. God of things as they arel" She turned and flung herself into the Berbnlda, and the trumpet of Dungara bellowed jubilantly. The last of the converts of the Tubingen mission had pnt a quarter of a mile of rapid river between herself and her teachers. "Yesterday," gulped Justus, "she taught in thc school A, B, C. D. Ohl It is the work of satan I" , But Gallio was curiously regarding the maiden's petticoat where it had fallen at his feet. ? He felt its texture*, drew back his shirt sleeve beyond the deep tan of his hand and pressed a fold ol the clotri against the flesh. A blotch ol angry red rose on the white skin. "Ahl" said Gallio calmly. "1 'thought so." - , "What is.it?" said Justus. **I should call it the shirt of Nessus, but- Where did you get the fiber ol this cloth from?" "Athon Daze," said Justus. "He showed tho. boya how it should manu factured be." "The old fox i Do you know that he has given you tbe Nilgiri nettlo-scor pion - Girardenia heterophylla - tc work np. No wonder they squirmed I Why, it stings even when they make bridge ropes nf it, unless it's soaked foi six weeks ?he cunning brute 1 II would take about half an hour to burr through their thick hides and then" Gallio burst into laughter, but Lotto was weeping in the arms of the collect or's wife, and Justus had covered hil face with bis hands. "Girardenia heteTophylla!" repeated Gallio. "Krenk, why didn't you tel me? I could have saved yon thia Woven fire I Anybody but a naked Ko would have known it, and, if I'm i judge of their ways, you'll never get them back." He looked across the river to when the converts were still wallowing nm wailing in the shallows, and the langh tr- died out of his eyes, for he saw tba tho Tubingen mission to the Buria Ko was dead. Never again, though ? they huni mournfully round the deserted achoo for three months, could Lotta or Justu coax back even the most promising o their flock. No; the end of con vere io J was the fire of the bad place-fire tha ran through the limbs and gnawed inti the bones. Who dare, a second tim tempt the anger of Dnngara ? Let tb little -Z?, r.r.d bin yilva go elsewhere The Buria Kol would have nono o them. An unofficial message to Athol Daze that if a hair of their heads wia touched Athon Daze and tho priests o Dungara would be hanged by Gallio a -ho temple shrine protected Justns am uouu irom tue stumpy poisuUeu airu?? of thu Buria Kol, but neither tish nor fowl, honeycomb, salt nor young pig i was brought to their doors any more. And, alas, man cannot, live by grace alone if meat bo wanting! "Let us go, mino wife," said Justus. "There is no good here, and tho Lord has willed that some other man shall tho work take-in good time-in his own good time. We will go away, and I will-yes-some botany bestudy." If any ono is anxious to convert tho Burin Kol afresh, there lies at least tho core of a mission house under the hill of Panth. But tho chapel and school hav^ long sinco fallen back into jungle. Tauicbt Him a I.caaoii. In the lifo of Henry Bradley Plant is a story which shows that mercy may ?O??e?inies ?eioper jusiice to good effect by awakening in an offender a loyalty which he has never before shown. Mr. Plant was one day traveling in a baggage war when ho saw an express man, in handling a box marked "Glass, " turn it wrong side up. "Here!" he called to tho man. "That box is marked 'Glass' and should be kept glans side up, as indicated." "Oh, I know it's marked 'Glass,' " said the expressman, "but I never pay any attention to that." Mr. Plant said no more, but later, when the superintendent of tho office was alone with tho man, he asked him: "Do yon know who that gentleman was who spoke to you ahout tho box marked 'Glass?' " "No, sir." "Well, that was Mr. Plant." "Then tbnt means my dismissal." "I think it does. I shall havo to dis miss you." Later the superintendent said to Mr. Plant, "I shall dismiss that man, of course?" "No," said tho president, "don't dis cbarge him. Call bim into your office and impress it upon him that thut ia not the way the company does its busi ness. He won't forget it. " He did not forget it. No moro loyal employee was to be found in tho com pany. Expected Too Mucli. A well known man who gives much to charity was walking along Grant street when he was accosted by a "pro fessional macer," who said he needed "n dime to get abed." He was'given a quarter. After that the man who gave it was marked. A few days later tho same "macer" met him. "Please, sir," he said, "will you give me a nickel to get a cup of coffee?" Ho was given a dime. The following week the man was stopped again. This time the beggar wanted a "dimo to get somethin to eat. " "See here, my man," said the chari table one, "don't yon think you are pushing this a little too far? It is not so very long ago that I gave yon quarter and again a dime. Isn't it time to stop asking?" "What do you expect of a man, any how?" indignantly asked the "macer. "Do you think I can live on 35 cents for two weeks?"-Pittsburg Newa So Kany to Go Down HUI. A recent traveler, in giving a descrip tion of his climbing Mount Popocate petl, in Mexico, and visiting its crater, pays that he was able to return from the top of the mountain to the snow line in 15 minutes, covering a distance which had required six hours to as cend. One sees things like that cften in common'life. A man struggles for years to build up a good reputation for honesty and integrity among bis fellow men, and then in an unguarded hoar he takes a fatal toboggan slide that hurls him in a single act below where he be gan to climb 20 or 80 years ago. It is those who persevere unto the end who win the crown, and no one can afford to grow careless or to cease to be watchful against temptation.-Homiletic Re view. ll lull t Man In tiie IUsnt Place. Manufacturers' Agent-Is the head buyer up stairs ? Accommodating Employee-No ; he's ont. But the eubseiier is down stairs. -Chicago Tribune._ Too Democratic. "In the senate restaurant," says the Washington correspondent of the Chi cago Record, "pie costs 10 cents, and the waiters levy a tip tax equal to 50 per cent of the Cost of the food con sumed. Cigars are sold two for a quar ter and upward, und it io regarded as an evidence of low breeding to accept change. "Into this aristocratic environment carno one day Associate Justice John M. Harian of the United States supremo court. With ali the impressiveness of bis 6 feet 5 inches and his twp hundred and odd pounds weight, he walked up to the cigar counter and laid down a bright new dime. Then in that deep, full voice, which his son and namesake in Chicago bas found such a valuable legacy ho said. 'Give me a mild 5 cent cigar. ' "Whereupon a poor committee clerk, who had just exchanged his last quar ter for two cabbagios, went nway to ponder on. the democracy of American institutions. " Peculiar Toya. Most mothers, if they were asked, could tell of the love shown by their children for various articles to be found about the house and certainly never intended as toys for children. Ono child will take a violent love for her mother's curling irons ; another will pin his affec tions to the metal pudding mold or the feather duster. As a rule, when the child is discovered with either of these possessions, it is promptly taken away from him, and then follows either keen disappointment er tears and howls, ac cording to the nature of the child. Now, why should not such an article be bought opecially for him as a toy if the possession would give so much pleasure ? It would not cost moro than an ordinary toy and in many cases would be more valued.-New York Telegram. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of - The consciousness of duty per formed gives us music at midnight. TRACING CRIMINALS. THE HANDKERCHIEF AS A FACTOR IN THIS WORK. Sumv Prominent Caxt'i lu Willoh tu?. i,uu?' Siiunrn of i.iiifii Wim it silent but Kflfeotlv? U'vniter o? th?> Kan prrted Culprit. Among thu various exhibits in fa mous criminal eases that have held the civilized world spellbound with their frightful disclosures it is interesting to note bow often an accused criminal's life bas bung, not by a thread, but by threads, by that little square of linen, of lawn, of silk -a handkerchief. "Apparel oft proclaims the man." and there are about a handkerchief cer tain indications that can trace it to its owner, or, rather, vice veisa, by the perfumery or sachet upon it in some instances, by its size whether it bo a man's or a woman's, by initials in one corner, by its quality and by tho laun dry marks upon it. as in the case of tho notorious desperado and stage robber so well remembered by Californians "Black Bart." Ono of the cleverest pieces of detect ive work ever accomplished in this stato was dono in" this cuso by J. B. Hume, special officer for Wells Fargo. When news reached his oftlce on Nov. 3, 1888, that a stuge had been held up and robbed near Tnttleviilo and that a handkerchief and some other articles had been found behind some cliffs near tho placo of attack. Mr. Hume itame diatlytelegraphed to have tho things sent down to him. He carefully inspected the handker chief, a plain hemstitched man's hand kerchief, and noticed a laundry mark in one corner, F x 0 7. Upon this evi dence, a handkerchief with that fatal laundry mark, was Black Bart arrested. Mr. Humo sot to work to find out where the handkerchief had been laun dered, and after several duys of careful inquiry and diligent search it was traced to a laundry down on Bush street kept by a man named Ware. This laun dry office wns ulso o sort of lounging room, with a tobacco stand on one side, and here Black Bart, known there as Charlie Bolton, a mining man and cap italist, spent a great deal of his time. When tho handkerchief was brought to Ware and he was asked to whom it belonged, ho said: "Why. that is Char lie Bolton's handkerchief. Ho brought his laundry hero just before be returned to the mines a short time ago." . Detective Hume sent inutructions for tho arrest cf Black Bart. Black Bart, after j'oars nf depredations, during which time he had rebbed 28 stages and had kept tho stage drivers in con tinual fear of their lives, this clever felon, was at last trapped by a hnndker chief. The shrewd criminal, who had held the sheriff as well as tho Well? Fargo detectives at bay fer so long, did not see that thero was enough differ ence between ono handkerchief and an other to disclose a man's identity and convict him of crime. Two handkerchief figured in the Dunant case. One, identified as belong ing to Minnie Williams, wus found cov ered with blood behind the Emanuel church, where the murders were perpe trated. The Botkin poisoning case will go down as one of tho strongest cases in the criminal records of California o? tho conviction of a murderer based on circumstantial evidence. What the key stone is to the arch so is tho 25 cent handkerchief sent in that fatal box o? poisoned candy to tho chain of evidence in this famous case, a case where all tho eloquence of California's most bril liant lawyers, could not swing the jury to tho side of acquittal. The important part a handkerchief played in this case was apparent when one saw how hard the attorneys for the defense worked for days on that one bit ot evidence, trying in every way possi ble and impossible to break tho testi mony of tho woman who sold the hand kerchief to Mrs. Botkin. If that little cheap embroidered handkerchief had not been slipped into that box of choco lates Mrs. Botkin might be walking the streets of San Francisco today a free woman. A handkerchief convicted her-a lit tle white square of linen sent her to a cell with a blackened character, where she will exist pans friends, sans hope, sans name, sans everything! Mrs. Whitten, a famous woman crim inal in New York, was finally captnred and imprisoned by the aid of a certain perfumed handkerchief. Sho reeided in a large and fashionable boarding house, and at frequent intervals valuable pieces of jewelry had been stolen from the various guests. The woman, who was afterward convicted cf the crime, was never suspected, as she, too, claim ed to be having her valuables stolen from her room. Detectives were put to work on the case, and finally they traced the culprit by means of a handkerchief, dropped in a hasty retreat from one cf the rooms. The detective to whom the handkerchief was given noticed upon it a peculiar perfume, a subtle odor used at tho boarding house only by Mrs. Whitten, and to her tho handkerchief was traced and then the crime. Persons who have committed suicide by jnmping off ferryboats have, In many cases, destroyed every othel means of identification except theil handkerchiefs. These, thoughtlessly ri* tained and bearing certain initials ol marks, have led to the disclosure of tb? suicide's name.-San Francisco Call. A Flt Guaranteed. Customer (at shirt counter)-Here's a shirt I bought of you the other day. It's too small for me. I tore it trying to put it on. Salesman-That's too bad, but you've spoiled it, so we can't take it back. I'll tell yon what you can do, though. Qc over to the drag department, and yon can get a small bottle, of antifat for 10 cents.-Chicago Tribnne. - The oldest university in the world is at Peking. It is called the "School for the Sons of thc Empire." Its an tiquity is very great, and a granite register, consisting of stone columns, ?120 in number, contains the names of ?50 OOO" gr--uatcs. Happy is the man or woman who can eat a good hearty meal without suffering afterwards. If you caunot do it, take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests what you eat, and cures all forms of Dyspepsia and Indigestion. Evans Pharmacy. SPLITTING BANK NOTES. The Propra! IM Simple Kiiouffh When Vuu Knun How. Somo years ago tho commercial world was taken aghust by tho announcement that a certaiu Hcicnt?iiu man could ac tually split a bunk note so exactly into halvert that it was impossible to distin guish tho separate pieces of paper from genuino notes. The authorities ?>f the Dank of Lng land took alarm, for it appeared that this invention would speedily open tho way to a now kind of frand. Th? imi tation ?if thu engraved plate, however well performed, was always discover able by experienced eyes, ami he must be a good forger indeed who could pre pare the paper on which the plato wan printed sons to imitate^ the peculiar water marks on tho Danie of Englaml notes with anything liku success. Hut here was a discovery which set at naught tho precautions of paper makers, engravers and printer?. It was really a serious matter. A long correspondence ensued between tho proprietor ?if tho Beeret and the ofllcials of the hank, tho former asking a largo sum of monoy for bis knowledgo and tho latter requiring actual proof of bia abibty to perform tho alleged feat. Paragraphs began to appear in tho newspapers, and public attention was drawn to what seemed a very extraor dinary fact-that the thin tissue paper of which a liank noto is ?-?imposed could really be divided into two leaves, lt be came necessary tn lest the truth ?if this remarkable discovery, and HO it was ar ranged that trial should 1 made with an actual note of tho Bank England. Preliminaries wore settled, and a note, properly marked, so (bat it might be afterward identified, was submitted to the inventor. In tho course of two or three days back came the note to tho owners actually split in two. It was eagerly examined, but in a little timo tho bank ofllcials ceased to feel any alarm, and confidence in tho commer cial world was quite restored. It was trno tho bank note wns com pletely split, but it was also truo that on only ono half of it was tho printed impression sufficiently plain to allow of its being circulated. Any attempt to pass tho other or back half of tho noto would, it was declared, bo immediately detected. Still, tho discovery was curious and might lead to disagreeable consequences should any person attempt to increase bis wealth by means of split bank notes. Another kind of ink was tbereforo or dered for tho futuro to bo used in tho printing of tho bunk securities, so that in case any one chose to try tho experi ment tho ono half would bo left blank. Tho secret, however, did not l?)ng re main bidden from tho world. Indeed, its very simplicity seems to have pre vented its being discovered by tho ??Lver mon who felt so much anxiety nb >ut it. Tho method of splitting paper is jnst this: Two pieces of calico aro firmly glued to the sides of thu paper, leaving the ends of the calico loose, and the wbolo is perfectly dried. By a gent?o and eqnable pull on each side tho paper is split completely in halves, ono of which adheres to the calico on cno side and tho other to tho opposite. Tho fact that tho adhesion between the paper and tho cloth is greater than that between tho surfaces of tho paper to each other is tho causo of this phe nomenon. Having now divided the paper, the two halves may bo removed by damp ing and so loosening the glue between the calico nnd tho paper. What was once a great and puzzling secret is no longer in tho possession of ono person. Thoso happy individuals with bank notes to spnro may while away a win ter evening in trying thia experiment. -Chicago Chronicle. Loyal and Subtle. In ita essence the following story, found in the Rev. Dr. Newman Hull's autobiography, reculls an imtance of flattery in a maid of honor in France, who, being asked by tho queen what o'clock it waa, answered, "What your majesty pleases." The royal librarian, Woodward, at Windsor castlo was showing the prin cess royal the large collection of min iatures. As Crowmell turned up she cried out: "Ob, Mr. Woodward, you cannot like that mani" Ho replied, "Your royal highness must know that my admiration and loyalty to your royal highness' mother are such that I cannot but reverence the memory of tho man to whose struggle, for liberty wo owo thc unspeakable blessedness of posseesing such a monarch on a constitutional throne- ' A HUSBAND SAYS: " Before my ^ wife began using ^ Mother's Friend {? she could hardly -\ get around. I do &/^lffl%?V without trouble. " ^^^^^^ Mother s Friend is an external liniment for expectant mothers to use. It gives them strength to attend to their household duties almost to the hour of confine ment. 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Nearly every one has had thc bright idea that it must be a tremendous amount of work to get up a dictionary, but few have any notion of the real size of thc task. When Johnson got his famous dictionary started he cal culated that with six assistants ho could complete the task in three years. It took him nine years instead. Ho received the ainall recompense of j $7,500. and had to pay his assistant? out of that. Webster worked 2* years before hi? dictionary made its bow to the world. Webster was very punctilious in hiH definitions, and so painstaking that it was a wonder he completed the work when he did. The words which give the compiler of a dictionary the most trouble are thc little one-syllable Saxon words. Their history extends back into tho Saxon period, and their meaning has become twisted iu many Uiiections. Words with pedigrees are thc har lest to trace. When a new dictionary is projected one man is selected as editor-in-chief, and he appoints his sub-editors. 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