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IDNAPPED POUR YEARS AGO. Little Frank Butt of Xinnneapolis Found, but His Mother Is Missing. MnimE.Pous, Minn., October 10. About four years ago little Frank Butt, an 8-year-old lad living with his wid owed mother at 110 Fifth street North, was abducted. The police now claim to have solved the mystery of his disap pearance. Little Frank's mother was almost distracted by the loss of her son. Every effort was made to find the boy, but without success. Finally the search was given up, and not very long after ward Mrs. Butt herself disappeared. No body in Minneapolis seems to know where she went. Two detectives spent all day yesterday searching in Minneap olis and St. Paul for some trace of her, but no clew to her whereabouts could be found. The police have now, as a last resort, sent the following notice to the newspapers: "Mrs. Butt, who had a sou kidnapped about four years ago, can learn some thing of importance with regard to Charles F. Butt, her lost son, by calling at police headquarters at once.' There is a romantic story about the little boy's disappearance. Mrs. Butt kept boarders four years ago. She was a charming woman and the younger boarders did not hesitate to show their admiration. One in particular, a young fellow named Price, was very attentive both to Mrs. Butt and her boy. It is said that he made the pretty widow an offer of marriage, but, was refused. Then, in revenge, he planned to steal her boy, so at least. the story runs. Price took the little fellow to the theatre one day and that was the last seen of him in Minneapolis. It was rumored that Price had taken the boy to Mexico, but that was only a report. It is said that the police have now heard that the little boy is in a small town in California, alive and well. Meantime they are very anxious to find Mrs. Butt. CHICAGO'S LADY BICYCLISTS. About a Thousand Ladies Who Ride for Pleasure as Well as Health. "There are now about 15.000 veloci pedes of all kinds in Chicago, 4,000 of which were sold this year," says a dealer in the Chicago Journal. "There are from 4,500 to 4,800 expert bicyclists, and about 1,000 ladies' machines in use. By actual count there were over 500 in use last June, and the demand has been very aetive all summer. "I brought the first twenty-eight of them to Chicago a year ago last June, and the first ladies who learned to ride were Miss Blackman and Miss Fehrman. "it is a most wholesome and health ful exercise, and you would be aston ished at the rapid improvement of ladies who have taken it up. For in stance, Miss Grace Lloyd, one of our most expert riders, was ordered by her doctors to have a change of climate. Instead of that she took to riding and gained twenty pounds in a few months. "For amusement she rode alongside of Tuttle when he was training for the races, and she can now do a quarter mile in thirty-nine seconds. Pretty good going for a girl, isn't it? How far can a lady ride? Well, Miss Fehrman rides sixty or sixty-five miles every Sunday, and I could name ten young ladies who, with a week's practice, could easily do 100 miles in a day." BRUIN'S FLIRTATION. -A Bear Prightens a Young Lady Almost to Death and is Shot. CHICAGO, Ill., October 7.-Ome of the cinnamon bears in a show, which has been exhibiting at a place in Halsted street, broke open its cage Sunday night and escaped. He started down the street and reached Indiana street, where a young lady was slowly walking, eat jan-apl the while. His bearship * oreand went over to make the y~ gl 'y .t-ix ance. In a moment there was a series of shrieks as the hot breath of the bear fanned the lady's cheeks. She dropped her auple, which the bear picked up. q The ladv started on a double quick for Clark street, yelling all the time at the top of her voice. ~The bear caught up with her, and playfully putting his big forefeet on her shoulders, trotted along on two legs. Officers Frenson and Maloney discov ered the two, the young woman border *ing on hysterics and the '<ar evidently enjoying his companion's fright. The officers quickly cut his -career short by shooting him. The Eicene Creed Controvergy. It is rather startling to see a theologi cal controyersy which convulsed the Christian world for six centuries, and finally ended in the separation of the Eastern from the Western Church, re vived at this late period here in New York. -The Episcopal General Conven tion was occupied for t wo days last week in discussing what is known as the flNogue clause of the Nicene Creed, the opposition to that clause on the part of a few members of the convention, who chdrish the project of a union between the Greek and the Anglican Churches, K.taking the form of an opposition to the use of the entire creed. The victory was overwhelmingly on the side of the defenders of the creed, filiogue clause - and all, but that an effort was needed to achieve it is remarkable. c -The.creed in its original shape, as adopted by the Council of Nice in the year 327, is accepted, not only by ortho ~Iox Protestants, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, but also by the Greek Church. In some unexplained manner, -however, the words filiogue, signifying that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father, were added to it at a later date, and are now generally regarded as a part of its text, by Protestants and Roman Catholics alike, while they are vehemently rejected by the Greek Catholics. O'1 the nice theological point involved in the controversy, it is of course out of our province to express an opinion, and we speak of it only to dispel the errone ous idea which has got abroad that the whole creed, ana not merely this dis puted clause, was attacked by those who spoke and voted against making its reci tal obligatory.-Ke~w York Times. A Bad Character. A St. Louis paper of a recent date says: J. J. Boyle, the ex-priest of the Roman Catholic Church, who is now on trial for his life at Raleigh, N. C., charged with outraging Gc.neva Whita ker in May, was well known in this city a year ago, and has been here at an even later date. Boyle's reputation while here was best known to the police, and he is -given a very bad character. About one year ago he officiated at a Catholic church in a small town in Illinois, but left in disgrace, having contrived to raise a large sum of money for the purpose of building a new church, and having then come to St. Louis to spend it among fast women. About a year ago officer Carr arrested the man at a house on Spruce street for disturbing the peace, on complaint of one of the inmates. He was let off Swith an easy fine, but was subsequently brought up in the same court a number of times. A Bribe for Nevada. The promoters of the Louisiana lottery, it is said, taking advantage of the de caying fortune-s of Nevada. have offered that State the sum of $50,000 a year if its Legislature will sanction by law open lotteries within that State, and this offer is shrewdly accompanied by the sugges tion that this money could be profitably used for the construction of reservoirs October Pleasures. Soon to the woods the maid wi I go The t i:ied amutrn leaves to gather, Of cor rse accompanied by her beau Obi love is sweet in autumn we,.ther. How many loves ae there confessed! How much of kissing and caressing! How nany dainty w.ists are pressed Before the leaves receive their pressing: See how they to cach other eling! Can aught these loving hearts dissever? Ah! were it not a bl ssed thing If life could ihus go on forever. Too soon, alas! the dream will fade, Too soon "ill come the husband's labors To keep hi little ones sr ayed As dainty as are his neighbors. KILLED BY PROXY. A Man Supposed to be Dead and Buried Turns Up Alive. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., 'etcher 7.-Pa trick Grogan, who had been employed for a number of years in the c.pacity of engitleer in the Delaware State Aim i house. was reported killed by the ex plosiou of a boiler in that institution. His two nephews. George and James Grogan, wao live at No. 3021 Ludlow street, this city, and other friends of the dead man, were telegraphed for and all repaired immediately to Newcastle. A coroner and jury were summon "d and the verdict was that Patrick Grogan cane to his death from the effects of wounds received by the explosion of a boiler in the State Almshouse of the State of Delaware. After the inquest the bdy was imme liately taken to a f. iend's house in Witl nington. An old-fashioned Irish wake was held, with plenty of pipes anl to bacdo. One of the most prominent un dertakers in the city was notified to make a first-class coffin and spare no expense in regard to the funeral ar rangements, as the dead man v as con sidered wealthy, and that it was always his desire that he should have a denent burial. The funeral took place from St. Mary's Catholic Church. Patrick had property, mostly real es tate, worth X10.000. An administrator was appointed and the property sold. Just as the administrator was about to distribute the money among the heirs, Patrick appeared and frightened all his triends nearly into fits. They took him for a ghost. Patrick explained that he went to Virginia on a hunting trip and left a pauper to run the almshouse en gine and provided the pauper with his own working clothes to wear in the en gine room. It was the pauper who was killed and mutilated by the explosion, and whose b )dy was given such a splen did burial by Patrick's weeping rela tives. IS MAJOR BURKE GUILTY? Attorney General Rogers Says 8e Cov ered His Illegal Acts With False Vouch ers. NEw ORLEANs, October .-I asked Attorney General Rogers to-day about thL illegal issue of State bonds. He seems to have been nettled by a state ment made by ex-Treasurer Burke in London that the Attorney General's action was guided by polititical animo. ity and spoke more freely than he has heretofore. "Major E. A. Burke has committed a most grievious outrage agaius: a people who had honored and trusted him." He said: "You may say for me that Major Burke is guilty. He has drawn out of the State treasury and from a spe cial fund $40,880 without right, and covered up his act by depositing false vouchers. He has put upon the market $303,000 of State bonds which had been declared void and whien had been en trusted to him to be destroyed. He re ported they had been destroyed. He; deliberately made a further issue or $70000 of other securities and through others placed them in the various banks of the city and money has been obtained upon them. His only duty was to en these suenrities and turn thm er i his successor. T 'i enough 'wh6sai~ more." The Attorney General's view askc the liability of the State is not shared by the commercial community, and if ex-Treasurer Burke fails to make good his promise to pro tect holders against a loss a4 strong effort will be made to secure a recognition of the State's liability and provision for the bonds from thie Legislature. MONTANA IS DEMOCRATIC. The Election of a Democratic Governor and Legislature Conceded by the Repu licans. HELEm, Montana, October 8..-The election of Joseph Toole (Dem.) for Gov ernor is now conceded by a majority of from 300 to 60(0. Cater (Rep.), for Con gress, has 1,000 majority. The Demo crats claim the Legislature by seven. The Republicains will not concede as much, but say that on the face of the returns it is Democratic and claim fraud in Silver Bow and Deer Lodge Counties. The general opinion is that there will be no contest and that the Democrats will have- the Governor and Legislature. The Republicans elect a Congressman and a large majority of the State ticket. The Independent (Dem.) claims the State Senate a tie and the House by seven majority. Most of the Counties in the State will make an official canvass to-day, and it is more than likely that the result will be definitely known by this evening. He Recognized the Town. "I tell you I had a narrow escape from'being done for out there," he said on his return from Kansas the other day. "Attempted murder?" was asked. "Worse than that. I was about to in vest my last dollar in vacant lots in a certain town, when I made a discovery." "Titles defective?" "No, the titles were all right, but I recognized the town and declared1 all business off. Fifteen years ago the town was called Ferkinsville. Now they r re carrying it as Bluff City. I stuctk it with a circus. I had a little game for the publie, you know, and in order to ruu it 1 had to standl~ in with the Mayor. I was to give him fifteen per cent., but when he found that I bad taken $230 he kicked. I tried to hold him, but it was no use. He opened court on me, fined me *200, and then gobbled on to tihe $30 on the excuse that he had let me off light." "But the town may be all right niow." "That's it, you know. Same man is Mayor now, and he hadl got his hair dyed, his teeth filled, and changed thme name of the town oin purpose to catch some of us again. If i'd bought those lots he'd have waited until the money was paid and the deeds passed, and then pulled me in and yelled: "'Same man that beat the City Trea surer of Torpeka on the gold brick racket: Bought seven lots, eh? I want straight deeds to five for not giving you up to justibe, and while you are about it you can throw in the other two as my cotiu sel fee for advising you how to get out of the scrape!' "--.N. Y. Sunt. Tobacco Crops Destroyed by Frosts. FLMIlNGsBURG, Ky., October 11.--At least 500,000 pounds of tobacco in the County has been entirely destroyed by the frosts of the last three nights. The Auditor's report places the average crop of the County at 4.000.000 pounds, and this year's crop was a little above that figure. About half of the crop had been housed and cured, but the rest had been cut late and placed in open sheds and frames, and was not sufficiently cured to withstand the frosts.* Thirty-five years ago James G. Blaine A MYSTERY UNRAVELED. The Phenomenon of the Rain Trees Ex plained by a Sumter Man. What appeared to be a most wonder ful phenomenon was daily witnessed during the whole of last week in the back yard of the Presbyterian parson age at this place. Beginning about 5 o'clock p. m. of each day rain, ap parently, fell continuously for about three-quarters of an hour in one spot, about sixty feet in SliauiAter, while else where no. a drop of rain could be ob served and the weather perfectly fair. Water unqustionably fell in the form of rain. Several doubting Thomases stretched forth their hands and caught the drops as they fell, and were con vineed. There were no trees overhead. For a long while investigation into the phenomenon failed to discover any thing that could suggest a rational ex planation of the mystery or show any natural causes of which the senses could take any notice. Dr. Edmunds, who resides on the premises, has at last found what he believes is the source of the "water supply." On a fruit tree n( t far oti from the spot where the water falls is a number of little insects that throw out jots of water from their tails They evidently get the water by sucking the sap of the tree. When the water is thus emitted it forms into drops, and falls in the manner of rain from vapor. This solution of. the Sumter mystery satisfactorily explains the phenomenon of the raining trees in Barnwell, Colum bia and Cheraw in 1886, the year of the earthquake, and by some people super stitiously connected with that disturb ance. The insect is described as a brilliantly variegated butterfly about twice the size of a common housefly.-Sumter Watch man. LITTLE MARY REPER'S STORY. She Has Been Two Years Tramping from the Pacific Slone. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. October 8. Mary Reper, a girl of twelve years, ar rived here yesterday very tired, very hungry, rather dirty, and somewhat in clined to cry when questioned. Toe child says she came from California, and has for two years been traveling on freight and coal trains. She was bare foot, wore a thin gingham dress, and was black with dirt and coal dust. A lady found her crying on the street, and after being fed and given a coat and a pair of shoes and stockings she was sent to the police station. Later the Overseer of the Poor took her in charge. Mary said that her parents died four or five years ago, when she was not more than seven or eight years old. Her father's name was John Reper, and his death occurred shortly before that of her mother, who had consumption. Their only relative, an aunt, took the orphan, but before long the aunt died, and for two years the little one was cared for by neighbors, in return for what work she could do for them. When she was ten' yars old she ran away and began her journey East, steal ing rides on freight trains. Brakemen helped her, she said, and gave her food, and she begged food elsewhere. At many places she stopped for several weeks at a time and got work. She said there were lots of things she could do; she could scrub, sweep, make beds and cook. She described her re cipe for making biscuit, and declared she could economize by using sour milk. Saturday she boarded a coal train at Norto Branch and rode to Elizabeth, and she had ridden part of the way and walked tbe rest from that city to New Bu nswick. Sne is small and thin, with straight black hair, dark brown eyes, and a com plexion that, naturally dark, has been b'onized by exposure. CANADIAN CANNIBALS. Indians Who Hav'e Practiced Anthro pophagy in Northwestern Ontario. OrriwA, Oclober 0.-A gentleman who has just returned from an explor ing expedition in the wilds of North western Ontario said to-day That he had discovered during his travels a tribe of Indians who have practiced cannibalism up to within a few years ago, when the country was first visited by French mis sionaries. In the vicinity of Abittibee Lake an Indian child was pointed out to him whose grandmother had killed and eaten seven of her young children, the child's father being the only one to escape. He made his mother's terrible deed known to the chief of the tribe, who sent his men to arrest her. On en tering the wigwam they found the head of the last child boiling .in a pot over the fire. She was ordered to be shot, lots having been drawn to see who the executioner should be. The unlucky straw fell to an old Indian, who success fully,. removed the unnatural mother from doing further harm. On the Quinze Lake, several years ago, he found that a full-blooded war rior had killed and eaten four of his sons. but was afterward shot and killed by his fifth son. GREAT FIRE IN BALTIMORE. The Extensive Fertilizer Factory of G. Ober, Sons & Co. Destroyed. BALTIMORE, October 10.-The great fertilizer factory of G. Ober, Sons & Co., etablished in 18.57, at Locust Point, Baltimore, was burned this noon. It consisted of three large buildings, which cost $250,000. The fire started in the acid storage room, perhaps by sponta neous combustion, and soon every fire engine in the city was on the scene. The first buildings. in which 100 men were at work, were burned to the ground, and the flames, driven by a high- wind, spread to another large building, com pletely gutting it. The fire is under con trol,e but fully~ $260,000 worth of damage has been done to the two buildings, which a memn ber of the firm says cost $200,000, and to $60,000 worth of stock. in sheds near byv was stored a mass of fertilizers. wvorth $40,000. This was not harmied. One member of thme firm says they arc fully insured, and another says they are not. and refuses to tell wvhere the in surance is placed, the amount or what agent plaed~ it. Exporting Whiskey to. Escape Taxation. Some time ago the Collector of Cus toms at New York wrote to the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue in regard to crtain twenty-five barrels of American whiskey expo--ted to Hamburg and sub sequently returned. The whiskey was produced between the 8th and 12th of January, 1886, and was withdrawn for export January 30, 1889. The collector gave it as his opinion that the exporta tion and reimplortation of these goods within a short period of time, tending to result in the escape from the payment of an overdue internal revenue tax by a tempo)rary deposit abroad, furnishes prsumptive evidence to indicate an original intention of the persons inter ested in the shipment to return the whiskev to the United States. The Com missioner of Internal Revenue reported the case to the Secretary of the Trea sury. with a recommendation that the spirits in question he not adlmitted to entry under Section 2500, Revised Stat utes, but that thecy be treated as subject to internal revenue tax. The Secretary approved this recominendationi, and authorized the collector at New York to take the steps prescribed by Article 106, of the internal revenue regulations, for the delivery of the goods to the collector of internal revenue for the second dis "Blly Was a Good Goat." I met upon a hillside highway a day or two ine a funeral procession. It was a strange funeral, too, and the corpse was quite as strange as the funeral team that drew the improvised hearse. Six little boys and three girls drew the hearse, and the corpse in the vehicle was that of a defunct billy goat. I asked the largest boy, the leader, if he was the foreman of the fire company and he answered "No, sir; we're a funeral." The strange answer induced me to look into the wagon, and its contents revealed to my sight the first dead goat that I had ever seen. The little undertaker, who had owned Billy, en lightened me when he said "Billy was a good goat, and me and Billy used to have lots of fun in old times." A goat's funeral was so novel a mortuary proceeding that I accepted the invitation to become oneof the mourners and followed the little wagon drawn by the children up the hillside. through the winding lane over the common to the grave appointed for the last resting place of all that was mortal of poor Billy. I have seldom seen a more decorous observ ance by grown people at the graveside, when the clodh hid from sight all that was mate rial, than was observed by these children in the burial of their dead friend, who doubt less had often drawn them in jolly good fel lowship around and about the highways and hillsides of Winsted in the same wagon which had carried Billy. to his last rest ig place. His grave was not long nor was it deep, but it was deep enough to cover him well, and in it lie was gently placed and a few spadefuls of dirt carefully deposited upon Billy's inan inate form. Then the little leader took from his pocket a bottle filled with water, and each child present sprinkled a few drops into the grave. A little more ceremony and the grave was covered, each child as the procession moved away turning to say "Good-by, Billy." I stooped and picked a daisy from among its kith and kin which whitened the field all around and about and laid it on the grave as my offering-not to a dead goat-but to the good friend of a little boy who loved him well enough to give him a decent burial, and bore testimony to his good traits in the siu ple tribute, "Billy was a good goat." As I walked away a little song sparrow, or perhaps it was a wren, which had been nerv ously hopping about on the bush tops a few yards away, flew down upon the new made grave and burst out with a rapturous song and flooded all the air with melody. Ah, well! I thought, as I wandered down the hill side, there isn't any use for goat heaven when the grave of a gray old Billy is watered by the tears of children, and the funeral ceremony ends with the anthem of such a chorister.-Winsted (Conn.) Cor. Hartford Courant. Terrible Asian Heat. It is stated in the official report that 701 persons died between the 14th and 17th ul timo, at Bokhara, of heat; and the figures, it is expressly added, do not include children. If this amazing calamity be not due to any atmospheric violence, as a Bad-i-simoon, for example, it is probably unequaled in authen tic records. But when we think of the agony, the horrible wretchedness in which the whole population must have been living, it may well seem that those who found escape in death are not to be pitied. The horror of heat is unknown to us, or indeed to any part of Europe, though Naples and Athens are desperately trying sometimes. But to the native of Scinde, Central Asia, the shores of the Persian gulf, the sun of Greece is but a trifle. The utter helplessness of man under this infliction adds horror tb his sufferings. There is no hope and no resource when the red hot air penetrates to those underground chambers in which the summer is passed in Central Asia. "The inhabitants," we learn, "are shutting themselves up to escape" probably closing all the apertures of their subterranean abodes, except those absolutely necessary for ventilation. The air down be low, under those circumstances, cannot be imagined by one who has not a touch of ex perience. Houses of good class are solidly constructed under ground, with chambers and doors and corridors, but the mass of the people inhabit big holes, roofed over, ijth no kind of permanent convenience. Every win ter the frost and snow and rain play mischief with these rough pits, and the damage is not always, nor often, repaired by the following summer. Fancy thousands of Mongols in these dens, pursuing their filthy habits in semi-darkness, suffering the awful torment of heat, children wailing, adults raving, al ways i want of water and generally of food, in an atmosphere beyond conceiving. That is the picture which those few lines of tele gram suggest to readers who know.-London Standard.____ ____ TeachIng Patriotlsm. It has been proposed, in a recent address by a gentleman of New York, to teach patriotism in the public schools, as if it were not done already. The suggestion is that the American flag be hoisted over every school house in the country, and kept afloat as long as the school is in session. In that case there would be a flag raising every morning and a fag lowering ever-y afternoon at the close of the school, as there is at sunrise and sunset over forts and on board of men-of-war. There are better ways of teaching patriot ism than this. Make the pupils well acquaint ed with thu history of their country. Our school histories are much too short. Most school books are the better for being of small size, but a history for young people should tell all the true anecdotes and stories at full length. Boys want pages and pages about Wash ington, Old Put, Old Hickory, The Three Militia Men, Commodore g'atur, Comiao dore Perry, Admiral Farragut, the battle of Bunker Hill, the coming over of Lafayette, Tecumseh, Ben Franklin, the pioneers of the great west, the building of the Brooklyn bidge, the jetties of the Mississippi river, and the oratory of .Patrick Henry, Clay and Webster. These things captivate the young only when they are related in detail, with simu plicity and truth. By and by they will want history of an other kind, whiich-will relate few stories, pass lightly over most wars, and dwell only upon events which affected the lot of the people permanently. Boys and girls want to know what Maj. Andre said when he was captured, and how thick the rope was with which Far ragut tied himself to the rigging. Such facts are the vehicle through which more impor tant truths find lodgrment in the young mind. After all, our boys and girls are already very patriotic. What they now need is to be taught the duties we all owe to such a coutry as ours-to keep It pure and good. Youth's Companion. Tried and True. A boy who had avery fat dog said to .dm one day: "Here, you are as slow as day after to-morrow. Conme, get a move on you." "But I can't-," replied the dog courteously. ["Pm too fat." "Oh, yes you can," retorted the boy, and he forthwith annexed a potential verb to the rear elevation of that dot. The accelerated cur achieved upon hims'elf so speedy a move that his fat tried out and left him a more shadow at the end of ten miles, but the can was full of lard. This shows us that we never know what we can do till we try.-Tinme. THE NEGRO QUESTION. Foolish Utterances of a Conference of Colored Men of Illnois. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., October 9.-The State Conference of colored men ad journed last evening, after issuing an address to the colored people of the State and the Nation, which sets forth the objeet of the or-ganizatlon just effected to be to advance educational interests, the abolishment of separate schools, and to secure employment of competent colored teachers. After reviewing the condition of the negroes in the South, the outrages to which they are subjected and the fact that it is not a party, race or a State question, but one of national imporance. the League makes the fol lowing appeal: " -We appeal to the American people, to Congress and to the Executive head of our government, to0 men of all parties, to rise above partisan hate and bitter prejudice and bring to bear the majesty of the law, to the end that the life and property of the American negro may be as safe in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Texas as in the Northern States." The address also calls attention to the fact of the opening of the new States in the Northwest, and advises the colored people of the South to secure homes there, as one step toward overcoming the Southern nnsou.n TRICKS OF TIIE TRADE. HOW TIDE SHARP CLERK BEGUILES THE INNOCENT PURCHASER. Stratagems Which Are Usually Successful. Buyers Are Only Human-Clerks Know It-The Shrewd Business Man Treats His Customers as Intelligent Beings. "There are tricks in all trades but ours," is one of the aphorisms of the business world. It reminds the speculative observer of the old woman who seriously remarked: "The world is full of queer folks. Pm glad I'm not one of 'em." The candid clerk would never be able to starve to death respectably. He would be discharged before he had told the truth twice. Imagine him saying to a customer: "Here is a piece of goods that is so coarse you can shoot peas through it, and all cotton at that. although it is marked half wool. It-will fade at the first wearing. How many yards shall I cut you off?" He would himself be cut off from his busi ness prospects and without the customary shilling. A youth of this sort was engaged as assist, ant in a grocery store. He prided himself on his honesty and candor. When he saw his employer sell a pound of prunes he said in the presence of the customer: "You must be glad to sell another pound of those wormy old prunes. They'll soon be all gone." The next moment he was out of a situation. The shrowd business man leaves something to the intelligence of his customers. As long as a thing is not misrepresented let them find out defects for themselves. But the day of sanding the sugar and wetting down the to bacco is over. There is an inveiglement of another kind now. Chromo cards and gifts have had their day, but there is the quarter off and the half off sale. REMEMBERIyG CCSTOMERS' TASTES. Can any one outside of the business tell how the accomplished clerk holds up a piece of dress goods in the little pyramid on the counter where the light strikes it so as to bring out in bold relief all its best colors and make it look as if it were the loveliest fabric in the store? One clerk will say, with his head over on the side like a little bird: "It looks like you, Miss -. It's a fact; I thought of you as soon as I saw it. Isaid to myself Miss - will want a dress off that piece." Another will remark incidentally under the same circumstances: "Your friend, Mrs. Col. -, bought a dress from that piece." The customer hesitates-and is lost. In other words, she buys the goods, being help lessly enshimmered in the science of delusion by those clerks who know their business. A lady went into a dry goods store'and asked to see some goods displayed in the win dow. "You don't want that style of goods," said the clerk, who knew his customer; "you wouldn't wear it." - Then he took down dress after dress' from his reserve stock, and as he did so remarked casually: "You wouldn't wear a window dress. This, now, has not been shown before." Of course the customer was flattered into buying a dress, and the clerk was right. He knew that the goods removed from the illu sion of plate glass would not please her. A clerk soon learns that a lady is never offended when her tastes are remembered and alluded to with graceful tact. The best salesmen of today do not persist as much as their predecessors did. They make their goods speak for themselves. A Detroit merchant relates a story of a clerk of long ago who tried so hard to sell a dress to a cus tomer that he followed the lady to the door with the goods. Then her began to unroll it and the customer took hold of an end of the cloth to prevent it falling on the floor, so it went. He unrolled the goods until she held a dress pattern in her arms and she felt con pelled to take it. 1CY5~w SHE WOCL.D NEED IT. Another clerk was approached by a lady who wanted white silk mitts. He did not have any, but he jumped over the counter and followed her to the door to tell her he had a new bolt of brown linen sheeting in and a recipe tor bleaching it white. This was in the good old days when Detroit was a vil lage and everybody knew everybody else's business. The enterprising clerk knew that his custonmer for white silk mitts was about to be married and go to housekeeping and would need house linen. This gauging of people's needs and reconciling them witb their purses is quite an enterprising feature of business at all times. It is a fact that the dry goods store is the principal attraction of the business street and a fertile spot in thie @sert of commerce. It has color, variety ahn an attraction that no other place can possiblyhiave. The common est piece of red and yellow stuff will look rich and elegant in those long, graceful folds that have such precision of detail, yet look so careless and artistic in the total effect. The man who did that gauges his usefulness by those folds. It is related of the late A. T. Stewart, the millionaire merchant, that in pasing through the side of his great store in whch the goods were exposed for sale-that opposite to the Broadway side-he saw a piece of velvet stacked to catch the eye. He in' quired who had arranged it in that way, sent for the man, who was a new hand, and told himi it was wrong. The man answered Mr. Stewart that it was the p'roper way to dis play that class of goods. Mr'. Stewart said no more, but he watched and saw the velvets managed in this way for some months. Then he sent for the nan and promoted him to the velvet department of the wholesale store. "I saw that you knewv more about velvets than I did myself," was the only explanation ho gave. The best clerk is the reader of ha' man nature. He coerces one into buying and intimidates another. The merchants have a proverb that any salesman can soil a custo mer the goods that she camo to purchase, but he is a good salesman who sells her what she does not want. Every clerk has his particu lar friends who like to trade with him be cause ho is obliging or courteous or enter taiing. It is his trick of trade to be all these to his customers.-Detroit Free Press. Houses In the Country. Your true countryman is seldom a "tem perance man" in the matter of sunlight and shade. He is either a "teetotaler" or a con' firmed tippler. His house is exposed, in the one case, to all the fervor of the summer sun (ar.d all the fury of the summer tbunder storm), or, in the other, it is hedged about and arched over by a plantation of trees so dense as to exclude even the vertical rays of the nconday sun. Of the two extremes I prefer the former. The mercilessly exposed walls appeal-less agreeably to the eye, but they better please the sense of what is right and wrong from a hygienic point of view. Nothing is less picturesque thani a house in the country without a tree beside it, but nothing is less healthful than one that cannot be seen for the densit~y of the grove tLhat sur rounds it. But there is a happy medmum be tween the wall that is warped by the direct rays of the summer sun and one that presents a mildewed face to the level beams of sunset, and it is the happy medium of temperance that one should try to strike in this as in other matters.-The Critic. A Novel Spectacle. There was a novel spectacle in the city yesterday, and it attracted considerable attention on account of its uniqueness. A white man, wearing a white hat and a white suit of clothes, drove two white horses: the wagon contamned four bales of white cotton, wrapped in snowy whitc cotton bagging; and at the moment it turned the corner of College street on its way to the cotton platform, some one exclaimed, "What at remarkable coincidence," and pointed to two red headed women on the opposite side of te street.-Char'lotte Chironlicle. A Strange Hallucination. George T. K~ng of 'West Union was adjdgedl a lunatic on Tuesday, andt will be sent to the asylum in Colunmbia to day. I~is hallucination seems to be that he believes himself to be bewitched by a ertaini old woman living in Anderson County, and that his safety depends on his shooting her with silver bullets. It is stated that he has even gone so far as to load his gun with silver bullets for this purpose. He made the bullets out of dimes.- Walhialla Courier. The choice of Pierre a-s the capital of South Dakota has given the town a won deful boom. Men bought lots for $100 and a oeek later sold them for $1,000. ANGLOMANIA IN EATING. Some Plain Talk About the Finicky Way. of Overly Dainty People. The Anglo-Saxons are afraid to use their fingers to eat with, especially the English. Thanks to this hesitation, I have seen in the course of my travels in the old world many distressing sights. I have seen a lady at tempt to eat crawfish (ecrevisse) with a knife and fork, and abandon the attempt in de spair. I have also seen men in the same fix. I have seen-oh, barbarous and cruel spec taclel-Anglo-Saxons, otherwise apparently civilized, cut off the points of asparagus, and eat these points only with a fork, thus leav ing the best part of the vegetable on their plates. As for artichokes, they generally utterly defeat the attacks of those who trust only to the knife and fork. Fingers must be used for eating certain things, notably asparagus, artichokes, fruit, olives, radishes, pastry, and even small fries fish; in short, everything which will not dirty or grease the fingers may be eaten with the tingers. For my own part, 1 prefer to cat lettuce salad with my fingers rather that with a fork, and Queen Marie Autoinette and other ladies of the Eighteenth century were of my way of thinking. If the ladies could only see how pretty is their gesture whet their diaphanous forefinger and thumb grasp. a leaf of delicate green lettuce, and raises that loaf from the l:orcelain plate to their rosy lips, they would all immediately take t< eating salad a la Mario Antoinette. Only bear in mind, good ladies, that if you do wisl to eat lettuce salad with your fingers you must nix your salad with oil and vinegar, and not with that abominable ready made white " salad dressing," to look upon which is nau -,eating. May heaven preserve us from excessive An glomania in matters of table service and eat ing. The English tend to complicate the eat ing tools far too much. They have too many forks for comfort, and the forms of them art too quaint for practical utility. Certainly silver dessert knives and forks are very good in their way, because they are not susceptibk to the action of fruit acids, but it is vain and -clumsy to attempt to make too exclusive use of the knife and fork in eating fruit. Don't imitate, for in -tance, certain ultra correct English damsels who eat cherries with a fort and swallow the stones because they are tot modest, or rather too asinine, to spit then out on to the plate. Eating is not a thing tc be ashamed of. To thoroughly enjoy a peac: you must bite it, and feel the juicy perfumed -flesh melt in your mouth. But let the Anglo maniacs say what they please, there is no ne cessity of sticking a fork into the peach, and peeling it whilo so impaled, as If it were at ill favored and foul object. A peach is as beautiful to the touch as it is to the eye; a peach held between human fin. gers has its beauty enhanced by the beauty of the fingers. However dainty and ornate the silver dessert knife and fork may be, it always irritates me to see people cut up their peaches, or pears, or apricots, or what not, into cubes and parallelopipeds, as if dessert were a branch of conic sections. Imitate Marie Antoinette, ladies; use your fingers more freely; eat decently, of course, but dc not be the slave of silly Anglomania or New port crazes. To eat a pear or an apple con veniently, cat it into quarters, and peel each quarter in turn as you eat it. The peach. too, can be cut into quarters, if the eater is timid. Apricots do not need peeling, not plums either. Would you be bold enough tc peel a fresh fig, or to touch such a delicate fruit even with the purest silver instruments -Theodore Child in Harper's Bazar. Beating the Circus. Whether what would be stealing under some circumstances becomes only a smart piece of work under others, is the question that arises in reading the accounts of some recent transactions. One of these, which may serve as an example of all, is thus re ported: A boy while attending a circus was struck by a stone flung from the ring by a horse's hoof and got a black eye but no seri ous hurt. With the aid of a lawyer the property of the company was attached and a warrant got out for the arrest of the mana ger unless lie paid a good sum for damages. Being unable to stop to contest the suit, a fact that was probably considered when the demand was made, the circus proprietor compromised by paying about $200, which the boy and his lawyer divided. Whether their feelings weresimilar to those of the sharpen ---en dividing the spoils flched from some innocent stranger is not recorded. It is true that many times the fakirs who follow the circuses get even with the public, but it sel dom or'never happens that they get back the money extorted from the show, and often these outside sharpers have no connection with the regular company, which is in no wise responsible for them. And besides, twc wrongs do not make aright.-Lewiston Jour :naL In Famous Name. Did you ever notice how common to great names the initial "W" ia! No? Then just run your eye over the following list: Wi~iam Shakespeare, Walter Raleigh, William Black stone, John Wesley, George Whitefleld, Will lam Penn, Roger Williams, James Watt, William Wilberforce, William Cowper, Will iam Wordsworth, Richard Whately, George Washington, Joseph Warren, William Pitt, Wellington, William M. Thackeray, Winfield Scott, William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster, Washington Irving, W. E. Chan ning, William H. Seward, Wendell Phillips, Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Walt Whitman, WV. E. Gladstone, George William Curtis, William M. Evarts, William T. Sherman, and others too numer ous to mention. I defy any one to produce an equally illustrious list of names with any one of the other twenty-five letters of the alphabet common to all.-New York Graphic. Beat at All Points. A haughty leader of a city choir, on his way to church, met an Irreverent Ass,who was practicing the fish scales as he made his way toward the thistly lanes of the country side. "Peacel" exclaimed the Musician; "save your strength for your weekly burdens, and do nos attempt to invade the sacred province of music." "Hence with your puny pitch pipe," said the Ass, "lest I climb into the gallery and kick your whole choir over the raiL" "Heav-en assoilzle thee an ever thou try-est it," returned the leader; "thou talk about kicking. Come in some Sunday and see our soprano when I give the alto a solo, and thou wilt trade thy legs for a pair of crutches, for very shame." So saying, he smote the Ass in both ears with high C, and left him for dead. Moral-This fable teaches us that there is no slug but bath his slugger.-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. Hiding the Talent in the Earth. A friend of the leading American humor his biographer, says that the L A. H. is not rinting any of his best things, but is care fully hoarding up all his side splitting jokes anml richest sayings in order to make the world laugh after he is dead. H'm: we've been wondering for several years past what the great American humorist was doing with allhis funny things.-Brooklyn Eagle. THE AUSTRALIAN BALTLOT SY STEN How It Worked in Chattanooga-A Re publican Victory. CeArrAxooGA, October 8.-The . first< election in this State under the Austra lian system of voting occurred here to-I dayin the municipal election. It was the quietest election ever known in the city. Less money was used at the polls1 and there was less illegal voting than min any previous election. A light vote was< polled and the election resulted in the election of John A Hart (Rep.) for Mayor by 428 majority, and ten Rcpub- < licans out of sixteen Councilmen, with two Councilmen a tie. The Republicans will continue their efforts to test the. constitutionality of the new election and : registration laws.( The Nicaragua Canal. SAN FRANCISco, October 10.-A dis patch f rom Managua, Nicaragua, says: "nited States Minister Mizner has set ted the canal difficulties and work is now progressing." This shows that the chief impediment to the construction of ( the canal, the hostility of Costa tica i toward the enterprise, has been removed, y and the trouble between that country u and Nicaragua has been settled by arbi- o trtin tl How Cheap Gloves Are Made. It may perhaps, interest readers to know some of the secrets of cheap glove mating My facts relate to Bohemia, from which coun try many cheap gloves are imported. Before the intr oduction of the glove sewing machine, which took place about 1870, a simple appara tus was in use consisting of two brass plates, in which the stitches were incised, holding tightly together the leather parts of the glove, while the needle of the sewer followed easily these incised stitches. It was an easy work, not at all injurious to body or eye, and an in dustrious and quiet girl could, without any exertion, sew two pairs of gloves a day, for which she received from two and a half pence to three pence each, equal to about five pence to six pence a day. Very poor wages. But the money was earned in a comfortable way. Let us now compare what progress these girls made in the golden era of machinery, The poor sewers are never in a position to acquire the requisite sum to be owners of these machines. The district to which I refer is a poor, mountainous part, the men mostly miners of an imperial silver mine with daily wages of sixteen pence. The requisite ma chines are owned by middlemen, called fact ors, to whom the glove manufacturers from all parts of Austria send their unfinished gloves for sewing. These factors are pro prietors of a certain number of machines from twenty upward to a hundred-which are fitted up in workrooms, most of them very indifferently suited for the purpose. The poor girls from the neighboring district have often to walk a distance of eight miles to find work in such workrooms. They leave their miserable cottages at 4 a. m. to be gin their day's work at 6 a. m. After a hard labor of twelve hours on a most compli cated machine, and after having passed an other two hours on the way home, their whole earnings consist of seven pence. In cluding the hours she loses on the road, she works ninety-six hours a week for S shil lings 6 pence, her body continually bent over a most complicated machine, her eyes watch ing leather, thread and needle incessantly, her foot moving continually, amid the rattle of many machines, in a most sickly atmo phere. This is how cheap gloves are made. Pall Mall Gazette. The Preacher Got Excited. "Yes," said an old sport in one of the pool rooms yesterday, "there is a thrill about a horse race you cannot get in any other way. The thrill is intensified in proportion as your money has gone up on the event. When Smuggler beat Goldsmith Maid at Cleveland back thirteen years ago the crowd almost de stroyed the grand stand. In ilhistration of the excitement which reigned I recall the actions of a preacher from Elkhart, who was present with a friend. As the horses were scoring the parson's friend, whose name was Tracy, and who knew about as much of horses as he did of the glacial period, re marked a belief that Smuggler might win over the Maid. This was about as probable to the experienced turfer as a republic in Russia, and one of the fraternity overhear ing the remark overflowed in a proposition. "'I'll bet you $100 to $20 he don't,' he said. "The preacher was interested, but some what shocked, and silently protested by pinching Tracy's arm. "The start was made and with the word go the persistent sport renewed his offer, but it didn't take. With the horses on the back stretch and bunched he came again, but Tracy wasn't game. As they turned into the stretch the astute Doble, who was behind the Maid, with the assistance of American Girl had gotten the stallion in a pocket, but his driver, taking all chances, pulled him com pletely up, and taking the center of the track sent him for the wire like a ghost. No horse for a furlong ever made such speed before or since, and as Smuggler came to the front with the rush of a storm he carried the-spec tators from their mental feet. Every man was up yelling, and the Elkhart preacher, who must have had latent sporting blood in his veins, forgetful of his pulpit and pasto rate, was flourishing his cushion and shriek ing in reference to his proposition, 'Bet him, Tracy; thunder and clams bet him. I'll split with you on it.' "It was too late, though; so Tracy didn't bet."-Kansas City Times. Another Good Fish Story. According to The Albany Journal an Al b nian, noted for his love of sport no less than ~r his veracity, tells the following story of a day's fishing: "I had had bad luck all day and was about starting for home. I was a little absentminded, thinking over the good sport 1 usually had, and before I knew what I was aboutlIhad cast off from both oars that I had jabbed in the mud for stakes and was drifting down Lake Tomoset with a proe pect of a five mile walk before me. I miadaa cast with myi line, in hopes to fasten on the nearest oar and recover it, but the hook fell short by a yard. Imagine my surprise-when the biggest pickerel I ever saw snapped at my hook and took it. I was working him easy, for I had only a cheap, stiff pole and was mightily afraid I'd lose him, when down came a huge fish' hawk as big as an eagle and grabbed my fish. I kept hold the pole though, and when the bird got to the end of my line as he was flying off with his prey he was fetched up short. Then he put for the head of the lake, still keeping the fish in his talons, and pulling me and the boat after hinm. It was a mean thing to do, perhapa, but when he got rme to shoal water I pulled out my pis tol and shot him. He fell plump into the water, but he was only winged, and as 1 didn't care to have a fight with him he got off in the rushes. And the fish, you ask! Oh. he got away, too; the biggest one I ever saw. think he was two feet long." A Difference in Girls. Florida girls are not like their Alabama sisters, for the former abhor slang. But for downright emphasis of expression and that brev~iy w~hich is the soul of wit, they yield the palm to no other state. Several weeks ago a number of brave young men and beautiful women from the interior c-amie in on an excursion. A small knot of the visitors were walking leisurely through tho park when the following conver sation was overheard between two of the visitors. It is reported verbatim, though it is impossible to reproduce the drawling, earn est tone in which it was delivered. "Sal," asked one, displaying the folds of her new dr-ess and taking a sly hitch at her bustle; "Sal. how do my dress fit?" "Fingers and toes couldn't better it." "Do Johna seem ter notice it?" "Cant keep his eyes often it." "Do my bustle shake about any?" "Shakes just like jelly," replied Sal, as they proceeded on their way with an air of tri umph indescribable. - Birmingham (Ala.) Age. _______ The Manufacturers' Losses. A Newv England manufacturer says that street musicians are .a serious expense to manuacturing companies in country towns. A gypey -gra~ pa s w anuLourmne recenuly passed his establishment and, ho says, cost the company about $'200. Every employe-in the big factory ran to the window, and work was suspended for fully a quarter of an hour. Every circus parade costs them hundreds of dollars, aud when a minstr-el brass band marches by it costs from $425 to $50.-Detroit Free Press. Too Sick to Stand His Trial. *John T. Lyon, who is in the Abbeville ail under charge of murder in the kill .ng of D. L. Mabry, is now in a critical ondit ion. It is thought that the chances f his recovery are against him. Yes :erday evening his friends interested hceslves in making him more comn ~ortale. lie was removed to another -oom in the jail, and Sheriff Mann did ~verything in his power for the comfort f the sick manl and his friends who ire attending him night and day. He sems to he in a nerv-ous condition, ex eedingly fecble, and suffering from in ligestion. or othier stomael troubles, :ving beeni unable to take sufficient lturising foodl for the last we:-k or ten as. Owing to his extremecly low eon lit~ion, and his age, it is not now deemed t all probable that he will be able to 'ome to trial, even if he lives until the itting of the court next Monday. bbeille Press awl Banner. A Mail Carrier "Held Up." WAsmIN-rox, October 10.-The Post ffice D)ep.rtment is informed that the iail crier on the route from Leaks ile, Miss., to the State line was "held i" yesterday and robbed by two men f two registered pouches. The local au lortie sar in mmnsit. DON'T TOUCH~IT, FlND. LEARN BY EXPERIENCE WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO. All Mental and Physical Capacities Are Not Measured with the Same Sticks. Health Is Worth More Than Anything Else on Earth, Except Honor. I mean, for instance, the food that "hurts you every time." Why not learn something by experience! If a certain solid always distre you, or eight times out of ten is a subsequent misery to you, why not turn "against" the thing as viciously as it is "against" youi "But even my daughter, not half as strong as I, can eat it." That may be. Great is the mystery of the human stomach. I have long ago concluded that it is no sign I can eat and digest and as similate an article of food because some one else even less rugged than I can. I know a man to whom butter is rank poison; he has not dared to taste it for fifty years. The grossest folly in the world is persistent punishment of one's poor self by attempting again and again a viand that was never cre ated for your use. If a man is my enemy, or even decidedly distasteful to me, I do not at tempt to make a bosom friend of him. Why should I act on a different rule with my enemy, a pumpkin piel No, thank you. The seductive thing still looks tempting, and, I presume, would taste relishful were I to try it; but more than eight years ago the last pumpkin pie wrought its misery on me. The sickness of that day cost me just $116.67, a profit I should have made had I been well enough to attend to business. Being perfect ly miserable and helpless, I lost the day's transactions. The diet that did it bad often unhorsed me. I resolved to say good-by for ever. Are you not in memory of some such dietic experience, dear reader? And do you persist? - HANDLING "POISON IVY." My youngest brother, now spending a few days with me on my farm, cannot handle "poison ivy." I can touch it with impunity; it never injured me. As a boy I used to os tentatiously wreathe it about my neck, rub its leaves till my hands were green with its juice, and do what I would with this charm ing vine, unhurt; for a charming vine it is when the frosts touch it in the early autumn, changing its verdure to festoons of brilliant scarlet and deep maroon. Now, James, my brother, has just acted the fool's part again.. - Last Tuesday he "tried it again, just to show the children that he dare do what Harkley did." You should see his elephantine hands. He cannot pick up a pin with those swollen fingers to save his life. I upbraided him. He answered, "Well, I thought in twenty years my constitution might have changed." The dunce! Why should a man, who cannot touch wine with self restraint, venture to let his glass be filled at his club supper because other men can use wine temperately? There is no dis puting the fact that some men are temperate and, others intemperate. Each should judge for himself. Certainly he is a wicked wretch who does a thing that exposes him to loss of self control, knowing the experience. One man cannot speculate. If he goes into Wall street he becomes insane. The fret, the wild excitement of the changing market, up set his sleep, his appetite, his whole nervous system. There is only one rule for such a man, if he would live out his days. Don't touch a speculative venture. I know a singer whose voice fits her for the platform. But the nervous excitement of confronting an audience acts strangely upon her health. Some actors, singers, public speakers, grow fat upon the toil of their place; sleep, relish for food, all the physical functions fourish on the exciting life they lead. My dear friend, however, must simply choose another vocation. There are no two ways about it. If we, her best friends, can have our way, when the next manager approaches her with a $3,000 offer for a two months'. engagement, we shall hear her say, "I will not touch it." For her husband's sake, for the sake of her beautiful children, for her own charming self's sake, this should be her prompt, resolute reply. Health is a matter of scu:oundings, of fit ness of things, more than we realize. A man may work a calling for a time. mnaking money. His youth, his surplus of energy, may enable him to resist the evil physical ef fects of that calling. Yet in the middle period of life he will begin to cripple. Then is the time to change. He ought to have laid up savings sufficient to support him while in a tsansition to a business that he can health fully pursue. He probably will have flatter ing overtures to continue. Don't listen to them, my friend. Save your health. Stop in season. Your health is worth more to - your family than anything else on earth, ex ept your honor. To change today is to live to a green old age. Next year will be too late. BE .ALwAYS ON THE WATCH. All along the journey of existence I am on the watch as to the thmngs that are hurting me. Not that I live a lhfe of cringing fear. I keep my eyes open and study effects. I will not twice put my hand on a stinging bee if I can avoid it. I will not expose my self to the August sun on a broiling day if it is possible to avoid it; one narrow escape from sunstroke is quite enough for me.I will not cool off in a draught when in a per spiration; I have had my rheumatism, and t'shall not be in vain. However tempting a book, I will not reed it in twilight. So I might go on to show yoil, fair reader, that what I so earnestly preach to you I am willing to practice. The rule is wide in application. Some men are "bdiund to do a thing just to saow that they can," ignoring injuries invariably experi enced. In trade this spirit leads to bankrupt cy in the end. Let a thing alone if it has tumbled you once, at least leave it if twice you have suffered. I mean that if mining has swamped you twice, decide that life is too short for you to go putting savings in the ground. Let the other fellow try it. Your strong point is not mining. Are you a poor judge of oats? Let the other fellow deal in grain. *You are better fitted for dry goods. It is true that by years of application the boy who by nature is fitted for a machinist might make a fair physician. But he spoils a great fri'ventor to become a paseable doctor. The avoidance of injury is a more rare art than pluck and courage. Success waits on safety. To learn the secret of safety is the, highest wisdoml. Preserve yourself. Pre serve your eyesight, your hearing, your relish for food, your powers of application. Take good care of yourself. Mark the places where you slipped and sprained your foot. Buoy out .the channel you have sailed over. Make your own chart. Be your own physi can, as far as possible, by preventing themil turns that show plain causes in the backward look. Hurts in life are worse than fatigues. It is not hard work that kills. It is wounds anm nemenur- mnauries to our powers. on stacles any man of spirit can surmount. But a broken leg no man can quite recover from. Things that hurt us are more also than :hhags that hinder us. And, thank God, it is pssible to avoid most the -injuries under which the thoughtless and the headstrong uier. For great Nature is a kind mother t all her careful children.-Harkley Harker in New York Weekly. EXPLOSION OF NATUR AL GAS. ne Person Boasted to Death and Several Others Severely Injured. KoKOnA, Indiana, October 9.-The second accident in the history of the Kokoma gas belt occurred at Grome, fifteeniles East of Kokoma, Monday ight,- in which Chusa Mormon was in. stantly killed; Frank Larme had a leg roken, necessitating amputation; Hiram verman had his skull fractured, and ohn Hogue is probably fatally burned. A large crowd had gathered at this ell, wbich is the stronigest one in 'the State, to witness th,-* gas display. Sixty feet of four-inch pipe was laid from the ell, terminating in a vertical elbow four feet in height. The young mar who ap plied the torch foolishly turned this el bow down to lie on the ground, and just as the gas ignited the tremendous force flung sixty feet of the pipe around, striking and burning everything within its reach. A large number were injured n addition to the above. Mormon was a preacher in the Friends' hrch, 65 years of age and an old resident in this County, and leaves a wife and five grown children. He was pinned to a wire fence by the end of a ~amfing pipe and roasted, being almost ~onsumed.