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BIG WORDS IN HIS SERMON. Reporter Takes Down the Discourse of a Colored Preacher. On one occasion a reporter took the following stenographic account, the accuracy of which is not questioned. Gesticulating wildly, as described, the preacher began on the fwvnrite theme of magnifying the greatness of Jehovah. "Do Lawd made de fteaben and de yearf, and he sea an all dat tranrnographies the atmosphere." "Listen to Mm; listen to Mm." "But what yo' know about what dat means? You don't know 'cause h?in't hpf>n 1 I'se been 'structed is de mafematics, an' I knows." "Yes, yo' do?'deed yo' do." "Ef a strain of kyars could run a million yeahs, wid steam up, dey would not reach de circumboundary lines of dis yearf an' yet deole moon climbs dem hills every night and slidc^ down de odder side jest as easy as a black snake 'mong de reeds, an1 de moon doan' 'quire no steam." "Dat's a fac,' brudda; dai's a fac." "Dis yearf is bigger'n dat, an' I might as well tell yo' if yo' doan know how big it is. Hit is twentyo. five million miles in diameter an' eight thousand million miles across de beam." "Hear dat, will yo'; hear dat, honey Lord bless us!" And thus the discourse continued but after some weeks of an ineffectual effort to subsist by his deej; learning and eloquence alone the preacher left the county and abandoned the hope of building up a new congregation. Another negro preacher on on< occasion began his sermon as fol i . IKfW ? "Rerligion tinktutabulates all fro< de systematical anatomy ob de hu man h'art." Then he went on to tell what h< knew about the Bible, mixing th< Old and New Testaments ad libitun and having Christ and Mosei preaching together in the streets o what he called Jerorushillim. SPELLING "MAMIE." The dear girls are ahead of ui again. Having trained our old fogyisl spirit to tolerate "Mamie" beiiq spelt "Mamye" without a shudder we are totally unprepared for th< shock, when, presto, change! at anagrammatic movement takei place, and "Mayme" is eonsideret an fait. Certainly, if the fashion alterin] the orthography of names about a often as the style in spring bonnet continues, peace will be hard t< maintain in many families. For the next twist we sugges "Maighmeigh." There's enougl furbelow to that to last for sour time.?Cumberland News. This exquisite bit of verse entitle* "Love and Life," recently appearei in the columns of The Pall Mai Gazette. Unhappily the name of th author is not given, but he carina 'remain long in obscurity if he coii tinues to write in this vein: "Should life be nil a garland Of sweet and thornless flowers, Grown in a fairy far-land ? Of unbeclouded hours? Ah! 110; let thorns together With fragrant flowers entwine That so I prove thfee whether - We share the sweets together. And all the thorns be mine. "Should life be all an ocean Of rapture-rippled tides. Whereon in mazy motion The south wind softly glides? Ah, no; let storms togethei With rosy calms combine; That so in wild-windroeather, : As we sail on together. My heart shall shelter thine. "Should life be all a measure Of golden-girdled sound, Whereon no briefest leisure For minor ones isTound? Ah! no; let minor meanings - . Amid its music be, That so Love's intervenings May store all sadder gleanings, And share the sweets with thee. It's difficult to pose as an optimil when the rent collector calls. Happiness is very unsatisfactor when seen, through the eyes < ^ others. If a man can't trust himself he hf no right to expect others to trui him. People who are always harping o ^sHpthtfir troubles have a lasting topic < ^^conversation. Tne art of good living should I carefully and intelligently eultivj ted. It is almost time to be layingstra hats aside. Love levels all things except i own monotony. A homely woman who is vai doubts the accuracy of mirrors. A wheel in the hand is worth tv\ in the repair shop. When a woman cuts a man's a quaintance she looks daggers at hit: The man who has a cloven breal is always taking something for it. A young man seeking a quiet sp to kiss a girl should avoid her moot Some people's idea of a uecessai evil is one they don't want abolish. Political Union of Worth America. The area of public lands betwex the Red river and Rocky mountaii in Canada upon which the best hai wheat can be successfully grow: stated by Professor McCoun at 20( 000,000 acres, is one half as large i that of all the rebellious states, one fifth part of it was under cull vation, yielding 12| bushels per ac: ?the average yield of wheat in Ma: itoba in 1891 was 25 3-10 bushels fx 8ere?the total yield would be 50( 000,000 bushels, or in value greah than our entire cotton crop. This only one of many sources of weall to be gained by the peaceful consul mation of continental union. The political union of the Unite States and British North America ca be peacefully consummated by ti wise expenditure of less than on tenth of 1 i>er cent, or one-thousand! part of the cost of the civil war to dat leaving ou?. of the calculation ti value of the property destroyed an ? t . i* 1 A tne destruction 01 nuinau me. a parties agree that the preservation < the territorial integrity of the Unic was a necessity, and that its coi has been justified by events since tt close of the war.?Francis Waylar Glen in New York Sun. Dewey'# Coming Home. I Ho! Beat the tomtom! Let there be Hunting spread abundantly! Fling the Starry ensign out! Prepare to Yell and hoot and shout! Let much Patriotism flow From New York to far 'Frisco; Spare uot powder?no, nor steam Let the noisy whistles Scream! Turn the peaceful eagle Loose, And watch him soar in Pride profuse! Deck yourselves in Gay attire; Ring the bells up in the spire; Kill the fatted, juicy Calf, He is none too good Ry half; Let the festive cork let pop; On your gladness put No stop; Hurl your Bonnet in the air; Nor your lungs a moment i Spare; Seek no meagre, poor excuse, But whoop 'er up ' And turn 'er Loose! 1 For yonder, o'er the Rolling sea, Comes the Olympia, 1 Speedily; See her ploughing ' Through the ( Foam; And, wow! She's Bringing Dewey Home! ?New York Sun. ? A CURE FOR NEURALGIA, > I wan for some time a sufferer from Xeura gia. I tried nearly everything I could he* 5 of, but nothing did me any good until I pu . chatted a box of Ramon's Liver Pills Jfc loi ic PelletH and began to uae them. They r t lieved me at once. That wan over a yet ago. and I have had no return of it since.Xirw. Willie Reed. Gurley. Ala. For wale t a Dr. A. J. China. T- " 1?VI- I...... imnAl it is reiiiarhauic mm tcij tant it makes a man feel the fin > time he sees his name in print. A man is as old as he .feels. . snubrette is as old as her lithograph! ? A boy doesn't have to go to war t be a hero. He can say he doesn 3 like pie when he sees there is n< i enough to go round. 3 The hotel with home comforl f does not begiu to compare with on without home discomforts. Never buy a thing you do nc want just because it is cheap. The ordinary house fly lays eight 3 eggs at a clip, and it is believed tin about 200 per cent of the same at j successfully hatched, r What does it benefit one to ow the best lawn mower in the countr; ' if his neighbors keep borrowing 3 during the summer months. 1 A woman who can make good jell s is greater than a woman who ca i make a good speech. Mr. Jim Jeffries is said to be qui! versatile, but it is not believed thi * he ever exchanged pulpits with h 8 father. s ''Every politician has his price o but the most of them can be bought; cut rates. t The smokeless French crisis >} somewhat of an improvement ou t) old-fashioned affair. e Universal peace is a dream, bi ........ ,,r tho r MtritOian nowers dar< IM'IIC Ul WHV V... .wg j go to sleep. J A man may be as good as anothe | but he usually considers himself e little better. * t A pun is merely a play on word i- but it's hard work to understar some of them. The father of seven marriageab daughters speaks of his parlor as courtroom. This may be a horseless age, b money coutinues to make the ma ? go just the same. The trouble is, when a man reach the top of the ladder he seldom hi anything to look forward to. It's the easiest thing in the wor to forgive an enemy who is lar| enough to command your respect. The average man thinks hims* fairly good because it is so easy find a man that he thinks is conside ably worse. Many a man strikes out while tr ing to make a run of luck. Some men are compelled to ca for relatives for whom they dot care. One of the worse traits of huina ity is insincerity. The prettiest girl at the banquet the dinner belle. " Adversity often makes a vain pe son humbler and wiser. t Every man has his favorites, ai he usually heads the list. Matches kindle all kinds of flani j ?including that of jealousy. The Wall street "pointer" oft 8 points the way you should not go. It runs so in the grain, That no one can deny; n The man who sows wild oats ^ Is far too fond of rye. In Boston, we are told, mai )e housewives are getting to say, n that they have washed, butthat th have Mondayed. EvA when we realize that peoj w are flattering us we feel sure th they mean well. ls The world was made for the p<i man; every dollar will buy more i in cessitics than it will buy luxuries. Uaui'aiilw mancinnc numinf. una ? i j uiuiioivMu o lined with saloon rents. It is a mighty good thing that t c- Lord does not enforce the law as n. did against Annatiias. th It costs a man nothing to ha liberal opinions. He takes a dri nt if a man of any party treats, h. What a pleasure it is to have expanded notion of our itnportau thrust by force of circumstance { upon some one who has been i clined to ignore us! When some men get a telegram affects them as the largest strawbei n of the season affects a farmer. is When a man whistles all d :d either his heart or his head is iigl ^ A man who never had the tool ache doesn't know the bliss of i H8 having it. ^ About the time a man's argume ki- is exhausted he begins to lose inn re est in the subject. Q Atheism dethrones reason and ?r thrones folly as king. If a godless man got into heav -r lie would be glad to get out. 16 , Faith and zeal always outsti " reason and eloquence. It is true that you may find s< . I tnons in stones, but we don't wa ** stones in our sermons. LD Lots of people are poor becau they buy too much they don't nef e It's a pity the self-made man isi ;h permitted to select his own materi; e, The man who thinks he knows ie all doesn't know what other peoj l(j think of him. J] The widow's mite is the favor jf form of charity with some peoj who have plenty. .t The man who strikes you for a lo 5 usually makes a short story long;. l*j It's a wise employe whose opini 1(3 always coincides with that of I boss. CURRENT MISCELLANY. More Americans are going abroad this year than ever before. The trans atlantic steamship agents at New York report the largest number of outgoing passengers the records of the companies give an account of. Hankers with foreign connections say that passengers are taking more money than usual with them. The bookings of passengers extend well into August, and in some cases into September. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, 81, 087 cabin passengers were booked for Europe. This was less than the aver 1 J.-, rrii-nn in mnml age llUIUUer, >\ uicu 10 ?,11 vu iu iui.u.. numbers at 100,000. It is thought the number may increase this year to 15u.000. While it is possible to keep tally on the number who go abroad, it is not possible to ascertain very closely how much money they take with them. Estimates vary from $ 1,000 to $500 per capita, a range that renders estimates little better than guesses. The lowest amount is close upon low water mark, which is not a popular mark with American travelers. The time has passed when an American could pick his way through Europe on about the money he would spend at home. It would not be safe to place the total at much less than $100,000,000. This is about the annual contribution the United States makes to fashion and sightseeing.?San Francisco Bulletin. Wanted to Make an Impression. The chief clerk of the census bureau at Washington, as perhaps you know, is a man who is more than ordinarily good to look upon, though that has nothing whatever to do with this story, .1- except as a fact suggested by his conir trast to a man who wanted to see him ? one day recently. The man, of course, wanted to help the government out of Its difficulties by accepting a clerkship. >y His application was on file, but he came in person to see about it. The r_ doorkeeper assured him that his pait pers would receive consideration in due time. \ "I want to see Mr. Childs," the man s. persisted. He was tall and lank, and ;0 he looked like a cross between Uncle 't Sam and a horrible example. The door)l keeper was polite, but really Mr. Childs was extremely busy. The man ts was not to be put off. ie "Have you any special business with the chief clerk?" the doorkeeper, )t wearied, at last asked. "No," said the man, "but I want tc y see him. I reckon," and here he dre^v " Ll_ i.2 it himself up ana strotea ms uuuuj "e beard with complacency, "1 reckon I'c make an impression on him."?Wash n Ington Post V, it Champion Snake Snapper. The soil of Bridgeport is very prolific Lv of snakes. They grow there, along the river banks and under old, weedj walls, in an amazing way. Childrer te carry little ones about in their pockets putting them in one another's lunct 18 boxes at school by way of a joke, anc the older ones are dexterous in dis patching snakes with hoes, clubs anc the bare hand. Jesse Trump, a younj dyer, is the champion Bridgeport snak< ,s slayer, and whenever he comes across 18 one of the reptiles the inhabitants gather about to see him kill it H< first puts his foot on it then he takes BS it up by the tail and cracks it as a cart er cracks a whip. There is a loud re !ri port, and the head flies 30 or 40 fee a away, leaving in Jesse's skilled hand t lifeless body. No matter how larg< is' the snake may be this young man wil l<* not hesitate to crack it, and he has never yet failed to snap the head of ** any snake that he has tackled.?Phila tt delphia Record. ut pe ' The Lake Under London. To London, as to almost every larg< es city, the question of a water suppl; a8 has been a serious problem. Londoners now see a way to solve it. The en Id gineer of the county council has in formed that body, says The Goldei Penny, that underlying London is ai qf immense lake, in a chalk basin 2JHX to square miles in extent. >r- The annual rainfall that sinks to tni: lake, 100 feet below the surface of th< y- ground, amounts to 280,000,000,000 gal Ions, which would give a daily yield o re 767,000,000 gallons. An artesian wel l't has already tapped the lake at Clap ham, and it is pointed out that all tha n- Is necessary to insure a water suppl; Is to sink a sufficient number of wells is The wonder is that London shoul< have existed more than 2,000 year ?r- and^ never discovered that the grea lake was beneath it nd Introduced the Block Signal. es The Boston Herald says: "The lat President Thomson of the Pennsylva en nia railroad is credited with bavin; Introduced the block signal system which more than quadruples the ca pacity of the tracks for traffic by pei mitting trains to follow each othe closely with perfect safety. And ye ny we believe it is a fact that a Massa iot chusetts railroad commissioner one ey made a voyage to Europe to invest gate this system. When he arrive >le there, he was informed by the Ens at lish railway authorities tnat he ha better go home and investigate th or Pennsylvania railroad, from which th ie" Englishmen had borrowed the idea." Calf Choked to Death on a Kitten. A remarkable story comes from Son erset, Ind. Scott Davis, the leadin merchant of the village, had a fine Jei sey calf, which he placed in a stall i his barn and was bringing It up b " hand, the little animal being supplie with the best of milk for its sustt o n nance. A cat had a litter of kittens i gS the manger. One night, according t jn' the Indianapolis News, the calf ei deavored to swallow one of the kitteu . and was found dead In the stall nes 1 morning with the kitten fast in it throat ay Danger* In Mercury. tit. Mercury is a foe to life Those wh j,. make mirrors, barometers or thermom ir -l .1 - ? t fV, lot ?ters. etc.. soon ieej iue eucn w iu nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums an t the tissues of the body IVin Iceland men and women are i every respect political equals. The na tion, which numbers about 70,000 pet pie, is governed by representatives elecl en ed by men and women together. rip A philologist estimates that of ever 100 words in the French language 1 o*. we superfluoua Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. Is is? beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Catha id. tic clean your blood and keep it clean, t stirring up the lazy liver and driving all ir ' . purities from the body. Begin to-day 1 ft1, banish pimples, boils, Blotches, blackhead it and that sickly bilious complexion by takir >le Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All drui gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. lje Wireless telegraphy seems to be )Ie success, but we are a long way fror wireless politics. an You can flatter people in no mor effective way than by making ther ?n believe?and it is not difficult?tha lis you think they are what the imagine themselves to be. A SHOOTING STAR. What It Really Im and WherA It Comet From. Sir Robert Ball, who is the world's greatest livjpg astronomer, told a London audience recently some interesting facts about meteorites and shooting stars. In describing the origin of meteorites he said that millions of years ago, when the earth was an infant at play and volcanoes were giants, the meteors were thrown upward in infant convulsions. Some of the earth's discarded ! rocks returned at once, but those which were flung upward at a rate greater than seven miles a second passed beyond the earth's gravitating influence and sought paths of their own. no one could tell whither. And then, after millions of years, they once more came within the reach of the world, and old Mother Earth resumed her sway, took back the rocks tc her bosom and the astronomers said a meteorite had fallen. Sir Robert asked his hearers to imagine a wrapping of some hundreds of miles of air round the earth's surface Now just in the same way that a gimlet, boring its way into wood, becomes warm, so a bullet going 20 miles a minute would become extremely warm in boring its way through 20 miles of air. And in the same way that a bullet became warm, so a meteorite traveling 10,000 times as fast as a bullet, traveling at this speed perhaps for hundreds of years through realms of jspace whose paralyzing cold was indescribable and finding itself at last plunging through the warm bath of the air, became hotter and hotter and hotter. It glowed, it became white hot, it melted, it dissolved in a burst of gas eous splendor, and observers on the earth cried. "Why, there's a shooting star!" Particulars Wanted. Mayor Kinney of Utica, in vetoing a bill of $200 for the expenses of aldermen who went to Albany to look after legislation, wrote: "As this bill is asking for public money, the public would like to know what it was spent for. Particularly as | there is no record of the committee ever appearing before any legislative body in Albany and making any argument, and as there is no charge for lobbying, what did they do anyway that the public should be called upon to pay this $200 ? It may be that history is repeating it' self, and that they can say like Caesar, ,^'We came, saw and conquered the legt ielature and got the corporation conn-1 r eel salary bill passed.' I "Please let the public know in what i direction your colossal energies were di-1 rected. Of course, we know you labored and suffered at Albany for the interests of your constituents, but do let us know ? whether you suffered for us on canyas? back and champagne or on corn beef r and cabbage." 1 Singular Coin. Dr. Harrington exhibited in our office 1 quite a singular coin which he says ' was dug up or plowed up on his place ' in this county near Girth. It is of brass * and copper (more brass than copper) > and about the size of our 25 cent silve> - coin. It has on one face a United States * flag and around it the legend "Califor' ?J- " rkn tho rovprap flidfl is a IJJtt V/UUUtCl. vu tuv > i United States eagle, with the arrows 3 and olive branch in his talons, aronnd which are the words "United States of America." It has no date. The word counter means a "false piece of money 1 cr stamped metal, used as means of re" coining." Another meaning is "money in contempt." This may have been 3 made long ago by some private enterprise for convenience and not for common use as money.?Waynesboro True Citizen. Steam boa tin? on the Jordan. B The progress of civilization has at j last reached the Jordan, and a steam3 boat churns the water in which John baptized. The Abbot Pachomius of the . monastery of St. John at Jericho made 3 the first attempt at steam navigation 2 with a diminutive launch about three 3 years ago. The experiment was so successful that a small steamer was pur3 cb..sed a year later and taken to the B Jordan. [_ This boat, the Prodromus, now mainf tains a regular passenger service bej tween the bridge near Jericho and the h southern end of the Dead sea and is t well patronized by the tourists and P pilgrims. I. A Bi? Chunk of Ice. 1 James Garrison, a farmer living in 3 Camden county, Ma, put up ice durt ing the winter, and his crop is all in ene piece. It measures 20 feet each way. He constructed a box into which, by means of troughs, he conveyed e streams of water from a spring in the i- hillside. The water froze, and when g the box was filled the troughs were rei. moved. Around this box Mr. Garrison t- built a larger one, filling the space between the two with charcoal and sawr dust. He says he will drill and blast t his huge cube of ice as fee may have oc L* casion to nse it daring the summer. Bride Retains Her Name. ^ There was a curious marriage at Toledo a few days ago. The bride was ^ Miss Lydia Kingsmill Commander, and the bridegroom the Rev. Herbert N. Casson. By prenuptial agreement the bride is to retain her own name?Mrs. Lydia K. Commander; Mr. "Casson will still be known as Mr. Casson. It is not stated whether the futnre members of " the family will be Cassons or Comf manders or half and half.?New York Tribune, n y ^ Keeping Up Appearances. A "licensed pawnbroker" who does a n great deal of work in the west end of 0 London lately gave to the writer par" ticulars of a strange sort of pledging [8 that has become common of late and that often defeats men of his kind. 8 Backing up his statement with actual names and dates, he said: "A bailiff and I enter a showy flat, 0 say, and my accnstomed eye at once falls on a handsome or at least a pree tentious piano. I say to myself that <j this piano will seli for what I require. I go to it, but find that it is locked. I ask for the key, and when this is relucB tantly produced I find that there is in reality nothing but a case. All the inv side of the instrument is gone. The fact l is that people in difficulties wno stin want to ket-p up appearances can borrow money, while still apparently re_ taining their piano, by allowing the I lenders to take away the main part, or inside, of the instrument. One man in the west end in particular does a considerable business by lending money on >o pianos in this way. r" "I suppose that when visitors want to play on an insti anient of this kind to the host pleads that the key is lost, s, Anyhow I have in my own business had quite 50 examples of gutted pianos dur^ ing the last two years, and I never mark a piano down in an inventory a now till I have closely examined it."? n London Answers. e Every man believes in the total n depravity of some other man. it y Fame is so short-lived that it's really not worth striving for. ? A FEAlvLEfSS CONVICT, I, SlHADMAN'S DARING ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN PRISON. One of the Most Remarkable Cases of Jail Breaking on Record?Accomplished by a Feat Which Almost Bordered on the Miraculous. It is cne thing to catch a thief and it Is another thing to hold him. Dnring a meeting of the chiefs of police of all the larger cities of the United States and Canada, which occurred at Milwaukee, there were reminiscences of remarkable captures and of escapes which bordered closely upon the miraculous. "The most remarkable escape from prison that I can recall," said William A. Pinkertou, "was that of Frank Steadman from the San Quentin prison. But I'll not tell you about it, for here is John Glass, who caught Steadman ?, ? t 1. o? i? &QQ sent film uauii tu ouu i^ucuuu. Chief Glass pinched the brown imperial on his under lip reflectively for a moment before he responded to the looks of inquiry lieut upon him by those not familiar with the story. "The escape to which you refer, Pinkerton, was made after I sent Steadniau to San Quentin and not before. I was not the fortunate one to get him after that last wonderful break. And to tell the truth, I have never taken to myself much credit for taking him the time I did, for it was to a considerable degree % matter of good fortune. You see, we were just at that time keeping our eyes open for a bank robber by the name of Barnes, who had gone into one of the banks out there, covered the one man who happened to be alone in the place at the time, locked him up in the vault, and then coolly walked out of the bank and out of sight with all the funds he could get his hands on. "One day a man answering closely the description we had of Barnes stepped off the train at Los Angeles. We took him in tow at once, but found we did not have the bird we were after. However, we managed to hold him long enough to find out that he was Frank Steadman, who had become notorious even at that time as a successful jail breaker. He had four or five escapes from prison in southern Indiana credited to him, had got away from Joliet and had still seven years to do at the Illinois prison; had also been at San Quentin, and had escaped from there ? /> ? -1- . i with live years unnmsnen. "Steadman was a machinist by profession, and a burglar by inclination. When he was sent back to San Quentin to finish his time, he was pat to work with other convicts in the engine room. It was here that an idea came into his brain that for absolute daring and fearlessness was typical of the man. He had noticed that every evening at the time the men working in the engine room were lined up to be marched away, the machinery was stopped at exactly the same moment He had observed as well that a window leading to an adjacent roof was not far from the top of the big driving belt of the engine. From that roof it was possible to reach the outer wall of the prison. Beyond the wall was freedom. He had escaped so many times that his mind reverted again and again to the window high up on the wall of the engine room. Apparently it was beyond all possibility of being reached. No ladder was to be obtained. Had such a thing been even standing in place against the wall, to break from the line and scale it with catlike dexterity, althoogh the work of but a few seconds, he well knew would be futile, possibly fatal. Bullets travel faster than legs, and the guards were not bad shots. But desperate deeds demand desperate means. Some minds may work with an ingenuity born of despair, but Steadman's was of a different caliber. His plans were the outgrowth of steadfast optimism. "One day there came to him as if by inspiration the thought that the big belt might be the means of carrying him to his goal. He found that it was impossible to count the revolutions of the driving wheel, but there were lacings in the broad belt, which he was able to distinguish as a sort of blur as it passed a given point For days and days he oounted, and in his cell at night he spent his time in calculations. He discovered the exact number of revolutions Unmwi mnriA npr minnte. He learned UiU VTUWA also by constant observation just bow many times tbe belt went round after tbe engine was sbnt down. "One evening, when tbe line bad been formed as usual at tbe close of tbe day *8 work and as tbe big wheel began to lose its momentum, suddenly a oonvict sprang from tbe line, leaped to tbe belt, with outstretched arms giappling both edges of the broad leather. He bad calculated well tbe strength that would be required, for the terrific wrench did not loosen bis grasp. Outward and up ward be swung until be reached tbe topmost point of tbe circumference. Tbe nicety of his calculation bad reaped ite reward. The belt stopped. He leaped to bis feet, sprang through tbe window and was gone before convicts or guards bad recovered from their astonishment He caught up a guard's coat and bat dropped from tbe wall and got away in tbe dusk of tbe evening. I am inclined to believe that as a mathematical proposition that was about as perfect a piece of work as any man ever accomplished." "And did be get away without recapture?" some one asked. "No, I am almost sorry to say, be did not," answered the Los Angeles chief, "for that ought by rights to be the denouement of such a story, which combines so much of daring and cleverness. Steadman was taken again in a short time and put to work at his old job. There are bars over that high window above the big drive belt now. Not long after this Steadman cut and nearly killedone of the other convicts and is now serving out an additional sentence for attempted murder at theFolsom prison, which is situated some 28 miles from Sacramento " Chicago Inter Ocean. When a woman doesn't want to exim-qck i,,*r nninion in words she mere I'1 v"" v'* " r --ly shrugs her shoulders and that settles it. Lives of great men remind us that we all have our uoubles. The embarrassment resulting from great riches is easily overcome. By the time a man succeeds in reaching the top of the ladder he is too old to enjoy the scenery. When a man goes into business there is always some one who wonders where he got the money. Every man should he capable of keeping his estimate of his abilities to himself. To the average small hoy tlie best thing about soap is the soap-box. When a man p iys his wife a compliment, he adds "hut?and then says something to spoil it. The Mauser cocktail is a mixture of Jersey applejack and absinthe. One hall is sufficient to kill. The fact that stolen sweets are sweeter of course tends in a measure to account for the stutF that passes for whiskey in prohibition States. It is doubtful if any of us could make the world much better; but any of us could make it a little better. j 1 TfiTifhi i_ to ? ' CRA2ED BV THS COMET. the Prospective Arrival of lliela'tf Orb Left Its Influence iiehlinl. There are wise people to-day who believe that the proximity of a comet to the earth brings with it various diseases, mental as well as physical disturbances. "1 never took any stock in this comet business,'' said a practical friend of mine. "I've seen several comets in my time and read ail sorts of rot about them, very little of which 1 believed. But this comet" He paused and drew me away from the crowd. Having glanced about him uneasily, he continued: "This comet nearly drove my wife crazy! Yes, sir; fact! And she's nearly driven me crazy. Do you?have you Been anything queer about me lately?" ' * ? * ' * ? i-l I I told hiin 1 Had not?max ne looaeu as sane as his average fellow mortal. "Well," he resumed, "I've run a mighty narrow chance, 1 tell you. But she's cured now. If this infernal comet hadn't gone away just when it did 1 should have been locked up by this time. "My wife is ordinarily a quiet little woman and takes no particular interesl in the newspapers except when there is a mysterious murder case like the greal Maybrick poisoning case or the Carlylo Harris case, or something like that? something mysterious, you know. Ther she grabs the newspapers and reads uj on it, and thinks about it, and talks aboul it, and advances theories about it, anc thoroughly masters it, hanging the de fendant every day. She can find mor< clews than the whole metropolitan po lice force. She pounces down upon nn at breakfast with her theories and clewi and suspicions, and as these arechangec after reading the evening papers 1 ge another dose at night. "But this comet! She has beei stricken?yes, sir, stricken?by the mys terious influence the comet is said U have upon the human mind! it wa manifest in her the very day she rea< the dispatches and the differences o learned opinion as to whose comet i was and its probable orbit, its distance the number of sparks in its tail, eta 1 it had been a straightforward come and come right out where everybod could see it and where everybody es pected it, she would have been all se rene. But the mystery of the thing, th uncertainty, the disagreement of astron omers?that settled her. She begai reading up on the comet from the newt papers. As every newspaper differed and every authority in every newapape differed with every other authority i that or any other newspaper, she fouu herself suddenly plunged into a whii of excitement "She sprang comet on me every hou in the day and swept the heavens with 2-inch opera glass every night. Sh had a sort of idea that redhot chunks o iron were liable to drop into our Ha1 She went up on the roof to see the ra( teoric shower and got locked out u there by the janitor. If 1 hadn't misse her she'd have been frozen to death. Sh j got up ten times a night to look out, an once she said she smelled sulphur. Sh ! slipped out of bed the first thing in th | morning and read what the papers sai about the comet, then went back to be again. When 1 sat down to break fai with my paper she was loaded for m< You could see a hazy red light hangin over the Jersey horizon from our wii dows, and she had those windows ope so much at night we all got colds an snuffles. On Sunday night the sky ovc there was bright red at intervals. Wei she was just wild. Then she smelle the sulphur in the air. 1 never saw woman get so excited. She scarce! slept a wink. "The next morning, when she fouu that it was the Jersey meadows on tii and that she hadn't seen the comet t all, she was the most disgusted woms you ever saw. She won't touch a new paper now. She says the newspaper are the biggest liars?next to the astroi omers?on earth, if 1 say 'comet' i her now she is as mad as a hornet. "In my opinion, it's been a confoun* ed fraud all along. This man Biela, < Beely, ought to get six mouths on tl island."?New York Herald. _ , .. Bare ueuoi useanueu. Four of the most remarkable relit discovered have just been found in tl western Egyptian oasis of Theba an sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhifc tion. They are plaster casts bust These busts originated during the brii era of prosperity at the close of the Se ond and the beginning of the Third cei tury of our time. They are not, as would seem, detached pieces of statue but are complete in themselves. Tht are masks used for a special class < mummies, and like most of the Egy; tian curiosities come from the grave. Tl departed members of wealthy familii were provided not only with sepulcher but with a sort of armor composed < several pieces, which completely incas* the dead body. The feet were thru into a pocket shaped affair like a ca riage foot warmer, and separate piec were made for chest and neck, as we as the hair, with a mask for the fac which often resembled the features ? the dead.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Yarn from Bed Bluff. A few days ago James R. Holt wei for a quail hunt along the banks of tl Sacramento river. Under a cover < brush he discovered a nice flock of bird but when he raised his gun to have shot they disappeared. He felt satisfa that there were quite a number under particular bush and he blazed awa The noisy fluttering which followed to him the result and he ran for his priz and just as he was reaching out his har to catch a wounded quail he was su denly shocked to discover an euormoi rattlesnake in the line of the bird. He approached the birds again wil his gun cocked and ready for a suddt shot, and learned that the snake vri dead. When he fired at the birds 1 killed the snake and six quail, althou? none of the birds or the serpent were view. The snake had eight rattles at a button and was 3;.> feet in length. Red Bluff (Cal.) News. Hot Weather Diet. "It is a mistake," said a physicif during the recent period of extrec heat, "to eat. too little in hot weathe Just as it is a mistake to eat too mu< and the wrong things. Extreme h weather is in itself very exhaustin and plenty of nourishment is needed sustain the system. This nourishme should bp of a simple and easily dlgej ed kind. For myself I find that mi and vichy taken at regular intervals two hours, sipped rather than gulp< down ih a single draft, gets n through' best on a very hot day, fro breakfast to a 6 o'clock dinner. Th* I take care to have a fairly hear meal."4-New York Post. 1 Imprisonment For Debt. A curious survival of bai-barism the fact that men are still imprison* for debt in New York. By general col sent this custom has been general abandoned in other states along w!1 the flogging of criminals, but It coi tiuues in New York in spite of repeat* and notorious instances of its cruell and L injustice. Governor Rooseve might earn his highest laurels by ai dressing himself to the abolition < this, relic of rude times.? Kansas C11 s$?l . i IT HAS 593 STEPS. | The Stulr?vaj' 111 the Tower of the I'hlludeliihiu City Hall. A novel diversion is about to be instituted at the city hall. Within a few weeks this noble pile, already distinguished as being the highest municipal building in the world, will contain the ! highest continuous stairway in the world, and tourists who have hitherto boasted of their muscular ability in climbing the stone steps of the Hunker Hill monument at Charlestown. the U iidliiug WVU UiVUUiliVUk V4 V&4V -,. ment to General Brock, near Queens> town. Ont.. will tell their friends of their feat in ascending the 398 steps which lead from the seventh tloor of the city hall to the lauding about the feet of William Penu. Tower climbing is one of the fads of i tourists. Hitherto the Blinker Ilill : monument, with its four hundred odd stone steps, and the Washington moni umeut, which has a few more, have represented the acme of opportunity > f#r tests of physical endurance. As- j t cent or descent of these steps has been 5 boasted of, and, though both so cramp t the muscles of the leg that the climb" er for an hour afterward is hardly able * to walk upright, the distinction has re1 quited the pain. > The building commission is pushing t forward the work on the tower stairl way, and within two months it is ex" pected that it will be in readiness for } climbers. It will extend from the sev" enth to the sixteenth floor and will J contain just 598 steps of iron arranged 1 about a square central shaft, in which 1 will run an electric elevator. To reach 1 the tower stairway the climber may mount the 245 granite stairs in the 1 hanging stairways at the northern end of the building, thus making a total 3 climb of 745 steps. 6 John Bunker, assistant superintend1 ent of the city hall, said recently: "Entrance to the tower has been 1 temporarily stopped because of the !< work being done on the stairway. We ' are pushing this work, however. It is * really surprising how many persons y make application to ascend the tower. " The old elevator now in the tower will h be kept in place for the remainder of 6 the year at least to accommodate those l' who prefer to ride, but early next year D we expect to install an electric elel* vator which will make the trip in less ^ than half the time required by th? anr tiquated lift now in use. The new u stairway will be an easy one to ascend ^ for the tourist climbers, because it will be frequently broken by platforms. There will then exist a continuous r stairway for the 547 feet which the a tower is high."?Philadelphia Press, e ^ A Remarkable Case. Matthias Steiuberger, who is at present living with his grandnephew, J; Percy W. Holcoinb, near Fostodia, is a veteran of the Mexican war. e. In one of the charges of his regiment ( at the battle of Resaca de la Palma, e his horse stumbled and fell, and, ? throwing him to the ground, knocked , him senseless and paralyzed his spine. When he was taken to the hospital, 5 he was able to tell everything that 3' took place up to the time he was hurt, but after that everything was blank. 1 He has always maintained that he was ^ about 21 years old. He has, in fact, been blind to all progress, j The other day he was struck on the ^ head and lost consciousness, and when he came to a peculiar expression was noticed on his face, as if he had just awakened from a long sleep. The first j question that he asked was, "What are all those wires up there on the poles for?" He was greatly astonishn ed at the electric cars and bicycles. a He says, "I guess that the world has gone so far ahead of me that I will 3 never catch up with it"?Toledo Cor. t Cleveland Plain Dealer. j Iron Felt. A new insulating material known as iron felt, and made In Germany, is being extensively used In Europe for a number of purposes. For the prevention of vibration It is said to be quite successful, and it Is placed between 28 engines and their foundations and also 10 between rails and sleepers. It consists . of the larger and stouter woolen fibers treated with a by product of petroleum and then coated with gelatin " and India rubber and vulcanized. c" After pressure it is used in the form ?" of plates somewhat over two square " feet in area, and from one-half to 8' two inches In thickness. The plates ^ are said to be extremely elastic and imperishable, and have a surface so P" hard as not to be cut by the sharp 10 edges of bolt heads or iron girders.? 08 Tublic opinion, s, ^ Artificial Daylight. ** Tesla has succeeded in making artist In h!o lnhnrfitrtrr he LlCiai uajllguu ila wio iuvvMw., r* shows numerous balls of glass of different sizes which look like miniature suns. The balls are empty; there are e' no wires in them nor outside of them. They do not burn the fingers. Th6 light does not hurt the eyes as sunlight and ordinary electric light do. A number of leading New York and Qt Chicago photographers will have this artificial daylight supplied to their studios. Tesia says: "The reason I have chosen to introduce the new daya light to the photographers first is that ** I believe them to be the severest crita Ics iu the matter of light If it succeeds with them a new light will ^ Bucceed everywhere." e. Indian Trick In Lnion. The Filipinos wrap their cartridges Js to make them fit various barrels. This crude adaptation of means to ends must amuse the old Indian fighters in )n General Otis' army, to whom the prinJO ciple is by uo means a new one. The same trick has long been used by our ! own Indians, who wrap Winchester iu . cartridges with rawhide and shoot 1 them from their old 50 caliber Martinis and Sharp's carbines. Learning the Truth. A school inspector was examining a class in grammar and trying to explain - - - - ' ' 5 V_ V the relations or adjectives anu nouns oy " a telling example. "Now. for instance." said he, "what am I?" ^ That wae an easy question, and all ? the children shouted, "A man!" and jj then looked around triumphantly, aa ^ much as to say, "Ask another." "Yea But what else?" said the inspector. le This was not so easy, but after a m pause a boy ventured to suggest, "A little man." y "Yes, but there is something more than that." This was a poser for the youngsters, but after a moment's puzzled silence an infant phenomenon almost leaped ** from his seat in his eagerness and cried I1" to the inspector: y "Please, sir, I know?an ugly little :h in u- ?? k! It is not promised that the Lord [j raises the wind for the shorn Iamb, jt however. If you want to see a strong organ>f ization look at the liquor dealers; if ty want to see a weak one, look at the consumers. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. ' J They became acquainted on one of the ferryboats while riding just for * the sake of keeping cool. There happened to be a bridal couple billing and cooing near them, and the old gentle- 1 man from Grand Kapids had an inter- 1 nul convulsion of laughter which lasted so long that he felt called upon to explain. J "That recalls my own wedding trip," 4 he began between chuckles; "It was so different. I suppose I had about at tm.jrh nn pynerienee as ever fell to the lot of a new and bashful husband. I lived In York state and was married there. Just between ourselves, I won the prettiest and best girl In the county. We had a line wedding and a I great .send off when we left for our trip. But then the trouble began. At the very first station people came in, studied the appearance of each one till they reached us, looked startled and hastened out, the men rushing in a group to the telegraph office. "At the next depot there was the same invasion. Some big voiced man yelled, That's them!' and then there was a scramble for the telegraph window. By this time my new wife was very nervous, and 1 was very mad. At A the next stop the rush was still larger, we were carefully looked, over, and the usual stampede followed. I grabbed the hind fellow in the chase, whirled . j him around, caught him by the throat * v and demanded an explanation. He couldn't speak, so he gave me a handbill. It offered a reward of $100 to any one discovering and reporting a youth- fill 'green looking1 couple answering , our description. We hid for the rest of the bridal tour over that line, and when we reached home my best chum aot the all flredest thrashing he ever I ^ ?Xew York Journal His Native Soil. "Well, Dreyfus is on his native soli again." "Yes, and he must notice that It is more soiled, If possible, than ever."? Chicago Times-Herald. WILSON & SUMMERTON R. R. -* i Time Table No. 1, to take effect ?Monday, June 13,1898. TRAINS GOING NORTH. * * Lv Wilsons Mill 9 10 a m Ar Jordan 9 35am Ar Davis Station 9 45am ' v Ar Summerton 10 10 a m Ar Millard 10 15 a m i Ar Millard 10 45 am Ar Silver 1110 am ? Ar Packsville 11 30 a m Ar Tindal 11 55 a m Ar W. & S. J unction 12 27 p m Ar Sumter 12 30p m TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Lv Sumter 2 00pm ? Lv W. & S. Junction 2 03 p m Ar Tindal 220pm Ar Packsville.. 2 38pm Ar Silver 2 50 p m Ar Millard 3 05 p m ~ - o or ? Ar Millard aoopui Ar Sumnierton 3 50 p in Ar Davis 4 20 p m Ar Jordan 4 45 p in Ar Wilsons Mill 5 16 p m BETWEEN MILLARD A ST. PAUL. Ar Millard 10 15 am 3 05pm Ar St Paul 10 25 am 315pm Lv St Paul 10 35 am 3 25pm Ar Mi 1 lard 10 45 a m 3 35 p m All trains daily except Sunday. THOMAS WILSON, I President. had."?Detroit Free Press. Xe Ploa Ultra. S In Boston people were felicitating a young person "upon her approaching marriage. "He's a fine catch!" they exclaimed * in delicate compliment of her future husband. "Oh, a veritable cod!" she replied with considerable enthusiasm and then blushed deeply to think how very boastful that must sound.?Detroit Journal. At Cross Purposes. "Do you make much out of your apples?" asked the visitor. "Oh, pretty considerable," answered the farmer; "but I've got a son up In the town who makes more out of the apples in a month than I make the * whole season." "A farmer, Is he?" "No; he's a doctor. I'm talking about green apples now."?Yonkers States man. ^ Wonders Promised. "I'm going to organize a Filipino ~ . w-.i OTO. 4o Uttxi leaiii as ewu as uic nai <o uici and star the country." "You won't make a cent" "I'll bet they beat everything that comes against them. Just think what base runners they would be."?Indianapolis Journal. _ * An IneldentaL Hibbs?See that striking looking girl ^ M there? She married millions. Hobbs?Who's the insignificant looking fellow with her? Hibbs?Oh, he's the man she married.?Philadelphia North American. Johnny Shows His Affllity. "Step up, fellers, an see Willie do his great trick of jumpin into a bar^\ 4 , I * "Watch him close, now!" Hitl -X , - **