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y . :i THE PATH TO VICTORY. I Though oft your star of hope has paled, I Waste uot your breath in sighing; j Bcmember, fri*nd, you have not failed 80 long as you keep trying. ? Woman's Home Companion. I ; TIM, CREDITOR. 5 4 f 4 4\ j BY KAYMOKD WBSTHILL. ^ j He was a newsboy, and one of two creditors who formed an acquaintanceship at a debtor's door? the other creditor was the landlord. Tina had been pounding on the door some minutes when the landlord tame. . "Is there no one in?" inquired that person as he discovered Tim there. "Now. She's never in when I want ?rue money,'" said Tim. "She tooked cer papers alright." "And she never paid you anything?" "Sure, she did wcnst, but I never ^ fcin get no money outer her now. She ? ltms' spen' it all fer beer now; she's t siwiz got der price of a pint." v "How much does she owe you?" "On'y a dollar forty-sevin. She used ter owe me two dollars an' fortysevin cents. Dat was when she lived to Gardiner street, two flights up. I reckoned it up, an* I went up four j hun'red an' fifty-four flights er stairs j " ter sell dem papers, an' laid out one j ioller an' thirteen an' er half cents i ter git dem?an' den didn't git paid j "I would come here every week r.ntil she gave me the rest, if I were jf you/ "Yer wouldn't git it den, fer I went ter her house in Gardner street twen'y three times in two months an' all I got & was 50 cents." "Some people haven't any hearts." remarked the landlord as Tim paused. ; ; -- "Dat wus sixty-six flights er stairs j / more. Den she moved ter Cook avc-nvoT hnf T wnsri't sroner erive it uo f en' I found out where she moved. She lived dare sevin months an'. I never got nothin' from her. It wus two - flights dare, and went up sixty-nine times an' dat makes a hun'red an' thirdy-eight more flights er stairs. Den she moved ter Wilton street an' der firs' t'ree months I didn't get nothin'. I tried nineteen times an' it wus t'ree flights dare?dat makes flfty-sevin flights more. Nex' time I went she said she'd gim me ten cents er week till it wus all paid. She on'y gim me thirdy cents in two months. I'm tired countin' der stairs?I don't know how much dat made. Now she's here an' I've bin comin' her fer four months. "An'," he continued, getting quite in a rage; "some of her excusis wus fierce. She tol' me firs' dat der firm didn't pay her husban' yet for two months, an' dat she wus ter law about it Dej^iftCgag wore out, an' when P-^-v j>^r^araid'd come ter der dcor an' ?ee me he'd say 'Mrs. Braid jist went out. hoy; she's got all der money wid her; come 'round termorrer,' and when Mrs. Braid'd come ter der door she'd cay *Why Mr. Braid jist went out. Didn't yer meet him? I haven't a j.enny in der house. Sorry; yer'll have ter come in termorrer.' " "Such mean proceedings," inter* ? ? a ?ul J; rosea me lanaiora witn cusgusu Hi ^ "Oh, dat ain't all. One day I got dem mixed up. Mr. Braid said dat Mrs. Braid was sieepin' an' bercauss she had neuralger he didn't want ter wake her up. I went der nex' day an' she says 'Why didn't yer call er little earlier yesterdy. I jist went oat when yer came.' Nothin' but 'er big lie." "Did you tell her you caught her?" "Naw?wouldn't be no use." During the last of the conversation the landlord had taken a tub that had j Btood against "the front door of Mrs. Braid's apartment and placed it against the rear door. "She'll know who put that there," he said assuredly. "She'll be down 10 my office tonight without fail to pay the rent. She doesn't fool with me." The next time Tim found Mrs. Braid In, and she promised to pay 'every cent on Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock, four weeks from now." That afternoon Mrs. Braid was preparing to make a "call," and thereby evade the newsboy, when the landlord came. She bad appeared at his office thrice with excuses, but no money. He must have his money. She found subterfuge in: "I have only a ten dollar bill." He insisted upon getting change, * "while she argued that she had an important engagement and could act tarry a moment. He threatened to put her and her possessions on the sidewalk if she did not settle. She finally handed him the ten dollar bill, though not before she had gotten rid of the detaining dilemma. That was disposed of by her careless nature when she said: "Put the change under the mat. It'll be a dollar and a half?eight fifty for the rent" "It will not be safe there." "Oh yes it will. I've placed things there loads of times." About twenty minutes after Mrs. Braid had sauntered out of the house Tim, fifteen minutes late, was rapping at her door; but, of course, it remained closed. He made up his mind to fool her "jist onst" in his life, so he placed the tub where the landlord had put it. "Now," he said to himself with a giggle, 'she'll go down ter his office fer nothin'! Dat'll be a wild-goose chase fer her." But somehow the tub would roll away from the door, and he felt for the supposed disturbing piece of coaJ. It was not on top of the mat, so he felt under. His hand struck some pa-' per and he picked it up and took it to the light. To his astonishment the paper contained a dollar and a half! and writen across it was the word "change." "Alright," said Tim out loud. "I'll give her der change, an' I'm mighty glad yer honist at las'." He placed three cents change in the paper and put it under the mat. He joyously rushed cut of the house and off to a fruit store, where he purchared a large bag of fruit?"Now." he said, as he came out, "Mom'll have fruit like everybody else." In front of the landlord's office a crowd had gathered, for within an unconscious little form was stretched cn a desk. It was none ether than Tim's. "While caring for his fruit he had slipped, and fell, striking his head cn the sidewalk. When he did open his eyes the first thing he said was: "It's me own fault. I got it bercause I wus goin' ter give her a wild goose chase. Cat's why I got it." ' What woman. Tim?" quickly interrogated 4 ho landlord. "Mrs. Braid. She left der money whot she owed me under der mat. an' I bought der fruits wid it." Tht landlord said nothing; but a j f~w m.hates later, when the lad appeared to have recovered enough to j go home, the landlord started for Mrs. j Eraic's apartment, j lis If an hour afterward Mrs. Braid | took from under her mat a dollar and a half, and remarked: "I knew it woud be safe."?The Crij terion. AN EASTERN NATIONAL PARK. | A Project for One lu New England, to Embrace Parts of Three States. I There is talk of a national park in New England, including part of Maine, j as a forest reservation. The entire area of forest reservations and parks approximates fifty million acres. Tne parks differ from the forest reserves in that no lumbering can be carried | on within them, and their game ani- I mals are protected. The mining laws do not apply within their territory, except in Mount Kanier Park, and they are in care of government troops. The forest reservations, on the other hand, are administered by the secretary of the interior, through the general land office. Maine and NewHampshire already have state and forestry commissions, and it might be practicable to secure their cooperation in the control and direction of such a reservation as is suggested. While several states have acquired forest reservations or have taken measures to protect such areas, the Federal government possesses the facilities for controlling such reservations in a broad way, unaffected by local or private interests, upon plans that will permit the use of private forests that remain, directing with intelligence such cutting as is proper, and promoting new growth on the denuded areas. The subject is exceedingly important in its relation to the prosperity of the farmer, who is largely dependent on climate and rainfall; to the great manufacturing interests, more or less dependent on the water power furnnished by our rivers; to the rapidly growing cities and towns whose water supply is drawn from our northern lakes, and to the health and pleasure of thousands who annually visit the mountains and uplands of northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The White Mountain region of New Hampshire covers an area of more than 1200 square mile3, between the lake country of New Hampshire on the south and the valleys of the Aminonocsuc and Androscoggin on the north. Connected witn it easterly are the great forest areas of Maine, extending to the Canadian frontier, and on the west are tae contiguous muumaiu uutricts of Vermont. This whole section, including parts of the three states named, is of the highest scenic interest, comprising mountain, lake and river. Dominated by Mount Washington and the Presidential range, flanked by the Franconia and Sandwich ranges, it includes also groups of lesser peaks covered by forests, inclosing mountain-walled lakes of surpassing beauty, feeding the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers, the Saco, the Androscoggin, the Kennebec, the Penobscot, and many tributary streams, the source of the water power of hundreds of manufacturing villages and cities, to which the growth and prosperity of New England are so largely due. It is a region of great historic interest, closely associated with the past and present life of New England, interwoven with its romance, poetry, art and tradition. The territory is easily accessible from every point, and available to a large percentage of our urban population. The eastern sec! tion is well stocked with fish and ! game, and other parts might under proper conditions be restocked. Each year, however, marks the cutting for I commercial purposes of many acres oi its forest growth, and the encroach- I rnent upon its borders of the expanding life of the towns is constantlymore obvious.?Lewiston Evening Journal. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. He conquers who endures.?Persius. The world belongs to the energetic. ?Emerson. No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.?Livy. A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool.?Bulwer. Opportunity with ability makes responsibility.?Bishop Hurst. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.?Locke. Make not thy friends too cheap to them, nor thyself to thy friends.? ruller. Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proof of stupidity. ?Barton. Sensitiveness is the root and the source of all natural and moral evils. ?Emmons. - Common sense i-n an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ?Coleridge. A man in the right, with God on his -?J - *? At- ^ 4- V* r\M o?V? ViD ho Slue, IS ill liiy tutijwi nj, luwugu ^w alone.?H. W. Beecher. People seldom improve when they | have no other model but themselves to copy after.?Goldsmith. A I'oiut of Order. One of the conspicuous features in the decorations of a certain official building is a full-length portrait of George Washington. Being just behind the speaker's chair, it is in full sight of everybody who rises to speak. During a heated discussion, which involved the honor of the state and nation, a member rose and pointing to the portrait, began in an oratorical style: "By those eves that never quailed before an enemy, but that nose?" Then he was interrupted by a member in the rear, who rorse to a point of order. "Mr. Chairman," said the objector, "1 claim it is out of order under parliamentary rules to call the ayes and noes in a committee of the whole."? New York Times. Increase from One Potato. i An interesting agricultural item is j reprinted in the London Times: "A i Mr. Vacher of Heckford Farm, near ! poole, last year planted one potato, j which produced him 325 in number. and there would have been still more, i had not a boy lost one of the eyes i after the potato was cut in pieces. The farmer having saved the whole ! cf them, had them planted, which he I has now dug up. and finds that they i have multiplied to the number of S23C. I and weigh 13 cwr., 3 qrs., which cerj tainly is a very great increase from | ope single root in two years." Corroborative Evidence. "And you can prove thrt : hissed each other?" "Of course: I not only photograhped them in the act from a near-by room, but I also took the kiss phoncgraphi caU.y."?Fliegende Blaetter. WHAT A WOMAN'S CLUB CAN DO. Mrs. Styles?I was at the donation party last evening. Mr. Altarton gave us a splendid collation. I was awfully hungry, and the things tasted so good that I ate and ate until I was almost ashamed of myself. Unc'.c George?And your supper cost you how much? Mrs. Styles?For the land's sake, what in the world are you talking about? Uncle George? I mean how much did you contribute toward the donation? Mrs. Styles?On, 1 gave a five-cent piece. I should have given a dimo only I didn't have the change.? Tlntf-nri TrjMisprint. THEN SHE FORGAVE II1M. "It's ali your fault," he pleaded, after he had stolen the kiss. "Mine!" she cried, indignantly. "Have I done anything to invite such liberties." "Not directly," he answered, "but you shouldn't be so irresistibly attractive." Thus we learn the value of diplomacy, for he got another.?Chicago Post. >>evr F.*c? For Money. Nearly half a billion dollars' worth of Foiled and torn bank notes if destroyed annually by our government. They are reduced to pulp and then used for making railroad "nr vke'h. This transformation is about as r; dicsl as the one brought about in the case of sickly people who will nse Ho* (tier's Stomach Bitters. Good health is sure to follow its use. Be sure to try it. It wilt cure indige.-tlon. dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness and malaria. Lots of fellows are overwhelmed by too many ancestors. Eczema a:itl Tetter. Kczemi art.l Tetter aro tortnringly disgusting ; on i ointment only cures tham ; its name is Tetterine. 50e. a box by mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Cfa., if your druggist don;t keop it. A watch may give lick, but a wise jeweler doesn't. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Br. Kline's Great Nerve Bestorer. %'jt trial bottle and treatise free Br. P?. H. Kline. Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phiia. Pa. New Zealand's nearest neighbor is Australia, 120b miles away. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, tolten the gums, reduces inflammation, allayspain,cures wind colic. 25cabottle. Auckland, the most important town in New Zealand, has 66,000 inhabitants. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible ?,n^i/.>-ro?nr(>nii(r!)5an,? r>nl<Is ?V W.SaMCEL. Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1000. Slippery customers are often to be found in shoe stores. It requires no experience to dve with Pctnaii Fadeless Dyes. Simply boiling your goods in" the dye is all that is necessary. Sold bv ell druggists. The Laplanders average four feet eleven inches in height, and are the shortest peopie in Europe. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured. With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you most take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one cf the beid physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the beEt blood purifiers, acting directly on the muecus surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chf.ney & Co.. Props., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, price. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A sea anemone taken from the Firth of Forth in 1S2S lived and flourished in captivity until 1SS7. Fe?t For the Bowe!s. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascabets help nature, cure you wiuioui a gripe or pam, primus easy natural movement?, cost you just 10 cents to stare petting your health back. Cabcarets Canity Caiharcic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Bev.are of imitations. All rivers of Africa have a marked peculiarity. They seek the ocean farthest from thoir ermr.-p. Mfawnwir Failed to Do for Miss Mabelle L. LaMonte What Was Accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mp.s. Pixxilam: ? I was in an awful state for nearly three years with a complication of female troubles which three physicians called by different names, but the pains were ail the same. I dreaded the time of my mabelle l. lamoxte. monthly periods for it meant a couple of days in bed in awful agon}*. I finallj' made up my mind that the good doctors were grossing; and hearing from different friends such good reports of Lyclia E. Pmkliam's Vegetable Compound, I tried that. I bless the day I did, for it was the dawning of a now life for me. I used five bottles before I was cured, but when they were taken I was a well ! woman once more. Your Compound is certainly wonderful. Several of my friends have used it since, and nothing but the best do I ever hear from its use." ? Yours, Maeei.le L. LaMonte, 222 E. 31st St., Chicago, 111-?S5000 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine. If Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound could cure Miss LaMonte?why not you ? Try it and see for yourself. ? ? 11 ci/llr TF/la JUTS. JfUlKIlclllI tiu. V WC3 aiviv "? men free. Address, Lynn, Mass. 3 You have probably seen the kind of tires SI ? that ridct3 awcar at. * ? G tu J Ti'cs arc 'he kind they swear by? K l 0 always faithful in service and easy to repair. I SA puncture has no terrors for the G & J K rider;?no tools of an" ?::nu required. I | Ask for G & J Tires and do not be put off | J with a substitute. Art catalogue free. j G & J TIRE COMPANY, \ Inciunapolis, Ind. I femuazgaEBB^a^Esagg^ I Gord Medal at llnftalo imposition. McIlJHENNY'S TABASCO ! Thompson's Eye Water 1 I The Kcho. I'm a fairy little ollln. without doubt. And I dance away and sing Till the f crest's all a-rin,'. And the birds are wondering What the Kcho talks about. Have you over sat upon the meadow fence When the frost is in the ground, And the b aves are scattered rouad, Just a-listeuinir to tho sound With a feeling quite intense? You may search for me in hillside, wood i and fen; You may cail me loud and long, You may plainly hear my song? With the fairies I belong? lou will never see me Dere agaiu. ?New York Mail and Express. A Parrot at Ureakfast. A funny parrot lives in Brooklyn, j and is very fond of the lady she lives , with. When the breakfast bc'.l rings j in the morning, she will push open the ! door of her cage with her bill, fly down j to the breakfast table, take her own 1 chair, which she always knows and j occupies at each meal, and wait till j the family assembles. If they should not gather as quickly as she thinks j they ougnt, she will call out, "Hurry j up, folks, hurry up!" and at the same time hop over to the oatmeal dish an j attempt to lift the cover; for she is I very fond of oatmeal, and will make { her entire breakfast of it. She would not touch the oatmeal, even if she were j able to litt the cover, for she is a very j good Polly. After finishing her break- ; fast, she flies right back to her cage. Liitle Killy's Dea h. "Billy" was a poor little tailless dog \ who lived in Twentieth street, New j York. He was loved by every one in j his neighborhood, and there was a sad time when he died. "Billy's" tail had not been cut on:, and so far as we know no one was ever cruel to him. He never had a tail. A little round knot where a tail ought to have been j was all that he could show. He was ; so affectionate and wanted to wag his j tail as other doggies'did. but, poor thing, he had none to wag. Slo, of necessity, for he must wag something, he taught his ears to do ib He could j waggle them like a donkey's when he ! was pleased cr make them bristle with ! anger when so disposed. He was the self-appointed guardian of a large fam- j ily of children, and last summer he rrmlH nnt hp nersuaded to leave the ; doorstep until he knew that every one ; of the children was safely in bed. He J loved to play with the children and race up and down the street, and did not mind it a. bit if the little ones hung on to his ears He took sick and in a day or two he died. His body was laid in state in j a back yard, and all the afternoon the neighbors, the children and their parents, and some quite old people, too, came in to look at little "Billy." When the big wagon came along and i the men took the dog's body and put it in the wagon to carry it away the children were inconsolable. They gathered around their mother and wept, ' and sobbed for their good-natured pet, the dear, little, tailless doggy "Billy," whom they had loved so much and who seemed like one of the family. A Cu;> of White Te?. Lucy and Laura, were playing house j under grandma's trees. The dollies I sat around the tir.y tea table and were ! as good as geld, speaking only when ' they were spoken to, and always say- ! ing "Thank you," when their little I mothers passed them cake or jelly. That is what children ought to do. "Mariana Angelica wants some 'white' tea. Do you think she ought | to have it?" asked her little mamma. Mrs. Laura shook her curls, and frowned at Mariana. "Tea is very, very bad for chil'ren," she said. "I never 'low my chil'ren to dink it, Mrs. Lucy." So Mrs. Lucy told Mariana that she didn't 'prove of her drinking tea, and Mariana kept on smiling, just as she always did. "But I know she warns that tea ail the same," said Mrs. Lucy. "It seems too bad that she can't have what she wants." Mrs. Lucy sipped her own tea for a while, watching Mariana all the time. At last she put down her cup with a little bang. J "There, she shall have some, poor dear. It isn't often she gets it, you know very well. Mrs. I^aura. So will you please to pour out another cup of tea; then there will be three?one for you, one for me, and anover for Mariana." Mrs. Laura poured out a cup of tea for the poor, dear child, but she forgot that tea for Mariana must be very. very "white," and when sne naci poureu it out she gave a little cry: "Oh, dear, dear! This tea is very too strong tor Mariana. It's too strong for me or you, Mrs. Lucy. What will we do with it?" "We mus'n't waste it," said Mrs. Lucy. "Oh, I know! There's Rover; we'll 'vite him to the party an' he can drink the tea." Rover was very glad to be invited, and he sat up in a chair just like th'e dollies and ate what Mrs. Lucy gave him. Only sometimes, I am sorry to say, he would grab. He drank up that cup of tea that ought to have been "white" and wasn't; so it didn't get wasted. And Mariana waited patiently, and at last she had a cup of really truly white tea and everybody was satisfied.?Brooklyn Eagle. Some Little Itoyal Folk. There is among many beautiful stories told of Holland's pretty queen 2. particularly sweet, unselfish one. When she was a very small girl she dearly loved an old servitor of the castle, and often went to him with her trials ana trouDies. une aay ne came to her with a trouble of his. A cup belonging to a set particularly precious to the king had been broken by the servitor, and the old maD dreaded to confess to his royal master, for it had been whispered through the castle that any one guilty of such carelessness would be discharged at once. The small princess thought over the matter very seriously and then said: "Do as I oid you and all will be well. Mend the cup as best you can, and when you serve coffee today be sure to give the broken cup to me." It was all done as her little royal highness had planned. No sooner had she received the cup. however, than she dropped it upon the floor, shattering it into a hundred pieces. With a cry of dismay the little maid ran to her father, confessed her fault and questioned humbly: "Will ycu discharge me, father?" A funny story is told of one of j Queen Victoria's little daughters. She ' was rather a stubborn child, and very - " declded in her likes and dislikes. Dr. Iirown was one of the household whom she did not fancy, and she always addressed him curtly as "Drown." At last her mother, the queen, took the child's manners in hand. "You must say Dr. Brown," said England's queen. "If you address him again as Brown I shall send you to bed.' The next morning the naughty little girl was walking with her mother, when the obnoxious doctor drew near. With a quiet dignity the princess said slowly and emphatically: "Good morning. Brown, and good night!" There is a pathetic little story told of one of the Russian children of the royal family. She was very fond of white swans, and her father had a great number of them brought to the castle lakes to please the little daughter. But while she was still very small she died, leaving the castle quite desolate. The sad father could no longer bear the sight of the beloved white swans, so he had b ack ones substituted in memory of the gentle child. " i:jiv William Waverly was his name, and he was a little boy who thought he was quite a man till one day it happened that his aunt, who took care of him, went down town to buy some new clothes for her nephew. He hoped she would buy him long trousers, like brother Harvey's?Harvey was a college man, and when he came home for holidays, he and William had great fun together, and Harvey was going to make a man of him very soon. In fact, he had just commenced to call him "Bill," which William thought very grown-up, indeed, but when he was babyish and cried, Harvey called him "Willieboy." Willieboy was such a horrid name that William resolved never to cry again. Well, when the package came from the store, William was in the garret playing with his r?irta TLX a It n r? nlv tt/\ r?tr Anrtni'nfT liHlo j-izxv.c;. iiu liau ciA wjl j v. uuiiiHg xxccxv brown ones that were very tame. They would come when he called, and run all over him playing tag and hide-andseek about his head and all over his body._ He was very gentle with them, and they certainly loved their little master. William heard a voice calling him from the stair. "Oh. it's my new suit," he said, delightedly, to the mice. "I must run down and put on my new long trousers, and when I come up you'll see a grown-up man. But you needn't be afraid. I'll love you just as much." Poor little William! When he came up to the garret again it was not with a feeling of great pride. In fact, he had to rush up stairs three steps at a time to keep the tears from falling and drenching the new suit that Auntie had put on. "Oh, oh, oh!" he kept saying to himself, "I feel as if I must cry, but if I do I shall be a Willieboy and this suit will be just good enough for me." To make matters worse, the mice would have nothing to do with him. They seemed to think that this newly dressed boy was an intruder and not their little master. Two of them ran away and hid so well that William could not even find tnem. -rne omers looked very much frightened, dnd even the very tamest one had to be held by a string to keep him anywhere near. If you want to i:now what had happened look at William's picture! Then to make matters even worse still, who should happen to come home I just at that moment but brother Har[ vey! He came quickly up stairs to the garret to find the little brother of J whom he was so fond, j "Oh, Bill, Biliy?where are you?" he i called; and William, ashamed of his I "baby" clothes, rushed pell-mell across i the garret and hid behind some trunks. | It took Harvey only a few minutes j to find him, and pull him out, almost J crying. "I?I didn't buy 'em, Harvey," he gasped, "and even the mice are ashamed of me." Harvey did not even smile at his little brother's appearance. ! "POOF OIG mail: ne suiu, ciay^ius j him oil the back. "Come down stairs | and I'll see that you get some clothes I fit for a boy of your size to wear." So down they went and big brother j had a long talk with Auntie and that j very afternoon Harvey and William ! went shopping together. And now Billy j is dressed in a neat knickerbocker suit i that makes him feel more manly, for j Harvey doesn't like sashes; and long i trousers, he says, are in the way till | Billy grows bigger yet.?New York j Mail and Express. A Stranjre Trick of Chance. As an illustration of the strange tricks of chance a physician in this : city tells this story on himself: ! A grateful Frenchman who had ; been his patient gave him when he I paid his bill a double-barrelled shotj gun with an interesting history. Ac! cording to the Frenchman's story, it had been presented to him by a prince, whose fame has reached New York. It had been made to order especially for the prince, and as the Frenchman was no sportsman he begged the doctor to accept it and use it on ducks. The doctor's pride in the new gun j was not shattered bv the fact that it | did not shoot so well as his old one. He valued it because of its history. ' rn? - ?"* ? ** + v* r. lofnr vn n r\f il 1 WO 111 U ill. Li o iau i f v/x tor's friends, with an eye for antiques j happened to be in an old curiosity i shop on Park row when the Frenchj man came in and greeted the proprie\or as an old friend. In the course of their conversation the doctor's friend overheard enough to satisfy him that the Frenchman had bought the gun at this shop for $8. The doctor had boasted so much about his gun with a history that it cost him a dinner to half a dozen of his friends to settle the matter.?New York Sun. Kentucky's First Capitol. John Weisiger has purchaser from Central University seminary the old Presbyterian seminary building in ; Danville. The "Old Seminary" build* j ing was the capital of the district of ! Kentucky, before Kentucky became a I state in 1791. In this building was [ also held the first constitutional conj vention in 17S5, as well as a number of j notable conventions for the purpose of ! considering the propriety and expedi1 ency of seeking separation from Vir! ginia. So far as known, it is the oldi est building ip Danville, j Shortly before the war the struc! ture was purchased and converted into ! a Presbyterian seminary and was j used until the erection of Breckinridge I Hall some years ago. Since that time ! it has been used as a home for theo! logical students. The consolidation of the Presbyterian seminaries of Kenj lucky necessitated the removal to ' Louisville of the Danville seminary, ' and the old building became useless to j the college.?Louisville Courier-Jourj nal. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. It has been computed by geographers lhat if the sea were emptied of i:j water and all the rivers of the earth were to pour their present floods into the vacant space, allowing nothing for evaporation. 40.000 years would be required to bring the water of the ocean up to its present level. Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish electrical engineer, has filed at Washington a patent on the telegraphone. This instrument will record and repeat messages which come over a telephone wire If a man isn't in when he is called for, his office boy can attach the telephone transmitter to the telegraphone and the message will be waiting when the employer returns. Percival Lowell, director of the Flagstaff Observatory in Arizona, has recently published in his Annals a determination of the refraction of the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter ob tained from occultations of the satellites. The resulting value is eight minutes of arc for the exterior layers of the atmosphere. It aiso follows from the observation that the atmosphere is of great depth. A discovery of fossils belonging to the Parisian chalk has been made at Robiac, near Saint Mamert (Gard), France, by Professor Deperet, of Lyons. They are wonderfully well preserved, and comprise the lophidon, sometimes called rhinocerode, the hypopotamus, the anchilophus, the p'acyholophus and the paloplotherium. The skeleton of a whale, Aulocetus Balenoptera San :.larinesis, has also been unearthed by workmen in the little republic of San Marina, and sent to the museum of Bologna. A mass of coal as large as the sun would afford only heat enough for about 2800 years, which is clearly inadequate. The theory of meteors pelting into the sun had to be abandoned as not being demonstrated for one thing, and as not being adequate either. The only generalization that has been at all adequate is one of comparatively recent years, founded on the study of the laws of heat and on modern exact measures of the solar constant of temperature. Its central factor was the generation of heat, due to the contraction of the mass from an original enormous but diffused nebula Urtfco phoctnnts contain about 27 per cent, of albumen, this remarkable proportion being greater than is found in any cultivated plants, but their bitter taste, due to the presence of about ten per cent, of bitter rosin, has condemned them as unfit lor food. By extracting the bitter principle, Flugge, of Hanover, claims to have made useful another waste material. After partial roasting to loosen the shells, the kernels are removed and pulverized and the powder is placed in a tight percolator with alcohol for about a week. To extract the bitter completely it may be necessary to replace the fluid with fresh solvent. The alcohol dissolves out the rosin, leaving a pleasant and nutritious meal, which contains all the albumen and starch of the chestnuts, and is a valuable food. . Prevention of Typhoid Fever. Typhoid fever, being a disease that always requires the personal attendance of a physician, may be properly referred to in a paper for Companion readers only from the point of view of prevention. It is well known that typhoid fever is a water-borne disease, and is commonly taken into the system in drinking water which has become contaminated from the excreta of persons suffering from the disease. Freezing - - ?- ? - a 1_ does not in any way impair *nar ity of the bacillus of typhoid, so that ice from a river or pond may convey the disease to consumers hundreds of miles, perhaps, from the source of infection. Milk has more than once been the means of conveying the disease. Fortunately most milk dealers are aware of the necessity of cleanliness in the preparation of milk for shipment. In most modern dairies the bottles,before being filled, are subjected to the sterilizing effects of steam. Epidemics of typhoid fever traced dairies have in most cases been dr.: to the bottles having been washed v! h water from an infected well or p' :i 1. Oysters that have been imbedded in bodies of water which receive the contents of sewerage pipes have likewise been the means of conveying typhoid fever. Only oysters eaten raw or on the half shell can carry infec: tion to the consumer, since cooking destroys the bacillus. Meaning in Headdresses. Mai.y uncivilized people express age, position and married or single state by the .way they dress their locks. After all. when one comes to think of it, the idea is just as practical as the v,-earing of a golden band on ones finger. The wedding ring is not always an evidence here, for a lady is ofttimes gloved, and while some married men wear the circlet in England and on the continent, others do not; and, again, many Dacneiors sport me very ring that should be used to proclaim the wedded state. But the Zulu woman is really more practical, for a first glance at her coiffure assures the observer whether she is maid or wife. The cone-shaped erection is the legitimate symbol of her state of wifehood, and, indeed, cannot be legally worn till the marriage rites are dully completed. Save for this all-important cone the bride head is closely shaved, an assegai being used to perform this delicate operation.?Cassell's Magazine. Korean Literature. Korean literature is not very enticing, as it consists mainly of Chinese classics, the writings of Confucius or stories of Buddha, and amatory verses which when translated by the missionaries into decorous English lose what little merit they possess and are lost in the commonplace. Love is a potent factor in Korean homes, and although divorce is known there, as in more civilized countries, it is looked upon as a misfortune and disgrace. The people are naturally virtuous, simple in their tastes, like children, and preferring by natural selection goodness to vice. The Atina*plierpN Heighf. I It is curious to notice how widely the estimates of scieuth ts differ as to the height of the atmosphere. Riot puts it at 40 miles, Schiaparelli comes midway with 125 miles, while Kilter places it at 21G miles. The latter is probably correct, for Sir Robert Ball has calculated the maximum height of meteors at about 200 miles.?London News. Saturn's largest moon is 2029 miles in diameter, slightly smaller than our | own. Mow Ccr.tiscima Rock Gained Fame. That fats is most mysterious in its workings never was illustrated mora forcibly than in an incident which occurred during the great survey of the waters about the Golden Gate in 1895. The coast survey steamer was talcing soundings in the beautiful Bonita Channel, when the heavy lead suddenly struck a hitherto unknown rock. It was in the very center of the waterway, and only eighteen feet of water swirled over its jagged edges at low tide. Dangerous as it was to navigation, no vessel during the many years that the channel had been open had ever struck it. Immediately upon its discovery the survey officials steamed back in the bay to warn the Lighthouse Department of its presence, and to order a shifting of the channel buoy at once. The trip consumed twelve hours. When they returned the four-masted sailing ship Centissima, just in from the Orient, was chafing her keel to pieces on the newly-discovered obstruction. On the hydrographic charts today the "Centissima rock" appears in the Bonita Channel, marked by a red can danger buoy. SOFTENED. Jester?Don't you see the point to my joke? Jimson?No, but you must not mind that, because I'm near-sighted, you know.?Boston Post. e. B. B. SENT FREE! Cures Blood and Skin Diseases, Cancers Bone Pains, Itching Humors, Etc. 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