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a a I ~>1E 493 e_~ew~_anb~ etatb. _________________________ -~ 'tZffifl- --~- _______________________________ K TEL-WEEKLY EDITION. WLKNSBQRO S. 0.. SEPTEMBER 26 1893. - ESTABLISHED J849~ MILtLINERY, MILLINERY, MILLINERY Always full in Hats and Bonnets, Flow ers, Feathers, Laces, Nets, Veiling and la test novelties of the season. A competent and experienced mil liner in this depart ment fully posted in Styles, Triwnngs, Etc. Special attention given to Mourning and made up Hats and Bonnets. Renewing Crepe Veils, Etc. J. 0. BOAG. y Goods, Fancyq Goods, Iw e floods, an ugs BOAG'St Parlor and Chapes 'fty new and im -running Family es, vertical and of ti best lies, different styles and prices. Also, a lot of good second" hand'.Sewing Machines ..for le cheap, by JL 0. BOAQ. 00 t n . Different Sizes, OCKS, CLOCKS, CLOCKS. y Groceries Confectioneries. ays on. Hand Single, and Top Buggies and e-Seated Vehicles. One. Wagons. Singe and douhb arness. . Pianos, Organs, Sewing Ma *hiines, Cooking Stoves, Clocks, iBuggies and Wagons, are all shpped direct from their va riduxs factories, therefore no agents expenses or commis sions tobe paid for by. pur chaser: The best goods for the lowest prices for cash or good paper, at Jeg 03A'ISLR. STANl. N.LO.t BSoAG. MOUNTAIN B1UtKi SY DWIGHT WILLIAMS. 0 1 un tin Brook. we met one day BeutA.. the glacier's silver spray; My path was toward the go:den west To see it sheenea on ocean's breJst; And eastward tar thy journey lay I hrough wateriall and stream aud bay. A thousand leaaues away, away, To ride at last on ocean's crest, 0 Mountain BrookI I paused amid the heights and they Seemed thrones of vastness in array, Then lert thee singing at thy best With echoes of an hour of rest Our tryst amid the summits gray, 0 Mountain brook I BOSS OF LIBERTY RANCH The boss was very sick. The men who disliked him, and his clever, systematic ways, and straight, honest dealidig, and the men who had learned to respect and love im for his good ness and unselfishness, were alike worried and disheartened over his case. They had sent thirty miles for a doctor, who came and went, and wasn't doing him a bit of good. A low fever was sapping his life away,. and we realized that the doctor did. not understand his case, and was not helping him. I suggested getting anotber doctor, who had a great rep utation for his medical skill, but be fore I could act upon it he heard of it in some way and sent for me. "Hal," he said, holding out a lean, brown hand, "it's of no use. I'm go Ing over the Great Divide and I'm going alone. I'm not afraid of the jouraey, but I w'int you to help me and not hinder me. And, Hal, you must be the boss of Liberty Ranch you must finish my work." He made me irive him a solemn promise that I would carry out the plans he had made, and then he grew light-headed, and began calling for "Clara" and "Loren," and I went out of the cabin, and strong man that I was, I felt a tear trickling down my cheek in the starlight; The night was so beautiful, so full of heavenly promise, and the only being I loved on earth was lying just within there -dying. .-He was our "boss,".too, the leader, director" of this camp of rough men hired by a big contractor who wanted their sinews and souls like the cattle they branded in herds. They had fought and rioted and despoiled until one day this brown-skinned, smooth faced chap.iialked In among them, said, "mnien, I'm yur miaster," and made a compact with them for their fealty, and saw that they kept it,too. One look from under his level brow brought the roughest man there to terms. A word or two conquered an other. Soon he was writing their letters home for them, reading to them, and keeping them out of mis chief. I-did not take to him at first. It seemed to me he was always watch ing for some one, and I was suspicious that he was a fugitive from justice, always on the alert for a surprise. He fastened the door of his adobe cabin like a tenderfoot, and had to be ap proached like an army general in his tent, And he never got over that way he had of looking off to the East and listening and starting as stags do when they scent the sea. I was ap prehensive that some day he would st.mpede just as tliey do, and we wad never see him again. And he &'l-hut In a rather different way. He had beet with us a year or ists rode up on horseback oti out ranch,and asked if they could stay and rest and have dinner there. I missed thei boss and went to the adobe after him. "Company, sir," I said when I was inside. The boss was standing in the middle of the cabin and didD't look around. "Yes, yes," he said, "I wish people woud let us alone. But, Hai, give them thie best, and Hal"-he turned a ghastly white face toward me "don't let them in here." "Are you sick, sir?" I asked ,insur prise. "yes, I feel wretchedly bad. flal, notice what they talk about, waat he says, but keep them.away-keep them away!" I pitied th~e boss, and as he had, won me over before this time, by his goodness. I was willing to stand be tween him and harm, but~ I. felt sure, more sure than ever,, that be hd'ad comuitted some crime and was afraid of being apprehended. I determined to protect him and If these were ene mes to go to any length to aid him to escape. But the two strangers who had come to the ranch were idlers of fashion who were on an outing with a large company from whomu tbey had parted for the day. They had a curiosity to see our ranch, were tired, and only sought a brief rest, and to be left. to. themselves. They were a man and hiQ wife. She was a faded beauty; at least she wval fading. though still young. Hie was~ a rather handsome cavalier of the gentlemanly typ', and he was very fond of his wife, who pettishly ac cepted his attentions. I .noticed them both; p~frticularly, and remarked on their personal ap~pearance, so that' I could dlescribe them to the boss afterwards When they were gone, later In the afternoon, I sou-rht the adobe and! fond tne boss aying in his bunk, race down, the curtain partly drawn. . ''Wel, Hal." - s"Tney are gone. sir.'" "Who were they?" "A man and his wife. lIe is very -"och I" !me with her, sir. but I -'' r '"&' for hini"j "Ah! doesn't love him? No, no, how could she help loving him-he, so no21e, so- -" "1 beg pardon, sir, but he did not messme a nubmale- on the cnta ry_ I thought him weak. The woman must have bcen beautiful once, but she looked disapppointed and peevidst now.", "Did you hear what he called her?'" "He called her 'darling' and -dear' a great deal, but once he spoka to her by the name of 'Clara.' "And she called him?" "'Loren?' - Every word I said must have Im planted a thorn or a sword thrust in the unhappy heart of the man who heard me, but I did not know it then. But I did imagine a romance that would account for the strange action pf the boss. It was that Clara had been his sweetheart before Loren had married her, and that she had jilte.d him for the other man. From that hour the boss was under the ban of the illness, which was now at its hight. Now, indeed, I had learned to love him, as 1 never loved mortal man before. I would have throttled tne man who would have binted aught against him. I was his faithful nurse as far as he would let me be, for he still held aloof from in timacy; but I was glad to know that piy diand. could soothe the pain that racked his poor head; that he liked to have me si beside him; that at night, when he would stay alone, I might lie in my buffalo robe outside the idobe, and sometimes speak to him for companionship. I was with him when death came, for come It did. He had seen all the men one by one, and then he signified his wish to be alone with me, so we two were together hand in hand, waiting for the supreme moment when leath would part us. Then he told me his story. It was ;thange, romantic, wonderful, but as [listened a &reat zide of joy ran ft-ough my heart. Yes. Part of my theory about the boss had been true. He had loved most unhappily-had been cruelly jilted for another. But it was not the woman who visited the ranch that day whom he had loved: she had wrecked his life. The boss lifted my hand to his lips to pre. pare me for that last great surprise it was for Loren's sake he was exiled from the world and from life. When [ closed his eyes that night I solemnly Icissed the unresponsive lips. Then E wrapped that wasted form, which no hand but mine had touched, in the draperies of death, and bore it in my arms to the grave which the me~ bad dug uader the great cottonwood tree, there to sleep until the resur rection morn. Have you guessed It? Yes; the boss of Liberty Ranch was a woman. -Free Press. Of Modern Cdastruotion. The construction of mechanical dinging birds has now reached sucRI perfection that at first sight the lit ble automaton is absolutely like the bird whose plumage 'it borrows, whether it represents a simple night ingale or is adorned with the brilliant eathers of a bird of paradise. Neither in the pose nor form could the art of the taxidermist do better. rhe attitude of e -,h species is care fully studied. Certain of thesn birds are inclosed in a simple cage or are placed upon a branch forming a perch, while others placed upon a tree, flutter' from one branch to another, withoug it being possible to see the little rod, mounted upon a pivot and hidden in~ the leaves, that carries it back and orth. Again, others. may be placed upona stJAor in a basket of flowers.. Humming birds ~%coicealed In a snuff-box, the cover of w~gf. being raised, they suddenly appear at gin to sing. After the air is finished,' they rx..enter the box and the cover closes of itself. The snuff-boxes in which they are inclos'ed are decorated( in all possible ways, with Inlaid en amel work, Japanese designs unon silver and gold, old silver. repousse work, inlaid work, and so on. The first automatic singing birds had a motion of the bill only, and it was by means of a bird organ or a music box that they seemed to sing. The improve ments afterward introduced consisted in the substitution of a genuine warbling for the music box, and in giving these little singers the perfect appearance of life. A reproduction of the true song of birds has been successfully obtained, and we are now able -t hear all our ordinary artists, with the repertory peculiar to each of them. The mechanical apparatus is wound \up like clock-work, and pro duces various motions ot the bead, tail and wings which are so naturally combined with the warbling that the mechanical songster, whose plu mage leaves nothing to be desired, seems to be a living, breathing tning. Drumlins. It is only within a few years th-lt any extended research has been made into the history of drumulins. A drumlin Is a mound of materiai pro jecting upward from the surface of the earth to a sufficient height to. be called a hill. This mound or hill is made from loose bits of earth and rocks torn from ledges at the time --some thousands of years ago-when this part of the earth was covered with a sheet of Ice at le::st four thousand feet in thickness. A s t his vast sheet moved'of to the southward it carried with it quantities of earth and small fragments of rock, which were deposited in valleys or heaped into drumlins. Thie reason for the depositing of the matter in valieys is an easy one to explain, but how it came to be piled into hills has never et been discovered, though from tipe to time scientific men have given the matter careful study. -Long forehead with spherical knobs in the upper part indic te genius, per tinacity without decision, coldness, maie by fits of uinpetnosty Horseshioe.. Horses were not shod in Egvptq Assyria. or PalestiRe. The latte i-ountry was supplied with iorses b' the Egyptians. Solomon paid 151 shekels of silver, equal in value to $7i for each horse. This was a higi price, the difference in relative valut of a shekel and a given weight (Y wheat being considered. Isaiah speaks of horses whosi "hoofs shall be counted like flint"-: valuable quality where they wen shoeless. The Syrians and Hittite: were supplied with Egyptian horse. by Solomon, who turned an hones penny by this means. Aristotle and Pliny mention i!i covering of horses' feet in ston: places to protect the hoof from break age and wear, but it is probable that such a covering was a bandage o1 boot, and used principally on Ion' journeys. Suetonius refers to the dismount ing of Vespasian's mulet~eer, to shoi his mules. Wrappings of plaite fiber, such as hemp or broom, wer used, as was also leather. In Japar the horses have clogs of twiste straw, of which a large supply is car ried on a journey; whan worn, an other Is immediately applied. The modern custom of shoein would, rio doubt, appear a barbaron: custom in their minds. Capt. Coal refers to the fact that the Siberian and Karntschatkans use travelinc socks for their dogs. Camels in olc times were similarly provIded. Tbes! bouts were drawn on over the feet, anc it does not appear that iron or othe metallic plates were nailed to th< hoofs. Such 'boots were shod wit' metal for the rich. The mules of Nero were shod with silver; those of his wife.PoppLea, witl gold. For 'less stately purpose, mules were shod with iron. Homei 'mentions brazen-footed steeds, prob klbly- a merely uetaphorical expres pico implying strength. Mithridates and Alexander exp. ilenced grealt difficulty with thch cavalry, owing to the soreness of the unprotected feet of the horses in long parches. The first c&tain mentior of shoes being nailed to horses' hoofs is in the works of the Emperor Leo, ninth century. The practice of shoe Ing horses is said to have been intro. luced into England by William I. A Deadly Poison. Two eminent French chemists have succeeded in extracting a deadly poison. in the shape of a liquid, from human and animal breath. It is yoncluded that in the air of Ill-ven. pilated rooms there is an accumula pion of a deadly volatile principle, piore dangerous t'an the carbonic acid which Is always present. The discovery constitutes an additional reasonawhygreaterattention should be paid to the purification of the air of dwe'ing-houses, and especially of sleeping rooms, by' a thoroughly scientific system of ventilation. We are reminded, by the announcement of the discovery of the poisonous na. ture of breath, of the very extraor. dinary occurrence that took place at the Old Bailey in 1750. Newgate Gaol, always in a very bad sanitary condition, had been crowded with prisoners, mostly discharged soldiers, on the close of the great Continental IWar. Smollett, a doctor of medicine, says in his history, that "the very air they breathed acquired a pestilential degree of putrefaction." The result, when the men were taken for trial to the Old Bailey, was fearfully tragic. The lord mayor, an alderman, two 'es, several lawyers, most of the jury, ,a large number of specta tors. die the poison reeking from the pris oners. Adoption in Japan. The custom of the adoption Is uni vcrsal In Japan, where it Is practiced to keep a family name from becoming extinct. Indeed, there is scarcely a family in which it has not at sonmc time or other been practiced. A per. son who has no male issue, adopts a son, and, if he has a daughter, often gives her gto him In marriage. A yonth, or even a child, who may be the head of a family, often aaopts on the point of dying, a son sometime! older than himself to succeed him. Under,'tood His Business. Druggist-I am getting up a nev, galtent medicine, and I want some signs painted. Scenery Decorator - How man; words? "Not many. Just say, "Take Di Squills' Sirup for that tired feeling." "All right. I'll put it on every ;teep hill i cai aind. "--New York Weekly.__________ MRs. FANGLE-YOu used to call me your angel, Henry, but you never say ao now. Mr. Fangle-No, my dear; I have fonnd out the difference. An I els, you know, don't care anything tbout dresses. NOTHrNo good can be found oi earth that will not be found im Heaven. THE people who disappoint God thn most are those who try to fight thei own battles. IT is a good plan to keep a litth. 'money in your pocket that belongs en ~tirely to God. THE only people whom God can no' pelp are those who think this worlV is their home. i"THE rebellious dwell in dry land.' There is never any rainfall in thb devil's country. IF you have never been in adversiti you have never found out Mao you real friends are. --The wine cups of the Aesyrianl were shaped like our saucers and were of agate, other semi-precious stones, gold and silver, THE MILE IN VARIETY. There Are Four Different Kinds in Engfsh Speaking countries Alonq English - speaking countries have four different miles-the ordinary mile of 5,290 feet and the geograph leal or nautical mile of 6,086, making a difference of about one-seventh be tween the two; then there is the Scotch mile of 5,928 feet and the Irish mile of 6,720 feet; four various miles, every one of which is still in use. Then almost every country has its own standard mile, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Romans had their mil passuum, 1,000 paces, which must have been about 3,000 feet in length, unless we ascribe to QCesar's legionaries great stepping ca pacity. . The German mile of to-day is 24,318 feet in length, more than four and a half times as long as our mile. The Dutch, the Danes, and the Prussians enjoy a mile. that is 18,440 feet long, three and one-half times the length of ours; and the Swiss get more exercise in walking cne of their miles than we get in walking five miles, for their mile is 9,153 yards long, while ours is only 1,760 yards. The Italian mile is only a few feet longer than ours; the Ro man mile is shorter, while the Tus can and the Turkish miles are 150 yards longer. The Swedish mile Is 7.341 yards long, and the Vienna post inile is 8,796 yards in length. So, here is a list of twelve different miles, and "besides this there are other weasures of distance, not counting the French kilometer, which is rather less than two-thirds of a mile. The 6razilians have a millia that is one and one-fourth times as long as our mile; the Neapolitan miglio is about the same length; the Japanese ri, or mile, is two and one-half times ours; the Russian verst is five-eighths as long as our mile, while the Persian standard is a fesakh, four and a half miles long, which is' said to be equal to the parasang, so familiar to the readers of Xenophon's "Anabasis." The lcague that is familiar to readers of French and Spanish books varies just as does the mile. In Brazil It is three and foat-fifths miles long, in France it was three miles, in Spain it was two and two-thirds miles, and once on a time in England it was two and a half miles long. HIS CURIOSITY SATISPIED. Gne Store, by the Proprietor's XeanneeA Lose a Customer. He walked into the drug store and nentioned to the clerk that he would like a cup of boiling hot water, says l'om Mason in the-N ew York World: "Dyspepsia, eh?" remarked a by itander, who was sipping a strawber :y and cream. "That's. pretty good, but I know something better than that. You- " "But I haven't got dyspepsia," he :eplied, as he took a sip of the color ess fluid. "Perhaps you have Just a slight feeling of indigestion," remarked an ther man. "A sort of goneness, as it were. Well, I am sorry for you, is I know wbat that is myself. I iave a remedy that I have used for rears, and--" "But 1 haven't gdt -any indiges Sion," he interrupted. It's--" "I bet 1 know what's the trouble," -emarked a third man. "Neuralgia >f the stomach. Well, hot water is .& pretty good thing for that. I kmnow what is better, for I've had it for years. But if you will allow me to suggest I have a little preparation that's done me more good than--" "Pardon me," he said gently, a mild look of expostulation creeping over his face, "but, gentlemen, you are all wrn. There is nothing thze mat ter with me. " rw~ LU. years old yesterday and never had a sick day in my life. And now, gen ~lemen, would you like to know why ordered hot water?" "We 'would," they replied in a :horus, a general air of disappoint nent creeping over their faces. "Then I will tell you," he replied. "I have been buying soda water in tnis place for six years. My face is is familiar here as Patti's autograph. Jhocolate, vanill% and other flavors 2ave diurnally passed down my throat. "And to-day I came in here and rdered a simple cup of hot water, entlemen," he cont-inued, as be >icked up a 10-cent check from the ~ounter. "I wanted to see if they'd >e so dodgasted mean as to charge ne for it." Executlon for Uriuhninl. An ingenious inventor had devised in extremely dramatic mode of exe cution for criminals, which possesses the additional advantage of being~ painless. The machinery consists of a platform nine meters square, ap pri ached by five steps. In the centre of the platform is a chair for thc cou demined man. Behind it stands a ag:ure of Justice, holding a pair of scales in her left hand. the scales be Ing movable. Under the platform is placed an electric battery, from which wire passes through the legs of the chair into the seat and back, termin ating in platinum plates. If the pa tient objects to seating himself fn the chair, he is simply tied in. After the sentence has been read, the exe eutioner takes a stick, breaks it, and places the pieces in one of the jus ice's scales. This descends, puts the battery in motion. a''d-fluisI Death i Instantaneous and painless. The miachine was tried on animals and wronounced a success. "A MEIN acciden," is the title of a new novel. Well, if it was a imere accident the Dublec will overlook it this time, but the author must not TERRIBLE VOLGANOES. What One of Them Can Do When Thor oughly Active. Few people in this country imagint what terrible work a volcano of the regulation size can do when it once gets fully aroused. In 1883 Catopaxi threw its fiery rockets more than 3,000 feet above the crater, and In 1857, when the blazing mass confined in the same mountain was struggling for an outlet, it roared so loud that the awful noise was heard for a dis tance of 600 miles. In 1797 the crater of Tungaragua one of the great peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of mud and lava, which dammed up a great river. opened new lakes, besides making a deposit of seething mud, ashes and lava 600 feet deep over the whole area of a valley which was twenty miles long and averaged 1,000 feet in width, says the Philadelphia Press. The stream -of lava. which flowed from Vesuvius in 1837 and passed through the valley of Ter~re del Gre co is estimated to have contained 333,000,000 cubic feet of solid matter. In 1760 Etna poured out a flood of melted stones and, ashes which- cov ered eighty-four square miles of fer. tile country to a depth of from teu to forty feet. On this occasion the sand, scoria lava, etc,, from the burning moun tain formed Mt. Rosini, a peak two miles in circumference and over 4,000 feet high. In the eruption of Vesuvius In the year 79 A. D., the time of the des. truction of Pompeii, the scoria, ashes, sand and lav'A vomited forth far ex ceeded the entiri-bulk of the volcano itself, while in 1660 Etna disgorged over twenty times its own mass. Vesuvius has sent its ashes int Syria, Egypt and Turicey. It hurled stones of 800 pounds weight to Pom peil, a distance of'six English miles, during the eruption of 79,- A. D. Catopazi once projected a block of stone containing over 100 cubic yard! a distance of nine and one-half miles MODERN HYGIENE. leemingly Wholesome Foods Now Said tt Be Dangerous. Hardly a day passes that we do not receive some shock, that we are not asked to give up son favorite dish around which clusters a host of ten :er memories, and after eating of which we have, for twenty years on end, f4lt ourselves grow fat and child. like and unlyspeptic. But the mod. ern hygiene says it must go, and If we retain it on our list we do it in an inxious and guilty.mood sure of itself to beget internal trubT. Seemingly simple things like drl toast, oatmeal, and app'es we have Zieard forlilden of late as hard to :ake care of, and bananas, or, for ex ample the delicious, but as we sup posed deadly, fried bacon cried up as food for babes and sucklings. This is puzzling; it goes against personal experience, it upsets all our dietary plans and pleasures and it awakeni the shrewd suspicion that mere fash ion is at the bottom of the change. One interested in the subject, hav ing an ax to grind, could without mucn diffculty prove that every known edible has at some time or ot~ier been declared digestible and healthful; let the experimenter eat with his (or her) eyes shut, and he (or she) will be backed up in what is chosen by some respectable authority. This being so, the wisest plan is to select food according to the private palate utterly without regard to Dr. A., B., or C. (since Dr. X., Y., and Z. will infallibly dispute them,) and with the eye of faith fixed on t n od day when all digestion wIll be earri -' n by artinicial means, and the whole wo 4ay be in that lovely state attribute t Meredith's gourmet who is pictured In after-dinner ease as "languidly twinkling stomachic contentment,' -Hartford Courant. The Mouth of the Pope. An Italian daily supplies the worla with a pleasant little anecdote upon the personal vanity of His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII. The nuns inhabiting a convent near Rome had joined in embroider ing a beautiful carpet, the center of which displayed a likeness of the Pope. When the clerical messenger unrolled the splendid gobelin before the eyes of Leo the latter scrutinized his likeness and pulled a face, saying, querulously, "That mouth is twice as large as mine. I would not have so ugly a face said to be mine, even to be trampled under foot. Take It away!" The messenger wqs speech less. Then one of the papal courtiers said, "Woman is talkative. It is not surprising that even the mouth of Your Holiness under female manipu lation should~ have grown beyond all measure." The Pope laughed and ordered the carpet to be accepted with thanks. Must Observe the'Custom. In Scottish courts of law wItnesses repeat the oath with the right hand raised. On one occasion, however, the magistrate found a diffculty. "Hold up your right arm," he .com manded. "I canna daet," said the witness. "Why not?" "Got shot in that airm." "Then hold up ycur left" "Canna da~e that, ayther-got shot In the ither ane, tae." "Then bold up your leg," responded the irate magistrate; "no man can be sworn In this court without holding up something." fA no0~tY woman who Is a good card plaer in usually disaeea. TRUPET OALLS ?aw noun Sneams a waanlag 24" ah the ar-de -. 0 BAD habit is a chain. THE wounds - made bya friend are the ones that smart the EvRY m an who knows God \ q well does some thing to enrich his race. GoD loves to ook into a grateful s'art. GoD speaks in th life of every ,mod man. Brins with bright f..thers are not .ways fat. Youn most deadly sin Is the one rou love the most. Lovr never has to go to school to earn how to speak. IF our eyes were better the stars rould give us more light. THE real cross of Christ looks ieavy, but it is always light. WEAKNESs is. a blessing when It :auses us to trust more in God. TE sin that shines has -as much death in It as the one that does not. THE trouble with the man who rnows nothing is that it takes him so ong to find it out. THERE are church members wht :all keeping the ten commandments roing to extremes.. THEBE are communities in which .olomon would not have received Any :redit for his wisdom. ONLY three rich men are referred :o as such in the New Testament, &ad two of them were lost. THE glory or love is that It de ilghts in doing for nothing what no body else will do for money. 1F sunst.a had to be paid for. there are p "A who would declare that candle "-could beat it. EVEEY sinner reasons that if there is happiness in the heart there ought to be some sunshine in the face. SEEsT thou a man who is mean to his wife? Satan will not be injured :nuch by what he says in church. THE devil is never made uneasy bv the man who thinks he will have to go somewhere else to be religious FnD a sin that the Bible is no'. opposed to before you Undertake to prove that it is not the work of God. TE devil has never been able to lnd out how to make a prison strong enough to hold one of God's children. EvERY time a stone ti thrown traight at the devil it is sure to hit ;ome prominent man square In the face. TaE devil will stay all day it fob answer him back, tut strike at him with God's word and he will Ae. at once. WgEN a man discovers that there is something wrong in his heart he has begun to find out. that he needs Christ. THERE is not much drawing power in the Christianity of neople who go t hrough life shaking hands with two' tingera THE moment a man begins to sew imself as God sees him, he stopt talking about the hypocrites In the shurch. IT should be the prayerful aim or every Christian to live in a way that wrould compel the world to believe in M!s Master. THEBE are men who sing, "Nearex My Jod to Thee," in church, who try to keep the Lord as far away as pos sibe in their business. Better Than Powder'. Recent experiments just concluded it t e ' Mrnment proofbutts, Wogi rich, appear " ye the decided Bu periority of cordite -r gnnpowdter. A six-inch quick-firing " a loaded with 29 pounds 12 ounces the ordinary b:ack gunpowder, sad yielded a velocity of 1800 feet per sso ond, with a pressure strain on the gun of 15 tons per square inch. The same gun was charged 1With 14 pounds three ounces of cordite, and gase a velocity of 227Z4 feet per second and a' pressure of 15.2 tons. .More Importe ant still, after 250 rounds had been tired there were no signs of erosion. The new substance is manufactured at the Government powder mills, Waitbam.Abbey, and contains 68 per cent, of nitro-glycerine, 37 of gun cotton and 5 of mineral jelly. The velocity 6Y the shot along the bore of the six-inch gun was calculated to the fuillionth of a second from the first moment of being set In motion. Minute as they may appear, Lieut. ii. rWatkin, R. A., has in vented an Instrument which, it is said, will, measure fractions of tifse to the nine-billionth part of a second. About 50 of the 0-inch quick fir ig guns have been supplied to the navy, l i and the authorities at the royal gun factories have begun the manufacture of larger guns of the same pattern, wth a velocity of 1,300 miles per hour. __ _ _ _ "Fe o iMnago" In Its widest sensie, the expressiorr zeans the right of a person owning bullion to have It coined~at a mint without charge to him. The only metal coined freely Is gold, and, in effect, the expression "free coInage"' is used only with reference to the possible admittance of silver to the same privileges. Copper is not coined on private account. The coinage of told is the only coinage absolutely ree in the mints of the chief coun. trien of the world.