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TRIi-WEEKLY ElI TION. WINNSBOROS. C.. AUGUST 7,1894. ESTAFJISHED 1949 TAKE A DAY OMF. Hills-they look so purty way off, Set a feller w ishin'. 4Kinder think I'li take a day otr An' go Sihin,) In the fields they've raked the bay off Jaybirds all disputin. (Kinder think Ill take a day ofr An' go shootin'.) Rivers where the lilies lay off Swallows crost 'emn skimmin'. (Kinder tbtnk I'll take a day off An'go swimmin'!) A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. It was a wild night. Torrents of 6linding rain fell from the sullen skies, and the Missouri River, swollen far above its sandy bars, fretted agains: the restraining banks and roared hungrily. A light gleamed from an upper win dow at Blackbird Mission, and the sweet face of Elsa Morris looked aux iously forth. "It is a dreadful storm," she said shivering. "Surely Mordaunt and Harry will not attempt to push on with out the stage." Superintendent Morris gave utterance to a groan as he felt an excruciating twinge in his gouty feet. He had been laid un for three days. It seemed as if he could not stay in the house to-night, when his brave son Harry and Mordaunt Steele, the in dustrial trader, might be in deadly peril. "God grant they may not attempt the road around Horseshoe Cliffs"' he exclaimed. "The braves under Fire Chief have drank all the lemon extract at the post and are gloriously drunk. It was culpably careless iu Hobbs to leave the door unlocked." "But his barn was on tire," protes ted Elsa, "and he did not stop to think of anything but his horses. How much extract did they get, papa?" "A case and a half," answered the superintendent, vexedly. "Niue pints of raw alcohol to be divided among six Indians-Winnebagoes at that. Had they been Omahas I should not have been uneasy, for they would go and sleep it off. But these Winnebagoes set off for Decatur an hour ago, whoop. ing like furies. Did Harry take his pistols?" "I think not," answered the girl. "Oh, papa, you don't think the In dians would molest the boys?" "Heaven knows. They are fiends incarnate when they get a taste of fire. water, and Long Pime has a grudge against Mordaunt. If only some one could be found braveenough to ride on and give warning! But it's useless. No one will go in the face of the storm." "I will go!" said Elsa turning her pale, resolute face from the window. "You, child!" repeated her father, dumfounded. "What earthly good could you do even if you found the way-you, a slight girl?" "Not an Indian on the reservation, sober or drunk, will harm me, and I can ride Rowdy. If I start at once I shall reach Decatur before the stage is in. Let me go, papa!' pleaded Elsa. -'Well, daughter, have your way; ride over to the agency and get Rosalie to accompany you. Her brother, Gray Eagle, is the leader. She may have inrluence with him. A blush crept under Elsa's pearly skin. Gray Eagle, a French half-breed, was in love with herself, and therefore his hatred of Mordaunt was intense. As soon as Rowdy was saddled and bridled, she mounted and rode forth into the tempestuous night. When she reached the agency, how ever, she found Rosalie suffering with neuralgia, and she was forced to press on alone. In a half-hour's time Horseshee Cliffs loomed up before her, and she turned Rowdy's head around the curve. circling slowly down into the ravine. When she bad reached the little bridge which spanded the dancing waters of Big Blackbird Creek. she drew rein and looked around her. Then a stifled scream rose to he-r lips as she saw a form rise out of the. shadows and a brown hand gr-asp the bridle. Gray Eagle! She recognized him at a ce, and forcing her voice to be dy, spoke calmly: Kashwa, is it you? I am glad, for will see me safe to Decatur. I 'a message to Fontanelle." ray Eagle or Kashwa, as he was ed in the Indian language, laughed turally. He was a handsome, aith young fellow, fairly educated and unusual intelligence. Te Snowdrop is out late," hte said, Wey "-Kashwa knows her mission. She carries firearms to the young Amer ican. But she conmes late!" Elsa grew frightened. "Loose the pony, Kashwa; I amt inl haste. See! the rain is soaking through my water-proof cloak. Let me make haste, for it grows late, and the night is very dark." She chirruped to Rowdy to go on; but Gray Eagle laughed once more and reined the pony back. "Snowdrop cannot go yet. Let her promise first to be the bride of Kashwa. He loves her. He will never give her up to the American. Will she prom ise?" "No," said Elsa, dcsnerately. "Then the American dies H~e is not at Decatur. He is Kashwa's pris oner; he and the Snowdrop's brother," said the Indiam. "Where?" queried Elsa, the color receding from her face at this con firmation of her worst fears. '-Where has Kashwa hidden his captives? and where are the other brav*es?" "Long Pine and at the rest are at Decatur. Kashwa waited in the pass for Snowdrop's brother and her friend. They are there bound to the big tree," with a gesture toward a large elm that ea ten yards down the stream. in an instant Elsa's little white hand sought the saddle girth, :1nd a isto gleamed before the astunished eves of Gray Eagle. Hlis hand fell fromn the bridle as he recoited froml the danaerus weapon. The little whip fell with a stingiing force along Rowdy's think. Tne pony t bounded forward. anl an uplifted hoof F struck the Indian full in the breast. He fell like a 1'g, and Elsa rode toward t the big elm tree. "Harrv:'' her trembling lips breath ed faintly. "llarry-dear liarry where are vou?" "That is Elsa's voicel" oxcaimed her brother, somewhere in the gloom. "We are here, iittle sister. For God's sake, lend us a knife. Grav Eagle has bound us hand and foot the drunkeni villain." t In another moment Elsa had found the captives. A few deft cuts with a pocket-knife, and the tough grape vines with which their hands and feet were secured, parted, and Mordaunt Steele e sprang forward just in time to catch the faintig form of the girl as she swayed r in the saddle. t "Poor little thing!" murmured Mor- a daunt. raining kisses on the white face. g "What a terrible ordeal she has passed through: If I could find that rascally Indian, I'd puminel the life out of t hii" e: "H1-lere's his pony:" cried Harry, i who had been inveztigating matters as well as he was able for the darkness. -"This is rare luck: I'll take Rowdy. t( and vou can carry Elsa on Black Jim. Aha! here's Gray Eagle, sleeping off his debauch in tihe middle of the road. W The storm will soon rouse him." ji Not stopping to investigate the fidi- dj an's condition, the young men mount Li ed the ponies and rode off through the la rain to the mi:sion, -eaching there Cc about ten o'clock. W Elsa came to her senses on the way sufficiently to relate her experience, b: which threw some light on Kashwa's t msterious conduct. a Shame-faced and repentant, the lat- A ter sought an interview with the super- e) intendent the next day. It was the bad i fire-water, he pleaded, made him seek W the Snowdrop's hand and attempt to revenge himself on her lover. He would uever touch it again, ift Mr. Morris would only excuse him this time. As he had been badly bruised by Rowdy's hoof, and thoroughly frightened iito the bargain, the super intendent forgave him after a severe b lecture. Mr. Hobbs keeps the lemon extract at the post under lock and key now, and it is seldom the Winnebagoes get a c taste of ire-water in any form. it re A s11 ht Mlqtake. The Conrecat-on (on the bank) What's de mattah pahson? Parson Dippem (excitedly)-De Lord bib mercy! I 'lowed Bre'r Simpson ter slip under de ice:-The Waterbury. tj Soothiu, Very. "Is your rector high church?" "Oh, yes." "I suplose he calls sin, p then, a moral obliquity?" "Higher at than that. le alls it a psycholog- tc ical eccen tricity. "-Truth. 1 tr For Neither. Hie-I'd :ust as lief be hung ror a h sheep as a jamb j. she-Well, you'll - be hung for neither: you'll be hung for a calf or nothmng.-Yonkers j Statesma~n. A Load Off Uiz- Mind. L w cc Not IHer Dinn' . Youngiove-These are very hardl times. tuy love, and you will have to reduce your dlresmoaker's hlls MIs. Younglove-That's as consistent as i you men are: You act just as~ if I > made out the bills:"Puck.j~ Rath-r Cru~ei. He--I'd lust as lief be hung for a sheep as a lamb. She-Well, you'll be hung for neither: yotu'll be hung for a calf or nothing. -Yonker's States-ian. "Ar yu a native of this ya ish" " asked a Scoten sherlif of a wvitnmess ti howas summoned to testify inaL ase of illiciting distilling. "Mainstly, yer honor," was the re--1 ply. a "I1 mean were you born in this Lf parish?'' "Sa. I wasna born in this parish, but I'm miaist a native for a& tht. "Yout caame here when vou were al :hld, J. suppose you meatu?" said the( sheritf. '-No. sir. Pm here a..out sax year '-Then how do you com~ 'to bce' acarly a native of the parish:". "Weel, ye see. whan I ca ite here ax sear sin' I .ist weighed e zht tane. an' l'm seventeen stane ao. Ie ye see that about nine st ine o' O me belongs to this parish an' the . ther eight comnes rom Cawlock-le."W -Glasgow Herald. at ImvoDAL freedom is the corner, Pe tone of labor's temple. it YoURi orthodox conservative op- w1 poses t-he extension or everything ex- to )ANGERS OF FACTORY DUST [azard from Fire Being Continually In- I creas-d by improved Procu.ses. T:ach development of nanufactur- . ig procen.es aprears to au4pIent tht te hazard, not merely by reason 0; he dangers incident to the increased peed of operation, says the New Turk Jo.irnal of Commeice, and alsc , the con entration due to thE t reater units of larger buildings, but iore especially to the greater amouni r dust t rown olf by the more rapid ianipulation of the stock in the nev iethods of manufacture. The com. arison of the readiness of ignition o1 die snaving to that of the log hold1 und in all comiustible mater al, anely, the liner the subdivision the reater the facility of ignition and ie greater the rapidity of combus on. The severe accidents occurring 1 those lines of siecial manufactur it using powdered wood and pulver-; ed , ork, so that these substances in he classediasexplosives undersuch )nditions, illustrate the occurrence. :salting from such changed condi ons. It would be trite to make, ay references to the explosives of 'ain (ust in flouring mills or of hop c ust in t onnection with the mauu- i tcture of malt, but they are con nually occurring instances of the s qptos on of materials not ordinarily icluded in the list of explosives and h.cn a e made so solely on account. rapid combustibility entirely due subdivision. A few days ago an explosion oc irred in that portion of a print orKs where the cloth was received a to the establishment -in the gray" rectly from the mills without any eatment, and was being wound into 9 rge rolls preparatory to the pro- r sses carried on in that establish. : eut. The short, tine cotton fibers 0 ere shaken out of the cloth as dust a the rapid winding to such an ex- c nt that it became necessary to put ventilating hood over the machine. i n electric spark at the belt ignited a me of the dust, and it produced an :plosion which blew off the roof and C recked the contents of the building c ith such violence as to seriously in- C re five men at work in the room. V With the old method of opening c id uicking cotton by which it was own Into a "gauzeroom," there ere numerous instancesj cf explos- P ns occuring in connection with such b as, but that class of accidents has. en very much reduced by the pres it method of lapper pickers, wh'ch * nd tl;e cotton into a relatively r umpact cylinder. The explosion of tton fibers in napping-rooms are ill of frequent occurrence. Within s cent years a tire starting in the rdroom of a cotton mill produced explosion which was exceedingly e olent. and spread the 1lames to au :tent beyond the scope of the tire )paratus and compassed the destruc. 1 on ot the mil.' The explosion from ist in the various forms of continu is driers used in textile mills have h en such as to require the utmost ecautions by way of construction u id continuous cleanliness in order 0 secure conditions of safety. When a e facing dust accumulating on the usses of a foundry was being washed ~ orn the beams by a stream from fire >se, when the works we e shut down a iring an enforced vacation, such as is occurred during recent times, the h ist filled the building and was nited by the tire at the portable a ege, where repairs were under - ay. But such fires are not by any means g infined to tLe dust of ordinarily ~ cogni-ed combustible materials. d ires have been known to occur in e dust of iron thrown out from the mibimg barrels used for polishing cks by their attrition on each her. One form of the well-known ro: fireworks, which produces such - bright fulguration, is merely the moustion ,f uinely divided steel, Lcse temperature of ignition is so w that the hand can be held, not 0 ly with impunity, butalso withouti y sensation of heat directly in the iitillat! .n of the fireworks. The a elv powdered zinc, known as '-zinct \iliary," which is used in connee n with the rejuvenation of the .n- 0 go dye vats in the coloring of cot. n, is so rapidly oxidized by a small aounit (if moistuire that tires pro Iced in that manner a: e of fre iuent currence, and the danger is so well 1 town that many lines of waterd ansortation refuse to take this aterial under any condition what. ever. A m AlIligator Story. nl "'Of all the inhabitants of the eat risers of India the alligat r is e most fortnidable," said Captainc E. Balloai, of London, r'naland, at e Laclede last evening, says the St. auis Globe-Demnocrat. "Wh le 1 I is stationed there several years agoa saw a sight the thought of which ways causes a shudder to creep over e. A lady near where I had lived ~ nt a little: native boy with a letter a friend at some little distance,a th th: request to send a reply.a ing a trus'.worthy little fellow0 me s';rprise was felt when he did a t return alter a reasonable ab ne. A fter waiting several hours on no sign of the nmessenger, a lhinig party. of which 1 was a mber. was made up to try to dis- a ver his wher'eab )uts. i After scouring the country for me time we came to the river uk, and a short distance away saw* dead allugator lying on the snore th its greau jaws extended to their C' most. Un examining it to dis-t ver the cause of so strange an ap-t arance we found to our horror that P had devoured the missi: g boy, and .d attempted to swallow his head 2ole. This, however, it was unable - do, and had ueen suffocated in the a tomnrt Th En's hed was still j ,overed by his turban, which, when emoved, disclosed the answer to iH nistress' letter. which he was faith ully bringing bac:.. It was sup. )osed that while attmrting to swhr ,he river he had been seized by the Lllizator, as those huire reptiles are 'ery clever in concealing themselve intil their victiu is well within heir reach, and then pouncing orL ,heir prey." Devices of Lawyers. Lawyers, even eminent ones, have ;ot ?.lways disdained the use ol ,ricks in the court..room, or devices )y which they produced an etTe -1 ipon tLa jury more telling thau vords could have done. A suit was brought a few years agc >y the people of a certain quarter o1 lontreal again-t a manufacturing otnpany. The vile odors c, the hemicals used in the works, thev .leged, had made the neighborhood intenable, and seriously lessened the alue of their property. Judge and jury were inclined to urn a deaf ear to the complaint, :he company was rich and powerful, ud an "alleged smill," as their ounsel declared, "was too intangi Ie a grievance to grasp." One of the opposing counsel was een to go out and not long after re urued with two glass retorts. "H-le.e," he said in the course of is plea for his clients, are the of Duaing subjects of our contention." le passed them to the judge and ben to the jury, who smelled them od smilingly declared them pure nd odorless. -But," sa'd the counsel, the com any mixes them"' He suddenly oured the contents of one of the atorts into thejother, and the nau -ous fumes of hydro sulphuric acid r sulphuretted hydrogen tilled the ir. Judge, jury and spectators hoked for breath. It was necessary ) adjourn court until the next day, ,ben heavy damages were at once warded to the pla'ntiffs. In a murder trial before a Western )uit, the prisoner was able to ac )unt for the whole of h:s time ex ept flve minutes on the evening hen the crime was committed. His aunsel argued that it was impossi le for him to have killed the man nder the circumstances in as brief a er od, and on that plea largely ased his defence, the other testimo y being strongly against his client. When the prosecuting attorney re ied, he said, "How long a time ,ally is five minutes? Let us see! ill his honor command absolute si nce, in the court-room, for that >ace?" The judge graclously complied. 'here was a clock on the wall. Every ye i tLhe courte.oon was Lxea upon ; as the pendulum ticked off the see nds. There was a breathless si ,nce. We all know how time which is 'aited for creeps and halts and at LSL dues not seem to move at all. The kten-witted counsel waited util the tired audience gave a sigh relief at the cose of the period, ad then a-ked i.uietly: "Cou;d he not have strtuck one ttal blow in all or that time?" The prisoner was found guilty, and St was proved afterward, justly. lDramat:c elfects, however, are azardous agencies to use, as it is ot imupossible to spoil them by an afi climax- as a member of the .nglish Parliament found when at ie close of a tiery ad,uration to the )verniment to declare war, he er.ed at, "U.nsheath the sword." and rawing a dagger threw it on the oor. "'Ah'" coolly said ani oppanent. There is the knife, but where is the A shout of laughter was the result. -1 outh's Companion. Nicotine and Tobaccco. Many people regard toba co and cotine as s:. nonymous terms. though ,is known that there are var ties of )bacco which conta n practically n.> i tine whatever. A venetIan doe >r, Sig. G. R. de Toni, has leen taking some exhaustive researches 2 "N.cotiana Toiacum"- the va ety o; tobac o generally uscd by nokers-and has just published the :sults or his .nvestigations. IIe ouls that nicotine, which is an alkas ,id, s located ch eily in the ep armnal tissues, but is entirely abs n'J -o the seedl and young plant. In 1e roo; of mature plant it occurs in! ne cortical tissue, and espicially iu' 2e laver of ceils imimeuiately be eath the epidermis. In the brauches, a: stalk, lanmina of the l,.znf. pe uncle, calyx and corollo it is con ned ulmost entirely to the el.ilermal hiS, and occurs chiefly in thiose at le base of the hairs. 1n smaa;ier .iantib es it is found in the anthers ad p st., but the mesophyl and as mnilation tissue of the leaf were en rely devoid of nicotine in all the mwples examined. L r. Toni believes the function of cot nie to b~e sim~ply excretory. beingz product of the reduction of oxygeu ;a substances. By some it has i.een ~sumed that nicotine exercises a -otect ve influence on the tooacco ant to keep marauding insects at iy: but this a-sumption is not lborne it by observation, as bioth ttc rresb id dried Icaves are eaten by wan' A Trecedent. "Tell me all," he urged. "Not >w," she answered shyjy. "You tn begin," he suggested, "and claim Sie :oor again to-morrow." .ile cited le U'nited States Senate by way of -ecedent.-Diet oit Trioune. -A Parisian lady has been fi!;ed $10 idi condemned to pay $10 damages to Ilrlaar for callingr him an anarhm. KEPT 'HEAD. rho Admirable Condid on of a Mau After a Railroad Smashup. "There isn't anyth'ng in the world that I know," be said to a reporter, "that wakes a man lo-e his senses so :onpletely as being tuinbled over and over in a fallinea car, and yet I met a man once who seemed the per sonitication of coolness in just such a situat-on. As soon a- our car left the track we were all shot from cur berths in various directions, being tumbled u and down and around as the car kept on turning somersets. Like the people I read about, we Ian(ed in the watcr, and when the -ar came to a standstill after its ter rifyinz bumping and crushing, I was so frightened that I could scarcely move ry arms to keep my head above wate r. "Near me was a man who kept his nead. "'Don't splash around so,' he said. 'You'll cut yourself. The car is full of broken lass, laups, wrenched rods, and rails, and you'll ha.k yourzelf to pieces.' 'But I thought I was drowning and I shouted my lears to him. "'0. no,' he said, 'we are not :rowning: we'll get out ot th-s easily.' 1tut it was not so easy to escave as my cool friend assured me. The whole inside work had been shattered aid there was nothing by wh:ch we could climb to the windows, whicn were high above us, as our car was overturned. lying on its roof. "We made so many efforts to jump up, always failing back into the. water, that I became exhausted. My friend, howevej, kept on encourar ing me. 1,1 inally, with his assistaIet I managed to clutch a windcw framo arid I got out. le followed rue shortly afterwar '. "The thing he did when he bad cimbed outside was to examine aii self for cuts and other wounds. -Well, 1 guess 1 am alive,' he said. "After we had set there for awhile watchine with shivers the wreckers wo king out to us, i% friend declare.1 that he was going to c awl back into the car. 'Great heavens'?' I begged, 'don't do that; we were lucky to get out .nice. You might get pinned there or d owned by the rising water.' "'I have a waistcoat in there,' he aoswered, 'and in the inside po -ket there's over $1,000. I am going back for that waist oat. My berth was at one end and I might be able to tiud .it.'I "'In the face of my prolests he crawied back throungh the windlw, and when lie dropped down w th a loud splash I was as '.attled' as if I had been there again mysel '. 1 could hear him pulling around in the water I down the e for a long time while he tished for his waistcoat, Finally his wet head caine through the window once more, a nd I never was more glad to see a man. 'I got it"' he said, with a tri umphant laugh. 'Pretty wet, but I the bills seeni to be here. Watch is gone. Too bad, too: it was given to mle, but one can't expect to save everything out of a railroad wreck.' he added cheerfully. '"He was a cool man, that fellow, and nothing could disturb his good humor."-Philadeli hla Press Dicken~s as a Dancer. IMamie Dickens. in the second of her interesting papers on "NylFather as I Lecall Him" in the Ladies' Home .ournal, writes thus: My father insisted that my sister Katie and I should teach the polka step to him arnd Mr. Leech. My father was as much in earnest about learning to take that wonderful step correctl~y as though there were nothing of greater importance in the world. Often ne would practice gravely in a co ner, without e ther partner o - music, and I remue:nber one cold winier's unight his awakening with the fear that be. had forgotten the step so strong upon him that, j umping out of bed, by the s'an t illumination of the old fas.h ioned ruisbliL'ht. and to his own whistling, lie diligenitly. rehearsedI its ''one. I wo. oneW, two," until he was onuce more secure in his knowledge. No one can imnag ne oiur excite mec't and nervo'usness when the even ing c('ame onl which we were to dance with our puplIils. Katie was to have 31r. Leeeb, who was over sIx feet tall, for her partner, while my father was to bie mine. My heart beat sa fat that I coubul scarcely breathe, I was so fearful for th -saccess 01' our exh ibhi on. But my fears were grundi ess, :rnu' we were greeled at th !:cnlish of our dlance with huearuty nm;iua:, wii'h was ituorc thaa comn p'.at.'jn for the work which had beenC expendled upon its learning. M-: fat.her wa;s certainly not what ni the ordinary acceptation of the term woull b e called ''a good dancer." I doubt whether he ever received anr inusruction in the noble art .otaer tihrn that whic~h my sister and I gave hm. In lau-r ye'ars I remema'er try ing to tea, h him the schiottisch, a ci:nce wh ich he paritic'ularly admunirc' nd' desired to learn. But ahihou~ e was so ondl of aanmcing. e:-.cep't at auily gath.:rin':s in his own a hi.5 mi:o t i itima:- friemriis horuse I nuever rernmber see:]m.: hi a ~;rtiipat. A Ror 1i-,Ner'spper Wor'k. In JKansas there is a woman who nas a orty thre: year rec'rdl in news papecr worwc and she is on iv 5 nrow. >hle is i rs. .'. E'. h'ronton. or At':hi on. :-he :ce1 n h -r e'.tgndelei .our nalist I'cm ca er in her fli er's o i ce in .\ewport. Iy.. :md -inc then has been cornner-t va hal:1f a dozenCf Kansas Iirec - -'-tel u ';lobe Wi.: ar'e th1at ot her p.eople hiave more t ime I,' de 'o' : thiad we ha., hnu.t not t e inuclini in NOW CHILDREN QUARPEL, I - The Game of Brag as Iverheard !a Fie L eian TompUi-* Square. Or one of the seats four little girl were observed the other day indule iug in the fewlnine-wasculine, al-sc -propen.ity for qu:arreg. Tnc most self-assertive of the group wa: a diminutive damsel whose head wa adorned with a hat of monstrous red p:umage. Sareastic comments or her part had evident!y irritated be compan ons: "she's a sassy thing, Sally. I wouldn't speak to her no more," ob served a young miss on the riiht. The sarcastic damsel snitfed, but said nothing. I"Don't let's 'sociate with her no more." remarked a second. The three little girls arose, and the third one had her say. "You can just keep away from our party. Mary Baum." she said. "We ain't a-goin' te: look or speak to you no longer. The self-assertive maiden in the upon her wh lom cowpanionsas the| marched away. She shrugged he. shoulders complacently. "huh; Dere is odders." she observed, WLinl a world of significance in her tones A short distance away sat two lit tie boys who were comparing note: on family matters. ,;s folks has got de biggest fam, ily," remarked the first oune coni den tly. --Betcher ain't." returned his com panion. "Yes we has. Dere's me, an' me two brudders, me daddy, me mud :lr, me aunt and me uncle. Kin you Leat dat?" "I should say," was the respon-e. -IWe's got seven gal:, and ooys in oUr family. An' deres t'ree grown-urs." 'Well, an how, me daddy can buy out your daddv." "Kin he? Oh, kin he? Me dadd.'s - boss-ca:' driver an' be owns .j1,i0 stable wid two hunnered hos.es" SL-at ain't nothin," retorted the imaginative youth. "Me daddy's '. janitor an' he owns a bouse on Sce ivenoo dat's Bbe stories high, anl wi i a hun red people livin' in iti See?"-New York Recorder. He Succeeded. A voung man who had been born end brought up in a New England country town began to prepare for coliege, and decided that after his college course he wo ld go to the Pacidc States, and begin life in Un iirit of a pione r. During his two years of prepara t on for college he was the most ac tive member of his own church which was declining in numbers. owing to the removal of many faa ilies to the city-and of the Village Improvement Society, which had be. come a social feature of the town. Through his effo ts the church was repaired and Its lawn and church yard beautitied. He marked historic places on the old roads, and set up new guide poits. He secured a drinking-fountain for the public s.uare, gave entertainments in thc poorhouse, and set out an orchard ou the old home farm. At old farmer, with crumling buildings and sinking walls, met the young man one day under the cool village elms. and saidtto him: "They tell me that you are going to college?" '.I hope to go," "And then out West?" "Yes, that is my purpoUs-." "Then if you are going away to leave us all, what makes yon take so much interest in these affpirs of the old town? What you are cioin' will never do you any good, and we'll all; be gone lif you should ever come back again." "I think we ought to try to oe of some :ervice in the community Jni which we live." said the young man.! " All places are endeared to us wherd we have tried to do good. They mnake pleasant memories, I am sure,' If I have done. anyth ng for the ben efit of tbe old town, I shall not re-' gret it." This young man graduated weil and went to the Pacilic slope. Jiel succeeded in life. With his good seose and eager, unselfish spirit lt could hardly be otherwise. Hie be name mayor of a young city, was sent to Congress, and did much for the development of his own State. It, was suc 'ess organizin]g in his soul that prompted him to secure the tountain for the s'luare In the ol, lm-shaded New England town. See Ing what ought to be done, and theni loing it, Is the way that succes .e ins. More thaon this. it is those whoz think of things outside o? their ou. ni ittle lives who are most likelv to ,ucceed. Such people make the vorld better, and impress pleasan;t nemnories upon the mind that th'e ~oming years cannot etiface. Nuiremberg Egg. Watches Ulrst came into fashion in the year 1 7 at Nuretaberg. andlo that account and because of their ie culiar shape they were known "Nuremberg eggs." They were :0 tl' egg-shaped, however, some uci in im tation of pears. courds, earn birds' skulls, etc. Norgan. the En gl h curiosite collector. has an old Lume watch in the shape oh a cow's horn. which discharges a tiny pistol at the end of each hour. Tile Earl of Stanhope has one shaped like an ngg. cut in iacinth ani set with dia monds. A bout the year 1G20 watches began to assume the shape now gen erally worn, in the seventeenth century. howeer, it became th: fashion to make them irl the form ui a cross.--St. Louis R~epulic. --The ain'shouses of Fraince La 29onnon innmtes NEWS IN BRI1EP. The skin of the cactus ptant is al tight. -Virginia has the world's greatesi manganese mines. --Asteroids are supposed to be the remains of a once single planet. -The flattening of the poles of Jupi ter can be seen througn the telescope. -The apple has a larger proportion of phosphorous than any other fruit, -Giants usuilly have weak constitu tions, and are shorter-lived than dwarfs. t would take about 1,200 globes as large as our earth to make one equal n size to Jupiter. -There are no known means by which the scars made by smallpox may be removed. -A dental infrmary, to care for the teeth of the poor, has 'been proposed in Toronto, Canada. -A French barber has invented a e-irling iron, the heat for which is sup p:ied by electricity. -A red skined fraud is being exhib ited at the Antwerp (Belgium) exhibi tion as Setting Bull. -Tames McCloud of South Dakota, has raised a horse which has eight per fect hoofs, two on each leg. -A H'7ngarian inventor claims to be able to make from wood pulp a fabric suitable for durable clothing. -The temperature of the earth in creases one degree for each fifty:five feet of descent into its interior. -The wettest place in this country Neali Bay, in Washington. Over 123 in(L-is of rain fals there every year. - t~i~spots were first observed in 61J, anu were then noted by several astronomers at about the same time. --William Boyer, of Honeybrook, Penn., is the owner of a pair of mittens knitted by his grandmother in 1777. -A Frenchman has invented an elec. tric aursqnai:o bar which electrocutes inrmeet pests whioh come in contact with it. - The lamp used by Epictatus, the philosopher, sold for 3,000 draohma soon after his death, in the year 161, A. D. --A microscopic - examination of a hair will determine with almost infah ble certainty to what kind of animal it belonged. -Letters are whirled between Paris and Berlin through a pneumatic tube 700 miles in length at the rate of 20 miles a minute. -On the longest day snow forty feet thick has been known below the sum mic of Mount Kosciusco, Australia's highest peak. -Scientific men have demonstrated that a speed of 200 miles an bour can never be attained by anything that moves on wheels. -E'ectric pianos, which play them selves. the keys, being depressed as though by some unseen hand, are now being manufactured. -Pints are affected by various sub stances, just as animals are ; electricity will stimulate them, narcotics will tupefy atd kill them. -The price of platinum has incresed fivefold at the Ural mines within three years. This is due to the heavy demand for this metal for electrical purposes. -It is said of the fur seal of Alasra thet there is no known animal on land or water which can take higher physi cal rank, or which exhibits a higher order or instinct. - A caterpillar in the course of a month will devour 6,000 times its own weight in food. It will take a man t bree months before he eats an amount of food equal to his own weight.. No receptacle has ever been made strong enough to resist the bursting power of freezing water. Twenty pound shells have been burst as under as though made of pottery. --Hundreds of experiments have been made to determine whether toads could live when inclosed in blocks of stone, and in every case the toad died befor the end of the second year. .-An astronomer calculates that if the diameter of the sun is daily diminished by two feet, over 3000 years must elapse cre the astronomical instruments now in use could detect the diminu 1thn. -An inventor has brought out a rock iug chair actuated by electricity. The .itter can at the same time receive gei tle currents by grasping metal han dIies or by resting the bare feet on metal pedals. - -The uinderground telephone cir eniits in the United Stateshave increa sol f ro-n 225 miles in 1882 to 121,930 n~ir in 1894, and the number of tele phones in use from 5187 irn 1887 to M, )1 in 1S93. -- Mummies of people who are be lieved to antedate the cliff dwellers are sid to have been unearthed in south eastern U tah underneath the rumns of the e brt d wellers. They are well-pre serve spcmes -The light from the sun reaches the enrt ai seven and one-hdlf minutes, thuhte di-tance is such that a can r eu-'L'il'ird 'rcm the sun and contin Si:: i'-" veloccity unabated would require more thcta seventeen years to reach the zartii -A 1:rse cn draw on metal rse one~ a a t wo thirds times as much as on rbitp.~enmet, three and one-third timeca much as on good Belgian c'fI-:e times as much as on good c.;bbile-stone., twenty times as much- ss on gooea rth road, and forty times as --In Damnascuis, drunken men are collea victims of "the English dis -Oif ev-ery 100 cases of cataract, fifty tcur are males and forty-.sii are fe -The on-pring of a single nly in one Lmmaer, if none are destroyed, may