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SCIE2NTlIC AND INDUJSTRIAL. There are electria railways in New Zealand. A Paris medical journal declares jaundice is, or can be, cured by eating nothing but lettuce and lemons. Doctor E. 31. Hale, the clirnotolo gist, states that Bright's disease is J most common in New Jersey, and least frequent in Virginia. Experiments made at a cancer hos pital in New York have convinced the 2 physicians that the virus of erysipelas injected into cancerous tumors causes them to disappear. In the museum at Cambridge, Eng land, is the skeleton and stuffed skin of an adult hybrid between a lion and a tigress. This, with several distinct litters by different parents, was born in the same menagerie. It appears that the camel does a good deal of harm in Egypt, by eating the trees as they are growing up. I Already the massive Cairo camel is a type distinct from other camels, sur passing all in its cumbrous, massive proportions. Some investigations carried out b3 4 Doctor Alexander A. Houston, of Ed inburgh, respecting the number of bacteria in the soil at different depths from the surface go- to prove that the E micro-organisms become less and less abundant as the depth from the sur face increases. Extensive draught will cause the snail to close its doors, to prevent the evaporation of its bodily moisture and dry up. These little animals are pos sessed of astonishing vitality, regain ing activity after having been frozen in solid blocks of ice, and enduring a degree of heat for weeks which daily crisps vegetation. The common purslane, which grows anywhere as a weed, produces more. seeds than any other plant. One seed pod, by actual count, has 3000 seeds, and as a plant will sometimes have twenty pods, the seeds from a single year's growth may, therefore, number 60,000. There is no instance of simi lar fruitfulness in any other plant growing in this country. The Bible fixes the creation of life in successive periods, the creation of the higher order of animals in the last period, and immediately before the appearance of man. According to Moses, the order inwhich living things appeared was. Plants, fishes, fowl, land animals and man. Science, from a study of fossils in the rock founda tions, has independently arrived at the same conclusions. Telephonemeter is the new word naming an instrument to register the time of each conversation at the tele phone from the time of ringing up the exchange to the ringing-off signal. Such a system would reduce rentals of telephones to a scale according to the service, instead of a fixed charge to a business firm or occasional user alike. The instrument has been construected at the invitation of the German tele phone department and is to control: the duration of telephone convers:: tions and to total the time. Space for a fort on a bill near Lon don is being cleared of tree stumps by.:] -- -an electrie root grubber or stump - 1 puller. The dynamo for supplying j, the current is about two miles from the hill. The current is taken by over-* head wires on telegraph poles to the motor on the grubber carriage. By 2 means of belting and suitable gearing the motor drives a capstan upon which 1 are coiled a few turns of wire rope. A a heavy chain is attached to the tree I roots, and as the rope exerts its force the roots come up quietly one afteri the other. 1 Amputated His Foot Himseli. Two years ago Robert Galbraith, aged seventy-four, a farmer of Payne Township, Indiana Conty, Penn.. fell from a load of hay and injue his left ankle and foot. The l [njury has caused him great suffering everz since, and the family physician has long in ,isted that unless the foot was amputated thie farmer could never be any better. Galbraitt - stubbornly refused to have the operation 2 -' performed. One morning recently the farmer's daugh-. ter went into his room. "Dela," said he, "the job's done. The i foot is amputated.' On the bed by his side lay the foot. Ont the other side was a razor. The old farmer had amputated his own foot with his razor, and had done it neatly, too, at the ankl' joint. Although he is seventy-six years old._Farm ar Galbraith is not even sulrering from shoc4 from his self-amputating .operation, and thi doctor says he could not have taken the fool off more neatly himself. A New Cure for Hlccoughs. Samuel A. Hochkin, of West liaven Conn. < Iwas hiccoughing his life away at the home 0I1 bis nephew, Charles E. Hochkin, Newark, N. ii., until Dr. :Bailey was called in. The pa. tient is seventy-three years old. On January 5 he began hiecoughing violently. The usua! remedies were prescribed, but Mr. Hochkir. grew worse. At this time Dr. C. H. Clark, of Plainfleld. wras afflicted with the malady, and the reme dies used in his ease without avail werf I ed. Dr. W. 0. Bailey was called in. Dr ey saw that the aged sufferer could, i've long unless the throat spasms ceased. There were intervals of half an hour of rest, krhen the hiccough returned. Mr. Hochkin had given up the battle for life and told his wife, who accompanied him from West Haven, that he proposed to settle up his earthly af Late that night Dr. Bailey bethought him - f the "musk" cure, andi prescribed mosehus tngrain doses to a draohm, giving n" ohm every three hours. The er- 1 Teet was electrical. The -throat spasmsa eseand Mr. Hochkin was pr~o. oncdout of danger and gained strengstt rail.The remedy in this case was fr warded to the physician attending Dr. ClarI at Plainfield in the hope of saving the lat ter's life. A IRoman Batcher's Shop. 4 The Museum of Antiquities at Dres 1 den has come into possession of an in teresting marble relief from Rome, which represents an ancient butcher ] shop, of oblong shape, and divided by 1 a pillar into two unequal parts. In the greater stands the butcher, with a high chopping block resting on three sub-] stantial legs before him, while behind 1 him hang the steelyard and a cleaver, 1 he himself being occupied in dividing a rib of meat with another cleaver. Ou i the wall above him, just as with us, isd a row of hooks near to each other, on which hang pieces of meat already s dressed-a rib and a leg of meat, a C - pork joint and udders (a tit-bit of thei a Romans)-also lungs and liver, and a~ last of all the favorite boar's head. On r the left, in the smaller division of thle f' shop, the wife of tho butcher sits in an easy chair, with an account book on her knees, engaged in assisting the 1 business of her husband by acting as A SONG OF TOKENSO 'heres a sadness of sound in the flowing Of the billows that break on the bars , Lnd a cloud in the sky that is throwing A veil on the face of the stars. hero's a note that is missed in the sIngin Of songs that were tender and sweet, Lnd death in the daisies upspringing From the meadows that dream at our feet. ,--d life seems a wearisome story, But its grief, like its gladness, wiU cease I 'or it drifts with its gloom and its glory To , liaven of infinite peace I -Atlanta Constitution. A D)UBLE STORM EY INDA BARTON RAYS. HE Ridge'.way House, Peaks oi Otter, had one guest this sum mer in advance of P = the season. Left, by the death of her father an or han with no near relative, Meda ,abell had yet-as fortune's favorites enerally have-plenty of friends. Ehese advised the usual panacea for rief-extensive travel and change of cene to brin, forgetfulness. "No," Meda had said in refusal. 'rather will I go back to Ridgeway, vhere my father and I spent our last nimer, and where the mountains, ilent aid unchangeable, shall keep e in remembrance. I do not wish to orget!" Arrangements were accord ngly made for her early departure; ud one misty evening when the clouds vere as somber as the habiliments sha vore, and gave as little promise Of )righter days as her sad face, the roang recluse alighted at the ragged nountain station. When she entered the cheerles. iotel parlor, however-with its hooded urniture and general air of lonesome xess-a familiar voice accosted her,; Lnd a man's dark eyes lighted in >leased recognition as he sprang to eet her. "Miss Cabell!" was his surprised jaculation. "This is an unexpected )easure !" "And to me, Mr. Dillson," ieda murmured brokenly, his ap )earance there recalling the form she id iast seen with him. "I had not hought visitors were here." "There are none as yet," Mr. Dill on explained, "I am looking up some and claims, and," he added, "may re, nain some time." Hugh Dillson had >en kindly attentive to Meda's father he previous summer. A man of fine resence, fluent in conversation, and )I party affiliation with the aristocratic )ld Colonel, he was soon a high favor te. Meda, also, had liked him. No one ,lse had been so often singled out in he mild gayeties of the mountain 1ace-no other escort so frequently nvited when she drove about with her nvalid father. These first sad days of her return' o Ridgeway, Meda (who- had brought er own riding horse) passed in long ambles among the ..wooded hills; ~very familiar nook that connected er thoughts with her father filling ~er heart with bitter-sweet memories. Llways unattended-a far-away, piritual look deepening on her lovely ace-Mr. Dillston watched her with ~rowing interest. Too well-bred, if ot too politic, to presume on his ormer privileges, he was yet unob rusively polite, and showed his olicitude for her comfort in number ess little ways.. "It is not well that you should be so nuch alone," he remonstrated, one svening as he helped her dismount. "I do not feel alone," Meda an wered, "and nature is such a comf or ;er that I am happier in its solitude." "Yet human sympathy should not ,e repelled. I, too, admired-loved four father," Dillson said touchingly. "Do you remember the day in Doby's Glen?" he asked. "Or the norning we climbed the Knob and your ~apa waited at the gray rocks?" "Oh, yes," she sighed with falling ears. "How could I forget? Though have not ventured so far away as Recalling places known to each other, iid incidents happily shared together, t came about that Mr. . Dillson was ne again Meda's companion. His ~asy, friendly attitude cheered her without startling. As the weeks passed he brightened. The hopeless weari iess gave way to a look of interest' hastened but real, and the fresh winds yrought the light to her eyes and' the ~oses to her cheek. Mr. Dillson noted, and trusted to routh, and the sweet springtime, and ~olden opportunity, to do the rest. One sunny evening, when the early rerdure was yielding to the summer's~ ofter luxuriance, and the air was. reighted with sweet scents and sounds, Eeda-who had not intended riding lt a sudden longing for the saddle' Ld the exhilaration of a gallop. She mounted Retus and shook out: us reins with a touch of her old buoy ay as she cantered down the long. alley. The road was red and beaten, md the fields and woods indescribably yeautiful in the tender green of their roung foliage. When her horse lagged to a walk deda rode dreamily on, watching the hadows on the mountain sides change 'ith the moving clouds; and she let etus go his own free way. She ~hatted with an old mammy in a cabin y the wayside-turned into a lane whitened by dogwood blossoms purred through a forest where last rear's pine tags carpeted the way and he new leaved trees overarched, and he came out she knew not where. No 'eature of the landscape was familiar. :nstead, were only the nearer moun ai slopes jagged and broken, and he rich st1rips of field and meadow and at their base. Suddenly it rew dark. A rumble of thun er and a flash of ]lgh tning camec. Then another reverberating peal artlingly close. The first big drops f water snlashed on her lifted faic , nd blinifimr, drivinlg (u-ts of win d nd rain-the qicik gatherinig of a mountain stormn. 3Ieda l'oked rnrouznt r shelter. Across the fields of wheat ud corn was a large mansion, halt idden by orchard trees. Toward iW be urgedl her horse, heading for a rn nearer thain the house. There -as a dazzling flesh and a terri~ aunder clap just as she gained the, thoroughly frightened tomthinkE venturing farther, Meda patted Retus's trembling neck, took off her dripping wet cap and retreated as near the in ner barn wall as. possible. The storm was at its height as to rain, but the flashes came presently at longer inter vals and the thunder rolled sullenly away among the rocks. In the lull, through the woodeL partition, she heard voices. And, to her wonder, the name of Hugh Dill son, followed directly by Dillson's own voice. Thinking gladly of his protec tion, she was about to assert her pres ence, when something in his tones re strained her. "- waiting too long," he wat saying. ' "Sorry you waited," answered a cool voice. "Couldn't lose my best loa." "Blast your loads !" grumbled Dill son. "Pretty fix-in the storm. I've come out here to know what this means," with the rattling of paper. "Means!" was the firm reply. "Means what it says, of course. That I refuse to engage in any such busi ness." "You refuse?" echoed Dillson, an grily. "And, pray, what becomes of your bargain? You'll transact my business my way, young man, or-" "Stop !"commanded the other. "I've managed your property here, Mr. Dillson, to lift the mortgage from mine. Your profits have more than doubled, as you know. But when it comes to distilling liquors in my name-and in undeiground distilleries - you can count me out. I have ordered back your pipes and stills." "Ordered them bask !" shouted Dill. son. "And what right had you, yor. meddlesome-?" "The right every man has to protect is neighbors," cutin the clearer tones. And"- significantly-"to check dis honesty." "Dishonest !" faltered Dillson, ap parently choking. "Yes, dishonest. And you thought i could be bpught-a tool for your il licit gains! You see, I know you; Dillson. No distillery of yours will be put on my land while I can prevent it." - There was a momentary pause. Dill son was seemingly gathering strength, for he burst out with: "Your land! When the very roof that covers you is yours on sufferance! That last not of yours, young straight-lace, is over due. I'll teach you to balk me I It's my money, or my farm, Thursday,you beggar-without mercy." "Bah !" scorned the other. "Yout mercy! It put the widow Brown oul to shame, didn't it?" The speaker swept on with a tide that somehow carried conviction with it. "And robbed '. the Morrel children-and closed on poor old Giles when he was sick I If I'm to be beggared too, Hugh Dillson, by the gods, what I have is mine now, and you hustle !" Evidently the younger man was no saint. There was a rush and a scuffle, oaths and horrid threats of vengeance from Dillson, and the banging of a heavy d-oor. Meda couched close to Betus. Not for worlds would she have been dis covered there. Her chaotic feelings were beyond description. Doubt then certainty-and then its after re vulsion. For the first time she realized hei situation. The weakness of her morbid grief, and the self-exilement from other friends which had turned her tc Dillson, tirst with the liking of prop inquity, but which his sympathetic devotion was fast softening to a warmer feeling. With a woman's ~intuition her heart divined the question Dillson waited to ask. Hot drops of mortiti cation brimmed her eyes as she ad mitted to her conscience that this astute lover might have read his favor able answer in the trusting intimacy of these last few weeks. And whose voice was the other ? Somewhere Meda seemed to have heard its full, manly ring-changed3 though it was. She looked out. This was a futile country, green and luxuriant as a gar' den; with picturesque old homesteads dotted about-the road she had lcft winding among them. -- The rain was still falling gently. "Anywhere but here," thought Meda as she rode swiftly through the open farm gate and on toward the nearest house. A portly old farmer answered her "haloo," and two pretty girls, as like as peas, met her at the open door. "Why, it's Miss Cabell!"' they ex claimed in surprise. "Yes, it is," said Meda. "And you -I know you, but-" "We met you last summer," said "At the picnic of Bubble Spring,' inished the other. "Oh, yes !" smiled Meda. "I kno'a - remember now-you're the Wat son twins !" "And I'm the twin's papa," laughed the old man. How it all came back to Mleda as the pretty twins ministered to her with hot tea, and dried her habit by the blazing fire ! That happy day--and then like a flash came the recollection of the puz 'ling voice. But she quietly asked, "Whose place is that-with the big gray hiouse?" "Tavenor's," replied the farmei. "Ned To venor's." And then she remembered Ned Tar mnor; tall and handsome, sun-burned nd square-shouldered-her especial avalier, who had won the tilter's prize nd crowned her queen that jolly pie ic day. Even now, a little blush rept to her curly bangs as she thought f Ned Tavenor's open admiration, and parred the twin's jests on his remnem bered gallantry. Meda resisted all entreaties to pass zho night. "No, no," she reiterated, "I cannot stay ; but if your papa will uide me to the road-forks I promise ov come again when I am not lost." They wait d on the porch while Mr. Wa:ton saddled his horse. "1 h-ave seen no country so fair as. this," she declared. For the skies had eleared, and between the shifting clouds the setting sun dyed the close mnoutain rainge-s with fumid crimsons nd twined the ramndrops on the trees 'md3 flowers to seintillant rubie.. When Mr. Watson parted with Meda t te cross-toads, she ended a serious conversation with some few last in unti ons. "it saves trouble that you know the~ - m'n+t Go over in the mornine- and Itrer the wnoie sum in your name. Come to me Wednesday evening at the Ridgeway and I will have the money ready." Mr. Watson promised. "Ned Tav, enor's a fine fellow," he said. "The Tavenors were uowerful big folks in the old times, an' that boy's worked an' paid off every cent but this. I know Hugh Dillson I He's been a hankerin' aft that place ever since old Dave gave the mor'gage. He's a wily coon, is Dillson, but we'd scotch him this time !" And the old farmer chuckled. No trace of Hugh Dillson's storn. of passion remained when he met Meda and tenderly chided her for being out so late; with more than usual earnest. ness confessing his own loneliness. It was a little ominous that Miss Ca bell took tea in her rooms that night, and that she ignored the private table Mr. Dillson had appropriated for them selves, and joined the few other board ers at breakfast next morning. And after-when she sent a short note in response to Mr. Dillson's card, beg ging to be excused from receiving him in -the hotel parlor. Dilson's chagrin was deep. As wel, as the egotism of his nature allowed, he loved the orphan girl whose beauty and fortune propitious fate had seemed to hold in abeyance for him. He had '.ost-how, he never exactly knew. Ned Tavenor's note was paid in full Thursday morning, and Mr. Watson kept Meda's secret. The pretty twins drove in to Ridge way and carried her home with them. There were tennis parties, "pro tracted meetings" and sight-seeing; and Ned Tavenor was Meda's constant attendant. More than once Hugh Dillson traveled in a circuit to avoid these excursionists as they returned from some delightful expedition. And, out in Wiches' Glen one day, where the summer sun threw little flecks of gold, and the mountain breeze stirred the umbrageous pines, Ned Tavenor told his love. So it came to pass before many months that Meda owned the Tavenor place and the Tavenor name -Detroit Free Press. A Dangerous Paper. A German genius was very .Jtch dis appointed lately when he applied for a pateni on an invention of his to have the patent refused, and the menufac tare and sale of his invention forbid den. It is a paper so prepared that any writing on it, made with any known sort of ink, can be easily and quickly erased by the simple application of a moist sponge. The paper was made of the ordinary ingredients, with the ad dition of asbestos and parchment glue. The paper pulp, after rolling, was im mersed for a short time (from six to twenty-five seconds, according to the thickness of the paper to be prepared from it) in concentrated sulphuric acid at twenty degrees, diluted with ten to fifteen per cent of water. It was then pressed between glass rollers, passed successfully through water, ammonia solution and a secoind time through water, strongly pressed between rollers and dried on felt rollers, and finally on polished and heated metal rollers. The finished article is said to be precisely like ordinary paper. Its sale has been prohibited on account of the misuse to which it can be put. Cost of Superstition. ".Don't you know this haunted house idea has a tremendous hold on Seople's minds?" said a dealer in resi ence property. "I have several houses on my hands for either rent or sale thaf, somehow seem slow to take, and I now know at least one of the easons. There was a murder comn mitted in one and several suicides have becurred in another, and when a buyer or renter goes to look at these houses some galoot of a neighbor will stick his head into other people's business and squeal about the happenings in those houses, and no matter what the prospective customer thought of the yroperty that settled it. People don't want houses where murders and ~uicides have been committed. "-Cin-' uinnati Times Star. A Lucky .Boy. A little boy, the son of S. Barker, ffho lives on White River, near For ythe, Mo., was playing on the river bank a few days since, when he saw some rusty tin cans in the sand. He investigated them, and found that they contained $1500 in gold and silver, minted between 1840 and 1850. No ine in the neighborhood has any idea of the possible owner, and it is sup posed that the money was buried there by some one during the war. The ~ather will invest it for the benefit of his son, who was the lucky finder. New Orleans PicayunA The Nuggar Tank. ' One of the innumerable curious ights of India is the Nuggar tank of Kurachi. In former times, the croco diles which inhabit it roamed the neighborhood at their will, seeking whom they might devour, but so great were their depredations that the au thoritius were forced to build a wall round their haunt. This is a swamp, caused by hot springs, the medicinal virtues of which have beena known from early times, and are attributed to the sanctity of a Mohammedan Lwhose tomb is close by, and to whom he crocodiles are sacred. -The tank, as it is called, is about 150 yards long by about half that dis tanco in breadth. In this space one observor counted over 200 reptiles, from eight to fifteen feet long, and smaller ones innumerable. They are so tame, in a sense, that it is neces sary to poke thoem with a stick beforE key will move. Buffaloes are always standing in the water, and are not attacked, but any other animal is instantly seized. "The whole appeara-ace of the place," says one writer. "with its green, slimy, stagnant, water, and so many of these huge uncouth monsters moveng slug gishly about, is disgusting in the ex treme, and it will long be remembered by me as the most ledihsome spot I ever boeld."-Chamabera's Jo-arnal jubt suits TheW. flaverly-Theze isanothe. hn against women1 in the I.gislature. IMrs. Austen.-W hat is that? BEaverly -There would be stig less personal I voting. There wou'A be more paiding than ever.-lNew Y1cl World. RANSPORTING TREASURE EOW SILVER AND GOLD ARE SEN') ROX 1POINT TO MOINT. Single Shipments of Millions-Pre cautions Taken in Handling Larg Amounts-Cost of Transportation W HEN the financial strin gency began to be seri ously felt the receipts oJ the express company wb ich handles the Government's treasure in transit fell off rapidly. Now the busi ness has picked up a little, because the Treasury Department is hurrying out National bank notes to be put into circulation so as to relieve as much as possible the scarcity of small bills. This National bank currency is "in complete" when it leaves the Treasury Department,for it lacks the signatures of the President and Cashier of the bank which is to issue it. Nevertheless it is classed with the completed cur4 rency issued by the Government, a-rl if the express company should lose any :f it in transit it would have to makd ;ood the loss, just as though it had Lost coin or silver certificates. Thd banks pay the same rate for the ship ment of this currency as they would for National bank notes. As custom ers of Uncle San, though, they pay a small rate for handling the money. In some cases it is less than one-fifth of the rate which a private customer o: 9he express company would pay. The contract for handling the money shipped by the Government east of Utah is held by the United Express Company. E. T. Platt, who is a son of ex-Senator Patt, of New York (the President of the company), is in charge of the compazy's Government service. He has charge of it ever since the United States Company took the con tract away from the Adams Express Company more than four years ago. The Adams Company received twenty five cents a $1000, while the Unitee States Company receives only fifteer cents a $1000 in most of the Territory which it covers. This rate is for cur rency. That is what the Treasury De partment shipsin the greatest quantity. The rate for silver and gold is mucb igher. For this fifteeen cents the express ompany guarantees the safe delivery of the $1000 at the point of destina tion. "Of course, on a single ship. ment of $1000 we would lose money," said Mr. Platt, talking about the Gov ernment service a few days ago. "Even in handling large quantities of money there is so small a margin of profit that a single big robbery would wipe out all that we could make under our contract in years. Up to this time we have lost only $8000. Part of this went in a robbery of a part of the con tents of two packages out West and the remainder in the robbery of a sack not far from Washington. In both cases the work of the robber was sc carefully concealed that the packages were accepted by the Treasury De partment, which gave us a clean re ceipt for them in each case. Of course we made good the loss when the pack ages were opened and the money war missed." Small packages of money are shipped in bags. Large quantities ol money going between big terminal points are put in stationary safes, which are bolted to the floors of the express cars. These safes are usually not opened from one end of the route to the other. No one can open them, becuse the handle is taken from the door when the car starts on its jour ney, and with this handle goes: the dial of the combination lock. Expert safe robbers have means of getting into combination locks; and of course it would be possible, by collusion, for the messenger to learn the combina tion and so be able to open the safe in transit. But a locked safe, without a dial or a handle, is a puzzle which has baffled safe robbers up to thir 'jume. Most of Uncle Sam's money is shipped in stationary safes. Nothing has ever been lost in shipments fron: the Treasury Departme~nt or any o its branches. The losses are usually from packages of mutilated currenc's set in for redemption. Gold cannot be handled like cui rency because of its great weight. Al the time that so much gold was going abroad a couple of months ago the Treasury Department was shipping about a million dollars in gold every day from Washington to New York. This gold weighed two tons to the -.illion. One of the portable safes, olding about$20,000 in gold, weighs, when filled, 1500 pounds. These safes were locked and sealed at the Treasury Department. The portable safes hay' key locks. A strip of iron slips ovei the key hole, and is fastened in place once with a piece of string, and once with a piece of wire. A lead seal is used on the wire, and a green wax sea' - the string. To get at the key hole a messenge. or a robber would have to break the seals or cut the string and the wire. The fact that the safe has been tampered with would be plainly evi lent to the next person handling it. The safe, with its $200,000 worth of gold, having been sealed, is hoisted with a fall and tackle into a "eage" express wagon-that is, a wagon with wire sides. Anything that occurred in the wagon would be plainly visible Ito persons passing on the street, and Ias the trips are made in broad day tight there is no possibility of the messenger in the wagon tampering with his charge. Besides the messen ger who sits on the safe with a shot gun in his hand and a brace of re volvers in his belt, there are two men on the front of the 'wagon, also fully armed. The man in the wagon has a shotgun of Belgian make, bre-chi loading, the barrel sawed off so that it can be used at close action. The express company owns fifty of thiese siotguns. and each messenger has one an his car. When a wagon reaches the railroad ,tation the safe is lifted again by means of the fall and tackle and put aboard the car. There is not much risk in handling gold, because it weighs so much that a robber would have a pretty hard time getting away with it. But though the risk is not so great as in handling currency, the express com pany receives fifty cents on $1000 for transporting gold. Silver, which weighs so much more than gold in pro portion to its value, is still more ex - enin bain . The ernress com pany receives $1 for e icT 1 60foi [ rer handled between Washington and New York or Baltimore or Pittsburg. From St. Louis or Colorado the ex press company would receive $4 for every $1000 handled. If Congress should attempt to put the 90,000,000 silver dollars now in the treasury vaults into circulation by shipping them through the country the express company would receive at least $90, 000 for handling them. A year ago, when the Treasury Department shipped $20,000,000 in gold from San Fran cisco to New York, it would have had to pay the express company $65,320 for th6 laul at contract rates. But San Francisco is outside the contract territory of the United States Exprese Company, and the Treasury Depart ment sent the gold east as "registered i mail" at a cost of a little less thar V2300. The biggest shipment of currency andled by the United States Express Company for the Government was $15,000,000 shipped from Washington to New York four years ago. It was in bills of large denomination and they were packed in two small boxes. For this haul the express company re- t eiVed $2250. The largest gold ship ment handled at one time was $7,000,. 000 taken from Philadelphia to New York a little more than a year ago. For handling this shipment the ex press company received $3500. The gold was stored in two safes which were sent in a special car under heavy guard.- Every effort was made to keep 1 the time of shipment a secret. The fear of train rcbbery is always in the minds of the officials of the express 2ompany. The shipment of these large amounts is what makes the contract of the express company profitable. They 3 oring the aggregate of money handled 4 by the express company up to fully $200,000,000 a year. The United j States Express Company has not lost anything on its contract with the Gov ernment yet. But eternal vigilance is the price of its secur:*;.-Washington Star. Gold Mining With a Steamboat. - Extravagant stories are told about ,he wealth of gold sprinkled through )t the Snake River country in Idaho. Is a general thing- the gold is very t ine, the particles being of so light f eight as to be elusive. Save when I worked on a large scale it is difficult f o make good wages in recovering the f gold. Numerous bs.rs along the river t wogld prove profitable could water be < ommanded for sluicing or hydraul- e icing. An adequate supply is hard to t Dbtain, on account of the slight and 1 gradual fall of the stream and the level I sharacter of the outlying lands. To I >vercome this lack of water as well as < :sure sufficient dumping ground, a 1 ig floating gold-saving dredge has Deen constructed and is now at work I )n the Idaho bank of the Snake Rivej < bout ten miles above Payette. It is a stern-wheel flatboat, pro. elled by steam. Substantially con-] ~trcted, sixty-five feet long and twenty-two feet wide, it is equipped i with a thirty-five horse power marine I sgine and boiler and adapted in every ay for navigating Idaho's great aterway. With a slight alteration iti ould be transferred into a steam edge and used tc scoop up sand and ravel from the bottom of the stream. hat has never been- attempted. As in the past, operations are now con-1 ied to working bars out of the bed r channel of the river. The method i oursued is to anchor alongside one of1 :hese gravel deposits and by the use f scrapers bring the material to be . a iandled within the reach of the gold washing machinery with which the erat is rigged. The gravel is scooped i ap by buckets attached to an endless hain. There are forty-eight of these i receptacles on a belt sixty feet in tength, and each has a capacity of< ibout twenty pounds of dirt, which is1 leivered into a hopper. This is also m agitator, and the process employed :ay be described as a steam rocker, with the exception that it has an end motion instead of one sidewise. The rld is caught on copper plates with < icksilver. The tailings are carried in sluice boxes by the force of a a rream of water of 150 mineral inches,i m pplied by a China pump, run by the< engine which drives all the other ma . hinery. The gravel is worked sa~ thoroughly that no gold escapes in alings that are dumped into the6 n average of 100 tons of gra'vel are aily handled, and for this work three nen are employed-an engineer, one :o work the scraper, and another one who shovels the dirt into a pile so that 'he buckets can scoop up a full load. The bar now being worked covers n area of ten to fifteen acres. The1 old is on top or close to the surface and will not pay to handle to. a greater< depth than one foot to tighteeni jches. This shows a value of 11 to three cents a pan. A clean-up is madei very night, and the average of thei rins for the first three days was veryi hatisfactory to Thorntont Williams, the owner of the craft. He says he ex pects to take out upward of $100 a day as long as he works, which will be un til cold weather sets in. When hehas gone over the bar, which now en gaes his attention he will tackle an-' ther.-Helena Independent. How to Eae Radish. Many clever people who have dya pepsi-it is almost always exceeding ly bright pcoplo that suffer from this diabolical infliction-cannot eat rad ishes. This brilliantly colored vcge table fortunately is not such an epi. curean eatable that it is hard to resist -but like all things in the world it is ot lacking in appreciators-whoim it often forces to lie awake thinking about it. A Frenehman discovered that if you quartered the radish just 1 as you would an apple, without cut ting through the top, and filled the interstices with butter, and salted and peppered it, you might indulge in rad ishes with impunity. A buttered rad- I ish tastes better than it coandls and discounts ice cream peppered, that finds favor with not a fcw fastijioar gourmands. -New York Herald One and Two Cenit Pieces. There are 119,00,O000 old copper pennies somewhere. Nobody knows what has become of them, except once in awhile a single specimen turns up in change. A few yeare ago 4,000.000 bronze two-cent pieces werc set afloat. Three millions of these a're still out tanding, -g RIFFJANMT PAIN'S HARDY AND WARLIS FOES IN MOROCCO. rone of the Race Considered's MaN Until He Has' Shed Hui M " Blood- Death Has No Terrors for Them. HERiffians," writes Mr. 3. . Budgett Meakim (wha - spent nina years in Mo. rocco) to the New York Vorld, "though an uncouth, unkempt t, speaking an unwritten language bsolutely unknown outside of theil ,wu country, but skin to those spoken ast and west of them by men of theu mwn stock, are hardy, daring and rideawake. They are sons of the iountains; and the plainamen wh4 ,enture within their borders must bidi he consequences. "Accustomed to powder and sworo rom their childhood, death has n error for them and blood no horror. 1o warlike are they that no member ol heir tribes is considered a man whc Las not shed human blood. The great st taunt that can be hurled at one ol heir race is to swear that his father lied in bed or from a wound in the ack. "Some years ago, while resident it 7angier, I determined to study the liffian language, in or on which nc >ooks were then published, though ince that time the British and For ign Bible Society _ has issued twc ifflan editions of the gospel. So ] ngaged a couple of servants, a man nd a boy, from the Biff Mountains, .nd forthwith forbade the use of Lrabic in the household. "The boy was descended from Mo Lamet in some way, and his father, as a aint in consequence, kept a shrine lose by Alhucemas, another of the Ipanish poesessions on that coast Liter a while he returned to his home nd I lost sight of him. Some three ears later he hailed me joyfully on he Tangier market place, and calling me aside sought my help in the pur hase of half a dozen guns. "On my inquiring the purpose h old me in confidence that they were or him and his two brothers to shoot is uncles with, for they had slain his ather. His father had come to Tan.. er to claim damages from Spain for he bombardment of his mosque on the eccsion of a previous attempt to raise uch a disturbance as now. Needless o say, the father obtained nor-dress, mut on returning home found that his rothers had divided his property. On is proposing to return to Tangier to omplain against them he was prompt y shot and buried. "My quondam employe, who hac eft my service at the age of thirteen r thereabouts-for no one in Barbary ekons birthdays-further informed ne that although he had married since saw him last, he could~hardly be eoli 1idered to have arrived at man's es ate, not yet having shed hnman blood; yu~t here was his opportunity. .Latex ie earnestly begged a walking stick of nine, with a crooked handle, which he hought just the thing on which tc est his gun in ambush! "In spite of all my dissuasion-con erbalanced even by the praises ank mouragement of 3 Moor who had ived in England, to whom I turnedin rain for assac~ went back o his work. I doubt not he Mow 'u "These Berbers are not to be con. rounded with the Arabs who have im -' nigrated from the East and dwell on nome of the plains, speaking Arabic, he language of their creed and court, he medium of communication also be :ween the Berbers who understand it nd the outer world. The mixed races >f the towns, whichinclude also African lood as a result of the still surviving slave trade, are styled for convenien foors, a term which is geographic iot racial The Berbers are far su erior to the Arabs in physique an nergy, and have never yet-been sub med by any in Morocco. They are white race, but they vary greatly ins ieight in various localities, though miformly lithe and of wonderful Iorocco Berber tribes. "Those of them who inhabit the Bif !fountans, between the Strait of ibraltar and Algeria, are but one roup of tribes among "many such groups, all of which retain a ide endent and unique form of popular ~overnment by .councils of forty. Lheir one weak point is their lack of ~ohesion and their constant inter tribal feuds, the-outcome of vendettas - ~hieiy. Were. they to combine they ould declare their independence of. he Sultan of Morocco and snap their ingers at Spain at the same time. Not hat it would ultimatey40 gd. with hem, bu-o.add~hmw o he vict6r more losses than the van 1uished. "Most are well armed and wits nodern repeating ridles, 'masters of en to eighteen shots,' in the loeal >arlance, which they can use with deet. All feel at home with the lightly curved dirk and the handy mives in their belts, and none know "Their 'dress is loose and ofter, agged, the most prominent garment )eing usually a sack-like brown wool ,loak, some four feet, six inches wide fd four feet long, with a hood and hort sleeves. A red cloth gun case erves for turban, if the shaven skull s not left bare, with one long shaggy >atch of hair over one ear, as wild as iornment as could be wished. "The mountain passes, the hiding >laces, are known to them alone, and hey are imbued with as undying love >f home as hatred for the foreigner. What it cost France to subdue their rethren in Algeria will never be told. What it would cost any Europear ower to conquer that province of thae tiff alone it is awful to contemplate." A New Version. Some men are born tired, .some get iired and some have that tired feeling. ;hrust upon them.-Middletown Cone glomerate. A ppropuiate. Husband-Dr. Foot, the chiropodist, till dine with us to-day. Wife-All right; I'll order corned beef.--Home kournal.