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*t4. TLU WEEKLY EDITION WIN-NSBORO. IS C. OCTOBER 11, 1900.4SALSE 84 ROCK-A-BY LAND. 1o and a--ay for the Rock-a-by land The rollicking. frolicking Rock-a-by land, Where the little ones go ori the hush-a-by cars. To play peek-a-ooo wiLh the silvery stars. 'Tis the airiest. fairiest land that I know Is this land where the dollies and sugar plums grow; The dream train is ready with Love in conunand Ifor the Rollicking, Frollicking, Rock-a-by land. Rock-a-by land Sweet R'ock-a-by land! )ancing and singing while blueb-lls are ringing. Close your (yes. littl. one, Soon voi will stand On the bordcrs of farawa:y Rock-a-by land. Such a queer little car for the Rock-a by land The rollicking. froli ng Rock-a-by land, The wheels are the rockers; 'tis de'p a id tis wide. All ouilted and eushioned for baby's lo ig ride; Then out through the shadows we dream ily go. Past slumberland hills and the heights f By-low We are off on a journey, delightful ar.d grand For the Rollicking. Frollicking, Rock-a-by land. Rock-a-by land Dear Pock-a-by land! Stars are a-gleaming while baby is dream ng Of a fairvkin band In the far away beautiful Rock-a-by land. Oh, what a trip to the Rock-a-hy land The rollicking. frolisking Rock-a-by land. There's dancing and singing and music that's sweet And peek-a-boo dreams that are tiny and fleet. We glide past Love's river, which ripples and glearrs At Sound Aslee v station we finally stand For the Rollicking. - Frollickin RocE-a-by land. Rock-a-by land Charming Rock-a-by land! fairic are winging while baby is swing mg. nestle close. little one. Now hand in hand We'll v .nder and dream in the Rock-a-by land! -E. A. Brininstool, in the Atlanta Con stitution. A Legend of Moupt kasta. OW is that for hligh' and the. speaker tossed a little golden nugget down on the ground. A little troo) - -skin campe almost wit h In the shadow of great Shasta's peak, t h e mountain monarch o f wild Northern -l oCalifornia. A half dozen hardy gold-seekers * clustered around the blazing fire and eagerly examined the golden nugget that the seventh man had produced. Deep Into the wilderness the pros pecting party had penetrated, eagerly searching for traces of the precious metal, and treading ground that never before had felt the pressure of a whife man's foot. Their ,search had been a fruitless one, until young Martin Brand that night, by the campfire, tossed so care le'ssly the golden nugget into their midst. With widening eyes the little group looked upon the precilous find. It was the solid stuff-pure, without alloy. "You're lucky, Mar-t," said the lead er of the party, a dark, stern-featured man, who answered to the name of Buckskin Bill. "Maybe you have dis covered a pocket in the mountain." "I'll tell you better to-moryrow night." the young man answered. "I tr'y my 'lead' again as soon as the morning light comes." -"Shall I go with you?" the leader asked. "No, mate, but one man can work the mine I've struck. Trust me. I'll 3the squa're thing by you all." A few more words and the prospect ors retired for the night. Hardly a man of the party but let envy rankle In his heart at the success of the youngest and "greenest" man in their estimation, in the gang. With the morning light the young miner departed. gayly assuring his comrades that he would return at nightfall with gold enough to make them all rich. As- Mart struck off into the wilder ness with his light, careless step there were gloomny looks upon the faces of his comrades. One and all envied him. "Suppose one of us follow him?" suggested Buckskin Bill, glancing around into the faces of his compan Ions. "No need of that." saidI another of the party. a tall and swarthy trapper known as Dick York. All looked at York in surprise. "I can tell you where he's gone and wvhere he got the nugget." A . general exclamation of astonis1: wDent came from the miners. - "'As it happened yesterday I fol lowed closely upon his footsteps. He lerosed the river, and headed eastward. Just the other side of Shasta. in a little canyon, lie met a young Indian girl, one of the McCloud tribe. I know the Indian tongue as well as he. and concealed in a thicket. I overheard all the conversation. He and the girl are old acquaintances. From their talk I gathered that he saved her life o~nc-e from a mountain lion. and she told him then if he ever wanted gold she knew of a secret pine in tlie mountains, and would conduct him to it. That is the reason wihy he joiled our expedition." "Well, if he intends to share his gold with us." observed one of the miners. reflectively. "Do you think that is probable?" asked the tr1r:appe:r, suddienly. The men looked askance at each other. Ilardly a man In the party reasoned hiat. if he was in Mart's place, sharing ;would be the last thing in his thoughts. "No, no. boys: it is all arraned be tween the two." tle trapper said: "the McClouds a ore away on an expedition to the North. So that the girl does not fear literruption. She is to lead himi to the secret mine to-day. and then. after getting all the gold that i ie.y can carry. they will travel to the Soult1." "And heat us out of our share!" ex -lainwd one (if the miniiers, indignant ly. It looks that way." the trapper re plied. I reckon that we will have something to say about that." Buckskin Bill ob served. si.:nificantly; and he tapped tle butt of his revolver with his hand as lie spoke. The men glanced in each other's faces for a moment. their brow* low er-iag aind their lips contracted. Fear ful thoughts wvere in their minds, but each waited for the other to put the thoughts in words. "Boys. we must take a hand in this hyer game:" Buckskin Bill exclaimed. abruptly and decidedly, "I move that we follow after Mart. seize him and the girl, and fore- them to reveal the secret mine to us. We are all com rades. ard should share alike." "Good:" cried the trapper. in his ]a coriie way: and the re,:t of, the men nodded their heads in approbation. . "But suppose that the girl will not tell us where the mine is located?" suggested one of the men. "I regkon that we can force her to do lat." tle burly leader said. grim ly. "Life is worth imtore than gold. even to ai Indian. First we must secure hoth Mart and the girl, for he will ioe aq)t to be ugly if we lay violent hanIs upon his lady-bird." "We must be off." the tIapper said. glancing toward the east, where low ering clouds hid the rising sun. Into the wilderness, following in the track of the young miner, the party went. An. hoiur's tramp and they came to a little, open glade by the side of the Pitt River. In the centre of the opeu space stood the roung miner and a raven-haired 1 Indian girl, straight as a pine, lithe as a willow and as fair as a wil wood violet, although the duk L wars named Spotted IV t e hills- fO and knowni fro gon to the headwaters of the Sacramento as ~the flow'er of her tribe. Forth into the open space came the miners ii wvar-like aiTay. Mart started In surprise while the Indian girl started in alarm. The miners surrounded the two, and Buckskin Bill sterniy questioned his comrade. "I rec'kon that we otughit to have a finger in this pie," lie said. "Arc yott going to net square b~y us or not?" "Why should you doubt me?" Mart exclaimed, indignantly. "Never mind why; we do:" Bill re plied. "We intend1 to have our share. We know whiere you got that ntugget that you showed US. andl~ know, too, that there is more where that came from. So jest give til youtr arms and tell the girl to show tus where the secret tmie is; you shall hiave a fair sha re." 'Why should I give up my ar'ms? demanded Mar't, indignantly3. "Because we don't tirust you.'' re plied Bill, bluntly. "Seize him, boys:'' At tihe wordc the miners sprang upon Mart. Not taken entire(ly unawares, drew his mevolver', but ere he. could raise the hammer, eager hands clutched hima and bore hinm to the carthi: desperately lhe struggled, thrice lie rose to his knee, throwing off his assailants like the wild boar casts off the hutntinig dogs. but again and again the ineri~s zr'ipped'( hiimi. Wounds were given :and( received as Mart r'e leased his howvie~knife from its sheath, an~d thlen angry passion~s cold he re strained no longer', and Mart lay a bleedinig, dyiing man uplotn tihe grounad. Rtestr'ainedi by- two of the miners, the girl had looked upon the struggle with flashing eyes. bttt at the gleath of her lover all the ir'on calmness of 11er race came back to her and she stood motiontless ats a stattc. Evecn the heavens seemed to lower upon the fearful scene and the pat tering rain commenced to fall. "Now" tell the git'l whma we want :" Buckskin Bill cried, hiercely, to the trapper. "The scr'et nilne where the yellow rletal lies hid!" the triapper exektimed to tire girl, speaking in Indian tongue. Scornfully the d:aughter of the Red McClouds shook her head. Then the trapper unsheathed his bowie-knife and phlied the p~oint itear to the hieai't of thle girl. "Speak or lead us to the spot, if yout would nor die." thme trapper ct'ied a-.grily. The git'h looked at him, undaunted by thegthreatr: then itt an instant her ft-ee changed ars the i'ain drops coursed over it. "The Spotted Lily will lead the white men." she said. Oir they went. the Indian girl guard ed hv~ two miners. with co''ked -:evol vers.ma'-aeaynty Tro a dark indnar cnynte came, the walls a hrundr~l feet high ont either side, and straight and sL2ooth as though inade by mortal hands. A mtile at !kast inito thet dark canyvon thley went. alnd thten thec Indian girl halted and llstened. A strange roaring sound came upon the biosom of the stormy air. "'Tis the torrent coning'" cried the girl, wiith fiendish glee. "tell the white men that death Is near." Affrighted the miners fled: but what wA humian speed compared to the torrent's force? The yellow waters swallowed up the human whites tres passing upon their bed. Willing she died that they should perish also. Mart was fearfully avenged.-New York News. HOW TO AVOID LOCKJAW. Causes of the Dreaded Tetanus and the Best Treatnegt For It. Pothers have long looked upon dienth by drowning as their chief dan ter. but there is another peril less known. bit a th.'isand times more rright ful. the peri! of a death beside vhie .. drow.Aig Is : summer after moon's divrd'oni-death from the germ >f tetanus, or lockjaw. The bacillus tetani disti!s a poison o tei.ible that the venom of a rattle nake Is nectar compared to it. One Prain will kill 300 men. These death-deal!Lg creatures love i hot, damp climatt. Any grain of ;and, any 1.1 can or rusty nail or erap of meat or broken clamshell nay have a score of them clinging to These aie precisely the conditions of or A merican b)each resorts-the moist. varm air, beach too oft *i strewn with -uibbish, and in any case littered with >roken shells and with hits of wreck tge from which broken nails protrude. it is strange that the most deadly vork of the germ is done in late spring mnd early autumn. Fifty per cent. of he deaths from tetanus are due to vounds on feet or hands. After the hacillus has entered the vound from five to fifteen days may lapse. The bacilli do not themselves >ass into the system. They remain n the wound, but generate a poison Vhich (oes their work. In most eases there are preliminary ymptoms similar to those of an ap roachiug cold-a duil ache, located efore the ear. iollowed by stiffness a the muscles of the lower jaw. There a growing difficulty in opening the aouth, a-d attempts to swallow ex ggprate the symptom. The jaws then iecome locked and the disease passes c.wnward to the rest of the body. In the open air the bacillus remains aactive. It is only when It enters iore deeply and gets away from the ir that it becomes dangerous. It ay be rendered harmless by cleans ig the wound with a mixture of one art carbolic acid in twenty of water. terward the woun ould be fille t a Cep 01. used. for Instance, by a nail, or i) it should be a lacerated wound, caused for example, by gunpowder, or a crushed wound, as with a ham mer. the operation of cleansing may be a difficult matter, and a physician should be called in, who may inject antitoxin.-San Francisco Call. A New Automatic Gun. That new automatic gun which has been Invented by Mr. Burgess, a Hiar ard student, who is a son of the fa mons yacht designer, promises 10 make its inventor as famous as was his father. Young Mr. Burgess seryed in the Spanish-American war, and knows what a rapid-fire gun should be and do. The gun which he has in vented is said to weigh only about one-fourth as much as the latest of the automatic guns in use b~y the Govern ment. The weight of the gun in use, however, Is no great objection to It, so the young inventor plans to use four muzzles instead of one, and the result will be a terribly dlestructive engine of war. Military experts who have examined the new arm are very favorably impressed by sits good qual ities, and its adoption by the Govern ment soon is not at all unlikely. When a boy in the high school gets to study ing the problem of armament and at the age of eighteen patents an inven tion which is an improvenment over ex isting types of arms, one can readily understand why the United States has always commanded so much respect among foreign military nations, even when not military itself.-Boston Transcript. Army Officers in Italy. In Italy the oficers, at least, are im maculate and picturesque. The corw mon soldiers are, pecrhaps. not so hp-~ pressive. They are short, stocky little ellows, bow-legged to a man, and In any clothes would not present a very mnartial appearance. But the officers are big. line-looking men, and their uniforms rival the women's hats hi brilliancy. The colors used are ver-y umilitary-pale blue and silver, gray with green stripes, yellow and scarlet and gold. The bersaglier,tor sharp shooters. wvith hats over one ear and a huge bunch of cock feathers flyipg out in the wind, are as striking as any, though the King's guard, with brass helmets and horse-tail plumes, are by no means insignificant.-Llarper's Ra za r. "Little Jiobs' " Kindness. During his rapid march from Rtiet fontein to Bloemfontein, General Rob erts noticed the sufferings of the bul locks as they tolled along with the transport wagons, their backs seamed with the cruel lash of the Kaffir' driv ers. When the army moved on again from Bloemfontein the commander-in chief issued a written order that no Karfir was to be allowed to f'og the oxen; they might urge them on with he pistol-shoe reports of their long wips, but no flogging. Model of the Human Heart. A model of the human heart, work ing as in life and -pumping blood to and from through artificial arteries, a the wnore of a French nhysciain. Striking Japanese Linena. Japanese linen for l e cloths is a late importation that is caught the fancy of matrons of Vte imart set. As is usual with 1.apanest bles. theshade of this linen is very bfbIe, nd the will (1nbroldered dragons th* oftenest or lamuent It are just as hiIeously beau tiful as they can be. Cleaning Carpet o ~ loor. One of the newest es of the housekeeper is tif 'carpet may be cleaned without gofu bmugh' the trials of removing it the floor. All that she needs are' e of soap, a basin of warm water.: wet towel and a dry towel,. fo~nei-strp of the carpet must be ru I own with the wet towel. Then it tbe rubbed with the dry cake of so fter which I follows a scrubbing -wit: w et cloth unti: a foamy Hither Is- ' eed. Wipe I this away with the-w lowel, going I over It imany times till t+' Soap is a1ll wiped away, then finish a thorough I course of treatment with e dry tow el. Taking the carpet s by strip, go over the entire surfa until It is clean. -C The Color of . s. The remarkable and . .ely varying properties of the elemotary colors which compose white 1ght suggest - that the employment 0screenS as in the blinds placed over'ur windows slould be founded on a f entific basis. Our knowledge of the. ioperties of each individual sectionipf the spec truim is not exaet 4 but thIs iuch we do know, thati the rays of r least refrangibility, the rays, are t without direct cheuhicaleets. tley occur at the heat end of te spectrum. ti On the other hand. t rays of the highest refrangibility in the *p let rays which chemica re exceed- n ingly :lctive. It is th *ays which are concerned in pho aphy and n doubtless also in the ..proceps of ti vegetable nutrition and wth. The 1 object of blinds is, of C , twofold to keep a-room cool a een out e some of tire light, so avoW the I bleaching of coloring . if the tl carpets and"'rn e saie I time sufficient liglt - t ti is the bo' I p ce ligh9t ex- a erts the pee to -the ac- E tinic rays which and whole- th somely affect th dwelling ch room care shoul taken not to exclude aa concerned. Thu in material would Abu of sin e h life of micro-orga i sms, so that -na terial in some shape of a compromise should be selecteL. The best for this purp~ose is probab)ig a delicataely ocher colored1 fabric. Thk' would~ sc*reen part of the active light rays, and if of a fair thickness the gseater p)art of the hleat rays, while adm itting sufflict active rays to allo f a wholesome effect upon thme r and its surround ings. Venetian lylindls do not allow of the graduation, whIch is desirable with cloth fabric. 'As it is well known, exclusively red light has been used as a therapeutic agent, and apparently with encouraging results, in measles. London Lancet. RfCPES Richamella-Bring one pint of milk to the boiling point; stir into it one tanblespoonl of flour and one of butter whlichl have bleeni thoroughly blended together: when thickened turn into it thlree-qularters of a teaspoon of salt. ai dash1 of pep~per, one pint of minced coldl roast vea!. Girate a little nutmeg or ma1ce over it and serve hot. Danish Pudding-Put one quart of currant juice and one pint of water into a dolel boiler anld let scald. Mix together four tablespoonfuls of corna starch. one-hialf pint of sugar and~ onle hialf teaspoonlful of cinnamonl; moisten wvith onie-hmalf cupful of water and stir into the scalding juice. When thick and( smnooth pour into wet molds, chill andm ser've withl whipped cream. Sponge Cookies-Break eight eggs in. to granite or. earthen saucepan: add one1 p)oundl granulllated sugar; set on stove anld stir constantly until well hleated th~roulgh (not cooked,: remove fronm stove and beat until (cold; add pinchl salt and one pound flour:;iany flavorinig preferred: anise is thle Ger man11 favorite. Dip a teaspoon In water each timne and4 put by the teaspoon 0on buttered tins: bake in moderately hot oven: will keep for weeks. Tomato Farcie-Cuit off the stem end of six smooth tomatoes, scoop out the pulp and put it into a chopping bowl with one can of shrImps, one-half a small slice of bread and one slice of onion: chop fine and fry in a buttered pan until lightly browned: season with salt and pepper anid fill the tomato shells: sprinkle with fine breadcrumbs and bake in a moderate oven for a (luarter of an hour or until thoroughly Idone. Put a border of boiled rice around the edge of a platter, place the tomatoes carefully in the center and pour over them a gravy made of one cupful of cream, pepper and salt to taste. KINGS ARE ECONOMICAL, RULERS MUST LOOK OUT FOR WAYS AND MEANS, TOO. Einperor William a Shining Illustration of Iow a Monarch Can Scrape and S'zve -Queen Victoria Quite Thrifty-Prince of Wales Beconing More Prudent. Monarchs who save money! To the average mortal, who associates unlim ited resources with the idea of royal ty says a writer in the Chicago Trib une, the assertion that not a few of this.: world's rulers are just as saving In their personal and household ex penses as the average housekeeper [a some cases more so- will be sur prising. Of course, in. this respect the irson of the king or queen must be ;eparated from the official character, whose "representation" requires ex pensive splendor for reasons of State, ror courtesy's sake, or because eus tom so decrees. The king is, officially. 'minently a public character; his lousehold affairs are as much his own iffairs As those of the private citizen ire to the latter. In fact, the common nortal can enjoy much greater privacy !han royalty. Emperor William II. of Germany af 'ords a striking example of this dis inction. The world at large undoubt dly is of -the opinion that the German nonarch, much given to spectacular lisplay .and expensive journeys, and t great lover of art in all its branches. ;pends, fortunes in the maintenance if his i-lvate establishment. The re rerse - the case. William Il., as a >rivate individual-if this epithet can e used of a monarich-is of quite a |aving disposition, and in his house told every branch is regulated by fig ires. Each department has so much o spend annually and no more. The ppropriation for each of the depart aents is calculated to a nieety; not eggarly. of course. but quite within ounds of reason. In fact, many mei ers of the titled or moneyed aristoe aey are 'high flyers" compared with lie head of the honse of Hohenzollern. LS soon, however, as a "representa ion" is deemed necessary the case is ifferent. and in this respect the im erial court of Berlin is probably the iost expensive among royalty. The German empire. as such. pays ot one cent toward the "representa on" which is incumbent upon the "Ing of Prussia as German Emperor. The Prussian princes receive not one nt from the treasury of the State. i ease they have no resources of wlr own,. their expenditures have to e met by an annuity paid them by., ie Ereperor. The latter lives duri ter prt of wezt-4Je ne ilace n Sans~5'o i, and his establish ent t iere comprises the Emperor and mp ess, the imperial children and el tors aud governesses, the lady mberlain, and three ladies in wait g. The court chamberlain, genei'ials id military aids of the Emperor live Potsdam and Berlin. During his travels William II. has s own cuisine and lodgment mostly Ih. s '60 or on board the Eperorhs repedly roefuse to Incur exp~enses which many a r-ic) private citizen would incur withou hesitation were lie so minded. andi is a well authenticated fact that hi has repeatedly explained his economii turn by saying that he has six boy: growing up who will soon mar-ry an11 have their own r-oyal households which are bound to make heavy in roads upon his exchequer-. because the bumber of available Protestant prin t-esses with kingly dowers is alar1ming ly small in Eumrope. The Emperor-, on the other hand, i: personally exceedingly rieh. He ont called himself the gr-eatest land pro prietor in Prussia, which is no doub11 true, because the "-Manual of th< Royal Prussian Cour-t and1 State shows that the Hiohenzoler-n crowi estates comprise seventy-eight landet estates and fifteen forests, which are under rational administration highly developed, and the proceeds of whicl form the bulk of the imperial income In this respect William HI. is by n< means an expensive "gentleman farm er," but an agriculturist who looks t< results as fully as much as to appear ances. The saving disposition of William I. the grandfather of the present Em peror, Is well known. A little episod( Is illustrative of this fact. Wgen thn first child of VTunser Fritz" was lbom'n -- the present Emperor--William I., ii the first joy of being a grandfathe'r sent, for the court jeweler to selecl a present for the Crown Princess, th<t present Empress Dowager Frcder'ick Several costly ornaments were submit ted for the inspection of William I. the prices ranging from $25.000 up wardl. "No, no! lmy (dear' sim." exclaimed thIe King. "The things are very pretty but much too (lear for me. Why, ii 1 e'xpendeld $25.000 for a present fmi my daughterI-in-law at the fitrst ('hild and halhf a dozen children mor'e are to comeO. wh-y. I would have to spiend a fotune. No. no: take 111e pret'tyu things awvay, and1 l(et me( see4 somlethin..: cheaper." Many other stcm'es of a simiilar' trend( could he told of the saving turn o)1 William I. Yet he was by no mieans~ stingy. but a cheerful giver-. -Person ally, he was altogether' unprectentious and not sven given to display in po0int of the army, the reorganization of ivhich was the work and the amblition of his life. He appeared in dress uni form only if circumstances demanded. Other-wise, lhe rested content to be ('ailed "the greatest non-commissioned officer." In years gone by the saying in court circles was that the Prussian court was th:. most saving. but the house hold( of Queen Victoria of Englandl now is undoubtedly the most econom icnl oAdminleoed in all ,royalty. Th1. Queen has her methods of savig, anI she has laid ip an immense fortune, which is not eneroaclied upon even in case of the marriage of her chil dren and grandchildren. for in such cases Parliament always steps in with great liberality. Since the Prince Con. sort died the Queen has abolished all court functions which encroach upon her private means. True. there are still a number of "drawing roogga," receptions and functions demanded by State interests and representation, but being such, the expenses are borne by the State. .1 Her personal entourage is most sim ple. and strictly confined to the court charges established by law and cus toni. Nqt long ago a delegation of London merchants had it represented to the Queen that her long periods of absence from London hurt fashionable business. The delegatione of the Lon don guilds were told that her Majesty was too far advanced in age to stand any great amount of entertaining be sides tle customary court events. "Aye." the speaker of the delegation is reported to have said, "her Majesty is old. and we surely wish her long life, but the longer she lives the short er will be our business lives, because the absence of the court kills busi ntess.' The Princess of Wales does not fill the v'1l caused bv the saving pro pensities of the Queen. The future Queen of the British Empire knows no finery, no luxury, no representation. She appears almost invariably in tail or-nade gowns. At home she sits down with her private secretary and figures closely on receipts and dis bursenents. of course, simply for pas time, as the courtiers assert. :She looks quite rigidly to detailed account ing, for in point of eash the Princess has an account separate from that of her husband, Albert Edward of Wales, who used to be a high-flyer. "Used to be" is correct. for the Prince of Wales is no longer the "rounder" ie formerly was. He is not as "near" -is his royal spouse, but lie has be come inuch more careful in personal expenditures. The only eypensive penchant of the Princess of Wales is lace. That Is, she likes to buy and own rare laces, but she wears themi rarely. When she does appear 'at court" her costumes, however, are dreams in Valenciennes and Meehlins. Not long ago the Prin cess sent a trusty messenger to Am terdam to purchase a rare handker chief, said to be the oldest and most unique pattern of Mechlin lace from an impoverished Flemish family, and she paid $15400 for the iece.' Truly, '.Queen's lace I sM-vVi. ssaving; indeed; extremely so. Th high life of the court of Victor Em anuel is a thing of the past, greatly t the regret of the older class of curt ers whc knew the "Re Galantuomo" I i his pkime. En tertainments at the' Italian:'Icourt are rare and so unost'entatious that the nerchants in Roe complain even nore itterly than those of London congeniality., . -ent marrage ives a new id I about real congeniality. The young man and thie young woman first mlet at a yacht club meet. Each wvas al ready engaged1 tO lbe miarried, but in each ease there was something lack ing. But these two dliscovered that their souls 3were in full sympathy. I They both liked yachting; that was the .first stras They both delighted in -canoeing: second straw. They both were enthusiasts over swimming: b~y -the time this discovery was made they -were hleadl over heels in love. The last stratw -rame when they confessed to ;one anot her that live hoturs' swimin~g :i day was as nothing. The othier en -gatgemenits were snapiped, broken, and :in a short lime the wedding camue. For a1 wediding journey they chose a trip in a sailing yacht. over the sides of whlich they would (lire now and then to tswim, getting in their live hotirs a daty in the waiter withouit the slightest trouble.-New York Sun. -A bout a 'B" and an "E." Messrs. Gaze, the Lonuon tourist agents, had occasion to send a cable grain to "Abbacey. Paris," recently. Page, their clerk, left at "b" otit of the address, and this mistake was fol lowed by the postoffice. who also made one of their owvn, by turning a "*c" into an "e." Consequently, the cable reached Paris as fot "'Ahacev.' and wvent astray. Messrs. Gaze dismissed Page be S(atuse lie reftused to wriite to thle ptost ottlee in ('erta in terms referring to himself which were dictated by them and disliked by him. Ie sued his eiiployers in Westmin sier' (ounty ('ourt. and obtatined judg iuellt. A\ niewt trial wats applied~ for b~y Messrs. G;aze. but this Judge Luimley ietfused. isaying the juiry had found heir oirder to the clerk was unreason :ible. kirth Notice by Code. .\ Nmimeaton doctor raised sonic mer imena'it in thle D ivorce Division yester dlay. says the London Mail, by de 5('ribhing an iatrrangemenit lie had matide with a client for the secret announce iment of a birthi by telegraph. If the expectedI child proved to be a hoy. the client-Charles William Tur ner. a cy('le agent, living at Ltutter wvorth-was to wire to ihie doctor "Gentlemen's safety bicycle arrived:'' if it were a female. "Lady's safety hi cycle airriv'ed" wats to be the form. The latter was the signal that thle event called for. IWhen the Vanderbilt Were FarmerR. In the first directory of New York City, piublishied over a century ago. the Va ndleri'bts whose na mes apipeari were nit of the old commodore's ancestry. At that time the forbears of the pres ent family of irulti-millionaires were fnarr on Rtnten Teland. WHERE DOES THE SUN'S HEAT CO Can Energy e Completely Dissipated In This Universe ? According to the ordinary view the sun is ecnstantly radiating heat in all directions, and, I think, it is gener ally supposed that only a small por tion of this heat encounters material bodies at any 4istance, however great. If so, the question arises, What be comes of the residue? Physical re search leads us to believe that heat cannot be destroyed, but only trans formed; yet many persons seem to think that this heat vanishes like a ghost without transformation and without producing any effect. This may be so. but it is so much opposed to physical analogies that we should be slow to accept it unless on the ba sis of definite observations which, I think, ir will be admitted are not at [resent forthcoming. Nor can we confine the question to the sun. 'dhe loss of radiant heat must (on the theory which I am now considering) extend to all the stars. A larger portion of the heat of some of them is no doubt intercepted by other bodies, but some of it must es cape-vanish. The whole universe is losing heat: or at least it is losing motion, for the supply of heat may be temporarily kept up by the conversion of motion into heat (as, for example, by a bombardment of meteorites). But that a good part of the.radiant aeat vanishes, thus lessening the total amount of force-of heat and its equiv 1lents-in the universe, seems to be a ommon opinion. This theory, how wver (for of course everything on the mubject is theory), wiil strike many of ,-our readers as unsatisfactory for >hysical. not metaphysical or theolog cal reasons. But if this heat be not ost, what becomes of it? If the sun's rays and those of the tars always met with some material iody, however great its distance night be. the problem would be olved; there would be no loss of heat o the universe. The sui may at pres nt be radiating more than it receives, nd, consequently, cooling; but in raveling through space It may reach ther regions in which these condi ions will be reversed. But it seems lain that if this be the case, the reater part of the bodies which en ounter the solar heat are dark bodies, r else that there is an absorption of ght in passing through the ether. uch an absorption of light and heat y the ether-as maintained, I believe, y the great observer Struve-would aually solve the problem; for the ght and heat thus absorbed could At be lost, and m " ether to. odies in some manner not yet lfacei. therwise, it would ch4nge the -ties of the ether. A third possible alteritfatye f idlation, like gravi ?tween material it acts o tough i direction and fol all its movements, there is ao expenditure of force in the diree ions in which no material body is en ountere'd. On this theory also there would be no loss of heat. There would only be an interchange of the uame kind as if every heat ray ultla inately encountered a material body. -W. HI. S. Monek, in Knowledge. Mair Glacier Not Destroyed.. "The tales of the complete destruc tion of the great Muir glacier in Alaska are absolutely without foun dation." said A. 0. Hewitt, who has returned to Minneapolis from the Ter ritory. "There can be no doubt that an earthquake or an upheaval of some sort did visit the glacier, for huge ice bergs have, been torn from it and are now banked up in the sound about it, maiking navigation impossible within four or five miles of the deposit. The glacier was distinctly visible through our glasses. and it appears to be fully as large as ever, with th~e main portion intact. '1 his is the fourth trip I have made to the Muir, and were there ay great change in its magnitude or shape 1I1oul notice it at once. "From an artistic standpoint the slhaking up has improved the glacier. Heretofore the ice itself has invaria ly been hidden beneath the snowikg dleposit, but now the mass stands out like an enormous diamond, reflecting every shade of the seas and heavens from its brilliant sides. It will re quire more than an earthquake to in terfere with the donlestic economy of the great Muir glacier." -New York TJimes. -w Spaniards in Florida. Florida was originally settled by the Spaniards, and in the same way that the Old Swedes' Church in Delaware recalls its ioneer settlers and French names in Wis'consin recall the French settlement of that State, St. Augus tine, Tampa. Fernandina and other Spanish geographical names recall the fact that the Peninsula State was under Spanish rule for a great number of years. But there are not many Spaniards in Florida. The last census returned the numiber of such as 389 only, a very small total when one con siders the p)roximity of Florida to the former Spanish possessions in the West Indies. There aire, of course, a great many Cubans in Florida, par ticularly in and about Key West, but their presence there was in no wise lue to the Spanish traditions of..Flor ida: on the contrary, many, if not most, of the Key W~est Cubans went there as refugees from Spanish mis gtovernment in their own country. Very Delieate X.achlnery. Machines in a watch factory will cut merews with 589 threads to an ln.'h. 1'hese thireads are invisible to thie taked eye. and it takes 144.000 screws o make a pound. A pound of them is worth six pounds weight of pure gold,