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t i THEY MAY STRIKE. Employes Have a Legal Right to Quit Work. the Fimoni Northern Pacific Injunction Issued by Judge Jenkins Is In Fart Overruled by Jus tice Harlan. GIST OF THE OriNION. CniCAGO, Oct. 3. Judge Jenkins famous strike injunction has been overruled by the United States circuit court of appeals and the cause was re manded with directions to strike out from the restraining1 order of the court the clause which aroused the country when the order was issued and which resulted in the Boatner investigating committee of congress. I Their Legal Klght. The interveners, representing' the leading1 labor organizations of the country, asked that two sections of the injunction be eliminated. The court of appeals decided that no court could compel a man or a body of men from quitting individually or in a body the service of an emploj-er. The court said that Judge Jenkins had exceeded his po.vers when he enjoined the em ployes of the receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad company '-from quitting- the service of said receivers, with or without notice, so as to cripple the property or prevent or hinder the operation of said railroad." Jenkins in Part I'pheld. It, however, held that the section should stand in which the men were prohibited "from combining and conspiring- to quit, with or without notice. REV. WILLIAM G. CLARKE, THE SCOURGE OF CHICAGO GAMBLERS. On Mr. Clarke, as chairman of tie committee on pambiin? of the Civic Federation, has fallen the brunt of the battlo beinst wuged n-ainst Karnbiins in Chicago. Mr. Clarke was born at Adrian. Mica., in 1S61. His parents removed soon afterward to the Citv of New York, and then westward, tinally settling ia chiratro. Tbev were Presbyterians, anil ivuen V"ii!iam (i. was a boy of 14 ho united with the congregation of Rev. Albert Kittredxc l. D.. now of Xjw York. He lunched his college and seminary studies in IWs3. and alter hoHiuir the. pa.storr.tc of a Waukepan nnd mterward of a Kiveride Presbyterian church, he. in IStW. received a call from the Campbell Par.i (Chicago) Presbyterian church, of which congregation he is still the pastor. Perhaps, says a Chicago paper, no better equipped man could be found as a leader in this new crusada cgiinst the vice of gambling. the service of said receivers, with the object and intent of crippling the property in their custody, or embar rassing the operation of said railroad." An Important Decision. The decision was considered by the lawyers who packed the courtroom as one of the most important opinions delivered in the United States in a dec ade. It defines the status before the law of labor organizations in their conduct ot strikes, and aftirms the powers of courts of equity to interfere by injunction when there is reason to believe that the law will be violated. It holds that the men may withdraw in a body from the service of an employ er, using, however, neither force, threats, persecution nor intimidation toward emplo.yes who do not join them, nor must they use any "device" to molest, hinder, alarm, or interfere with others who desire to take their places. Two Veteran Murdered. Dayton-, O., Oct. 1. The dead bodies of Adolphus Furgan and John llar rett, inmates of the soldiers home, were found at an early hour Sunday morning on the pike that skirts the home grounds and a short distance from the south gate. Both men had been murdered for the small amount of change each possessed. The back part of the skull of each was crushed in, showing that the crime was com mitted by the same bludgeon and the same person, with robbery as the mo tive. Summer Hotel tturned. Plattsbcko, N. Y., Oct. 3. The Mirror Lake hov.se at Lake Placid was totally destroyed by fire Sunday night. A strong wind was blowing and all efforts to save anything proved un availing. The house had closed its doors a few daj-s ago, after the most fcuccessful season in its history. The loss is upward of 5150,000 and is only partly covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown. Found In the Kiver. Guthiiik, O. T., Oct. 2. The body of Frank Ledgers, aged 27, was found in the river Sunday night. He had been missing- lor several days and is be lieved to have been murdered and robbed, as he lately came here from Birmingham, England, to go into busi ness and carried a large amount of money. - Victim of Heart Disease. Chicago, Oct. 3. A coroner's jury fonnd the death of Miss Belle White, who expired in a complexion special ist's otlice, was caused by heart disease. BALTIMORE WINS. The Orioles Are the Baseball Champions This Year. Chicago, Oct. 2. The National league games on Sunday brought the basebali year to a close. Contests for the Temple cup remain to be played, it is true, but only the first and second clubs in the race, Baltimore and New York, are concerned 'n these, and be sides they cut no actual figure in the championship; they are merely a series for a trophy. The wind-up of the championship season brought only one important change. That was the un expected jump of St. Louis into ninth place, displacing Cincinnati at the very last moment CLrBI ITon. LoiL J rr Ct. Ttaltimofe 80 New York M 1'oston f3 Philadelphia 71 Urooklyn "0 Cleveland ' Pittsburgh 6" Chicago 57 St. L,ouis M Cincinnati M Washington 43 I.ou'sville 3d 39 .CWS 4t .C67 4 J .&.- 53 .559 HI .NH I 01 .K I ft- .Sill T5 .4,Ti 70 .4.-4 75 .41 J 87 .mi Baltimore. Md., Oct. 4. Fifty thou sand men and women packed the streets about the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station Tuesday evening to welcome home the champion baseball team. Business houses closed and thou sands of working-men took a half holiday to celebrate. Everybody wore the Oriole colors. It was a baseball carnival. The bursting of firework bombs announced the arrival of the team. Then a dozen brass bands be gan. The thousands of men and boys started to yell and blow tin horns, cannon torpedoes roared, and the air was filled with fireworks. Meanwhile a been formed. long procession had The players, in new black hats and white linen dusters covering full dress suits, would have been hugged out of breath and shape by the crowd of cranks but for the squad of policemen, who finally got them to their carriages. The parade line contained hundreds of pleasure clubs' grotesque tableaux on floats. About 7 o'clock the procession linal ry got under way. First came a wagon with fireworks, then members of the reception committee on horseback, still others in carriages, and after tl.em the Orioles themselves. In the first carriage, drawn by four horses, sat Treasurer Vonderhorst, Chairman Johnson, President Ned Ilanlon and Vice President Walz. No Ko man conqueror ever entered a city more proudly than the Orioles did their native heath. The applause was deafening and the gen eral din almost indescribable. The carriages of the players were as many triumphal cars, so surrounded by en thusiastic "rooters" that the horses could hadl3' make headway. Every equine was gayly ' caparisoned with the Maryland colors and many of the organizations in line had provided themselves with fancy costumes. The parade took over one hour and a half to pass a given point. After a reception at the armory, at which the governor and mayor com plimented the team and the players shook hands with thousands of cranks, a grand banquet concluded the festiv ities. Pullman AsSm a Low Assessment. Spkixgfield, 111., Oct. 6. Frank P. Crandon, of Chicago, representing the Pullman Palace Car company, appeared before the capital stock committee of ; the state board of equalization and argued for a low assessment. He said the capital stock was SO.OOO.OOO, of which go, 430. 000 was paid up. The company operated 2,570 cars, sixty in ' Illinois, and a fair cash value of the stock was $47,000,000. His argument was taken under advisement. Drowned In the Canal. Port Jf.kvis, N. Y., Oct. 4. Thomas Kiernan, a prominent farmer of Port 1 Orange, on the Delaware and Hudson canal, and his grandson, Thomas Jo seph Sheil, were drowned in the canal Tuesday morning. I Cholera at Constantinople. I Washington, Oct. 4. The depart ment of state has received a brief cablegram from Consul General Luther Short at Constantinople announcing- the appearance of cholera at that place. ' The steamship Chattahoochie, re ported at 'ialveston as lost with all on board, is safe at Savannah. ( CAPTURED. Government Officers Break I'p Illicit Traffic in Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 4. United States Marshal Greer, aided by a score of deputies, has arrived here in charge of a band of moonshiners captured in the Big Sandy valley. The present work of extermination of stills and the illicit traffic of the upper Big San dy valley began about six months ago, bat the arrests began three months later. The intervening time was spent by (Ireer and his detectives in the lo cation of the stills and the identifica tion of their operators. In the past six months Greer and his deputies have destroyed thirty-seven separate stills and thousands of gallons of their product, commonly designated "moonshine." They have arrested about 125 offenders and spotted numerous others who will be taken as soon as the opportunity offers. In the capture of the various gangs some thrilling- work has been done and some narrow escapes ex perienced. Seven of Greer's otlicers are now laid up for repairs at differ ent towns in Floyd and Johnson coun ties, while about twenty of the moon shiners are also regaining their strengtli in various up-Sandy jails. These latter will follow their more fortunate fellows to Louisville and to the penitentiary as soon as their con dition will admit of the change of quarters. In the gang brought here were 106 offenders. Their ages ranged from 15 to 50, and in the degree of their crime there was an equal variance. Some of J the men had grown old and gray in the business, some had followed it but a short while, others had retailed the spirits for the makers, and others had boldly labeled it sorghum and brought it out by the barrel in push boats i The boys were usually the sons of the old operators, who were forced into the work from childhood and literally knew nothing else. Several women were also among the lot. RUIN IN LITTLE ROCK. A Cyclone Raises Havoc in the Capital of Arkansas Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 4. A terri ble cyclone swept over the business portion of this city at 7:40 Tuesday night, carrj-ing death and destruction in its path. Shortly after dark a heavy storm came from the west, accompa nied by vivid flashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder. The skies sud denly cleared away and the storm was thought to be over, when suddenly -a I heavy gale from the southwest ap- ' . 1 - 1 X .1 . . I - . peared, and for three minutes the city I was in the throes of death and destruc tion. The wind was terrific in the ex treme. Trees, telegraph, telephone and electric light poles were uprooted and carried a distance of 200 yards. The roofs of thirty of the largest buildings in the city were torn off and hurled ' against buildings on the opposite side of the street, leaving the occupants within to the mercy of the drenching rain, which began to fall in torrents shortly after wards. When the c3'elone had ceased it was discovered the resident portion of the city had entirely escaped, but Main street to Third, Markham from Center to Cumberland, and Second from Cen ter to Cumberland were almost total wrecks. The territory covers the principal business portion of the town. I N VADED BY JAPS. The Mit ado's Tronp, Knter China at Sev eral Points. (Shanghai, Oct. 5. The governor of Kirin, Manchuria, reports that the Japanese have effected a landing in the rear of Lan Chun. It is added that he whole province is in a state of consternation, but measures for its defense are being adopted. Another heavy levy has been made upon the Chinese merchants in order to meet the expenses of the war. It is reported that the Japanese have captured Kiu Lien Cheng, on the east ern side of the Yalu river. A hundred and fifty thousand men have been gathered at l'ekin for the defense of the city, but of this number only 7,001) are effectively armed. Only 50.000 soldiers are available for the defense of the province of Chi-Li-Ku and these are raw levies. A Japanese army has landed to the north of the Yellow river in the south ern part of the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, to in tercept the transport of troops from the south via the Grand canal to Tien Tsin. A Japanese fleet of seventeen ships is now blockading the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. 1-rench troops are massing in Tonquin. OVERDID-THEIR WORK. Iturglar-rroof Safe Shattered at Medlap. olis, la. Bciujngtox, la., Oct. 3 A guaran teed burglar-proof safe in the fire proof vaults of the State bank of Mediapolis, this count-, was blown almost to atoms Monday morning by a tremendous charge of nitro-glycerine. The cracksmen forced the vault locks without difiiculty. The safe con tained 5,000 in gold coin, 300 in paper currency, 400 in silver coin and 2,600 in school district bonds pi-able to bearer. The paper money was torn into little bits and the coin was battered and bent and scattered to the four winds. Nine teen of the bonds have been recovered intact, the rest being destroyed or stolen. Fifteen hundred dollars in the battered coin was recovered. It is presumed the burglars got the rest. Death of Gen. A. M. West. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 2. Gen. A. M. West, candidate for vice president of the United States in 18S4 on the greenback-labor ticket with Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, died at Holly Springs, Miss., Sunda-. Gen. West was the first pres ident of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans railway (now the Illinois Cen tral) . and was the pioneer railroad builder of the south. Costly California Fire. San Francisco, Oct. 1. Fire in the business portion of the town of Mission San Jose, Alameda county, early Friday morning- destroyed 50,000 worth of property. MOONSHINERS UNHAPPY CHINA. Threatened with Dissolution by Foe I Wlth In aud Without. London, Oct. 0. China is threatened from within and without The walled empire, with its 400,000,000 people and its history of thousands of years, seems in the throes of dissolu tion. The empire is threat ened within by intrigues against the -present Tartar dynasty, by plots to depose the emperor and place Irince Rung's son on the throne and by rebellions in the provinces. From without comes invading Japan, with an army of 30,000 in the province of Manchuria advancing- on the capital, Moukden, and another army of 40,000 being convoyed across the gulf of Pechili to form a junction at Moukden with the other branch, and move on l'ekin. the capital of the Chi nese empire. Japan is bent on con quest and partition and Great Britain and Russia are seeking an interna tional council to decide the fate of China. Tikn-Tsin, Oct. 6. Reports have reached here that a rebellion lias broken out in the province of Mongo lia. Troops from Peking have been sent to quell this uprising. Serious troubles are said to have arisen within the palace at Peking-. No de tails have reached here as yet. A number of Europeans from the outl ing districts are arriving here. The i residents of Tien-Tsin are taking every precaution possible against an anticipated attack on the part of the natives. Shanghai, Oct. C. Palace intrigue at Peking favors the abdication of the emperor and the succession of Prince Kung's son. The position is so alarm ing that all foreign women and chil dren, including the families of mem bers of the custom service, have been ordered to leave forthwith. London', Oct. 6. A dispatch received here from Berlin savs that it has been learned on high authority that the meeting- of the British cabinet was J called to discuss a proposal for com- j bined action on the part of the powers i to interfere and prevent the overthrow ; of the Chinese dynasty, which, it is ' claimed, would result in anarchy in ; the empire and the massacre of Europeans. One power, it is said, fa- ! vored a compulsory settlement of the Chinese-Japanesedispute. Thedispatch ' adds that Sir William Vernon Harcourt, J chancellor of the exchequer, supported I this view of the action to be taken, but Prime Minister Rosebery and a majority of the cabinet believed that active interference would be more "1 . . , ' .. i dangerous than non-intervention, and it was decided that Great Britain should not interfere. IIichmond, Va., Oct. 6. Mrs. Belva A. Lock wood male the statement, while here the other day for the pur pose of qualifying to practice in the Virginia courts, that the American peace bureau would soon submit to the emperors of China and Japan a proposition to arbitrate their differ ences. The arbitrators suggested are the pope, the king of Austria, the king of Denmark, the queen of England and the queen regent Queen Emma of the Netherlands. POPULISTS CLAIM THE STATE. ( Say Official Ke turns Will Give Them a Majority in Georgia. i Washington. Oct. 6. The following telegram was received at populist ' : headquarters Friday from the paper ' j of which Thomas E. Watson, populist i candidate for congress, is editor: j 'Oincial returns from seventy-eight counties i I g ive democrats 7.UPO; 11 fty-uine counties unre- ; ported will probably overcome this and elect populists. Gross fraud everywhere, throwing out populist precincts." i Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 0. Official re- I turns are not all in. Atkinson (Jem.) j runs behind his ticket by about 10,000. The ticket is elected by 25,000 to SO,- i 000. The populists claim fraud and that thev have carried the state. The 1 nopulists will have seven senators arid : forty members of the house. This will ; leave the democrats in full control : however. j The negro vote of the state went al- 1 most wholly for the populist ticket in j the state election. In the campaigns ; of ex-Govs. Colquitt. McDaniel, j Stephens, Gordon and Northen, they ( held the colored vote closely. Early in the present campaign, i however, it was published that Col. Atkinson, the democratic nom inee, had personally chastised a 10-year-old colored girl. He procured an affidavit from her father saying that the whipping was done by his request- All the same the populists printed big posters upon which ap peared pictures of Atkinson in the act of Haying the girl. These pictures circulated among the negroes had a telling effect, and it was in vain that the democratic workers tried to ap proach them. ' BANANAS WILL BE SCARCE. A Hurricane In Cuba Destroys Many of the Plantations. Philadklpiiia, Oct. 6. According to reports made by Capt. llolttum, of the British steamship Briganza, which has just arrived from Bar acoa, Cuba, bananas will bo a scarce commodity in this port for some time to come. While the Briganza was in Cuba, on September 22 and 23, the northeast end of Cuba was visited by one of the most terrible hurricanes that has swept that locali ty for twenty years. All the banana plantations were either totally de stroyed or badly damaged. Houses were blown away, trees uprooted and other great damage was wrought- HORTICULTURE, Sib William IlAKcotnrr is not only fond of flowers, but he is an enthusiastic amateur gardener. TriE only frostless belt in this coun try is said to be three miles in breadth, lying- between Los Angeles and the ocean. Tender vegetables flourish in winter. TnE ramie fiber is tourrh and wears well. It is said that in China, where it ! is used for making- clothing-, it lasts so i well that children frequently wear the 1 1. l. : a i- , . 1 wuw nunu mew gxanuparenis wore when children- tS NO MORE. Death Comes to Prof. Swing, Chicago's Kloquent Divine. Chicago, Oct. 5. Prof. David Swing, the eminent theologian and preacher, passed away Wednesday afternoon at 6:05 o'clock. His death was painless, and those who stood at his bedside watching and waiting hardly knew whether it was sleep or death until the physician looked up with the story in his face. Prof. Swing was taken sick at 9 o'clock a week ago last Saturday. While walking out during the morning he suf fered with a sudden chill, w li i c h was quickl' succeed ed by perspira t i o n. A few ho urs later jaundice made its appearance, but owing- to the fact that Prof. Swing was if I'llOF. SWING. subject to similar attacks little atten tion was paid to it. On Monday after noon, however, he was taken with another chill and grew suddenly worse. Ur. Davis was immediately called. After being treated the patient seemed to grow much better, but on Monday there was a relapse, and Dr. Isham and Dr. Fenger were called in to hold a consultation. In spite of all they could do, however. Prof. Swing grew steadily worse until Wednesday night. He was unconscious most of the time during the last three days of his illness, and his death was without pain. What the future of the Central church will be is unknown, but some of its members do not hesitate to say it will probably be disbanded. It has always been founded entirely on Prof. Swing's personality. It had no mo tive but to keep him in the pulpit and to preserve his preaching and influ ence to the city and to the world while he lived. With his removal, it is thought by some members of the con gregation, there will be no object in continuing such an independent move ment. BRITONS IN CHINA. Steps for Their Protection Considered by Knlani's Cabinet. London, Oct. 6. The protection of British subjects in China was the mat ter discussed in a special and impor tant cabinet meeting. Most of the ministers were present at the meeting, which lasted from noon until 1:30. Sir William Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequer, was ab sent. It is announced upon authority that the cabinet, after discussing the state of affairs in China, de cided to send troops to that country in order to protect British interests. It is also probaLde that addition al ships will be sent to strengthen the fleet in Chinese waters under the com mand of Admiral Fremantle, and that in consequence of the meeting of the cabinet the British legation at Peking will shortly be guarded by British bluejackets and native Indian sol- , diers. ! Washington, Oct. 5. Secretary Her bert has been forehanded in taking steps for the protection of the lives and property of American residents in China, believed now to be endangered by rebellious and unrestrained troops. Three weeks ago the secretary suggest ed to Admiral Carpenter to confer with the commanders of the foreign ships in Chinese waters and arrange to cooper- i ate with them, if possible, in a plan ; The fertility of our soil is due to the to have one or two ships at each of the j iobors of these insignificant creatures, treaty ports and other coast towns . 15v penetrating the earth in every di where foreigners reside, to give pro- . rection and depositing their own re tection to the citizens or subjects of ; ti.nin th f.rtilitv nf tl.o .;! the nation's party to the agreement. In this way the eight United States vessels assigned to the station would be equiv alent to many more for protection pur pose The Charleston has arrived at i Yokohama. There are now five United states warships in the east the Charleston, Baltimore, Monocacy, Con cord and Petrel and this force will Ihs increased to eight vessels by the addi tion of the Detroit, Machias and York town as soon as they cai be made ready. STOLE A DIG SUM. Safe I'.Inwers Itifle . W. Shrver's ISunk at Ittooinlield. Ind. Teure Haute, Ind., Oct 6. Profes sional safe blowers robbed O. W. Shryer's bank at Bloomfield. Ind., of So. 500 Wednesday night. The local police department was notified of the job and given a description of the bur glars. In iiianapous, Ind., Oct. 6. A bloody fight took place Thursday evening in Greene county between a possee of 109 I armed men and a trio of bank robbers jvho robbed the safe of the Bloomfield bank Wednesday night, blowing the vault to smithereens with a heavy charge of dynamite and wrecking the bank office. The men secured 55.500 in cash and fled to the hill country west of Bloomfield, where they were overtaken Thursday even ing by Sheriff Johnson's posse, guided by bloodhounds. A desperate light was kept up, with the roobers retreat ing. One of the trio was so badly wounded he fell behind and at tempted to hide in the brush. The bloodhounds nosed him out . and his capture was easily effected. An Open Switch. Toledo, O., Oct. 2. The Wabash mail and express, due here at 7:20 a. m. Sunday, while running at the rate of 50 miles an hour plunged into an open switch, killing the engineer, F. N. Smith, instantly, and terribly mangling the fireman, A. N. Day, so that he has since died at the Toledo hospital. Several of the mail clerks were badly shaken up and somewhat injured, but none of thein seriously. The switch had been tampered with and was partially thrown, with the target placed to indicate that the j track was clear for trains to pass. ALMOST INCREDIBLE. Strange Itot True Stories ReeardlnET JTniN ous Animals and Plants. There are many surprising things in , plant and insect life, especially when comparisons are used to call attention to them. For instance, Delisle tells us of a fly that ran nearly three inches and made 440 steps in half a second. This .is about equal to a man's running- 20 miles a minute. The ilea leap 200 times its own length. At this rate a man six feet tall would bound at one effort a distance of 1,200 feet. The mite in the cheese is only one fourth of an inch in length, yet it can take the tip of its tail in its mouth, and then, letting go with a sudden jerk, jump out of a bowl six inches in depth. To equal this a ninn should be able to jump out of a vertical shaft ia a mine 144 feet in depth. President Clark of Amherst college some years ago made a series of experi ments upon the growing- face of a squash. When it was 12 da3'soldaiid measured 27 inches in circumference, he inclosed it in a sort of iron and wooden harness, with a long lever at tached. The latter was weighted according to the growing power of the squash. 1 leg-inning- with CO pounds on the twen- j tieth day of its existence, on the nine 1 tieth day it lifted 5,000 pounds. A peculiar plant is found in the states of Oregon and Texas. It is known as the compass plant, the polar plant and the pilot weed, owing to the polarity of its leaves. The radical leaves present their edges north and south, while their faces are turned east and west. This peculiarity has long been known to hunters, who, on dark nights, easily get their bearings by feeling the direction of the leaves. The seed of the globe turnip is not larger, perhaps, than the twentieth part of an inch in diameter, and yet in the course of a few months this seed will be enlarged by the soil and the air into 27.000,000 times its original bulk, and this in addition to a considerable bunch of leaves. Dr. Dcsguliers made soma experi ments proving that, in an average con dition, a turnip seed may increase its own weight 15 times in a minute. By an actual experiment, made on peat ground, turnips have been found to in crease more than 15,000 times the weight of their seeds a day. There is a shellfish called the ooat-of-mail, which lias its eyes, not on its bodj', where we would naturally look for them, but on its shell. They glisten like cr3-stals in their calcareous settings. As well might we expect to see eyes on the shell of a tortoLse, or on our finger nails. This discovery, so new in science, has led to a closer inspection. In one specimen 3'i0 ej-es were counted, 24 raws, with an average of 15 in each rorr. Another shell, in which the eyes were very small, had 8,500 eyes on it: Fish live to a won.lerful age. Prof. Baird tells ns of a pike in Ilussia whose age dates back to the fifteenth century. In -the royal aquarium at St. Petersburg- there are fih that have been there for 110 j-ears. Thr live on without seeming to arrive at irwiturity. Perhaps not one boy ;b twenty while digging worms for bait, fctops to won der why worms were made or how many there are in the grou-- d. The attention of Darwin, thseminent naturalist, was attracted to th. subject when a boy, and one of the last arti cles that he wrote was a treatise on the vast irnportranee of the earthworms to the human race. The scientific world was astonished t .),. h ho,i t, t-,T- tK,-.w is not only kept up, but is largely im proved. Their number is surpri&ingly large. Mr. Uronhart estimated tho numb-? nf worms in the rich pasture lands near Auckland, .New Zealand, at from 400.000 to 800,000 to the acre. Were it not for the earthworms soils would Income barren, and half of the world woi:ld die of starvation. Frank H. StaaQer, in N. Y. Advert i.-er. A VEILED ANSWER. She Couldn't tlive the Soda Man the Mis (oniiirjr AVlr.k. As she entered the drug-store o the Maine seaside resort the manipn'utor of the soda fountain oast a compre hensive glance over the trim, neat, little figure, braced himself agai'.is-; the mechanical ice-chopper ami wr,;ted his fair customer's order. She was a pretty girl, dressed in a blue yacviting suit, boiied shirt-waist and sailor hat, with a white lace veil stretched tight lv across her face: so tightlv. in fact- that the long, curling eyelashes pro- jected through it. "What can I give you?'' he asked, at length, as the maid showed no disposi tion to say wiiat she would have, but stood slowly unbuttoning her gloves. There was no reply to this hospitable query, but the unbuttoning- process still went on. "I beg your pardon, miss," repeated the clerk, deftly toying with an acid phosphate, bottle, "but I did not quite catch your order." "I haven't ordered anything yet," re plied the young woman. Finally. "How can I do so until I have removed my veil?" The dispenser of sirups and sodas stared somewhat when he heard this question; then a self-satisfied smirk stole over his features. Of course, he thought, she wanted him to see her face more distinctly. Bnt to make sure of this, with a killing- board-walk glance, he said: "Reall3', Miss, if youlX excuse me, I don't see what the veil has to do with, it. lean hearthc ahem! sweet tones of your voice quite clearly." "Perha psyou can," replied the maiden frigidly, who by this tiuio had succeed ed in removing her veil, "but if you had any sense 3 011 would have noticed that in- veil was so tight and my eye lashes so lonjf 1 Youldn't wink." X. T. World. 4 feed ormnltT I In? orcliav "rtHstern.winamfii', cellar, "-B iTC: . pLATTSOUTli. NBB. J