LEGAL NOTICES.
sHExrrrs sale.
By Tiitae of an order of sale issued by W. C. El
der, dark of the district court of Lincoln county,
NebraatJk, upon a decree of foreclosure ren
dered In eaid court in favor of Mary T. Hyde
and against Henry M. Wolf and Mary C. Wolf, et .
aL.1 have levied upon the following described real
estate u the property of the said Henry M. Wolf
and Mary C. Wolf, et at, to-wit: The east half
(EH) of the southwest quarter (SWi), and the
southwest quarter faSW H) of the southeast quar
ter (SEU) of election twenty-four (24) and the
northwest quarter (KW K) of the northeast quar
ter (ME H) of Section twenty-five (25), and
the northwest quarter of section 25, all in Town
ship nine (9), norm or uange twenty-nine iz;
west'ol the sixth principal meridian in Lincoln
county, Nebraska, and I will on the 21th day
of Fabruary, 1884, at one o'clock p. m. of said
day. at the oast front door of the Court-house
of said county, in North Flatte. Nebraska, sell
aid real estate at public auction to the highest
Udder for cash to satisfy said order of sale, the
amomat due thereon in the aggregate being the
sum of tZjOZM and $57.69 costs, and probable
Increase costs, with interest, on said decrees.
Dated at North Platte, Neb., this 2Sth day of
December. 1893.
S .A. BAKER.
35 Sheriff of Lincoln county, Nebraska.
BRIDGE OF S!GHS AT VENICE.
V. P. TIME TABLE.
aonta east.
No.l Atlantic Express Dept 12:30 a. m.
No. ft Chicaco ExDresa " 620 a.m.
No. 4 Fast Mail 8 50 a.m.
No. 2 Limited " 10:05 a. M
Ho. 28 Freight " 730 A. M
No. 18 Freight " 6.-00 p. M
No. 22 Freight " 4:05 A. M.
001X0 WIST MOUNTAIN TIXK.
No. 7 Pacific Express Dept 4:40a. M
Ho. 5 Denver Express " 1030 p. M
No. 1 Limited " 10:00 p. M
No.21-Freight " 430 P. M
No. 23Freight " 6:10 A. M
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and Member of Pension Board,
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Office over Streltz's Drug Store.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
KOBTH PLATTE,
Office: Neville's Block,
and Children a Specialty.
NEBRASKA
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CENTRAL MARKET
F. M. HECK, Prop.
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
Fresh, Salted and Smoked
MEATS.
Hams, Bacon, Fresh Sausage, Poul
try, Eggs, Etc.
Cash Paid for Hides and Furs.
Your patronage is respectfully so
licited and ye will aim to please
you at all times.
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Crude Petroleum and
Coal Gas Tar.
The Famous Archway Around "VThlca Ro
mance Thickly Clusters.
In the heart of Venice, between the
magnificent palaco of the doges and the
grim walls of the old prison, flow the
dark waters of the Rio del Palazzo and
across the canal stretches the Bridge of
Sighs connecting Jink between the
splendors of a palace and the terrors of,
the dungeon, the tortnre chamber and
the heading block. One of tho most no
ticeable points about this bridge is the
fact that it is closed in, thus proving
all stories of suicides committed from
it to bo fabulous.
ThiB fact robs the Bridge of Sighs of
one of its most romantic associations
of its pretty legends of grief laden mor
tals hearing their last sigh upon its
parapet and ending their sorrowing
lives in tho black waters beneath it.
From -without tho bridge, with its arch
like form, its ornamental stonework, its
grotesquely carved heads and its small
eqaare windows filled in with iron trac
ery, presents a rather fine appearance,
but the interior 1b strictly devoid of or
nament and has not the slightest pre
tensions to beauty.
During our visit to Venice of course
we included the doges' palace and the
dungeons in our programme. After
wandering for some time through tho
vast halls and beautiful saloons of the
old Venetian palace we passed over the
Bridge of SighB on our way to the
gloomy cells. The bridge seemed to be
little more than a narrow passage be
tween two thick walls of stone, and un
less you stepped up onto the slightly
raised stonework which runs along be
neath the tiny windows on either side
and caught a glimpse of tho canal with
out you might easily take it for an ordi
nary passage within the palace. At the
far end of the bridge our progress was
barred by a grim looking oaken door
nail studded, ago blackened and of im
mense thickness guarding the entrance
to the dungeons. Our guides came to a
halt. There was a jingling of keys, a
lighting of torches; then the great door
swung slowly back, and we passed into
tho darkness beyond. When next we
passed the ancient door and crossed the
Bridge of Sighs, it was with the memory
of those terriblo cells, those fearful dun
geons where tho hapless prisoners en
dured the most horrible tortures that
tyranny could devise or brutality in
flict. I remember strolling, on the last
evening of our holiday in Venice, along
the Piazza San Marco and making my
way to tho Ponte della Paglia to take a
farewell look at the Bridge of Sighs. It
wasa-8ummer-eveliihgr"ht:and sultry,
while the fast gathering clouds, dense
and inky, betokened an approaching
storm. I bad just reached the Ponte
della Paglia and was gazing at tho
Bridge of Sighs when a tremendous
peal of thunder rent the heavens, seem
ing to shake the city to its very founda
tions with its violence.
Suddenly a blinding flash of lightning
lit up the palace, bridge and dungeons
with its lurid flare. For an instant the
bridge stood out with dazzling distinct
ness, while the lightning played on its
traceried windows; then all seemed
dark. And this was the last I saw of
the Bridge of Sighs. Newcastle Chronicle.
IN THE OLDEN TIMES.
J
EARNINGS OF 3EGGARS.
WHEN THEATRICAL TICKET SPECU
LATORS WERE IN CLOVER.
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Marble Works.
Manufacturer of and Dealer In
Monuments, Headstones,
Curbing, Building Stone,
And all kinds of Monumental
and Cemetery Work.
Careful attention given to lettering of
every description. Jobbing done on
short notice. Orders solicited and esti
mates freely given.
A Postman's First Attempt.
A route is given to you, and just
about this time it begins to dawn upon
you that perhaps you could not cover
the route in half, the time tho regular
man did, and before you got half a block
away you got mixed up because you
couldn't work your papers in with your
letters, to say nothing of several small
packages in your bag. You found your
self chasing up and down tho street,
and in order to mako up the time you
were losing you began to plunge, and
the more you plunged tho more you got
mixed up and tho hotter ycu got, and
once, when you stood still looking for a
number, a little boy asked you whom
you were looking for. Dreadful, wasn't
it?
And when you got back an hour or so
behind the regular man's time you
were sure it was the heaviest route in
the office, and you felt like iainting
when you were told that it was the
easiest. And owing to your inability to
make time you had to double up with
your partner, so that you worked all
day long, from before sunrise until long
after sunset. You got no lunch except a
few mouthfuls "you grabbed in passing
from a free lunch counter, and when
you got home you were so tired, so hun
gry and so disgusted with your first
day at the business that you would have
resigned forthwith, but, aye! there was
the rub. Postal Record.
GEO. NAUMAN'S
SIXTH STREET
MEAT MARKET.
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and Game in
season. Sausage at all
times. Cash paid for Hides.
OHO! NBBE LAID
I. A. FORT,
Has 200,000 acres of U. P. R. R. land for
sale on the ten year plan. Call and
see him if you want a bargain.
E. B. WARNER,
Funeral Director.
AHD EMBALMER.
A fall Use of first-class funeral supplies
always in stock.
ITORTH PLATTE, - NEBBRSKA.
Telsfimp01" promptly attended to.
Chinese Visiting Cards 1,000 Years Ago.
The Chinese, who seem to have known
most of our riow ideas, nsed visiting
cards 1,000 years ago, but their cards
were very large, and not really the pro
totypes of our visiting cards, as they
were on soft paper and tied with rib
bon. Venice seems to havo been the
first city in Europe to use cards. Some
dating from the latter part of tho six
teenth century are preserved in n mu-
seum tnere. ino uerman cines n-
lowed the Venetian custom in 100 years
w f , n 21.
or so, tnen Jjonaon ionoweu suu uu
tually followed suit, for tho first visit
ing cards in Great Britain were play
ing cards, or parts of such cards, bear
ing the name of tho bestower on the
back. They were first used in England
about 1700. Wo do not know when they
were first used in this country, probably
not long after their first introduction
into British society. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Infinitesimal Webs.
Mexico, the land of Montezuma,
prickly pears, sand, volcanoes, etc., has
many subtropical wonders, both in
vegetable and animal life. Among these
latter is a species of spider so minute
that its legs cannot be seen without a
glass. This little araneida weaves a
web so wonderfully minute that it takes
(00 of them to equal a common hair in
magnitude. St. Louis Repulbic.
ot a Good Substitute.
Guide Ladies and gentlemen, right
here among these cliffs is a wonderful
echo. A pistol shot is repeated 11 times.
Is there a gentleman herefrom the west.
If so, will he please disoharge his pistol?
Man From Kentucky I don't go
much on a gun, but if you can use a
'leven inch bowio knife I've got one
right on hand in my boot. American
Industries.
Herds of Elephants.
Sir Gerald Portal says that between
the coast and Uganda the supply of ele
phant tusks in Africa is "apparently al
most inexhaustible." Enormous num
bers of elephants are in the country still.
One of the officers of his expedition,
while exploring the country west of
Kongo, saw more than 300 in one herd.
The history of gardening from the
most ancient days is likely to be illus
trated at Versailles during the great
Paris exhibition of 1900. There is
plenty of space in the grounds, while
the lakes would give ample scope for the
display of floating gardens such as the.
Aztecs and th&unete loved to arrang4
How One o? Thorn Won a, Wager by the
Aid of an Old Violin Case The Trick
Was One of Jimmy Hyde's, Whom All
Old Time New York Show People Know.
"The palmy days of the ticket specu
lator are over," said the old theatrical
man. "There's nothing in the business
nowadays. Newpaper criticisms, there
suit of public sentiment, were the first
things to kill the business, and it never
has and never will revive. Why, it was
nothing in the old times for a man to
make $25 and $50 in a night speculating.
It wasn't necessary, either, for a man to
stand in with the box office in order to
make money, as speculators have to now-1
adays. A speculator could be stuck with
15 or 20 tickets and still make some profit.
So far as making money now, though,
thero is little in it. A speculator is in
luck if he can knock ont $3 a night. All
of the old timers who made big money
speculating years ago are either dead or
in other branches of the business now.
A trickier or smarter crowd of fellows
than some of the old time speculators
could not be found.
"About the most successful game I
ever saw worked by a speculator was
the scheme gotten np by Jimmy Hyde,
then prominent among ticket specula
tors, to beat the French ball. Jimmy,
who is now with the Casino, made np his
mind that it would be an easy thing to
beat the ball out of several hundred dol
lars. Max Hirsch, who was then and is
now treasurer of the Metropolitan Opera
House, was telling Hyde about the elab
orate arrangements that were being made
for the French ball that year, and how
it was bound to be a great success on ac
count of the entire suspension of the
free list, when Hyde exclaimed: 'Sua
pena tne rree list, en? well, you can
suspend and be darned, but just the
same I'm going to pass in at least 15
people.' 'Ill bet you don't pass in a soul,
barring yourself, replied Hirsch.
"Tho result was a heavy wager, Hyde
betting that he would pass in at least 10
them tickets or passes. Every one who
heard of the bet laughed at Hyde, but
Jimmy simply smiled and said nothing,
Those who knew Jimmy Hyde felt con
fident that he would succeed in doing
what he had boasted he could do, al
though nobody could see just how he
was going to manage it. Well, on the
night of the ball Hirsch stuck around the
door of the opera house all night, watch
ing every one that passed in. It was just
about midnight when Hyde, followed by
a meek looking individual who carried
something under his coat, showed up in
the vicinity. Leaving his companion on
the corner, Jimmy walked into the lobby
and approached a young man who was
leaning against the wall.
" 'Going in?' asked Hyde.
" 'Can't. Ain't got the price?' respond
ed the stranger.
"'How much have you got?' asked
Hyde.
" 'Two an a half.'
"well, it's money anyway, so come
on, and Hyde walked out of the lobby,
followed by the young man.
" 'Now, see here,' said Jimmy when
they reached the corner, 'when you get
inside dont stop a second, but just go
right past the wineroom down toward
the stage. At the left end you'll find a
flight of stairs. Go down them, and
you'll find yourself in the cellar right un
der one of the gratings which open on
Thirty-ninth street. Will you do that?'
" I don't see any use of doing all that,
but yon get me in and I'll do it'
"All right,' said Hyde, and betook
me uuudlo from under his companion's
'coat and handed it to the young man
It was an old and battered violin case.
" 'Take that and walk right through
the door,' said Hyde. 'If any one says
QTivf limrr Tn wm incf cnxr "miiinmiin
and pass on. "When yon get in the cellar,
pass it np to me.'
"The young man took tho case and
walked into the lobby and past the door
men without any trouble. In three min
utes he was nnder the grating and had
passed the case np through a small aper
ture. Nine other men, each of whom
paid from 2 to 4 apiece for the use of
the violin case, were successfully passed
through. Hirsch stood at the door the
whole time and never once saw through
the game. It was one of the doormen
who caught on first. He thought it re
markable that so many of the orchestra
were coming in late, and when Hyde's
eleventh man tried to pass through he
nailed him. 'Musician.' said the man
hoarsely, but it was no go. The door
men took the case away and opened it.
Of course it was empty.
"Hyde saw that the game was up and
almost burst with laughter when ho saw
his man go sailing out into tho street,
with the old violin case flying after him.
The truth flashed on Hirsch in an in
stant. Two mutual friends whom Hyde
had let into the secret at the last mo
ment testified that 10 men had been
passed through on the old case, and
Hirsch paid over the amount of the
waeer like a man. It didn't take the
crowd long to drink up the money, and
when it was gone Hyde was forced to
blow in tho money he had collected from
those ne naa passea in too. mat was a
mighty neat piece of work, that was, and
there wasn't another man in .New York
but Jimmy Hyde who would have
thought of it. It seems that Hj-do had
made np his mind to beat the ball in that
way long before tho bet was made, and
that he only accepted the wager because
he saw a chance to rake in a few dollars
more.
"Yes, the day of the ticket speculator
is over, and, despite the old 6aying that
history repeats itself, I don't believe it'll
ever come around again." New York
Sun...
The Professionals In London and Paris
Pick Up a Good Living.
The professional beggar is not a mod
ern innovation by any means. Readers
may recall Scarecrow, the famous Lon
don beggar, who, having disabled hun-
NOT CALLED.
Ho may ben, scholar familiar with books,
Inperson -modcl, nnrivaled for looks.
TOIA. V1UV1 VW 14 Ik W & i.v mi A U1A
But thaiJo acr notion, is not qnito enough.
In lancniag decided the truth must bo told.
We think r our pariah he's rather too old.
For auclpfthat wc hear of he may be a saint.
self in his right leg, askQdalms;
in order to get a warm supper at night,
According to John Timbs, thBuffler3,
of whom we often find mentioin the
literature of the seventeenth century,
were troops of idle vagrants who infest
ed Lincoln's inn fields.
They assumed the characters of
maimed soldiers who had suffered in the
great rebellion and found a ready prey
in the people of fashion and quality who
drove by. Indeed it is made clear by
contemporary allusion in comedies that
this square was the regular haunt of bo
gus cripples who lived by mendicancy,
which they carried on m the most bare
faced and even intimidating manner. It
is related that George IV, when prince of
Wales, once attended a beggars carnival
in London incognito. He had not been
there long when the chairman, address
ing the company and pointing to the
prince, said:
"i can upon tnat 'ere gemman witn a
shirt for a song." The prince, as well as
he could, got excused, upon a friend, who
accompanied him, promising to sing in
stead, which the latter did amid great
applause. The health of the prince and
his friend having been drunk and duly
responded to, they departed in order to
afford the company an opportunity to
fix their different routes for the ensuing
day's business, for at that time the pro
fessional beggars of London used tohave
a general meeting several times during
tho year, at which they were divided
into companies, each company having
its particular walk.
In those days their earnings varied,
some getting as much as 5 shillings a
day. Most of the professional beggars
in London today and their name is le
gionemanate from two or three com
mon lodging houses. The most populous
of these, which is known as The Dis
pensary, supports an individual known
HeTciiWa all tho canons and rubrics by heart.
And oftto the needy will blessings impart.
But he is't tho shepherd we want at our fold.
Wo thini for our parish he's rather too old.
Did youver learn that experience tells
And work by a master for full valuo sells?
1 oa mako a miako when that man you pass
by.
And say," when Inquired of tho reason and
vwhy.
In language emphatic, "Tho truth must bo
told.
We think for our parish he's rather too old."
Oh, what shall wo do when our castors cet frrsv
And cannot quite compass tho world in a day?
1 Know nothing elso savo devoutly to pray
They soon may bo called to soma recion
away, '
Where acgols Invito to tho city of cold.
And aono will rcfuso them for being too old.
Tacoma Now Era.
COjSWCED.
as a "scriver," who earns a living by
manufacturing the pathetic signboards
which the sham cripples and tho bosus
blind men carry round their necks. In
Paris, as is well known, the professional
beggars hold regular weekly meetings,
at which the routes to be followed by
tho members of the iniild are manned
out by a standing committee.
xney nave an organ or their own,
called The Journal des Mendicants,
which appears twice a week. From a
recent issue tho following advertisement
is taken: "Wanted To engage a cripple
for a seaside resort. Good references and
a small deposit required."
This queer announcement is explained
by the fact that the proprietors of hotels
and boarding houses of fashionablo
French watering places assume that vis
itors would bo disposed to give alms if
an opportunity wero afforded them, and
as they cannot very well do tho begging
themselves they engage professional beg
gars to whom they grant permission to
solicit alms on their premises, and tho
beggars in return pay tliein one-half of
their daily receints. North American
Review.
Frank Confession.
Robert Chambers, tho large hearted
and honest publisher, ono night appeared
at his club arter a short absence, and
there delighted at least ono member J.
C. Jeaffreson by a deliriously frank ex
pression or opinion. Jeaffreson
the conversation by asking:
"What havo you been doing since I
saw you last?"
"I havo joost been spending the timo
in Scotland with my ain peoploand for
my diversion I have been reading yet
again Scott's novels. I went deliberate
ly through the whole lot o' them. "What
do you think o' a nion o' my years spend
ing the greater part of the long holidays
in sic a way?"
"It was in that way that I first made
acquaintance with the Wavcrly novels,"
was the enthusiastic reply, "in a broiling
hot summer and autumn. How you
must have enjoyed yourself!"
"Weel, weel, I canna say," returned
tho Scottish publisher and man of let
ters. Then he looked warily up and
down the room to make sure of not being
hard by any brother Scotsman and continued:
"I canna sa I enjoyed tho buiks so
much as I did in my yonuser time. I
would not say it aloud in Adinbro, but
weel you believe mo when I say that Sir
Walter isn't what he used to be to me?
To talo you tho truth," ho added, lower
ing his voice almost to a whisper "to
talo you tho truth. I found him rather
prosy! Aye, but dinna be laughing, or
tho lads there will be asking what I said
to you. It is tho truth that I talo vou.
I moost conface I fund him at times a
leetle prosy!" Youth's Companion.
began
A r.ot riitherman's Story.
"I had been fishing for trout one day
in a North Carolina mountain stream,"
said a sportsman, "and was entirelv un
successful. Upon trying to reach camp
l oecamo lost ana took refiiL'o for tho
night in a small cave near Grandfather
mountain. The cave was drv :tnil r.nm-
tortable, and making a pillow of my
coat I soon fell asleep. Tiie next morn
ing I was awakened by something pull
ing at tne coat, ana opening my eyes saw
tnat it was a cub bear.
"A few leet distant was a larse bear
sitting on its haunches and another cub
playing around her. I had no weanon
of any kind and was completely at the
mercy of the animal, but she was not in
the humor to dispose of mo iust then.
She sat watching tho cub as it pulled at
my coat, and I was careful to make no
motions that might bo considered as hos
tile. For two or three hours we looked
at each other, and then the mother bear
ambled off with her two cubs, and I beat
a hasty retreat." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Figurine It Out.
A schoolmaster had been severely cor
recting one of his boys and finished by
saying: "Now sit down and write a let
ter to your parents telling them how
much you are taught here and how lit
tle you profit therefrom. I should be
ashamed to tell them." The boy cried a
good deal and then wrote:
Dear Fathek-I am very stupid, thoutrh
there is more to be learnt here than anywhere.
Twice two's four four boys go to one bed six
beds make one attic, and four attics make one
well ventilated and appointed sleeping dormi
tory. One round of bread and butter makes
ono breakfast, and every tea makes its own
upper.
"This time," said the master, "we will
er overlook your conduct, and you
needn't send that note." (He had been
overlooking.) London Tit-Bits.
A Pleasant 3Ian to Interview.
Professor Felix Adler, this founder of
the Ethical Culture society, is a mo3t
pleasant gentleman to interview. TT
says that he has found the'newspaper
man to be honorable in the highest de
gree, and that he has never found it nec
essary to indicate what part of his con
versation is intended for publication and
what part is to be considered as pureby
personal. This of course meaus that
Professor Adler does not limit himself
in an interview to the matter directly in
hand. He is not unwilling to speak of
things that are entirely too personal for
publication and will give an elaborate
discourse on metaphysics to his inter
viewer and not express the least shade
of doubt as to its being correctly nut
down. Chicago Post.
Peter Carter pushed his chair back
from tho table and surveyed tho faded
little face on the opposito side of the tea
tray.
Faded enough now, though she was
barely 27. You would hardly have be
lieved how fresh and pretty Carry Car
ver had been on her wedding day. Her
husband saw tho change, but somehow
he'supposed all women faded just so.
"Thero is so much to do, Peter, and
the children demand so much of time.'
pleaded the meek wife.
'If I were manager in this household.
things would happen very differently."
I havo no doubt of it," said Carry
quiets.
"There 13 no earthly reason," went on
Mr. Carver, ignoring the sarcastic mean
ing of her tone, "why the work shouldn't
be done and you dressed and enjoying
vourself, cultivating your mind or some
thing, at 11 o'clock every morning that
you live. Washing up a few dishes,
sweeping a room or two what does it
all amount to? Why, my dear, don't
yon see tho felly of asking for a servant
to help you do nothing at all?"
The morning sunshine crept down the
pale green wall paper, sprinkling drops
ot gold on the rev little geranium plants
that Peter called a "waste of time" and
lay in noon splendors on the carpet, and
still Carry Carver stood there, thinking-thinking.
"Carry! Aren't you going to get up
this morning? It is half past 7. and"
"I cannot, Peter," groaned Carry, turn
ing her face away from the light. "Iam
suffering such dreadful pains in that foot
I sprained last night."
"Well, what shall I do?"
"Yon must take charge of the house
keeping yourself, Peter," said Cany,
hiding a smile in tho folds of her pillow.
"It's only for a day or two, and I don't
know of any help you can obtain. It
won't be much, 3-ou know."
''That's true," said Peter, somewhat
encouraged.
"Please darken tho room, and keep the
children away, and don't speak to me if
you can help it.- I have such a racking
headache, and tho least excitement
drives me wild."
Peter shut tho door with distracting
caution and went down stairs on creak
ing tiptoe. As he passed the nursery
door a duet of voices chimed on his ears.
"Papa, papa, we are not dressed."
"Dress yourselves, then, can't yon?"
said Mr. Carver, pausing.
"Pet is too little to dress herself," said
Tommy loftilj', "and mamma always
dressed me!"
"Where are your shoes?"
"I don't know," said Tommy, with his
finger in his month.
'I know," said Pet, aptly revenging
herself for tho hit at her diminutive pro
portions; "Tommy dropped them out of
the window."
Crash! went a fancy bottle of cologne
off tho table as Tommy groped for his
garters. Eang! fell Mrs. Carver's rose
wood writing desk to tho fioor, bursting
off the frail hinges and scattering pens.
envelopes and postage stamps far and
wide.
Mr. Peter Carver was an affectionate
father in a general way, but human na
ture could not have endured this.
And ho bundled the two little crea
tures miscellaneously into whatever arti
cles came uppermost, rending off strings
and fracturing buttonholes in frantic
desperation.
The fire obstinately declined to burn,
although Sir. Carver opened the oven
doors alternately and drew out all the
dampers he could spy.
"Confound the fire!" said Mr. Carver,
mopping his wet forehead with the stovo
cloth. "It won't go. I'll havo a blaze
of kindling and try tho breakfast on
that."
He seized the ham and carved several
thick slices, which he transferred deftly
to a gridiron, and then, elated with his
success, broke several eggs over the ham.
"Bless me, how they run!" he ejacu
lated, rather puzzled. "But I know I'm
right. I wonder why this coffee doesn't
boil. I'll stick in a few more kindlings
that's the idea. There are the children
crying hungry, I suppose. I do believe
they do nothing but eat and cry." Mr.
Carver rushed to attend the peremptory
summons of tho milkman.
And then he sat down, tired and spir
itless, to a repast of half cooked meat
and liquid mud. by courtesy termed cof
fee. He looked despairingly around at the
chaos that reigned in the kitchen.
4 'Nine o'clock, as I live and nothing
done. Weli, I seo very plainly there's
no office for me today. Now, then,
what's wanting?"
"The clothes for the wash, please, sir,"
said a little girl, courtseying humbly at
tho door.
"Up stairs and down stairs" went Pe
ter Carver, laying hands on whatever lie
considered proper prey for the washtub.
rummaging in bureau drawers, upheav
ing the contents of trunks and turning
wardrobes inside out for a mortal hour
housekeeping get along?
"It don't get along at all."
"Is dinner ready?"
"Dinner?" echoed Peter in a sort of
dismayed tone. "Why, I haven't got
through with breakfast yet!"
"But it is 12 o'clock."
"I don't care if it's 25 o'clock a man
can't do 40 thing3 at once."
"Where are the children?" asked his
wife.
' 'In bed. They were too much for me,
so I undressed 'em and put 'em to bed to
get them out of the way."
"Poor things," said Carry.
"Poor me, I should think," said Car
ver irately. I had quite enough to do
without 'em. I've broken the plates, and
melted off the nose of the teapot, and
lost my diamond ring in the ash barrel
and cut my fingers with the carving
knife."
"Have you looked after the pickles
and baked fresh pies?"
"No!"
"Nor blackened the range, nor cleaned
the knives, nor scrubbed the kitchen
floor?'
"No."
"Nor made the beds, nor Bwept the
chamber, nor dusted the parlors, nor
polished the windows, nor heard the
children's lessons, nor taken care of the
canary birds, nor"
"Stop stop!" ejaculated Mr. Peter
Carver, tearing wildly at his hair. "You
don't mean to say that yon do all these
things every day?"
"I do, most certainly and long before
12 o'clock. And yet you wonder that I
am not dressed and cultivating my mind
before 11 o clock."
"My dear Carry," said Peter penitent
ly, "I have been a brute. I'll have
cook and a nurse and a chambermaid
here just as soon as I can possibly obtain
them. You shall be a drudge no longer."
A few minutes afterward the unskilled
cook was scorching his whiskers over
gridiron covered with hissing mutton
chops, which would alarm him by sud
denly blazing up into his face without
the least premonitory symptom, when a
light step crossed tho kitchen "floor and a
little hand took tho handle of the grid
iron from his grasp.
"Carry!"
"I release you from duty," smiled the
wife. "My ankle is better now."
"I say, Carry!"
"Well?"
"Tell the truth, now. Wasn't that
ankle business a little exaggerated?'
Buffalo News.
A GREAT DISCOVERY.
PRAOTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT
LIGHT OR LENS.
Bird Slaughter.
An American dealer sola last year
2,000,000 birdskins. All wero used for or
namenting woman's attire. Women ought
to cry down this vanity that feeds and
pampers the destruction of the feathered
tribes. The birds sacrificed are of course
those of richest plumage, and of course
also those that will be least easily re
placed. In fact, if this thing continues,
American bird life of the gentler order
will pretty soon become extinct. Is not
tho warfare the American Humane so
ciety has opened upon the birdskin traf
fic wholly justifiable? We think so. The
destruction referred to contributes not
one whit to human need or human com
fort. It adds nothing to the intellectual,
nothing to the mental. It is simply wan
tonness practiced at tho beck of fashion,
and as silly and meaningless a fashion,
too, as ever was spawned from the brain
of a man milliner. There are birds in
plenty that shed their plumage to supply
the vain demand for flaming headgear.
Why should the fashion monarchs be in
exorable and also demand the bodies of
our feathered songsters? Sacramento
Union.
Tho Female Allantus.
Mr. C. F. Sannders of Philadelphia
jnstly calls attention to the great beauty
of this tree. Tho male ailantus first
disgusts by its disagreeable odor, and
then tho flowers fall, leaving nothing
more behind them. But tho female
flowers havo a rather pleasant fragrance
and are followed by the fruit, which
soon takes on a beautiful golden color.
Most will agree with him that there
aro few things more beautiful than the
feinalo ailantus with its young fruit
during the months of August and Sep
tember. By the way, the name is ailan
tus and not ailanthus, as frequently writ,
ten, the tree being named from the Chi
nese "ailanto." Meehan's Monthly.
A ?letare Tkenby Zleetrical Action Only,
Hertz's Experiments Kiraled by a Pro
fessor Xb tho Iceland Stanford, Jr., Unl-
ersltj.
Clerk Maxwell's electro magnetic the
ory of light received striking confirma
tion seven or eight years ago when Hem
rich Hertz performed a number of ex
periments in which electrical waves were
made to imitate the conduct of ligi
waves in several particulars. This gifted
investigator, now connected with tho
University of Bonn, concentrated the
rays to a focus with a parabolic mirror.
Refraction as well as reflection was ac
complished. Electricity, proceeding in
straight lines, was diverted from its course
by a prism of pitch. The phenomena of
interference and polarization were also
reproduced.
It is now announced that a photograph
has been taken by using electricity in
stead of light, and if this story is true
then additional evidence will have been
afforded as to the kinship of these two
forces or forms of force, Hertz, it will
be observed, only showed that the elec
trical radiance conformed to mechanical
laws which are known to control life,
but photography introduces the element
of chemical action, bo that this later
achievement, if it proves to bo all that it
seems, is ono of the most remarkable
revelations of our day.
Professor Fernando Sanford, who
claims to have attained this wonderful
result and who gives some account of it
to tho Sun Francisco Examiner, occupies
tho chair of physics in Leland Stanford,
Jr., university and is one of the young
est members of tho faculty of that insti
tution. As the story appears over his
own signature, and he intimates that he
has repeated the experiment several
times, there is little room for doubt as to
English In Spanish.
The ordinary method of construction
by which the Spanish -writer places adjec
tives after nouns has sometimes a droll
effect if he chances to adopt English
words into his composition. Thus it
certainly sounds odd to read in La Na
cion that "tho congress of the United
States has finally disposed of the danger
ous Bill Sherman," and in II Comercio
of Lima that "the American congress
committee has voted for Bill Wilson to
kill Bill McKinley." New York Recorder.
Can Hire Everything-.
Do you know that you can hire almost
evervtliing necessary for 3'our house.
jour table and yourself when you want
to give a reception? Heirlooms can be
got by tho evening, and quito reason
ably, from curio dealers. Cut glas3 and
old silver, spindlo chairs, rugs, etc., just
tho very thing that will havo a nice, old
timo look about them, can bo had. Like
wise, old bottles aro fixed up and com
mon wine is decanted into them and
sold to people who are perfectly aware
of the fraud. It is a wonder, one host
confessed to me, tho influenco a bottle
will have on people. Let the bottle have
nice cobwebs on it and a good brand,
and they will believe the stuff that comes
out of tho bottle is good too.
A certain lady who entertains a great
deal explains that she never uses her
"family silver" except on special occa
sions, and that she keeps it in the safe
deposit meanwhile, bat at least ono other
lady knows this is fiction, because the
same other lady is in tho habit of hiring
tho same "family silver" for her affairs,
and has once or twice had to postpone
them because No. 1 had the stuff on
gaged ahead for the same date. New
York Journal.
the genuineness of the occurrence de
scribed. Professor Sanford obtained his
picture in the dark without even a len3
in the following manner:
It is well known that when two brass
rods connected with the sides of tho bat
tery or placed in the secondary circuit
of an induction coil aro brought elostT
enough together a spark will fly from
one to the other. If to each rod, a short
distance from the knobs in which they
terminate, a copper wire be attached and
the two wires be led off to suitable metal
plates placed facing each other, but not
quito touching, an electrical oscillation
will occur between the plates whenever
there is a discharge between the knobs.
jnow, .froiessor winioru suoatimteu a
coin, the object to be photographed, for
one of the plates of cuch a pair, and laid
it faco downward upon a thin sheet of
mica, which in turn rested on the sensi
tive gelatin film of a glass photographic
plate.
Tin roil was arranged on tho other side
of the glass and took the place of the
other metal plate of the pair. This com
bination was now placed between two
boards aud left in tho dark for an hour,
during which timo a series of sparks
wero flying from one knob to tho other
of the discharger across an interval of
one-sixteenth of an inch. Upon devel
oping his sensitive plate Professor San
ford had an image of his coin that is,
of tho portions in relief on that side
which was in contact with tho mica.
The Examiner prints a copy of tho pic
ture, a positive, which shows thjj Liberty
head, date, inscription "E Pluribus
Unum," circle of stars and raised edge
in white on a dark background.
Professor Sanford does not enter into
a disenssion of tho theories involved, but
he mentions that the tinfoil was not only
of the same size as the coin (a silver dol-
ar), but placed directly opposite. Ap
parently electro magnetic waves flowed
from the coin to tho tinfoil, but prefer
ingthe shortest route radiated mainly
or exclusively lrom tho raised part of
he dollar. They seem to have proceeded
in straight lines too; otherwise the chom-
lcai action on mo nun would not have
been confined so accurately to regions
directly opposito the pattern.
Right here it should be noted that
Herts discovered in his experiments that
the induced magnetic radiance excited
in the manner described, and now called
"Hertzian waves" in honor of that now
famous physicist, had this remarkable
trait not possessed by a primary elec
trical current: Good "conductors," like
copper or other metals, being interposed
would stop them, but they would go
rignt through wood and other so called
"insulators." Hence in Professor San
fords experiment the mica and glass
wero evidently no barriers to the passage
of the particular kind of electricity pro
duced.
Although it docs not at first appear
clearly what practical applications of
this discovery can bo made, it is not im
probable that uses will be found for it.
Tho indirect consequences are suro to be
valuable as well as interesting. New
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"An old crippled woman whom I knew
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respondent, "used often to amuse me hy
her original ideas and speeches. Speak
ing of Shiikospeare one day, I said I
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'Law!' said she, with much
scorn, 'who was he? On'yo plowhoy,
and he was never thought nothin of till
them Americans come and took him
up.' Boston Transcript.
"John, dear,""said Mrs. Hicks. Tm
making a shirt for the heathen. Come
hero and let ne fit it on you, will you?'
Exchange
An ingenious ciock.
A ciocn of ingenious mechanism has
been completed by C. E. Shearer of
Schuylerville, N. Y., after two years'
work. The case represents an arsenal.
It is 3 feet G inches high, has several bal
conies and piazzas and a tower in which
is a bell. On either side of the entrance
door is a miniature brass cannon monnt
ed on trucks. The works are automat
ically musical, playing a different tune
every half hour. Each timo tho music
plays a trumpeter on horseback rides
out of the lower front door and remains
until it ceases. Then he re-enters, and
the bell in the tower rings. New York
Telecranj,'
before he had completed tho requisite
search.
The kxtchen was empty when he re
turned. "Where aro the children?" was his first
alarmed thought, expressing itself un
consciously in words.
"I saw 'em go out of the door, please,
sir," said the wasuerwoman s nttie gin.
The July sun was beginning to glow
intensely in tho heavens. The pavements
reflected the ardent shine with tenfold
heat, and poor Peter Carver was nearly
melted ere he espied his hopeful sou and
heir, with Pet following.
Neither of them would walk in fact,
the little wanderers were far too weary
so Mr. Carver mounted ono on each
arm and earned them, limp and unre
sisting, through the streets.
"I'll have a nurse for j-ou, my young
friends, before tho world is a day older,"
he said, grinding his teeth with impotent
wrath as he deposited Pet and Tommy
on the floor and went wearily to nis
household duties.
"How aroyou now, Carry?" he said
about an houi?aftcrvard, throwing him
self into a chair by her bedside and fan
ning biinselfwith the newspaper he had
laid there thaPmorningr.
"Aboiit the'same. dear. How does the
JJllndness Not Necessary.
Simkins was speaking about his visit
to the blind asylum, and he wound up by
saying wiiac inn it would be to have
some of the blind men as fellow board
ers. "Itwoald be rich," he said, "to
put a cup of hot water before them and
to see them gravely drink it, cupposmg
it tea or coffee." "Awfully funny," said.
Mrs. Simkins. Then she thought and
abruptly concluded by remarking, "Mr.
Simkins, you're a fool." Pick Me Up.
Jfcjrro Logic
a roooery nau oeen committed in a
Virginia town. Tho finger of suspicion
pointed to a negro servant, and he was
arraigucd before the local justice, who
happened to be the negro's old master, to
whom he was sfill intensely loyal.
He mane no defense or denial as the
judge li tid the evidence point by point
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George?" asked the justice.
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Snocess in law requires, first, a good
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tience; thirdj a good cause; fourth, a
good lawyer; fifth, a good counsel; sixth,
good witnesses; seventh, a good jury;
eighth, a good judge, and, ninth, good
luck. New York Evening World.
The Earth's Girdle.
The most widely separated points be
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British Columbia and New Zealand.
I The telegram would cross North Amer
ica, Newfoundland, the Atlantic. Eng
land, Germany, Russia (European and
Asiatic), China, Japan, Java and Aus
tralia. It would make nearly a circuit
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10,000 miles in. doing so. Boston Globe.
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close at a certain hour. Tho excuse of
one violator, charged with koeping open
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and he could not lock up.
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