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h I 9 7 - The Norfolk Weekly News FORAGINGON for the time se m un Bold EaidaBoingMade on the State TnndB by Fusion Officials PAID f OR SERVICES NOT RENDERED Bow High Up OnUlaU Have Vromotntl Trcntnry llnhU ImU llrcad for OfU olftli nnd Stale Ili eml for Iunmtci BEATRICE Nob Aug C Lost weeks report concerning the manngo mont of the State Institution for Fee ble Minded oiith at this place only gave a brief recital of the facts There axe other facts relative to it hitherto unpublished which are wor thy of the closest consideration by everybody FORAGING ON THE STATE Not content with plaqlng an army of incompetouts on tho payroll there 1b positive evidence that not only have favorites been permitted to furnish their relatives with bed and board but they have been permitted to draw money from tho public treasury for uervlces never rendered In this con netion the name of Judge Sullivan again appears and that too in con nection with a very questionable transaction The facts are theBo On tho 8th day of August 1899 Miss Keat ing voluntarily tendered her resigna tion as matron to Superintendent Lang On that day she gave up her keys moved all of her effects and loft the Institute She notified the superin tendent that she had resigned Tho salary of the matron is SG6GG per month and a voucher for 1725 the amount due for eight days service was made out and Miss Keating signed It This voucher recited the fact that it was in payment in full for all serv ices rendered the state It was sent to the Hoard of Public Lands and Buildings for approval But it was never approved it was abstracted by somebody and made away with He also informed the governor that he did not believe Miss Keating would do such a thing Well said the governor just send her a voucher made out for the full amount and see what she will do Again Superin tendent Lang Informed him he would do nothing of the kind I will sign the voucher on the back In blank said the superintendent and I will leave the mntter of making the fraud ulent claim to Miss Keating Super intendent Lang did this very thing and he also at the same time on learn ing that Judge Sullivan was mixed up in the matter sent the following let ter to Judge Sullivan unATnici Nnb Oct t ism Hon J J Sullivan 4Uv inr Pir I learned rrv i KiP secretary of state that she I actlnK under your advice I say to you that I am much surprised at the stand you take In this matter That -he has boon used kindly and was advised rightly cannot be denied that she reslKned the 8th day of August 13 can be puppurted by the affidavit of the employes of this Institution and the press of Ueiilrlce and that she never returned to this In stitution I am dealing In this mutter for the state of Nebraska as I would With Individuals and I am sorrv to think that we have any man or woman In our runks that would demand of me who has loyal ly supported your nonor or ask any par ty to make any affidavit of service under such circumstances I have forwnrded her a blank for record for her to till out which 1 presume she will acting under your advice I have the triplicate vouch er signed and receipted by her without any erasures and if such clerical era sures appear on the original voucher as Is often the cusb I never had any Inten tion of filling out voucher for any more than time served I often make the er ror In tilling out for full month when part la only served so the- original vouoher corrected shows exactly what amount was due for time served I think our party and state officials have treated you very kindly and hope that you appreciate the kindness fully Yours t truly BENJAMIN F LAND M D Superintendent of Institute for Feeble Minded Youth At the name time he mailed n vouch er signed in blank to Miss Keating appended to -which was the following caustic letter BEATRICE Neb Oct 17 1830 Miss Abigail Keating Ah I understand there has been soma talk as to the amount duo you from this Institute 1 have sent out vouchers for you to nil out for time served at this In atltutlcn and on duty You will till out the sania and swear to them 1 trust that you will observe that It Is to be a matter of record and also that the man ner in which you left the institution In known to each and all In my dealing with the state of Nebraska I observe the same rule that I would In dealing with Individuals That you resigned your po sition here the bth day of August WJ and turned tiver the keys of your volun tary aotjgoes without dispute I regret very much that any person of our party or of the state of Nebraska would ask me to do an act of reoord that I do not deem prudent I signed the voucher only un the bck expecting you to till out for time served jours respectfully BENJAMIN F LANQM D Superintendent One week afterwards Superintenuent Lapg received the following reply from Judge Sullivan written from Co Iambus Neb on a letterhead of the supreme court SUPREME COURV OF NEBRASICA COLUMBUS Oct 13 lbiiS Dr B F Lang Dftor Blr Your favor of recent date re ceived My views of the matter about which you write me are these Miss Keating was matron of the Institution during August She was ready and will ing to do the work Incident to the posi tion and was therefore legally and mor ally entitled to receive the sulury that I am obliged to differ with regard to the Justice of her clulm 1 re main very truly yours i i J J SULLIVAN Mies Ifeating signed the voucher for the full month swore Jo it and re turned it to Superintendent Lang to he forwarded to Lincoln Superintend ent Lngjrefre0 ttj Jveiaijylhlngjto iJ 4lifHtJtiWlM Jfcf than Mot it to Llucol but there must have been quite a wrangle over iti ntit was not allowed until Ociobrr liOth aul was not paid until November 27th Fee Vouohir H lOjOIt Ap pended to the voucher is a letter from Governor Povntor to Auditor Cornell nuder date of November 2 in which the governor says So fr up 1 nm Itifonnod Mini KimtliiR won inutiun M Ucutrlco innl entitled to her full milary until Septnnnnr 1 Evi dently a mlstnkr has been mnde In allow ing Mis Keutlngy vouchor for milary from AUKiiot 1st lo Aiipunt Stli nnd then aturwiinlii nllowln hr n full month for AUinut Bli should be allowed fur lier full tnuntli for AugUHt but not double allowuucc for port of tho month It would appear from this that tho first voucher for 1775 had been al lowed before the scheme was concocted to draw pay for the full month If thiB was done however the rocordH fall to disclose It It navy somewhat of Mllikins corn mcnl nnd It Is pjs slhle that it is a problem of that char acter Neither Is this tho only instnnco wherein the stato treasury haH been looted by salary grabs of this nature Under the Miperlutendency of Or Spraguc who preceded Dr Lang a henchman of the fuslouluts one C W Phelps was stewurd He was of a charitable turn of mind especially In dealiug with himself The nrHt thing he did was to gathor icmnants of a large family around him at the insti tute and feed thm at the expense of the state At times the Phelps fam ily was well represented at the festal board The number is variously esti mated at from five to thirteen tho records of the Institute being in such shape that nothing defiuito can be learned as to the number of people outside the inmates living there nt the expense of the state True to tra dition Phelps became obstreperous re fused to obey the superintendent nnd after a period of months during which time he kept tho institution in turmoil he abdicated He was a hold over from the Holcomb administration and his only recommendation was that he needed tho position to support his family Shortly after Poynter entered upon the discharge of his duties Dr Sprague went to him and Hid the Phelps case in his hands Poynter told him ho had no Interest in Phelps any more than in thousands of other men and that if Phelps was a disturbing charac ter he should bo summarily dismissed Ilying on bis Dr Sprague gave Phelps thirty days notice to quit the institution Phelps paid no attention to the notice The llrut notice was given March 1st On the last dnv of March seeing that Phelps had taken no action towards moving bib effects Dr Sprague gave him a written no tice announcing his d smiBsal This notice Phelps took to th governor and though having authorized Dr Sprague to remove Pheps Governor Poynter for some unknown reason turned a complete somerbault and in stead of upholding the superintendent r i Phelps to return to the Hi - if V rirf VifAi s - - vii l jug wc inn u iinutii n bpki 4i i i t t it disposition ol Miss AllKall Kuntlr Your un lay e wb relieved letter of Inquiry to m a hort time iko of his duties on the last day of March was courteously nnd kindly answered I stated to you Hie facts that Miss Kent lng resigned her position and turned over but stayed at the institute with his family until June 15th at which time her keys of this institution on the stli bot he and Dr Sprague retiied day of AuKiiHt ism and that she moved I ing nothing but spare t me on his Vfller eonKlnBf Vl fronl hliJ hnnds Phelps turned his attention to tutlon and has acted in no way slnee I that she then notified employe of this in- creating discord going among the em Ptltutlon that she had reined tnit I ployes aim telling them tnat they nui not dibmifcs her It was made was the case and that at that time might with impunity disobey the or IJUhlle In lleitrlee that that I jn f tl cnnwlntmnloi tI or to superintendent that he 1 made out suld vouchnrn I served and tent them to the had a pull with Governor Poynter and would buck them up When the change came and Phelps had to go per fect bedlam reigned However since April 1st Phelps salary had been held up He hail performed no services and was entitled to no pay Out he got his pay and like the Keating case it was through the instrumentality of Governor Poynter Dr Sprague resist ed payment of the claim protested that Phelps had not worked at the insti tute and was therefore not entitled to draw any pay and on learning that Governor Poynter was aiding Phelps in his effort to get the money filed with tho auditor a sworn statemont Sep tember 18th to the effect that he discharged Pholps April 1st and that from that date until Juno 15th Phelps was neither steward nor employed In niry capacity at the institute That he Sprague did not withdraw any re quest on the governor for the dis charge of Phplps nor consent to his remaining That ho made no request on the governor to discharge him for ho discharged himself as under the law as interpreted by Holcomb and tho State Board he had a right and the authority to do In tho face of this Governor Poynter wrote the following letter to Auditor Cornell being care ful however not to make oath to It I hereby certify that Mr C W Phelps was steward of the institute at Beatrice until June 20 1KW Prior to that tlm Dr Sprague the superintendent rwquosted the removal of Phelps from the steward ship but subsequently withdrew the ro quent and agreed with me that Mr Phelps shouiu be retained and he was re tained until Juno 20th V A POYNTER Governor Here It is one official under oath dpclares that Phelps was discharged April 1st and andther certifies that he was not The one who made the oath was at the Institute and lncharge of It and certalnjy ought toapeak ad viaedly The other was at the Capitol at Lincoln forty miles away and had no way of knowing the facta other than by hearsay Ther Is a glaring inconsistency in me statements of the two men Sprague says under ath that Phelps did not perform the serv ices for which he wanted pay that he peyer cpnsentedjo RhelRg remain ing and that he never recalled hs re quest for removal Poyntercertifles that he did At any rate Poynter and Phelps car ried the day and Phelps In addition to living with several of his family at the institute and doing nothing for nearly three months was allowed and paid 129221 the full salary for that time See Vougher B 86462 All provisions or nearly so are sup plied by contracts aqd therule is to award contract toth lowest bidder Th evil Of this is that th enntmota BrfMjn Pnmlbus ormandas usual ilytresulta the state pave4 snore for an article by itontract hun w ih VttttttCM It would t kKltlaate NORFOLK NEBRASKA Til THSDAY AlCJlST liKM 8TALR DUBAI FOU 1NMATKS Considerable fooling has been aroused over tho roported fact that Contractor Wolf who furnished bread to the Institute for the second quarter of tho present year delivered two kinds fresh bread for tho ofilclals and employes and stnlo broad for the Inmates When asked what became of li h stale broud Mr Wolf without re alising porhaps the force or signifi cance of tho statement replied I sell It to tho Institute Do you sell two grades of bread to the Institute Well sonic m It Is hotter than the other The old man meaning his de livery clork takoH out some fresh broad every morning but 1 dont know whether ho leaves any nt the Institute or not What 1 send out there for the Institute is the unsold bread 1 gut re turned from the grocery stores Do you over take stale bread back from the grocory stores Yes What do yon do with It 1 sell it to the institute Do you lake back any stule bread from the Institute No Other tinkers are required to sell their stale bread and do It every day for Ave cents a barrel It is used for food for hogs and hdrscH Not so with Contractor Wolf He sold his to the state for 240 per hundred pounds When asked about it Superintendent Lang persisted In a flat dental nnd de clared that ro far as he knew there was not a word of truth in It He said that he and his wife used the same quality of bread supplied to the In mates The bread lecelvcd was re ceived by the steward and not by Su perintendent Lang and Superintendent ling would tlVereforo know little or nothing about the quality of the ma terial delivered However the author ity far the statement that stale bread was delivered Is Contractor Wolf the man who delivered the goods A DEPLORABLE SPECTACLE To close the chapter which Is but a partial recitation of tho facts it Is enough to say that the Beatrice Insti tute of itself presents a bitter arraign ment of tho fusion party It Is not a pleasant subject for contemplation that this Institute designed to care for al most holpless and defensoless people should be converted into a political mad house and maintained ns n resort for broken down politicians nnd party henchmen It is bad enough that the stato should be required to btipport an army of political parasites without having the treasury exposed to the rapacity and perfidy of this same ele ment It Is no doubt true that could the records speak they would disclose some startling facts One instance is recited where a young lady who was nn ofllclnl at the institute and who Is now nn official at another institute disposed of about 50 worth of brushes manufactured by the inmates and made no report of It nor has she ever paid over the money to the state This is only one Instauco of dishonesty there are said to bo many others Odd IrmiRylvanla lnvi By a peculiar arrangement of the Pennsylvania election law votes are not canvassed for the candidate tor whom they are cast but for the ticket or tickets upon which his name ap pears Thus in the election of Chester Chester is a strong republican coun ty nnd contains the town of Chester with its large shipyards both par ties agreed last year upon Joseph Hemphill for common plens judge This is the way the oflicial canvas s was doclared Joseph Hemphill re publican 8102 votes Joseph Hemp hill democrat 4371 votes Joseph Hemphill fusion 1C43 votes Joseph Hemphill scattering 374 votes There was no other candidate in the field Rleotrlc Light for II u tig A Portuguese Inventor has patented an application of the electric light to fox and badger hunting The fox and the badger are animals tnat live in dens underground and terriers and other kind of aogs are used to dig them out of their burrows or to fight and kill them underground The In genious Portuguese conceived the Idea of attaching an electric lamp to the collar of the dog so as to light the way for him in his descent into the hole and of making the light colored so as to scare the animal and cause It to rush forth to its destruction A pntent upon this scheme has actually been granted French Celebrities at Harvard The fourth annunl lecturer of tho Corcle Francais de lUniversite Har vard wil lho Monsieur Gnston Des champs the well known literary critic of the Paris Temp3 He will sail for America early In February and will give at Harvard under the auspices of the Cercle Francais eight lectures on tne Theatre Contemporain rollover Oahei for Lord ItoberU Among the many presents sent to Lord Roberts one which Is said to have pleased hjru much was a case of Passover cakes sent to him by the Jews of London It was sent at Eas ter time and bis acknowledgement ol the gift has Just been received Hie Supposition A philanthropic lady of Pacific Heights one of the sort at superior alum raisers shown up In Fables n Slang met on one of her tours a lit tle boy who was swearing roundly She seized him at once and gave him a good shaking adding You ought o be ashamed of youroelf 1 I never heard such language since the day I wa horn The boy Into whoso desolate home she had Just been bringing light pulled hlmsolf loose Yesm he said I spose dere was a good deal o cusein de vtluy you was born San Francisco Wave Hv Tak lie Hint It Is my am Jn life bo Bald to make men bajpBier Why sot GRAND Wil CAVKHN A GREAT CAVE THAT IS IN SOUTH WESTERN MISSOURI Mj htcrliMix Drpllin Wprf tlril Kxplnrvil liy Thii Men of Slorc Ttinn Ordtnnrj Conrnue Tim Nturj lit Tlirlr IVrlloti Jouriirj Southwest Missouri Is full of strange enrth formations that are called nat ural curiosities In spite of their un naturalness The earth Is full of caves and sink holes One of tho tuoHt cele brated of these Is the Jrnntl Uuir In Oregon comity about four tulles from Koshkonong It Is a sort of ennyoti In shape not unlike a horseshoe and serves the purpose of a drainage lcd In the wet season for a li mile area of hills The canyon Is iL feet deep with a nutuinl bridge In one place and n subterranean lake and river that opens nt one end The river only exlNts dur ing the wet season for the earth at the bottom of the canyon Is porous and iiIihoi Iih lho water The lake how ever is full tho whole year round This cave containing the subter ranean river and lake had never been explored to the end till the summer of 1SS when Pat Foley a Mtloon keeper ftom Thayer with a companion per fonned the exploit Foley hud made two trips before Into the cave but luid not been able to secure a companion eotiingeotiH enough to persevete In the eiiterpiNe Each man had weakened and lettirued before the end of tho cave was reached On the third trip however Foley had with him a man of courage The entrance to the cave Is wide and deep The bed Is of broken stones over which trickles a tiny stream of water In the dry season A hundred feet In side the cavo the entrance suddenly narrows Into a hole so small that a man must get on hands and knees to pass through Iteyond this narrow hole the entrance widens into a large grotto There Is a steep hill to climb next the 111 11 descends sharply Into a lake To penetrate to the end of this lake It was necessary to lime a boat so small that it could be dragged through the narrow passage Into the grotto Foley and his companion built a boat of suitable size and hauled It through the narrow entrance They took with them also a long coll of rope a quanti ty of matches some railroad lanterns nnd four torches with cotton wadding on the ends soaked In kerosene The cave of course is perfectly dark The men used their lanterns till they got through the narrow place but to their amazement the lantern Humes Inside tho giotto slowly grew dim anil finally went out They tried to light them again but the sulphur of the matches would Hare up only to bo extinguished immediately The reason of this was that tho atmosphere was exceedingly damp and heavy The men succeeded In lighting the four kerosene torches nnd grasping one of them In each hand they made their way down the slope to the lake and stood the torches up between the rocks The torches sitiolilered like hot coals giving out very little flame The boat was dragged down to the lake the torches fastened at tho prow and stern ono end of the rope tied to a bowlder and tho rest of tho coll thrown In the bout When tho two men sat down In the frail craft they found the water rose to within three inches of the gun wales It was impossible to use oars without tipping the boat far enough to sink It so the men were forced to pud dle cautiously with their hands They forced the little craft into the unknown lake the smoldering torches lighting up the blackness for only a few feet around them Outside It was a warm summer day they knew but lusldo It was like a closed refrigerator all blackness and dampness and cold Tho wnter of the bake was ice cold and nt every few dips they hud to stop and warm their hnnds There was nothing to be seen on any side noth ing but darkness No sound could penetrate the cavern If the boat should capsize as It was likely to do with the bllghtost disturbance they would be cramped In n minute In tiro cold water without a clrnnco of help frorn tho outside After a long and tedious paddling tho bouts prow was suddenly buried in a bank of mud and gravel Foley took a torch nnd stepped out cautiously In his rubber boots into tho mud lie found he had come to the end of the luke and that a sharply Inclined wall of rock rose beforo him The saloon keeper climbed up the wall about 40 feet above the Like searching for a continuance of tho cavern But he could find none Apparently tho cav ern ended there lie returned to the boat where his companion sat The two men made their way across the lake and out through the narrow place in Bafety They had been goue an hour and their friends outside had be gun to fear an accident bad happened to them So far as people know the cave In the Grand Gulf has no outlet The Indian traditions about the cave are that It was a subterranean waterway much used at one time by boatmen who used to carry provisions In toats to the Arkansas valley If this be true the river must have been stopped up rnauy years Ago by some convulsion of na ture and the lake formed then Kan sas City Star Give the troc American ajdally new papered a plce pl antle vjU jnake WmW ai borne any where artB Cfek ew LOG JAMS Tho force They lpp iitul ltnrr Tliry Art tlriikru tip A log Jam Is one of tho most for mldahlc problems we have to encoun ter In our line of business said a Mln Rlsslppl lumberman How they begin Is dlllleult to explain A few do7cn logs will become wedged for an liiiHtant In a narrow part of a stream arid In less time than It takes me to tell It hundreds of others will come swooping down and pack themselves In an Intri cate close knit spun leaching from hank to bank and uIiuohI as solid as u rock The force tliej exert Is some thing marvelous I Miring one Jam In my section I saw a lot of logs plunge under the edge of the blockade and a Tow seconds Intel they pushed their way up through the very middle of tho pack tossing timbers as big mound as a minis waist Into the air like so many toothpicks The noise they made an they drove through the ninsH was simply den foiling It sound ed ns If the solid earth woh being torn up by Its foundations When the logs passed under tho Jam they were evi dently caught In such a way as to still further obstruct the Imprisoned stream and were hurled upward with nil the Irresistible energy of millions of gallons of rushing water Tho breaking of a Jam Is a very ticklish operation and scents to be largely a matter or liiHtlnet with old rivermen The lines and angles of strain In such a blockade are so com plicated that the best engineer In the world Is apt to go wrong In Indicating tho proper point of attack A veteran lumberman tin the contrary will often take a long look tit the mass and thei point out the key log The key log Is the timber on which the strain cen ters and when It Is blown out or piled out the pae In almost every Instance will break up of Itself I hail an old fellow In my employ a few years ago who could locate a key log nine times out of ten Ho couldnt read or write knew nothing about engineering and was unable to explain how he arrived at his cuuelislons He said It came kinder naehrril New Orleans times Democrat SHAKESPEAREAN PARTS Tho Mc lniiclittl Dune In Itiniccat ul IIii iii All The longest part In any Shakespeare an play Is Hamlet who Is beforo the audience almost constantly Ilamlet Is a constant talker and It Is surprising that In the circumstances he says so many wise tilings He has to his share lWl lines Richard III Is another long part as the character speaks 1101 lines and rr xt comes Iago with 1117 lines Henrv V has l00i lines One would suppose from seeing the representation or from looking over tie play that Othello had more lines tlun Ingo but It Is not the case for the al hint Moor has only 8SS lines Coriola nils has HS0 the Duke in Measure For Measure SS0 anil Tlrnori KSi Antony In Antony and Cleopatra does not seem a very long part Judging by tin nppeni mice of the prompt book but In reality ho has Kit lines Ilrutus In Julius Cicsar lias 7U7 Falstaff In Henry V 71 Macbeth appears a long part Judging from how much he Is on the stage In the repre sentation but In fact he has only 705 lines Roiio lias 518 which Is only a few urore than the King In Ilnrnlet who has nrl Casslus In Julius Cm sar although n first class part has but 507 liner The female parts In Shakespeares plays are not very long The actress who plays Portia has 5SD lines to study Rosnlind has 719 Cleopatra has 070 and Juliet 511 Desdemona has only i9 Uentrlco has aOi Only i0 of Shakespeares women hnvo more than 300 lines each nnd soino of the most fuiuoiiH of the great bards femi nine creations hnvo comparatively llt tlo to say Cordelia In King Lear has only 115 lines Kate in Taming of the Shrew although so conspicuous nnd voluble has but 229 while Lady Macbeth has but 211 Raltlmoro Amer ican Hume Life In Iortu Illco t To one unnccustorntsl to tropical con ditions the furnishing of tho Porto Rlcnn homo would at first sight seem meager but It is quite ample A short residence will demonstrate that nearlw 500 years of exoerleuco with the tin- pleasant features of life In the Westf Indies have been crowned by a surJ lnl of the tlttest In house furulRhlnfr as In other niatters AiiHliinii heiil wood furniture aul also wiekerwoik ami willow ware consti tute the main equipment of the par lors and lhlng minus 1pholstered fur nltuie Is unknown ami uudeslred little or nonttempt being made nt decoration except In lie mallet of embroidery nnd flue handmade lace work Hundreds of yards of crochet work are used in the embellishment of a single canopied bed This woik Is tho chief delight or tliii Porto Rlean housewife The walls are for the most part bare but here and there a painting of merit may bo seen The sofa pillow Is tho one great feature of tiie home It Is ev erywhere In every oniirelvnblo size shape anil material Ferns of glgnntle nIc anil exquisite forma I Ion as well iih broad spreading palm leaves are used lo fesloon the walls and n relied doorways Cut fiesh from day to day they lender the dark cool rooms Invit ing and nttraetlve Potted tropical IiIiiiiIh In great variety abound within nnd without the house Harpers Ma- ar i i A flnlierninnn Trlelr One day I wiih talking ildi with a number of friends said an old fisher man and I made n bet I ha I I could catch more perch than any other innn In the party In a given time The crowd picked out the most experienced fisherman In the lot and we not n day to try our luck The day before tin match I got n large glass Jar filled It with water and put some minnows In It Over the mouth of the Jai I put a piece of parchment In which I liail made some small holes Then I wenr ton point Just east of the waterworks picked out a likely spot ami sank t In jur In lie live1 first attaching a cork float to It by which I eoiihl locate It next day We went out for the Halting mntcli the following afternoon and I soon found my Ileal and anchored there The other man located a short distance away and we began The perch were Just beginning lo run and In a little while I hail pulled In ISO perch while my opponent got only 21 Thou hcj gave up and I won my bet I allowed the boys the trick before we left the llshing ground You car always In that way make n good catch of llsb that will swallow minnows The sight of the halt In the ar rt tiaets a crowd of fish and seems to ptit them In good idling humor Detroit Free Press IMiuiHtlilr lint PiiIIim The cunning of children Is xvMI rec ognized to be of a very superior kind and It Is seldom If given a chance that hey cannot Inveigle their elders Into seeing things their way The follow ing Is an instance of where a little fill slipped up on this by not taking into consideration that her mother had had enough experience with children to have an Insight Into their mil lire The gills Mi Unlay was a couple of weeks oil and her parents had told her hat they weie going to give her a handsome pieseut upon that occasion She had been counting the minutes for several days but thinking sho could not possibly await her birthday without knowing what her present would be she stolo softly up to her mother and begged her to show her tho present Why It wouldnt bo right to show It to you now her mother answered becnuse we want to surprise you on your birthday Oh thats nil right exclaimed tho little one Ill forget what It is beforo then Memphis Scimitar Wiitrh SprluKH The watch carried by tho nvernga man Is composed of 93 pieces and Its manufacture embraces more than 2000 distinct and separate operations Hairspring wire weighs one-twentieth of a grain to the Inch Ono mile of wire weighs less than half a pound The balance gives live vibrations every second 1500 every minute 18000 every hour 4I2000 every day nnd 157 080000 every year Tho value of springs when finished and placed In watches Is enormous In proportion to the material from which they are made A ton of steel mado up Into hairsprings when In watches Is worth more than 12- times tho value of tho saute weight iu puro gold ROYAL BAKING POWDER Imparts that peculiar lightness sweetness and flavor noticed in the finest cake short cake biscuit rolls crusts etc which ex pert pastry cooks declare is unobtainable by the use of any other leavening agent Made from pure grape cream of tartan ROYAL CAKING POWDER CO NLW YQBK
