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It all arose from- the fact that he took time by the ?P' P .forelock. ' the only way poor mortals r " -have of ever setting even "with him of 'the scythe and hour-Iass. . But it is this very thing that Is caus- "".n him Buch a lot of mental anguish ;.-now. -making his nights sleepless and threatening to undermine his domestic - -.peace. -. ".Mabel Thorpe laid no claims to social - "distinction when Leander met her first t some entertainment." where she ren- tJered'selectlons .of classic music In such H . i .masterly manner that he. being a '. lover of -music." was Instantly attracted - "to her side nd stayed there during the evening. For the rest she wore glasses. - - lielnp uear-sighted, and. having grad uated from an eastern college, was rather stifl" and pedantic in, her manner a grateful change from the ordinary frisky young -creatures with whom Le "ander had been associated. :. It takes all kinds pf people to make a . 'world more's the pity and lave, goes -where It-is sent.. Mabel had expected - o. hecome one of that noble army of "-martyrs, teachers, but when Leander :-. proposed she reconsidered the matter . nd thought she heard the voice of -duty bfdding her answer "yes." and without more ado she accepted him. Now, Mabel Thorpe did not expect -' her hero to Swim the Hellespont of life -- with all his armor on. but she did de mand from .him as she .had a rJsht to io-a high moral standard, for she had -not married hlin until she had seen, as - she had ' believed, his-whole past life . laid open "before her as a book. There Is no rime when a man is as weakly " sentimental and as religious as when he Js trying to live up to the standard of . pure young girl's ideal, and. Leander beenme almost an" a.igel. . . There, are very few of us capable of making human angpls of ourselves. - food .and" evil are as persistently pres . -ent in .our moral nature as light and darkness .are In our atmosphere, and ..-'. Tine serves" as the "complement of the :' - )Jher. To banish night we use the light : . .t: science, to counteract wrong we in- - yoke- divine help, but so' largely is our - wwrfdly nature Irt excels of our splrit--t:ai' powers that we are constantly In -thinner rf erring tp be forgiven in . ' ether .words, sinning and repenting. "- -.' MabI Thorpe believed in an Inflexi ble uprightness. The command to do evil that good may come was to her a perverted text. She was not aware that - ' there are sins -of omission, as well as of - '-commission and that her uprighteous - condemnation of sinners and her severe Judgments were in themselves of a sin ful nature. The self.righteous are often harder "to live with than the sinner. Leander Clarke had t-efcn a. good son and he intended to be a good husband. He was both proud and- fond of his "wif but certainly regretted that he .could not' give, her air Ihe luxuries that "she could .appreciate -not even the srand pian.o that her musical talent de served. But he went to- work with a will to- make her happy and hoped In a.:fw years- to be able to add all other -needful things. Among the wedding presents of the young couple w?s one that far out- t-hone-all the" rest a superb set of dia- . . mon'ds. sent by an uncle of Leander's .,. who was near to death and gave the FOUND HIM LYING ON THE FLOOR. resMue of a large estats in this extrava- sant present. "I neyer -was so pleased in my life." . he s.id. "Diamonds represent tome the "crystallization of everything beautiful -.in art and nature. I never dreamed .. that I should possess such " magnifi- ; cence." " -"B.ut these- have .no associations," - said-, her husband. "They are not helr- - looms." . "They will be. All diamonds were -new. at some time. And are they- not associated with the dear old man who '-. - av them?" : -T.li'e dear old man had been a terror ""m the .'family and had only given the " diamonds to Leander's wife because he ' "hated that nephew a little less than the .other, whom he hoped to make hor ribly jealous, and angry and had suc-teeded- - .When Leander asked his wife to keep - --'her. diamonds in the. bank she promptly ' .declined. "But you surely wil. not wear them. " ; dearF he suggested. -.' ""Why -not?" she asked. "It would injure our prospects and not be consistent with our position." ."'Tlj'ey are a gift to. me. Surely I have . the Tight to do as I please with my own.". - -." ""The right yes. but I thought- my wife had more discretion. I did not know- you cared for gew-gaws, Mabel." - -So "the'first cloud came on the horizon . of" their love, but Leander was goqd- .... "tempered and .Mabel satisfied, and it disappeared. The truth was that Le- - ander had expected a handsome sum of :" money -from this very uncle, who was a bachelor and very eld. But age had -."' not mellowed an ugly disposition to .. -thwart his relarives, and after raising ;"; the.young man's hopes he took a ma- -"-licious pleasure In disappointing them. . " ' -The young couple began life in a .pfe'tty furnished cottage on the .modern -.plan of a chafing-dish and hand-paint- -cd-china, and it worked like" a charm. tf"hen Leander had a chance to buy shares in -the "Little Catawba" Lum- ' :ber "company -and to make as much in three-months as he would in a year by his clerkship Mabel would not listen, to the suggestion that the bank would ad- vance .enough' on the diamonds to en- Vable .him "to make the investment. Then Leander discovered that his wife could be a very obstinate woman, .'--ft was ia Tain -that be laid before her the .benefit, that would result from a .'transient disposition of the gems. ". "I wish." be aaM te toaea of invect- tve, "that targlan woaM set the hate ' ful.stoaea. Tfaey jnight at least be of some goe fa them!"- " It to aaM. that curs, like chickens. ' .come base to roost. After Leander had " asked fergtvesjess for his rudeness and exteaded the oMt fS. lltfi branch of reconciliation he suggested that she be doubly careful of her cher- l Ished possessions. The town is full of 'burglars and they know the people who have fine diamonds, and if they, once set out to get them they'll succeed." Mabel' did not sleep with the dia monds in the same room. Womanlike, she thought if she secreted them .in some place where they would never be detected they would be safe. . . . -' One night there was a crash In the 'room below. -Mabel shook her sleeping husband, and whispered in his ear: "Burglars! Get your revolver and go downstairs. The diamonds are In the bottom of the clock." Leander was startled and confused, but as the noise continued he hurried on his clothes, and. taking his revolver", ran softly down the stairs. Mabel re fear. There was a fearful commotion mained where she w.-w. shlvenng with below, the noise of falling furniture, opening and closing of windows, and the rapid firing of the revolver' after some, flying roober. Then regard for her husband's life compelled .Mabel to hurry' to his assistance. She found him lying on the floor grasping his revolver. She did not faint nor shriek, but. kneeling . beside him. bathed his face and besought him to speak to her. "Where am I?" he asked feebly as he tried to raise himself. "Are the dia monds safe?" "Never mind the diamonds." said his wife; "are you mortally wounded any where?" "I don't know," answered Leander feebly, and to her credit be it recorded, Mrs. Leander assisted her husband to a couch and sent off, or rather, called, for assistance before she even thought of her diamonds. Then the open door of the clock told the whole story the diamonds were gone root and branch! And they were the only things stolen If Leander had been surprised at the manner -of his wife on receiving the jewels he was astonished at the calm indifference with which she parted from them. She allowed the usual course to be taken to recover the thlefl or thieves, to justice, but when no results followed she said, she was glad of it; that the gems hadTbeen like an evil eye to them, and for her part she never wanted to hear of them again. "I wonder.' she said, "that I did not see it In that light before. I will never keep anything in my house again to tempt the cupidity of the wicked or un fortunate. To that extent am I my brother's keeper." But the effect upon her husband was entirely different. Either he caught cold on that night of the burglary or his nervous system received a shock, for he was almost ill from the effect of his tussle with the burglar. And he could not endure to have the subject mentioned before him. Not even the successs of the "Little Catawba." in which a friend had invested for him. gave him the peace and rest he craved. A little incident that happened at that time did. however, help to restore him to his normal condition. His wife received a small package, accompanied by a soiled and delapldated note, which, upon being opened, read: "honored madam: i gets no sleap sence 1 stoal yure dimons I no yure Ialdy an I am a retch if i giv them up pra fur me. "an unnonefrend." And-In the package Mabel found her diamonds, exactly as she had last seen them. She was pleased where is the wom an who would not have been? and she at once showed her confidence in her husband by placing the gems in his hands for safe keeping in the bank. "I wish I had taken your advice ear lier." she said gracefully; "it would have saved us so much trouble." Leander murmured something about all being well that ends well, and at noon brought her a certificate of de posit. There we leave them, on the way to fortune and happiness if if Leander's conscience does not upset the whole scheme. He would give a great deal to know, what no clairvoyant conld tell him. how much or little Mabel has dis covered. My own opinion Is that she saw through It from the first and holds herself equally guilty, as accessory after the rime, and with that sweet fickleness which even an upright -woman employs she will make herself a loving accomplice. For It is a foregone conclusion that Leander Clarke was his own burglar. Saved by a Woman NVrvv. A woman's nerve saved herself and her husband from death at Middle town, N. Y., the other afternoon. While Mme. Da Coma was riding a bicycle"'on .a wire suspended over the Walkill river her husband sitting on a trapeze hung from the bicycle, the guy wire gave way and the main strand sank twenty feet. Mme Da Coma remained in her seat and plunged down the loop. The rear wheel left the wire and the front wheel started up the incline. The bi cycle see-sawed several times- and final ly stopped. When the electric launch came under them the woman climbed down, and her husband, hanging by his feet, iowered her at arm's length and she dropped into the launch. Da Coma also reached the launch without Injury. 1 Indiana Danrinc for Rain. The Sac and Fox Indians have adopt ed a new method to get-rain. They "ap pointed one day last week for all their tribes to meet at Perry. Ok., to dance for rain, and at the same time they in vited several neighboring tribes to join the festivity for the much-needed show ers. Large numbers of. Indians met and commenced dancing till Sunday's flood came, and this so buoyed them up 1 that they still dance that rain may still come. Before they commenced their festivals, they moved their wigwams , from the bottoms to the nigh lands. saying that the rains would flood the low lands. A Game with Stroojj Featnrr. The onion sociable is the latest-innovation in sociables. It is played as .follows: The young ladies stand in a row; one of them bites a. piece out of an onion and the men pay 10 cents for. the privilege of guessing 'who the biter is. The successful guesser kisses the other girls, and those who are unsuc cessful kiss the girl who bit the onion. The game is said to be a catchy one and is not without its strong features. Kotatia tHmkm. "Charlie Van Braam has wheels in his head!" exclaimed Amy to her friend, the high school girl. "Don't yon know that expression i horrid slane?" asked Mildred. t "Ia itr replied Amy, innocently. '. "It is." "What should I say to express the same idea?" . "Sar that his cranium ts amnlw atia. lied with routine disks." 1 MISS ANTHONY'S ANNUITY. Bach! Totter Avery Oa. for Bi.r. Few women have received a greater tribute than did Susan B.. Anthony a Atlanta, Ga.. a short time -ago, when Miss Will Allen Drumgoole, the popular Southern author, said in her address at the Capital College; "It is a great thing to be the mother of a great cause. Tears, ago there flashed upon. the world a woman; she had no other .announcement than the 'wild scheme' she had mothered. Wherever she went the hiss, the sneer, the finger of scorn were to follow. Yet she pushed right on; the implacable enemy of slavery in vanity's dress the mother of an unborn cause. To me she stands majestic among women; to me she is the grandest picture in -the book of our time; to me, like the prayer of my childhood, the name of Susan B. Anthony holds something grandly, solemnly, pathetically, magailcently sacred. Whatever ntay have been her blunders, whatever her faults, still she fought for women. And since she fought for women, in the name of wom anhood, let no man cast a stone at her. She is one of those who will never die; her name will go thundering down the ages long after you and I are forgotten, while her cause the child for" which she sacrificed so much that makes a woman's life dear to her, will live, and throb, and thrive, and flourish' long after she has found refuge under moss and marble. And her name shall out-, wear the marble that shall cover her great heart; posterity shall weave for her a crown that old Time cannot touch. You may refuse her a hearing" today, deny her the rose and the laurel, but to morrow 'shall avenge her; and already tomorrow is dawning. Upon the West ern slope where her sun goes down al ready the rose of the new day is reflect ing." Another woman who strongly ad mires Miss Anthony is Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery. She has not delivered an eloquent eulogy upon .her "cause," but she has raised an annuity of $300 a year for the great prophetess of the suffragists. A BAD BREAK. Made by aa Iaexaerleaeed Undertaker , at a Faaeral. I ex-governor of Massachusetts An tells the following, illustrative of a call- i ing for business: Two brothers had for many years done an undertaking business in a suburban town. The elder had a son, Thomas, and desiring" to es tablish him In life, obtained from his i younger brother a promise that Thomas I should be taken into the business when- t ever he (the eldery . should die. The ! promise was obtained, m spite of a feeling on the brother's part that Tom had no calling for the business. The elder soon died and Thomas became his uncle's partner. He made good' pro gress and was 'soon sent to arrange for the funeral of a wealthy man who left as his chief mourner a widow who had already buried two husbands. The young man returned, having made sat isfactory arrangements as to carriages, music, flowers, etc., much to his uncle's joy. who now felt that he had mis judged tne Doy. un tne following aay , escape, is quite suflicient to enable the the uncle himself went to see that all sportsman to take aim and place a was going smoothly and found Mrs. X, large, substantial bullet in a vital part in high dudgeon. Expressing his re- I 0f the tiger's body, gret and surprise, he told Mrs. X. that j At present," says the inventor of Tom had returned on the previous day this system in a letter to the Scien with everything arranged apparently tific American, "I use a battery of six satisfactorily, and asked her what was ; iarge cejs giid with sal ammoniac. It the matter. js very heavy and cumbersome and "Well." she replied, "Tom did very ' the light only a five - candle power well until we discussed the time at which the services should be held. I had not quite made up my mind, when Tom. meaning to help me out, said: At what time have" you been accus tomed to bury your husbands, .ma dam?' " IN THE NEW COUNTRY. M.viag Day Ha No Terror, .for Okla homa Woarn. Moving day in Oklahoma has none of the terrors for the housekeeper that it j brings to those who live in more con servative places, for there, very often. the house itself is carted away without j "At' about two yards" from the bat even disturbing its mistress in her tery -.there is a connection. I think household occupations. It seems a lit- , caiied a male switch. A short line of tie queer to look out of the window and f w-rer aDOut 3 or 4 feet long, makes the see a house-being taken along by trot- j connection to the fore end of my rifle; ting horses, while a woman Is uncon- j at one end of this short length is' a fe cernedly preparing the family meal ' ma-e swjtch to fit on to the above male over a hot cooking stove, but it is not j 0ne, and at the other end two small an unusual spectacle down there. When i r-nes are fastened bv two big-headed nearby towns are laid out in new coun tries there is sure to be a duel between two of them, and one kills the other. When a certain village becomes vic torious the inhabitants of its opponent put their houses on wheels, hitch teams to them and join the enemy's forces, without taking the trouble to. disturb their good wives. The Golden State. California might be called the Golden i -., State as much because of the gold of its flowers as that of its mines. No one will .dispute its claim to this title who has seen its roadsides gay with orange hued poppies, its meadows radiant with yellow daisies and wild mustard and its hillsides glowing with masses of yellow bloom. During the month of April in Southern California every tone in the gamut of yellow color is struck. Now and again, like an accented note. a yellow hilltop lifts itself sharp against the deep and clear blue of the sky, and perhaps beyond comes a glimpse of white breakers and a. white beach. The foothills, mantled with the vivid green of Spring, roll away to where the snow mountains shine in the distance. Over all. shed through an at mosphere, of crystal purity, pours a flood of sunlight, lending' to the land scape that luminous quality which has won for Southern California the name of Our 'Italy. Wife Yon told that centleman rnnM I charge by the day for movin'-hisfur-1 niture. Why don't yon charge by the! load like von naed to? Husband (a farnitare over That . new horse is balky. Hark- IWitore! iBright - eyei Faaey, havering o'er.. : Scatters froai her pIctHr'd urn ( Thoughts that breathe and words that . BETO. NIMBOD'S LATEST. APPLIED TO NOBLE SPORT THE JUNGLES.' IN The Tiger Startled at Hi. Wortr F. iag Wfifs the Light Is T.raed Oa. It. Allow, the SporUmM to Take a Dmdly Ala LECTRICITY HAS now been applied t o tiger-hunting, and the sportsman in the Indian Jungle before he pulls the trigger of his gun touches a button, which throws a flood of light upon his prey. This may rob tiger- - hunting of milch of "its romance, but it is effective and thus far several large, well-developed tigers have been gathered in as a result of the clever arrangemenL It has been found almost impossible to draw tigers into the open during the day near thickly settled parts of India, but at night this is easily accomplished by placing a dead carcass in some con venient place,, where the hunter may lie hidden in ambush. But after the tiger, has scented the blood of the dead ani mal and has begun to tear the carcass, it is difficult for the hunter to take aim without seeing him. - This has now been obviated by hang ing an electric light directly over the carcass. At the instant that the light is turned on the tiger is so startled by its appearance that he does not move. Wmm ffcYjaWMMMaMg-jrTBMPBaWaBwl WfVTKZ9fSftUtlftG HUNTING TIGERS AT NIGHT BY ELECTRIC LIGHT. Tigers are not in the habit of looking up and it takes several seconds before the animal realizes where the new strange light comes from. This pause, which he. makes before endeavoring to l lamp. Its recommendations are that j the battery is good for the next ten years and only wants an occasional fill ing up of the cells with water and some times a little fresh sal ammoniac. As I can only go shooting during six months of the year, this, is a great ad vantage. The method of using is as follows: From the box containing the cells I have a line of wire (double of course), say 30 to 40 feet long, slipped onto each end of the box by butterfly nuts, the lamn. which is tied to a branch of a tree immediately over, say' 20 feet high, the baifbeing at the other end. screws to the bed of the connection. On nearing the tiger at the kill, I aim as nearly in the direction as I can, then a slight pressure of the thumb makes the electric connection and the light opens right over the tiger." This scientific sportsman also em ployed accumulators, but they did not seem to be adapted to such rough work. He is now fitting himself with. a bat- terv which mav be carried in the belt , - T 1 like cartridges. Thirty such batteries carried in this way would, It is estimated; be suflicient to provide a sixteen-candle power light. This system of night hunting, it has been suggested, might well be em ployed in hunting big game in the Rockies. Depew on the Soath. " The great opportunities of our coun try are in the -south. The flood of im migration which has been pouring into this country for fifty years has sought the west, the north-west and the Paci fic coast. In these southern states we find, as nowhere else in the country, the original stock which fought at Cow pens and -King's mountain and York town. The composite of all races which has- developed the continent from the great lakes to the Pacific has set a standard of progress difficult to sur pass. They had the advantage of vir gin soil and uninhabited regions in which to locate and build their Com monwealths and found their cities. The intelligent patriotism of the 80athera people in the last garter of a centary has overcome difficulties which seemed insurmountable. A recsnition of the assimilating and ele- vating power of education has created (the new -South with its hospitable in r vitation and boundless resources. The young men of the south have no call to tempt fortune in the crowded -cities ' of the north or the east. At their doors and within their own states are their missions and their cares. Chauacey M. ' Depew. DEATH ON THE WHEEL. Ow-ExcrtlM Is Oa. th. the irtMitak Beghuier. tflthin a week or two several xien have died at the end of long bicycle trips. That argues nothing against the wheeL A man with a weak heart or a weak system should be as chary of hard exercise with his hands or arms as with his .tegs. Men have died Of exertion in walking, irk swimming, in climbing; in dancing, in singing, in eat ing. Nobody would caution us against these practices because one person in a couple of million, had found them fatal: There Is an ever-present temptation in wheeling to Overdd. The delight of skimming over a good road is so keen that the. traveler goes further than he intended at the outset He gives no thought to 'distance, he hears the birds in the trees and tinkle of brooks across the stones, he Inhales the fragrance tf clover and honeysuckle and new-mown hay, he bares his brow to the breeze that is made by the progress of his ma chine, aqd.he finds a joy in the smooth, easy, graceful motion of the wheel. Presently he- discovers that he is fif- I-teen," twenty, thirty miles. from home. ana mat nis atnner wm oe reaay in .two hours. Then, with muscles al ready strained and the best of the ride over, he puts about and labors at a speed he. is not disposed for, something of worry being added to the work, and -arrives, home in a fagged condition. When a man is lightly dressed, has a light wheel, and has gradually ac quired facility in its management he can do things that a man who rides only for pleasure cannot do. The dif ference in weight between a racing wheel and a "roadster" is slight when - one lifts the two, but it tells severely on the muscles in a day's run. When the man on the heavy wheel, or the un- practiced man. attempts to keep up with a trained man on a light wheel he ! " 'My old father looked at me with an is in the same position as the fat man ( expression of mingled pain and aston who tries to run with an athlete. His ' ishment. strength is soon exhausted, and in time. My son,' said he, 'would you' he must suecumb to the strain. J -pardon me, father,' .1 interrupted: 'there can be no discussion of the mat- Yoanc Rather Muhap. ter so far as I am concerned.' And I Minnie Young, 12 years old, of Will- I immediately retired from the circle, iamsburg, N. Y., while bathing in one . while consternation was undisguised en of the free baths there, met with a sin- the face of every one presenL' I went gular accident. She fastened her bath- j straight home, realizing that I had ing suit with a three-inch darning ! made a doubtful success of my' ruse. needle, and. as she was climbing out ' but unable to see what other course I of the water on the steps, the needle') could have taken. I had scarcely seated ran full length into her side. -Minnie i myself, however, humiliated over the fainted. She was removed to a hospi- very peculiar chain of circumstances tal. where it is said her condition is ' which had brought about my embar- critical. rassment, when two members of the '- party dashed- up in a carriage and THE WILFUL WORLD. Farmers in Cornelius. Ore., are sow- charm had been found on - the tray ins tares of the scriptural sort for hay. which had been taken from the table Gideon Strong, a Knox county, Tenn., by one of the waiters. Of course I went man. fired a gun to drive a burglar l with them, and perhaps you can imag away and scared his own daughter to ine n0w greatly I was relieved by the d One' of the seven survivors of the de- ! UtCOme f th" affaIf' fense of Fort Sumter is a man named I ' "There, was a multitude of apologies Doran, who was in the fort on a visit from all. but none more profuse than when the trouble began. r Gold leaf of any thickness down to one-four-millionth of an inch is now be ing made by electrolysis, and, accord ing to Invention, at -such rates as threaten to extinguish the gold beater's art Some burglars In Fort Scott, Kan., after raiding a house, found a police man who had evidently been overcome by "that tired feeling." He was sitting on a shaded stoop sound asleep. They robbed him of his uniform and his boots PRINTERS' INK. One word mav make or mar an art Some papers ha-e good circulations. I and some PaDers hav sood circulation Kara i . Too much shouting in advertisements , " I may frighten people with money and sensitive nerves. The man who does not advertise In summer is like the man who does not sprinkle his lawn in dry weather. Brevity in ad construction is effective, j o and Yes are the -most moving, most ' . pregnant words In our language. The Washington Times offers a mar riage license and a marriage ceremony in exchange for a coupon cut from its columns. When a person is In need of an ar- ' tide, he goes and buys it. but he alSO f often buys what he doesn't need, be cause It Is attractively advertised. It is a curious fact that the man who thlnks "advertising doesn't pay" Is the one who is most ready to talk' about a' libel suit if a paper publishes something he doesn t like. - . . .... , Have you ever noticed what a little cause will start a crowd, and how quickly it disperses after the cause is removed? and how advertising draws a f big crowd to a store, but the crowd melts away when the advertising tops? The style and wording of an adver- ( tisement should be determined' upon af- ter the medium, or class of media, in which it Is to appear has been selected. An advertisement that Is profitable In a high-class publication can hardly be ex pected to be sc in one o a very differ ent class.- Boston and Baltimore have about the same population, yet Boston has M per cent more daily papers than Baltimore; San Francisco has SO per cent more than Cincinnati, and Dayton. Ohio, has twice the number in Atlanta, and three : times the number In Memphis, although j the relative population of the cities is ' about the same. Printer's Ink. I TALE OF DOUBLOONS. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IS NOT ALWAYS SAFE. Aa Aaterlcaa mmta". Ti7uqf PrMflca Mt While h a rriKa Laa4 HI. Mhjaaat Ma WkH CatH itr thiaff Wm lathtfactwrffcr HE . MOST ESt- barrasslag situa tion I was ever placed in was. I think, when visit ing my parents in Munich, during my sojourn in Europe, in 1882," said Col. George Gaston, to a Kansas City Jour nal reporter the other day. "I was sitting with my father anr a number ot others, discussing one thing and an other in a pleasant way over suitable refreshments for such an occasion and according to the custom of the place, when the subject of ' money was broached.. There was In the party ah aged gentleman who wore suspended from his watch guard a gold piece, a Spanish doubloon, upon which had been soldered a small ring. He disconnected it from the chain and passed it around for inspection, with considerable appa rent pride, commenting upon the rarity of the piece. ."Now it happened that I was in pos session of a pendant of identically the same kind, which had been given me by Mr. .William Mulkey. of Kansas City. The courtesy due to an elder, which is strictly observed among well-bred peo ple, particularly noticeable' in that part of Europe, suggested that I should say nothing about my possession, and to make it .doubly sure that he retain the undisputed ownership of a genuine cu riosity, I quietly removed my own doubloon and put it into my pockeL "The conversation went on. and after a time the old gentleman began fumb ling about his pockets, searching the table and looking from one to another of the jarty with a pained expression on his face. His doubloon was miss ing. Everybody at once took a hand in the search, but it could not be found. - " 'Let everybody be searched.' blurt ed out a younger member of .the party, who was apparently fearful lest he himself might be suspected of secret ing the curiosity. 'And begin on this side of the table and go 'rounfl,' he con tinued, putting a hand carelessly on my arm!" I "I realized at once that -I was in a trying position. You can readily sec for what reason. Metaphorically I 1 sweat drops of blood. It would not do that -my own donblopn should be brought to light now, so. straightening myself up. I assumed a look of stern determination, and said: " 'Gentlemen. I sincerely regret" the necessity'of interposing an objection to J tnat which may be a custom among 'gentlemen here; but I am an American . and cannot submit to such an indignity at a place where I am a guest.' begged me to return with them .it once, informing me fiat the missing from the excitable individual who had i suggested the search, and he was made. to feel that he had committed an af- ' front to everybody else at the table, as well as to myself. "I was not willing to leave them in l the false Impression that my extremely dignified course was -altogether due to , a sense of cbivalric honor, so; asking the old gentleman to allow me to sec the recovered gold piece, I took my own doubloon from my pocket and made a full explanation of the circumstance that prompted me to object to the hasty proposition that came from the rather excitable young man of the party. And perhaps you can imagine the sense of .-.. - ..AliAr .h,h awwii An Awl " & click muti-u a ujni icuu. : Paper Can. Cans made of paper pulp are being introduced to take the place of tin cans for rnntaininer all kinds nf nrMprvprl prodncts. The occasional cases ' of . . , . . poisoning from canned goods are due to the contents becoming tainted through the cans not being air tight. Many millions of tin cans are used an nually by canned -goods factories in this country, and such cases of injury frnm -taintPii ?nndo ar. enmnarari! from tainted goods are comparatively rare: hut because it is noasihle rhrnneh slight defects in the solder, or minute breaks in the ca'ns, for such danger -to result, tne canners nave oeen looking for a satisfactory substitute for tin. It IS ueiieveu umj. mia naa ai last oeen fonart in ne DaDer Duln can, Thpv ar. is believed that this has at last been ;,., , .. ., -' : ""-""" -- "" :", cot exPand or contract; and will stand ' as much rough usage in shipment as tin cans, and perhaps more. . . t The potato a a Reantifler. You take a new potato and grate it finely, and then use it instead of soap to wash with. The juice of the potato, raw, of course, contains some ingredi ent that acts quickly and beneficially ! on the skin. Who enters "not the lists, and is nc sharer. With swift contestants in life's best pursuing. -How shall he claim to be an honored wearer Of flawless crowns of doing. A BOTTOMLESS PIT. h n A ahl.W ' Among the most remarkable na ture's wonders the subterranean pit at Jean Nouveau. near Yaucluse. France. whlci reaches a depth of 540 feet, while nowhere more than 12 feet wide, has only recently been explored. Tho French Society of Speleology (cttv study) erected a derrick at the mouth of the pit. which begins with a funnel 15 feet wide at the top and narrows down to 3 feet at a depth of about 20 feeL From here down the crevice in the rock, for such It is. extends ver tically, getting wider as it gets deeper, until at a depth of about 475 feet it is 12 feet wide. At this point the shaft opens into a roomy cave in which jnst beneath the opening of the vertical pit a thick layer of clay, containing re mains of bones, both human and ani mal, were foand. The explorers found no evidence that the place had ever been visited by man. bu tradition has it that criminals were thrown into the "bottomless pit," as it was popularly called in the neighborhood, and the remains in the cave just beneath the shaft tend to corroborate this belief. The descent made into the shaft was exceedingly difficult; It established the fact that there, must be a further cave below- the one now known, but the crevice through' which It is accessible, is choked up with' debris and holders so that it will be a very difficult mat ter to penetrate further into the cave than has been done. The deepest point reached in this crevice is 593 feet underground. Great quantities of wa ter rush through the shaft every time there is a storm, still no trace of water was found in-the cave explored, which proves that some other subterranean exit must exist. -AN UNUSUAL SIGHT. Th .Wan Beat ia Revereat Prayer Re fore a Window. It was a singularly touching scene. The busy crowds on Barclay street stopped laughing, but lingered rever entially, says New York Recorder. A man stood before the window of one of the big Catholic goods stor.s. Within were several life-size figures of the Saviour and in the center sat the Vir gin Mary, with the Christ-child in her arms. The man outside stood with his head, bared and slightly bowed. His hands 'hung, down by bis sides. In' one he held his old cloth cap. His honest. rugged face was full of homely intelli gence. His clothes were poor. On his feet he wore the heavy boots of the street laborer. They were gray with the ciay of the trench. But his posture was noble. His was no ostentatious worship, though he chose the crowded street for his adoration. He did not bend a knee. There was only a slight inclination of the big. well-formed head, just tinged with whitening hairs. No muttered prayer passed bis lips. He asked no favor of God or man. His was the devout worship of an earnest man unconscious of his surroundings. And so he stood for full five minutes, while the jostling crowds passed him wonderingly by, surging gently -toward the curb that they might not by rou3h contact disturb bis solemn meditations A Doable Cae of Shin. A hunter near Petoskey. Mich., chased a bear cub up a tree. A moment later the old mother bear hove in sight roaring terrifically. The man. shinned up the tree with alacrity only to finri himself between a snarling cub and a growling bear. He yelled lustily for severai hours until help arrived. TEXAS SIFTINGS. The man who lends a hand too often frequently finds himself without a leg to stand on. There has been no entirely successful machines invented yet for setting typ or settlnjr hens. It's the man without much mind who always "has a mind to do" something and never does it. How much easier It I? to tell others how thoy ought to walk, than it is-to stp right ourselves. Advice Is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the. deep er it sinks Into "the mind. After a young woman g"ts "to b 30 she stops calling attention to her birth days by Riving parties. If there has been n temptation, there, can be no mrit: if t-hf-re lias been no struggle, there can be no victory. "I see most of your hair is gon" said Brown to Burton. "Yes." replied Bur ton, "it's left for Darts unknown." Many people who claim to be wedd.l to their art seem to have been overtaken with divorce proceedings from the out set. RELIGIOUS. Fear nothing so much a- sin and your moral heroism is complete. C.' Sim mons. The Salvation Army does a vast amount of charitable as well as relig ious work. The ruins of tne Church- of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem are now being restored. at great cost. It is estimated that the Protestant churches of America. Great Britain and Europe are represented in their work for other lands by D.0OO missionaries. A society har been organized in Lon don called the. Police Court Mission, to help in reclaiming person?, espedally young men. who are arrested 'on com paratively flight charges. A promising missionary work in Chi nese Tartary carried. on by Swedish mis sionaries has been unmolested' by the war. and receives the recognition of both the English and Russian political agents. The Salvation Army continues to pen etrate into the new countries and es tablish" its banner there. Preparations are now 'being made to open a head oiarters in Iceland, and a native Ice lander who has been trained In Winni peg. Canada, is appointed to the com-mandership- An interesting experiment is being, tried in Rochdale. England. All the young men of the congregation who possess musical instruments, and can play'them. have been invited to bring them to the evening service, and to ac company the singing. The result so far has been satisfactory. RevJ James A. Worden. D.D.. has been presented by his Targe interde nominational class ot Sabbath School teachers and superintendents In Phila delphia with a purse containing 11.060 In gold. Dr. Worden, since the fall of 1885. has been teaching the lesson of the next day on Saturday afternoons to a Iarge class, which ha? asked him to accept It to defray the expenses of a proposed Europeaa trip. Ma the Mm ' aaa.1. at Xatava. Cotaibv-BUta-Bail 1 fljllaVNatJI TaMlflO tta.lM.ll ft BUYS GOOD NOTES OWWK1MMM AJTD DUCTOMR' LgaTOCT QBaVinD, Pha't, '.: B. H. Hmr, Vico Front, ' ' M. BncooM, Caher ' Jobs 6tauTfxb. . O.W.HulrC' COLUrH.IUS.NKB.. AiKMrizM Capital if - $500,001 Fatfil Capital, - 30,010 omens. 0.aLSMXLDOW.PrM'V ' - ' . aL P. H. QEHLSICB. Tic Fias. OLABK GBAT. Cashter. DANIEL SCHBAM.Aas'lOaah OIKKCTORS. H.M. WrasLOw. ' B.P.H.'Osaxaicn. O. B. SamxDOsr. W. A. McAiXianaV Josraa Waxes; CAnz.Rxnsaav - STOCKHOLDERS. J: H19BT GnBaunn Looxs. Hranr cians: Omar. GaaW.GAtur. Bassoca . Bscn ia. boauMaa. 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