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--.: . - &' - K-- . . r' i . '-,- . . - . VOttLttfi XXVL-NUMBteH; 50. MISS DINKER'S THfiFl ' 6 one-knew hew it was Jrst discovered1 thai Miss Dinker was a kleptomaal- acr but it was a fact; and people made the best ef it bid 'Miss Dlaker was toierably well 6ff, or her habit of appropriating ether . -people's property weuid have got her into trouble. .Brit Cummiased was-used to Miss Dinker'. When she visited the village store afid tfut a piece of tape tip her sleeve the . watchful shopman added its pried to her bili. Wheh she took a neighbor's forks the neighbor sent a polite mes sage to Miss jane Dinker t6 hate them restored, and Miss Jan6; wh was o4d Miss dinker's hlecte, would Arid them up chimney or down cellar and restore them. .. - , - ,- - Old Miss Dinker knew that she was . deserving; of blame in thus indulging her desire for stolen fruit, but, as she ' ofteh remarked when reasoned with, . she "couldn't help it" . , She was a generous old lady, too, and kindly, and if she taught Jane that mart was a deceiver and that spinsterhood was blessed, Bhe meant well. Capt Richard Murphy told another story when his ship lay in port and he himself rested at a little hotel in Cum minseed. And Jane, won over by his merry voice and jolly ways, forgot her aunt's precepts and one day ran away with him. leaving a penitent little note for her aunt and begging her forgive ness. The old lady was naturally Indig nant, but when, three days later, the captain brought Jane back under his arm, established her in a beautiful lit tle house which he had purchased, and . sent for the old lady to make up, Miss Dinker relented, took tea with her niece, and deigned to approve of her choice, and so the village scandal was silenced for awhile and people called on Mrs. Capt. Murphy. They lived together for five years in great contentment, and a little boy was born to them, and all went on prosper ously; but at the end of that time the sword that always hangs by a hair over the head of a seafaring man's wife fell at last. The captain's vessel was a wreck and the captain and crew per ished in mid-ocean, and Jane, after hop ing against hope, and refusing to be lievo when no one else doubted, and listening night and day for a step that came not and could never come, ac cepted the truth at last and put on her widow's cap and took the awful truth in place of suspense, and tried to live and bear it for her boy's sake. Then there came from some far-off place a man who proved himself the captain's brother, and who claimed the property, alleging that Jane Dinker had never been married to him at all. Jane was furious, but she could only vow that a clergyman of the Episcopal church had married her. She could not re member the name of the church nor of its pastor, nor had she what the brother called " 'er lines." The marriage cer tificate, as she declared, the captain al ways kept among his private papers and had tn.'vn to sea with him. She advertised in a New York paper for the clergyman who had performed the service, but no answer came, and finally the law and popular opinion de clared that the widow had never been a wife, and she was left poverty-stricken and helpless, and not a friend in the world but old Miss Dinker. She came out nobly, though Jane had been away with the captain to New York and was not to be accounted for for three days; and though she could not prove her marriage, old Miss Dinker insisted upon . "SAINT GRACES CHURCH." SHE SAID, it that "she couldn't help being decent, with her bringing up." . Alas! all the rest of Cumminseed held - -fOBtrary opinion. They remembered "having thought it wasn't right." They shuddered at the thought of having as sociated with such a creature, and won dered how she bad dared impose upon them so. They sent her to Cov entry and tabooed her. I think some cf the dear creatures would have tarred and feathered her if they could. Jane . Dinker had the comfortable Yankee pride of respectability in its Yankee sense strong within her soul, and this scorn quite crushed her. She hid her self from human eyes as much as pos sible and went thankfully home with old Miss Dinker, whose income had grown smaller in these years and who really showed great generosity in tak- ing her disgraced niece to her bosom. But Jane, thankful as she felt, could not be glad to go. The old home seemed gloomier than ever and the change was terrible. Then, after having plenty and to spare, to be a poor dependent was very, very hard; to have nothing .for her little boys amusement and to know that she would never be able to dress him as she hoped; all this was hard to bear, though nothing like the shame and disgrace of her position, and, to add to her unhappiness. Miss Dinker's peculiarity had developed itself immensely. And now that she had countenanced poor Jane and opened her house to her she also had lost her friends and people grew hard upon her. "You'll tell your aunt. Miss Jane, that I shall proceed to law if I lose another spoon.'' said one angry matron, to whom Jane had been forced to speak, and she, poor soul, flushed hotly and answered: I "You'll be kind enough to call me Mrs. Murphy after this." And the visitor retorted: "You've about as much right to that name, I believe, as your aunt has to my spoons." Poor Jane! It wat very bard upon her. So, when her boy grew older there a m. I : FH aa -f um aal iliHr I i LI jL( -3? .were children sear by who, If he vem-1 ttmmmmmmmtklmmammi , , j&. dragged away' as taeagfi bS had the plague. And when Jake would hare placed him at one good school. Aunt pinker having allowed the money, the lady who presided thereover gently hinted that it would sot lid: . And little Richard, ciiigiag to her hand, asked as they treat home: "What Is it, mamma r Then poof Jane wished that she were dead; .Old Miss Dinker called-in. high dudgeon upon the" bid schoolmistress and remonstrated In vaiii. The fact that she stole a spelling-book during her brief stay did not further iter ob ject. When a little boy was sent for it ii. d J - ... . . ii ... ii. i -i ii: at hum jane wisnea nerseii aeaa again. If Mly she could have had pride ifi anything or anyone she thought,- but life as ail shame to her. Q, aunt, if you only wouldn't!" she sobbed, and Aaat Dinker shook her head. "Habits arc hard to break." she said, Ari:xf.Aimfm saghta't ib be, so hard on me when I've stuck t6 you so." And then she revealed a plan which she had concocted for giving the boy ah education. "I'li put him to the best school in New York." she said. "I'll keep the story that they tell He as it is to myself and i'U pay his bili regular, "tain't likely Tin a-going to see him grow up Without education. We'll make him a clergyman 6r' a doc tor. We'll snap our fingers id the faces of these critters. I'll take him up my self to-morrow and he shall come down every Saturday night" "I shall talss him so," said Jane, "but It's for his good, and I thank you. aunt" So Jane spent the night In tears and In the morning Aunt Dinker went to the city, taking with her little Richard. Jane suffered a great deal that day, and when at night she saw Aunt Dinker return alone she could not find voice to speak to her. But the old lady was in good spirits. She sat down before the fire with her shawl oh and told Jane how pleased Richard was with the jour ney and how Miss Speers had admired him. And Jane brought her her tea and she took it sitting by the fire, but still kept on her shawl, and, moreover, the shawl looked curiously thick and bunchy. Once before had Jane seen the same thing and it had resulted in the appear ance of somebody's work-box. Her heart misgave her. "Auntie," she said in trembling tones, "are you cold?" "Not particularly," said Miss Dinker. "Then sha'n't I take your shawl?" When I ask you to do so." Jane was silent. Old Miss Dinker fidgeted. Finally Jane burst into re proaches. "Oh, auntie! Couldn't you help dis gracing my poor boy, to steal in New York, where they'll have no mercy on you, and at the school, where I hoped he could hold his head as high as any one? Oh. aunt, aunt!" "You ought to be ashamed of your self, Jane. I've been a good aunt to you, and as for the school, I never touched a thing. I put my hands in my muff and sat just so, and made a point of it. And it's nothing much to make a fuss over. I took it almost without thinking, it came so handy." "What is it?" asked Jane desperately. "Well, I'll tell you," said Aunt Dink er; "and if they want it they can have it a shabby old thing. As I was going from the schoolhouse to the depot there came up a rain. I had on my best bon net, so I looked about me and there was a church open and in I popped. Well, as I stood there out came a gentleman that I knowed was the clergyman, and, says he: 'Walk in. ma'am, and wait for the rain to be over. There's a fire in the vestry." And he left me before the grate in the nicest little room. And I waited until the streets were dry; The sexton came and talked to me and told how they'd been a wedding there and they'd just gone. And somehow, when I got into the street this was under my shawl." "She's committed sacrilege at last," cried Jane. "Oh, dear!" " 'Taia't neither." cried Aunt Dinker. "Its only a shabby eld book!" And as she spoke she unfolded her shawl and tossed upon the table a dingy leathern tome, on the cover of which was marked in black letters: 'Marriage Register of Saint Grace's Church. 1860-1873." Jane seized upon it with a low cry. "Saint Grace's church!" she said. "Aunt, aunt, that was the name. That was where I was married." And her trembling fingers turned over the pages and her eyes sought out the date and suddenly glittered with joy. "It is here!" she cried, "here! here! here!" and cast herself upon the floor and sobbed as she had never sobbed before. To-day no one is more respected in all Cumminseed than Mrs. Jane Mur phy, although she has never quite for given her neighbors' cruelty. And Aunt Dinker, growing quite old and un able to go abroad, indulges her singular propensity by stealing napkins from the linen press. There is good in all things, Jane Murphy often says. She never will deny that since such great good came to her of old Aunt Dinker's kleptomania. Boiled Water aad Impurities. It is generally believed that the most impure water can be rendered pure by boiling and that in this we have an absolute safeguard against the dangers of water containing disease germ. Now, while it is true that boiling will kill the germs of diseases, yet the fact has been brought to our notice by so high an authority as Dr. Charles M. Crcsson. that, while boiling kills the germs of a particular disease, it yet. in reality, renders the water more im pure than it was before, because, by the very death of these germs, dead or ganic matter is allowed to remain in the water, which it pollutes by putrefac tion. Hence, while boiling is a most ex cellent precaution against the occur rence of typhoid fever or similar dis eases, when we have occasion to think the germs of these diseases exist in the water we drink, yet we must re member that this boiling does not purify the water; it simply removes the specific power to produce a specific dis ease. Philadelphia American. Acre to DUTer. Old Greybeard It's a pity to keep such a pretty bird in a cage. Mrs. De Style Isn't It a shame? How perfectly exquisitely lovely it would look on a hat! Erie (Pa.) Messenger. The miners of Alabama will demand an advance when their present scale expires, July 12. CLEAR M THE SHIM GREAT IMPORTANCE dF CARE FUL AND THROUGH WORK; Werit that Mist Be Beae &ataaatltfa r the Necessity fVtf Caaarfisslseai Jta rgaitoaUea td iae ftMiiMl t& ceraed. N THESE v"PIP-, lag times of peace" the routine -t 6f "clearing shift for' action"' on toar4& "man-of-war has usually been "per formed once in. three fnonths - In. rather a perronc- tory. manner: The. habit in this, coun try or cunsidering the possibility ef war as veryremoteaas had .a tendency to the preparations that are necessary' to put a ship in proper trim for battle. It is only when there is a prospect of an actual engagement that the work of clearing ship will be done with thor oughness. As a rule, the exercise is finished in short order, and a careful inspection would discover nidny points to which insufficient attention has been given, says New York Herald: When the United States steamship Detroit was ordered bv Admiral Ben- ham to protect American merchant men in Rio harbor during the Brazilian insurrection, she was cleared for action in a very thorough manner. Two hours were given to the work; and no prepara tion was forgotten. The minds of the officers and men were enthusiastically concentrated upon the matter in hand, and not a little originality was displayed THE in providing against injury from the enemy's fire and in preparing to de liver a rapid and accurate fire in re turn. The ships of Admiral Bunce's squad ron at Hampton Roads have recently been drilled repeatedly at "clearing ship for action," the orders being to leave nothing undone and to permit no carelessness. The captains of ships and ail officers under their command were required to take note and make sug gestions regarding any new or im proved methods of preparing for bat tle, and reports from each ship have been made to the Admiral. There are certain general rules ob served in "clearing ship for action" that apply to the new ships as well as to the old. Everything movable about the decks not needed in the service of the guns is sent below to the berth deck or to the compartments below the water line. Many articles used only for convenience or comfort in time of peace are labelled "to be thrown over board, and overboard they would go at the first signal for battle. If struck by shot or shell these articles would be converted into missiles or splinters. dangerous to the crew. The iron railings about the ship, and all stanchions, used to support the awnings, are unshipped and sent be low, or. if hinged, are folded down outside the hull, leaving the ship's side clear of all obstruction. If these iron stanchions were left in place, shells which might otherwise pass harmlessly over the ship without bursting, might strike them and explode, with damage to the ship or crew. Barricades or screens are often made with awnings and hammocks rolled up and piled at convenient places. The hose is connected and led out, ready to extinguish fire -in any part of the ship: extra lashings arc placed on the anchors tc prevent them from being shot away, thus impeding the speed, and a reserve supply of ammunition is passed up and stowed in a safe place, so that a rapid fire may be maintainci from the start. Wise Thought. The man who spends an hour alone with God in the morning, will not be seen at the theater that night. The heart that is trusting God can sing as sweetly in the dark as in the light. The man who is not doing anything to help take the world fot Christ, is hin dering God's work in his own heart. The surest evidence of trust in Christ, is obedience to him. The man whose hope is in God may be kept waiting, but his reward will be sure and certain. Giving respectability to any kind of a sin, gives the devil a mortgage on the young man. Ram's Horn. A half-dozen Italian opera-houses were oDened this season with Wasme- 'rian opera. Thirteen began with operas by Verdi, three with "Carmen," land nine others with various French . .works. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. GROWTH of Veqet ARIANISM. ' Cstehfated FeYele TOM fesclM - Alt AmlUUl rtlidi "The future is with ih Vegetarians said Prof. Virchow, Germany's greatest medical scientist, some time since when interviewed' upon the subject, in Pear son; Weekly, "What will people eat in the near' future?" )t is interesting to note how many df the distinguished people belong td the Class of nonmeat eatersV Vegetarianism is well repre .seated among people whd wield the pern Count Leo Toisffii; the strange man whd amidthe dreary; wilds Of Russia tinn duces books read the world over, de clares that for years flesh has hot pol luted his lips. Outda; the novelist, finds a fruitdiet essential til successful fic tlonwritirig, and the" broadrminded reasoning of Mrs. Mona Caird flourishes on the same sustenance, as does the scholarship of Prof. Mayor, who amazes Cambridge by showing bow much learning can subsist upon" lunches ui. no more suosianiiai iooa man a piece of bread find ah apple. The professor is an enthusiastic Vegetarian and declares that higher thinking has no greater enemy than flesh-feeding. That vege tarianism is, indeed, not inimical to acute' thinking; Edison; the inventor, is an example. The fo6d which enters the laboratory In which the great worker immures himself for days and weeks' at a time aimost. suggests by Its scarcity and simplicity that the in ventor has discovered some mode of Obtaining nutrition from the atmos phere. Fruit, bread and milk he de clares to be the material upon which he thinks best. Sir James afterward Lord Hannen attributed the reten tion of his extraordinary powers of work, in spite tit age and study, which might have ruined the constitution "of "BBllBBBBhBllHBf rnLllllllllllBBBlimmntaaaL. INDIANA'S DECKS CLEARED FOR ACTION. three men." as a brother Judge put it, to his never allowing a particle of flesh food to pass his lips. "I owe much to vegetarianism," once declared that popular wielder of the brush, Hubert Herkomer. Herkomer's father was a vegetarian of the strictest kind, as is Mr. Bruce Joy. one of our most famous sculptors, the producer of the celebrated Bright statue, which Liverpool boasts among its art treas ures. One of the hardest workers in our islands is Sir Isaac Pitman, the man to whom the world owes the perfection of phonography. He works ten hours a day on a vegetarian diet. LATE SUPPERS,. It Is Better to Eat Moderately Before Ciolnc to Bed. The old tradition that to eat any thing just before going to bed is sure to produce indigestion and render sleep impossible is now happily exploded, says the Canada Lancet. It is not good, as a matter of fact, to go to bed with the stomach so loaded that the undi gested food will render one restless, but something of a light, palatable na ture in the stomach is one of the best aids to quietude and rest. Some phy sicians have declared, indeed, that a good deal of the prevalent insomnia is the result of an unconscious craving of the stomach for food in persons who have been unduly frightened by the opinion that they must not eat before going to bed, or who have, like many nervcus women, been keeping them selves in a state of semi-starvation. Nothing is more agreeable on retiring for the night than to take a bowl of hot broth, like oatmeal gruel- or clam soup. It is a positive aid to nervous people and induces peaceful slumbers. This is especially the case on cold win ter nights, when the stomach craves warmth as much as any other part of the body. Even a glass of hot milk is grateful to the palate on such occa sions, but a light, well-cooked gruel is better, and in our climate, during the cold months of winter, should be the retiring food of every woman who feels the need of food at n'ght. Literal factors Invnlred. "John." remarked Mrs. Billus, "I ex pect to give a tea tomorrow evening." Mr. Billus, who was reading his newspaper, grunted, but made no re ply. "I said I expected to give a tea to morrow evening, John," she repeated. "I heard you,"',said John, "I can take my dinner down town." "I think I said a little while ago," again remarked Mrs. Billus, after an interval of silence.J'that I intended to give a "tea tomorrow evening." "That will suit me to a T." "And I shall need an X!" sne snapped. -Mr. BlllUB feebly ejaculated "G!" but he forked It over. " WJSpSESDAY. MARCH TOMBSTONES OP GLASS. -?" AM Watlm tsl KaaasMa wkh KMsacr jgHJJMu fcmibeteat is eerUlalr-'itiM tidpniQa. 9ch ft grata marker staMs la but one place fh the United StsJaV-atfd that is in the cemetery etr loeklai the city of Kittaaatag, says the Fktttfcrl Dispatch. It- haafbut rej ceatlylteeli set up taer ever 'the grave of Mrs. Elizabeth Pepper f Ford City by her son, Matthias Pepper. The Kit taialmjf cemetery possesses many na tural aMd artificial beauties. ,It has bee itftfthdaomely' laid out,, with wind iriawalks, stately tress aid ornamental shrabbery, and in it are many pYetea tioaa Btoaumeats. Not one of the piles' efaarle aad granite attracts so much atteatiesTas the piece, of polished glass, Wki hi clean inscription, which stands ok a iientie slope falling slowly from the hHI-tsp. Matthias Pepper, Who kid tllft -s?taaa -atv'iin in' assistant" mnHn. teridSkt-at the Ford' Citv factory; . The piece used g a grave memorial istfl'taMsjrwttl Mtiu part of a large plate which was made of Unusual thickness for the construction of circular panes to cover the portholes of ocean steamships. The practical indestructibility of glass wa the qual ity which suggested to Mr. Pepper its use in the cemetery. Marble and gran ite seem to many to be almost eternal in their hardness, but they are far from It, and not at all to be compared with glass. Wind and rain, heat and cold, have their effects on stone of any kind, and finally wear away the hardest granite and cause it to crumble. Go into any Old graveyard where stones were erected more than 100 years ago, and it will be found to be the exception where all the lettering on the monu ments can be made out. The stone has crumbled and the outlines have been obliterated. No effect is produced by the weather on glass. The Pepper monument is of plate-glass one inch thick, a foot and a half wide and four feet high. It stands in a mortise cut into a tube of sandstone. The top of the glass is arched. The lettering on it is made by the "sand-blast" process, and is distinct. The monument bears this inscription: "In memory of Elizabeth Pepper of Ford City. Died Feb. 4, 1892, aged 77 years. "Also. William Pepper, husband of the above. Died . Age " From this inscription it may be in ferred, truly, that William Pepper is still living. The Peppers are of Eng lish birth and came to Ford City years ago directly from the Great Biltingbam glass works of London. A COLLECTION OP ODDITIES. If a man fell out of a balloon at a distance of five miles above the earth, his velocity at the last second would be at the rate ot 4,68 feet per second. Washington.' "the city of magnificent disinces," is laid out over 69 square miles, and in the beginning of 1895 Us population was estimated at 280,000. Thunder is sometimes one great crash, because the lightning clond is near the earth, and as all the vibrations of the air (on which the sound depends) reach the ear at the same time. The cost of timber in China Is so great that wooden trestles are out of the question. The railway station houses are all built of light, burned brick, plasterer on the outside. The broad platforms are of stone or con crete filled in with earth and cinders. Two Sicilian scientists, Grassl and Roveill, have recently discovered that the house fly is the intermediate host of a species of tape worm which does much harm among chickens. The chickens eat flies whose bodies contain the larvae of the tape worm. A remarkable fact connected with the rice plant is its almost entire immunity from the attacks of insects and from these diseases which infect the cereals and other vegetable growths, as also that it supplies a wholesome diet for one-half the population of the world. Professor Polnacre of Paris, in his studies.of the effect of the moon on the meteorology of the earth, has discov- ! red that it has an influence not only wn me production of cyclones, but also on their direction. At Johns Hopkins university recently a patient under hypnotic influence was successfully operated upon for diseased JIdncy, no anaesthetics being used. The case was the first in which hypno tism has been used In that institution. One of the popular mistakes of tha day Is that one can travel cheaper in Europe than In the States. Traveling first-class there costs quite as much as in America, and the tourist does not get anything like as good accommoda- ttnna fnr Vila & -- wl). , i 2& 1896. A SEEKEB OF TRUTH. A btNVER MAN TO DWELL WITH f . NATURE. rut mmi as a kmi wsfM-aiMM scitatt tmW&Wwtmmn m Irtlam . Mysliju Umtmt a TMkst'a r lrtrTUigfcifc - ;-? - ! PLISHA LANE, OF" Denver, has just start ant on an expedites so novel that the paltry quest of Diogenes for am honest man m child's play camfaf d with It. Mr. Laa alie iea la "to wfeai frem aatmre her secretau" sad ho-afcllaanailcnlly .ItCMIC i - -id- x- .ir.V'j'.T-z r? r-.JT-K To this end he has had built a honas- wagon in which he will travel from Denver clear through to Southern Cali fornia, halting by the way wherever the lisp of leaves or the soughing of winds in primeval forests seem to be telling the secret of which he longs to become possessed. This latest seeker after truth will not, however, travel alone. He will be accompanied by his wife and three little children, aged five years, three years and ten months, respectively. The itinerant home for this family cost $750, and it will be draws by two horses. It is twelve feet long, six feet wide and six feet high, and is made of pine boards two and a quarter laches wide and three-quarters of an lack thick, placed vertically. Under the driver's seat is a tool box, the space beneath the body of the wagon Is to be used in storing household goods, and at the rear Is a feed-box for the horses. The entrance Is at the rear through a door of polished oak with glass panels, an1 the two windows, twenty by twenty-four inches each, arc provided with dainty lace curtains. Across the front end of the wagon an oak seat runs which becomes the sup port for the head of the bed which is released by a spring from its position in the wall. A bed similarly devised is at the left of the door. By careful economy la space this room also contains a tiny chiffonier, a plate-glass mirror, a washstand. a fold ing writing table with drawers and pigeon holes, and a stove, the ashes of which will be dropped to the ground through a sort of funnel. Every detail of this conveyance was planned by Mr. I.ane himself, who is a man of about thirty-one years and a watch-maker by trade. He was born in Bowling Green, Ky. He married Miss Carrie MacFarland, of Leaven worth, Kan., and lived in Kansas City Until July last, when he moved to Den ver. In appearance Lane bears a striking resemblance to Schlatter. He is entirely self-educated, not to say un educated, for by his own confession only two years ago he was unable to read Shakespeare with any apprecia tion of his meaning. The sum total Of his philosophy as expressed by him is:."l claim that there is 3ome secret force, some hidden pow er in nature, which men have not dis covered. A few men have caught faint gleams of this occult force, and there by they have become wise beyond their generation. Luther was one of these men and Schlatter Is another. To gain this knowledge a man must follow nature, and It Is for that reason that I allow my hair afld beard to grow. When I reach the mountains 1 shall hope to touch that higher state which has en abled the adepts of India in Thibet to acquire their mystic power." In order to sustain the material man on the way to the well springs of "Hid den Truth," Mr. Ine will halt from time to time In mining-camps and in small towns, and take heed of time by mending watches and selling eye glasses. The Heart of Get ha a. The real heart of Gotham, the brains and genius of the metropolis, are to be found in a very small section of this big city, writes a New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. Between 14th and 40th streets are found the men who .write our dramas, who make our. songs, who compose the music for our operas, whose pens are responsible for many of those bright little bits of humor that lighten our lives, whose brains invent many of the ideas that men utilize. It is no exaggeration to say that this section is responsible for nearly every bit ot the new or original literary matter that is produced in this city. If it is not actually composed in the little world designated it is there critically examined, revised, amended or corrected and put into the shape in which it is finally given to the public. On Broadway, between the streets named, one is constantly bumping against men and women who are re sponsible for a good deal of the music and laughter of the whole country. I rise Fell at Sea. The ship Mowhan, recently arrived at Portland, Ore., took on board as ballast, on leaving Belfast, 2,000 tons of Irish soil, which when leveled off, made quite a stretch of ground, and the ship's com pany proceeded to put it to good use by planting a stock of garden truck is it. The seeds came up all right and the plants flourished finely and when the ship was in the tropics, grew with great rapMity. As they progressed to ward the horn the weather grew colder things came to perfection rapidly. .The crew and ship's apprentices amused themselves by weeding and cultivating the plants and all bad green vegetables to their heart's content. As they came around the horn the garden was re planted. The only drawback to the garden were the weeds, which grew so rapidly that they could hardly be kept down. A Bird Qalek to Leara. Old Lady That parrot I bought of you uses dreadful language. Bird Dealer Ah, mum, you should be very careful what you sex afore it; it's astonishing how quick them birds pick up anything. A French scientist of note maintains that a large number of tbe nervous maladies from which girls suffer art ts be attributed to playing the piano. WAV COLOtty .HOLE. Sold far a Smks Im At Wartk Tfcamsaads Ta-Oay. fsat fifteen Natalians formed a syn dicate t "exploit" this country esuheir own account, says Chamber's JournaL Some were storekeepers in the colony, some waajoa traders and. some merely waiters ofl fortune." Only" eleven of them kad any money and they supplied the wherewithal for the other four, who wets seat op to prospect and dig. After six OMths of fruitless toil the money was all gsse, and word was sent to the four that no more' aid could be seat to them. They were "down on their lack," when, as they returned to camp on what was intended to be their last evening there, one Edwin Bray sav agely dug his pick into the rock as they walked gloomily along. But with the M swing ke made came a tur in to taS fsittmss of the band aad of the lead, far Itt kascked of a bitjof quartz srichjy f is, Wh M:aa to betoken : .tksxJstSMCjssmetklBg superexcel leat in the way of a "reef." AH now tsraed oa the rock with passionate eagerness snd in a very short time pegged out what was destined to be known as "Bray's golden hole." But the syndicate was by this time pretty well cleaned out, and capital was needed to work the reef and pro vide mschineiy, etc. So a small com pany was formed In Natal under the name of the Sheba Reef Gold Mining company, divided into 15,000 shares of 1 pound each, the capital of 15.000 pounds being equitably allotted among the fifteen members of the syndicate. Upon these shares they raised money enough money on loan to pay for the crushing of 200 tons of quartz, which yielded eight ounces of gold to the toe aad at once provided them with working capital. Within a very few months the mine yielded 10.000 ounces of gold and the original shares of 1 pcund each ran up by leaps and bounds until they were eagerly competed for at 100 pounds each. Within a year the small share-capital (15,000 pounds) of the original syndicate was worth in the market a million and a half sterling. This wonderful success led to the float ing of a number of hopeless or bogus enterprises and worthless properties were landed on the shoulders of the British public at fabulous prices. Yet. surrounded as it was by a crowd of fraudulent imitators, the great Sheba mine has continued as one of the most wonderfully productive mines in South Africa. Millions have been lost in swindling and impossible undertak ings in De Kaap, but the Sheba moun tain, in which was "Bray's golden hole," has really proved a mountain of gold. The Toacae. The best cure for an inflammable tongne Is the water bucket of absolute silence. Hasty speech is explosive; si lence is cooling. The talking tongue is more dangerous than the angry tongue. A hasty word may be excused, but a tattling tongue never. The tattler is Just like sin its foreign substance here is for no other purpose than to annoy and irritate. Rev. Fuller Bergstrcsscr. A View of Heaven. I doubt whether there is any populat Idea of heaven now prevalent among the people. T know scarcely two persons that have the same conception of heav en. Rev. B. Fay Mills. PAPER. Paper is made out of almost every thing which can be pounded into a pulp. It is said that at present over fifty kinds of bark are used. Among the incongruous substances which have been used for pulp may be mentioned banana skins, bean stalks, pea vines, clover, timothy hay. straw, weeds, hair, fur, wool, asbestos ant! husks of every kind of grain. Leaves make strong paper and nearly every kind of mos3 can be utilized. There are patents for making paper from shavings and sawdust, from this tles and tan bark-. Nothing comes amiss to the paper maker, although vegetable fiber is the nearest ideal material. By way of ex periment the proprietors of a news paper recently undertook to find the length of time necessary to make the paper and put it to use. A poplar tree was selected and to chop, strip and load on a boat took three hours; manufactur ing the pulp, twelve hours; making the pulp into paper, five hours; taking the paper to the newspaper office, eighty minutes, and to print 10,000 copies of tbe paper ten minutes, making a total of twenty-two hours. NOTES OF THE DAY. The Lewlston Sun hears of a man wbc has made fKO.ooO from the liquor bUElnras In Maine during the last twelve years. The horses which are used on th? Kennebec k ice field are so accustomed to dropping through the ice that they don't stem to mind it. Mrs. Elizabeth Catiy Stanton, whose eightieth birthday was publicly cele brated a few months ago. Ins decided to take music lessons. A woman in South Kingston. R. I.. who is just 20 years old. is the mother of six children. Two pairs of twins were born to her before she was 16. Portugal will celebrate next year tbe four hundredth anniversary of Vasco de Gama's setting rut on his voyage around the Cape cf Good Hope to India. Tbe mammoth steamship on the slocks in Harland & Wolff's yard at Belfast is te be called the Pennsylvania In point of size it will eclipse any thing now afloat. Italians believe that to avert the evil eye it is sufficient to hang anything red colored over the bed or to near a red coral, but white colors do not exercise a similar 6pell. From tbe time of tbe death of the late Irish Protestant primate and archbish op of Armagh till his burial the bells of of tbe Roman Catholic cathedral at Armagh were tolled. The otter is becoming more rare earb year. Anthony Dokey caught one n a trap a few days ago In Black river, at Lee. Micb. It weighed twenty-five pounds, and tbe pelt is valued at $15. France has furnished fewer immi grants to the United States than any other aatiou in Europe. During the ten years preceding 1890 only about 60,000 persoua left France for America, WHOLE NUMBERT150.. Wmlras-t-BaiikJ hr -rt ksapsial JWlllMttMak)stfli : v v asms - ... srilTiaalhalMtaa maawsasww eassasap mas emmsaa? saasjsawsaT Toe as aft ' W'B f. fa- - ""; ? T:-J--; trci ."&Zn iitsHH i ' BUYS GOOD NOTES omens Aim DntKcroait Lkakdex GzasAap, Prea't, B. H. 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