JACK'S BY RACHEL T was only a plain, snug little house, rising slowly from the small, neatly fenced lot, and gradually assuming lionee-llke pro- liuiuoiin; but Content watched Its dal ly growth, with a wonderful light ot atlsf action In her brown eyes. .She could see It plainly from Aunt Prlssjr's little shop window, looking down the qalet road and acrons a Held white With dairies; nitd she loved to wateh the sea of bending blott'onis, and whis per softly to liersclt, "The path that leads to it Is nil pure white." "Growln" finely ain't It?" sold Miss frisay, cheerily, dusting and arrang ing the bright silk handkerchiefs, keins of yarn, boxes of needles, Jars of candy and the rosy cheeked apples that decorated the show window, even While she looked beyond them nt the new building. "It's golu' up slick as a new pin." "Yes, yes," returned Uncle .Tanchlm, thaklng his head; "If there only don't come a hard wind and blow It over, or a heavy rain to flood the cellnr, or omebody set It a-flre, mebby. There's no tellln' never no telllu' in this un certain world!" "La, Joaehlui," sold MIrs rrlssy, hlrubly mounting tint counter and pur suing conversation and a spider-web together, "we hain't had a drop of rain this three weeks, and It's just what we're needlu'. As for winds, 'twould tnke something niorc'n com mon to blow such 'woll8 us them down." "I don't know 'bout that don't know," answered Uncle Joachim, un- mnvlliOll. "It lilan- e npAHw Bis-t " " l"r"J muni. breeze laat night, and I could feel our house shake. Thought very likely our roof would be carried away afore Miornin' more'n likely. 1 went up to the garret to-day and t ed a rope to the rafters and then hitched the oth er end fust to the old Kplnnin' wheel; but It's doubtful If that'll save it doubtful." Content laughed softly, but Uncle . Joachim heard It. "Don't make fun of Rolemn things, aI.II.I. .1 i ..... . i-iiuu, uuii i never uo mm, ne said, re provingly. "I knew a u an once that ridiculed the Idee of any burglars ever braiklu' Into his house, and the very next day his brother had his pockets picked. A good many folk3 have n good'many things happen to 'em, and it's best to be prepoivd." "Well," commented Miss rrlssy, Iriskly, "I must soy for't, I'm 'bout ns well prepmed for pickpockets as for anything I know of. Nobody 'd moke much ont of my pockets, unless they was siifferin' for n pair of steel-bowed spectncles and nn old brass thimble. There conies the mall," she added, ns J1 1'llRtV. (llistv limafifi,i .1... . .... iiKii, "ivijii-i in me door. "Content and me'll 'tend to It, Joachim, dear; you're feelln' poorly to-day, 1 know, and you'd better sit still." lie hod no idea of doing anything else; but it was n pionsant fiction of Miss riiss.v's that "brother Jouchlm" was always just ol out to do something useful and energetic a belief that hod never died out in r.ll the twenty years that she had token care of him. Fath er, mother, sister, nil were gone but these two and the sister's orphaned child, Content, a bonny, winsome mal um, nuo hou come nue sunsliine to the quaint, quiet old house. -I'ncle Joachim sat In his easv chnlr. with gaze that wandered afar off, mourning over the hills that were not, leveled, the valleys that never would be filled up and the mountains that wouldn't como to Mohammed. He had no time nor strength to spore in help ing to do the dally work and bear the little dully trluls, beconso he was hold ing himself as a sort of reserve corps against the terrible calamities that never came. But Miss Trlssy'a keen and kindly eyes could, fortunately, see nearer home even to the sewing of tmtttons on brother , Joachim's cout, the mending of rents In his linen, and the necessity of providing for three inoals a day. So she whisked about, alwaya busy, worked and planned, turned and darned; made over her dresses wrong side up und inside out, contrived neat caps out of nothing, and collars out of what was left. She took care of the small store that was also the village postofllce, and looked Sfter the diminutive garden besides, 11 the whole family grateful, and in noceutly pitying any "poor lone wo men folks thut hadu't any man to help or pertect "em." The arrival ot the mall was always a pleasant little ripple in the day's atlll current, and Coutent and Aunt Prissy sorted the small bundle with some good natured guessing and neigh borly sympathy-hoping this for Mrs. Grey was from her sailor boy, and that the one for Deacon Cole would bring good word from his sick daugh ter. Content was listening with deep ening color meanwhile for a step that yr sure soon to come. "Any letters for me, Miss Prissy?" asked Jack Howard's clear, hearty irolce. "Not one," answered Content, laugh ing up into the blue eyes that did not jook particularly disappointed. In fact, Jack's correspondence was not liu nienSe; but it was a satisfaction to know whether there was anything or not a great satisfaction, one would have said, seeing how regularly he .came and the' way in which he ,lliv gered. "How are you to-fluy, Uncle Joo' China ?" "Hard to say hard to say. Don't (eel as if I knew nothlu' sure about .myself even. I felt such a burniu' ill I SLEI HOUSE B. HAMILTON heat early this rrmrnln' that I didn't know but I was goln' to be took right down with a fever, and sence then 1 had such a shivery-shaky spell as if 1 might be goln' to have a stroke of pal sy. Either of' 'em is likely enough; might ono or both on 'em carry me oil any time," concluded Uncle Joachim. "Oh, I hope not," rcpllod Jack, con solatory, but alarmed, as he followed Content to the sunny portico. A trystlng place that portico bad been for many a day. There the house across the daisy field had Just been planned, and the promise given that made it not "mine," but "ours." Room by room, window by window, it hnd been dreamed and talked of, larger and fairer than It now could be in re ality, but that only Jack and Content knew. Jack was skillful and energet ic; he had laid up some five or six hundred dollars, and that was not all. "You see, Content," he had said, gaily, when they talked of it lu the spring time, with the old apple tree showering its pink blossoms mound them where they stood "yon sec, there Is that work for Ilegan, if It suc ceeds, and I think it will. It Is some sort of a pumping apparatus, you know. He had got the Idea in his head, but wasn't workman enough to carry It out, and so he came to me. I dug Into It until I fancied I knew what ho wanted, and Improved upon it a lit tle, maybe. I've spent all the time I could give, evenings and odd hours, on It for nearly five months now, some times doing and sometimes undoing; but Regan is to pay me $11000 if It works as he expects it to. He thinks 1 con do It." "I think so, too," sold Content. "It will be something nice for us," remarked Jack, thoughtfully. "Rut wo won't say anything to any one about it yet a while, until we are sure. There Is no need, for we have enough for a little home, even without that." Uncle Joachim and Aunt rrlssy were not very worldly wise. They thought, or Miss Trlssy did, that love and even the smallest homo promised consider able material for happiness; and her eyes twinkled with tears and smiles behind her old spectacles while, in one breath, she wondered how she was "ever goln' to do without Content," and In the next If they "hadn't better lie huntln' up rags to cut for a carpet for Content's floor against she has one." Uncle Joachim was as nearly con gratulatory ns ho knew how to be, but deprecatory also. "I don't see why you two shouldn't stand as good a chance for comfort ns anybody, s'posln' there Is nny such thing, which Is doubtful," he sold. "Any way, 'tis risky, very risky; like ns not you won't enjoy yourselves. It'll be a greot altlictlon to hove Con tent leave us, but It'll be a load off my mind to know she's safe out of the house. It's a dangerous place to live In, this Is, keepln' a post office as we do. 'Counts of folks robbm' the mails keep com In' till the time, and I've Just n feelln' that ours '11 be robbed, too, some night, and we all murdered in our beds." "Dear me! I shouldn't think it would be, worth while," exclnimed Aunt Prissy, unselfishly, scanning the mat ter In the light of a speculation. "Our mall! Why, I don't believe there's ever more'n ten dollars lu the whole on't nt one time, and mostly there ain't anything." "That don't make no difference, Prissy no difference," persisted Uncle Joachim, with a doleful shake of the head. "You don't know the sight of wickedness there is in this world. I tell you there's plenty of folks that would do 'most anything for ten dol lars. "Well, well," succumbing to super ior wisdom, "maybe it's so; but it does seem dreadful low wages for any hu man being to do such work as that for. I s'pose tllcre comes some time for most all of us, though, when the Evil One comes along our road and asks what we'll sell ourselves for. If we're wlllln' to do It at all, I don't know as it mutters much about the price." As the days passed by, nnd Jnck's "prise-work," as he laughingly called It, bado more and more fair to prove successful, he and Content conjured golden plans for the fuir little home kingdom it should bring them bow they would add to this and beautify that talking it over, evening after evening, in the soft twilight. "It's Just about done," said Jack, one day, stopping for a moment .at the door. "Regno wants me to take It down to the old stone quarry and try It. It's a sort of quiet place, and there's always water there, you know; so I guess I Jl go this afternoon." "Oh, I do hope it will be all right! Just what you expect of It!" exclaimed Content. "Bid it good speed, then," he said, with a hopeful smile, turning away down the narrow garden path, while the sweet fact watched him from the door-way. The sky was wondrously blue above his head that day, and the whole earth marvelously fair in the golden sun light. Every rustle of the leaves, every bird-note, seemed to him most perfect music as he passed down the old roud that led to the dlsussd quarry, bearing his precious burden. It was a quiet spot, not without its own lonely beauty in the gay shelving rocks and the masses of broken stone that luy at their feet. Moss hud grown upon some of these, nnd trailing vines from the green beyond had found their way thither, rejoicing U the clear water that Jack had selected for his purpose. The place suited him altogether, and as he carefully proceeded with his ex periment, and trial after trial assured him that his work was well dona, hs leaned back upon on of the rude pil lars near him, glad to enjoy In that congenial solitude and silence the first delicious moment of success. "Hollo! Why, la that yon, Jack?" said a rather uncertain voice near him and he started suddenly from his rev erie to find that Uncle Joachim had approached unobserved. "Didn't know but you was a highwayman, or es caped convict, or somethln', when I seen you down here all alone. What you got there T Some new-fangled wnter-wheel or somethln', I s'pose. Well, well; you young folks always think yon can turn the world upside down with some grand new plan or 'nother, but you never do It," ".Maybe not; I don't think I'd core to try, for the side that is tip now pleases me well enough. What brings you here, uncle?" "Well," answered the old man, fumbling his way over the rocky, un even mass about him, "I just thought I'd como down here nnd look round for a good, big, hefty stone. I tell you what 'tis Jack, I don't feel a mite safe about them mall robbers. You see we open the trap-door nights, and put the inoll-bog right down into the cellar; and I've been a-thluklu' If we bad one ot these heavy stones hitched on to tlie under side of the door, so's two or three men couldn't raise It, 'twould be safer." ' "Rut I don't see how you are going to raise it yourself then," objected Jack. "Well, I can't tell exactly," sold Uncle Joachim, somewhat discomfit ed, but persevering. "We'll hove to think some way, for If anybody got down there to rob, and Just touched off some powder down there, why. they could blow us all to flinders to flinders, Jack!" 3hc young man watched with an amused smile for a moment or two, as ho vaudered about near by examining one stone after another, then forgot hi in In his own occupation. A train went thundering by on the heights above, nnd the old man paused In his search to watch it. 'Dear! how these rocks crack now and then!" he exclaimed, as a sudden, sharp sound fell upon his ear. Jack started and looked up with a thrill of horror as his quick eye de tected the rapidly widening fissure that was separating a mass of ovcrhaugiug rock from the main wall. "Uncle Joachim!" he shouted. But before, the warning cry hnd left his lips the old man, too, hnd seen, and turned to fly, but stumbled nnd fell. Thought lives In a region above time. It was but an instant that he paused Irresolute In the shnrp, fierce strug gle; then he sprang to the old man's side, raised him up, and, half drug ging, hnlf currying, bore him away with the speed und strength that only such r.n hour cau know hurrying tip the sloping bank until a deafening crash behind 'them told that they wero safe. They paused then, exhausted, and sank down upon the ground to survey the scene. A great mass of broken stone covered all the place where they had stood, nnd Jack's model was crushed to atoms and burled beneath it. "Well, well," 'murmured Uncle Joa chim, tremulously breaking the solemn sileuce that had succeeded the dying. echoes, "that was a narrow chance, and I'd never have got away but for you, Jack. I'm 'bilged to you, I really am; though, seringas somethln' Is sure to happen some time, I don't know as 'twould have mode much difference only for the women folks; 'twould have been a great, loss to. the women folks. More'n likely I'll be sick for a week or two now. Jack" as a sud den thought struck him "why, Jack, you left thnt jimcrack of yours down there, didn't you? Kind of a pity to bare It smashed up, though I s'pose it wasn't of much use." Jnck turned bis eyes from the ruin nnd looked at him with a strange smile on his pnle face. How little he knew of all the hopes and plans that bad been, or could comprehend the value of that which he so carelessly called worthless! And yet, perhaps he him self could as little understand this work of the great Creator beside him, of comprcheud His purpose in even this seemingly feeble and useless llfo that be had saved. There was nothing of contemptuous pity in the gentle ness of Jack's voice as he said: "Hadn't you better go home now, Uncle Joachim? I will go with you." He told Content the story that day only Content ever knew it all and she listened with the light that shone through her tearful eyes growing brighter nt every word. "Sorry but so glad!" she said, not so paradoxically but Jack could understand it "It was hard to decide for a minute, though it seems a shame even to 'say it now," Jack said, honestly, "But I couldn't sell myself, you know, and so a good many of our hopes and pliini are ended for a long while to come, Content." "But Jnck, dear," answered Content, softly, "I think our work often reaches further than we know. It may be in building our narthly houses we are building for our heavenly homes as well, and some things that crowd and cramp these may make those all the fairer. ' So Jack's house Is only a llttlo one, but Content thinks Uncle Joachim npeaks more truly thun he knows when he culls it "well built;" and watching it from over the blooming meadow, she sees more thun the daisies, and murmurs to herself, as if the words were set iO inward music, "The path that lends to It is wli I to clean and white, thank God!"-Good Literature. lkicK and dventure. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. Wh Ws .YOUNG thief escaped SI a VlMlnl. 4 n 11 .hi . nviu , uBiiiiH juii iuu Zl I other day In a manner sometimes described by i un romancers, but seldom re- cuiulu in history. He had been sentenced to five years' Imprisonment, and was waiting for the officers to take him to prison. . Ills mother came to s'ny goodby to him, and the jailer left them alone for a few minutes. Any man would bate to watch a mother's farewell to her sou under such circumstances, so in their few moments of privacy mother and son chnnged clothes. When the time was up the Jailer led out a grief -stricken figure in skirt nnd bonnet, leaving a lad weeping on the prison bed. By and by he returned to say words of comfort to the boy, to hid htm to "brace up." To his astonishment ho found n laughing woman. Two hundred years ago, almost In 1T1 the Countess of Nlthsdale res cued her husband from the Tower of London in much the same manner. The Earl of Nlthsdale was to be exe cuted tor treason. His wife hnd begged In vain for his life, and then hud made up her mind to rescue him. With two women she went to the Tower to sec him, carrying an extra skirt, hood and cloak. Then she sent one of her friends away, then the oth er; one of them returned and went away again. riimlli', when she thought the guards would be confused ns to the number of women who hod gone In nnd out, she pneked off ber husband, dressed in the clothes she had brought. She herself stayed In his room for hnlf an hour, talking lu ber own voice and replying In his, nnd at last, telling his servant nnd the guards that the Enrl was praylug, and did not want to be disturbed, she went awny herself. The Enrl escaped to the Low Coun tries, where in time the Countess joined him. In 1815 the French Count de Lava lette was sentenced to death for hav ing aided Napoleon on his return to France enrller in the year. His wife took his place in the cell and let him escape. In the same way Maggie Jordan helped Sharkey, a convicted murderer, to escape from the Tombs thirty years ago. He was never recaptured. Another historical story has been re peated rocently. Adolph Reck, an Englishman, served two terms of Imprisonment for obtain ing money under false pretences. He swore that he was innocent, but as "they all do that," no one believed him. Not so long ago ho was again arrest ed on a similar charge. About the same time William Thomas was arrest ed also on a like charge. Then the police began to Investigate matters, and Thomas confessed that he hnd committed the two crimes for which Beck was punished. So the British Government gave Beck a "free pardon," to restore him to citizenship, and offered hint flO, 000 to say nothing about the matter. lie refused. He has not kept quiet, and be hopes to 'get more money as compensation. In 17G2 Jean Calas, a French mer chant, was the victim of a similar er ror. He was accused of murder, found guilty and executed with the cruelty of the time. His family, too, was ruined by the confiscation of his property. After his death the real murderer was found. Voltaire, the great French writer, led a successful popular de mand that his memory should be cleared. The story of Jean Calas' tragic fate has been used as the basis for a play, "Le Courier de Lyon," which is known in this country as "The Lyons Mall." New YorkJournal. COWBOY'S FIGHT WITH A STEER The great event at Cheyenne this season was the remarkable; feat of Will Pickett, a negro bailing from Tay lor, Texas, who gave bis exhibition while 20,000 people watched with wonder and admiration a mere man, unarmed and wifhout a device or ap pliance of any kind, attack a fiery, wild-eyed and powerful steer and throw it by his teeth. With the old of a helper, Pickett chased the steer uuttl be was in front of the grand stand. Then he jumped from the sld dle nnd landed on the back of the an imal, grasped its horns, and brought it to a stop within a dozen feet. By a remarkable display ot strength he twisted the steer's head until its nose pointed straight into the air, the ani mal bellowing with pain and Its tongue protruding in its effort to se cure air. Again nnd again the negro was Jerked from his feet and tossed Into the air, but bis grip on the horns never once loosened, and the steer fulled in its efforts to gore blm. Cow boys with their lariats rushed to Pick ett's assistance, but the action of the combat was too rapid for them. Be fore help could be given, Pickett, who bad forced the steer's nose .into the mud and shut off Its wind, slipped, and was tossed aside like a piece .of paper. There was a scattering of cow boys as he Jumped to his feet and ran for his horse. Taking the Muldlo with out touching the stirrup, he ran the steer to a point opposite the Judges' stand, again jumped to its back and threw It. Twice was tin negro lifted from his feet, but he held on with tho tenacity of a bulldog. Suddenly Pick ett dropped the steer's head and grasped the upper lip of the animal with his teeth, threw bis arms wide apart, to show that he was not using his. hands, and sank slowly upon hi back. The steer lost It footing and rolled upon its back, completely cover ing the negro's body with Its own. The crowd was speechless with horror, many believing that the negro had been crushed; bnt a second inter the steer rolled to Its other side, and Pick ett arose uninjured, bowing and smil ing. Harper's Weekly. EXAMPLE OF JAPANESE PLUCK. It was a matter of less than hnlf an hour before the Japanese held the main ridge to the left, or west, of the village of Sultenn-ca, nnd the great flanking movement over the hills was ready to begin, from the point gained, about 0 o'clock, writes William Din widdle, special correspondent for Har per's Weekly. It was broiling hot at this hour, and the motionless air and the glaring sua promised to make the land a veritable furnace before nightfall. The dirty khaki uniforms of the stocklly built soldiers were wringing with water, but they marched forward briskly and with no display of exhaustion, though they had been up all night and had already worked three hours In a swelter of heat. The fourteen hours' march made by that regiment of the Gnards In the flanking movement, would have killed off half the men of any European or American force long before the Jap anese had finished it, nnd were still keen to fight, and, notwithstanding this, the official repnet says that the left wing division did not do so well as was expected. Only salamanders could have survived the heat and toll. It was a mnrvelous performance, r.ud one which, at first blush, seeiAs Impossible, for it necessitated travel ing beneath the crests of the moun tains. In order to be screened from the enemy. They moved ahead on moun tain slopes whose angle was. often six ty degrees. They tolled through thick underbrush and around the bases of rocky pinnacles 500 to 800 feet above the valleys. One would have believed the fcot Impossible for londed men, let alone heavily laden pack horses. The left wing regiment marched six miles In Jlils fashion nnd threatened Ye-shi-rel (Ynnktsz'lingl In the rear of the main position, at 5 o'clock In the afternoon. A YANKEE CAPTAIN'S NERVE. In parallel fifty-seven degrees, In the dog watch, 4 to U p. m., when the chief officer came on deck to relieve the sec ond officer, he swiftly cast his eye to ward tho horizon In the direction of the wind, then at the struggling can vas, and particularly at the main top gallant sail, which threatened every minute to blow away. As nautical etiquette forbids an officer In charge to alter canvas when the captain Is on deck without his command or consent, the chief officer, after bis hurried sur vey, said: "Captain Mather, that main topgallant sail Is laboring very hard." "It is drawing well-let it stand, Mr. Burtlett," was the reply. At 0 o'clock, when the second officer in turn relieved the first, ho also gave a rapid glance about, and said: "Cup tain Mnther, thnt main topgallant sail Is struggling very hard." "It holds a good full; let it stand," Mr. McFnr land," was the reply. Even tho old sen dogs among the crew begged the petty officers to send them up to take in sail, while it was held safe to do so. As the helmsman turned his wheel, every turn of a spoko would make tho ship Jump in tho water like a fright ened bird. Men were stationed at every belaying pin, holding halyards and clew lines, by a single turn "un der and over" ready to lot go and clew up at a signal. We were making a record passage, and sail was to be car ried to the last minute, the utmost the ship could bear, while every exigence of storm was anticipated. Later In the evening the captain could not help asking if the crew still thought that he had married the owner's daughter. Captalu Mather illustrated then, as al ways, a quality ot mind usually exhib ited by those who succeed lu most any direction an extreme daring and ex treme caution running parallel. At lantic Monthly. TWO LIVES FOR A FRIEND. '"Greater love hath no man than this, thnt a man luy down his life for his friends." These words of the Christ were exemplified when Herry Weigh, of Newport, and George -Plots, of Hnr. rlsburg, unhesitatingly faced almost certain death to save the life of George Smith, a companion. Their sacrifice was successful, but Weigh and Plets sustained injuries which will result in death. The three men were railroad labor ers and were erecting a block signal station on the Pennsylvania Railroad, twenty, miles west of Newton Hamil ton, Pa. Smith was crossing the tracks and stepped between a signal bell crank and the rail Just at the mo ment that a block operator around a curve was setting a signal for a fast passenger train that was due. Before Smith could withdraw his foot the crank was turned nnd be was caught. Realizing that the tralu was bearing down upon him, he shouted for help, and Weigh and Pletz rushed to his res cue, carrying with them a pair of crow bars. The train swept around tho curve at the moment t.iey reached his side and Smith gave himself up for lost, but his comrades did not? for a moment lose their courage. Thrusting their crowbars under the crank they lifted it from Its fastenings nnd Smith fell back out ot harm's way. It wus too late, however, for the rescuers to save themselves. The engine burled tlioin high In the air And their injuries are so serious that they ennnot recover. ORICIN OF COINAGE. the flnt laeentore of Gold and Si Wo Culm A As". It has been recently slated that Tss tor Losmann, of Berlin, during a late visit to Northern Syria, obtained a coin of pure silver In a good slate of pre servation upon which Is nn Aramenn Inscription of a king known to bnvt reigned 800 years before Christ. The name of the king is not given, and tho account la somewhat vngue, but It has attracted attention from the bearing It has on the origin ot the coinage of the precious metals. The Invention of gold and silver coins has been attributed to the Lyndlans and to the Greeks. Herodotus ascribes the first coin to the Lydlnns, nnd tho date has generally been fixed nt about 700 B. C. Others claim the credit for Pheldon, who was king of AiJfos some where about 750 B. C, according to the calculations generally accepted. As the last ot the Aramean kings Is snld to have yielded to Tlglntb-l'llesei, of Sy ria, between 745 and 725 B. C, the re- .cent discussion would seem to give the earlier date to the Arnmeun coin. Of course, it Is premature to conclude that this Is established until the sub ject has received more ninture inves tigation. We are, at frequent Inter vals, treated to discoveries of speci mens of "the shekel ot Solomon," nnd coins purporting to be such nre exhib ited. They have on them Inscriptions In Hebrew characters thnt wero not in use until long after tho time of Sol omon, who lived 1000 years before Christ. The temptation to make these antiquities to order Is very great, and an extensive business Is done In them. The now find In Syria may be of this character, or there may be a mistake as to its date. At tho same time, It Is not Improbable that there are sliver coins older than those of the Greeks or Lydlnns, and If so they may natur ally bo expected to have existed lu the great monarchies of Asia. --Louisville Courler-Journul. Depew's Snbtla Argument. One of the first cases which Chaun cey Depcw had after being admitted to tho bar wus a civil suit Involving a somewhat complicated question of In heritance. In no way daunted, joung Chnuncey tackled it, looked up authorities all the way back to Julius Caesar, and pre pared an argument of n few hundred pages which seemed to him more, than unanswerable. His only fear was that it might be beyond the comprehension of tho court. v When tho time came the young mnn rose nnd plunged in boldly. The Judge seemed lntenfled, and Chnuncey took further courage. But at the cud of an hour and a half, In the midst of the most Intricate part of his plea, ho was pained to sec what he thought was a luck of Interest on tho part of the Court. It was Just as he had expect ed; tho Judge was unable to appreci ate tho nice points of his argument. Ho paused, hesitated, and then said: "Your Honor, I beg pardon, but do you follow me?" "I have so far," answered the Judge, shifting about In his chair; "but I'll say frankly that If I thought I could find my way back I'd quit right here." Sunday Magazine. The Flret Dlroctory. Tho first directory dates from 1503, Queen Elizabeth's reign. A copy of It is lu tho British Museum, entitled "The Names of All Such Gentlemen of Ac coniplg as Were Residing Within the City of London." The next does not seem to have ap peared for neurly a hundred years. It was called "A Collection of tho Names of Merchants Living In and About the City of London." This was printed for Lee, Lombard street, in 1077. The names were arranged alphabetically, 1700 in number. In a separate list were tho names of no fewer than forty-four bankers under this heading, "Gold smiths who keep runningenshes," twenty-three of them being then In Lom bard street. This book contains the name of the father ot Pope, the poet. The first directory, expressly so called, was compiled by Brown in 1732, who soon Issued It annually and real ized through It a large fortune. The earliest postofllce directory appeared in 1800, and successive volumes have been brought out yearly ever since. Loudon Telegraph. - Where Torpedoes Fall, A remarkable fact about this ingen ious and now almost accurate weapon is that down to the present war there had been no instance of a ship under way being struck by a torpedo. All Its victims bad been caught at anchor, or were otherwise stationary. Aud, from the best information uvailuble, the same thing has happened between Russia and Japan. ' Now, the question arises, if the torpedo boat, which has power to catch the bare, cannot cook him, bow is the cooking to be done by the submarine, which can neither see him nor catch him? The design, cer tainly, is to use the submarine against ships under way to replace the torpe do boat, which cannot act in daylight. And it is an open question, which ex perience alone can decide, whether it will be easier for a submarine to catch the hare by day than it boa hitherto proved for the torpedo boat to catch him by night. Certainly enthusiasts will be by no means satisfied if the submarine proves capablo merely of attack on ships at uuchor. Loudon Monthly Review. Mew Fad In Letter Writing. The lutc8tAfad among women who vary their forms of letter writing every little while Is to use Roman numerals for dates. It is a puzzling proceeding, too, for to see a note ot Novembci 11, for example, dated XI.. XI., MCMIV., Is quite as confusing as is the Illegible scrawls of the average fashionable wo man's handwriting. New York Press. . BUamnrcAKiM. Q MeDONALS. ATTORNIT aT 7.AW, rlnlarf Public, reel eetate stent, Pete Smured. eotlentlnne trala promptly OSeSt in Rtn.ilcnte building, Keynoldeyuia, Pa. J)R. B. K. BUOVRR, RKTROLDt VILLI, PA. Reeldent dentl.t. I,, the Bmr-w fcalMlag Main etreat. ttentloneea In operating. J)R. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST. Office on second floor of First Wa. Monal bank building, Main attest. J)n. B. DEVEItE KINO, DENTIST. Office on second floor Itevnnldsrllla Knott.eB1U41.d,aff' J NEFF, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Aud Keal Estato Agent Heynolriavillft, Pa, SMITH M. MoCRISJOHT, ATTORN EY-AT-I.AW, Km... ti..K, .. : i"" ' "" "i new i-.iime Agents. Cel. oUotn win rncnlva .i.,m,.t itemi,.n. om in Kim if itvtiiiiiuwi i u it.... i j. . .. Mom elreet, It. fnold.Tillo. Pa. ". AT YOUNG'S PLANING MILL You will find Sash, Doors. Frames and Finish of all kinds, Rough and Dressed Lumber, High Grade Var nishes, Lead and Oil Colors in all shades. And also an overstock of Nails which I will sell cheap. J. V. TOUNO, Prop. 333TCTJ13333a3a: 3VIVniS.II3T3. PITT8BURO. Grain, Flour and Feed. IVbrat-ICn, f red ..l OS Kye-Nn. . 8i) Corn Nn. f yellow, mr M No. JtkIIow, ehelled 60 Mlxp.l ear , 48 Oate-No. white as No. S white .. HI Flour Winter patent an Straight wlntere TO Hay No. I timothy 1 51) ('IriTer No. I IK no reed-No twhlte mid. ton " W Hrown middling! '9 w Bran, hulk . 1H 00 Straw-Wheat . 7 00 Oat TOJ Dairy Products. Butter Klir In creamery ; tlhlo creamery 18 r'enry country roll 1 Caere Ohio, new tl New York, new il Poultry, tto. Hene-per lb 13 I IiIc'Umib dreeeed In Turknye, lire Id Egl!e-l'n. end Ohio, Ireeh He Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoee New per bu ft') l'nl,lKi:e cer bbl 75 Onlona per herrel 1 7$ Api'lee per barrel 1 1) 101 ' t M 01 49 84 xr t 80 ft t 18 00 ntfto en m (0 oo IS ftO 7 W) 7 JO s IS 14 IV M 13 17 1H mi A) 1 "0 1 M ai BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Patent .. 11.15 Wheat Nn. 3 ted, 1 U Corn tnixod HH 8" EtfK 114 butter Creauierr HO PHILADELPHIA . Flour-W Inter 1'atont .U It Wbeat No. ited 1 10 Coru No. Itiulxed HM M Oute No. II white . M Butler Creamery, extra ............ Kft e.gg Pauiieylvanla lirela.. ii NEW YORK. Flour-l'atente ..... 01 W beat-Nil i red..... . 1 l Corn No. t ... 60 Oate bo, II While 84 butter Creamery... m lKt- - 4 LIVE STOCK. ft 80 1 13 M lift M 7i 1 II i 87 mi U6 6 60 1 l ftu 87 tt U Union Stock Ysrds, Pittsburg, Cattle. Extra benvy, Kioto 160Q Ibt 6 15 10 ftluie, HOO to 1400 lbe ............. ft 00 6 10 Medium. 12U0 to 1U0 lbi... 4 40 4 ISO Tidy, 105J to 1150 4 8ft 4 80 butcher, MO to 1100 lbs... 8u0 8 7ft Common to fair 8 00 U7S Oxen, common to fat K7& 4 00 Common to good let bulla and cowe V60 S&o Milch co we.eacb 10 J J 9000 Hogs. Prime beary bogi .1 4 75 4 Hi Prime medium welgltta 4 70 4 75 Beet beay yorkere and medium.. 4 50 . 4 05 Uood plgeand llgbtyorkera 4 80 4 45 Plirn. oouimon to good 4x0 4 m nougba 8 74 4 In btaga S 115 8 6a Sheep. aatra .medium wetbere 600 6 tS Ooori to tbolue 4 76 4 85 Medium 8 05 4 15 Common to fair SOU 8 50 frtug Lam be , 400 tuO Calves. Veel, extra 5 09 7 60 V eel, good to choloe w 850 4 60 Veal, common bearv... 800 870 A La. CHINOT8H. Wben we think of parslei famish ing, etc:, being used for flavoring dishes, it does not seem either strange or Inappropriate that foliage of flow ers should prove desirable la savory dishes. The use of flowers la flavor ing foods and confectionery Is univer sal In China. It is said that the dishes thus flavored by the Chinese with rose leaves, the petals of chrys anthemums, carnations, etc., with bits of foliage chopped and added, are de llclously epicurean, and worthy of the menus of nations higher In the scale Pt civilization. Bonding the first day's receipts of Manhattan's subway 10 the hospitals was a pretty attention on the part of the manager, but It remains to b seen It the oonneotbin of Ideas arxxia ed wasn't unfortunate, declares Uie Beaton Herald.
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