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EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895.
NUMBER 4).
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HOTEL SWINDLERS.
How They Ply Their Arte In
iiOnaon ana rang.
extraordinary Robberies Executed
Oaring Adventurers of Both Sexea
Tbe Champion Hotel Thief
of the World.
by
Hotel-keepers are peculiarly liable to
be swindled. So many people of all
sorts are constantly coming- and yo
inpr in the busy season that it is next to
imjHissible for the most careful man to
lie sure lie forehand that his puests are
a4l" honest" and straightforward, and
will not be found to have skedaddled
when the time comes for the little bill
to Ik? collected, after they have fared
sumptuously for many days. The liest
the sorely tried landlord can do is to
steer, as well as he may, the happy
middle course, without offending the
solvent by raising1 suspicions of their
solvency In-forehand, and watching- the
doubtful lest they suddenly disappear
in the night. Ami he may le trusted
to le pretty sure on the average to
make up for his losses by sticking
thi in on to those who do not pay up.
Two well-dressed young fellows, ap
parently strangers to each other, were
given rooms on the same floor of a cer
tain hotel. A day or two later one of
them said his trunk had been stolen,
and made such an outcry that, to get
rid of him, the unsusjiecting landlord
paid him the value of his trunk and its
contents, amounting to something like
11. The young man left and presnt
ly the other gentleman paid his bill and
also took his departure. But in some
way the defrauded landlord learned la
ter that when gentleman No. 2 left he
took w ith him not only his ow n trunk
but the one for which No. 1 had been
paid, concealed inside it.
From Margate there comes a tale of a
bold attempt by a "foreign countess"
to get the lietter of a hotel manager.
Aware that hotel keepers are liable for
the proiierty of guests up to a certain
amount, irrespective of "negligence,"
the countess, when her bill was pre
sented to her, declared that she had
lieen robbed of a valuable silver licit,
worth more than the amount of her
bill. Hut while the manager was du
biously discussing the point there
stepped forward the head chamlerlain
and quietly said that he had heard that
identical siher belt story twice pre
viously at Monte Carlo two years lie
fore, and at Soarliorough last year. At
lnith places she had hapjiened to lie serv
ing as a housemaid. The countess
quickly paid her bill and departed.
One of the most extraordinary rob
lierics recorded is the one which was
effected a short time ago at a hotel in
t lie Hue Sophia Gormuln, Pons. One
afternoon a well-dressed man and wom
an arrived at the hotel In question and
took the liest liedroom in the house for
one night, paying for it in advance and
requesting the waiter to call them at
four o'clock the next morning. He did
so. anil they left at live o'clock. Rut
when the cliamlierniaid went to put the
room in order she met with an astound
ing sight. The place was nearly bare,
.-md. in fact, every movable article of
furniture hail disnpiicarcd. The visit
ors, w ith the aid of accomplices in tin
streets, hail managed to lower all
through the whitlow without being jier
eeiveil. The death was recently recorded of a
remarkable scamp who must surely
have lieen the champion hotel thief or
the world. He rejoiced in the name ot
Col. William Addison, and is estimated
to have in his lifetime ileparteu from
5.lM;0 hotels without leaving any money
liehind him. His mode of ojieratioii
was jieculiar and ingenious. He had
devised contrivances for carrying on
his nefarious career in the shajie of an
Addison collapsible trunk and an Ad
dison balloon hand bag. The trunk a
iieariil to lie an exfieiisive leather-covered
atTair of large sie, which, when
contracted, could lie carried under the
arm like an artists jiortfolio, while the
hand bag could lie diminished so as to
go into a jiocket. Selecting his hotel
usually a high-priced one the colonel
would till his trunk with bricks and
blow out his hand bag with straw and
proceed to take up his quarters. At the
least indication of impatience on the
part of the landlord for payment of his
bill the colonel, announcing that he was
going to the bank, would pack his trunk
in his Mrtfolio and put his bag in his
MK-ket and depart for good. In this
way he had lived in luxury for man
ears. and. consistent to the end, he
died in a hotel and left no money liehi"'1
him. lxmdon Tit-ilita.
Severe Trot on Complexions!.
Among flowers the lily seems to lie
the most severe test of woman s loveli
ness. In reality, it is too stiff, too un
viclding, to lie quite suitable for tuck
ing into the licit or for wearing in the
-orsage. Hut the form usually chosen
for the lily as a personal decoration is
to lx seen in pict ures, where fair young
persons hold sprays of them. The a
I now ledgvd lx-auty and the actress sin
peculiarly prone to this bit of jiosii.j
And the effect is usually unsatisfying
Possibly the cause lies in the formality
of this flower; in the fact that it is not
adaptable, and is stiff and uncompro
mising. Hut there is, iierhaps, a deeper
reason. The lily has come to sy mliolize
for us the spiritual, and though this is
but a convention, it yet influences us.
as if it were really a belief. From this
arises the effect of unsuitability felt
when the stately white sprays are used
for jtersonal adornment. It seems too
frivolous a treatment of them, and,
moreover, few are the faces in which
spirituality is so predominant that the
lily seems to belong to them. Chicago
Chronicle.
A Talking; Machine.
The gramophone, a talking machine,
much simpler and cheaper than the
phonograph, invented by Dr. Herliner,
the famous electrician, will soon lie
put upon the market. Its records of
human speech and of music, it is said,
are indestructible, and can be cheaply
multiplied to an indefinite extent by
simple mechanical means. What it has
to say or sing can be heard all over an
ordinary &ized house. So devoid of
complexity is its construction that the
complete apparatus will cost only
eighteen dollars, and a smaller edi
tion, intended for the use of children,
will be sold for five dollars.
JIM FAIR'S PRESENCE OF MIND.
Remarkable Story Told by the Sod of the
California Millionaire.
Charles Fair, the only male heir to the
late James t;. Fair, sat in the billiard
room of the Palace hotel talking to
some pioneer friends of his father.
"IK you know, Charley, that a book
of reminiscences of j our father would
sell like hot cakes? You ought to put
the data in the hands of some publisher
and let him issue the volume. What
do you think alwut it?
The son smiled and looked up at the
talker, as he replied:
"Why don't you do it?"
"Me do it!" exclaimed the roan with
the publishing ideas. "I didn't kmo-vr
him."
"Neither did I." answered Charles.
"Nobody knew him. I don't think a
man ever lived who enjoyed his con
fidence. I can assure you that he was
the same strange man to me that he
wan to others, and his iron rule to keep
his own counsel was never broken.
"Whenever he did fall into a con
fidential nnd chatty mood it was to jest
aliout something or to theorize. I re
call a story he once told Alfred K.
Davis, his old jartner. The story I
have in mind was woven into a serious
conversation, and he never cracked a
smile over it. Hefore proceeding, how
ever, I must tell you that in the Corn
stock mines a ladder goes down the
side of each shaft, and every twelfth
rung is iron, so as to give the whole
additional strength. Well, father said
to him:
" 'Davis, do you know I was almost
killed once in the Crow Point mine?
" 'How was that. Jim?'
" 'This way. I was looking down
the shaft to see if everything was all
right and lost my balance. Heing un
able to recover myself, I toppled over
and fell yesr Iavis, fell. I must have
gone about a hundred feet when it
suddenly struck me that if I didn't be
gin doing something prettj- quick I
would go clear through to hades. So
I reached out and grabbed a rung of
the ladder. It broke and I grablied the
next. That broke, too, but 1 reached
for the third, which also gave way, ami
the next, ami the next, and so on, but
it broke my fall, and in aliout five min
utes I reached the liottom, a little
jarred up, but perfectly sound.
"Davis looked at him out of the cor
ners of his eyes a few seconds and said:
" 'What did you do, Jim, when you
came to the twelfth rung? Did you
grasp at that, too?'
" 'Why. I missed it. Do you think I
wanted to smash everything that was
in the mine?' "
When Charles finished his story he
was laughing more heartily than any
one else in the crowd, and could not
lie prevained upon to recall anything
more tn.it had come from the lips of
his famous financial father. San Fran
cisco Call.
Insert Ambrosia.
The limber beetles that inhabit
orange trees in Florida are nourished
in their youth with a jieculiar kind of
food, to which the name of "ambrosia"
has lieen given. All young students of
Greek know t La t ambrosia was the food
of the mythological gods on Olympus,
and it may be inferred that naturalists
think the Florida beetles live like little
six-legged pagau deities. The insects
bore chamliers and galleries in the
trunks of the trees, and their young are
hatched in these galleries. Where the
jKires of the wood intersect the passages
the ap collects in the form of little
while buttons and apparently under
goes a fermentation which changes it
into the so-calltd ambrosia, on which
the larvae feed. The buttons of am
brosia are ornamental as well as useful,
giving a tine tessellated finish to the
galleries that are lined with them.
Sometimes the ambrosia collects so
abundantly that, on becoming cov
ered with a growth of minute fungus.
t completely chokes up the passages
and entrances of the galleries, turning
them into suffocating dungeons from
which the larvae are unable to escape.
Youth's Comiianion.
Ouetr I'aea for Cards.
In a strike among bricklayers and
masons in Vienna Hungarian workmen
were employed to take the placesof na
tive workmen, but great trouble was
experienced owing to the absence of in
terpreters and the difficulty of giving
orders to the foreigners. Finally re
course was had to a fiack of cards, ant
as the workmen of every nationality un
derstood these a system of signs and
signals was established which answ ered
every purfiose. Criminals quite fre
quently convey information by means
of cards. On one occasion a prisoner
in Paris prayed to have a pack of cards
lent to him. His request was refused,
whereuon he obtained a sheet of
I taper, drew blood from his trm anil
made a fair imitation of a five of hearts.
He was caught in the act and confessed
that next tisiting day he intended to
have passed the five to a friend, and
that every card in the pack had a dis
tinct meaning. Pearson's Weekly.
Fondneas of Mire for Muale.
A nice little animal story is given in
this month's Nature Notes, which raises
the interesting question whether mice
have a fondness for music. It is con
tributed by a musician, who says: "One
evening I was somewhat startled at
hearing my piano suddenly giving forth
sweet sounds, apfiarently of its own ac
cord. A mouse, so it proved, had got
inside the instrument, and was making
music on the wires. Whether this was
intentional on mousie's part or not I
cannot say; perhaps he was trying to
make a nest for himself there. Some
years ago, however, while a piano was
lieing played in the dining-room of my
old home, several mice came out ufion
the hearthrug and began to jump about,
apparently with delight at the sound of
the music, and one was either so ab
sorlHKl or overcome by it that he allowed
himself to lie carried away in a tongs by
the housemaid." After this, ladies
ought to lose their antipathy to mice;
indeed, we may soon expect some hu
manitarian dame to commence musical
parties for their delectation. It would
lie amusing to see them dance, and
woultl form a really humane method of
catching them. Loudon New s.
Uriggs "I see you are calling on
the daughter of the head of your firm
now. Griggs "Yes, she is the only
girl I know of whose father has to work
nights." Harlem Life.
FASH ION A8LE FOOTWEAR.
More Attention rald to Comfort and Con
venience Tban formerly.
"Of course, for carriage wear, house
wear, evening wear, the Louis Quinze
heel is all the go although I do not
advocate women moving about all day
in the house, for instance, with their
feet at the angle those heels enforce.
Whether a woman is walking on the
street or walking in the house her foot
should lie properly oised. The low
heel and jxjinted toe, even an extremely
pointed toe, are to lie preferred to the
broad toe and high heel which prevailed
a dozen or so years ago."
"And about the picadilly toes are
they vanishing?
"A rounded foe, neither 'pointed nor '
square, is what we are making now for
walking IxHits, but slippers still ter
minate in a sharp point, jierhaps not as
exaggerated as last season.
"Huckles have little to do with the
anatomy of the foot." he added, "but I
want to show you these cut-steel
buckles on the patent-leather slippers,"
and he took from the show window a
variety of Cinderella-like footgear
straped and buck 1 til in novel and
dainty designs. They were pretty
enough for the roseleaf feet of fairies.
"In regard to leggings, a subject so
important to the tuniced and gaited
Kosalinds who flit through our parks
and along our lioulevards. it is revealed
that sh.-iiely and satisfactory acces
sories of the kind are lieing made of
black leather and pigskin. The. ma
jority are buttoned for convenience in
getting into them, but the more ex
pensive are laced with delicate preci
sion and fit like wax.
"I'ndouhtedly lieople pay much more
attention to their feet, take better care
of them and think more of their com
fort now than they ever did. And well
they need to do so," quoth the shoe
maker, emphatically. "Many -ople
are one-sided and their bodies thrown
clear out of plumb simply from always
having balanced themselves on absurd
heels and having worn the wrong sha fie
of shoe. I know fiersonally an appar
ently sensible woman who weighed
two hundred and twenty-five fiounds
and who wore habitually a one and one
half sluie w ith a heel three inches high.
She fell once or twice and hurt herseW.
but the fall was never attributed to the
shoes. I have another customer, a fine
looking girl of noble proportions, who
invariably orders an 'A last. It is en
tirely too narrow for her. Among the
fieople who come to us to lie fitted are
a great many w hose feet are totally un
like. They have a corn, fierhaps. on one
foot, and habitually walk in such a way
as to ease that fixjt; that is, 'throw the
pressurc off the corn. A different set
of muscles is used and the foot enlargcs
in a different way from its companion
nnt..'- T-eoji - invanamy "'"favor'" one
memlier of the body more than the
other; in measuring for leggings one
leg is often found much larger than the
other, and the same is true in regard to
feet. The shoes are made similar, but
the feet are distinctly different." N. Y.
Tribune.
An Irishman Hrtlllant Idea.
Some Irishmen are naturally stupid,
but their mistakes at times are so hu
morous as to provoke a laugh, which
makes one forget the more serious fart
of the error. Kecently a son of Ireland
went out rowing on the lake at a fa
mous summer resort. A stiff northwest
wind came up. and. not lieing skillful
with the oars, in a short time his lioat
shipped considerable water. A brill-anl
idea then seized him, and. taking tin
butt end of the oar, he battered away at
the planks in the ltottom of the Itoal,
finally knocking a hole in them. For
tunately for him a steam launch with
a pleasure party altonrd came along and
rescued him as his boat sank. I'poii lie
ing asketl why on earth he drove a hole
through the boat he replied: "Ati"
phwat else would yez do? Sure the
lioat was half full of water, an so I
knocked a hole in the ltottom to let it
out; but, yez see, there was so much
more water in the lake that the lit 1 1
bit of a stream in my ttoat had no
chance to get out." Harfer's Kouud
Table.
One Way of Finding a Sc-otaman.
It is related of a successful Glasgow
liicrchant that, sight seeing in Paris
once, he lost his way. For a considera
ble time he wandered alniut trying to
get back to his hotel. The hours went
by. He never could sfieak French, and
his Glasgow Knglish only brought a
smile and a shake of the head. "Oh for
a liody wi a guid Scotch tongue in his
head!" he sighed. Then came a happy
thought. Hy signs he ltought a basket,
measure and Iterries of a trim French
woman, and, shouldering his sttx-k,
went along the street shouting: "Fine
grossets. a bawliee the pine; fine gros
scts. a bawliee the pine." The crowd
laughed at the mad P.riton, but the fa
miliar cry soon brought some Scotsmen
on the scene, and the merchant was
able to retire from business and smoke
his pife in the ltosom of his family,
thank fill that he had found real Scots
men in his hour of need. Tit-Hits.
THE WORLD'S CHRONOLOGIES.
Tut "Era of Abraham" began Octo
ber 1, li. C. 201.
The Chaldean monarchy is believed
to date from 2286 B. C.
The Hebrew figures place the date of
the flood at B. C. 2340.
The Olympiads consisted alternately
of forty-nine and fifty months.
The ancient Mexicans had a year of
eighteen months, of twenty days each
Caesar's reformation of the calendar
was really made by Sosigenes, B. C. 46.
The exact length of our year is 3C5
days, 6 hours, 13 minutes and 4ti6 sec
onds. The Hindoo chronology extends to
6174 B. C: Babylon, 6158 B. C; China,
6157 B. C.
Until B. C. 432 the Greeks began the
year at the winter solstice; after that,
at the summer.
The orthodox Jews date from the
creation, which event they place in the
year B. C. 3760.
According to the computation of the
Russian clironologists, the creation
took place B. C. 5508.
Among the Latin Christians there
have been seven different dates fixed
for the beginning of the year.
The exodns from Egypt, according
to reliable chronology, took place 440
years after the migration of Abraham.
PHOSPHATE MINING.
The Large Industry That Has
Sprung Up in Florida,
A New City Ilaa Keen Created by the
tiroa-lna; Haslneoa In the Peninsula
State-Marketing of the
Material.
The Florida phosphate deposits are
of great imitortance. yet their exist
ence was discovered so recently, ami
their extent is still so uncertain that
few jM-rsons not engaged in the sale
of fertilizing materials have much
knowledge, of the large industry which
has-sprung up in the peninsular state.
It has" practically created a new city,
Ocata, which had a ftopulat ion of but
a few hundred in 170, but is now a
thriving business center with modern
improvements, lianking facilities and
ample railway and trnnstortation fa
cilities. Engineering, the leading en
gineering journal, makes the following
statements concerning the region,
which are of considerable interest as
coming from an unbiased source:
"There is no phosphate region in the
world known to-day that fiosscsscs so
many advantages for successful min
ing as the Florida deftosits. The grade
of material is the highest average that
is lieing worked anywhere. The facil
ities for moving the products to jtoints
for distribution are gtiod. The aver
age distance from mines to jiorts for
shipment is altout 150 miles. Tin-distributing
stations for the hard rock
districts ate Port TanifKi, Fernandina,
lirunswick and Savannah, the largest
tonnage lieing moved from Fernan
dina. where storage bins are located
anil loading facilities are good. Port
Tampa, the terminus of the Plant sys
tem of railroads, is constantly adding
facilities for prompt handling of car
goes of phosphate, and at present very
nearly equals Fernandina in the
amount of its shipments. Kailroads
:re numerous and cheaply constructed
when necessary to extend them into
new sections. The machinery nettled
to mine and prepare the material is
imple and inexfiensive conifiared with
that generally used in other mining
oterations. and the cost of a plant
with sufficient land to work iifton is
within the reach of small investors.
The working days at the mines are
aliout 2sil during t he year. The climate
is healthful, laltorers readily obtained
at a fair compensation and skilled ojicr
ntives are at hand who are In-coming
familiar with the business. The min
ing camps are generally well regulated,
i'lid proprietors and employes can re
side at the mines with safety and with
little inconvenience, as supplies of all
kinds can lie readily obtained at the
towns located in the near yicinitv of
ail the large mining fields. lelcgraph
and mail facilities are wilhin ea-sy ac
cess of nearly every mining camp in
the state. Florida phosphates are
mostly shipjied to Euroftean fxirts,
and are manufactured into fertilizers
in England, Ireland. Germany France.
:nd quite recently shipments have
lieen made to the Sandwich islands.
Foreign agents of consumers and
dealers in phosphates have their offices
near the center of production, anil
contracts for delivery and prices are
commonly fixed at fioiiits of shipment,
the material being sold at a price fier
unit of its contents of phosphate of
l:me. The. Florida phosphates are all
used in the manufacture of commercial
fertilizers and suiterphosphate." Bos
ton Transcript.
How to tse the Kpoosk
There are a thousand ways by which
a housemUtress may prove the homely
old saying that a woman can throw
out with a spoon faster than a man
can throw in with a shovel, and a
thousand other ways by which she can
prove herself able to use her meta
phorical spoon to greater advantage.
The first type of woman leaves the
draughts of her kitchen stove open
and keeps the fire going at full blast
when there is no need of it; the second
closes the draughts and dampers
and plans to make the fire do as
much as possible at one time. The
first throws away what with a little
trouble could be made into "drippings"
which would serve in cooking as well,
and often better, than butter; the sec
ond not only makes the drippings, but
turns her sheets and table cloths as
soon as they begin to grow thin in the
middle and cuts up still older table
clothes into every-day napkins. The
first woman uses one broom for the par
lor carpet, the cellar and the sidewalk;
the second has three grades of brooms
and greatly prolongs the term of serv
ice of each thereby. And the same
rule applies to her own gloves, boots
and general wearing appareL St.
Louis Republic.
A Man wttli llopea.
Near midnight the other evening I
sat down on one of the seats of the
1 hames emliankment w hen a ragamuf
fin liegan fH-stering me for a ftenny.
After 1 had given him sixftence I said:
"You must go hungry fora longtime?"
"Yes. sir."
"And you seldom sleep in a bed?"
"Very seldom."
"And your clothes are badly out at
the elltows?"
"I need a new- suit, sir."
"On the whole, you haven't much to
live for. I take it?"
"Not very much, sir, and if it wasn't
for my hofies I'd take a header into the
river."
"What hopes have you?"
"Well, sir, I'll put your tenner with
nine liob more on the races to-morrow,
and if I win I'll sit down to a cham
pagne supftcr and buy myself a box of
Havana cigars. That's what I hofie for,
sir, and I thank you and good night."
1 shouted at him to come, back with
my coin, but he vanished in the gloom
in the direction of Black friars bridge.
Pearson's Weekly.
Lemon Juice as I'ollth.
Lemon juice applied to cast iron arti
cles gives an excellent finish to the .sur
face of the metal. It turns the portion
of polished cast iron to which it is ap
plied to a bronze black, and when
touched over with shellac varnish will
absorb a sufficient amount of the var
nish to preserve it. To many lemon
juice would seem to le a weak and in
effective acid for metal, but everyone
knows how quickly a knife blade of
steel will blacken when used to cut a
lemon, and the darkening of polished
iron by the acid is very beautifuL
LET LOOSE HIS LATIN.
It Y mm a I.I t tie Klrh for the Object o
Ills Kemarks Hut It Won.
A servant girl was washing the front
windows and stets of a house on High
street west the other afternoon when
bhe suddenly heard a voice at hcrclliow
saving:
"Juliet didn't clean windows, but she
wouldn't have lieen any the less a lady
for so doing. A lady to the manor lorn
m-a-n-tt-r, il you please is a iai,
under all circumstances."
She looked at him as she wrung out
the cloth in a pail of clean water, but
made no reply.
"Seedy genteel is tho verflict. my Des
demoua. and it exactly Lits the ease.
That's me. "Been traveling o& my uj
fwrs of late, you know. N. C.Jn capital
letters, which means no cash. No
cash no lianker no diamond-set pros
pects ahead. All I have is my charac
ter for industry, integrity and love for
the human race. Savey. my jtrincessV"
She rublted up and down and cross
wise with her cloth, but did not even
look at him.
"Case is just this," he continued, as
he s;it down on Ihe railing and removed
his hat to wipe his brow. "I struck Chi
cago a year ago from St. lAuis. Ex
jiccted to find something soothing here
something to sort o" lull my weary soul
into a slate of calm reiKtse. Ever lieen
in Chicago?"
She was ready to wring out the cloth
again, and she soused it up and dow n in
the water and had no word of reply.
"Beautiful city." he went on, "but the
inhabitants thereof are inclined to lie
over-part icularw ith strangers. Couldn't
strike a job there to save my life, and
cheek finally played out. Chief of police
asketl me as a fiersonal favor todisap
fiear, and I always oblige the fxilice
v hen it. doesn't cost you a red to do iko.
Presto! change! Which in the Grecian
language signifies: 'From Chicago to
iH'troit on the bumfters. Do you follow-
me, Beatrice?"
She changed over to the other win
dow ami went rub! rub! rub! ami gave
him not the least attention.
"Like the town first rate as far as I
have jieregrinated around," he went on,
tising the lining of his hat to wic his
nose. "Does jieregrinated strike yon
a too rich for the season? No. Well,
then, let me farther state that I feci en
rapftort with Detroit. Felt sort o' nil
flpiMmiuliim u-liHti I first r-ot i n Vmt
I'm O. K. now. Upon French and Latin.
my queen of the May? 'Sense me. if 1
have seemed to convey the impression
that you don't know Virgil from Wel-
ster's unabridged. Old Yirge used to
1-e a particular pet of mine. Did I hear
a motion to adjourn?"
He proliahly didn't, as her cloth went
v. ije! wijie! wijie! and jier back was
inn tMi mm. " "
"Hut dclenda est Carthairo. as I used
to remark in St. Ixuiis. To come to the
(toiiit at once to secure a clearer and
more satisfactory understanding lie
tween us, let me assume the interroga
tory. May le a little rich for this lo
cality, but 1 have always lieen noted for
liberality. Now, then, dum vivimus
vivamus.which shoots straight out from
the shoulder, and means: "Got any
grub in tho kitchen for a traveler o'er
the long highway of life?"
She rose up and dropjied the wet
cloth into the pail w ith a "sfat!" gave
herhandsa w ifieon her apron anddisap-
jK-ared into the basement. Two min
utes later she returned wish a good
sized sandwich and a couple of pickles,
ami handed them to him without so
much as a look; she soused the cloth in
the juiil and went on with her w indow.
"Alterum alterius auxilo egct," sa
luted the man as he lifted his hat. "In
other words: Jin-t my fit. You have
proved yourself ait tiasis in the sandy
waste of life and allow me to ret urn my
v arniest thanks and to Iiojh- that oiir
future may Ik- lie quid nimis, w hich, I
will take the liltcrty to explain, signi
fies: Bully for you. old gal.' and may
vou never Know what it is to want for
some spot on earth where your weary
soul can lie lulled to forget fulness of t he
tact that vou are d -ad broke and still
slipping." " Detroit Free Press.
ARMY NOTES.
Military authorities estimate that
in times of public danger we could put
into the field a force of 2.500,000 or 3,
JOO.OOO men.
The colonels of our army have each
a salary of f 1.500. while the lieutenant
colonels receive M.IKK); the majors f
MX).
The age for the admission of cadets
to the military academy at West Point
is Ik twee u seventeen and twenty-two
years.
At the present time the I'nited States
has one hundred and forty-four gam
soned forts, arsenals or military posts
occupied by its troops.
Every West Point cadet signs an ob
ligation to serve four years in the acad
emy and four years in the army after
graduation.
Ihe pay of a private in the army is
from f 13 to tlS a month, according to
length of service, with rations and
quarters.
Or the West Point graduates who
served in the federal army during the
civil war, one-fifth were killed in action,
one-half were wounded.
OfR war department cost last year,
4 94, ?34.557,930. Our army is the most
expensive, proportioned to its numlters.
in the world.
Ol'B soldiers, considering the fact
that their clothing, rations and quar
ters are furnished, are better paid than
the laboring men of most EurofH-an
countries.
One of the duties of the secretary of
war is to cause all captured flags,
standards and banners to lie brought
to Washington, where they are careful
ly preserved.
ra.teur Carefnlne-a.
Once when Pasteur was dining with
his daughter and her family at her
home in Burgundy he took care to dip
in a glass of water the cherries that
were served for dessert and then to
v.ifte them carefully with his napkin
liefore putting them in his mouth. His
fastidiousness amused the ftcople at
table, but the scientist rebuked them
for their levity ami discoursed at length
on the dangers in microln-s and ani
maculae. A few minutes later, in a fit
of abstraction, he suddenly seized the
glass in which he had washed the cher
ries and drank the water, microlies and
all, at a single draught.
DURABLE CARPET.
That In Which the 1 'at tern Tharoarhly
Covers the Groandwork.
The most durable carjiet ever woven
was undoubtedly the old rag aarftet
made of home-spun rags dyed with veg
etable dyes made from native larksanl
roots. The hit and miss effeet of thes
carfiets was often a complete success,
and far prettier that the showy tajes
try Brussels that succeeded. It aat
also much more durable. It was not
necessary to shut out the sun from the
room carfteted w ith the rag carfet, lie
cause it-s colors were of honest dye and
did not fade in the light. Thisold-time
floor covering is nearly gone. There
are only a few housekeepers in these
days, in spite of modern inventions and
lalKir-saving devices, who have time to
sew and dye rags for cari-ts, so the
choice of even the old-time farmhouse
must fall upon a purchased article.
When a room is dull and dreary look
ing there is a temptation to buy a
bright-colored carfx-U but it is one that
ought to lie resisted. Nothing fiall
ujton the taste so soon as a carpet of
staring pattern, wlutse tlowera "rise
up" to meet your footsteps over it. It
is alw ays a safe rule to choose a carjtet
of medium shade, decidedly darker than
the wall fiajH-r. A conventionalized
fiat tern wears much lietter than a re
;listic wit tern if flowers and leaves,
lu order to lie durable, let the fiattern
cover the ground of carfiet thoroughly.
A wml ingrain carj-et of the liest quali
ty is a far lietter, more satisfactory
choiee than a cheap tapestry, w hich is
sold at the same price. The old-fashioned
three-ply oarjict is no longer
made. The heavy ingrain, w hich takes
its place, is more durable lx-cause it
remains in good condition as long as it
lasts, while the upfter surface of the
three-ply wears off. leaving the carfiet
shabby, though it lie still w hole. The
next choice to an ingrain is a first quali
ty American Brussels. Choose a carj-et
of hea'3 surface, but on a woven
through to the Itack. Of late years
some manufacturers of tajtestry hate
dyed their c-arftets on the back so as
to make the sujierficial observer lieliete
they are woven through, but such a
shallow device should deceive no one.
It must lie said that there has been a
marked improvement in the manufac
ture of velvet carftets in recent years,
so that some of these are almost as
durable as inferior Wiltons. The vel
vet carjtet. it should lie reniemltered.
;s u tajK-stry carjtet, woven in heavy
frame, and the loops of the surface are
cut to produce the velvet surface. A
Wilton carjtet is heavy Brussels, in
which the loojts of the surface are cut.
The nioquctte carjtet has a heavy plu-di-like
surface, but it is not as durable
as ilton or velvet, though it is cheatier
.thamt Wilton. K. YTrihune.
TRANSPORTATION INTERESTS.
Texas employs its convicts in build
ing railroads.
Tuty are laying railway tracks in
Texas by machinery.
At the recent meeting of railway
presidents at Coney Island two thou
sand million dollars of capital was rep
resented. A veteran railroad man, Jonas
Wilder, of Bristol, Tenn.. w ho is now
eighty-two years of age, invented the
refrigerator car and the coupon ticket
and patented neither of them.
The jK-nver fc liio Grande railway
placed its insurance contract recently
with a IK-nver brokerage firm. The
amount involved was four million dol
lars, but the terms are kept secret.
The horseless vehicle has appeared,
in Chicago in the shape of a light wag
on propelled y an electric motor work
ing a gearing on the rear axle and run
ning over the crowded streets with ap
jtarent ease.
JriKiMEM for one thousand dollars
has lieen awarded at IlarlM tursville, Ky.,
agaiust the Louisville & Nashville com
pany as damages to one W. II. McDon
ald, liecause he was forced to ride in
the "Jim Crow car" while taking a col
ored lunatic to an asylum.
A CVKlot'8 freight which is shipped
exclusively from San Francisco to
China is "fish bone." which pays twen
ty dollars a ton. says the Chicatro Rec
ord. It is sent in large boxes, con
signed to the Tung Wah hospital at
Hong Kong, but the contents of the
Itoxes are really the liodies of dead
Chinamen sent home for burial.
WOMAN'S WAYS.
A noMESTlc vvife is a blessing, but
not if she is too domestic.
A wife is willing to le obedient, but
she hates to lie considered a slave.
When a woman says no she wants
you ta insist upon her saying yes.
A man will always respect a woman
if be sees that she respects herself.
With a woman, her soul should al
ways be at least as well clad as her
IkxIv.
Ira married woman commences as a
slave she will nevej- regain her free
dom. Very few married women sin even in
thought when they have good hus
ltands. A great many women transfer to
their baity the love they once had for
their husband.
Even when a woman is in love she
never forgets to see that her hat is on
straight.
A woman should not be afraid to die.
Why, just think! It relieves her of the
marriage tie.
The woman who is a g-ol cook can
always retain the respect of her hus
band, if not his love.
A woman should be chary with her
kisses and caresses even to her hus
band. We get tired even of canvas
back duck if we have it every day.
Florida-Times- L" n ion.
A Yletim or the Earthqaaka
"James," said the good wife, severe
ly, "v.-ere you intoxicated when you
came home Sunday night?"
"No, I was not, Maria. I had not
drank a drop."
"But, James, when you came
through the hall you were staggering
so you could hardly keep your feet."
"Maria." replied James, with an in
jured air, "you should read the news
papers. If you had looked at the
morning Express you would have
seen that just at the hour that I cauo
home there was an earthquake. It
was that which made me look as if I
was staggering- Don't be so hasty in
your conclusions another time, please."
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