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THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and IroprrWtor.
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VOL. XL VI.
Georoe W. C-lb says that
American literary taste is rising.
There are no 3715 places In the
TjuiteJ StitJ which have a population
0f puue tliau 1000.
The penal Institutions of all kinds In
this couutry are supported at an annual
expense of $13,000,000.
'I n e o'.tpu of British ooil mines ia
in the neighborhood or 18O.0O0.C03 ton
yearly lu 1S90, 170,9 10,72 L
Many of t':e more enlightened Turk 8
are Laving English governesses to teach
their children English and French.
lr is estimated that about 30,0'J0
horses were ousted from street-car ser
vice last year by electricity.
Is Algiera, North Africa, twelve
million acres or barren land have beer
leclainied and pi inted in vineyards.
Out or llO.OOJ.OX) sjuIs comprising
the Uusslau Empire, fully 80,000,000
are euga;;el in agricultural pursuiis.
Our of 110,0)0.030 souls comprising
the It asslan Empire, fully 80,000,000
are engaged in agricultural pursuits.
O jt of 100 Indian students returned
from Himpton Institute, Virginia, to
the reservation only two have beeD
futures.
A starli ng story Is current in. Paris
to the effect that the French Anarchists
have abandoned dynamite as a means
or argument, aul will hereafter use poi
son. BfiiitT, England's litest hangman,
declaies himself to be satisfied that
haugiug does not deter crime. He
thinks that penal servitude would be
much moie efficacious.
Senatoh Stanford's bill to deter
mine the value of the leg.il-tonder dol
lar may serve some useful end, but the
only way to really And out the value of
a dollar is to need one badly.
Ose of the finest possibilities of uni
versity extension in the United Slates,
argues the Waii ington Star, Is iu t'ie
aid It will give to ambitious working
men. The cost of producing honey was
dUcussed at the late Cjlorado State
Convention. One member said four
cents per pound, but others said tijht
cents, and yet another member put the
cost ot 10 cents par pound.
A French company is now building
a street car line in Tashkent, the Cap
ital of Russian Turkestan, where, not
very many years ago, any white man
who had visited the place would havr
lost his head.
According to the report of the De
partment ot Agriculture at Washing
ton, there has been an increase of one
fourth in the production of the potato
In the past ten years.
Judging from the number of chart
ers taken out in the different States for
the construction ot railroads it is esti
mated that upward of 7500 mi lea of
new track will be added to the total
mileage of ttie country this year.
These are the times of o'vilization
and peace, and yet It is flzured, re
marks toe New York World, that dur
ing the last thirty-three yars full 2,
600,000 men have lost their lives iu
war.
Thk President of the New Jersey
State Board of Agriculture favors the
Government's adopting the county free
ma:l delivery, believing that the
mounted carriers could lake, not only
mails, but weather reports.
The various life Insurance compan
ies in the TJuited states annually dis
burse J85.000.000 In claims. Their
premiums in the same time amount to
f 160,000,000; and the Interest on their
Investments aggregate $33,000,000
year.
Among others who have tried corn
broad and kindred pro I acts may be
cited that distinguished commoner,
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, who says that
ltsuitsd his taste perfeclly, anlthat he
would be happy to see the British peo
ple taking more of Am3ican maize
than they bad been dmg in the
past.
A report Is being circulated to the ef
fect that the bumble bee which were a
few years ago Imported into New Zea
land for the purpose of .erti'.iz;ng the
red clover have become in places a seri
ous pest to apiarists, having multiplied
to such an extent as to deprive the hon
ey bees of sufficient food.
There were published last year
this country 4065 books, according to
figures just compiled. In this total,
w hich has been surpassed in the last six
years only by the number credited . to
the year JSS6, are included new editions
of American books and reprints and
tiamlations of foreign books, as well v
original work.
A ropemaking firm in Eng'and is
manufacturing a new type of rope
called the antl-corrotive and self-lubricating
wire rope. 1 he core and all the
wires in the Btrai.ds are said to be coated
with a composition called glissantoline,
which Oils np ti e interstio s of the rope
and makes it impervious to corrosion.
The lubricant also makes the rope more
flexible.
One tiouble with the world is that so
many have mote reputation than character.
thai d ae
Near the litt,l t.
in Irance. there i. Qn '
which i bears only imperfect blossoms;
finrl thn . . 9
- v.- naving long been dis
covered, has eiven rlo t o v 1
"rul custom among the maidens of
vw villager. I
W linn cTirfn.i : I
...-1,-uuiei-oiiies, ana the
apple-tree hails the Joyous time with'
t.au uursi, or Diossonis, the maid-!
ens of the villa iXi arm h 1 !
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Ktfjr nooons and yrr..t .i
soms from their favnrito i oh
singing to the lonely tree which his,
v' u"'y lue '"iperrect blossoms.
Each girl then k-i
imperfect blossoms, and in so doin?
ousts tne former with the pollen from
the latter. She thnn tin a ri
guishing ril.bou near to the cluster
she had dusted.
The tree l(Mik vprv uko,. v,...,
aecorated, with the pink blossoms!
J " MU 1 11 11 3
smiling up at Heaven, and the dalutv
luwus iiuiienng in tne perfume
laden air; but the best of it Is when
the petals fall like
and the little apples begin to shape.
.man me maiaens pluck off all but
the best fruit, and let that, talo n
the strength of the tree, so that the
appies grow ramously and come to
Verfection,
And now is seen the strand nnn
of the affair; the apples, instead of
being all of one kind, arp a. rftfTrnt
as the blossoms that kissed their blos
soms, the fact beinc that. th nnnlo U
expectly like the apple on the tree
ironi wnicti the pollen-bearing blos
soms was taken. So on this one tree
will be seen round, rosy-cheeked ap
ples, long, yellow apples, juicy apples,
mealy apples, dainty little apples, and
'monstrous bill" annles. K:irh m:iil.
en has the apple she wished the most
f rot.ctlon from Hide Bullata.
Commenting on the penetrative
powers of the small arms lately intro
duced into the armies of all the great
powers. Col. Lonsdale Halo states
that the minimum thickness of ordi
nary soil affording "jrotection is thirty
inches, while single brick walls, after
being struck a few times, no longer
afford any cover. The new German
rifle ranges up to 4,000 yards, and at
900 yards the bullet will penetrate
ten inches of Or or pine and fourteen
inches of sand. At 450 yards the
bullet can pierce three or four ranks,
and at 1,300 yards a man mav no
longer consider himself safe, even if
the bullet has already penetrated two
of his comrades. With regard to
"smokeless powder," the same au
thority observes that, though the re
port of the rifles when fired is heard,
it is very difficult to see whence the
rifles are tired. Under certain con
ditions no trace of smoke can be dis
tinguished. Minor acts of surprise,
he considers, will be more frequent
ia the future, and will often paitake
of the nature of ambuscades. Very
small bodies of cavalry, intimately
connected with infantry, forming in
action patrols of the latter, will,
inererore, De necessary and it will no
longer be pos-dble to discover well
posted batteries. On the whole, Col.
Hale considers that only a war can
absolutely decede what the effects of
the improvement of in small arms
will be. One thing, however, is cer
tain that is, that the difficulty of
leading troops has considerably in
-.rcased. London News.
Died Decked In tier Mmnnnds.
Seldom has a more extraordinary
display of parvenu bad taste been
witnessed than that which t ok place
at Paris recently around the death
bed of Mme. Gaston Menier, the wife
of the chief partner of the great
chocolate house of that name.
Mme. Menier was not only one of
the most elegantly dressed women in
Paris, but also the possessor of a su
perb collection of diamonds, pearls,
md other precious stones.
When she felt that her end was ap
proaching she entreated her husband
to bring her all her jewels.
She had strings of huge pearls
wound in her hair, her neck encircled
by a superb diamond necklace, dia
mond stars attached to the Valen
ciennes of her night robe, braceletson
her arms and rings on hr fingers
When fully adorned in this man
ner all her servants and intimat?
friends were summoned to pass be
fore her bed and to wish her good-by.
A curious idea this, but demou-
itratintr that even to the last her
thoughts were for the pomp and vani
ties of this worlc.
Two hours after the close of this
luffubrious parade the lady expired,
taking her departure for another
world where jewels are believed to be
of no account. ew lork Recorder
Hiirr.
If the habit of hurry is inimical to
Valuable work, it is equally so to a
valuable character. Begun, as it
usually is, in the daily employment,
it soon becomes a habit of life. In-
i.lv we come to eat and drink in
a hurry, and so ruin our digestion or-crina-
tn take our amusements in a
h.imr and so ruin their recreative
etfei-t; to think in a hurry, and so ar
rive at false conclusions; to converse
in a hurry, and so lose an tne nnc
flavor of other minds. Hurry is the
orw.mvnf self-control, of manliness.
of dignity. There never was a greater
mistake than to imagine that it add
to one's importance by showing how
numerous and pressing one's duties
and responsibilities are. It merely
shows that, whatever they may be,
one is not eoual to them that one is
n.t mnster of the situation. Emer
1 on Suva. "Coolness and absence of
hnat and haste indicate fine qualities.
a trentleman makes no noise, a lady
Is serene. The love of beauty is
merely the love of measure or propor
tion. The person who screams, or
uses the superlative degree, or con
verses with heat, i. quickly left
alone.
A stretch of track acrora the pampas
' on trie new Argentine Pacific Ballioad
from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the
Andes is 211 miles long, without a
curie, a single biidge, an opening larg
er than an ordinary drain, a cut greatei
than one metre in depth, or an embank
ment more than one metro in height
T James Mc Master, of Ixjokport, N,
T has married Miss Emma Everett
aiter a twenty years' courtship.
MIFFLINTOWN.
FIGS AND THISTLES.
fVawajjr Winnowing of tna nlgrammatlo
lua'i Born.
HE richest rieo-
ple are those who
give the most
away.
Evert time
some people
speak in church
the devil feels
better.
Ir there were
no little sins
there would
never be any big
ones.
Whenever you talk about water
somebody is sure to want a drink.
The man who has God to plan for
him always does a good day's work.
For every failing a man can point
out in others he has two of his own.
You will never grow much in grace
oy watching how other people walk.
Faith is what a Christian has the
most of when he has lost everything
else.
It never helps us to walk any
itraighter to watch another man's
feet.
The man who worships a God of
cis own imagination, worships him
self.
Saui, was bigger on the day he be
came king thanhe ever was after
ward. 'Herebt perceive we the love ot
God, because He laid down His life
for us."
Eveky Christian ought to read a
chapter in God's living Bible to some
sinner.
Lazarus had to walk to the rich
man's gate, but he was carried to
Ueaven.
The man who seeks his reward in
this world, never gets a nrice that
suits him.
The happiest Christian is the one
who spends the least time in looking
at himself.
The less a man amounts to the
prouder he is of his ancestors being
big people.
"IIe that cotueth to Me shall never
hunger; and he belleveth on Me shall
never thirst."
The man who walks with God is
always sneered at by some highly re
spectable people.
The greatest reward ever offered
for faithfulness are those promised in
the word of God.
"God commendeth nis love toward
js, In that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us."
The devil never throws any stones
at the preacher who is not sure that
the Bible is all true.
Yot can always tell how well b.
preacher loves the Lord bv the kind
of gospel he preaches.
Whenever the devil has ten min
ates to spare, he uses it to 6ct moro
traps for the children.
The blindest people are those who
never find out that they can not bo
happy in their own way.
There Isn't a poor man in thf
irorld who would carry a millionaire's
load for the pay he gets.
The best farm in the promised land
is always the one which has the big-
pest giants living on it.
There are people who would rather
pay their own way to the pit than to
go to Heaven for nothing.
Every man will find out In the
Judgment that Christ has often como
to see him at his own house.
The man who knows that God is
with him to-day, has no trouble about
trusting Him for to-morrow.
Therb are so many temperance
nen who tako their blue ribbons off
when they go away from home.
The man who knows without doubt
that Christ is his Saviour, don't loso
much time in looking at himseli.
If sunshine bad to be paid for,
there are many people who would de
clare that candle l.ght could beat it.
If some people had the faith to
move mountain?, they would soon
make all their neighbors' land very
hilly.
No man ever attains a station so
axalted in this world that God docs
not expect him to to help those be
neath him.
I.ak. Currants.
During the next few months a great
many bottles will be cast upon tho
shores of Lake Michigan. They are
to be thrown Into the water for ex
perimental purposes by lake captains,
who will undertake the service at the
request of the United States Govern
ment. The experiments are to be conduct
ed for the purpose of determining tho
set and drift i lake currents, and
will be under the direction of the
Weather Bureau. The bottles are to
be given out to vessel captains, who
will agree to throw them overboad
and enter certain data on blanks fur.
nished for that purpose.
In order to do the work systcmat-.
ically, the great lakes have been
mapped out in numbered sections,
commencing at Duluth and numlicr
ing eastward. There are 410 sections
in all, each one containing lSOsqtare
miles. When the captain throws one
of the hottles in tho water he will
place in It, before so doing, a slip of
paper, upon which the data and posi
tion of the vessel is entered.
On each slip is the request that thi
Snder send it to the Chief of Weather
Bureau at Washington or hand it to
the nearest Government observatory,
lighthouse keeper or postmaster,
to be forwarded. By noting where
. the bottles go ashore, data will be
i obtained from which the movement
cf the lake currents can be calculated.
When a botcher gambles be should
play for large steaks.
According to the epilogue writer oi
the Seventeenth Century it was then
easy to distinguish the country from
the town gallant in a theatre, the latter
being known by putting his perl w eg In
order with a comb, while his provincial
brother was content to attain the same
object with four fingers and a thumb.
All the trees of the tropfes except
those imported from older dunes art
evergreens.
JUNIATA COUNTY.
THET YOUNGSTER'S AONQ.
Yea, t ranger, things has changed oat hero
'titn't very lung ago
fiuce ihi.1 big town was nothiu' but the ranck
nf ol.l hill Coo;
Wa called it rreetiuui Camp, and ev'ry tiuudaj
all the burs
Would meet in front of old Bill s teat ed niak.
a precious lioiiio.
There's nothiu' makea our sort of men as k-appr
as a din.
And so with shout and crack of gun v. used to
sail nt:ht ui ;
We'd fiht and race, and try our atreu.th, till
half the night, was spent.
And then we'd go, with curse and laugh, to driuk
In old bill s teuu
The only one thet didn't drink, er carry on, r
swear.
Was sickly, and they'd sent hi in her. tor Col
orado air :
He was a youngster only, but he mad. us ranch
men mad
Because he looked ao solemn when w. actod
extra bod.
On. Sunday night the noise eused up, and soon
the camp was still.
As each one ou us stood aud watched the moon
rise o'er the hill ;
I don't know how it hap. enod, but it looked so
pure and calm,
Thet ev'ry tough ranchmou dropped his role.
and stayed his aim.
And then, before a move was made, tbet young
ster, thar by me.
Began to sing, t-o soft and clear, 'My Folh
I.ouka up to Thoe."
And In a miuute hats was off, aud .v'ry bead
was Itowed,
Astheui old words rang true and sweet, and
softeuod up thet crowd.
I hadn't brarl the solium tone sine. I was
young a him.
And suthiu' Huelled up in my throat, and then
my even got dim ;
As he sung on, 1 thought how brave he was tbet
crowd to face.
And so I took a mighty broathl and joined him
with the base.
Then PxnverDlok began to sing, and soon th.
w bol rough crowd
Was blioutin' out that good old tun. Invoices
deep and loud ;
We hadn't pretty voices, and some didn't know
a word.
Put, straegt-r. It was the grandest thing that
mortal ever heard.
And when the hymn was done, we said good
night and went our way.
And old hill s toot wa pretty well deserted
from thet day ;
For ev'ry Hundny night we'd meet and sing a
hymn or two.
And mlxin' hymns and rum, you see, of course
would never do.
Yes, Stranger, things has changed out hero;
we ve got our churches now.
And you could live here all your life aud never
see a row ;
Th. good has drove the bad away, and aU this
change, you see.
Is owin' to the chap thot sung, "My Faith Looks
up to Tuoo."
THERE VEILED VE1IDICT
Jem Blake was shot dead in his own,
doorway by Antonio Guekio, and tho
trial was to come off directly.
The extraordinary interest in the
affair was less due to the murder and
its peculiar circumstances than to the
fact that this was the first case tried
at !san Saba in any more formal court
than tho time honored institution of
Judge Lynch.
As there was no place specially ar
ranged for this trial, Judge Pitblado
hospitably offered the use of his shed.
Here a rough table and chair wero
placed torthe Judge, the other neces
sary furniture. Intended to represent
the dock, the stand, etc., being eked
out with boxes from Silas Bagget's
grocery store.
Jake Smith looked at these prepa
rations for a time with frowning dis
content and then strolled down the
road, turning into the laue that led
to Blake's. When he reached the
door of the shanty he leaned auainst
the iamb and poked his naked head
inside, fanniug himself in an em
barrassed way with his greasy frag
ment of a hat. lie had come there
with the intention of saying some
thing, but the sight within made him
forget it.
Blake's widow sat there, as she hid
pretty much all the time since tho
murder, staring straight before her,
with her chin on her palm. The sun
light struck through the foliage of
the red oak trees that grew before the
door, and checkered with the flicker
ing brightness thefloorand the cradle
in which Jem's baby was sleeping. .
There it was, just as it had been
three days ago (could it be only three;
days?) just as it had been when she'
went out that morning to look after
the drying clothes and left him stand
ing in the door by the cradle (how
fond he was of the tabyl) just as it
was when she heard the crack nf tho
pistol and ran in with an awful sense
of suffocating fright just the same
as when she had found him lying upon
the cradle, dabbling its white linen
with his blood, and the baby playing
with his hair. She screamed once,
the flrst and last complaint any one
had heard her make; then she was
quiet and helpful through it all
when men came and lifted her up;j
when they laid her on the rough bed.
in the other room; when they car-'
ried him to the grave, she following
with the baby in her arms.
Jake Smith was trying to find tho
link missing in his thoughts. He
sniffed with perplexity or some
thing and Blake's widow looked up
without speaking. Jake nodde"
pleasantly four or Ave times.
"Pooty chipper?" asked he.
Blake's widow smiled sadly, bent
over the sleeping child and smoothed
the clothes with a tender touch,
They're agoin' to try hira in a
court," Jake went on, 'an' 1 don't
believe "
"Try who Antonia?" See turned
toward the burly figure In the door
with a flash of interest in her blaok
eyes.
"Yes. The Jcdge Is making a
court of his shed. I hope it'll turn
out all right, but it seems like giving
that Mexican devil a chance he
oughtn't ter have."
He can't get clear, can he?" she
asked, rocking the cradle gently and
patting the coverlet
'I don't see how, but he's got some
kind of a law cuss ter speak for him
a feller that stopped here a day or
two ago on his way to Galveston
and it makes me kind o' nervous."
Blake's widow did not appear to
notice the last remark, for the child,
ilsturbed by the talking, had awak
ened, and sat up in his cradle with a
wondering look.
"Pooty. ain't he?" said Jake, re
tarding the small figure with inter
est. "Looks just like ahem you.
Poor little 1 a " he stammered,
tnd treated bis hat like a mortal
1 snemy. "Of course he'd had you've
1 jot there's nothin I can do fcr yer,
' maybe?"
I She answered with a grateful took,
but it was accompanied with a shake
of the head.
'. Jake bent dovn, and. with tig
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. IS92.
forefinger softly rumpled the hair of
the baby's head. Then he went out
and left them, Blake's widow sitting
as he found her and the baby star
ing down the path after him.
He walked ou until he reached the
top of the little hill, where he could
looat down upon the roof which cov
ered the piteous scene he had ju.it
left. Here he seemed to hive half a
mlod to turn back, for he hesitated
and stopped; but he Chang! his par
tial Intention after lingering a uo
ment, and walked meditatively on
ward, with the exclamation: "Wai,
some women do be.t the d 1
amazin'."
Of course, everybody came to the
trial. The arrangements were soon
found to be altogether too meager.
Pitblado's shed was rilled to overflow
ing, and Bagget made a clean sweep
of every empty box in his store.
Antonio's lawyer, a sharp-eyed,
sharp-featured fellow from Galveston,
had bustled about with surprising
agility on the day previous, holdiug
mysterious conferences with Ill-conditioned
fellows of Gueldo's kidney.
The court was assembled, the jury
had been chosen, and the witnesses
were all present save one Blake's
widow.
Pretty soon there was a stir at the
door, then a murmur of surprise rau
through the crowded room.
"May 1 bed d:" said Jake Smith,
audibly, "if she isn't brought her
bob!"
What reason she may have bad for,
not leaving the little thing in charge
of sonic sympathizing woman and
there were plenty who would have
been glad of the trust was not ap
parent. However that might be,
there it was, clasped firmly In her
arms. Its bright red cheeks contrat-
ing with her whiteness, and its
father's sunny hair mingling with her
dark locks.
With some difficulty way was made
through the throng to her seat, which
had been placed on one side of the
Judge, directly opposite the candle
box, on the other, where Antonio sat.
She took her place and never moved
during the whole of the trial, except
ing as she was required to testify, and
once when the baby tugged at some
glistening thing that lay hidden in
the folds of her dress, at which she
took pains to distract its attention
with a chip from the floor. As for
the baby, it sat there wita its big
blue eyes open to their fullest extent,
entirely absorbed in the novel scene,
save at the moment when that ir
resistible glitter caught its eye.
Every one being present, the trial
went on In good earnest. A number
of witnesses were examined, whose
testimony showed that Gueido had
had trouble with Blake, and more
than once threatened his life; that
Gueldo's pistol was one charge empty
on the evening of the day of the mur-i
J or, whereas in the morning it had
been full; that he was seen that
morning around Blake's house, and
more than that, Blake's widow had
heard Gueldo's voice just before the
fatal shot, and had seen him retreat
ing as she ran out.
At this last point the Galveston,
lawyer asked the witness a few ques
tions regarding how she knew it was
Gueldo's, and how she had recognized
the voice for bis. She didn't know
exactly, but was none the less sure
for that.
There had be.n a rumor about that
some one naa neard Antonio make a
boast of "having done for Blake this
time," but if there was a witness for
this, he could not be found now.
And so the prosecution closed.
The Galveston lawyer began by in
volving in a whirlwind of helpless
:ontradictlon the witness who bad
sworn to having seen Gueido near
Blake's house. Then he expatiated
on the ease with which one person
mav he mistaken for another, and
brought witnesses te show how Gueido
bad already been said to resemble,
some one in the village. Finally he'
produced three of the ill-conditioned
fellows before referred to, who swore,
that Antonio was with them on a
bunting expedition during the whole'
oi the day on whicn the murder was,
committed.
It was a clear case of alibi. Jack,
smith's astonishment at the ease with
which the thing bad been accom
plished was unbounded. He threw
a disgusted Icok toward Pitblado, but
the Judge was nonplussed and didn't'
seem to be interested with things in
Jake s vicinity.
"Gentlemen of the jury," said he,
"the trial took a turn I didn't alto
gether expec'. I don't know as there's
much to be said. I s'pose you've got
to go by the evidence, an' that don't
need any explainin'. Ef you kin
make out, accord in' ter that, that
Antonio Gueido killed Jem Blake,
why, jest recollect that's what yer
here fur."
Jake Smith fidgeted about on his
box and cast anxious glances through
the open door toward the clump of
nopals where the Jury was deliber
ating.
Antonio talked and laugnea in an
undertone with his counsel, and
Blake's widow 9at staring at them
with compressed lips and a strong ex
pression of determination coming into
her face.
It wasn't long before the Jury filed
in again, all seating themselves but
the spokesman, and Judge FiUlado
rose, wiping his forehead with his
iliirt sleeves
"Str.ticrhtnpd It. mit rior vro"
asked he, nodding to the spokesman.
The man nodded in return.
"Yer sts," said the spokesman,
with a hesitating and disappointed
air, "ef yer hadn't a-corralled us with
sticking ter the evidence we might 'a'
done better, but accord in' to that
Antonio wasn't thar when the mur
der was done, an' ef he, wasn't thar
he couldn't 'a done it, an' ef he didn't
do it, why then of course he's not
guilty."
Pitblado didn't dare'to look at any
body, he stared up at the rafters,
down at the table, nowhere In par
ticular, and then turned half way to
ward the prisoner.
"You kin go," said he at last, and
with great deliberation, "but don't
stay around here too long."
There was a dead pause, during
which nobody moved.
Jake Smjth exploded, single enss
word which be had held in for somt
time past, and Blake's widow 6tood
up.
Have you got through, Judge
she asked.
"Waal I s'pose so."
"And there is uothing el.e to tt
done"''"
"I am afraid there ain't."
"And he's free to go?"
"Y-a-s."
Antonio Gueido arose with an lnso
lent grin and picked up his hat.
The baby crowed, for it saw th
glittering thing again.
There was a sharp report Anton ic
pitched forward in a heap upon the
floor and Blake's widow stood witt
the pistol pressed to her breast.
A line of thin blue smoke 'curlec
from the muzzle of the weapon auc
formed a halo around the child';
flaxen head. The glittering tiling
was quite near the little hands now.
and they took it from the yielding
grasp of the mother.-
Blake's widow looked steadily a
the figure on the floor it was quite
motionless; then she turned and went
through the wide passage opened foi
her by the silent crowd, holding the
baby very tenderly, and the baby car
rying the pistol.
The child laughed with delight; it
had got Its shining plaything again.
Uowalouats faiisnsar.
rrofessor Troost, of Xashville, was
a great geologist and ophiologist, the
great gun (at one time) of the State
of Tennessee His private room at
his house was full of snakes, fossils,
turtles, birds, fishes, Indian relics,
etc, all thrown together in the great
est confusion.
Everything f the serpent kind he
had a particular fancy for, and always
had a number that be had tamed in
his pockets or under his waist coat-
To loll back in his easy-chair, to talk
about geology, while patting the head
of a large snake twining itself about
his neck, was to him supreme felicity
As may be conjectured, the professor
considered every one must be, as little
afraid of his crawling pets as himself.
One day he mounted the top of a
coach, with a hamper not over well
secured, which he placed near a Bap
tist preacher. The latter was ju
about falling asleep, when a slight
rustling awoke him. He turned, and
lo! beside him two rattlesnakes raised
their crests from tho basket. Over
went the preacher on to the driver,
who jumped from the rox as soon
as he caught sight or the cause
of the reverend gentleman's alarm.
Out, too, turned the inside passengers
as soon as' the origin of the enwmte
was known; whilst the professor, all
alone in his glory on the roof, quietly
slipped off his great-coat and tied it
down over the basket, with this con
solatory advice to tho startled pas
sengers:
"ihentlemen, only don t let dese
poor dings pito you, and dey won
ioort you. "
ll.gr.s Centigrade.
Sir William Thomas has calculated
that the quantity of fuel required for
each square yard of the solar surfaco
would be no less than 1.1,500 pounds
of coal per hour, equivalent to tho
work of a steam engine of 63,000
horse power. This enormous expen
diture of fuel would be sufficient to
melt a thickness of about forty feet
of ice per minute at the sun's sur
face, 6a y s the Gentlemen's Magazine.
Sir John Herschcl says: "Supposing
a cylinder of ice forty-five miles
in diameter to be continually
darted into the sun with the velocity
of light, and that the water produced
by its fusion was continually carried
off, the heat now given off constantly
by radiation would then be wholly
expended in its liquefaction, on the
one hand, so as to leave no radiant
surplus, while, on the other, the ac
tual temperature at its surface would
undergo no diminution."
As to the actual temperature at tho
sun's surface, various estimates havo
been made by different cotuputoi.
Secchi supposed it to be about 10,
000,000 degrees of tho centigrade
thermometer and Sporcr 37,000 de
grees of the same scale, while M.
Pouillet thinks that it lies between
1,461 and 1.7G1 degrees. G M. Bec-
querel, Prof Langley and Sir William
Thomson consider that the tempera
ture of the solar photosphere cannot
exceed 3,000 degrees centigrade. Ac
cording to M. Saint Claire Dcvilla
the temperature is somewhere about
600 degrees to 2,300 degrees.
Strang. Case.
A case of temporary survival or
wound which should hare, apparent
ly, caused Instant death, is that of a
boy who was picking up shavings in a
carpenter shop. lie slippped and
fell, and his head struck against a re
volving buzz saw. He staggerod to
his feet and went to an apothecary
to have the cut in his head dressed.
He said his head pained him terribly.
This was not wondered at when it
was found that the saw
had cut
through his skuII in such a way as to
thA twn lohPa nf th hrain
Th hnvlivnn for BATeral dnva and r-
i a ;n v, w
According to the common acceptance
of things, he should have died on the
spot at the time he sustained thi'
most remarkable injury.
Guaranteed?
The Salvation army believes In th
use of printer's ink. It publishes
thirty-one weekly newspapers and
five monthly magazines, with a total
annual circulation of 45,000,000
copies.
lake Chicago.
The extremes of temperate on th
Sahara are such that while the day
may be oppressively hot at night it v
freezing cold.
Very Severe.
An Indiana man has been fined tl
and costs for shooting a man with io
tent to kj li
They're Mot la Fawor.
There are forty women physicians
in India, but only tvto in France, It
la said.
.
The corporation of the rifle manufac-
torers at Liege, Belgium, has addressed
! tntfn w2rthi
Chicago expotiUcn.
CUILDINGS IN SWEDEN,
far More Substantial and Chiestr for lo
tursnce than la Am.rloaw
The maxim that "in a republic all
things are possible" has its limita
tions. It is not possible, for in
stance, in a republic like our own,
where everything Is done under high
pressure aud in a violent hurry, foi
anybody to take time to erect a buil
ling actually or even approximately
lire-proof. There are a few excep
tions, here and there, and it is grati
fying to note that they have a ten.
ili uey to increase in number; but
thus far thev have been only the x
jelions which prove the rule. Xine
buildings out of ten, probably ninety
nine out of a hundred, are put up on
the theory that if no ill luck attends
them, if the occupants are as careful
as they -should be, and if the Are de
partment is prompt in the discharge
of its duty, they will not burn down;
that if they do burn down, the ow
ner's loss, assuming him to be a man
ot ordinary business prudence, will be
fairly covered by insurance; and that
even the insurance companies will
have no accasion to complain, in as
much as they are perfectly aware
:if the risks they take, and
harce and receive corresponding
premiums therefore. Perhaps, on the
whole, this manner of doing the
business is not without its merits.
At any rate, it seems to be adapted.
to the American temperament. Leav
ing the peril to human life out of the
account, possibly there is money
saved in the long run by erecting
flimsy and combustible buildings, a
ertain well-determined percentage
of which will burn down in a given
time. It may cost more to build
permanently and safely, once for all,
than to build recklessly and cheaply,
and rebuild from time to time. The
question, not being a proposition in
Euclid, undoubtedly admHs of argu
ment.
But there is one country in which
Jebate on this points does not seem to
be entertained. We learn from a re-
;ent highly instructive book on Swe
.len and the Swedes, by William W.
Thomas, Jr., United States Minister
to Sweden and orway, that the In
tending Swedish builder does not have
to consider whether or not he will
comply with a foolish prejudice in
(avor of Ore-proof structure. The law
of that country settles the matter for
him with most unmistakable clear
ness. In the first place, it tvovldes
that every house shall be either of
brick or stone. The cellar must be
of massive arches of stone laid in
mortar or cement. The ground floor,
supported by these arches, must have
iron beams, the spaces being filled In
with clay and mortar, gravel and
broken brick. The attic floor must
likewise bo filled in between tho
beams, and must have a continuous,
solid upper surface of the brick or tiles
laid in mortar or cement. The roof
must be of tiles, slate, orsheets of met
al. On each side of the house there
must be tire-proof walls, a toot or
eighteen inches thick. The stairs
must be of stone or iron, laid in stone
walls at least one foot thick from
cellar to attic. Elevator-shafts, If
there are any, must be of solid ma
sonry, with iron doors. The attic
and cellar must each be closed with
an iron door set in a stone doorway,
and this door must be kept shut and
locked at night, and at all times
when not in use. Finally, no house
is permitted to exceed sixty-eight
feet in height.
When Charles Dickens made his
first visit to this country, and his
flrst journey by rail through 5ew
England, the thing which struck him
most forcibly was the unsubstantial
look of the houses. Biding from
Boston to Worcester on a Saturday
afternoon, he observed that "all the
buildings looked as if they had been
built and painted that. morning, and
:ould be taken down on Monday with
very little trouble;" and at Lowell he
found "a large hotel, whose walls and
colonades were so crisp, and thin, and
slight, that it had exactly the appear
ance of being built with cards. I was
careful not to draw my breath as we
passed, and trembled when I saw
workman come out on the roof, lest
with one thoughtless stamp of his
boot he should crush the structure
beneath him, and bring it rattling
down." This was fifty years ago, and
even then there was a good deal of
poetic license in tho remarks of our
distinguished visitor. But notwith
standing the marked advance in
architectural science which has been
niado in this country between 1842
and ISO:!, the reproach of flimstness
and fragility still rests upon the great
majority ot our buildings, and most
of them are more combustible than
frail. That their builders and
owners do not escape the penalty of
this misplaced economy is indicated
bv a comparison of American with
Swedish rates of Insurance. Tho
premiums paid in this country have a
vcry wiae r:lnf?c' according to locality
lC saiesi Classes Ol riSKS, mau ui ue
r m l. J
tached d Welling-hoUseS OCCUpid by
the owners, the premium in an
in
stance oeioie us is iuur-teuura ui
per cent, per annum. Mr. Thomas,
the aathor of the book above-men
tioned. raid in tho largo city of
Stockholm a premium of one-twen
tieth of 1 tter cent, per annum. In
other words, the Sweedish rate was
onlv one-eighth as much as the
American. But the Sweedish builder
must take time and infinite trouble
in erecting his house. The American
has no time to spare, and still less
rjatience; and he pays his eight-fold
uremium with cheerful alacrity, and
thanks a gracious providence morn
ing. noon and night, for having se
him In a large place, where the plod
ding wants ot the Old World are re
acted aud despised. Mechanical
News,
The secretary of the treasury hai In
structed collectors of custn.3 at all
j Tj rlien StaU S ports tiiao m iru-ui La-
lion or articles inw-n.tea or '"1'"
exposition "J1 'E'S J.
preference t o all other importation'.
I Exhibits from foreign por s are already
beginning to arrive at New York in
considerable numbers.
The inhabitants of the Cook Fenin-
NO. -2 i.
Oandet'a Method.
Alphonse Daudet, the eminent
French author, who is hardly more
famous for his literary worit than
noted for his rank dislike and uncon
cealed contempt for the academy, Is
a man whose working-life is reduced
to a system, says an exchange. His
actual hours for writing (that is to
say, composition) are three per day;
from 9 o'clock in the morning until 3
o'clock in the afternoon. The re
mainder of the day is devoted to study,
the acquirement of material for future
use and the discharge ot such duties
as cannot well be avoided.
Daudet is a keen student of human
nature and is particularly fond of ob
serving it as developed by the boule
Tardier. There are, It is well known,
a number of men in high station in
Paris to-day whose lives have been
somewhat broken or their spirits more
or less crushed by finding their foibles
or worse relentlessly ridiculed and
xcoriated in the "creations" of this
novelist.
In his L'Immortcl, ("One of the
Forty,") Alphonse Daudet has
drowned or smotnered a number of
men who fancied themselves great
and who for a time vainly attempted
to keep their heads above his fiercely
running stream of venomous satire.
It was in the same work that ha
boldly emptied upon the foremost
literary institution or our time tho
brimful vials of bis contemptuous
wrath. The great Alphonse is un
doubtedly an irreconcilable in the
contemporaneous world of French
letters; out he has to the uttermost
the courage of his convictions. He
fears no maker of books of bis time,
whether the writer be a rival or not;
and he is, to his honor be it said,
generous, considerate and friendly to
those struggling young men who be
lieve that greatness lies not far be
yond the points of their pens.
M. Daudet does not rush through
work, being assured that each new
siory flowing from his fruitful brain
will bring him something like
000. Leon, his eldest son, who mar
ried Jeanne, the granddaughter of
Victor Hugo, promises to occupy a
not Inconspicuous position in th
iterary firmament.
1 he Jew's Bet.
A Jew In a tavern, In the town oV
Endingen, saw a merchant, whom he
seemed to recognize. "Are you one
of the good men with whom I bad
the pleasure to travel from Basel to
Strasburg, on the Rhine?"
The merchant assented, and asked:
"Have you, my fellow-traveler, since
we met, done much trade?"
Tho Jew, instead of answering,
asked, "Did you make a good specu
lation at the fair? If so, I should
like to propose a bet to you; that is,
bet that you cannot repeat three
words after me, as I sav them."
The merchant, thinking that a few
pence, more or less, would make no
difference to him, replied, "Say on."
The Jew said, "Cutler."
The merchant repeated "Cutler."
Next "Bagpipe," and bagpipo was
responded to.
The Jew smiled, and said, "Wrong.
The merchant, puzzled, bethought
himself where the mistake could be;
but the Jew, taking a piece of chalk
out of bis pocket, made a stroke, and
said, "One sixpence for me."
Again the Jew commenced, and
said, "Olive oil."
The merchant said, "Olive oiL"
"Tanner."
"Tanner."
The Jew smiled again, and said.
"Wrong."
And so on the sixth time, when
the merchant said, "Now I will pay
you, if you can show me how I was
wrong."
The Jew said, "You never said tho
tWrd word, "Wrong," and accord
ingly I won the bet."
The merchant paid, and the Jew
had made money as he went along.
Rocs Utilized la fc.orgla,
Troup County furnishes examples
of every kind when it cotnevs to In
dustry and innovations. One of her
most successful farmers hit upon a
plan the other day which, for its in
genuity, takes the cake. He has put
his hogs to work assisting him In his
preparation for this year's crop. He
had a large quantity of manure and
wishing to pulverize it he though!
that the thirty hogs he had might
just as well be put to work. So he
took a bushel of shelled corn (home
made) and scattered it over the ma
nure and then plowed the whole up
la order to mix It. Then turning his
hogs on it he soon had the satisfac
tion of seeing bis much dreaded work
most thoroughly done. The hogs
tramped over it, rooted it up, and
fought over it until it was as fine as
rneaLLa Grange Reporter.
Fos; That Can Be Scraped Off.
The deleterious influence of foga
may be estimated from some results
obtained from examination and
analysis last month at Kew gardens,
near London. Tho Director speaks
of the leaves as being covered with a
substance like brown paint "tarry
hydrocarbon" which can only bo
scraped off with a knife. On analysis
this shows over 51 per cent of carbon
and hydrocarbon, with 41 per cent of
metallic Iron, magnetic oxide of iron
and mineral water. Anyone at all
acquainted with physiology of plants
and animals can apprehend in a
moment how such a mixture must
affect both tho lungs of men and
the leaves which are the,lcng8 of
plants, as regards respiration,
Mew Vehicle.
An Ingenious contrivance Is shortly
expected to endow street life with
additional interest. The machine is
In appearance like a comfortable cab,
is set upon three wheels, the front
one, is in a tricycle, being used to
steer by. A metal box or cistern be
hind contains a supply of benziene
oil, from which, while the machine
is in motion, the gas required in the
motor is generated. A quart, or
about three cents worth, of oil is all
that is required for a drive of ten
miles, which can be accomplished in
an hour. The vehicle holds four per
sons. .
Make your best thought Into action,
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