SULLIVAN JBS&_ REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XTI. •Marriages nre proportionately about twice as numerous in small Western cities as.in New York. The Paris Siecle says that England acts as though it owned the world, and that it is about time for an ex planation. An English newspaper asked for opinions 011 the most popular name for a girl and a boy. "Harold" and ".Dorothy" got most votes. The scarlet tanager, by many con sidered the most beautiful bird in America, has within a few years be come so rare that it is seldom seen. The milliners have almost exterminat ed them. One of the curiosities of trade i* shown in the fact that a large Nor wegian steamship lias been chartered to carry thirteen hundred tons of pa per pulp to Fleetwood, England, from a wood pulp factory in Maine. For the year ending December 31, 1893, we imported 55,501 tons of wood pulp. An ironical but timely application of a phrase away from its customary significance is the command "hold up your hands," directed by the city police to tramps who attempt to abide in El Paso, Texas, relates the Atlanta Constitution. This town of agreeable winter temperature, lying as it does 011 the southern railroad route from California, was becoming overrun, as other Texas towns have been, by the ruffian mendicants that for months have been thronging eastward. The evil abated when the rule was putin force. Now whenever a tramp applies for relief lie is compelled to hold up his hands. It' the palms do not fur nish evidence that he is a genuine work - ingman he is promptly set to cleaning the streets. Astir.' methods for en forcing ordinances in K1 Paso empha size prompitude with plenty of force and fireworks it is not strange that J tramps hold aloof from that city and I bestow their unwelcome visitations on other places. Women's colleges, in sundry place*, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, have broadened out wonderfully since the early days of Vassal - . Not to speak of Smith and Tufts in Massachusetts, Mr. Henry F. Durant, by his ex traordinary gii't of »1,000,00;\ made possible the establishment of Wellesley College. In addition to this princely gift, Boston University, with its mil lions, s;> broadened its soope that it opened its doors to women, being en abled to do so by the generosity of Jacob Sleeper. In Baltimore the liberality of Mr. Goueher provided the women's college; also, Miss MarvGar rett founded a preparatory school, which is worth everything in pre liminary education ; while Johns Hop kins has granted entrance to some of its courses. For Philadelphia, Dr. Taylor established in the suburb of Bryu Miavr a splendid college at an expenditure of SI,0(10,000. In New Orleans exists the Sophie Newcomb College, in connection with Tulane I Diversity. St. Louis has opened the doors of tin- Washington University, and women members stand on the same footing with men, thanks to John It. H iekeii-ller,in tho great University , of Chicago. For several years past and probably | for several years to come, predicts the [ New York Independent, Ihe new— which will tell most in the world's fu ture history i- that which coiues from Africa. JJuriug the past week there 1 lias been an important new chapter j added to this history. A French ! military fore.- has entered Timbiietou in the very interior ami inoft inac cessible part of the South Sahara neighborhood. Prance propose* to I control the whole »112 tin* territory, i and she reaches I'imbuctoo from tie- ! n>>r(h by wav ol Algeria aud from tie went by way of Senegal. I'liubuetu has been an almost unknown city, v i»iled very rarely, aud Kciicrally by Ktiropeans only in disguise. The in ' formation is too mciifre u- vet for u to uudt rut h nd the full in ailing of thi* ocuupatiau. far as we know t force is a Mini I oii», aud a siuall force j eoltid have iio thaucc 111 Him of oppo <lllOll. We hav •no i|in klioii thai . Prune. int. it'l* to utak. lltltl.lieloo a ureal centre for it- mNiMmu and |M.»er, u..r that Si rlt»* t Africa will ' l» Unally under French r .uirol. It i« o.l*ll Ml,l, Mini truly Mini, that franc* hut alK'Wii 110 ureal a|ititu.l. fur eoto utal eul« rpriiM-» uwiim t«> a lack of »ttr phi* po»mJ»llo». Mat .be lim pill \ljjt Ila under eivilui I ciuditiou., an I Ft. ut burnt may multiply uto|. lapidly 111 the eulniu< * than Mwvnt in thur >l*ll country I In iwrlilinH tui.p.i,» po|i.il»i> . »ul • ut. 4t«(| it ill i|4 ,1 4 il**l M!**'« tU III' JtefM Sinco 1840 the world's production of moat lifts increased fifty-seven per cent., that of gram 420 per cent. The Chicago Evening Post says that "Chicago policemen do less work for more pay thftn any other class of the unemployed." Professor Riley, the bug man of the Agricultural Department, says that some bugs have all the five senses that man has, and one or two more. An illustration of the severity of the times is found by the New York Inde pendent in the fact that two physicians lately advertised in a daily paper, of fering SSOOO to a man who would sub mit to an experimental surgical opera tion involving some risk. One hundred and forty-two answers were received. After a careful calculation of the risks from all possible data the Lon don life insurance companies have fixed tho "war risks" to be paid extra by their patrons ordered on active service at $2.16 per SSOO. That is to say, the British soldier has but about one chance in 250 moro of dying oii active service, than if he staid quietly at home in London. Chicago is worried over the fact that so many of its streets and avenues have the same names, notes the New- Orleans Picayune. One hundred and sixty-five names have to do duty for 720 streets, and the result is not wholly satisfactory. It has twelve Centre streets, seven Ashland ave nues, seven Chestnut streets, ten Lin den streets, thirteen Oak streets, thir teen Park streets and fourteen Wash ington streets, besides a number which are less reduplicated. A few years ago, relates the New Orleans Picayune, the Mikado of Japan determined to ask Lis people to help him govern them, and with » ilourish of trumpets called for an elec tion and organized a parliament. Late reports from that country say that now he is having a hard time to man age the popular representatives. Not long- ago the couservativo majority ex pelled the President, Hoshi, because he insisted in keeping faith with for eign powers. Then Foreign Minister Mitsu made them an address, showing that the course of the majority would result in losing everything that Japan had gained in thirty years, but they would not listen to reason, aud the session was suspended for teu days. It is said that the doings of the Japanese parliament would furnish first rate ma terial for a comic opera. The minis ters attend the sessions with orders for the suspension of parliament ready signed and sealed by the Emperor in their pockets, and when the body be comes unruly the orders are produced, and the session suspended for ten day* or a fortnight. The majority of tin l members are intensely Japanese, op posed to everything foreign, and they have no idea of parliamentary pro ceedure. It is said that the Mikado has started a movement which is sure to give him a good deal of trouble ul timately. The annual repott of tires of the Board of Fire Underwriters, of New York City, contains some interesting statistical information. Several tables set forth the number of alarms and the amount of losses for thirty-niue years up to April .'lO. 1N93. From these may be gathered an idea of the growing efficiency of the Fire Depart ment, as well as the rut<l of increase of tires due to the growth of the city. The insurance money paid in 185"> in adjustment of losses wasi)2.S7 per Cent, of ttie amount placed. For the succeeding years until lN7it, when the paid department was a lopte.l, this percentage was not reduced 111 fact, rose in the last few years of thir period. But since, and including I SIM), there has been a eou*tant al though not »t< ad\ ristuction. The ||r*t year the paid firemen took hold it wa.- J'i.'JM per cent. In the year eiidim April *lO, ,t ww* I'l. 10 per cent., tin* b'west in all but two yea rt in tin history ot th. etlv. Tht* is tolling testimony to the titbit' of the paid <l. I .art tue nt. In Into there were :t'ft it n alarm*, tit IKM-I a steady aaeeut • yeeptilig tiny. irs |Hli:( and 1*1.2, a belt tbe unuil" r wan exactly llti ■ ittne that I*. Too Fin* nr. iwual nil iti'-roti* in .lanuai v and after that tu Dfcumtier. i'ht'jr are lewual lit Hup t. utbi rand t 1411*1. lln aggri t;at for the .lantiar y* 1 luce It.if wa* INI7, tor I'eeruilii r duly Htttt, March t t :a, April tl.Vl, Kebtitary lo t| S<•v.'tttbi 1 ni7 .Mar Mift, -lute v . *.,'», it lubur 1.1 An ;ti«t ll.'i'i, an s, |,i ( iulm r t|iV» 4* uta) *t utt, ib a int. r UeiUth* <• (Hg th' tu >1 »lalta tln> of Hit ute. |it lull, wlf -t la«>" uiiuit i r i* «a>'inv l lot iuwlk ol Juif tu«w LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAT, MARCH 30, 1894. MOTHER'S PAY. When the babe lies on the heart Cares depart; Heavenly peace, heavenly rest Fill the breast, When the babe lies on the heart. When I look on baby's face In baby's place, Vexing snarls to smoothness run Magic spun. When I see that peaceful face. Than queen to people, more to thee I joy to be ; Than people to their queen thou'rt moro Told o'er and o'er In every breath of tliine to me. When thou liest on my heart Hatred's smart Turns to sweet; love's soft spell The way knows well Through baby's lips to mother's heart. O'er responsive eyes and lips Sleep's eclipse Softly falls, breathing bliss As I kiss The tiny, rosy fingertips. While with thee sweet tryst 1 keep, Half asleep, In thy stiver, dream-worid boat Soft I float O'er slumber's saered deep. All the wild world's maddening fray Melts away; Gladly all the world to lose I would choose Could I take this heavenly pay. Lesser duty's strident scream Drops its theme; Joy and duty are one code, Heaven-bestowed, While I watch my baby dream. As I gaze on baby's face Angel's grace Falls around. Who from home Cares to roam While she sees the baby's face? When my babe lies on my heart Cares depart; Heaven and home by Heaven's grace Are one place, When my babe lies on my heart. —Martha Foote Crow, in Independent. MRS. ARPKN'S STORY. BY HELEN FOREST GRAVES. fUESS your man won't be home to- I was standing at watching the crim son dyes of the sunset,when Seth's cumbrous sled, sleepy oxen,creak "Wliy, what do you mean ?" said I. "Bridge is broke," declared Seth, "ain't no way of fixin' it before to morrow noon!" "Can't he come around by way ol Millville?" 1 asked. Seth shook his bead. "They've took ofT the night train.'" said he. "Warn't enough passengers to pay this winter." Seth looked at his oxen's ears. 1 looked at Seth. "All alone up there, ain't you?" said he, abruptly. "Yes," I acknowledged, "[ am all alone." "Better jest git aboard the sled and come down to our place to stay all night," suggested Seth. "Oh, I couldn't do that?" I an swered. "I expect Kufus's mother down from Montreal at auy time now ; and there's the house to look after. Besides, I'm not all afraid. Why should I be?" "Oh, I dunno ! said Seth, cutting a fresh plug of tobacco. "it's kind «»' spooky up there, ain't it, with Betsey gone?" And then 112 remembered that, my moid-of-all-work hail been summoned to the sick bed of some ancient rela tive, a few miles away. My perturbed face must have ap pealed to hottest Seth's sense of chiv airy, for he burst out all of it sudden . •'l'll tell ye what, Mrs. Ardeu, I'll send little Folly up to stay all night with you. Polly's only a slip of a thing, but she's u deal o' company, aud I'm pretty .sartiu she wouldn't liko uothin' no better." "Oh, thank yon!" said I. '"lt will be very kind 01 von, Mr. Shapely." Ami i strolled back to the house, the crisp wind blowing mv hair back, aud the red sunset gleams lighting up the frozen landscape as with bars of blood. 1 was an artist a wife. We had not been married a year yet, and Unfits had gone to the city to m c about some piclttri that he was placing on sale in a great art r.tom We had been able to hire li ii|'iett. House, as this tiit. old mansion was called, at a no .eU nominal rate, as the wealthy pork pucker who built it was tired of the loliellliesM o' the attit at 101l ami had move I to Ml* it.e 4 " 11V where his money w-.itld make luur show ltd Mnfoo Im.l t'l *1 • l 'on ol paviuu lite rent lit pallllint; a set of panel pictures lot bis » 1 ide dllilti . room. It wns a lnr.,. t ItoUse Ihan we tie. I ed, but tit' gioitmU and warden* »■ r. delightful, aud after all, a-> Until* aud Ir. . «ut'di tt d' t iat 11* any n> • 1 than a smaller ho it*, wottl I aud »a>a lea Ii »' I 111 Hut it dt.t -1 «n» alie 01, mil Kl<«>wt »n Ito satburiuM «ln»k <*a I came in lltsl ».!„(,!. Ht. r. c,HI. tally .. I hie lat v t ' ' . re a* it* i.tit titan a l«a hour* at a tune. ■ i , i t 1 , i in lay • »ui< it I »«t . • Uit Hi "I came in the wesdoor," breathed Polly, flushed with tlj haste she had made. "Did you kt>w, Mis' Arden, the west door wnrn't olted?" Polly was a tail fouteen-year-older, with a curly crop of tair and a nasal voice. "Betsy was earless about the doors," said I, remmberiug with a guilty pang Rufus lid bidden me be very careful about searing the prem ises in his absence. "Because," lie hal said, "there's that money Welford wanted me to hank for him in tie studio desk drawer, and the diarnnd necklace in the cabinet." And then, witli sudden after gleam of recolleetionit flashed across me just where Rufus tad stood, by the depot stove, when hespoke the words, and how a stout, sort man, in a slouched fur cape am a ragged over coat, had watched usas he waited for a ticket and chewed tibacco. Could he have hearl the word? And how was he to kno* that "the dia mond necklace" wa only a state trinket of cut glass borrowed of an artist friend for the lecoration of the lay ligure, or that Velford's money was only a few doling, sent in repay ment of somethiug ll had borrowed from Rufus? Upon the whole, I was glad that Polly Shapely had ome to bear me company during tint long, solitary winter night. Of cowse there was no danger, but that— "We'll go back am bolt it, Polly," said T. "Oh, I done tliat ? ' said Polly. "Gracious! ain't then hails dark 1 I came through the studf —" "Studio, Polly," I {ently corrected her. "Studio, then," Poly accepted the emandation. "The fire ain't quite out, here. Ain't nodanger o'fire, is there?" "Perhaps it hid better be covered with ashes,' - said I. 'Run and attend I to it, Polly, and I'll see about the I tea." "I've got someapjiles and chestnuts ! in my bag," cried Polly, "and some o' mother's riz doughnuts. She thought mebbe you hadn't nothin' baked up, J seein' Betsey wai gone. Gimino a | candle. Miss Ar leu. I wouldn't go through them lialJs ;n the dark ag'in ' for nothin'. I could swear there was j spooks a-rushin' art<r me." "What nonsense, Polly!" said I. But, nevertheless, I handed her the brass candlestick that Rufus had bought at a sale on ncconnt of its an , tiquity. I was just hanging over the tea-ket tle when the scuffle of Polly's footsteps was heard once more, this time at rs.il- I road rate. i"I wouldn't be hired togo through that there study ag'in, Mis' Arden," said she, slamming down the candle stick on the table. "Why, Polly, what's the matter?" "Them portraits a starin' down at me!" gasped the girl. "Their eyes a follerin' me allrounl! Gracious, what a start it gimme !" "That's the way portraits always do, Polly," cxplainedl. "You're a goose !" "I can't help it,' punted Polly. "It fa'rly makes me creep. An' the woman in white, stundin' up on the platform she turned her head an' looked at in ', she did." "What, Polly—a wooden figure, dressed like the La<ty of Avenel?" and I burst out laughing. "Why, it's jointed, like a doll!' "Well, I can't help it. It did turn its head. Aud I wouldn't go back there ag'in, Mis' Arden, not if you wa." to give me a silver dollar!" "Well, Polly, yon needn't." I soothed her, perceiving that she was really nervous and frightened. "We'll have tea hero by the tire, and after ward we'll roast tile apples aud the chestnuts. There are no portraits hero to follow you with their eyes." And Polly soon forgot her tribula tions in the tea. the raspberry jam and the tales I tola her of life in beau tiful, ice-girdled Montreal. I made hci up iui impromptu bed on a sofa in my own room opening from this cheerful, lire-lighted apartment ; but when she was «sleep aud snoring, I quietly threw a shawl over my shoulders and relight d the candle. "I will see after thul tiro myself," thought I. "There's no telling what accidents might happen, aud wo are not insured." Nevertheless I could but remember Colly's idea ol' the "spooks" as I passed along tin silent, moonlight) 1 iiall to the studio door. i>|M'iiniK it -iii-lilculv, the ilrnuglit l>l«w out inv cittiJlu; tuit the moon il« luniitiHlt'il the ro mi with it fnuit nilvrr rmliiiiici'. »in I one or two I i v*- nuilit-rn ui limm.ml •>» tin- lii'urtb,tin' lu- t rt'iiiHiim of l{iifii*>'sfheri»li«;il Yulr l«»K. .•lilt 111 th« lllll' lit till' l>lg llllllllolK'il wimtow tin' Uv iK-iiri- t>octi|iii'<l it.i iw I'iiHtoiiioil |mm-i' on n •••»r j I *ln i h I'll mm* tu Itnfiii » wuh'l, mul elmiiciiiK to Utu'ii in thnt ilireclioß my hlim I iro/.i- fit 111 From Im*ii* lit It llii' wtilt* In mml ui tin "llWly of Vvmul,' wlni'll llltll IllH'll 1111 f11 »'m lust hiKimit'itl wtihly» it |i<tir of rent, li II lint it Hi wi'lHwl 1. ll.ii.li h mi lilt-it furtivi Imik ai iur, mill nut it niilv h Hii iitorv of 1 I.IK M |iitiitt', tt iin-ri' Iri itk nf iu> ilimir.lt fill iiiih (lint littu, >r .In! tin* rtrfiin- ri'itllv iitovu h 111 (If '* With nlncirit' »»iftuew, tlii- whtdt lltiu r ; lunhiil whim mt nun.l * ■i»r. li'»« ai.r'U III* iiilnitv ililinu, Ilia •tniil attufii ill Hi* fur i'»|i. ttii Itti'l 111 tU V llWltttt •lulM Mil ikllvliwli M ■it thin nnliUlf ■|tot \ 11, ilit > tlit Hint tri||lit. my kiimii m-wiui-iI lu rally itii ititwKtfa iiiiii * »ll*il|4«* i*l in tfi lit I v#lit!U .1 ili. Iml Vhli mHlwi, t'..»i rxl il «ilit i Iml .if uni ttlkml .... ... a. it .. *. ii ii.t.i.,l, .1...«..i,i I li*m««i> I »«•! * Hit I. kv*t 111. -! >r l- I*iii Imi *'lt \ * t» lit. ft» t.* ti lace if he wants it." thought 1; "and the money is safe in a Branal-locked desk. The studio window is a deal too high for him to escape that way, besides being guarded with a strong wire notting; and I don't see how else ho enn escape, unless he goes up the chimney." Then I went br.ck to my own room, where the fire crackled cheerily, and Polly snored with soothing monotony ; but the reader can easily imagine that there was no sleep for mo that night. With the crimson flush of daybreak, I was about to rouse Polly up and send her down to summon her father, when a loud knocking at the door startled me. It was Rufus himself! "Well, pussy," said he, "were you nervous about being left alone? I got Sam Peuuy to row me over the river, aud came across country in a cutter. Here's Seth Shapley, with his ox team, to take his girl home. Got any fire? I'm half frozen to death." "Rufus—Mr. Shapley!" I gasped, "don't stop here! Come right to the studio. Here's the key. I don't know, but I think—l'm almost sure there's a man locked up there!" Without pausing to answer their eager questions, I hurried them along the wide, tile-paved hall, and in al most less time than it takes to relate the incidents the door was unlocked and sturdy Seth had got the Btout, red-faced man by the throat, while Rufns was pinioning his arms. "It's you, is it, Ben Frowley?" shouted Seth. "Just out o' Danne more Jail for one offense, an' now you're (inalilyin' for another term, hay? Ye shif'less, thievin', drunken scaujp, I know ye!" And in a minute or two they had him, safely secured with ropes, lying panting and breathless on the floor. The stage necklace was in his pocket, and he had contrived to pick the Branal lock in spite of everything and possess himself of the few bills in the desk drawer, whilo the actual jointed substratum of the White Lady of Avenel, whose garments he had taken to conceal his identity, under the semblanco of a draped lay figure, was pushed beneath the dais in wooden confusion. All of a sudden we heard the voice of Polly behind us. "I knowed the critter moved its head!" said she. "Didn't I tell ye so, Mis' Arden?" And that was the last time I ever allowed myself to be left alone in Raquette House. "Not that I'm afraid,'' said I, "but —but every one knows that discretion is the better part of valor."—Saturday- Night. Thickness of (he Soap Bubble Film. The most powerful of the modern microscopes will render a point one hundred thousandth part of an inch in diameter perfectly visible. While this is true beyond a doubt, there are reasons for believing that a single molecule of matter is much smaller even than that. One reason for this belief has been deduced from calcula tions made on the soap bubble. Scientists have made measurements of the thickness of the envelope of soapy water inclosing the air of the bubble when it had become so thin as to pro duce rainbow tints. At the appear ance of the shade of violet it was one fourth of the thickness of the length of an ordinary violet wave of light (one-sixty thousandth of an inch), thus making the thickness equal to one two hundred thousandth of ail inch. As the bubble continues to expand a black patch formed near the end of the pipe from which the bubble was being blown. Measurements were then taken to ascertain the thickness of the block portion of the bubble, and the experimenters were astonished beyond measure when they found the thickness (or thinness) to be only ouo-fifty millionth of an inch!—St. Louis Republic. This Miner Wa* buck). Michael O'Reilly's lucky star must have shone over him, for he had about us narrow an escape from instant death at the liarus Mine as was ever record ed. lb' was ascending the ladder-way in tlie pumping shaft above the ItKI, when niie of the ladder rounds broke, aud he lost his balance aud fell into the shaft. Hedropped about fifty feet, aud in some manner managed to grasp hold of a Water-pipe or somethiug of the kind and clung to It. Otherwise, lie would haw fallen -'it I feet to tile ni \ - hundred level and iuto seventy-five feet of water. lie managed to swing t>> the Udder again Another miner assisted liliu to a level. lie was raised to the snrfae.-, an t Or* Wells aud Mo* Cr minion were summoned. lh e v found that, a»ide from a fractured ankle and some latiulul bruises, th» man whh not seriously hurt, out the shock (ltd been great, lie *«* earned to his home, in Dublin (lulch Mr. O'Reilly ha* a wife aud utte child. - Hull* i Montana Inlet * Mountain. t I'ltli With a ItHhlicr It.tie!. l'or< »t aud Stream npeaks of a eurioiiK 'lnd in tie t'ape Vim tlxli mar kit, at tllasimln. Mao - It tm. i othing !•••* than a n.aek. ti I with a ruhlter list, I around the body, lln baud had I wen put on the rUh when quite xliiall, aud atayad there 111 »|Ute ot the rapid growth of thn w-arer flu lk«h » body underlie' baud did not grow, which i'iii«'<l a deptta>i»u lu lie lull ijn'wu h.• I) of aboil thre< lUchta m depth I'hi dt pfe ,aluU Wa# covered with a health,! »ktn 111 Mm wa» unlike thai on lis r«>i nf Ik' b.«ly Ihe iWh mir-"—*t iw length to'tria. tt luehe*. dlauo I I ul bill .*> A ot lh« lepri mlmu. w«i u aud Ikri §>> <rIU» IMolmw. d»a*»« let wl h |.| ■ V,|.,||. 11,. lie h • i'h rt-U ww* ui. I. ul't' l u a heailu* oistit *'Ui. ait I th. 1,41*1 t wu«d .m I OUIIIH 1 UU a t'au I Terms--SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. A BIG BURDEN OF PAPER. QUESTION OF HOW TO DISPOSE OF OLD MONET ORDERS. The Government Cannot Afford to Destroy Them—A Remarkable Case of Counterfeiting Orders. WHAT is Uncle Sam going to do with all the olil money orders? They have been accumulating on his hands for nearly thirty years, and not one of them has been de stroyed. More than two billion dol lars' worth of them in value originally represented are now stored away in the various buildings belonging to the Postoftice Department at Washington, occupying thousands of cubic feet of precious space. To hold them all would require several ordinary-sized houses, and still they continue to pile up. It is the same way with many million dollars' worth of postal notes. Inasmuch as they are vouchers for money paid out, it would hardly do to burn them. The Government, in re lation to the money order system, acts as a sort of trust company. Citizens place their cash in its hands, and the canceled orders are evidence of the fulfillment of the trust. Besides, things are constantly hap pening which render it necessary to refer to the back-number orders. A man writes to the department, saying: "I am the administrator of the estate of John Jones. Among his private papers I have found certain money or ders, dated some years back. Please send duplicates, in order that I may cash them." Now, it frequently hap pens that the orders discovered in such ways are from ten to twenty years old. By turning to the hies it can be ascer tained in a moment whether these se curities have been redeemed or not. Or perhaps William Smith will write: "Two years ago James Bobin-' son, of Podunk, sent me a money or der for SSO. I did not receive it. Kindly furnish me with a duplicate." The order referred to is looked up and found in the files canceled, bearing William Smith's signature to the re ceipt. Smith, on being informed of this fact, declares the signature a forgery. A postoftice detective is then put on the case and investigates it. May be he decides that Smith's claim is good; but since the money order system was founded in 1865 there have not been more than 200 cases of for gery of this description. When a mouev order is missing a duplicate can always be obtained. Three hundred such duplicates are is suod by the department at Washing ton every day, uu an average. The eriginals disappear in alt sorts of curious ways. Farmers, through mis take, frequently keep them as re ceipts, instead of forwarding tliem through the mails. After awhile the unsophisticated agriculturist is dunned for payment by the keeper of a store in a neighboring town. '-Why," he save, "I sent you the money by post some time ago, and here is the receipt in my pocket." With that he exhibits the money order. But it often hap pens that the payee, learning that cash awaits him at the postoftice, ap plies for a duplicate. Railway postal clerks sometimes steal letters and find money orders in them. To get rid of them, they burn them. Then the own ers ask for duplicates. In the history of the money order system only two instances of the coun terfeiting of these securities have lieen recorded. The first and more remark able case was in 1N73. John N. \ oung, who had been employed in the money order division of the Chicago Post oftice, thought that he had discovered a way to get rich easily. His scheme, heiug without precedent, might have been fairly successful, if he had worked it skillfully; but he carried it out very clumsily indeed. For SBO lie hired a druuken printer to set up type for an imitation of the regular money ordei blank. This was uot difficult, inas much as the kind of blank used by the department has always been severely simple. However, the type setting was so badly done as to call attention almost immediately to the fraud. Nevertheless, the swindler managed to obtain cash for a number of his orders They were for sfitl each the maximum allowed at that time. Allot' them bore the stamp ofOsbkosh, Wis. Tliey \\t re to be paid to fictitious names in Indi auapolis, liul., Springfield, 111., and other citiM. YOUU4 managed to steal a number of official enTelopea and "ad vice blanks" to help out his i;aiue, but he had none of the regular postoilice stamps, ami so was obliged to employ ordinary |M>*tagt stamp* 'or making his letters of advice t>> post masters. I'liis was calculated to excite attention. The rogini applied for the money at the diffrreut poat'«icc» under the ileti tloin* unities which he ha*l employed. He would have b. eu caught in * m 'in Itatl, but the postmaster, who hit 1 been wanted in advance from Washlu jloii. stupidly let him get awa\ when he pre •euled his bogus order*, telling himto call auaill •»» course lie did not eomi back filially It*' wi» caught Hi Florida Mil Ills way mirth tie jumped fr-HM »Uk train, but aa. ««b» <|iieutl> ricapt ired aud vneHUwlh landed in tlie }i«ultfliliar> WftafclUgK'tl 'Mat lit. Mrst In •electiltM banana* it la w»n t re member that lite Irmt which i. lai tha d< i>|.«>ai irllnf. and the |m*< afc.u lit la, aa a tub*, lb*' ls?*t, tin* who ha* becoiio banana Wle« ttaliUgh took ihh into |li< ii culiuto n< »auiai. • ahi 112 * i*i***t >1 th« b»u«i.a» that < < ut* - itii.nl t«di> I that Ikiiiik lie i:p> n • ••the plant in thai .»«miti • a«*» t. Itflu Hil|• tU'l I" lie t!««t ai til |loll (I'll til t>' t an ads I »Md* in* i*lllt» < at. >„ « .htaat, Mil t anil-la i* nsfet. NO. 25. LOVE THE MAGICIAN. Sing bird, ripple ril! ; Purplo is the distnnt hill: Bky is bright, and is clear. Love is hero. Frown sky, vanish hill; Mutothe bird, and dry the rill; All the day is drear and dead. Love is lied. —George B. Gallup, in Munsey.'s HUMOR OF THE HAY. Books of travel Thousand-mila tickets. —Truth. Consistency is a jewel often sold to pay the price of success. --Puck. A mistake is apt to attract more at tention to us than a virtue. —Ram's Horn. The trouble with many men is that they will snatch defeat from victory. —Puck. "I always did enjoy an intellectual feast," said the cannibal, as he ate the Yale man.—Life. When a man pawns his honor he finds that the legal interest on perjury is tremendously high.—Truth. Judge (to tramp prisoner) "Fifty dollars or thirty days." "Time's money, Judge. Gi'me thirty days." A newly discovered weather prophet says that an icy pavement is a sure sign of an early fall.—Hartford Jour nal. A Kensington doctor suggests that a good thing for the Cramps is a con tract for a new warship.—Philadelphia Record. Christie—"That young Mr. Sapp talks just like a book, doesn't he?" Kathryn—"Yes, a blank book."—De troit Free Press. He—"There goes Hatton in his new overcoat. What do you think of him?" She—"He is simply out of sight."— Washington News. "Goodluck has had his salary raised; was it for extra work?" "Yes; he always listens when the proprietor tells his baby's smart sayings." "How are you getting along learn ing to operate your typewriter?" "First rate. I can almost lead some of the things I write."—Chicago Record. Husband (irately! "You think you know everything, don't you?" Wife (softly) "No, dear; 1 never did know why you know so little."—Detroit Free Tress. "I am sorry, but the picture looks like a perfect failure to me." Artist— "(treat Scott, what a perfect success I must have made of it I"--Chicago Inter-Ooean. % She- "I don't like that Mr. Smith: he is always riding some liobby or other to death." He -"Ah,why don't you call the attention of the S. P. C. A. people to it " The dififereneo between the wealthy idler and the leader of an orchestra if that the former's sole ambition is to kill time, while the latter beats'it.— Philadelphia Record. Mamma--"What are you and Fred die quarrelling about?'' "We were playing keep house and Freddie came home and found dinner wasn't ready.' —Chicago Inter-Oeean. She -"Is it tine that a lover never eats anything?" He—"Not after lie becomes engaged." She—"Why not?" He—"He never lifts any money tc spare."—Brooklyn Life. Benedict—"Why won't she marry you? Is there auother man in the case?" Singleton—"l'm afraid there is." "That's so? Do you know who l* is?" "Yes—her father." Maude "Why don't you srive youug Sewers some encouragement if you love him?" Nell--"Oh, he ought to be able to press his own suit. He'e a tailor."—Philadelphia Record. Hunker--"! was fool enough yost 'r day to tell that doctor of yours that you sent me." Hill -"What difference diil that make? ' Bunker—"He made me pay cash."—New York Herald. Elderly Maiden "This is so unex pected, Sir. Welhiloiig, that that yoil must give me time." Elderly Lover - "Time, Miss Rebecca? Do you think there ia any to spare 1 ' Chicago Tri bit lie. Forgot herself: Hrigus - "You knew Mangle recently married a widow aud weut ou a weddili',' trip, didn't you ? I saw him yeaterday on his return." (irigg* "Anything happen while he was away?" Hrixgs "Ye*. lie say* tliat in a fit ot absent-ituude lu -111) proposed to him attain."' Brooklyn Life "Here,"' said the very yoitiii. man, •'is a chanieleoti." ''Oh. Mr Callow," she exclaimed, "this is v. i_> sill 10l volt. 1 shall take goo 1 care ol' it ' "I hope you will keep it to rem 111 I y oil ot me. " "1 shall take lh greatest" pleas ure in doing so (Vft r a pa<i«. A n.it a pity It doesll 1 alat gremi alt til 1 lime ' - \V*sli;:.-t ' l ->1 II Mr. (iothaui "So \>>>i arc .-'iti; t i settle in the t'uiled Ht%t. *<" Sea At* rival ffroui South twaflM V—. sir; they've got to drawing tin (« a little tmi line 111 South tuierieu to suit Hl*. Wll.v, Sir. 11 .. 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