Lauc'i Family Jledlcin«>
! Moves the bowels each day, In order to
be healthy this Is necessary. Aots gently
on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
(The United States produces more oopper
han all the rest of the world.
Beaaty la Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
Stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
i A Gorman has invented a thimble of felt
Or gum for the use of pianists.
Try Grain*o ! Try (iraln-OI
Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
package of GBAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee. Children
may drink it without injury as well as the
adult. All who try it like It. GRAIN-0
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or
Java, hut is made from pure grains; the
piost delicate stomach receives It without
distress. the prioe of coffee. 15c. and
25c. per package. Sold by all grocers.
' The main strength of the army in the
Philippine Islands consists ol regulars.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous-
Cess after lirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
1)R. R. H. KLINE. Ltd., 931 Arch St.,Phila.,Pa.
In 1990 there were about 250,000 Indians
In the United States.
'■ Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour I.lfe Away.
tj To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or tl. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
In all the countries consumption carries
off the most people.
We think Pi.so's Cure for Consumption is
thconlv medicine- for Coughs.— JENNIE PINCK
ABD, Springfield, Ills., Oct. 1, 1894.
The maximum weight of freight locomo
tives is now 218,000 pounds.
Mrp. Winsiow'sSoothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, ullays pain, cures wind colic. -sc.a bottle.
Campbell's Malarial Sperlllr.
Gxiaranteed cure for all Malarial diseases
At all druggists, or >ent on l-eceiptof Scents
J. B. CAMPBU.L, Suffern. N. Y.
There are 1200 milo3 of telegraph wires
In Madagascar.
To Cure Comtlpatlon For»»»r.
Take Cascaiets Candy Cathartic. 10c or£3c.
If C. C. C. fail lo cure, drut;g.sts refund money.
The workable area of coal beds in Colo
rado is IS,IOO square miles.
"In . Union
There is Strength/'
True strength consists in the union, the
harmonious together, of every
part of the human organism. This strength
can never be obtained if the blood is im
pure. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the standard
prescription for purifying the blood.
Ilia Supreme Moment.
Novelists are all wrong when they
mention "the time he proposed" or
"the moment their eyes met" as the
supreme moment of some sentimental
couple. A charming woman who has
been in love with her husband for five
years told me how she always remem
bered "Tom," who, by the way, is an
artist and a romantic figure at most
times.
"I always think of him," she said,
"as he looked once when he came into
the studio after having had a longaud
heated argument with an obstreperous
cook. He came in rubbing his hands,
and his face was positively trans
figured. 'Lu,' he said, 'l'm success
ful. She's discharged us.'"—Home
Journal.
Honesty is one of the national'
Characteristics of the Finn, except
among the population inhabiting the
frontier districts bordering on Russia,
where bad example has had its usual
effect.
BACKACHE is A symptom.
Something makes the backache and that something
requires attention or the backache can never be perma
nently stopped. •' I suffered for years with a long list of
troubles," writes MRS. C. ICLENK, of Wells, Minn. (Box 151), to
Mrs. Pinkham, "and I want to . .
' thank you for my complete re
covery. LydiaE. Pinkham's Vege- WW am flrfllff tlHr
table Compound is a wonderful
|>. medicine for women. CrF
&?&»-. I had severe female complaints ** mm m on»»
causing terrible backache and ner- Iml vftil vfffc
• v - vous prostration; was dizzy most of ■——————————
the time, had headache and such a tired feeling. I now have
;• taken seven bottles of your Compound and have also used the
Sanative Wash and feel like a new woman. I must say I never
had anything help me so much. I have better health than I
3 ever had in my life. I sleep well at night, and can work all
day without feeling tired. I give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
»table Compound all the
dies
o us resolved
• frightened and sent for the doctor; and he said that it was for- 1
1 tunate for me that it came away. I got quite well after that |
and have your Compound alone to thank for my recovery." t j
Multitudes of women suffer constantly with backache. Other
grateful multitudes have been relieved of it by Mrs. Pinkham's
advice and medicine.
Cong It* Lead to Consumption.
Kemp's Balaam will atop the oough •
once. Goto your druggist to-day and get
a sample bottle free. Bold In 35 and 59
cent bottles. Go at onoe; delays are dan
gerous.
Chicago has 81S churches and Phlladel>
phia has more than 600.
Aik Your Dealer for Allen'* FMI Cane,
A powder to shake Into your shops; rests
the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen,
Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease
makes new or tight shoes easy. At all drug
gists und shoes stores '25 cts. Sample mailed
FREE. Adr's Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.
The Mexican army comprises 3507 officers
and 24,539 privates.
No-To-Bao for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit oure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 60c, 11. All druggists.
Among the exports of Mexloo last year
are to be noted two tons of dried flies.
A. M. Priest, Druggist, Shelbyville, Ind.
says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of
satisfaction. Cau get plenty of testimonials,
as it cures every one who takes It." Druggist*
sell It, 75c.
Egypt hus now about 1400 miles of rail
road."
Ednetta lour Bowels With Cmeareti.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, SSc. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money.
Cobra and Pigeon.
About live miles from Port Eliza
beth, Natal, when out shooting, I saw
an instance of the complete paralysis
of a bird by a suake; and though the
word "fascination" commonly used
for this kind of effect without contact
is perhaps wrongly employed, the
case was a good example of what is
usually meant by the term. Our at
tention was first attracted by some
thing moving on the branch of a tree,
about ten feet above the ground. We
then saw it was a Cape cobra, of the
deadly kind, standing erect -with only '
the lowest coils of its tail rouud the ,
branch, with its hood expanded, and ;
swaying from side to side. Ongoing |
nearer we saw, what we had not j
noticed before, a pigeon, sitting on !
the branch, about a yard from the
snake. It was perfectly motionless, |
not crouched on the bough, but stand- j
ing up, and made not the slightest
attempt to fly away. We shot the
suake, but neither the fall of the '
creature nor the report seemed to
"unfreeze" the pigeon, at first. Then
it did not fly, but slowly walked along
the bcugh into the centre of the tree,
where I suppose it remained until it
had recovered from the shock to its }
nerves.—The Spectator.
No Tampering With tlio PreM.
Our Government has been called a
government by newspapers, and it is ,
so in a very important sense. In the
main the press has done its work well.
It has exposed abuses, denounced cor
ruption, iusisted on a redemption of ;
party pledges and generally stood for
clean politics and honest administia
tion. Our history is full of illustra
tions of its power and usefulness. ;
Doubtless it has* made mistakes and
abused its privileges, but on the whole
its influence has been good. And it
will l:e a sad day when its freedom
shall be seriously limited.—Newspaper
Maker.
The Little Boy's Question.
It is told of a certain English
Bishop that while dining at the house
of one of his fiiends he was pleased to
observe that he was the object of
marked attention from the son of his
host, whose eyes were firmly riveted
upon him. After dinner the Bishop
approached the boy and asked:
"Well, my young friend, you seem j
to be interested in me. Do you find '
that I am all right?"
"Yes, sir," said the boy, with a
glance at the Bishop's knee breeches. |
"You're all right; only (hesitatiugly) ;
won't your mamma let you wear !
trousers yet?"
Of the cargo steamers passed through 1
the Suez Canal last year, 1921 were
British, 244 German, 86 Dutch, and
75 French.
THE RIGHT SORT OF CIRU
He told her she was sweater than tko petals)
of the rose,
He told her she was fairer than tho lily.;
shouted and protended to turn up hor
pretty noso,
And she answered: "Jack, I pray yoa.
don't be silly."
Vnother who was richer and who know
much more than Jack
Came wooing the sweet maiden who had
pouted;
He looked upon her fondly, but sho only
turned hor back—
Tho love that ho bestowed on hor sho
Routed.
The man who had tho riches and the brains
forgot to say
That she was liko a rose or like a lily;
Jaok came agalu and flattered her in his old,
foolish way,
she took him, still protesting: "Dou't
be silly."
—Chicago Nows.
|IN THE SOUL |
| OF A ROSE. J
4 BV OLIVE HARPER. |
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There wore thoughtful shades iu
the soft brown eyes of Alice Dorrenc3
as she walkod slowly aloug the path
leading from the river's edge to the
lawu. Her white dress aud pale pink
ribbons fluttered in the afternoon
breeze, and made a sharp contrast
with the vivid green around and under
her feet.
Just now she was trying to solve a
problom such as has been presented to
most women in their time. Two men
loved her, oach for different qualities.
Johu Strong had boon her friend and
protector ever since she could remem
ber, aud she knew his liyalty and
gooduess—but he was a plain, unas
suming person, caring little for society
or appearance. His leisure hours were
given to the study of mechanics. Ho
worked in a machine shop as though
proud to wear the overalls and aprou. j
It is true that he looked like one of
tho sculptured gods as he stood car- I
esaing some pait of a great iutricate ■
machine, but
Tho other was a rich man's sou, and
his long, sleuder hands were never
stained with toil.
Alice thought of both these men,
contrasting them, weighing them aud
sometimes almost deciding in favor of
0110 or the other. One was educated,
but a workman. The other was poli- j
shed, but au idler. As often as she
thought she had decided some new
question would force her to begin all
over again. She had neither father
nor mother, and lived with her aunt,
who had just married a widowed
clergyman with such au array of noisy
children that Alice felt that she really
could not bear to remain, aud she
could think of no better way out of
the difficulty than to marry.
If sho married John she would go
to live in the house near the big works
where his father had lived. She would
always have enough of everything,
but unless Johu invented something
valuable he would never be rich. If
she married Charles Sturgess she
would goto New York to see life as it
is in the bast society. Her imagina
tion, pictured this as an existence of
fairy-like beauty with no seamy side.
walked and thought, but
came to 110 decision. Sho turue.l to
ward che lawu leading to the beautiful
Hudson and had gone but a few spaces
along the path when she came iu sight
of Charles Stur.iess standing beside a
rose bush, whose buds were just uu
fplding. He stood a moment looking
at the busJli then cliose the most per
fect and loveliest bud of all and broke
it off short without a stem.
Alice stepped forward just then,aud
as he bowed aud spoke he tore the bud
apart and pressed it to his nostrils.
He held it thus for a brief space in
haling the fragrance, theu cast it
upon the gravelel path aud ground it
down out of sight with his heel.
Alice felt a chill pass over her. He
must have noticed, as he smile! aud
said:
"I love roses so."
"I shouldn't think it."
"But I do. I love to choose an un
opened bud and tear it apart aud iu
hale its very soul."
"And throw it away after."
"Why keep it? But let us return
to the river. The sun will soou set
and we cau see the glory from "
"I must go in. Excuse me." Say
ing this Alice fairly flew to the door, |
and from there to her room. She had j
had a shock, and she needed solitude
to measure the hurt. The man smiled
gently, sauntered onto the river side
aud looked at the sunset aloue. He
could afford to wait. He was sure of
her.
Iu the meantime things were not
going well at the machine works. Tho
eugiueer had always been reliable,and i
with him in charge of the great engine
that drove the ponderous machinery
all over the immense works no one
gave a thought for his personal safety.
But this day, no one knew how it hap
pened, the engineer lay in a stupor 011
the ground, and the pressure of steam
was so great that the whole place
trembled as the wheels whirled
around. Before the danger was dis
covered it was almost too late. Hun
dreds of lives were at stake,and there
was no oue to save them. John sprung !
to the engine to find that the safety
valve was closed aud out of order, i
He leaped up and seized the bar with '
his bare bauds and bore his whole
weight upon it—though he felt it
burn its way to the very bone.
He never knew how long he held o 1
to the bar that let off the steam, but
when he regained consciousuess, he !
was lying outside ou the grass. One 1
by one the faces he knew dawned
dimly out of the mist before his eyes. 1
After awhile they took him home and
a doctor dressed the burns.
Next morning John was sitting j
propped up i» au armchair with both .
ha rub bandaged. His face was pale
aud cark rings ai'ouud his eyes showed
his silfering, but his thaukfulness for
the safety of all those men over
balatced his pain. And yet there was
littleliope that he would ever use
thos* hands again—hands that had
been so clever to fashion wonders in
steel and iron. He closed his eyes.
Alee had heard the story that same
nigh. She could not goto him. She
had jo right. But in the morning
she taw clearer, and, rising, she went
intothe garden and plucked another
bud from the same bush and hastened
witl it in her hand toward John's
hone. Ou tbe way she met Charles
iu lis immaculate morning costume.
Souething now and decided iu Alice's
| face caught his attention. He ad
varned jauntily, saying:
"jlay I walk with you? I suppose
; you are going to visit our mechanical
I frieid?"
'Thank you,; no. I am going
aloDe."
"A.li! Well, I will say goodby, as I
: leate here tonight." He watched her
! faci and saw it clear, as if relieved.
'Then we will say goodby," and
she walked on, as if in haste.
| Something like a mist came into his
| eye) and a choke in his throat as he
, muimured:
i"I am sorry, for she is as good as
she is beautiful, and she deserves a
! bet'.er fate than stagnation here."
.Alice was soon standing by John's
J sidf. He opened his eyes to se9 her
| hauding him a rosebud, while tears
I railed down her cheeks.
' What is it Alice? What troubles
you?" he asked.
"Oh, John, John! I am so sorry
! for your hands."
'Don't cry,Allie,don'tory They'll
! be well in a few days."
But Alice sunk on her knees and
went on crying and kissing the band
aged hands until John put those
maimed members around her and
lifted hor face to his. She laid the
rosebud oil his lips and he reverently
kissed it, and as he did so it unfolded
of itself to perfect beauty.—Chicago
Record.
HIS PERTiNENT QUESTIONS.
The Olii Coiner SnrcaHticullv Cateßorlral
With Hi* Nephew.
"H'm —yes!" ejaculated the Old
C dger, sarcastically, surveying his
callow nephew, who had recently grad
uated from the village academy. "i r ou
have come forth from school with a
real stylish-lookin' diplomer clinched
iti your hand, aud several long and
impressive words stickin' out of your
mouth. You have graduated, all right
enough, but have you learned any
thing? You are educated considera
ble, but have you got any sense?
"You know a smatteriu' of Latin
and a smear of Greek, but do you
know where you are at? You kuo'w a
little triggeruometry aud a few log
arithms and a little about theologies
and so on and so 0:1 and so forth, but
do you know auythiug at all about
things? You are acquainted with
words, but do you know men? Can
you write a letter that the other feller
cau road every word of and thoroughly
understand what you are trvin' to get
at? Can you fill out a bank check
properly; and, incidentally, have you
got the most re'.note idea how to tiil
up a bank account so's the aforesaid
check will gaiu you anything better
than the horse-laugh when you pre
sent it to the hawk-eyed man behind
the counter?
"Have you got it impressed upon
you that it never hurts a man to wilt
his collar by gittin' a little honest
sweat on it aud that the loug-green in
your pocketbook is a heap sight better
than long hair on ycur head? Have
you fouud out how to write an ordi
nary promissory note so that it won't
reach out in a day or hour that yon
wot not aud skin your financial {:elt
off over your head? Can you accu
rately measure lumber anil your feller
lueu? In short, briefly and to the
point, have j'ou really learned auy
thiug but empty forms, words aud
phrases? I kuow you have a bulgln'
brow on you, but so has a common,
everyday suappin' turtle, only his is
on his back, and I have more than
once known a graduate who had less
geuuiue wisdom behind his bulgin'
brow than a suappin' turtle has nuder
his'n. In this day aud ago there are
too many promisin' and too few payiu'
young men. There are too many com
iu' men—what we suffer aud yearn for
is the got-here-already kind of men.
You are educated, but have you got
—aw, well,never mind! I guess you'll
git along all right, anyhow; people say
you take after me."—Tom P. Morgan,
in Puck.
How Fauro I'asserl the Daj,
The late President Faure, unlike
M. Casimir-Perier, who rose between
9 aud 10 a. m., was a very early riser,
says the Westminster Gazette. He
was ready for his cold tub every mo; n
ing at 5 o'clock, aud having dress 3d
quickly aud without assistance, he went
at once to his study aud worked for
two hours before his secretaries ar
rived. After breakfast he went for a
walk in the Elysee park, accompanied
by his wife and daughter. During
this walk he smoked half a cigar and
often talked to the gardeners, as he
was greatly interested in their pro
fession. Unless he was obliged to be
present at an official dinner or recep
tion, President Faure spent the even
ing at home, listening to the perform
ances of his daughter Lucie, who is
au excellent pianist. He retired for
the night at 11.
With the Younffftters.
A little girl sat ou the floor crying.
After a while she stopped and seemed
buried iu thought. Looking up sud
denly she said, "Mamma, what was I
crying about?"
"Because I wouldn't let you go
down town."
"Oh, yes," and she set up another
howl.—Tit-Bits
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A relation has been discovered l»y
Professor Dolbear and Carl A. aud
Edward A. Bessey between the chirp
ing of crickets aud the temperature,
the chirps iucreasing as frequently as
the temperature rises. The Besseys
relate, iu the American Naturalist, that
when, one cool evening, a cricket was
zaught and brought iuto a warm room,
it begau iu a few minutes to chirp
nearly twice as rapidly as the out-of
door crickets, aud that its rate very
nearly conformed to the observed rate
maintained other evenings out of doors
under the same temperature condi
tions.
The tempering of steel with uni
form results is a feat hardly to be
achieved by the most expert artisan.
A German inventor has a pro
cess for accurately obtaining a de
gree of hardness, the variations being
affected by changes iu the liquid used,
and depending on the fact that graded
results may be produced by the use of
milk in varying forms and dilutions—
that is, by fresh aud skimmed milk,
sweet and sour whey, fresh and eld
buttermilk, and different -mixtures
with water. The various stages c 112
acidification of milk are also said to
give all the effects of hardening in oil
and other fat mixtures.
In Japan grows the mangosteer/,
most delicious of all fruits, if travel
ers' tastes be true. Stay-at-homjs
can never test it, for it will never bear
transportation. It is, outwardly, a
hard, round fruit, the size of a peath,
aud the rind the same color and thick
ness of a green walnut, and iu this
brown husk lie six or eight segments
of creamy white pulp. The little seg
ments are easily separated, aud trans
ferred to the mouth, melt away, the
pulp being as soft and fine as a cus
tard. The maugosteen's delicate pulp
tastes, as all eulogists say, like straw
berries, peaches, bananas and oranges
all at once; a slight tartness is veiled
iu these delicious flavors, audit is
■lever cloyingly sweet.
An iugenious Frenchman has in
vented a fishing gun with which he
expects to revolutionize this ancient
sport. The device combines at the
same time the pleasure aud excitement
of shooting aud angling, so the inven
tor says. The weapon is made iu the
foini of a gun with a long iron barrel.
The projectile is sent 011 its way by
means of a powerful steel spring. It
is not a bullet, but a three-pronged
spear with cruel barbs and a handle
twenty-eight iuches long. The theory
of the new weapon is that the fisher
aian will be able to harpoon the fish
by hitting it with his spear. Mhe
"ammunition" is connected to the gun
by a stout string and the fish can be
lowed ashore after each discharge.
Texas journals describe what is de
clared to be one of the most perfect
of autidotes extant for the various
forms of the opium habit. The plant
is known by the name of htisa, and is
of a dull, whitish-green color, aud
about two or three inches long; it lias
at its summit a ball-like white forma
tion, and where the flower should be
this is hard, slightly lobuluted, its
:eseniblunce to a small cauliflower
being quite marked. It grows in
slumps in moist, shady places, particu
larly 011 the hummocks at the roots of
cabbage palms, and is of a low order
of plants, above the mosses. Its use
is asserted to be not only au antidote
for narcotic poison", but likewise for
all snake bites, stiiißS of insects, etc.
Dr. McGregor describes it as the most
diffusible of stimulants, acting imme
diately, and, having subjected the
plant to various tests, pronounces it
an infallible cure for the opium habit
taking the plf.ee of opium or morphine,
tt is sedative, not narcotic.
Ti ee* That firoiv ttrenri.
The bread-fruit tree of Ceylon is
very remarkable. Its fruit is baked
and eaten as we eat bread, and is
equally good aud nutritious. In Bar
butu, Houtli America, is a tree which
by piercing the trunk produces milk
with which the inhabitants feed their
childreu. Iu the iuterior of Africa is
a tree which produces excellent butter.
It resembles the American oak, and
its fruit, from which the butter is pre
pared, is not unlike the olive. Park,
the great traveler, declared that the
butter surpassed any made in England
from cow's milk. At Sierra Leone is
the cream-fruit tree,the fruit of which
is quite agreeable in taste. At Table
Bay, near the Cape of Good Hope, is
a small tree the berries of which make
excellent caudles. It is also found iu
the Azores. The vegetable tallow
tree also grows in Sumatra, in Algeria
and in China. In the island of Cliusau
large quantities of oil and tallow are
extracted from its fruit, which ie
gathered iu November or Decernbpr,
when the tree has lost all its leaves.
The bark of a tree in China produce*
a beautiful soap. Trees of thesapiudua
or soap-berry order also grow iu the
north of Africa. They aie amazingly
prolific, and their fruit contains about
thirty-eight per cent, of saponin,—
Ladies' Home Journal.
Why Wood Crackle#.
Wood crackles when it is ignited
because the air expanded by heat
forces its way through the pores oi
the wood with a cracking noise. Green
wood makes less snapping than dr,
because the pores contain less air,
being filled with sap aud moisture,
which extinguish the flame, whereas
the pores of dry wood are filled with
air, which supports combustion.
Her First.
Adalbert—And so lam the first man
that you have ever kissed?
Guinevere Yes, Adalbert: tt
others all teok the initiative. Chicagi
News-
MARTHA.
Martha was a model woman
Wife of Moses Jacob Brown,
Finest nook iu all the country,
Best housekeeper in town;
But she died ana went to heaven,
'lhere to wear a martyr's crown.
Moses B. had kine and cattle,
Sheep and horses fair to gee,
But a woman's help was needed,
Hiring much too dear would be;
So he came a twelvemonth later,
Courted, won and married me.
Now at breakfast time he tells me
How she used the cakes to bake,
Dinner comes and still he praises
Soups and stews she used to make,
While'for tea I hear laudations
Of h«r quince preserve and cake.
Now a woman's only human,
And a pretty girl when wed,
For her golden curls and dimples,
For her laughing lips so red,
Sometimes tires of endless lectures,
Each extolling one that's dead.
So I fancy somo flue morn'ng
'Ere my temper's quite subdued,
I staull tell him, what a pity-
He of course may think it rude—
That he isn't up iu heaven
Eating Martha's "angel food."
—Lalia Mitchell, in What to Eat.
HUMOROUS.
"Father, conld yon please tell me
what you consider flue wood?" "Why,
sawdust, my sou."
Sweet Sixteen—And do you have to
expel students often? College ..es—
Oh, no! Once is usually suliicient.
"Haven't you any faith iu men Dor
othy?" "Yes, I have faith in them,
but I never believe a word they sav."
Wayworn Watsou—Mister, I am
slowly starving. Hargreaves —Of
course. No one would expect you to
do anything iu a hurry.
"Henry, we'd get along better if
you had more will-power." "No,
Martha; we'd get along better if you
didu't liave quite so much."
Staylate—Just one more kiss, (Jar
ling; just one, and then I'll go!
\ oice from the Stair—Then for heav
en's save, Nan, give him one !
If ever there comes a time, we note,
When the winds get up nn:i squeal.
Its when the man with the long-tuiled coat
Goes out to ride his wheel.
Pendipp—l don't suppose you have
auy confidence in faith cure, doctor?
Dr. Douua—Well, to an extent, all
doctors take patients on faith, you
know.
He—Be mine, darling. You are
the lamp that alone can light my ex
istence. fSiie—Yes, dear; but papa
doesn't think you are a good match
for me.
"Pa, what's a rebuff?" "You watch
•iia the next time I come home late for
dinner and try to say something that
will tickle her; then you'll see what a
rebuff is."
"\Y hy does he make all those mo
tions with his arm before he pitches
the ball?" "Those are signals to the
catcher. The two men always work
in concert." "Dear me! Is that the
'conceit pitch' I've heard about so
often?"
Mrs. Darlington—John, I spoke to
papa about having hi in take you into
business, but he couldn't do it, be
cause you have too many vague ideas.
Mr. Darlington Hurrah ! That's
clever of the old boy. My first wife's
father used to say 1 ha.l n:> ideas at
all.
It Coat* Something.
"People don't think, when they are
riding iu our comfortable cars," says
an official, "that it costs the company'
good money every time the traiu is
stopped and started; this cost is a part
of the regular expense of operation,
though nobody se?ms to be able to
tell exactly what it amounts to.
"Au amusing variety of guessps have
been made of the exact cost of stop
ping trains. A sensation was created
a few years ago by the statement by an
expert that a stop without lettiug off a
passenger or taking on one involved
au expense of from 51.28 to SI-70.
This proved to be a ridiculously ex
travagant estimate. One manager be
lieves that it costs 18 cents to stop a
train. Another makes the expense 48
cents for passenger trains and 70 or
80 cents for freight trains.
''Aside from the actual cost from
wear and tear and extra fuel consump
tion, one should take account of the
danger of breakage to couplers, draw
bars and their fastenings which re
sults from stopping long and heavy
freights. But wheu a road is crowded
the saving of time is important iu
freight as well as passenger traffic.
"On a division of a Western road
123 miles long, some tests were made
last year with freight traius weighing
1080 tons, exclusive of eugiue, tender
and caboose. The average time con
sumed wheu fourteen stops were made
was eight hours and thirty-tive min
utes. Without stops the time was
seveu hours and twelve minutes. To
haul oue car a mile, on au average, 3.2
pounds of coal were burned iu the
former case, and only threa iu the
latter." —Baugor (Maine) Commercial
(treat Little Engine.
The smallest locomotive ever built,
which actually runs by its own steam,
has been constructed by George W.
Titconib, station agent for the Boston
& Maine at the eastern division in
Saco, Me. It is as perfect as any en
gine ever turned out by auy locomo
tive works in the country. Au Ohio
man lays claim to the most dimin
utive engine ever built, but he will
have to take a back seat for Mr. Tit
comb. His machine is sixty iuchea
long, while the one built by the Saco
railroad man is but twenty-six inches
in length. The tender has a water
tank that holds about two quarts of
water. The tool boxes are on the tank,
and everything is made exactly the
same as if the eugioe weighed many
tons instead of loss than thirty pounds.
Mr. Tkcomb has been about a year in
constructing the pigmy locomotive.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.