1 LIUMT BULBS FOrl BURGLARS. I OPPING PEBBLES IN ASTREAM. . , roi.i.' In th' water Js i splaaHan' II li on, JaV Mif n iHMidrnd ripples elrclln' on an on an on, iLtiiT iri !i, iin' from the oentro, flowln' on out to ths ten, b' slr.'l no way o' tullln' where IV "oil In oln' to bo. la r i)M In tn wntor In minnte ye forKt, I hv imifl wmea V flowln' an' the'a rlpplee olrnlln yet, V r'rpi"" iin win', lliyta' to a rolnhty wave linn irrown, f (IMti.rlMHl a mlfelity rlter-jH' by dropplu' In a atone n unklnri word or cnrelaaa In a minnte It I Bonn, ; .. i..i imnilrnit rlnnlea elrolln' on nil' on nn' ou. apriviiUn', op run din' from ths centra na th' r-o. Kn I no WT lO Slop era, on jo th aiarwu 0111 ig uvw. an nnilnit worn or ourniws m miuum jo mrK., .'. nirm e-avne a' flowln' nn' the'a rlpplea elrolln' vet. briiniK In some unit benrt mlirlity wave of tenra ye'va atlrrej, it u.i.rt.A.i iifeet'a hnnov when ye dropped an unkind word. a wr-rfl o' ohoar an' klndnea Jna' a flnfth and It la gone. hull a unniirail ripnina eiroiin- on nn' ou an on, lion nn' Joy an' nornfort on each splnhln', dnhln' ware, wnuhln't b'lleva th volnmeo'th' one kind weird yo gave. K rl u' oheir and klnilnoaa In mlniita e fnriret. h!a'!.im atlll n swains nn- mo a joy a oirunu jr. miieil a whtu ol eomrort wnnne hwio muiio aim on ucaru l ' wntor J""' by droppln' a kind word. a v' JL I 1 I i I "- ' " - - - k.; l ?. Oil J E 5or.DS show that nearly t!f cmitury ago, before ili he varions provinces of i.rjaly had been cousolida KiJ in the monnrohioal th jpvamraeut, there lived Lt tbe city of Genoa a lr")Bn3 man culled Gut For many oenutries tbe "J 'fani bad been makeri of "' ton. In the days of the Dame had been di Gio wia a palaoe on the Via bat taany ware, rero. jj'wrisna had reduced the .B,'erty. Several genera fcnt democrats bad de 1C1 "peof tlie "di,"Batisflod r,Tani. lis nther had rnnde aomo ! mous chimea .hat rang "f td never enocoeded in 'l hia iiioa. It had been te : ltion to make a aet of w;;h6 whole world would yH jballa of heavenly tone. vnnl nu a hot headed democrat and rattier niLeoh. A fow ill-ohoaen i lit..DKtory to the reigning I. 1 hi downfall, and Jone .. pa waa bard at work on ,,ijf the ('atbodral'H chimes id 1. 1 the form of hia father, hiatal) wo ii ml in bis back, 'KjLMo tlie dingy little ahop radc bufora the son. ''tf aaiil the dying roan, "''Volition, and live only in en,1jtmeoily for your ideal I yon my Buuooed where uyDed. Aim for tho very eg ti0J d 1 grant that you lualbf ;. ctittjliin fatiier'sdoath fonnd ooflean hard at work in hie irailtiis fa'.'.er died he had 8iili goer pliah the ideal bH had vainly straggled r at rUoh ho was work- "hewo, long and broad (th a confusion of tools, ai onilnished bolls. On I ""'"the bench was a colloo JHforkscf various sizes r MJo one Kide of tho toning- jsiti'y ot'' v''in and slen iijjttrited f.uto. In tbe rour wrub nall furnace, a fltt'lMs aud a heap of Rcrap rrls;!1' with dirt and dnat. llJiiqthii nhop consisted of booms ' oovered with hlc.to whi!-h hundreds of II K' ieaod t!) sir webs. From 'i'tm Bliannndad an nnn. l' A Will; L lnrv ulanlna i iL0" '' n(1 wita forgo -a relic of the Hi:- i. -it , .. - umiAu1b uo; was inscribed tai-aeiera. Wwf Po-'-'Mbb away with nrJIi-f 011 t'J ni''"o of a ot uy hou lustrously in rith It tiat straggled through alJ.olijws in fje front of the urf4 hgers f drly flew as he so4 and rnbbed the shiny AM A rough oloth sue- pied one and in tarn fdbjwona of email texture. t s4 mai huug on a little '!?Vi 'L m gHows Ad'.wer was oponed ii?',o! ' 'P'oduoed from in'"1 ,K Jy "irelled to iwul,!'0'8- 4 and properly Iapper 7hiohthe yonng Jf td in tho inverted H. A pieoe of twine 0 a ;ihi j, knob on tho inWPPer. !;A srentla nnli eilloiS silvery tone filled tho villi""5" . f the ahop. The d. pttl it fairly rang, re- Im vatl to wall, from i wipkingout every nook turn cltiia chop, dying away rell -f altudder of delight. n.J 'ho.-i had olaspad his ' , 1 f.uJ '-ono with an '"ty. training hia ears rilvh.y tintinnabulation i7. ,one nt0 ho ,w (,,,:? .with a fervor tnb-fhU''u-t'0l. He ate a oMr''y when natural edtoMJod i.ho,. Ut became io crlfr-jeiatnil, and hia jfvmi.,1, n8tl.0i but n(Jt 1,,7 T7 ,,m,B'v8nphis ,obio ouh hU bolls grew 'I'-wtone. To him . nuimate; he talked ,oun?u' ' " lil nl ooldert. uw ,r,:u'ihe oeaaedhis (0,tot0,my in their al ,rlm,u4l" t l Rtornal oaro and '.iurl "-'ust dayQuiseppe fi'v 'ifl the ttnialiino l'f j.iSBfltnf !,!.-. cuiuigfl. 1 passod since he " jcura, DUt a on plaoe in the ang man. His u and his hiah an oheeka gave last bell on the "t in ita clap io swing. The an like the niu eanea by a Ufa naent.; Jt grow itil it became a dead, then died Th Oan.tan lad B D0 I BlUCll' r to Hi 1 !' off.-" vert BU08 4 I C8H ctlon n 1 followed tho tone from its inception nntil ita last vibration ceased, with an earnestness that made the veina in hia forehead stand ont and drew evory musole tense; then be sat baok in bin seat with a smile ot joy tuat was almost beatitto. The hoavenly ohimos were complete. Hia work was done, and now thousands would stand speeohloss,struok dumb with the mag niflount melody of his ohiraes his bolls. He, with his own hands, would make such mueta with his bolls that wherever they were the wholo world would come to hear tbein. Thoso were the taoughts that filled the mind of tho young musiciau-raeohnnio as he list ened to the reverberaiing melody of the tone of his last bell. Then hp fell back in hia ohair, the color lied from his face; the fever, whioh his untiring onergy had kept oil for no long, seizod bim at last. Tho next morniug, a neighbor pass ing by tho shop, chanced to look in nt tho window and saw the form of tho fevor-strickon young man lying ncross bis work bench. Ha wont inside, thinking that he might bo dead, and when he found what bin real trouble was lifted Guisenpe to the cot bo had naod for a bed in tho back of tho shop. A physician was summoned and an old woman was Bent to nurse bim. For five wocks Guiscppe tossed on his cot raving about his bolls "his glorious chimes" "his children with the heavenly voieos." In order to go on with his work in making his sot of ohimos Giuseppe had beon compollod to borrow. What little his father had loft behind him had beon exhausted before tho end of the first year. Ho had borrowed ou the strength ot the generous sum that had been promised bim by tbe ontho dral whioh was to have hia chimes. Whon he fell sick and gavo promise never to regain bis health again tbe bailiffs came and took away his ohimos to satisfy hi.i creditors. But Gnisoppe Giovani did Ret well, his health came baok, and whsn he bad streugth enough to get np from his oouoh bo wont to find his children his bolls. His first thought was to hear again their voioes, to make them sing such melodies as the world had never heard, as no bells bad ever sung. And when he fonnd that they were gone he became stupid he could not realize that they wore gone. Who could have come and taken away his bells his ohildren, whoso ooncoption bad taken years long yoars of unre mitting toil? He went to the physi cian who had tended bim daring his fever and was told that the bailiffs had corao to his shop and taken them for his creditors. He went to tho bailiffs and was told that his chimes had been sold at publio sale to tho bighost bidder a foroigner, whose namo or country was not known to them. Ho begged them on his knees to Kivo bim some clue that might lead him to the purohaser. They told bim gruffly and nnoivilly that it was none of their oonoern who bonght his chimes so long as they were sold and his creditors satisfied. There was a lit tle money over the claims against him ha was told a few liras, but he flnug the offored money in their faces and left them, his heart broken and his spirit gone. That night he sat bofore his beuoh in the little shop, his chin resting ou his broast, the picture of a despairing and broken man. All night long ho sat thus, and when morning came ho ronsod himself and raising his hauds above hia head, said: "God grant ttat somowhere in this world of Thine I may again find my chimes my bells and if bnt onoo, only onoo, that I may hear again their voices," The next morning the Gonoan set ont with one purposo: to travel the world if need be, to search for his chimes. Day after day, week after week, month after mouth and year Af ter year he trudged along from town to town, oity to city, country to coun try, vainly seeking his chimes. Fart of tho time he spout in various cathe drals and ohnrohes mending ohiraes and ringing thon to the delight of all who listened. Before he had even reaohod middle age be was a bearded old man, bowed and bent and travel worn, but like the Wundoriug Jew bo pursued his weary way. The broad waters of tho Shannon were colored a beautiful red by the fading rays of the setting son, whioh was almost visibly dropping through the trees to the west of the City of Limeriok, when an old man with head and shoulders bent and leaning heav ily on a stout staff came Blowly along tbe highway that led to a little ferry at the river bank. His long beard was as white as enow and hung nearly to his waist. His faoo was swarthy like that of a man constantly exposed to the sun. When he spoke to the ferry man it was in a voioe used to many tongues. The boatman helped him irora tne suore into bis skiff and gave bun his coat for a cushion on the rough-hewn plank whioh auswered for a seat. Tho old man raised his bead feebly and looked about him. Finally his eyes fell on the spire of Hereford uutuuural ana tbere tbev rested. liirht iug up for few sooonds with a glim mer oi uope. The boatman pushed off from the ahnr and alnwlv and noiselesslT tbe skiff may its way across. No sonnd above the gentlo ripple at the boat's bow disturbed the silence of the even ing. Suddenly the fuint sonnd of a bell stirred the dir. It iucroased in volnrao then the note of another boll intermingled, then another and an other, nntil the melodyof a full sot of nliimcM lose nnd fell in tbo evoniug stillnosa. The boatman, who bad rrnlod bin onr to listen, turned to tho old man in tho rear of the boat and saw him standing erect, hia arms out stretched and his face wreathed in Niiiilcs of a groat gladness. His eyes were rnisod to the sky with an ex pression of thanksgiving. He con tinnod in that attitude until tbe last note of tlio chimes died away and then ho fell in a heap in the back of tbe boat. The boatman went to him and laying hia hand on the face of the old man felt it was cold. A CRIME OF THOUGHTLESSNESS Whlflh Cau tli llfialh r Many (tick. Knoin Vlotltm. "Thongbtlnnanssa and mistaken kindness in tbe sick-room nlny their thousands, and the family and nurses are oft-times tins unknown ncccssorios to the deed," is the emphatic opiuion of Illand Brunncr HndilUiston writing of "Visitors to tho Hick-Room" in the Woman's Homo Companion. "They fenr criticism too much. Their moth ers nnd grandmothers never dreamed of refusing admittance to tho sick room: It would 'cause talk' io begin it. Ho the nurse rusts responsibility aft' on custom, and pnts it blind trust in Providence, and tbe deed is donel No matter bow visibly it barrows the sonl of a nervous woman t have 'outsiders' about her, there are those who will persist in invading evory sick-room tboy can reach, regardless of the condition of the pationt or tbe probability (or lack of probability) that they may be of any service. It often happens that it is the least nsoful and most tactless women ot a community who are most activo in their atten tions to the afflicted. Snob visitors seriously handicap the efforts of the physician and nnrses and undoubted ly cause many a death. It is aston ishing to witness tho recklessness of most families iu regard to this phase of the care of their sick. Unless a patient is actually in srticnlo mortis the dootor does not like to endanger his popularity by ordering the arbitary exclusion of visitor.. Without his commands to back them np tho family that attempts tbe innovation invites and gets the ostracism of the neigh borhood for no short time. I would not be thonght to decry tho good, sonsible, self-denying noighbor nnrse who in almost all communities and in homes of slender means everywhere must supply the placo of tho traiued nurse when the homo force is not suf ficient to properly care for a patient. God alone knows the extent of ber usefulness or can adequately reward her. Only cheerfully sympathetic society is a benefit to convalescents, and that kind, like medicine, only at proper intervals and in right amount. Iu fact, no much dopends npon the mood and manner of the visitor that one might almost advisothe patient tc observe the caution that is afflxed to some prescriptions, 'Shake woll be fore taking.' " Hn, HnRdns anil Mia Pajumaii. Mrs. Dnggins has gono in for the emancipation of ber sex. She doesn't exactly want to rnn the nniverse, and sho confesses she wouldn't know how to vote if sho tried. Her attempt at emancipation has taken the form of pajamas. For a long time she has railed against the conventionality that has bound her to tho robo de nnit, and has oast envious eyes at the silk pajamas worn by Mr. Bagging. "I don't see why we woraoa cau't wear them, too," she said the other day. Thon she went to a Chestnut streot haberdasher's aud asked to ba shown pajamas for boys. "How old is the boy?" asked the salesman. "Gracious! I don't know," replied Mrs. Buggins, who is not blessed with auy ohildren of her own. And then, seized with a sudden inspiration, she added: "I think he wears a No, 13 collar, if you can tell by that." The salesman told hor that those sizes wore not kopt in stook, and wonld have to be made to order. "Yon had better bring tbe boy here, and then we can tell better about the size," he said. Mrs. Buggins prom ised and left the store, greatly de ject od. Philadelphia r.ccord, .Japan' I.iiclilnlngr Burclar. An extraordicary criminal, known as Sakamoto Keijiro, aud famed in Japan as the "lightning burglar," is now awaiting the dooiee of the Court of Cassation to whioh bis case was carried npon bis condemnation by the lower courts. He was oonvioted some time ago and sentenced to death, tho indictment comprising thirty-one different oounts. all ot which had been proved against him. Home bad involved mnrder as well as robbery, and all had involved violence. After the Court of Appeals had confirmed the judgment against him, and while bis oase was stiil be fore tbe Court of Cassation Saka moto appoara to have decided that death was inevitable and ho confessed. In addition to the thirty-one crimes oharged np against him he confessed to forty others, including two mur ders, eighteen robberies accomplished by means of outting and wonnding. and twenty others aohieved by intimi dation with deadly weapons. The "lightning burglar," who gained his name from the rapidity with whioh he oonduotod h s operations in Saitama and Chiba prefectures, thus goes to bis doom with a total of seventy-one orimes. Chicago Itecord. Self-Prorlalraed Poetf. "A little over three hundred yean ago," writes Thomas Bailoy Aldriob, in the Century, in a paper on Bobert Herrlck, "England had given to her a poet of the very rarest lyrical qual ity, but she did uot disuover the fact for more thau a hundred and fifty years afterward. The poet himself was aware of tbe faot at onoo, and stated it, perhaps not too modestly, in oonutless quatrains and couplets, which were not read, or, if read, were not mnoh rogarded at the moment. It has always been an inoredulous world in this matter. So many poets have announced their arrival, and not arrivedl" THE BALKAN LADfaMITil IECE OF PLEVNA MOST FAMOUS OF MODERN TIMES. Ofman rarliaanil nia Indnmlrabta Tnrks ltlnled the llravast llnltallnna ot th Itnaslati Ct.ir. Tlinn and Time Aenlii ftiia of the rinaat of Mllllnry JToala, TV T tho time when the eyes of the world were eagerly bent toward tho Ladysmith of 6 Nntal, a writer in the Lon don Daily Mail thonght it well to re call thenot lesshoroio defence, twenty two years ago, of what might be called "the Ladysmith of tho Balkans" Plevna. Tho early victories won by the Czar's battalions, in June and July, 1877, found Osman Pacha then a little known man in oocupation of the fortress of Widdin with forty thonsnnd of tho best troops in Turkey and ninety guns. Bat so soon 4 Osman learned' that the invading army of the Grand Duke Nicholas had crossed the Dannbe he wheeled his army inland, nntil, on July 17, the villago of Plevna was reached. His trained eye at once de tected that this was a placo to be do fended. On July 18 tho Grand Dnko wired General Krudonor to "occupy Plevna as promptly as possible" They reckoned without Osman. General Sohildner-Sohulduor. sent forward by Krudener according to the Grand Duke's orders, fonnd Osman iu possession of Plovna and already partiolly intrenched. Yet Schildner Sohuldner, with G500 meo, was fool ish enough to throw himsolf against the Turk's 40,000. This attaok tho first battle of Plevna signally failed, tbo Russian losiug two-thirds of his force and most of his baggage. It was tbe first reverse sustained by the in vaders, and they could not under stand it. They estimated the Turk ish losses in this battle at four thou sand, bnt one writor plaoes it at two hundred. Worse followed. The Grand Dnko could not be made to bolieve that tbe enemy was in serious force at Plovna. So ten days later he ordored Krudener to hurl his 30,000 against Osman's 40,000. Of course, tbo inevitable happened. The Russians lost 109 of ficers aud 71110 men, a single regi ment having seventy-five per cent, of ita number killed and wonndod. Just as many people expect that the roal issue of the present campaign will be decided around Ladysmith, so it was seen that the crux of the Itusso Turkish war wonld be Plovna. After July 30 came a six weeks' pause. The investment ot Plevna by an army which, by Soptombor 6, numbered 93,000,followed. The siege operations were directed by tho veteran Todln ben, the hero of Sebastopol, who, though he had 150 guns, declared Plevna "impregnnble." For meau while the battle of Septomber 11, 1877, bad won for Osmau the proud titlo of Ghozi "the Victorious." The Czar in person witnessed the rout of his bravest battalions. In the right attack C000 viotims were swept to destruction boforo thoso blood stained redouts. On the loft Skobe left' wou a partial but wholly useless buccoss. In the final assault of this, tho most sanguinary oouflict of the whole war, tho Turks attacked with only 5500 mon instead of 11,000, so distressing had been their losses. "Thero were," writes one whe saw it, "walls and parapets bnilt of dead bodies, creotod by the Russians to close tho rear entrances of the works; thoro were piles of oorpses and maimed men; thero were brooks and rivers of blood." As the outcome of twenty eight hours' fighting the Russian losses exooeded 20,000) Nevertheless, by Ootobor the Turks began to be hungry. Inside Plovna, inoluding non-combatants, 45,000 mouths had to bo fed. The soldiers' clothes dropped off and could not be replaced. By mid-Ootober snow set in, adding fearfully to tbe garrison's sufferings, and the mortality from dis ease beoauie awful. Yet the Turks behaved with heroio fortitude. No vember arrived, still iu snow and sleet and frost. "The Plovca camp, twenty five square miles in area, was a vast cemetery," says one historian. Two alleged "attempts" to relieve the unoonquered fortress failed lament ably. Osman found himself left to his fate by a grateful Sultan. On De cember 1 he oonferred with his di visional, brigade and regimental com manders on tbo subject of a sortie. The Ghazi was in favor of it, though knowing well how small the ohanoes. Ho could now piano in line not more than twenty-five thousand unwoanded men, to whioh the Basso-Roumanians could opposo a hundred thousand men and 482 guns. Small hope for the Turks, but infinite was their faith in Osman. Deoomber 10, 1877, dawned oold, foggy and snowy. For the sortie every individual of the "lost ohildren" re ceived a rifle, down to the buglers and uon-oombatants. Each man was given 130 cartridges, and eaoh battalion re ceived a resorve stook of 180,000 cartridges. The wheels of gna carriages and tumbrils were muQled with straw to deaden sound, and tbe wounded were plaoed in ox carts. The long train that accompanied Osman's noble hearts out of Plevna oounted eighty-eight guns, 1100 bullock carts and 5000 pack horses and mules. . Tba regimental standards were destroyed ere moving out, for did they not bear on them the names of Crimean viotories? Osman commanded in person, with Tahir Paeba as second. Their aim was to cross the Vid and retreat over the Balkans to Bona. A little maize porridge is not the best of rations on whioh to fight a great battle. Still the Turkish ranks presented a magnifi cent appearaaoe as they moved out of Plovna to oross the Vid by throe bridges. Then it was that Osman Ghazi, swerd and pistol in hand, in person lod the great bayonet charge of hia first division. To them were opposed the pioked men of Ganetzky's Grenadiers; bnt so irresistible was the onslaught that their fine troops wete overborne and aoattered to the winds. Three lines ot trenohes were suc cessfully pierood; twelve guns and 'nany prisoners were taken. The .'urks ohargod in a oompaot mass ot onrteen thousaud bayonets, aud for the moment naught could resist their onslaught. But the reaction was at hand. The wild hysteria of this last attempt was passing into tb exhaus tion of splendid failure. The Masco vitas rallied to their guns, Heovy masses of men were moved np by Todleben, and as the devoted Turks struggled to keep tlieir align ment shells crashed into thoir disor dered ranks at close rnuge. O rnn an was struck in the leg by a fragment of ono of tbese grim messengers and immediately disabled. Ono who saw Osman Pacha as h lay wounded in a sorry hut i ays: "The terrible expression on bis tortured features haunted mo loner afterward." To add to his misorv, aids came ponr ing in from every quarter of tho fiold asking for help. As a matter or fast, the Russians were already in Plevna, having discovered overnight that the eastern fortifioations had been aban doned. About f ight thousand of both sides men, women and children had fallon ere tbe wounded Ghazi would consent to tho wbito flag being (lis played. Message after message reoobod him, imploring him to give in, but for raauy a wavering minute be rofused to pass tbe word. At last the wbito symbol was hoisted on tbe roof of tho hut, around which the shells wero screaming and bullets whistling tbiok us hail. It was hoped that General Ganetzky, who was there in nominal command, would conseut to a conditional sur render; bnt tho Russian, knowing that he held the enomy in the hollow of his hand, was implacable, and tbo end of the brief negotiations was that the word for "unconditional surren der" had to be passed. And so fell tho unassailable, un scalable fortress of Plevna, "after a defence whioh had lasted 143 days, which embraood four groat battles, twonty-five minor notions and numer ous skirmishes; which involved a cost in life and limb of oloso on oue hun dred thousand human beings, and whioh, to quote the Czsr Alexander II., 'is one ot the finest things don) in military history.'" Woll inighi the Husso-Ronmanian allies gnzo in undisguised wonderment npon tho worn faoo of the man who had dofiod their united efforts for so long, aud woll might Ganetzky r.alute profoundly as ho met tho fallon hero boing driven toward tho Russian headquarters, and be constrained to remark, with the air and voice of a man who feels what he says, that "the defence ot Plovna will live long iu history." CURIOUS FACTS. Signals havo been sont by wireless tolep ph through a suito of seven rooms, the doorf of whioh were closed, They were transmitted through a telo- graph switohboard containing both dead and live wires. A fox aud a bound belonging to a gontleman in Kennoboc, Mo., aro af fectionate oompamons, aud constantly sport and sleep with each othor. Whon both were young they woro plaoed to gether, and havo ever since continued frohosoniecomrades. A Capnohin monkey was given some walnuts, which ho triod to crack with his teeth, bnt found he was not strong enough. He then seized a stone whioh was noarby, held the nuts on tho ground with one hand and used hi.i stone hammer with the other, with ex cellent results. Other monkeys havo been seen to utilize nutpioks. It is an extraordinary fact that tip to the present time dead animals wero loft on tbe Paris streots, as there woro no facilities for removing them. Tho Prefeot of Polioo has ot last taken steps to have such nuisances romovod on application. Tho cost is not to ox coed SI. This is to bo paid by tho applicant. This seems a rathor ex traordinary sanitary regulation. A Michigan farmor has proved to his sorrow that money is about as safe in savings banks as in homo made depositories. Ono Richard Colo, a year ago, hid nearly $5000 iu bills behind the tiles in his cellar walls. Some of the bills bouamo moldy and stuok together so badly that he took $2000 or $3000 woith out to the orchard and laid them out to dry. A cow came along and ate most ot the amount and also masticated a dood of the farm whioh was in tbe pile. Consul Palmaoher, of Maraoaibo, recently reported to the State Depart ment that large silk-spinning spiders are found in the palm trees of Ven ezuela, some produoing white, somo yellow silk. The Consul understands that the silk has been made into handkerchiefs. A copy ot the report, together with a specimen of silk whioh aocompanied it, was referred to the Department of Agrionlture, tho en tomologist of which says tlmt silk pro duced in this way cannot be mado valuable commercially, beoaase of the necessity of keeping tho spiders frou dovouring eaoh othor. Ths oontinent ot Australia might well be called a topsy-turvy land, when judged from the standpoint of of an Amerioan, for all sorts of things happen there that aro exactly opposite to our ideas of what is to be expected. It has fish that leave the water, climb trees and seek their food among the branches; the trees shed thoir bark instead of their leaves; frmt has tbe hard part, or kernel, ontsido, and there are flies that lie in wait for and kill and eat spiders. Australian swans are black, its birds do not sing and its flowers are odorless. These are few of the differences that make Aus tralia seem very odd country to the visitor from the United States. Bow Will X.ansthan, And now some one has disoovered that cycling makes the legs grow longer. Of oouise it does. It would be strange if it did not. Any membel that is much used will nndorgo th same experience. The left hand of o violinist is usually longer than th right, beoause ot the inoreased exer oisa of the fingers. The fingers ot s pianist will beoome longer if enough practising is indulged in. But as re gards cyclists, the stretching proeesi is not oarried as far as it was in thf days ot the high wheel. Then every rider bestrode the largest wheel h possibly could, and oases have bees known where an inorease of two and even four inohes in size was madepos; sible by ths elongation of ths lgl consequent npon reaohing for far awsy pedal. Baltimore American. Tlirlr Llvsly Pnpplna Whon Thtiy Lanf a Very KnctlT. "Of all the outlandish weapons evet employed in a fight," said a bnsinesi man of tho Sonth Side. "I think J brought the most fantastio on record into play one night last week. "My family are away on visit a) present, and X am koeping bacbsloi hall out at tbo bouse. On tbe nigbl to whioh I refer I was aroused at about 3 a. m. by a noise somewhere in the region of the dining room, and think ing I had shut np the dog there I jnmped nn very foolishly and oami downstairs in my nightolothoe, with' ont so much as a pocketknifo. When I oponed the dining room door I was startled to see a big, rough-looking mau bending over the sideboard at the far end of the room, and after we had stood there en tableau for a moment tho fellow made a rnsh at me. leaped baok into the hall and glanced around lor a weapon. On a table near by were a dozen incandescent light bulbs, which I bad brought home to replaco some that had burned ont. and purely by instinot I grabbed one ot tbotn and threw it at the burglar. It hit the door casing close to his head and, to my amazement, exploded with a noise like a yonng lyddite shell. suppoie it was still greater surprise to the other fellow, for he let out a yell and broke for the rear, followed by a rapid-fire bombardment of sixteen, caudle power inoandesoents, which I oontinueu to chuck at him as lone as ho remained in range. They smashed against tne furniture with a series of crashes that alarmed tho whole neicrh borhood, and I have been gathering np fragments of broken glass ever since. "The bnrglnr must have thonght I was chasing bim with band grenades, It was the first time I ever knew in eandesoents made such a row when they broke. An electrician tells me it is caused bj the air rushing into the vacuum." Jew Orleans Times-Demoorat. The Income of Naval Officer. On about the salary of a youncr clerk an ensign of our navy miiBt dress well, bis wire and children mnst; they must live in a presentable part of any city; the children must be educated, and well, somehow. The very nomadism of their lives is a great sonrco ot expense, and thoro is no es cape from unpaid bills, no living on from year to year in debt, as do a recognizable number of people in civil life; for a tradesman has but to send bis authenticated bill to the Navy De partment and the delinquent will bo enrtly reminded of it through oflicial channels, resulting in a court-martial if his shortcoming is so often repeated as to be "unbecoming to nil oflioev and a gentleman." But even all this sordid counting of dollars and debts seldom succeeds in subduing, certain ly not in breaking, the spirit ot peo ple naval. "Everybody knows what evorybody has," and this fact at once lifts off a social bnrdeu which is re sponsible for half the misery of pov erty of tbe "geutool" degree. Then. too, to havo even a little, if that little comes regularly and with absolute, certainty, is a rest iu a country where leisure is still looked at aBkauoe. In return, however, an officer gives up bis whole life, very often smothern bis talonts aud ambitious, and is "on guard every hour of his existence. Politically he is practically disfran chised, must always bo for tho Gov ernment and remain discreetly silent in a laud given over to "oratory" and in a time of extreme individualism of opinion Anna A. Rogers, in the Woman's Homo Companion. Women Snpplanteil by Men. With carefully gleaned statistics, Edward Bok, in the Ladies' Home Journal, shows that the number of women in business is decreasing, and will oontinue rapidly to grow loss. "The tide of women rushing poll-mcll into all kinds of business has been stommed in fact, it is already reced ing, and perceptibly so," ho contends, "It has already been asserted by fe male agitators that tbe growing ten dency to dismiss women from various business positions is because of the opposition of men to tbe employment of womon. On tho contrary, men were willing to have women go into business pursuits, and it was men who opened positions to them. Undoubt edly this was largely clue to the self ish business reason that women wonld work for lower wages than men. But with the influx thero neoossarily came into the business world a groat deal of incompotent femalo holp. For a time incompetency was overlooked because of the lower wagos. Gradual ly, however, there came tbe inevitable weeding process, temporarily stayed by the businoss depression of the past few yoars. When prosperous times oame it was different, and it is a very significant story which accurate sta tistics toll that more women havo boon discharged from business positions during the past year of prosperity, even taking into consideration thu larger number employed, thau iu any previous year." A Vain Old Ilean. ne was an antiquated, well-bred, but excessively vain old beau, who cherished the illusion that iu spite of rheumatio knees and a stiff baok his figure was still quito irresistible. She was smart, girlish, fresh as a rose, and regarded any man over forty years ot age in tbo light of a grandfather. It was a first olass street oar comedy. Sweot sovenleen squeezed h ersolf iu a oorner to give the dear old geutle man a Beat. He bowed hi s bald head. thauked her with Chesterfieldian cour- tosy, aud, like the addle pated old bachelor he was, rodo twenty blocks swinging on a strap, suffering torture from a pair ot rickety legs, but smil ing sweetly all tho while under tho delusion that seventeen would surely reoognize Apollo when Bbe saw bim. Atlanta Constitution. Th Wll Mr. needier Kept In. In tho early days of Mr. Beochci-'s career, when wit waa unknowu in ths pulpit, some of the deaoons ot his ohuroh asked bun if be didn t thiuk such frequent outburst ot humor were calculated to diminish his use fulness. He listeuod patiently, and hen they flnishod he said: "Breth ren, if you only knew how many funny things I keep in, yon wouldn't com plain about the few I let out. Ladies' Home Journal. A TEXA8 CATTLE KINO. Among the richest of tbe cattle klcp of Texas Is Bam Lazarus, whose tor tune is variously estimated at from 12.000.000 to 15.000,000. Tears ago when a lad 'of fourteen be went to Sherman, Texas, from New Orleans, and entered mercantile life as a clerk. Gradually, after ten years of clerking, be began to branch out Into the cattle business and ten years later be was pretty well up In tba financial world. In 1892 bt began to invest In cattle extensively. Prices began to fall, but the lower tbey went the more did Mr. Lazarus Invest Wiseacres Bbook their beads and pre dicted disasters for tba rising cattle king, but Mr. Lazarus had supreme faltn In himself and continued bis pur chases. Then better times came and wben prices were well advanced Mr. Lazarus began shipping. In oneyear b shipped over one railroad alone 6.00 ear loads.or approximately 180,000 bead of cattle. His estimated profit on all bis shipments after the advance Id prices Is placed at $1,000,000. Mr. Lax arus owns three ranches In Texas, on 6AM LAZARUS, at Abilene, one at Lazarus and on near Wichita Falls. All of them are r extensive area and are well stocked Mr. Lazarus' legal residence Is at Sher man, Texas, but be. also maintains palatial borne In Bt. Louis. Tl ratine With the Kyee. All over Europe today deaf and dumb mutes are being taught to com municate with tho world by articulate speech. Tbe oral method, .which de velops the voice by training the sight, so that congenital mutes literally hear with ths eye, Is entirely superseding tbe nse of a sign language. This Is accomplished by accustoming tbe eyes of a child to distinguish and remem ber the movement of the lips that ac company certain vowel and consonant sounds. At the beginning the pupil is taught to hold one hand npon th throat and the other upon tbe chest of the Instructor In order to note tbe various different vibrations produced In the body by emitting letters and word sounds. He then places his hands In similar positions on his own body and endeavors to imitate tbe sounds. Average deaf and dumb chil dren are taught, by tbe oral method, to speak and write connected and often intricate sentences In sixteen months' time. They havo, in fact, learned to hear with tho eyes. Pupils in the eighth year write elaborate essays aud read anything on sight, carrying on a conversation with an entire stranger with perfect ease. The first man to teach pure oral speech to deaf mutes was Samuel Helnecke, ot Germany. MARKETS. rn-TiunaB. 71 S'.l S! til 16 00 14 60 1IM , 00 0 00 110 KDITH KIM. FLOtTJl'uito. Hwt PL llii.i. r: x' w. C'OltN No. !1 White'.'.... . Onts Southern A I'enn... in K No. !l HAY Choli-H Tliuotliv.. finrwl ti 1'rlma fTHAW-Ityp in cur ids!! v iipiu mocks OntWocka .. nmntn floona. TOMATOE8-8lu'J.No. & no. 2 ri'AS Ktitiulnrda Bpennda- COHN Dry Tiiok itlOlSl BIDES. CITY RTKEI19 .uy lows -.. yi I OTATOEM AND VKO'TiaL, ' POTATOE8-lJurhnnka.. M 0 ONIONS 10 moviHtoya, foo rnonrcTB-ui. i liMir rlbslilijs Hams Mi'sn l'nrk. nor Imr I.A 1(1 Crude Dust nilluod iimaa. 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