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Htw He Spends HU Honr* of Daily Railroad Traveling. The much abused suburbanites, whom the cartoonists picture as com ing to the c-lty every morning from "Loneeomehurst," "Lost Man's Lane," "Prunehurst-by-the-Trolley" and other places with equally suggestive names, are an interesting class of individ uals. The transient element of the city's population spends several hours every day whirling over the railroads. When the novelty of those daily bits of railroading has passed into the monotony of years of travel through the same country the commuter has learned to make the best of the time he spends on the train. The "card fiend" Is a prominent fig are In litis claws. Both morning aud evening four or five 'games of cards are going on in every smoking car, and It Is safe to say that tbousauds of dol lare change hands in this "innocent amusement" while the players are hur rying to or from business. Next to the "card sharp" is the man who only enjoys his cigar and paper He Is oblivious to all his surround ings and only shows animation when he Is at his Journey's end. Many of the policies and plans of some of this city's most successful business men have been born or de veloped on these trains. The short respite between the bustle of the city and the cares of home life Is to this type of man a season for meditation. Another interesting commuter is the Individual who is on good terms with all bis fellows, lie travels up and ; down through the car exercising his repertory of latest jokes or sympa thizing with some gloomy looking friend who thinks that all the world Is against him. lie seems to never grow weary in his well doing. The train life of the commuter is now and then enlivened by wrecks. Though tossed about and sometimes cut and bruised, he generally escapes serious Injury. Such experiences as these he considers the *plce and coloring of his existence.—New York Mail and Ex press. COLOR OF GOLD COINS. Reason* For Difference* In Tint of Coin* of French Mintage. • Some time ago a Frenchman placed I together a number of gold coins of French mintage of the beginning, mid dle and end of the last century. lie was much surprised to see that they differed in color, lie set about finding out the reasons for this difference, and the results of his investigations have been published In T.a Nature. There is a paleness about the yellow of the 10 and 20 franc pieces which bear the effigies of Napoleon I and Louis XVIII that is uot observed in the goldpleces of later mintage. One admirer of these coins speaks of their color as a "beautiful paleness" and ex presses regret that it is lacking in later coins. The explanation of it is very simple. The alloy that entered into the French gold coins of those days con talned as much silver as copper, and it was the silver that gave the coins their Interesting paleness. The coins of the era of Napoleon 111 were more golden In hue. The silver had been taken out of the alloy. The gold coins of today have a still warmer and deeper tiuge of yellow. This Is because the Paris mint, as well as that In London, melts the gold and the copper alloy in hermetically sealed boxes, which prevents the copper from being somewhat bleached, as it always Is when it Is attacked by hot air. So the present coins have the full warm ness of tint that a copper alloy can give. If the coins of today are not so Hand some In the opinion of amateur collect ors as those issued' by the first Napo leon, they are superior to those of ei ther of the Napoleons in the fact that It costs less to make them. The double operation of the oxidation of the copper and cleaning it off the surface of the coin with acids is no longer employed, and the large elimination of copper ' from the surface of the coins, formerly practiced, made them less resistant un der wear and tear than are the coins now In circulation. L'nfeminine. Fogg—lt Isn't such a difficult thing to read character by the handwriting. I believe I can do it myself. Bass—Well, try your skill on that let ter I received a short time ago. What do you say to that? Fogg—ln the first place, the writer is a very unwomanly woman. Bass—How do you come to that con elusion? Fogg—None of the words are under scored.—Boston Transcript. Night Was Her Terror "I would cough nearly all night, long, writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alex andria, Ind., ,and could hardly get ah v sleep. I had consumption so had that if I walked a block I would conuti frightfully and spit blood, but.when all other medicines failed, three $1 00 j oottles of Dr. King's New Discovery | wholly cured me and 1 gained 58; pounds' Its absolutely guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, La Grippe, Bron ■ chitisandall Throat and Lung Troubles Price 50c and fl.oo. Trial bottles free! at Paules & Co's drug store. | X JUDGED BY : j HIS COAT il • t - »♦ ••:<>•- • «•«. The smooth faced, ( hubby looking j man of 40, whose long and fashionably j cut overcoat was ornamented with a heavy mink collar aud equally heavy ] mink cuffs, entered the smoking car at I Philadelphia, deposited his l>ag in the j rack overhead aud as the car was | somewhat eliilly kept his overcoat on while he pulled out a pretty good cigar and started in on the enjoyment of a smoke. The man in the seat across the aisle seemed to be pretty comfortable owing to the attention he'd been paying to his hig silver flask since the d< o-osure <>l the train from-New York. ai> ..'hen lie saw the smooth faced, genial linking man with the fur trimmed overcoat he handed the tlask over to liiui, saying: "Have a pull at that, chum. It's chilly in here." "Thanks," said the man with the fur trimmed overcoat, smiling amiably, "but I've just had luncheon." After awhile a liashy looking chap came in from one of the day coaches and took a seat alongside the man with the fur trimmed overcoat. He sized up the man with the fur trimmed oVercoat out of the tail of his eye, lit a cigar and inquired of his seat mate: "Well, how are they running for you? Picking the winners?" "I don't believe I quite catch your meaning," said the man with the fur collar and cuffs good naturedly. His questioner grinned. "Ah, come off," he said banteringly. "I mean are you nailing the babes that are getting over the plate first?" "Still," said the man with the fur trimmed overcoat, "1 think I fail to J apprehend you." "Oh, quit your joshing," said his seat mate. "Are you playing the ponies that are running at San Francisco or at New Orleans, and liow're you making out?" "Oh. now I think I understand you," spid the man with the fur trimmed overcoat, beaming. "The running horses, I take it, you allude to? Well, I am not 'playing them,' as you put it, at all." "Passed the game up, eh?" said his seat mate. "Well, I can't say that I have, really, seeing that I never did engage in the practice of wagering money on horse races," said the man with the fur trim med overcoat quite amiably. "It's a practice of which I scarcely approve." His seat mate pulled out a flask and offered it to the smooth faced genial looking man. "Hit this up. It's the right goods," i he said cordially. "I think not," said the man with the fur trimmed overcoat quite beamingly. "Aside from the fact that I've just eat en, I don't use spirits in any form." "Ah, say, pal, cut out that stringing," said his seat mate. "Anybody could see that you're a dead game, all "right, by your make up. Like to join in a little game of hearts or seven tip or even 10 cent limit poker just to pass the time away? I can soon get a bunch of fel lows together." "Well," said the man with the fur collar and cuffs, "I hardly think so to ! day. I never play cards." "Say, now I know you're a kidder," said his seat mate. "You don't ex pect me to swallow a coin like that, do you—that you don't ever hit up the old red eye or juggle the pasteboards or put a little piece of change on the ponies when you've got a front on j you like that—man with a coat like you're wearing?" The man with the suspected over coat siniled. "My friend," said he, "permit me to put you right. I am a minister of the gospel, and I live in Baltimore. My own overcoat was stolen front me in a hotel in Philadelphia yesterday and one of my Philadelphia friends who Is somewhat addicted to things of this I world loaned me the overcoat you now see me wearing until-I can have an other one made. Tut, tut! No harm done. Don't mention it! Here are my card and the address of the church in Baltimore of which 1 am rector, and if at any time you should feel like re newing your spiritual strength while you are sojourning in Baltimore I should he delighted to have you call upon me. Er—come to think of It, my cardcase was In the overcoat that was stolen from me. But never mind. You shall find me whenever you feel disposed to seek the consolation of re ligion, and" — But Nat Goodwin's seat mate had al ready fled in dismay into the coach whence he had come, and thecomedian unfolded a dramatic weekly and was soon imbedded in the doings of the stage.—Boston Herald. The stylish girl is the one whose clothes seem made for her and her alone. She will take the commonplace hat of her perhaps prettier sister and place it on her head with a pat or two, transforming it until the neighbors swear it is imported. Her frocks may be plain and cheap, hut they are worn with an indefinable air which makes the costly Velvet of lier neighbor look cheap and tawdry. Every thing in her wardrobe partakes of her in dividuality. Even the rough hat she wears for outing hangs on the hat rack with a sort of jaunty grace, and the fuzzy ] storm cape which she dons in wot weath er looks more perky and distinguished j than its neighbor, a sealskin which does not belong to a stylish girl. It is some vague power of discrimina tion which enables her to select from the millinery renuiant sale that very bit of headgear which will make every other I girl look at her and, better still, envy her. If she bo a millionaire's daughter, she is inevitably the belle of the season and makes by far the best match, if she is a shopgirl who sells laces and ribbons by ! the yard, she has the smoothest and best groomed coil of hair, in days of smooth j At Variance. "There's a whole lot of difference," remarked the freckled fanatic, "in ; wishing you were dead and wishing you were in heaveu."—lndianapolis Suu. Yard was once any stick, rod or pole. The expression is still used with this meaning when applied to various parts of a ship's equipment, as yardarin, sail yar«l aud the like. A wise man thinks before he speaks, but a fool speaks and then thinks of ! what he has been saying. Strikes A Rich rind. I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and nervous de bility." writes F. «T. Green, of Lancas ter. N. H., "No remedy helped me tin ; < il I began using Electric Bitters, which did me more good than all the modi- ; cines I ever used. They have also kept my wife m excellent heal Mi for years. She says Electric Bitters are just splen did for female troubles: that they are a grand tonic and invigora tor for weak, run down women. No other medicine can take'its place in our family Try them. Only 50c. Satisfaction guarant eed by Paules Co druggists. THE SPORTING WORLD. Jimmy Ryan, who for in years has been a member of the Chicago Base ball club, has at last left the Windy ! City for good aud become part owner, ! manager, captain and center fielder of j the St. Paul team of the Western 1 league. George Leunon, who secured I the St. Paul franchise, will be Ryan's i partner. At the close of last • a sou • Ryan stated that he would not pia.» I other year with the Ciii< - ' that I he was sick and tired oi .. ''' • bling that had been going ou iii«..se t ] many years. By the departure of Ryan Chicago has lost one of the most brilliant j players who ever wore a uniform. Al- ! lh : ) ■ W* I "SENATOR" JAMES RYAN, though 10 years in'the big league, Ryan played as good a game last year as ever. His batting might not have been quite so good, but when hits were needed he made them. In one respect Jimmy Ryan held all I left handed fielders safe, and. almost j all of the right handed oues, too, for [ that matter. In a throw to the plate he was as accurate as if he carried the ball to the catcher. This is remark able. Fielders who throw with their left arms are seldom sure. The ball takes varied shoots and is almost as liable togo to the third or first base man as the catcher. Not so witli Ryan. He could "hand the ball" to the catch er from any part of the field. Ilis arm was. strong, too, and many a runner who attempted to score on an outfield j fly to Ryan was "buried" at the plate. Harvard'* Xew I'.invine Tank. Harvard has a novel rowing tank, which is the result of faculty and col lege study, and is a marvel of ingenui ty. By it the Harvard oarsmen have almost perfect rowing exercises and training indoors. The scheme is the de velopment of Professor llollis of the ( engineering department and chairman of the athletic committee and his class. He put tlie subject before his class as a problem. .The scheme is based on the idea that the water in the old rowing tanks of- j fered too much resistance aud dead weight. Professor llollis and his class could not make the boat shoot ahead to lessen this resistance as a shell on the river does, so they have arranged pro pellers run by electric motors at the bow of the "boat," with supplementa- | ry tubes and machinery, so that the water rushes by the boat at a good rate with the oars. BeneatWthe boat are a pair of circu lar, deflecting planes, so that the wa ter returns under the boat after pass ing down the sidi*. The imaginary boat, or support for the eight sliding seats, is placed in the center of the tank. The water rushes from the bow, down the sides to the stern, so that the men pull with it, and goes back under the boat. As a result of this, the men are pull ing with the moving water. Naturally they pull faster than the water, so that there Is resistance to the oars, aud the harder and faster they pull the more the resistance. In the satue way, when a shell is rushing through the water, the men are pulling water which is rushing by them in the same direction as this tank water. The tank is of concrete, <">3 feet long Ity 20 feet wide. It.lias l>o inches of water in It. The seats are on a rectan gular wooden box, supported from the bottom. Iln*ket Hall'* Growth. Basket ball in the colleges has enjoy ed an unprecedented growth this sea son. This is not merely true because Yale, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Bucknell and State are all in liue, but it is general throughout the country. All over the New England, eastern and middle states the colleges, with but few exceptions, are taking an active interest in the game. A great majority have representative teams, and In the remainder the sport is con fined to interclass games. There have been.disadvantages to overcome in or ganizing representative college teams which do not apply to any of the other college sports. The principal one is that the use of the gymnasiums for practice by such teams can be had only at odd and in convenient times. Without plenty of opportunity for team practice a team cannot hope to make a successful showing. Then again the game bad not been officially recognized by col leges prior to this season, the same as other sports, and this in itself caused many of the most promising men in the colleges to refrain from taking part in the game. This difficulty is gradu ally being overcome, audit seems to be only a question of time wheu general recognition is bound to come, as is evi denced by such action ou the part of Harvard, Princeton and Cornell with in a comparatively short time. This : means that ere long there will be inter collegiate games between teams repre senting the big colleges, the same as in football and baseball. In fact, some games of this character have been played quite recently, aud more are scheduled to follow. Lord Curzon calculates that the fam- j Ine has cost about 730,000 lives in In dia, though a much smaller number died directly of starvation, j « LET THE BOY SLEEP. We were talking with a 00-year-old farmer friend lately, and lie said that when he was a boy on the old farm '■ back in York state his father always made him get up at 4 o'clock in the : morning whether there was pressing ! work to be done or not, the father do ing this because he thought it was good discipline for the boy:. We want to enter a protest against thi> sort of cru elty as being in au\ manner necessary either for the boys or the old man. In a general way it is is. » I >nger necessary jto do farm work by lamplight. Lot I | the boys sleep and grow -:r<»n LC till »! j o'clock at least. <>! d men forget what 1 au ordeal it is for a hoy to bo rout< d out of bed before he \.a! . si j> natural- j ly. There are better ways of disciplin ing a boy than this. A Horrible Outbreak. "< )f large sores on liiv little daughter's lead developed into a case of scald \ nead" write C. D Isbill of Morgantown. Tenn., but Bncklen's Arnica Salve completely cured her. It -a guaran teed cure for Eczema. Tetter, .Salt Rheum, Pimples. Sores, Fleers and Piles. Only 250 at Paules & Co's drug , i store. I 1 PEOPLE OF THE DAY. 1 Twice Carter If. Harrison has been fleeted mayor of Chicago, and now for tlit' third time lie has received his party's nomination for that office. At the recent 1 >eniocratie city convention he was selected by acclamation. The r 1 | '■* CARTER H. HARRISON. i convention also adopted a resolution I favoring municipal ownership of pub | lie utilities. Mr. Harrison since his ! first election as mayor of Chicago has I been a pronounced advocate of munici- I pal ownership and operation of street i railways. The Kal*er as on Orator. "I have often heard the Emperor Wil liam II speak, in public," writes one of his subjects, a professor in Bavaria. "He does not hide the fact that on many occasions be has had cause to re gret his words of the previous evening. No matter, he is a brilliant orator. He knows it too. Ideas crowd in his mind, and phrases to express them abound in j his mouth. His voice appears sharp. It is not that really, but simply what , one might call selineidig (decisive, de termined*. He speaks in abrupt sen tences, which he punctuates regularly 'with a gesture of his right arm, a ges ture without either grace or elegance, but jerky and energetic. His left hand Invariably remains riveted on the hilt i of his sword, and his arm, not fully dei I veloped, is closely pressed to his side, j When the emperor Is going to speak, his physiognomy reflects a succession ! of iinpres.-ioiis curious to watch. His featim . in.mobile and even rigid at first, relax i mediately he opens his mouth. I. -Tinning, as it were, plays over his »•:. rgetic face, his eyes spar-' kle with a fascinating radiancy, and [ his upp r so beautifully formed, re veals every other moment two rows of dazzling v into teeth. Everything he says has sccli a profound sense of con- • vict ion ;.;:d breathes such zeal that his 1 listeners are worked upon completely." I'ron Hiihmlr to France. It is announced that Charlemagne •Tower, limited States embassador at the court of St. Petersburg, is to be transferred to the United States em bassy at I'aris. General Horace Por ter, the present embassador at Paris, CHARLEMAGNE TOWER. | desires to retire. The climate of St. j Petersburg does not agree with Mr. j Tower's health, hence his change to Paris. Charlemagne Tower was appointed j minister to Austria in 1897 and was ! advanced to the embassadorship at St. j Petersburg in 1899. lie is a native of Philadelphia and is 53 years of age. Helen Gould'* IlamlnUake. Miss Could has an Interesting little handshake, says one who knows. She j has evidently learned that to protect and preserve her own hand when giv- | big it to hundreds of others she must j do most of the shaktug herself. She takes the proffered hand firmly in her , own at about elbow level, holds ft there for an instant, then raises it quickly in I an almost exactly perpendicular line, j then suddenly releases it. Site looks j directly into the eyes of the person she j Is meeting, and probably not one in a , hundred passes on without carrying with him the conviction that the jolly ' faced young woman he has just left j sincerely enjoyed the meeting. Your Box of I'fllntffl. When you received a box of water color paints as a holiday gift, did you stop to think that the whole world had been searched to furnish you with those little cakes of color? Vandyke brown is an earth from Cassel, in Germany. From the neighborhood of Siena, in Italy, comes a transparent yellow ocher which is called raw sienna, and when it has I been subjected to heat it takes the uame ! of burnt sienna. Haw umber is an earth from Unibria. in Italy. The madder plant j I is now cultivated on a great scale in j I France, Holland and Turkey for the sake , of the colors—rose madder, brown mad der, carmine madder and others—obtain- J ed from it. Other pigments of vegetable | origin are gamboge, from the £um of a tree that grows in Ceylon, and Indian lake, frim the resin of another kind of I tree native to Bengal and Siatn. Sepia is obtained from the cuttlefish, carmine is derived from the cochineal insect, prua* eian blue is obtained from horses' hoofs, { »nd ivory black is made by burning ivory ; chips. I'Rdrretvskl a Wine (Irowfr, At a charming summer residence at i Morges, on the lake .of Geneva, amid : fir forests and vineyards, Paderewski j leads a delightful life when making | holiday and resting from the strain and excitement of the concert plat form. His broad acres of vineyards are the finest in the country round, and at tiuie of vintage tno great musician I may be seen any day superintending the grape gatherers and the prelimi nary preparation of the wine until it is carried off in great butts on bullock part a _ | A Widow's Love Affair I Receives a setback, it' she has offen -1 sive breath through Constipation. Bili ' onsness or Stomach Trouble, but Dr. King's New Life Pills alwaysenre those troubles: clean the system, sweeten the breath, banish Headache, best in the world for liver, kidneys and bowels. I Only ~oc at Paules «fc Go's drug store. ♦♦« ««♦♦+t' \ FOR THE $ j FARMER J The location of the well on the farm Is of the greatest importance, says The , American Cultivator. In many in stances the farmer starts his well near the buildings and yards and selects the lowest point as a location, with the idea that he will not have to dig as deep as he would upon higher land. This is often a mistake, as we know of several places in a village where the wells near the top of the bill are not as deep and are not as much af fected by a drought as those on the lower land at the foot of the hilj, though there may be 50 or UK) feet dif ference in the elevation. But the chief objection to the well on the low ground is that it receives the surface drain age from the higher land, and thus the water soon becomes so contaminated as to be unfit for use either by the family or the animals, for to be healthy they must have pure water. I In these days of driven wells a pipe can often be sunk on the highest gravel i knoll or sand hill on the farm more I cheaply than in the low land, and when water is reached it is pure and will con tinue so, because the surface water runs away from it and not toward it. If a windmill is erected, the wind power is better, and by tank and pipes water can be brought to house, barn and yards or carried to irrigate the garden and strawberry bed in a way to make it doubly pay for itself, first in saving of daily hard labor at the pump and next in increased crops by having a water supply when needed. Get Siase In Homes. Some of the classes at our horse shows and some of the prices paid for ■ winners in these classes are very mis leading to the average breeder. We i refer to classes for small horses, say 15.1 hands or less, says The Nation al Stockman. Phenomenal horses, so far as conformation and action are concerned, have been developed for these classes, and high prices have been paid for them. But ; the breeder must not conclude from ! this that horses of the same size are ! generally salable at remunerative ' prices, for they are not. The high priced : little horse is a rare exception, the I fair priced little horse is not numerous and the low priced little horse —his j name is legion. The average horse on the regular market must have size. Get every other .good quality and lack this and nine times out of ten the breeder of the animal will have to sell him cheap. But get the other good i qualities and size and the horse pays for his oats every time. Let the ranges furnish the small horses. They can do it cheaper than the farmers can. I Root Crop*. In England the root crop for stock feeding has been and yet is considered i of greater importance than the hay., crop. Not only.are the sheep exacted to feed upon the turnips from the time when they are large enough, but tur nips and mangels are no small part of their feed from the time they begin to make growth until the next spring, , j when the roots are exhausted. The English farmers claim that they can , grow five times the weight of roofs to the acre and that a pound of hay fed i with roots is of much more value than ; , when fed alone, because of more per- ; I feet digestion. We always tried to i have some roots for sheep and young 1 stock in the winter, but that was be- j fore the days of silos and ensilage. Apple Growing. I When apples are grown for profit, ! the best authorities agree that no other j crop should be grown on the land. Clean and shallow. cultivation should be kept up from spring until midsum mer, when a cover crop of clover, win ter vetches or alfalfa or. If the land is too thin for legumes, oats or rye may be sown to hold the soil during j winter. If apples are ouly a side issue, i well fertilized hoed crops, such as po tatoes, beans and garden vegetables, ! will keep the soil in order and not ex | haust It unduly. It would be well to experiment with the earliest varieties | of cowpeas, putting them In in early June. Oats and peas and corn do well for cattle and rape for hogs and sheep, j —ltural New Yorker. Hauling Uarnynrtl Manure. Farmers who try to keep an account of the cost of their crops often charge the crop with barnyard manure made on the farm at the same price manure would cost if bought at a stable and 1 then add cost of men and teams In 1 drawing it out. They seldom stop to j think whether it Is more or less valua ble because of the food given and bed ! ding used than that they would buy, ! and still less do they consider that if I their manure as a waste product could ' not be used to promote plant growth ! they would be obliged fo draw it away j as a nuisance or as western farmers I used to do—move the barn away from j the manure heap. A Modern Mother'* Diary. Tonight Clifford has said: "Mamma, are the stars holes in the sky to let the rain through?" 1 cannot sleep, such is my agitation. Clifford is scarcely 5 years old, where as, according to the best pedagogical authorities, Martin Luther did not ask this question until he was 7 and Alex ander the Great, in all probability, not until he was 9. I know not what to think. One moment I feel assured that Clif ford is evincing an unaffected humor, ! only bi the next moment to be over whelmed by the suspicion that he is bidding for newspaper notoriety mere ly.—Detroit Journal. I.opped It OIT. Towue—Has. he sent you a check for your services? Browne—Yes, but it Isn't for the Amount 1 expected, although I sent him * bill. Towne— Your writing's bad. Maybe be didn't decipher the amount. Browne—Pin afraid he did de-cipher it.l wrote 5100 very plainly, and he ; Bent slo.— Philadelphia Press. The Truth Forced Home. "I'm afraid," she sighed, "that I'm getting old." "Why?" he asked. "When 1 goto the grocery now, the clerks don't nearly break their necks trying to beat one another in getting my orders."—Chicago Times-Herald How to Cure a Cold. Don't goto bed. Don't stop work. Don't take a Turkish bath and render yourself liable to an attack of pneu monia. Krause's Cold Cure, inconven ient capsule form, will cure yon in 24 hours. They are pleasant to take and cause no ringing in your head or other disagreeable sensations. Price 25c. Sold by Rossman& Son's Pharmacy. MUNICIPAL LIGHTING. The Mayor of an Ohio Tonn Says II < :■■■ !<•' Dm e at u l'rottt. The town of Lakewood, 0., lias owned anil op'rated its < lectric light plant since 1w96. About three years ago the trustees became alarmed at the high rates charge^for stieet lighting andde termined that the town should own its own plant. The plant was constructed at a cost of S~O,OOO. The following table will show the operating expenses for the sis months, Doc. 1. to May 81, IS9B. inclusive. These months being winter months the expense of coal and operating ex pt nses were larger than the average foi the whole year. All estimates are on a L seven hour run Interest on |:iO,(XrJ at 0 per cent for six months. KSOO 'X Depreciation, figured, at 5 per cent fHW W Total cost of operating for bix niontlis 1,2-lb t>- Total expense s;i,ii4a <!4 N uu;l/cr of lights operated Tt Cost of one fur six months. $3) 11 Cost < 112 one li.Tht for one year 00 iS Numlx r <>f hours operated 1 ' .i ("i,st i r Ts lamps per hour li.s:# Co t i er lamp ] er hour .(X5 Capacity < 112 plant. 200 arc lights and i.otiU ineandescents. It should be borne in mind the cost of operating a large plant is not nearly as heavy as the cost of operating a small plant. Mayor Tyler sr. id tin other day: "We are well pi. •■:> < d v. ith our lighting plant. We are arranging to supply power te consumers for lighting and commercial purposes. We have just placed a dyna mo in our plant which will supply 1,500 incandescent lamps. After our arrange ments are all perfected wo expect tc pay all our expenses from the income from consumers. MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES. 1 Tendency IN T<M«r«l Shorter Terms ' a: ;l itcvccnticn iit Will. During lire r<r nt meeting (if the Na ' tional Mr.iii-ipal league at Indianapolis a jiaj-ir was lead i i "Municipal Fran-, [ cliietV l \ Charhßicbardeon. In c'i.-.cimiu'j " r Richardson's paper Mayor .1 :;cs <i Tor lo said: "1 feel constrained t:> anno:.ooo myself as being uualUiably npp.- «ul to any grant oi ' municipal framl.i.-es for any purpose 112 wl:atev< r, and 1 take tins position as a 1 matter of priucipk 1 maintain that the ' idea of Vi-»'tii.g franchises to private 1 individuals or corporations to minister ' to a city's social necessities is as wrong ■ iu scientific theory as it is mischievous 1 and destructive of what is best in inu- 1 nicipal life in practice. The whole idea I of granting special privileges to a few ' people to make profit off all the rest of ' the people is undemocratic, and conse quently is opposed to and stands in the | way of progress toward the realization ! of our loftiest and best ideals, tho equal ity of all men before the law." Mr. Edward W. Bemis of tho Uni versity of Kansas said the tendency was ! toward shorter franchises, and all should ! be revocable at will. I The Pnhlle Gallows n Century Ago. Even if the bicycle had been invented a hundred years ago touring could hardly have become very popular—at all events, for solitary cyclists. The ! old guidebooks were by no mejuis j cheerful leading. A run from London ; to East CrinsUad. a distance of five or j six and twenty miles, would have tak- ] j en the wheelman past three gibbets, j and it was just as likely as not that > l from one or the other of them a body j j would be swinging in the wind. Up till the beginning of the nine- j I teenth century the gallows was almost J as frequent a landmark as linger posts or public houses have become now. j | The traveler approaching York is di- I j rected by the guidebooks to "turn ; ; round by the gallows and three wind i mills," and the road out of Durham is ! "between the gallows and Crokehill." Going out of Wells you "cross the brook and pass by the gallows." Any number of such directions can be gleaned from the old books for tlie ' guidance of travelers a hundred years | ago, and as these interesting objects j i were put up and the dead bodies of j ' malefactors left upon them for the I special edification of footpads and highwaymen there was a suggestive- j ness about them that must have given | a special piquancy to cycle touring if it j had been iu vogue at that time.—Lon | dou News. EDISON'S PHONOGRAPH Better than a Piano, Organ, or Music Box, for it sings and talks as well as plays, and don't cost as much. It reproduces the music of any instrument—hand or orchestra—tells stories and sings— the old familiar hymns as well as the popular songs—it is always ready. ,Soe that Mr. Edison's signature is on every machine. Cata logues of all dealers, or NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., 135 Fifth Ave., New York. PLANING MILL? HOOTER BROTHERS MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Shutters, Verandas, Brackets, Frames and Turned Work of all Kinds. Also Shingles, Roofing Slate, Planed and Rough Lumber. RIVERSIDE, NORTD COUNTV ' . FOR FIRST CLASS WORK 51! JO 10 r #. V vyr Good. Work. Special atten > lion given La- /I[ V. Prompt dies Suits and Jpfr/' I)eliver > r - Waists, Genu®# f|| Right Prices. White loons and Vests. Jk, •' A " ****** P'/ elald for and : Repairing done Y\k SNBS {:K kTv* ■> 1 • , „ , , , delivered free. I when ordered. tVyi. . -T^~ { v Give us a call >'/ s Danville Steam Laundry, | No. 20 Cana St Lore and Kase, Pro SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKS..." reach 1 iiildren Huliit* of Etonomj and Frugality. ]t does not need reference to the well known maxim, "Just as the twig is bent the tree inclines," to show the im portance of inculcating frugal saving liabits among children, says the Chicago News. Practically, however, in most schools this is a matter of precept only, mid even that is. not inmost cases made prominent l.y proper insistence. . - The difference such habits, wisely Jirectcd, may bring about in the lives jf children is certainly vast enough tc make the subject of inculcating habits >f flirift and economy a feature of thf mblic schools. This has been done ir many of the schools of the city by th£ *tablishinent of the penny savings bank system through the aid and co-opera tion of tin■ teachers and certain banks. The system is so arranged as to require jut little time on the j>art of teachers ind principals. The Tilton school up tc ast June had savings amounting tc [>4oo,.the system having been in opera ion since March 22 last. One of the immediate and gratifying results in that school of the saving habit, according to the principal, lias been the practical abolition of gum che%ving and cigarette smoking—re sults in themselves worth all the extra time and attention given by the teach ers, to say nothing of the benefit finan cially and physically to the children themselves. Of course there is danger in some cases of developing miserly instead of wise habits, but such instances will be rare, while the general good will be great once children are taught that if they take care of the pennies the dollars will take care of tbsmselves. The Amer ican people live better and waste more than any other people on the globe. Heretofore the economy made necessary in older countries has been disregarded in America. P>ut that condition ol things is changing, and the public schools should be th«: first to take note of the change and prepare for it by in culcating habits of frugality and wise economy. We sent into Chicago recently au<i had a friend buy for us a pound, of straight oleomargarine, which was sold' to him as "Itoek river creamery butter" at 20 cents per pound. Later another man was served with a pound of "El gin creamery" from the same box at 25 cents a pound. On the day this oc curred the best western extras of creamery butter were selling in Chica go at wholesale at 20 cents. Oleo cost ing SV4 cents a pound to make can hard ly be properly Called a "poor man's butter" when it is faked off in this manner and at these prices. The Worn nil'* Hotel. It really looks as though the wnmaa'i hotel were going to be built. Of eoure® there is still a little doubt about it— that seems as inseparable a part as it. front door—but matters are shaping themselves rapidly. There Is scarce a woman who is not interested in this project. Those who live in town see the enormous need of such a hostelry, and those who live elsewhere look on it as a possible haven for themselves. But it seems like one of those thing# which are too good to be true. The housing of women —that is the odious but correct term, I believe—ls a prob lem only second to the housing of the poor, and one which the women have been ingeniously settling for them selves. Some fly to the boarding house and loath it; some keep house co-oper atively 'n a lint and weary of the lack of privacy; some "prig in the studio" and are but half nourished; others take rooms and depend on the cheap tables d'hote. But all these are a weariness to the flesh, besides having deplorable effects on the spirits. Therefore the woman worker in New York, whether student or wage earner, looks eagerly to the woman's hotel as a happy haven where she may anchor safely and where ex penses shall not be too high. The enor mous numbers of girls and women who live outside of our city and who find it necessary to come here are equally excited over the prospect of a definite refuge. In the opinion of many wise ; women, they would far better not | come, for New York is more than over crowded with women workers, but ap parently the sagest advice Is power less to prevent the influx.—New York Mail and Express. . . till iiji- We want 10 do all Ms af Printing nr * i 11 irs u ' ii i»t - 1 lis malt. •r— T A well printed, tasty, Bill or Let W / ter Head, Poster Ay A Ticket, Circular, jy< Program, State ment or Card is (112) an advertisement for your business, a satisfaction to you. lei Ttr lew Presses, ~ Best Paser, M- Mei Wort A Promptness -111 you can ask. A trial will make you our customer. We respectfully ask that trial. I IIS 11. ' 999 No. ii H. Mahoning Si. This season s most artistic ILLINER ILLINER Y<^ productions are here to internt am please. Exquisitely trimmed Hats, Toques and Bonnets, and untrimmed shapes of the newest and most approved style. Call and see them. They will need but little praise from us to mak them appreciated. Also a line of nn trimmed Hats in all the popular shapes at Reduced Prices. infill, 122 Mill Street.
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