| A Hand at Poker \ By JAMES JOHNSON. > | Copy right. 190t>, by E. C. Pareells. \ At the age of twenty Thomas Ap pleby, Jr., was generally referred to as "Soft Tommy." While his father, who was one of the largest railroad contractors In the country, was known as a level headed man, his only son, Tommy, was playing "going to col lege" and making a fool of himself whenever occasion offered. A compila tion of the idiotic things Tommy did in the course of two years would make a small volume of statistics. He got drunk, hu bet on horses, he played pok er, he fell iu love with his laundress, be got into jail, he ran himself and his father into debt to the tune of thou sands. As a windup he fell in love with a chorus girl at a New York the ater, weut on a drunk lasting two weeks and was disgracefully expelled from college. His old man stopped building the Colorado Midland long enough to come east and bribe the chorus girl to let go, pay up Tommy's debts, talk to him In vigorous Eng lish and then take him west to fill some unimportant position where he could keep an eye on him. Tommy's halcyon days were over. He had to knuckle down and be good. In the course of two years he became so good and so sensible that he was permitted togo east and marry the daughter of a locomotive builder, with whom he had become acquainted while she was making a tour of the west. It was conceded on all sides that Tommy was no longer "soft." He had become Interested In his father's work, been given a partnership, and he was looked upon as a coming mau in the business of constructing and outfitting railroads. Tommy and his bride were to "do" the east and then bring up In their fu ture home In Denver, and everything went according to programme until they headed for the west. Then Tom my received word to bring along a •urn of money from Wall street. The fact that he had $f»0,000 buttoned up behind his coat caused a relapse from virtue on Tommy's part. He became "soft" agaiu. He drank and swag gered and told everybody what a big man he was in the Colorado Midland, and soon after leaving Ashley on his home coming he fell Into the hands of the FhllUtlnes. Three thieves and a gambler had spotted blm and were after his money. They didn't care how they got hold of it. but after awhile found that the game of poker would be the easiest way. When Tommy began drluklng he became obstinate, and, leaving his tearful bride In the parlor car, be took a hand In the game start ed elsewhere for his particular benefit. Then the chorus girl made her en trance. She had let goof Tommy for good. She had never cared for him In a sentimental way. She had drifted from the chorus In New York to the vaudeville lu a western town of hard repute and was on her return from a trip to Chicago when she ran across Tommy and his wile. Her first emo tions were those of Jealousy to think that he had married, and she thirsted for revenge against the child faced bride. Then she reasoned that she never intended to marry Tommy any way end that he and his papa had treated her very liberally, and she gave over her idea of revenge. Tommy didn't recognize her during the long day that she occupied a seat directly across the aide, but she saw that he had something on his mind and was drinking himself up to It. The gam blers were going to make up a game for the night, and he wanted to be counted In and arrive in Denver with a few extra hundred dollars in his pocket. The protecting bride was or dered to the stateroom, and Tommy vrent la search of the game, lie soon found It The ex-chorus girl had sized np the newly married couple and the situation, and she reasoned them out aa follows: •Tommy the 'soft* Is not as big a fool aa he was, but he Is fool enough to be taken In by those card sharps. From his swtgger be has evidently got a lot •112 money with him. He has gone and forgotten me and got married Instead 9t pining along in single blessedness, but I won't bo'd that up against him That wife of his is a little innocent ■he may have seen a circus once or twice in her life, but her knowledge of the world stops there. If she would take Tommy by the ear, as I used to do, Instead of playing the baby, she could bring him to the mark. But she hasn't the piuck. Tommy will gamble, lose bis money, and there will l>e a scene when he faces his father. I must do something for the helpless In fants." , The game was going on in the smok er. There were only two or three pas sengers In the car, and it may have been that the conductor stood in with the blacklegs. At any rate, when the ex-chorus girl made her appearance in the car he politely hinted that she had made a mistake. "Not If the court knows herself," was her reply. "I came In here to get a smell of this smoke and watch the game, and I don't think there is any rule to bar me out." Tommy was drinking with one hand and playing poker with the other. He also kept his mouth going as to what a great man he was in connection with the Colorado Midland. The line would have never been thought of nor sur- j veyed nor constructed but for him. He j had played poker since he was ten years old. He was no chicken. lb* had the money, and money taik« From her nearby seat the woman lis tened to bis vaporings and saw the gamblers fleecing him at every hand, and she said to herself: "I used to get about a hundred dol lars a day out of Tommy when he was struck on me, but these sharpers are doing a heap l>etter. If be was born without brains it's not my fault, and yet I feel sorry tor that little wife of bis. This is all new on her. She is in her stateroom crylntc her eyes out when a wife of spunk would be in here rais ing old Ned. It's none of my business, and yet I can't help but feel sorry for her. It's no use togo and speak to her, for she's one of the weeping, helpless sort. What is wanted Is to give Tommy a jar." A few minutes later the porter of the sleeping car came into the smoker and whispered to Tommy that his wife wanted to see him. At that the gam- ] biers sneered aud Tommy swore. He sent back word that he would come when he got ready and continued his play. The ex-chorus girl went back in bis place, and when the stateroom door opened at her knock she said to the anxious and weeping bride; "Your husband is drinking and gam bling lu the car ahead. Are you woman enough to walk in there and fetch him I "Mercy, nor gasped the wife. "Then don't make a fool of yourself by sending messages. 1 know your Tommy of old. He's soft in the head, and I don't believe he'll ever get over It. You are only a baby wife, and your mother ought to have kept hold of one end of the string. Don't sob and wring j your hands that way. I'm going back I to watch the game and save your Tom i my. ITe'll probably come along In the | course of an hour and dump himself ! down on the floor. 1 may come later." j "But I don't uuderstand," protested i the bride as she struggled with her j sobs. ' j "There's no need for you to. Just re -1 j main right here and leave the rest to 1 me." "And who are you?" I "Nobody or nothing." [ When the woman returned to the , smoker Tommy had lost all his own . money and had broken Into what lie was carrying to his father. lie was as dough in the hands of the sharpers. In five hands lie lost SJ,OOO. Then the ' woman stepped to his side and took him by the arm and said: i "Tommy, you are wanted in the i sleeping car. Come along." ► "What are you doing here?" demand- j [ ed one of the gamblers of the woman I as Tommy obediently rose up and ; lurched about. "They call me Wild Rose in Chey i enne," she replied, "and it is said that I play poker as good as any man. I This man Is going back to his wife, » and I'm going to take his hand In the game." The men cursed and growled, but . when Tommy had been landed in his ( stateroom the woman returned and i sat down with such nonchalance and i produced such a large "roll" that the i sharpers winked at each other and ( then turned lu to beat her. They : palmed the cards; they bluffed; they ■ conspired; they resorted to all the i tricks of the trade, but they reaped i nothing by it. The woman was posted [ lu all their moves und had some new i ones to show them. They became afraid of her after awhile, and then she used taunts to keep the game go lug. They lost steadily from the start, and if there was cheating on her part they were not sharp enough to detect It. When she had won back every dol lar lost by Tommy the "soft," she rose up and carried her winnings back to the wife. The husband was asleep j on the lloor. The ex-chorus girl looked at him and nodded her head and said; j "Seems like old times to see him that way. Here's the money he lost to the gamblers. Take care of It and go through his pockets for the rest of his boodle. We are getting near Cheyenne, j I leave the train there." "But your name? You will tell me > that and let me thank you over and | over again for what you have done?" j "Don't mention it. Good night and j good by." Tribal Suicide. All students of Malay and Hindoo i history know that one of the most hor rid customs in those countries Is the "poopootan," what I should like to call the tribal suicide, says C. Tliieme, cor respondent of De Nlewe (Niurant, The Hague. A Ball prluce, with the in stincts of his warrior race, declines to surrender, but prefers death, and he and all his people seek death. The Prince of Badoeng did this. He turn ed a deaf ear to all suggestion of a settlement, but he and all connected with him, men, women and children, committed suicide. Nearly the same thing happened in 1805 in Lombok, a I neighboring island. The old king had surrendered, but one of his sons, a cripple, walked out with all his rela tions dressed iu gorgeous garments, bedecked with all their Jewelry, and with their swords and lances attacked the Dutch army, only to find the death thej* courted. Those who were not killed in the fight were afterward found to have also killed themselves. As Good as *a Knot. A little north side boy likes to play with needles and thread and pretend he Is sewing. To please him and to keep him quiet his mother has been in the habit of letting hlni have the arti cles for ills amusement while she Is busy with her household duties and especially while she herself is sewing. One afternoon recently the boy was busily engaged In his favorite domestic pursuit when suddenly the knot came out of the thread and It slipped through the needle. "Mamma," said he, handing the nee dle and thread to her, "pta.se put the thread In the needle and then pease put another lump in the thread.• Columbus Dispatch. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Remember that the money you squander won't work for you. We are always too young to have known better if our mothers are the Judges. Men do a lot of things just as fool ish as having their clothes button In j the back. Dreaming of what you would do If | you had a large income is probably | about the slowest way to get one. The man who fails in his efforts to j do something well is still more of a j success than the one who never tries, i A mother worries if her daughters ! are not Invited to parties and then sits up and worries because they are out j late when they are invited. Ever occur to you that you ought to ( dress up more and brush your dothes oftener? Most people as they become old neglect their personal appearance too much.—Atchison Clob. —■ Jury Friendships. "The eleven men in the world for j whom I entertain a feeling of peculiar friendliness are those with whom I served on a jury once," said a broker. | "There isn't any other human tie Just like that existing among jurors In a i criminal case. There we are, twelve I men. all perfect strangers to each oth er, with different tastes, tempera ments and habits, picked up and bound j together for days In the most trying '■ circumstances. The hardships, tho 1 j tragic phases of the situation, reveal ; us In a new light. Hitherto unsuspect- J ed traits crop out. We argue, we quar : rel, we sympathize, we make up. In a manner that would surprise our closest ! friends. The responsibility that we ! share sets up apart from everybody else and establishes n bond of interest and sympathy that is pretty sure to last."—New York Sun. Made it Homelike. i Recently a district visitor in the east | end of London asked the wife of a no j torious drinker why she did not keep her husband from the public house. "Well." she answered, "I 'ave done j my best, ma'am, but lie will go there." j "Why don't you make your home look I more attractive?" ! "I'm sure I've tried 'ard to make It 'omelike, ma'am," was the reply. "I've took up the parlor carpet and sprinkled sawdust on the floor and put a beer barrel in the corner. But, lor', ma'am, • It ahi't made a bit of difference."— j | The Pursers Confidence By HUNTLEY WEYMAN I Copyrighted l>y E. C. l'arcclls ![ It was spoken of as the slickest rob bery ever perpetrated on a London Jewelry house. Lady Stanton was looking at a diamond tiara and being waited on by one of the partners when a gentleman lounged forward, famil iarly addressed her and, picking up the tiara, walked out of the store with it. The act was so audacious that he was given time to mix with the throng iu the street and get safely away. It was a jewelry house that had never been robbed before, and the de cision was immediate to spare no ex pense to run the robber down. The case was given to the police, with a grand reward attached, and Scotland Yard put its best detectives at work. Two or three private agencies took up the trail for the reward there was in it, and when a clew seemed to lead to Faris a French detective prepared to follow it. From some line of reasoning ! not made public all the otiicers came to ! an agreement that the robber was an American and that he would seek to get away on the Blue Star liner Mon arch. The press didn't say anything about trails, but four of the detectives followed their noses at least and se cured passage on the Monarch, nad one of the male passengers come to them half an hour before sailing and admitted that lie was the robber and held out his hands for the bracelets none of the four would have sailed. As it was, no one came forward, and tliey felt it a duty to make the voyage to New York and keep an eye on every fellow passenger. They knew nothing of each other's presence in an official way. If any one of them was to give his confidence to any one, the purser was the man to unbosom to, and it was uot long before lie had a call It was a Scotland Yard man. lie was wear ing false side whiskers and passing himself off as a retired English retail grocer who was making the trip to see his sister in New York. "I think I have a clew already," he said as the purser promised to respect his confidence and assist him in any way he could. "There is a Frenchman aboard calling himself Dubois. He speaks English passably well and claims to be going over in the inter ests of the wine business, but he isn't fooling Inspector Saunders a little bit. ne's my man or I don't know a crook when I see one." The next burst of confidence came from Dubois. lie Identified himself as belonging to the Faris bureau and added: "Fist! It was easy enough. I pick ed him out from the 300 passengers al most at a glance. He is an English man and claims to be a retired grocer, and I shall give him rope until we reach quarantine on the other side. Should he suspect me and try to jump overboard 1 hope I may have your as sistance." Mr. Dubois was assured that the purser and all the other officers of the boat stood ready to lend justice all possible assistance, and he then made way for a detective from a private London agency. The man wore a false stomach ami a wig aud used the Lan cashire dialect. He introduced himself as John Stone and asked for the purs er's confidence at once. "I've got him right between my thumb and linger, this way," he said, with a grin. "The trail led me as straight as a turnpike. I can't ask the Monarch to turn back, of course, but I'll have the darbies on the fellow as soon as we sight Sandy Hook. Lord, but it was dead easy! lie calls himself a French name and tries to disguise his English, but any child could spot him off. Help me to keep an eye on Du bois and there will be something in it for you." The purser smiled inwardly and gave his promise. He thought there were others to come, and he was not mis taken. Mr. Hiram Wilkinson next in troduced himself as being from a pri vate Liverpool agency. He had a wig and goggles and was trying to talk through his nose and be taken for a New Englander. He felt that he had come to the right party In coming to the purser, anil he didn't shut his mouth until his secret was out. "It's the feller as calls hisself Stoue," he whispered. "I spotted him the in- i staut he came up the gangplank, but I j dasn't tackle him on sight. I am mak- | ing the voyage to play my fish. I'll bet pounds to shillings I make him trap hisself in less than three days, ne claims to have a brother lu the butcher business at Albany, but of course that's all in your eye." "You think lie's the man?" queried the purser in an absent way as be be gan to see the humorous side of the situation. "Say, now, take a good long look at him yourself. He looks the thief from head to heel. Haven't you noticed his nervousness? He's afraid he's been followed. He'll make a light of it when we sight the American coast, but I'll have the irons on him before he can say Jack Robinson. Mum is the word, and you will get your whack of the re ward." There was no fifth detective aboard to ask the purser for his confidence and assistance, but after a day or two Mr. Abijah Absalom Barnes, as lie gave his name, asked the official to take charge of a package for him. "It's only some glmcraeks I've been buying abroad." he explained, "but Martha and the children will be look ing for presents when I get home. That Yurup is a great country, but I hain't seen no spot like old New Hamp shire since I went away. Ever get up that far?" "I never have," replied the purser as lie wondered how Uncle Abijah had escaped the pitfalls that must have been set for his feet. "If you ever have u chance, come up and stay with me for a week, and it Shan't cost you a red cent. If you've pot a wife and children, bring 'em j along. If you could come in the win ter, I'd take you to hnlf a dozen spell- j Ing schools, and we'd slide down hills ! on hand sled- I own n bill over a mile long, and my old woman can make buckwheat cakes to beat the band. ! Say, now, is there any danger of any one stealing my p:i«_Lage from you?" "Not the slightest." "Because there are jiome suspicious characters aboard. I've run across four different men that I wouldn't trust togo to my barn and get a peek measure of oats. They call themselves Stone, Dubois, Saunders and Wilkin- I son. We've got tin peddlers up In my state that look more honest than these men do. I'm right onto "em, however, [ and they can't fool me." At least once a dajr during the rest . of the voyage each of the four detec tives sought out the purser and report- eu progress aim piauneu wnui suoue be done when quarautlne was reached. While each one had only suspected one another on the start, oily three days had passed when each man's siis plclons Included the three others in the quartet. Uncle Abljah bothered them front the start. He instated on butting in at all times and under all circum stances. If one detective had another aside to pump him, the old man from New Hampshire presently appeared and carelessly said: "Gentlemen, I hope I don't intrude, but were either of you ever up in Sock county, X. 11. ?" "Never," was the reply. "Then you've missed a great thing. We hain't got no Niagara falls up there, but sliding down hill in the winter beats anything you can find outdoors. You load up a big shed with gals and boys and head her down hill aud let her go, and the first thing you know you are two miles away. I hain't got but one spare bed In the house, but Martha aud mo will sleep on the floor if you'll come up." Sometimes the four sleuths would play cards together and pretend to be very jovial aud friendly. Before tho game was fairly under way Uncle Abijah would stroll into the smoking room and say: "I dunuo whether any of you fellers ! heard about that big robbery In I.ou i don or not, but it was a corker. Feller I walked into a jewelry store and picked \ up a bushel of diamonds and walked ; out ag'in as cool as a hired man going to work. I happened to be right nigh the store at the time, aud I didn't know but what they would arrest me. The feller got away, but I'm purty sure I saw him and would know him ag'in." He would then lounge out on deck, and the game would soon break up, and one of the officers would hunt up Uncle Abijah to get further particulars. He would intimate that he had seen tin robber among the passengers aboard and that he might give him away on landing, and thus the four officers would be further puzzled and mysti fied. Each oue was invited up to New Hampshire over and over again, aud before Sandy Ho >k was sighted each one knew the old man's history from the day he was born. No arrests were made at quarantine. It had been left to the purser, and he had telephoned up. Four interviews had been held with him, and as a result four different men were arrested when the steamer made her dock. The victims were Messrs. Saunders, Dubois, Wilkinson and Stone. Uncle Abijah saw them taken into custody and smiled and winked. He had also worked out a lit tle plan. Three hours later the four men, ac companied by two detectives from headquarters, boarded the Monarch to ask of the purser: "What do you know of the old fellow who called himself Barnes?" "Nice old man and innocent as a child," replied the official. "Say, now, he's gone off and forgotten his pack age." "If he returns for it.tie a string around his wrist and hold liitu fast," laughed oue of the headquarters men. "He's the chap th.it took the <!!:»- monds!" The Value of Lifeboats. Considerably more shipwrecked sail ors are saved by their own boats than by any other means, says London An swers. Thus of 2,159 persons saved on the coasts of the United Kingdom in 1903-04. 165 were saved by the rocket apparatus and assistance from the bhoi'e, t >v lifeboats, i i.~> t._. coast guard boats and other craft, 041 by passing ships and 7.'i."> by their own boats. The total number of seamen and pas sengers saved from wrecks of British vessels everywhere and of foreign ves sels on or near the coasts of British territory during the year 1903-04 was 0,086, of whom 2.1.7.* were saved on the coasts of the United Kingdom, 1,782 on the coasts of British posses sions abroad, 1,343 on the coasts of foreign countries—all from British wrecks, be it remembered—and 802 on the high seas. Of the 3,027 persons saved from British wrecks abroad 2,562 were saved by their own boats and 059 by passing ships, while onh 28 were saved by lifeboat.; and 140 by rocket apparatus. An I inpreNNion. "Did that lawyer get a clear view of the case?" inquired the litigant's friend. "No. I'm afraid he didn't. I told him that my trouble was about money, aud he seemed to be proceeding on the the ory that by relieving me of my money he would cause the trouble to dlsap pear." Animals That Are Trained. The animal trainer paused in his midnight supper. "It Is strange," he said, "how train ing increases an animal's value. I can buy a young lion for SIOO, train it and sell it for SSOO afterward. Take the group I performed with tonight-- three lions, three tigers, two leopards, four bears and four boarhouuds. They are all young adults in the pink of con dition, but untrained they wouldn't be worth more than $1,500 or $2,000 at the outside. Yet the boss was offered SOO,OOO for them last week. The train ing sets the price, and no wonder. It took four years to train this group of mine, and, though there are only six teen animals In it now, no less than seventy had to be tried and discarded before we got together the sixteen we wanted." The «*lf" In Itather Important. Here's something that may save your life when a bull gets after you: When a bull charges, just before the final lurch he shuts his eyes, and if yott have the presence of mind to stand stock still until he Is about two or three feet from you all you have to do is to step aside, and he mioses vox;. Any child with sufficient presence of mind to do this can let a bnll charge all day with perfect safety. This is not a new thing, as it is one of these crets of the bullfighter in tho coun tries where the sport Is practiced. Tha bullfighters say that a cow does not do this, and they would never try any such tricks with a mad cow. The Ilnnf. Rich Aunt—Why do you bring ma tills dust, Tommy? Tommy Because I want you to bite It. Rich Aunt- Why do you want me to bite it? Tommy— Because I heard papa say that when you bite the dust we shall get £20,000. —London Tit-Bits. ilea*»urliiK. The Lender—All right. I'll lend you $5, but don't forget that you owe It to me. The Borrower My dear fellow, 1 shall never forget It as long as 1 live.— Brooklyn I.lfe. JUKI Ice. "Why is Justice represented with a bandage over her brow?" "There is a classical reason for it," said the lawyer, "but to my mind it serves chiefly to impress the frequency with which Justice gets a black eye."— Washington Star. THE EXPIATORY DEAD. inexplicable Fate of the Enemies of Dreyfus Revision. "Always the dead!" Beinach cried bitterly. "Whenever we find a for gery, a crime, always it Is set to the account "112 a dead man!" And he drew up a list, horrible iu its eloquence, of the dead who strewed the dark path of this monstrous case of crime and cruelty and infamy. Yet there had fallen so many of the ene mies of truth and justice that he might have called them the expiatory dead. Three 1 have told you <»f—that poor wretch. Lemercier-Piciird, "found dead" In his room in the Itue de Sevres; Hen ri, "found dead," witli a closed razor near by; Felix Faure. "found dead" and smuggled into his palace. There were many others. Captain d'Attel. who claimed to have heard Dreyfus avow his guilt to Lebrun-Re nault the day or his degradation, was "found dead" in a railway train, his corpse blue and already on tlie way to decomposition, though his journey had lasted but an hour. This pretended confession, which Dreyfus never made, D'Attel confided to his friend, Chaulin- Serviuiere, a memlier of the chamber of deputies. Now, the deputy took train one day to visit his home. An hour later he was "found dead'* on the railway tracks between two stations. And itoclier of the prison guards, who also claimed to have heard Dreyfus say, "I am guilty, but 1 am not the only 011 c!" died, and to this day no ono knows where or how. It was as though eternal truth had reached down and slain this lie wherever it lifted Its evil head. The prefect Barreme was summoned to Paris by his government chief. He was "found dead" In his compartment when the train arrived at the Care St. Lazare. Laurenceau, prefect of the north, was called to I'arls to give evi dence regarding the spy system on the German frontier. There was no acci dent on the journey. The next day he was "found dead" in his room at the Hotel Terminus. Lorimer, one of Henri's most tire less agents of forgery and crime, was "found dead," hanged in a lonely barn; another, Guenee, was ••found dead" on the tloor of his room in Paris. Then there was Munier. His part in the con spiracy had been to falsify the mean ing of a cryptic telegram sent by Pa nizzardl to the Italian government, so that it affirmed the guilt of Dreyfus. And Munier was "found dead" In a railway train. Was it any wonder the martyr's friends began to see in these mysterious and opportune deaths the work of an avenging destiny? With grim emphasis Relnach declared, "De cldement la fatallte est Dreyfusarde!" —the very stars in their courses fought against the lie.—Vance Thompson In Success Magazine. i lie l ypewriter. Although hi? was not the first to de vise a machine for typewriting, John Pratt won the distinction of inventing the first working typewriter that se cured a sale He was born In Unlon ville, S. C, on April 14, 1831, and In ISO 4, with his wife, he went to Eng land, Pratt d -voting his time to the In vention of a mechanism which he des ignated the ••pterotype," the first prac tical typewriter. Provisional protection to the invention was granted by the British government in February, 186-1, and on Dec. 1, 18*36, letters patent No. 3163 were granted to Pratt. On re turning to tlit- T'nttcil States, Iu ISOS, he secured letters patent In this coun try. Mr. Pratt was the first inventor of a machine in which a type wheel was moved by key levers, and he was the first man to make aud sell type writers, having sold several In Loudon in 1867. Piccadilly. A tfceorj as to the origin of Picca dilly was put forward by Archdeacon Bickersteth many years ago. He had discovered a Piccadilly among the Chilterns, the central one of three con ical hills near Ivinghoe, and he learn ed that this hill had at one time been known also as Peaked hill. Might not London's Piccadilly likewise be a Peaked hillV No doubt the hill In Pic cadilly Is not remarkably peaky, but, then, the same thing might be said of the Derbyshire peak itself. There la another Piccadilly near Aberystwyth, and yet another near Bolton. But iu the provinces one always suspects bor rowing from London in such cases. There arc Hy<h- Park Corners in pro vincial towns that have no Hyde park to justify them— London Chronicle. - Little Surcnatlp, An old woman went into a grocer's and ordered a pennyworth of carrots. After being served she inquired, "D'ye not thraw something in wi' them?" "Oh, yis," replied the greengrocer; "if ye wait a minute I'll thraw in a seek o' tetties an* a barrel o' apples an' a hundredweight o' turnips an' a box of oranges! An'," he shouted as the old woman flounced out of the shop,"when I'm busy I'll thraw in the horse an' calrt! If yor not satisfied then, coma back for the shop!"— London Mall. IkTllTthc couch AND CURE THE LUNCS WTH Dr. King's New Discovery ___ /tOiMSUMPTION Price FOR I OUGHSand 50c&$1.00 Free Trial. I Surest and Quickest Cure for all I THROAT and LUNG TROUB- I LES, or MONEY BACK I sunn?! A riellable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting and General Job Work. Stoves, Heators, Ran««a, Furnaoes, «to. PRICES TOE LOWEST! QIiiLITY Till! BEST! JOHN lIIXSON NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. BELLS IN (HLRCHES. FIRST USED BY PAULINUS, BISHOP OF NOLA, ABOUT 400. The Karl> llrfltiali ChrintlaiiM Iyd WoimU'ii ItattleM In < nil tlie Pec^l© Together For Wornliip un<l Thunder and LiKlitnlng. Church bells are of ancient origin. ■ The ancients had bells for both ami profane purposes. Strabo says! that market time was announced by! their sound and Pliny that the tomb j of an ancient king of Tuscany was i hung round with bells. The hour of i bathing was made known in ancient j Home by tho sound of a bell. The night watchman carried one, and it; served to call tip the servants in great houses. Sheep had them tied about their necks to frighten away wolves, or. rather, by way of amulet. Paulinus, bishop of Nola, is general ly considered the first person who in troduced bells into ecclesiastical serv ice about the year 400. Historians say 1 that in CIO the bishop of Orleans, being | at Seno, then in a state of siege, fright- j cued away the besieging army by ring ing St. Stephen's church bells, which is ! a clear proof that they were not at that j time generally known in France. The ; first large bells are mentioned by j Bede in the year 080. Before that pe-! riod the early British Christians made use of wooden rattles to call the con ' gregatiou of the faithful together.' Hand bells probably first appeared at | religious processions and were after-, ward used by the seculars. The small 1 bells were not always held in the hand. They were sometimes suspend ed upon a stake and struck with ham niers. The arrival of kings and great per sonages was anciently greeted by ring ing the church hells. Inguiohus, abbot of Croylaud, who died about 1109. speaks of them as being well known in his time and says that "the first abbot of Croylaud gave six bells to that mon astery—that Is to say, two great ones, which he named Bartholomew aud Bel ndine; two of a medium size, called Turketulium and Bettrine; two small ones, denominated Pega and Bega. He also caused the great bell to be made called Gudla, which was tuned to the other bell and produced an admirable harmony not to be equaled in Eng land." The bells used in the monasteries were sometimes rung with ropes hav ing brass or silver rings at the ends j for the hand. They were anciently I rung by the priests themselves, after- j ward by the servants and sometimes | by those incapable of other duties, as persons who were blind. The doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning l>ells is that they have mer it and pray God for the living and the dead; secouil, that they produce devo tion In the hearts of the faithful. The dislike of evil spirits to bells Is well expressed by Wynken de Worde in the "Golden Legend." The passing bell was anciently rtiug for two good purposes. 1 one to bespeak the prayers of all good Christian people for a soul just depart- | ing and the other to drive away the | evil spirits who stood at the foot of the bed or about the house. Such was the : general opinion respecting the efficacy I of l>ells before the reformation, but I since that period "it has been the usual course in the Church of England that \ when any sick person lay dying a j bell should toll to give notice to the neighbors that they pray for the | dying party, which was commonly j called a passing bell, because the sick j person was passing hence to another j world, and when his breath was ex- | pired the bell rung out that the neigh- ' bors might cease their prayers, for that the party was dead." It is now only tolled after death. The saint's bell was not so called from the name of the saint that was Inscribed on it or of the church to., which it belonged, but because it was always rung out when the priest came to that part of the service, "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Domine Deus Sab baotb," purposely that those persons ■who could not come to church might - • v» of Danville. Of course you read ~ ! I I , iji w i J ~ 'l | THE HEOPLEIS Li KOPULAR i APER. Everybody R : ? ds It. ! j i Publisher 13very Mor- I; Except Sunday .*»' No. ii h IW&hing St. i I Subscription o cei Week. ■ i. mm- la what a solemn olflce tbe con gregation were at that Instant engag ed and so, even In their absence, be once, at least, moved to lift up their hearts to him who made them. Bells at one time were thought an effectual charm against lightning The frequent tiring of abbey churches by lightning confuted the proud motto commonly written on their bells in the steeples, wuerem earn ennneu risen io a Six fold efficacy-- viz: Men's death 1 tell by doleful knell; lightning and thunder I break asunder; On Sabbath all to church I call; The sleepy head I raise from bed; The winds bo fierce 1 dost disperse; Men's cruel rage I do assuage. It has anciently been reported, ob served Lord Bacon, ami is still re ceived that extreme applause and shouting of people assembled In multi tudes have ho rarefied and broken tbe air that birds flying over have fallen down, the air not being able to sup port them, and it is belteved by some that great ringing of bells in popu lous cities has chased away thunder jmd also dissipated pestilent air.—New York Herald. Molarity's Answer. Eugene Moriarity, who seemed to be a fixture in the Massachusetts legisla ture some years ago, was at one time on the Worcester school board. A fel low member, Rev. D. O. Mears, more than hinted at one meeting that there were altogether too many Irish namM on the list of Worcester teachers. The charge passed unchallenged at the time, but at the next meeting tin rose Mr. Moriarity with this exquisite little gem; "Mr. President, at the last meeting of the board some one intimated that there were too many Irish names on our list of teachers. The next day I went up to the* public library and saw Librarian Green and asked if he had a dictionary of American names. " 'I have,' he said. " 'ls it complete?' I asked. " 'lt is,' was the answer. " 'Can I take it home?' " 'You can,' he said. "Mr. President. I took It home. 1 searched It ihrough from cover to cov er. I found no Mears in the book, but I found that Michael Moriarity was one of the bodyguards of General Wash ington."—Judge's Library. Near Glory. "Most any of us," remarked Uncle Gllderoy Sklte, "kin reach fur enough to touch the hem of the mantle of fame. Abraham Lincoln used to split rails fur a man that a cousin of mine only twict removed on the mother'* side afterward stole a dog offen."— Louisville Courier Journal. A Misused Wife. A lady complained to the Willesden magistrates the other day that her husband "wiped his feet on her and walked over her." It is a case of In compatibility of temperament. He should have married a door mat.—Lon don Globe. Unicfue Advertising- A tale is told of Robert Bonner and of his«*ieilef In advertising. One day he engaged a whole page of a newspa per and repeated a two ltne advertise ment upon it over and over again. It must have been repeated 5,000 times upon the page in tbe smallest type. "Why d<» you waste your money, Robert?" asked a friend. "I noticed that same line so often. Would not half a page have answered your pur pose?" "Half a puge would never have caused you to ask the question," re plied Mr. Bonner. "At least five peo ple will ask that to every line was the way I figured It." Quarantine. Tho Lombardians were the first peo ple to use effectual quarantine meth ods against the plague and other in fectious diseases, and mention of a quarantine Is made in Lombardy and Milan In the years 1374, 1383 and 1899. Prior to that time the Christian com munities resigucd to the visitation of the plague, regarding the dread disease as a divine punishment.—Westminster Gazette. 1 Mil I ■ML We m to do aii MS of Pmiuj Sinn (ItID , II ll'S it II 111 SR. lis Matt I" "! A. well prii;u : tasty, Bill or \(/ ter Head, Po ; ? A/Z Ticket, Circif. • Program, St -.• ment or Cart 1 (w an advertiser, vii for youi bu - i ~'ss. u satisfaction to you Nefl Type, New Presses, x ,, Best Paper, ys£ SHIeJ Wort, Promptness- All you can a>sk. A trial will make you our customs We respectfully asl that trial. i iii m TPSI TPSI No. ii F. 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