li GREAT GOLO SCARE When the Yellow Metal Was First Found In Australia. AFRAID OF THE CONVICTS. The English Government Tried to and Did For a Time Suppress the News Because It Feared a General Upris ing In the Colony of Criminals. Gold in Australia was discovered one might almost be pardoned for say ing first discovered—many times. But the news of the earliest discoveries was jealously kept from spreading. The se cret of this reticence lay in the pres ence of the army of convicts which then composed the balance of tlie pop ulation. Had a gold panic broken out it was feared that a general uprising of the prisoners would take place. Nevertheless the first gold found in Australia was by convicts, iu ISI4, near Bathurst, New Soutli Wales. The discoverers gathered together a quan tity quite sufficient to lead them to be lieve that they had found a gold mine, but when they reported what they con sidered their good fortune to the keep er he, instead of undertaking to rec ommend them for pardon or easing their hard labors in any way, threat ened to give them all a sound flogging if they ventured again to say a word about the matter or to spend any more time picking up gold. The next find was made on the Fish river in 1823, not far from the spot where the con victs had come across it nine years be fore. This news, being reported to the authorities, was also ordered sup pressed. Within the course of the next two years finds were so frequent that the London government began to take great interest in the affair. Put the fact that another region of the yellow metal might bo at the disposal of such as might seek was kept rigidly secret until In 1825 a dramatic incident pre cluded nil possibility of further se crecy. A couvict was discovered with a nug get of gold in his possession. When asked how he bad come by the metal, he said that ho bad picked it up in the bush. lie was cautioned and told that the authorities had no doubt that lie had stolen the gold, but the prisoner stoutly held to bis original tale. At length he was taken out and severely flogged iu public as a thief. There is now no doubt that the man told the truth. After this, although the public was every now and then keyed up to great expectations by some reported find, no further veins were discovered until 1539, when a Russian nobleman fouud a rich deposit in the Blue moun tains. The British government again became fearful of the consequence of such news upon a colony of convicts and ordered the matter suppressed. Yet sufficient people had heard of It to keep the story alive and give credence to such rumors as arose from time to time. So matters drifted on. Time and time again buslimon, shepherds, convicts and surveyors picked up small nuggets and brought them to the cen ters of population, but at that day peo ple were nothing like so keen on gold mining as they subsequently became, and the subject of gold in Australia was not pursued as one would expect it to be. The discovery of gold in California changed all that. Those rich fields, panning out their golden store and fill ing the coffers of lucky individuals and governments at a rate never dreamed of, awakened a thirst for prospecting all the world over. In every part of the earth men went out with pick and pan, hoping to come across the precious metal. When the news of California's for tune reached Australia, many took ship to America's shores, and among these was Hammond Ilargreaves, an Englishman, native of Gosport, who bad emigrated to New Soutli Wales in lSiiL' In Australia he engaged in farming without much profit and was among the first to rush for California. On reaching the auriferous region the first thing that struck him was the similarity of the geological formation in California and P.athulvt, Australia, aud there nnd then he made up his ; mind to inquire into the subject should he ever return to Australia. lie work ed for something like a couple of years in California and then set sail for New South Wales. Iterurning, he of <ourse j carried in his mind the thought that perhaps there might be gold iu Bath urst. and when he landed he set to work to make a thorough search. Before this, however, he had made the acquaintance of William and James Toms and J. 11. O. Lister, who were anxious to prospect for gold. Ilar greaves taught them how to use pick and pan, the dish and the cradle—in fact, gave them a practical if rough education into the mysteries of gold and gold bearing rocks and gravel. These men struck out, and hi April, 1851, the three pupils returned t > their old master, and, 10, in their pockets they carried gold to the amount of four ounces! Ilargreaves. knowing the ropes, took this gold and full dilu tions to the proper quarter. The . owx went forth, the rush began, ri h l— ' \ were made, and Ilargreaves wash \ ed as the discoverer of gold i:i Aus / tralla. In reality be had won the title, for It was bis knowledge that first ed ucated the Tomses and Lister, and It ""as his knowledge again that sent them in the right direction. Duty is what goes most against the J grain, because in doing that we do only wlint we are strictly obliged to and are seldom much pral'ed for it.— I Bruyere. Names That Don't Name. Many chemical names convey no ex act idea of the things they for. Oil of vitriol is no oil. Neltli* are oils of turpentine and kerosene. Copperas is an Iron compound and contains no copper. Salts of lemon Is the extreme ly poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic acid j is not an acid, but an alcohol. Cobalt j contains none of that metal, but arse-1 nic. Soda water has no trace of soda, and sugar of lead has no sugar. Cream j of tartar has nothing of cream nor! milk of lime any milk. German silver | has no silver and black lead no lead.— ! New York Press. CLIMBING AN ICE SLOPE. /ain and Perilous Effort to Scale Mount McKinley. The long trail to the north brings out j the best in men and the worst, declares | Sir. Uobert Dunn in"The Shameless Diary of an Explorer." As a member of a party which made a vain attempt to reach the top of Mount McKinley he tells something of the hardships of one day's travel: Furtively, imperceptibly, the steep ness had stolen a march on us. As one line of footholds gave out wo had to slide dexterously to another. Tha Keeper slope was swept clear and hard Steps had to be cut. We have only three ice axes. As i never gave them a thought this morn ing, all of them were gobbled up when we started, and 1 w.is left with only one long willow tent pole. It was never meant to balance you in half cut steps that may or may not hold your toe. As the steps changed from a stair way to a stepladder the other three betrayed no excitement, no uneasiness. Neither did I at first, but I felt both It was not dl:«'.lm - s, not vertigo, but simply that as I 1 ukeil down the sheer 2,000 feet from where we clung bj our toes imagination reslstlessly told over how it would feel, how long It would last, what the climax in sen sation would be. were I to fall. As hour succeeded hour I lived each minute only to make the false step. Courage is only a matter of self con trol anyway. Climbing the highest mountain on the continent with a tent pole! Some times I boiled in those diizy, anxious places that I had put myself in such a position with such men. Yet I must reap my own sowing. Onee I asked if ! it wasn't customary to rope on suet steep slopes, but t:o one but Fred an [ swered, and he said: 'T ain't goin' te I ketch ie tied up to anybody. A man don't want to take chances with any i one but hi i'. I.aulln' him down ! from these pi. es." One requisit • of exp'orers besides aversion to soap and water is insensi tiveness. They can't see: they can't feel. They couldn't do these stunts if , they did. THE HUMAN GRAIN. it Is the Most Marvelous Machine In the World. The human brain is the most mar velous machine in the world. It occu pies less space in proportion to its capabilities than any machine it ever invented. It sends a special nerve to every ultimate fiber of some 500 mus cles, to many thousand branching twigs of arteries, to every pinhead area of the numerous glands which keep the machine properly oiled, heat ed or cooled, to some sixteen square feet of skin, which is the outpost guard of its castle, with such complete : ness that the point of a piu cannot find an area unguarded. It possesses special quarters for the reception and ; translation of a constant stream of vi brations that are the product of all things movable or still In the outer world. On the retina of every open eye is a picture of the outer view, a focused imprint of every ray of light and color, and in the visual chamber of the mental palace stands a vlbra scope. a magic lantern that receives the retinal picture in its billion speed ing series of light waves and throws them upon Its mental screen as a liv ing moving picture of light and shade and color. In the chamber of sound is a vibraphone, over whose active wires passes every \ ave of sound fro: i th<- dripping of the dew to the orchestra! fortissimo, from the raucous scrcch of the locomotive to the sighing of the wind through the meadow grass. In the chambers set apart for scent and taste and touch are the secret service guards to report upon the air and food which give sustenance to the palace and upon the solid qualities of the tac tile world. And. wonder of all won ders, this complex human brain cau think i:i nil languages or in no lan guage and even conceive its own pliys leal mortality.—Edward A. Ayres in Harper's Magazine. A SMART ENGLISHMAN. Tlu stn/ He Told cf His Exp.;ience In"the States." A tall, practical Englishman went over to"the States" the other day from ! London lie took lodgings at m Inn i:i a small village, which shall be name less. lie ha i dinner, and among those who sat at the table with him was the waiting maid, whom he designated as "servant." but he received an indig nant correction from the landlord. "We call our .servants, -r. 'helps They are not oppressed: they are not Husslan serfs." "Ail right." said the Britisher: "1 j shall remember." And he did, for in the morning he i awoke the whole house by calling out at the top of his voice, which was like the tearing of a strong r.-.g: "Help, help! Water, water!" In an Instant every per :i equal t ■ the task rushed into his ro i:;i v. ith : 1 pall of water. "I am much obliged to you. I sure." lie said, "but I don't want RO ; much water, you know. I only wati enough to shave with." "Slmve with!" said the landlord 'hat did you mean by calling: 'He.'; ter?' We thought the house wu = j u told me to call the servant and 1 did. Did you think I j would cry 'Water!' when I meant tire? ' The explanation, it would seem, was satisfactory, and be can call the serv ants "servants" ns much as he likes at ! that place now.—London Answers. Have You Knee Jerk? "Exaggerated knee jerk" is a dis- ] case to which every electric car pas- ! senger renders himself liable, accord- j ing to medical testimony in the First district court of Newark. N. J., the other day. The testimony was given by Dr. Douglas A. Catei* of East Or ange in the trial of the suit of Albert Marsh against the Public Service cor- j poration for injuries he alleges he suf- j fered from one of the cars of that con cern. Serious Canadian Problem. A serious problem for the people of Canada to solve Is the fuel supply of j the future. No coal of any kind has j ever been discovered in Ontario. In j the older part of the province the tlrn- ' ber is practically exhausted. CARLOTTA AND NAPOLEON. How the Crazsd Empren' Curse Came to a Fulfillment. General Henrico d*Almonte was from j lSii;! to 18(50 the ambassador of Em peror Maximilian of Mexico to the court of Napoleon 111. The most Inter esting and njost pathetic episode to which D'Almonte was a witness and which Is vividl.. described in ills memoirs is the meeting between the scheming French emperor and Maxi milian's wife, the beautiful and ambi tious Carlotta. who shortly before the catastrophe at Queretaro- had come to Paris to Invoke Napoleon's aid for the tottering tin-one of her husband. Hut Napoleon 111., who for his own per fidious purposes had by promises and allurements induced Maximilian, then archduke of Austria, to accept the "re stored" throne of Montezuma, faith lessly abandoned the unfortunate prince to his cruel fate as soon as he realized his schemes to be impractica ble. Even at her arrival in Paris Carlot ta's mind was already in such a high state of irritation that it was deemed advisable to have General d'Almonte at her side during the meeting with Na poleon, which took place in the em press' apartments at the Grand Hotel do Paris. What lends special interest to that interview is the fact that the empress, crazed by desperation and fear for her husband's safety and by Napoleon's unsympathetic attitude, hurled a curse at the latter which in time was indeed fulfilled to the very letter. "The empress." says General d'Al monte, "pleaded, partly on her knees and in the most beseeching terms, with the stony Frenchman to no avail. Then it was that I witnessed the most liar i rowing and dramatic scene of my life. Frantic with grief and excitement, the | empress, with drawn mouth and flasli | in;: eyes, sprang t<> her feet, extending both her hands toward the retreating j emperor. i I " 'Leave me,' she yelled In a voice | which cut through me like a sword— j 'leave inc. but go laden with my curse —the same curse that God hurled at the first murderer. May your own house and throne perl.-U amid flames and blood, and when you are humbled hi the dust, powerless and disgraced, | then shall the angel of revenge trum pet into your ears the names of Maxi t mllian and Cnriotta!"' ; At Sedan and by the revolution in Paris Sept. I, IS7O, the unhappy ('ar ietta's curse was fulfilled to the letter. | —Captain Charles Iviener in Los An ! geles Times. Strength of Rings. | Some elaborate calculations, backed i by experiments, have bceu made in England to determine the breaking | strength of rings, it appears that a j ring of ductile metal, like malleable ! iron, will bo pulled out into the form of a long link before it breaks and that I the ultimate strength of the ring is ! virtually independent of its diameter. Fracture finally occurs as the result of j almost pure tension, and the resistance | to breaking is a little less than twice | that of a rod of the same cross section subjected to a straight pull. As the ring Increases in diameter there ap pears to lie a slight approach toward j equality, with double the strength of • a bar. Thus a three inch ring, made ! of three-quarter Inch Iron, broke at j nineteen and one-half tons, a four inch ring at nineteen and nine-tenths tons j and a six inch ring at twenty tons, the strength of a bar of the same metal | being ten and one-half tons. CURING A TCOTHACHE. Remedy of a Cowboy That Proved Re markably Effective. Ope of tlic cleverest old customers we over knew was Judge Booth, who lived on the Ltell ranch along the lied river in the northeastern port of New Mexico. One morning out on the range the judge rolled out of his blankets with a jumping toothache, and. al though he exhausted all the remedies i in camp, nothing liiul any effect. It was forty miles to the nearest town, with the chances against tiudiug ; a dentist there, and it was finally de cided to appeal to one of the Texas cowboys riding herd live miles away. He came over in response to the mes sage. and after taking a look at the tooth, which was a double one on the upper jaw. he said. "Jodge, 1 can shoot that tooth out as slick as grease if you don't mind the scar it will leave on yer cheek." "Shoot it out?" shouted the judge at the top <>f his voire. "Why, man, you must be crazy!" "Waal. then, mebbe 1 kin pick In 'uufT powder to blow it out." "Blow it out'' Never!" "Might possibly hammer it out with a piece of iron." mused tlr» cowboy. "And you might goto Patagonia and beyond!" exclaimed the Indignant suf ferer. "Yes, that's generally the way with folks. I'm only tellin' you tow we do it out here, but if you don't want the tooth out of course you'll have to stand the pain." The <- i.'.iio.v started back to the day herd, but after a gallop of half a mile he retnrned to i eckon the other boys asi do and say: "The jedge seems to be a purt.v squar* sort o' man, though a leetel techy, and I'm sorry fur him. Ivin he sit on a boss':" "Some of the time." "Kin be shoot?" "Only now and then." "Then I think 1 can cure that tooth ache." Ih' spent five minutes unfolding the plot and then went over to the sufferer and said, "Jedge. I've come back to say that ye are a booby and a cow ard!" "What!" yelled the judge as he sprang up from his seat before the campflre. "A booby, a coward and a squaw, jedge, and likewise a durned old liar!" The judge Jumped for him, but the cowboy rau for his horse. There was another near at hand, with two guns in the holsters of the saddle, and the judge sprang aboard and gave chase, j Half n. mile out on the prairie the two j men began to shoot at each other, and it was not until the judge had fired his twelfth bullet that the kind hearted cowboy rode away and left his enemy j to ride into camp and declare, "Well, by thunder, if that infernal toothache I hasn't stopped so dead still that I feel | Just like singing!"— Denver Field and ' Farm. WE SHORTEN OUR LIVES. Human Beings Should Live at Least a Hundred Years. Every man who dies before he is a hundred years old d'vs so because lie has neglected the laws of health. I believe the time will come when men will commonly live to be 150 years old. Hut to do this they must lie born right and be taught matters of health with their A 1! C's. A majority of the people of America lose about thirty years of life through not understanding or not following the demand of nature for regular and ade quate exercise. Our systems of civili zation have worked a vast improve ment i'i production by training men to special lines of work. Thus they become wonderfully proticient. To see a man rattling up long columns of reading matter on a linotype machine is inspiring, to hear a lawyer clearly and incisively summing up a case fills one with admiration, to read a strong, forceful editorial affords pleasure at the thoughts so well expressed, to watch tho violinist and listen to the sweet melodies ho draws from the strings wafts our souls to higher realms, yet the acquirement of each and all these abilities has robbed the trained or talented performers of some thing else. The linotype is wearing out his nerves in setting type at such a rapid pace; the oratory of the law yer has been acquired at the expense of a dyspeptic stomach; the man who wins us with his facile pen envies the strength of the sturdy laborer shovel ing in the street; the virtuoso would fain have the appetite of the perform er on the big horn in the little street band. lii thus specializing each Is npt to neglect the routine work for all the muscles that nature demands to keep up the physique. Had each of these performers or geniuses done liis stint of work on a farm, raising the food ha consumed, he would have been less skilled In his vocation, but possessed of vastly better health. And all would live out not only their full seventy, but a round hundred or more of years. —Charles 11. Cochrane in Metropolitan Magazine. OUR FIRST FRESIDENT. The Average American Knows Very Little About Washington. VBorn Feb. 22, 1732: died Dec. 14, 1 Tu;»; fought Indians; time and place a little vague. Was he not with Brad dock? Married a widow named Mar tha; was commander all through our Revolution; was our first president and had two terms; wrote a farewell ad dress; knew Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson; crossed the Delaware at Trenton just before Christmas and sur prised the Ilessians-; beat Corowollis at Yorktown and was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. These are all public facts. What does the reader know of Washington the man? More than likely it will be as follows: Cut down a cherry tree with a hatchet; owi od up to having dflne so. saying, "I'ather, I cannot tell a lie;" threw a stone very far across some river; climbed up the side of the Natural bridge and cut his Initials; worked hard at school; wits steady; was very good all the time, and every body looked up to him; of course very brave, of course very wise and a great patriot; was one of the greatest men in all history; was tall, strong; wore those knee breeches of colonial days and a wig; looked stern; would prob ably lecture you and tell you to be vir tuous and you would be happy. Such, if I mistake not, is the reader's vision of Washington as a man—cold, austere, unemotional, without passions, grand, not merely greater than human, sim ply not human at all—a sort of marble statue. A figure to prize, to be proud of as an American, a figure to revere, but not a character to love, to be drawn to, to feel any kinship with—in a word, immortal, yet not living. Everybody's Magazine. The Preservation of Cacte. It Is well known how carefully, ap parently at least, the Hindoos are t;>| preserve their caste from contanilna-1 lion with anything of a lower order, j In towns where Hindoos and Mussul mans, followers of Mohammed, live side by side the sellers of drinking water supply the liquid through little portholes, one for each religion. The drinker is thus supposed to be ignorant i of the caste of the man who supplies, tlie water and his own caste Is conse- j fluently unbroken. TENT CITY FOR QUEBEC FETE. Railroad Plans One to House Guests j at Tercentenary Celebration. Owing to the demands for hotel ac commodation at the tercentenary cele bration ceremonies at Quebec, which begin July 22, the Canadian Pacific railroad is considering the scheme of erecting a tent city on the heights overlooking the harbor to accommodate a thousand persons. Quebec has few hotels of importance except the Chateau Frontenac, all the rooms in which have been taken since the beginning of the year. The Royal Mail Steam Packet com pany and the Quebec Steamship line will run steamers from Now York to Quebec In the celebration week, ami the will be allowed to »lee;> and eat on board while in port. The Prince of Wales will attend the tercentenary celebration and dedicate the monument on the Plains of Abra ham to Wolfe and Montcalm and the men who fought under them for pos session of what Is now the Dominion of Canada. Huge Russian Waterway. Russia is contemplating the construc tion of a huge now waterway across Siberia, nearly parallel with the course of the Transsiberian railway. It is pro posed to connect five great Siberian rivers—the Tobol, Ishim, Irtish, Ob and Yenisei—and other less impor tant streams by canals or light rail ways, and with a view of this the Russian government has ordered ex tensive surveys to l>e taken. Novel Uso For "Merry Widow'' Hats. "Merry Widow" hats are being made to do duty as umbrellas by several Altoona (I'a.) girls. During the recent rainy weather the girls appeared on the streets in raincoats and the wide rimmed headgear. The latter was cov ered with a thin eravenette material. :QFFEE AS A WEDDING GIFT. Custom Which Is General In Coffee Growing Countries. "Wo have a custom in the coffee -alsing countries," said a high lirazil ! tan official, "which is unknown in cither parts of the world. When a child Is horn in the coffee country n sack of the best grain is set aside as part of the inheritance to be received on at taining its majority. Usually the sack 1? the gift from some close friend or relative, and it is guarded as sacredly as if it were a gift of gold or bonds. No stress would induce a Brazilian parent to use coffee which was made the birth gift of a child. As a rule, it Is sealed with the private seal of the owner and bears a card giving all par ticulars about the variety of grain, its age on being sacked and the birth of the child to whom it is given and other details, which are very interest ing when the gift is due. "Generally the coffee is opened for tlie first time when the child marries. I The coffee for the reception or mar j riage feast is made from the legacy, I and, according to precedent, this must I lie the first time the sack is opened. : After the coffee is made for the wed- I ding feast the sack is carefully closed | and sent to the new home of the young j people and should keep them in this | staple for a year at least. When both | bride and bridegroom have the birth gift of coffee they have started life under very hopeful conditions, so far as one necessity is concerned. Few people know that the older the un parched grain of coffee is the better the flavor, T.ike wine, it grows with | age, and that which is over twenty | years mellowing under proper coiuli ! tions will bring from $1.50 to $3 a | pound from connoisseurs. The giving | <>f pounds of green coffee is a common [ practice in the coffee belt. Friends ox i change these gifts and compare re sults. When one cannot afford to give a sack of coffee, it frequently Is the j case that ten pounds of the best green ! grain are packed in a fancy case and I bestowed on a newly born child, with I directions that it must not lie opened 1 until the wedding day." FIRST AMERICAN GLASS. Made at a Factory Built by a Boston Man In New Hampshire. i The first American glass factory was j erected in the town of Temple, X. 11. Washington in his diary speaks of j glass lieing made in New Ilaven, Conn., I in the year 1789. ] One would suppose by the language ; lie uses that he considers it a new and j quite extraordinary affair. It was nine i years previous to this and during the i very war whose issue lirst enabled the country to commence its own manufac turing that Robert Howes of Host on began to carry out the project which he had long conceived, but had hith erto found impracticable if not impos sible under English rule, that of mak ing glass in America for America. In 17S0 Mr. Ilewes selected a site for his factory secure from the British forces (his glassblowers were Hessians and Waldeckcrs, soldiers who had de serted from the British army), and he must have had an eye for the beauti ful in nature. lie chose a spot on the north slope of Kidder mountain, near its base. To the northwest Mount Mo nadnock rears its granite crown, stand ing like a giant sentinel: to the north ami running east are the Temple moun tains, bold and precipitous; to the east a beautiful valley holds in its embrace the towns of Wilton, Milfonl aud Nashua, while to the northeast Joe English hill and the I'neauernucks mountains conceal the city of Man chester. The place is now reached by a two mile walk over an old road, long a stranger to travel other than by graz ing cows and nature loving tourists. Tlu* stonework about the ovens and the foundations of the building are all that now remain to remind us that here was another example of the Amer ican people's struggle for independ ence,—Crockery and Class Journal. ATE HIS FILL. The Sharp Traveler Had His Money's Worth and Caught the Coach. There was a coach that used to run rietween Nola Chucky and l'alnt ltock, a matter of some forty miles. For lunch the coach stopped at a halfway house in Tin Can, and here a good fifty cent meal was put out—cake and pie, coffee and tea and all the cold meats you could mention. But the landlord of the halfway house had a mean little secret dicker with the driver, whereby as soon as the travelers bad paid fur their lunch aud got fairly settled to it a call would come for an immediate start. So off they'd all go, grumbling. They'd have paid for 00 cents' worth of food and only eaten, you see, about 5 cents' worth. But along came one day a traveler with a sharp, bright eye. The landlord found this chap some ten minutes aft er the coach bad started on again still tucking in pie and ham at a terrible rate. "Why, i.ian," Bo said, "you've let tlie coach go without you." "I Uuow it," said the traveler calmly. "I was too blessed hungry to stop eat ing." Suddenly the landlord's face paled "Good gracious," he said, "all my silver's gone!" It was too. Not a knife, fork or spoon was left except the sharp eyed man's. lie said as he kept 011 eating that he had noticed n suspicious looking char acter among the passengers, a man with a red beard, a hump and a limp— oh, very suspicious! The landlord sent a hostler off to overtake the coach and bring it back. In about forty minutes the coach re turned. Then the sharp eyed man came forth, wiping his mouth. ttut he made 110 efTort to Identify the sus picious looking passenger. Instead hq got aboard the coach, took his seat and said coolly. "Thanks, landlord, for the good food. You'll find the spoons and things In the coffeepot. Now, driver, off we go ag'in."—Washington Star. Imposing. "The Swelltons seem to keep up an exposing establishment," remarked the canned goods drummer. "You bet they do," replied the gro ceryman, with a sigh long drawn out, "and I'm one of the fellows they im pose on."—Chicago News. THE BLUE JAY. Why Should He Be Selected as Sand Eearcr to Satan? It is said and believed by many that all the blue jays disappear every Fri day, and not one can lie seen until the next day, and this disappearance is ac counted for hy the statement lhat the birds are under a compact with Satan and that they devote each Friday to delivering him a supply of sand to heat his caldron at the point of tor ture. Hut why should the blue jay be select ed as sand bearer to Satan when there are so many birds of stronger and fleeter wing? There are many super stitions that have a reasoning basis, but this particular one has nothing whatever togo on. The origin of it lies in the fact that the blue jay is a most particular home builder, lie knows how to build his house, and he takes a great pride in it. lie doesn't hang his nest to a limb nor glue It to a tree. Instead he selects a substantial fork or crotch of a limb, lays down a few twigs of goodly size and strength, and on these he superimposes a strong foundation of clay, with layers of pa pers between, nnd when his nest Is fin ished it is as substantial in proportion ns one of our modern steel structures. Thus fitted and finished, it is admi rably adapted to the rearing of a strong and healthy brood, nnd the blue Jay goes about his business with the earnest energy that characterizes all his movements. lie raises his young and loads them about from tree to tree and from bush to bush until they have tried and found their wings, nnd then, his re sponsibilities being over, he proceeds with his career of gayety, a veritable practitioner of rough fun and stage humor.—Uncle Itemus' Magazine. Pounds and Weights. Here is a question that will tax thu arithmetical powers of a youth. Sup pose that for some reason or another a shopkeeper who sold goods by pounds and half pounds, but never in quantities exceeding twenty pounds at a time, was told that he must transact all this business with four weights only, what must these four weights be? The answer is half pound, one and a half pound, four and a half pound and thirteen and a half pound. With these it will be readily seen that any weight from half a pound to twenty pounds may be determined in pounds and half pounds.—-Gateway Magazine. Pleasant Anticipation. The Rev. l)r. C. M. Lamson, once president of the American board of for eign missions, was called as a pastor over a parish and was undergoing ex amination before a council when the question was asked him, "Do you be lieve in a hell?" The retiring clergyman of the parish Kit beside him and, giving hiru a nudge, said: "Tell them yes. If you don't now you will before you have been here six I months."—Argonaut. Just i'-.c Other Way Fortune Telle.' -Beware of a short, dark woman with a fierce eye. She is waiting to give you a check. Visitor (despairingly)—No, she ain't. She's waiting to get one from me. That's my wife.—Baltimore American. WIFE IN HORSE'S PLACE. Drags a Junk Wagon Around, With Husband Driving. Harnessed between the shafts of a wagon heavily laden with old iron, bottles and rags, Mrs. Frank Muleaski, fifty-live years old, wife of un Hvans ton (111.) junk dealer, has taken up the task left off by the family horse at Its death a few weeks ago, says a Chicago dispatch. Supplied with spe cially fitted harness, she has made it possible for lier husband to continue in business. Daily she draws the flagon through the streets of Fvanston and Wiluiette, responding with alacrity to her hus band's cries of "Whoa'* and "t;id dap." Muleaski kept to the outskirts of the town at first with his novel "steed." As long as Mrs. Muleaski is willing to perform the task the Humane society cannot interfere, it is said, and there Is no other agency which would be empowered to act. At times Muleaski stops to consult with his wife concern ing purchasers and routes to be taken. In addition, she is watchful for chance customers, pointing them out when her husband fails to notice them. This is an advantage he did not enjoy when his horse was alive. HONEYMOON IN RACING CA3. Auto That Won Briardivf Race to Fig ure In Tyson's Homancc. The Isotta Frascldni automobile, which won the Uriareliff race a few weeks ago, is to be the honeymoon home of its owner. John 11. Tyson, Jr., and his bride to be, Miss Grace Starr. Mr. Tyson, who is just twenty-two years old, took out a marriage license at the Greenwich (Conn.) town hall the other day, and the wedding will take place on May 23. The ceremony will be performed at the Tyson home stead, in Kivcrskle. After the cere mony the couple will start on a bridal tour of the United States by automo bile. They will take the Isotta car and two others. Mis Grace Ethel Starr is the da ugh-1 ter of Commodore and Mrs. Alfred It. Starr of the Uiverslde Yacht club. | She is just twenty years old. On the return from their honeymoon the couple will live in a magnificent ! residence which Mrs. George Tyson is having built as a wedding present. When Lovers Quarrel. Reginald staggered down the street, black of eye, bruised of face and bear ing other marks that made him look I decidedly unhappy. lie was met by his uncle, who stared at him in amazement. "What on earth have you been doing to yourself?" exclaimed this worthy. "Nothing serious," replied the young man, with a faint, faraway smile. "Merely the effects of a lovers' quar- I rei." "Great Scott, man," exclaimed the j astonished uncle, "you don't mean to say that your girl basted you like that?" "Oh, no," was the mournful response; "her other fellow did!"- ~ ~~ PEN AND INK PIRATES. Literary Theft Is Not Stealing; It It Called Cenius. All authors steal, 'flip capacity for rteallng with art and elegance is one I >f the most potent equipments of the literary man. Shakespeare was a magnificent thief. He stole whatever be could lay his hands on in a literary way and never | marred In the stealing. lie stole "Measure For Measure" from a play called "Promos nnd Cassandra." lie stole "Hamlet" from a play by George Kjd. "Itomeo and Juliet" lie stole from Italy. Sir Walter Scott stole with a sublime talent, lb- stole from antiquarian rec ords. lie stole from Goethe. lie stole from Sheridan. Charles Iteade claimed the right of the literary artist to set jewels, even though the gems are the property of another. Alexandre Dumas, the author ot "The Three Musketeers" and "Monte Cristo," was one of the most remarka ble fllchers in literature. In one single year his name was attached to no few er than forty different books. Not only did he steal unblushltigly from every author who came handy, but he em ployed numerous literary ghosts and passed off their work as his own. Brought to book, he had a ready re ply. "The man of genius does not steal," he said; "he only conquers." Alexander .Pope, who made thou sands of (founds by his poetic transla tion of Ilomer's "Iliad," was an indif ferent Greek scholar. In addition to i stealing from previous translators, he j employed others to help and then j claimed the whole work as his own. When he translated "The Odyssey" I he kept the public in ignorance that i only twelve books could be called his j and that the rest wore the work of men i whom he paid badly, j The arguments In Fope's "Essay on I Man" were furnished by Lord Boling- I broke, and his "Essay on Criticism" was a poetic version of the conversa ! tion of Ills intimates. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, wit. dramatist and politician, stole his fa mous characters Charles Surface and Joseph Surface In"The School For Scandal" from Tom Jones and B!i::l in Fielding's well known novel, and ho abducted Tabitha Bramble ai ; Sir Hubert Mackiiligut ami trans) ed them into those still more entertaining characters Mrs. Malnprop and Sir Lu cius O'Trigger in "The Bivals." Of modern authors w bo stole and are stealing still the present writer does not say a word. Only history can af ford to bo free spokea.—Exchange. Word Painting. Mrs, Bradley, when questioned by a fellow traveler in the Pullman car in regard to her home, launched forth into a rather long and detailed description of its charms. Iler little girl, Grace who had been rending when she began to speak, soon closed her book and lis tened with great interest. "It must be very pleasant," remark cd the chance acquaintance, somewhat perfunctorily, when Mrs. Bradley tin ished, and Grace, her eyes gleaming with enthusiasm, said: "Oh, it must be perfectly lovely! What place is it mamma?" "Why, our own home, of course,' j answered the mother, somewhat em bar rassed. "Oh, dear," said Grace, sighing, "how much better It sounds than It looks!" I Youth's Companion. Vaccinated the Rifles. Orders that were issued by the Ger man West African officials some years Ago that all firearms In the hands of natives should be stamped and regis tered aroused much discontent. Lieu tenant Eggers. in Damaraiand. how ever, got along with no trouble. He had Inoculated cattle for the rinder pest three years before, as the Dams ras saw, with good results. He there fore announced that he was ready to vaccinate their rltles so as to insure their shooting straight nnd doing no hurt to their owners, and the Damaras crowded to him to get their gnus stamped. It's Sometimes Li'<e That. They were rehearsing for the ama teur theatricals. "You mean to say," cried the heroine clearing her throat, "that the people In the back of the house enn't hear us speak our lines?" The professional trainer held up his hand with a soothing gesture. "Yes, but don't let that worry you." he said. "They can hear the prompter, «o they won't lose touch with the play." —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Absentminded. Sir John Burden Sanderson was no toriously absentminded. Of the cycie of anecdote that gathered arouitd him much was fabricated. The story of his boiling his watch while holding an egg in his hand, often related also of New ton, Is in La Uruyere's "Caracteres." But there seems to be some foundation for the suspicion that In his laboratory he once lunched on a frog and was afterward found deeply contmuplatlug » sandwich. anil mi A. rtoila bie TOT SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting Tnd Csnsral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces. «to. PRICES THE LOWEST: QUALITY TUB BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO- 11# E. FBONT ST.
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