Spain's diplomats roim to be hop ing fur an tinforseen mine explosion under (he peace negotiations. The vnlnt of American manufac turers sold ahro.xd last year was 8288, 871,401), an Increase of 100 per cent, over the figure for 1888. The returns show that in the war with Spain twelve men were killed in the navy not quite oiie-twenty-sec-ond of the number killed on the Maine in a "ingle instant of penre. According to returns published by the British board of trade, tho im ports of Amoriean pig iron into (treat Britain during the flint six months of 1898 aggregated 30,2.11 tou, valued at 33'2,13.", and of American steel, unwronght, 12,832 tons, valued at 1325,980: Maine is again to enter the list of copper-mining states. The deposits, which are numerous and valuable, were worked more than twenty-five years ago, but a sndden decline iu the price of copper made them un profitable; improved and cheapened method of production is the cause of resumption of work. A Han Francisco court has just de cided that couples wedde I at sea are not legally married. Thin ruling brings consternation to many families in that city. Home months ago a. ro mantic pair hired a tug and steamed ont on the Paciflo to be united iu the holy bonds. The idea caught the fancy of young people, and since then there Lave been forty or fifty mar riages of that sort off the Golden Gate. Here are some of the conclusions . it., v i i. l i - : i i turn. Augiinu vxpenn unve unite, ui concerning the naval features of the war: Fast battleships are everything; have big batteries aboard ;v teach the men to shoot well; as for personnel, the Anglo-Saxon can beat anything that floats. These specifications over the ground pretty well, though it might be well to mention the im portance of personal heroism, says tho Boston Herald. The only significance in the small increase in railway mileage in the United States last year is that pretty nearly every available section of the country is now fully accessible by railroad. The railway mileage will of course continue to increase in the fu ture, but not at such a rate as in the past. With improvements that have been made in engine power nud car rying capacity of cars, moreover, the present lines are able to occommo dute more traffic This means that fewer railroad lines are likely to go into the hands of receivers hereafter and at the same time that demands of traffia will be met. The prune industry in California Las had a remarkable growth iu the last deuade. In 1888 there were about 11,000 acres of bearing prune trees, and about 0000 acres more of young orchards. Between 1890 and 1894 abont 40,000 acres of prune orchards were planted. Since then the growth has proceeded in lesser degree, but the total bearing area is now estimat ed at 65,000 acres, with 10,000 more to oome into bearing within the next year or two. The investment iu lands, trees, irrigation systems, agri cultural tools, aud packing houses is estimated at 25, 000, 000. Th is year's production of green fruit will amount to about 64,000 tons, and growers an ticipate a crop of 100,090 tons within t a few years. Of this year's yield, abont one-fifth will be shipped east as green fruit; the remainder will be dried, making, with the water evapo rated, about 24,000 tons. A writer in the Soieutiflo American eems to have taken careful note of the lifeboats on ocean steamers. He ays: "Auy one who has traveled to and fro a few times oan bnt notice the paucity of lifeboats and the fact that the davit room is not all utilized. The examination of fifteen photographs, representing as many liuers,showed an average of seven boats on each aids; one ship only showing an interrupted line Of ten large boats on each aide. What does this average of fourteen boats to the ship represent? The fact that only those on the lee side can be used in rough weather reduces the 'total to seven; two must be consid ered m sacrificed, smashed or cap sized dining launching. Five are left, with capacity of about 140 persons less than the ship's crew. Life boats? If they are lifeboats, why do they till aud siuk with such rapidity? What use are rafts aid lire preierv era iu such calamities a that of the Elba ond the Bonrgojpe?" These are alarming statements, aud tin y are ev idently made by . su-uaUidy with JtuosleJjf'e of Lis topic. THE CALL. . The clouds prow dark as the people paused, A people, of peace ant toll, Aud them came a cry from all thu skyt "Come, children of mart and soil, Your mother needs you hear her volco Tbouirh she has not a son to spare.. Bha has spoken the wonl that e all hare heard. r, Como, answer ye everywhere!" They need no ttrKlnif to stir them on, They yearn for no battle-cry. At the word that their rountry palls for men Tuny throw down hammor aud scythe nud pen. And nro ready to serve and die! From the North, fiom the South, from East, from West, Hear the thrill of the rnmUMnn drum? Vnder one flair they march along, With their voices swelling a slntfio sons, Here they come, they oine, they rwif List! tho North men cheer the men fiba the Hoiith, And the South returns the cheer. There Is no question of Knst or West, Foi hearts are atone In every brant, 'lis a nation answering here. It Is elbow to elhow nnd knee to knee, One land for each ami for Mil, And th veterans' eyes see their ehlldrea rise To answer their country's rail. They have not forirotlon loi itrant not so! (Ah, we know of the waves ou the hill), But these eager feot make I he old hearts tMMtt, And the old eyes dim and (111 The Past sweeps out nnd tho Present comes, A Present that ail have wrought. And the sons of these sires, at the same camp llres, ("heer one llnu where their fathers fought! Yes, we know of the graves on the rloutucrn hills That are filled with the Dine and the dray. We know how they fought nnd how they died, We honor them Imth there side by stile, And they're brothers again today, Brothers agnln thank Hod on high! (Here's a hand-elusp nil around). The sons of one race now take their plae On one one common and holy ground. Richard Barry, In Harper's Weekly, A Soldier's Cap. j The westorn city where Minnie Til ford lived with her mother, brother and sister was full of excitement. Its boys were goiug to war. Minnie's father had been one of the boys in the old war, and 15-year-old Minnie, the oldest of the three children, was thinking about it while the drums beat and the flags waved. "How old was papa when he went, mamma?" "Barely 18, dear." "Did yon know him then?" "Xo; I was a baby then. The war had been over fifteen years when I first met your father." Mrs. Tilford had not paused iu her sewing as sheauswered her daughter's questions. She was sewing to earn money to pay the rent. "Were we always poor?" went on Miuuie. "Xo, dear. We hud plenty while your father lived." It seemed to Minnie that her father had beeu dead a long while. Eleven years. Just as many years as her youngor brother, Allan, was old. "I cun't scent to remember what plenty is like, mnuimn," she said at last. And she looked around the small and failed room. Mis. Tilford thought of the poor advisers she had had, who had squandered her all iu bad invest ments, and said nothing. She could remember w hat plenty was like, and the contrast between her former nnd her present circumstances was painful to her. "When I'm a man," said 13-year-old Bei t, "I'm going to Washington and get you a pension. That's the thing to do. Then you won't have to sew, I guess. I was talking to George Hooper about it and he said that was the thing to do. His aunt gets a pen sion, and she don't have to sew." "I should like to have a pension, certainly," said Mrs. Tilford. "Well, I'm going to get yon one," declared Bert grandly. Then he seized his hut and rushed out, attached by a noise in the street. i There had never been any talk of a pension in Mrs. Tilford's fiat of two rooms until now. And Minnie turned curiously to her mother. "Can Bert do it, mamma?" she asked. "No, dear, I am afraid he can't Bnt there is no need to discourage him. He isu't a man yet, you kuow," and ahe smiled. "But why, mamma? M'hy can't he?" "Because your father's papers are lost," answered Mrs. Tilford, gravely. "I knew nothing about business when your father died. His army papers may have been among his other papers. I do not know. But four or live years ago I made a search for them and could not find them. If I could find them " she pansed and looked dreamily out of the window while a vision of good food aud com fortuble clothing for her children passed before her. "Could yon get the pension if yon found them?" asked Minnie eagerly. "Yes, I am snre of it." "I wish I eould help morel" ex claimed the girl, looking np from the bastings she was patiently pulling out. "We are poor." You help all yon are able, "answer ed the mother, fondly, "Mother ap preciates her big girl who helps sew and wash dishes and cook and scrub and wash and iron for ns all. It is beoause yon help so much that I have the good chance I have to earn." "Where did you look, mamma?" he asked, presently. "Everywhere," answered Mrs. Til ford, briefly. "Dou't think any more about it, daughter. It will only make you nnhappy." ' "But I must thiuk of it, mamma. We need it co. The next dsy there came a letter and a package to Miuuie. Her New York cousin, Willie Applebee, was going to war. "And as a parting re membrance, my dear little cousin." the letter ran,' "I send yon a soldier's cop." Hastily Minnie opened the small rcuknge and took therefrom a bon bonniere, which was the "soldier'i cap," and it was filled with chocolate creams. "How lovely!" cried Minnie, passing the candy' to her mother. "Isn't it n dear little soldier's cap, mamma?" And without waiting to hear her tnot tier's reply she went on with her letter. "The simps are full of pretty conceits in bonbonniere," wrote the cousin, "Knapsacks, sailor lints, shells, shield-shaped boxes, tents with soldier on guard nt the door. But I chose to take or!' my hat, as it were, to my western cousin "Ho -the lettei ran on. For two or three days Minnis'l thoughts were in a whirl. Now she thought of Willie off for the south, now of the dainty bonbonniere, and now of her father's papers, And out of the chaos at Inst darted an idea. "Mamma!" i-he cried. "Cornel" "Come! Where?" asked the mother In astonishment. But Minnie held out her hand al most impatiently, her eyes shining with excitement. "I've a thought, tuaminn. Come!" she repented. Without a word Mi s. Tilford laid down her sewing nnd rose to follow her daughter into their tiny sleeping room. Down dropped Minnie on the floor, nnd groping under the bed brought out a long flat box. "What do yon mean, Miuuie?" de manded Mrs. Tilford. "That is your father's old unilorm." "I know it, momma. Open the borj open it quick!" "The child has been too much ex cited tho last few days," thought Mrs. Tilford, glanciug at her daughter's flushed cheeks. "I will humor her," She opened the box. I'mpntienty Miuuie reached past her mother nnd picked up her father's rap. Her sensitive fingers felt of the crown. "They are!" she cried. "They are here! Feel, mamma! Don't you feel paper in the crown?" A few moments' careful work took ont the lining, aud out fell the papers. "Your father was wise," said the mother, brokenly. "He knew I was careless and young. And, he knew, too, that I loved him and vould never part with his uniform." She said no more, but her hear! went out iu gratitude to that Higher Power that had directed her through means to this piece of good fort nud. "How came you to think of it?" asked the mother, when the (aperi had been placed in the bauds of an agent and the reusiun aud back pay assured. "I thought," snid Minnie, "if soldier's cap wou'id hold chocolates why not a soldier's cap hold papers? It was Consiu Willie's bonbonniere." Gulieleun Zollinger iu Chicago ltucord. ALMOST A TRACEDY. Why His llnngii.iig Iliii-kwiw Wan Itn',a anted to the lim n. "What I want," said the yo't'ig wife who is bravely starting to do her owu work, "is a saw for general nso about a house. Here I nm chopping away with a dull hatchet at this hnm bone," and the vigor with which she hacked expressed her feelings better than words could have done. "I can get you just what you want," volunteered the man who was attach ing weights to the kitchen windows so they could the more easily be man ipulated, "nnd it won't cost over thirty cents." He received the commission and the result was a bucksaw with a par ticularly large frame, cost seventy five cents. "There's a saw," said the pur chaser, "as is a saw. When your trees blow dowu you can cut them np into stove lengths, or you can cut an old broomstick in two with it to make a clothes stick, or you can use it in cutting a bono when it has to be done. That's a great all around saw, mum." There was another ham bone to be cut, and she called her husband to hold the ham while she did the saw ing. . He laughed outrageously at her purchase, but she stuck up for it and mailo plain the opinion that bis judg ment in practical matters was very uudesirable. Of course the long, sharp teeth of the saw struck too deep into the bone and made it impossible for him to hold the ham steadily. "Give me that saw," he said, testi ly. "Thero are some things beside throwing a stone that a woman can't do." He tried and she tried, but results were no different. "If you'd just go away and leave the whole thing to me," she said, "I could get along nicely." He went as far as the door aud stood there laughing while she held the ham with her left hand and made frantio efforts to saw with her right. When the haul made a dash from the table aud slid clear across the floor and down the cellar way, he leaned against the door sill and she began muking arrangements to go home to her mother. When they seriously talked the matter over half an hour later the bucksaw was relegated to the baru and he went down town to buy a meat saw. A Physician Opinion.. An eminent physician of St. Louis, Mo., says that no person should be permitted to drink tea or oofi'ee until he or she has attained the age of 15 years. In the young those beverages unduly excite the nervous system and have an injurious effect upon the di gestive organs. A Generous Dentist, A Toronto (Ontario) dentist gratu itously cures for the teeth of children whose parents are too poor to pay for the serrioe. Last year he attended over 2000 children.. IFOR FARM AMD GARDEN When liana t.y Bent. Heas lay hotter when the nests are dark. If the present nests cannot be so arranged that they will occupy the dark part of the house, make new ones after thlt plan. Select a box About two feat squnre, making one end higher tliuii the other. Cut a hole in one side noar the end, large enough for the bun to pass through; cover tue box with a lid hinged at one ride so that th j egqt c.tn be easily taken ont Htio'.i a nest will be dark au 1 inviting to the hens. Potatoes Make Sntvy flutter. Every farmer who hat ever grown potatoes knows that th vy are of little value for fending raw to stock, aud that they a e especially objectionable ns feed for cows giving milk. We have known potato peelings to lie given to cows, and while the milk was not lessened, its quality was injured, ns it lacked the flue aroma given by feed ing the cows ou grass or corn fodder. The butter made from milk of cows to which potatoes have been fed, is white aud salvy, lacking the graiu which is the characteristic of good butter. Snrfneln; Flowsr Red. The system of spreading some light material on the surface of all flower beds aud borders, new that planting is complet ', is worthy of more atten tion than is usually accorded to It. It serves -two distinctly useful pur poses, namely: it preserves the mois ture in the soil during dry weather, snd improves the general appearance of the garden. Au excellent material for the purpose Is the refuse from an old mushroom bed, if such be at com mand, aud if not, leaf-mould ana wets equally as well. Either would, how ever, be too rough and untidy in the ordinary state, and must therefore be passed through a half-inch sieve. Spread over the surface of the beds to a depth of about half au inch, It keeps the soil cool and moist and encourages a freer flowering habit in the plauts in the garden. Every few days the surfacing should be lightly passed over with the hoe or rake, going no deeper than is necessary to keep It loose and open, as In this lies a greater part of its value. Household Words. nlshort Inf Matur fettle, Ro general has bosoms the practice of dishorning ca'.vst that much uffe'n tion is now being paid to performing the operation of mature animals, both milch cows and steers for fattening. The operation can be performed more easily aud humanely in calf hood, but when one sees the most vicious steers turned to lnmbliko tuiueuess by the process of dishorning, it is proof abundant that the practice is not only desirable but necessary to tho safety of those iti charge of the animals. The old method of dishorning was to use a saw.but this has been abandoned for tho knife, made for the purpose, which cuts the horn clean without crushing. The work is easily and quickly done by the use of n slatted pen with a yoke to hold the head of the animal securely. The frame is short so the animal ennuot get away. In many sections where cattle are raised extensively men are located who do the work cheaply and scientifically, and it is best to have dishorning done by such persons if possible, but have It done, at all events. Atlanta Jour nal. Th Cost or Nolan In the Dairy. The oost of noise in the dairy can be figured to a certainty; and the mail who doubts this may gain some valu able information by making a few ex periments on his own account. A neighbor of iniue has been doing this and the result is decidedly start ling This man has a dairy of about twenty cows, mostly grade Jerseys. A quiet man by nature, his cows were accustomed to receive only the kindest treatment. A few years ago this neighbor bought a Bubcock test for uso iu his own dairy. One day he directed the hired man to shut the cows in the yurd aud to let the dog in with them. Tho hired man thought his employer must be going daft but he obeyed instruc tions. The two men took sticks in their hands and weut into the yard with the cows and begun to shout, tho dog barked and pandemonium reigned for a few. minutes, although not a b'ow was struck nor a cow bitttiti. The herd was theii brought iuto the barn and milked. The falling off iu yiold was quite noticeable, but the test when applied showed a loss of forty per oeut. in butter fat on the basis of the week previous! Thiuk of that, ye men who yourselves shout; kick, thump and bang your cows and permit the hired help to do the same. Suppose these cows gave at a milk ing three hundred pounds of five per cent. mil when treated kindly. Tho loss in weight placed at a low figure must have been at least five per cent, or fifteen pounds. While the loss iu butter fat, forty per cent, would bring the test dowu to three per ceut. What does this really nieau? At twenty cents per pound my neighbor'a throe hundred pouuds of milk, testing five per cent., would have beeu worth to him $H. 01). As a uinttot' of fact, it brought him only 81.74, a loss on oue milking of 81. '20. After such a rosult who cau wonder if this dairyman laid down some laws nnd insisted ou their rigid enforcement? E. L. Viuceut iu Farm, Field aud Fireside, Hawk and I'urincrs. An illustrated article which appeared in the year book of the United State department of agriculture for 18'. I has furnished wisdom for the class of theoretics! writers and surface ob servers who are ready to adopt and proclaim anything that casts reflec tions ou the acts of farmers in general. Many varieties of hawks are liaised and their bill of fare Is given iu fall, and this nearly always iacludos squir rels, snakes, frogs, toad', spiders and lizards, bnt no mention is made of the fact that nil of these live on insets. We have seen a striped squirrel with his mouth full of grasshoppers, nnd we wonld rather haven toad In tlio field that) a dozen of the hawks that are said to eat insects. Nothing is said about the number of small insect eating birds that these "harmless" hawks destroy. These birds would, if undisturbed, do more good among small and destructive insects than the hawks would if they lived wholly ou grasshoppers. Tim most importaut part of the article in the Year Book we have never seen quoted. In real ity it takes the force from all the othor parts. It is this: "It should be stated hern that sev eral of the species belong to one or another class according to the locality they frequent. A hawk or owl may be locally iujuriotis because nt that place mice, squirrels, insects nnd other in jurious animals are scarce, and con sequently the bird ha i to feed ou thiugs of mora or l.?ss value to man, while In other regions where its favor ite food is obtainable in snfilcieut quantity it does absolutely no barm." There is the whole story in a few lines. That does not ask farmers to throw away what they have learned by experience and believe that a hawk will sit harmlessly over a flock of chickens aud wait for a mouse to ap pear. The balance of nature was about right as long as we let nature adjust It, but when man brought so much of the face of the earth under artificial conditions there were lueny things that would not readily conform And iu drawing a line betweeu friends and euemies we have to cut many cor ners. The skunk lives largely ou in sects but he is death on poultry. Foxes catch mice nad do not refuse birds nor respect ownership. The snake eats insects as well as toads and frogs. Toads eat insects aud small frogs, aud frogs retaliate in the same way. Among the insectivorous birds aud reptiles we find none that will de stroy our enemies and spare our friends. Therefore in regions where a 'arge part of the former home of small, wild game is cleared and culti vated, while hawks lurk In the forests, no profession of friends ip for or faith iu the latter wil induce, them to, go home hungry if they cau find a chicken in place of a partridge. Man chester (N. H.) Union. Profitable. Fruit tiro whig;. Now and again some Interesting facts come to the surface about the production of fruits and delict oi s of various sorts by means of whiou some grower more shrewd, painstaking or practical than his fellows, has made a fortune, or is on the high road to that most alluring state of thiugs. It may be strawberries, mushrooms, hot-house grapes, cucumbers, tomatoes or what not, but it is a success with consequent results. Straightway scores of persons rush into the same business, nud for a time, the market is threatened with over stock, and prices will, it is predicted, come down fur below the cost of pro duction. But for some mysterious reason, afior a fow years ail of this excitement dies out, glass sash, frames and materials for hotbeds are for sale for a soug,and the enthusiastic grower having put ted with a goodly amount of his surplus cash, If indeed he has not become utterly bankrupt, makes up his mind that there is some trick or catch about the business, and that as for him and his house they will stick to old fashioned legitimate farm ing aud gardening. It is only the' genius who succeeds in accomplishing great things in the way of forcing fruit and vegetables. Indeed, it is thu experience of life that great suc cesses are among the most uucommou of occurrences. There is very little danger of over stocking the market with exceedingly fine products. A gardener who has followed his business for half a cen tury remarked the other day that it would make but very little difference to him it hothouses were set up on every place in his commnuity. He has his trade secured aud established, by the most painstaking aud intelli gent work on his specialties, aud it is the height of absurdity to suppose that any amateur cau come along aud suc cessfully compete with hiiu. The rules that apply to oue class of growers fit equally to all. . There are bnt few men who can contract to furnish at a given date a given number of spring lambs iu perfect condition. The same may be said of poultry and other meats. Iu out-of-door products and the ordinary garden yield there is al most as much certainty that the un certain will be the rule. Agreement to supply a thousand heads of cauli flower resulted iu the production of lessthau fifty thut were up to a aud anl. Lettuoe grown by ordiuary methods is practically unmerchant able. The impressiou prevails that the standard vegetables can be grown with the greatest ease, and so they can, but a few experts have taken these familiar friends of ours in hand aud have brought them up to a quality thut has completely demoralized the marker. Vegetables such as were growu ten or fifteen yours ago dealers would not take at any price, aud any attempt to realize a profit from them would be met with utter failure. Apples that would have been merchantable when tho present farmer wore starting out iu life now go into the cider mill. New York Ledger. Of British birds the ouokoo lays ths smallest egg in proportion to its size. GENERAL SHAFTER'S JOKE. Bow Me O an Kshtultlan of III 14 erring Marksmanship. Colonel Thomas H. Barry, adjutant general to Major-General Otis, before leaving for Manila told a good story of Major-Goneral Shaffer's shooting In the days when he was a colonel ou the Mexican border. A day before h took ship for the Philippines Barry, with Brigadier-General Hughes and' a Chronicle representative, - discussing' Shaffer's gallantry before Hatitingo, said: "I was Shaffer's aide three years ago when we both were bronzing tinder the hottest sun that shines in these states. Shafter was kuown s the best shot not only in his regiment, bnt iu the whole conn try about. One day an officer from snot her regiment,, not acquainted with Shnfter's ability '' in this line, visited the post and soon made it apparent to its that he es teemed himself about as expert a marksman as ever pulled a trigger. We secretly luughed at his opinion of himself, and whispered to each other, 'Just wait till Fecos Bill gets after him. . "Well, his time came. One morn ing Shafter and I statted out to ride forty miles or more to another post, aad the visitor asked to be allowed tsar-company us. We trotted along easily until about noon, when we halted to eat eur luncheon, which we pacted with ns. At that time ortlcers carried short carbines on such ser vice, and I bad one strapped to my saddle. The conversation driftod from the topography of the country to uiarksniauship, and the officer call' him Smith said: 'Say, colonel, have you gfjt any shots iu your regiment?'' "Shatter smiled and replied: 'Have I? Why, I've got pome men that can discount the sharpshooter's you rest! about. Officers, too. I'm not much; myself, but when yon get back to the fort I'll tell a few of the good ones to how you, a thing or two.' "Just then an antelope sprang up a quarter of a mile away, and all seeing it at the same moment reached for their carbiues. Shatter was quickest, and in a second adjusted the sights to 600 feet and blazed away. Down came Mr. Antelope, and when we rod np to where he lay we found a bullet, hole over bis heart. "Smith examined the wound, looked over the carbine, and then muttered, half aside, 'JCot bad. You say you're no in i with other officers in your regiment, colonel?' " 'Ho,' Said oliafter, 'I'm ashamed of myself alongside of them.' "A oouple of hours later another antelope appeared, bnt farther away. Smith fidgeted a moment aud then said eagerlr, 'Colonel, may I go after him?'' -1 " 'Pshaw. Yon wouldn't runse him on horseback at that distance,'' exclaimed Shatter, seizing the weapon and levelling it ns be spoke. 'I'll put lead in his head.' ' "He fired nnd we saw the animal bound away. Smith was gleeful, 'A little high, colonel,' he shouted as we galloped on. Beaching the place where the iinuie had been, we were ou a high rising piece of ground, and, looking down fifty foot, Shatter pointed to a dark object aud said quietly, 'I guess I got the head.' "Sure enough, the antelope was lying dead, with a bullet hole through his left ear. Smith looked as dis gusted as any man I ever saw. " 'And the officers are better?' he queried. ".Shatter's eyes twinkled. 'Lieut. Smith,' he replied, with assumed sternness, 'I want yon to say uothiug of this at the post. I ought to have hit him in the eye, nud I feel ashamed of my poor aim.' ".-iiuith, who had no sense of humor; was du nfoun led. For years after he spreud the fame of Colonel Shatter as a marksman far and wide.'; San. Francisco Chronicle. A It nil road's Thought fill nets. Commuters ou the Delaware, Lacka wanna & Western railroad in Xew Jersey are inclined to challenge a. new regulation which has just beeu en- - forced on the ground that it smacks of paternalism. As each bntke:nan culNn station, as, for instance. Hack eusack, he does it iu this fushiou: "Hackeusackl Dou't f-o-r-g-e-t yonr b-u-n-d-l-e-s." Occasional passengers find these calls very amusing aud as. each station is announced they grin at the braksiuan, who doesu't enjoy the new regulation, and then look around to see the commuters pick np their, buud'os. Undoubtedly this new regu lation was suggested by the u timber of bundles which commuters left be hiud them in the cars and then both ered the railroad company to look up for them. "I object to this regula tion," said one of the commuter.. "If the railroads are going into this busi ness, the first thing we will know the brakeman will call out: 'Hackensackt and spend the night with meueliuri time ago, and he began to laugh wired the first station was annouueed. Asf station after station was reached anil the brakeman sung out monotououslj t each: "Don t forget your bundles, bis merriment increased. He would talk about nothiug else at diuuer, ami when he said good night to us hi added; 'Don't forget your bundles. It s kind of the railroad, of course, but I don't like it," Vesuvius' Output of I.ava, - Lava streams that have flowe lout Vesuvius during the last three yeai have deposited 105,000,000 uubio uij ties of lava ou the sides of the mouJ tain. A cone of lava 830' feet hit una been formed, out of which fi e streams are flowing. The valleys either aide of the ous -i vatory pe Have you forgotten to mail your wife's j letter?' or perhups it will be 'Mont-J clairl Remember to stop at the butch- er's.' I invited a ft iend to come out uave oeeu completely ruled up. V
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