= the angry major, jor a sealed D and, a | The uid feliow growled as he fore i 0 of the end, tarned pale an instdnt i envand in his white mustache and then bawled: Where by her “Right here sir” nid a stranger, who slipped suddenly in benind the servant, “I made bold to coms right BD. Rr. Dean | Fnaw Mis: Tank" “Shut up” roared Glendenn: in, pus bh ple with rage "Just a moment, maker,” consd the nterloper. Then, to the waiter, “Please go out” : The waiter left at a signal from and the stranger _{ ecolly sat down on the arm of a wall i chair. “Gentlemen.” he said fo the staring, | wondering guests, "I'm Hogan a In | tective from central and | butted In , | bere becanss 1 knew all you gentie 4 | mIOD wore—~well I might say, peraon- 1 81 Iriends of Bins Tankerville, Judith Tanlkerville” (taking a bunch of pa i pers out of his pocket). “Miss Judith | Tenkerville, alias Mignonne Dupre, sling "The Princess.’ and so forth” There was donse silence in room. (Hendennin looked lke 8 man in the throes of apoplexy. Sha “Ths Tankerville woman [« wanted know. Bhe's awful slick. right & yenr ago and for two months months ago and has swindled every { body since” = 1 The drective cotahed, rencliod for ix glass of wine drank It of and con. : chided: all of these gentlemen tinnally receiving strength the temper, even under the Rreatest prov | ocation, without having cause sooner | Or later. to regret his want of self or $self nee. | Command. { for fans a : low creatures so important that it is | | and stealing the money. They've been | following her all over Europe. vou! Btarted out | sini Detlesey 1 is to the Afections rh or | grace is to beauty. They Are never sipne that are ace 1, companied with noble thoughts, We cannot judge for each other, We | have each our peculiar weakness, and temptations, Sympathy is easy to get, but when | you need help you will find that fs a different question. Instruction is a teacher, but Exam: ple i an artist and our emotions are the colors be mixes on the heart's pal ote. The peopla whe heln ns most are those who make Hight of our achieve. ments 29d bave faith in our possibile i ties, For things never coms quite right in this world. The threads seem to lip out of our hande as we ing to tie the knot. The inward influences and {ilumin- are go { ations which come to us through those who have loved ue are Jeeper than | any that we can realize; they pens trate all our life. and assure us that i there must be a fountain of His and love from which they and we are con to boar and hope. It is seldom that a man loses his There are few of oor foi not worth while to conciliste them, none that may not some time have it in thelr power to inflict on ux an in jury. sold more antique jewelry than any | ore an] cashed in om the square, She | ‘began the bunko fin Florence eight | AL dr SEE pi Se NR AMERICANS corre DRINKERS. They Comuine Morn Mars Than Any : Other Nathan The Amevicans Mrink more coffes than any other pecpla in the world, Not only does thly country consumn more coffes than any other country. { but the American individually drinks ; { more of the heyeruge than any op» o elie in the world The Germun, who comes next to him, drinks six pounds per capita. The Frenchman, third in the race. Arinks | pearly five pounds per year Sam deads with eleven pons por | Uncle capita 1 The year Suse ended was by far the | greatest coffes importicg yoar in our | oe | history, | ported upward of 1000000 000 pounds fof coffes in a single year ; | years ARO We fmported a little more 1! than = half a billion pounds a year | { Not only has the importation of coffee been vastly groster than in wny | previous year but the vale has stend Hy risen. until in 1991 it reached $70. For the first time we Im Eignt 000. The cost to the consumer, however, has been reduced below the Aversge for the years from 1896 to idonin and Albany. traveled extensively in Evropean and | Asiatic Turkey, and is a wellkpown | geologist, feature of electro-therapentios alleged glucovery of the efficacy of the making of altermang current tiolley propul sion, while not resulting in the official | | adoption of the system anywhere, has i been successful in bringing it to the sttention of the scientific world, If is universally Jooked upon as con i taining the germ of the future sys tems of electric traction i 3 A report from Constantinople 1s to | the effect that the Sultsn baw engaged geological survey made in Turkey. The work will be started in Mace Mr. Bpurr has Foe During the past year the practical zpplication of the light of electric | Arcs to the treatment of lupus and other skin (iseases was a notewerthy The X-rays in the treatment of CADCETOus growths is one of the most promising contributions of eledirical science WB medicine that bas yet been made The extension of jong-distance sles trical transmission in California fo aa gctunl span of over 200 miles, and the general employment of voltages as high as 60.000 in that Riate are epoch: events transmission of power at 80.000 volts is worth recording. This year will probably wilnegs work pushed in this | direction to the Hmit of possibilities of electrical enginecring. According to the Lancet, the casen- tial oil which forms the basis of all perfames is 8 powerful antiseptic, and possesses disinfecting properties equal {to those of carbolle acld For reason & scented handierchief may | the services of Mr. Spurr, an English | mer engineer, for the purposes of having a! The experimental | The exper purchase of the clock. but it was in its place when the hall was first o0« hallast and perfect drainage and {mess i dentally climatic conditions, no serions this not only please the sinse of smell, but prove a guard against infection, and | It ix suggested that this fact may tend | to reconcile those wha do not ke per | fomes to thelr free use by those whe | do lke them, IE A London physician teits the Ties, | in a letter, that he bus potived among patients taking the open-air treatinent effects | for comsumption leneficial procured by riding in motor ears at a speed of from thirty to fAfty miles per | Bour. The swift motion through the | alr Is credited by him with causing, slong with a marked feellog of ex hilaration, increased appetite, After a few Jaze freatutent, to bie a proved sleep. u Beall by glow tending. Archer. Warner, | tury people begun to bum seal. %ifound it a very profitable occupation | 0 | and large numbers were captured; it | | has been so profitable that on many of : The death or Areaios cask. ander : whom the Capitol has assumed its { Present magnificent proportions. calls to mind the splenilid listorical work bound volumes every scrap of written or printed records he could secure regarding the building and decorating i of the Capitol Unfortunately much of the decorative material was { “lumped” in the bills, and it never | i will be known Just wihat it cost. A curious fact concerning the clack in the hall of the House of Representa. Lives came to light during the som: The cleavers tackled this clock, supposing it 10 be of some onlinary bard wood and cast iron. bedded under - ¥arnikh, anyhow. It jooked ordinury enough The cleaners seratched and iabbed and werubbed till nearly an inch of ved, when It was found that the clock is encased Tan varnish had been rome In bronze. Besutiful bronse About the face is a wealth of {fruit onk leaves and acortis. The echint - beauty of the dlvek, however is the eagle standing with spread wings on the top of the case, aml the bronge figure of an American [ndian and a dunter, which support (t on each side. These are real works of art, standing war bonnet and scalp shirt, leans npon his bow, and the bunier is in buck. £kin wut, There is no record ohatever of the cupled as the House of Representa. fives, so the “oldist inhabitant” save. The bronze eagle and the figores were | pot part of the clock originally, for there is a record in IS2 swhich states that the “eagle” was purchased of Miskiy & Co. at a cost of $130. Avehitect Clark thonght figures also, although no mention is made of them Jers or clsewhers as they were evidently an alter thong but as both Jean upon the cock fravie, Were obviously designed purposely for Br, though not fastened to the clock The eagle is welded to the clock frame. The clock has been “gold Jeafed” instead of varnished. and the bronze figures are all rostored fo thelr : original state, and the whole now presents a pleasing appearance paragraphs and reports collectad in the olla podrida of government reports. Poor indesing make rc almost impow- | sible Yo get at anything short of a month's laborious search throngs dusty tomes, if the dutn wanted goes | very far back. Architect Clark began to compile this data nearly forty years ago, and it Is supposed that his : very perfect collection i. the id one - A haaraeaie About the beginning of the last cen. They the islands where Seals were haunted they hare bein externiinated, apd naw Hey i Care several species of seal and some will get sxtremely tame, fond of thelr owner, love to be carvesed and will © | jearn tricks very much after the mau- mer of a puppy. The seal's body is covered with a doubly for. which, when i it is Immersed in water, Is pressed very 115 £0 the body and sxclodes water, | fur is very valusble. and as you : lady wrapped in # cloak or coat from a seal's bady you kuow | eu Co eae sverne. og ont, about three feet high, the Indian in | with his gun in his hand, while both seem looking down on the House below. i begin in the dds West already Bean a great dead of tree plants The “architectueai” history of the Capitol of the nation is seatternd in| It bay heen estimated : vo nearly 406000 new poles every yu Ly cost of these Is more than $1.000.- + be did in gathering Into a number of | : a is alsin extimnted that there are more than &X000000 crows-ties in gee by the raflroads and that 0.000.000 ties are rogquired every year for renews The telephone and light comnanies Hae nearly as many poles as the tele graph corspanies. and the street oar systems of the cities use pesrly ag many crons-ties as the steam raliroade. To aveaken the faripers of the Want to the peed of mising plantations of wood to supply these needs sf tele graph. telephone and railroad compa ples, the forestry division of the Agr) caltaral Department has issued a hub letin 10 show that seh work is profit- shin The prices of pele and tie tunber bave gone up nearly f6ty per cent. in i the last ton years J, Hope Junior, of the Ohio ind Little Kanawha Railroad an expert on the tie goestion. told the i Central Association of Railrosd ON- cers in Loundsyille a year ago that in ten year¥® more the prices of tes would be Gfty per cent. greater than at pros He also said: “No material bas ve! been found as a substitute for the wooden tle. and no satisfactory ecomamical method of preserving the life of the wood or roe (longing its durability has vet been | discovernd, and, excepting the minor questions of properly seasoning and piling. the uss of the tle plate, suitnile consideration of the future tle supply bax yet boen had” It is for this reason the sTperts say: “From avery rrasopable pofpt of view it appears that great profits are to be minde In the growing of forest i trees in the next twenty five years” that this sum focluded the two brooge It is declared that sporstions should Tiere han ing on the tresless nrairies of tral West, ospecially in Kamess and Nebraska, The forestry experts have found one plantition gear Hotehinson, Kan, planted with cataips tees which hy ten years has prisinesd a net value of BAHT50 io the sere. In Town, sear Menls a twenty dive yoar-old plintatian of red codarshowed a net valoe of 000M to the acre. Osage cratgy. locust aud hardy catal pa are the Best trees to grow for these ihe ene { commertinl purposes <New York Sun. WORDS OF _OF wispowm. There is nothing «0 bad but what good my come of jt To bauble your affairs is folly. bat to rehenrie those of an 8 ll is dishaner. The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportmiity, : Many a beart Is rainad aad worn out long ere the forms be bent or the head grown gray, What is often miscalled stinginess is a farm of Hberality: we are closes that Wwe may pay our just debts, A year of pleasure passes lke a flowing breeze, Lut a moment of mals fortune seenmis an age of pain. Acquire a loan when necessity drives, but unless you would lose a friezd borrow only from a stranger. If thou hast a grief too heavy to beat call patience to help you. and she Will bring you a blessing in its place, He wie sity down in a dungeon whith another has made has not suche eau to bewail himself as he who site down in the dungeon whick be bas made for Lilmself, Tasth freelt, acconding to Locke's fine saying. will pot profit us so long la] a8 the Js but held fn the hand snd 111 Imkay upon trust from other minds 1a | BOC wooed and wou sod wedded by | ourown. Rush never does anything but rush, «1 and Pret is his wife. of whom Is born Worry, a triplicate of disaster; once | adnit thew to the circle of Peace and A traveler in Venesueln, where the coma tree in now largely cultivated, sparks of the great care with whieh the young plants have to be protected t| tron the sun, which If very strong is fatd to them. To secure this protec io | Honthe plitnters shield them by bap. | anatrees and plantain treos. the broad | leave of which give them the needed o | sha. And even when they are fully i | grovu they need protection, which in | gives by trees known as “immortels” or, iy the planters call them, “the | motler of the cocoa.” Thus the whole : | coves plantation has a sort of canopy. a | The ruit of the cocon Is a pod. re «| sembing a cucn . , which grows on ¢ | the thnk ar large branches, and looks e| 88 Ifit were stuck there by artificial the | mean. The seeds, which are the { “bean” of commerce, lock like big j ma mass: embedded tu pulp.
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