= 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.