SR NPE A rl
o working. It will be a long time to
- and is nly fale that you should have
Lrecalied to assist In the housework,
as] Was despotic among her own class of
v| obs who could carry out ber plan of
: ‘work as It should be done, and with a
asked the “girl” with a look of sur-
“Oh, those are imaginary fignres”
iwyer, and I advise you to sues {he
* ends, and there will be no trouble
ing a snug sum of money that
ep ¥ou in your old age without
the money will Sraw interest.
en Mr, ie Muoson expinined that the
awned that particnlar piece of
alk; that it was defective, cans
£ the fall; that be bad secured several
family would go Into court and
wear to the large bill of hospital ex.
penses wen and the valve of her services,
took Mary Biske a long time to
be Klea into her head. but once
it took complete possession of
. and the discharged girl bad to be
and the kitchen became a scene of
wrangling and dizcontent. Mary Blake
people, and no wonder; she found no
m 1 worth the kes. of thar |
INCOMES oF succEssFuL INVENTORS
psala Mr. Mubpson, who saw he hed)
{made a mistake, “Now, Mary. Lams
town for damages. 1 will eandust
* who saw her fall. and that] a the gentleman who first thought
of placing a rubber tip st the end of |
lead pencils made quite $100,000 a yoar
worn oy A pay.
m— with the city on ber hands she
{ eas not expected to do more than keep
4 oof affairs.
Lawyer Munson won the ease. His
wife and daughters were in the wil.
| ness box, where the city attorpey lad.
gered them nntil they were frantic with
rage. The presiding Judge made eyes] ©
Ist pretty Mery Munson, caving her
to blush distressfully. Mary Blake
Waa 8% cool and stolid aw If she had
1 spent Ball ber days io courts, anmwer-
ing just as her lawyer Instructed her
to, and she was accorded half the yom
demanded. Mr. Munson had asked for
53000 and she was given $1500 In
thirty days after the trial was con-
: The money was paid to Mary Blake
horselt, #8 the records show. Mr. |
| Monson wanted tt settled In that way,
1: and be then gave ber a bil for law ser.
vices, never Imagining for a moment
Ie would Lave any trouble in getting
his pay. Bot Mary Blake liad been
rl{ awakening to the value of ber own ser.
10 lees. The Munsons had sald under |
oath that she was worth £2 a day to
rh Fet they bad pever pald her bur
week during her long term of ser
e. She had done a Uttle Sguring on
unt, and the result was a
counter Bill that appalled Mr Munson
¥ its dimensions, minntenesy of Betall
nd summing up. He was caught fo 8
re f his wi construgtion. :
6 at once retired from domestic
service, leaving the Munson family to
et along as best they might She
went ne her in sorrow nor anger, but
with a determination that brooked no
> Jenving Mr. Munson to mourn
“Who I shor asked Mrs. Mitnson,
Her dsugbter laughed. but would not
ell. Mrs. Munson went Into the par
lor with a Sompany smile on her face.
: Is It possibile? Mary
re. Munson tried to keep from
Asughing as she shook hands with ber
cook. She was rigged out fu a cheap |
ik dress, with many flovnces, wore
ja fi ther bedecked hat and in mits.
too small :
a have Known you," said
: Them’ % the
first pair of Kia beth I #ver had on.
apd me workin® and gavin’ all them
Years®
“They built a monument in New On
leans to a woman who never wore a
pair of kid gloves” sabd Mes. Munson
{ gently. :
Pd a heap rather be here than atop
a any monnyiceat,” answered Mary
i Blake, who had ber own Ideas of mor
itary art. "I'm enioyin' meselt now |
[like other folks, goin’ to the theayter
@ ery | night and the & parks every Sun
* common sense and her asefnlness.
til then we must worry along with
§ substitutes Mrs. M. I. Rayne, in the
Chicago Record: Herald.
NA RL 1
vention of Trivialities.
Bome of the largest foriunes appear
to Bave been derived from the inven. |
: added thelr namics to the Het of mil
Plleonires because they discoversid |
: methods for utilizing that which bad
bean thrown away as waste material
tion of frivislities and novelties, such
ax the once popular toy Known ax
years ix sald to bave yielded its paten-
“John Gilpin“—enriched its lveky ine
Mr. Plimpton, the Inventor of the rojler
skate, made $1.000.000 out of his ides,
by means of hia simple improvement.
the ordinary umbrelia benefited six
in ¥acoo proved a loerative livesiment
for the caplialists who were able to
remunerate the inventor on 8 colossal
O00 per annum. :
Rir Josiah Mason, the inventor of
the hmproved steel pen. made an enor
mous fortane, and on his death Eng
{1h charities benefited by many man
ions of dollars. The patentee of the
pen for shading In 4 8erent colors de
rived a yearly Income of about $000.
Xr from this ingenious contrivance
1 It 18 stated that the wooden ball with
{an elastic aftached yielded over £00.
O00 a year, Mapy readers will remone
ber a legal action which took place
BOE years a2o, when in the course of
§ the evidence it transpired that the ig
| ventor of the motal plates ased for pro
: tocting the soles and beels of shoes
from wear sald 12000000 plates in faz
1879, and In 1887 the number reached
a fetal of HAO GON, whieh realized
i profits of $1.150.000 for the year. :
The lady who invented the modern
| baby carriage enriched herself to the
extent of $50000, and a young lady
living at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
devised the simple tollet requisite
Known 8s the “Mary Anderson’ curling
- ron from which she derives royalties
amonnting to 5500 a year, It was the
wile of & clergyman who designed an |
Improvement for the corset and made
8 fortune out of it. The giwlet pointed
screw, thi idea of 2 Hite girl, brought
inventor. Miss Knight. a young lady
of exceptional talents, was gifted with
be seen by the complicated mechan.
ism of her machine for making [iar
bage. We are told she refused £50000
for it shortly alter taking out the pats
ent.~8clentific American,
ARS LA GR SL ER
Why One Talesmas Was Seratehed,
“good seen and true” selected for jury
duty, Only twenty-two snswered t
thelr names, and the Sherity tea
sommew lat inquiringly at the Judge, bat
{the Intter was calmly wiping his
glasses while be uttered the costetiary:
“Any desiring to be excused from sery.
Ice on this jury will pow come for
ward”
Twenty two men made 8 movement
forward, and the clerk stopped in bis
work of noting those who Bad failed
10 respond to the summons to look in
wonder at the entlwe venire Gesizing Tx
eseape.
“Well,” said the Judge, speaking to a
long thin, nervous looking young man.
"why do you wish to be excused»
1 It please your Honor” spswersd
the aforesaid thin dividual, “I'd like
10 be excused on secvunt of Hines. I'm
suffering from somdithing that might
prove embarrassing to the ether in
Tors, abd it is certainly embarrassing
ES oe. y
“What js the nature of your {ness ?
asked the Judge.
“Well.” sald the young wan, hesita-
tingly, "I'd prefer to tell you in pri
vate. I'm somewhst delicate about
speaking of it in pablie™
“1 enuoot Bear anything in private”
| respunded the Judge Impatieatly, “If
mg bere and pow what is the matter
with you”
"Well #1 I must tell it bere—1 have
the Moh”
“The ich? echoed the Indgs. anal,
turning to the chak, without merking
bow apropos his observation was. he!
sald, “Mr. Jones, seratch the juror of.”
-8t, Louis Globe Democrat,
Plague of Housewives; Joy of Botanists
The housekeeper who finds a layer
of gray green mold covering her pre
serves wien she removes the Il from
the jar is so tar from seeing suything
Interesting. much less Lexntitul, in it}
that she throws it away fn disgust.
But if she would examine it with & mi-
Croseope, 89 the botanist does, she
would find it & wass of fungous plants,
with brupches of delicate, frost like |
tracery and as dainty md clean in the
midst of decay as sre the [ies in a
stugnant swamp,
The niold that thus annoys fruit enn
hers 3 the most common of the spe
cies. If grows in the form of 8 gray |
Ish-grevs mat, which gives off a foe
dust consisting of milllons of spores
thint correspond to the seeds of larger
plants. The spores sprout in every
direction on the surface on which they
Lie. and a little later the sprouts turn
| and grow upward -Philadeiphis Ree |
$5
Large Fortunes feriesd From the Ine 3
“Dancing Jimerow,” whiely for several
toe an annual fnscome of upward of
{| $75.000. The sale of Another toy
venior to the extent of $100,000 a year
as long as it continned to enjoy the
unexpected popularity that greeted it
when first placed upon the market
When Harvey Kennedy lotroduced
the shoe lace be made $250.000, snd
people by as much as S10.000,000, |
The Howard patent for boiling sugar
scale. It Is estimated that bis Income
averaged between $200,000 and $50. |
many millon of dollars to the clever |
wonderial mechani! powers. as will |
18 a certain case the Judge ordered |
the Sheritl to eall the roll of thirty five
Fou want to be excused you aust tell
| WLLIONS of BOLLARS oue ouT
oF SCRAP PILES.
| fommerable Cant OFF Phiege Are Rescued
From the Garbage Danipy and Made |
Inte Aviicies of Commereisl Yalow
Little Wasted in the Industrial World, &
One of the Gind-honored Jokes at he |
: Chicago Stockyards Ix that every part |
(of a ple is saved except its =peal |
Meu in the packing business have
Great factories ars running the year
round in Chicago whose raw material
8 the cast-off staff gathered by scay
engers and rag men. Men of selene
are ever at work tearing by-products
And waste material to pieces to re
{ group the elements into new material
: which bas a commercial or industrial
{ value. Little Is wasted io the indus.
rial world,
Ohl iron is worked over into new
fros. Liven rags are reinchierated
(and live as paper. Woolen mags are
shredded ad made loro shoddy.
Bones are made Into bone back, fo
clarify sugar syrup. Old rualbibers, bits
of garden hose, exploded bleyele tires, |
and caxt-offs In which rubber Is a
pari are made over into pow robber,
Warn steel ralls are reralled into
lighter sections. OM rasty pipe isi
diawa down into bright new pipe.
i The tin cans which are gathered ap In
alleys and from garbage boxes ape
melted down and ast into window
gash welghis and counter welghts for
bascule bridges :
The blood which rans iota the : : TREC ;
| Himatier diy and the proces is ool
ged until the pipe is down lo the
et Haumeter, Then 1h gow pipe |
Ci stralghtenad aul is ready for £40
slaughter botke Wolls ls transformed
polish, and inte fertilizers. Boys and
gil collect cigar sults which are
made over ito sinff, smoking tole. |
eo siad cigarettes. Rags and old car
peta are cut foto sirips and woven inte
hapdsome roge. The Het of old cast
off things that ave rescued from ash
piles and garbage dunips fo be bern
Rin cas be extended for columns,
and the list would BUver cease grow.
Ing, for every day sone new gee for |
sone wasted product 8 discovered,
There was 3 thine when tops of
Blond, fresh from slaughiered cattle,
flowed onbesded through the sewern
{into buttons, and other articlem peo}
f quiring dense bodies sod taking high
under the stockyards. Today this
Blood is saved pet through several
ar Su the for of eases which are sent
to sugar regnoties to ausist in elari?
ng the sweet Yguor. Some of the
processes and comies ont as a fertilizer | Ai3 iid
rated in a forsacs. For nisking plow
sein the pleces of reall are pissed
throush tolls wiih reshape the bead i Fala to wateh the baat rice Knew
bandsomiest buttons ween on new
dreseds ones PRL BS Warm Yd
thromzh the veins of fat steess
Heat sud hydraulic pressure are the |
agents Which separate the water from | ne ALT RS
the albumen in the red fal, asd pre. Toad Iv worked down mre squares,
pare the dried blood for the pulveriz. | :
pa : F | web Is rolied ddan to hurrew tooth
| steel, baby eacridgn sprigg steel light |
Ing process which fits It for ude as a
fertilizer. After belar boiled down,
pressed, crushed and ground to oa
in
powder, the dried blood is mixed with |
GUL an a omoplete fertilimer
Many years ago in England a wool
famine confronted the weavers, A
bright man with a eurryeomb took ade
vaniage of the siluailon and started
the “shoddy” business. He bought up
old blankets, Saunel and old woolen
clothing. This old material was emt
and torn inte small places, and then
stripped into shreds with curryeomba,
This process rescived fhe woolen!
fable into something akin to ts origh
nal elements, wool Shere and the man
with ihe curryeomb mised this new
Taw material with wools and made a
cheap, serviceable cloth. The shears |
and carrreombe of the original sholdy :
man have long sities passed from use, |
for expensive and intricate machinery | : LH
fo apened. | He bought eran iron and tin
Low is required to make shoddy,
There ls shadddy aud shoddy. A man ©
wlio makes shoddy said there are more
than forty different grades and gquall
ties of the commodity, and thet many |
Kinds of wool cloth in whicn shoddy i |
2 ehuatitent eletoent are tiot cheap. |
infer ior fabrics, but are more service :
able aml the beter for tha sihoetdy,
shoddy {8 a wseful product of waste!
material It I never usd alone, but
in combination with new woels. The | : :
: of dellars are walting to be dug ont
woolen rags from which shoddy is
made are first thorooghly dusted by
machinery before they are sorted. Any
ceution whlch may be in (he rags is
Bot rid of Ly dipping the rags ia a
bolling mixture of sulpburie acid
Loug experience bas dmmonstrated
the exsot proportion of the acid re
quired to eat cut the cotton fhers
without destroying the wool. The ef-
fect of dipplag the rags ate the water
aud acld is to rot the eotton so that
the woolen part of the falivte falls to
plvies easly. After being dried, the
rags are run through a machine that
remioves every hut oo dust, leaving the
pure, clean wool. The women rags
aml cloth are dyed, and then run
through a machine whose thousands of
steel plus not only shred the rags, but
split the threads so that ithe rags
which enter the machine leave It in
the form of wool fibers
The wool is pat through a capling
machine, which thorpugbly combs out
the woolen particles, mixes them and
turns theta out in the form of lang
Bully rolls, which are packed fn bales
ready to De suipped to the woolen
mills, where the shoddy Is mized with |
Bew wool
the paper will There they are we
chanically cleaned and then deftly
sorted by girls und woanicn, who throw |
DUD every rag that is not luen. The
selected rags are cut Into bits by a
wachine and then bolled in lime water
to remove the colors, after which ther
it Is sent to the piper machin fo e |
made into fine Huen paper. ae
The “old ron” which forma half the
Burden of the Mginen's soug i= the
asia of a busines whose CoTput ie
valved annually in millions of dollars.
Evory plece of oll fron. wronght or
eet, ronty or clean. ean be uiliteed.
The old fast iron is sent to foundries
ind paddling fornsces. the old
wrogght iron, bara, shewts and plates,
1% ment to the rolling mille. Cast {ron
sent to foundries In remseliod with pig
iron, and begins 4 pew fe of oseful
ess nnder new forms and shapes.
The wrought irom goes to the sorap
pliew in rolling mill yards, There it
ported and cut to convenient lengths,
then made up nts “box” plies or fag.
ots, heated to a white heat In fur
lvaees and ron thepigh the rolls, witch
first weld the pleses of row nto #
solid billet and thea reduce the billets
to bark
A profitable business his been found
fn the redrawing of old bon pipe and
beter tubes. Mont of this waste una:
lerial Is thiekly eovered with rust
when it arrives ai the factory, and
the rust ls removed by the simple prov
cess of heating us odd pipe 16 a cherry
read and plunging it into water. The
sudden contraction loosrps the rust
seales and the pipe is sont to the
seting farvsee clean and eight. A
dpod welding Hegr preparel the pipe
for the redrawing provess This cone |
sixix jo pulling fie white hot pipe |
through a dis. whi pot only reduces
{ite diameter Bot rales i oso It
ir beated again and drawn through a
HiT Rer. ;
Seed rails whieh have lest Bats
reread amd dartendd hy tw Boge drive
ers of eomatived are watid asd re
rabid through the Bolshing passes of
& rail mil This provess of entree,
ricduces the size of the rill but It
i tiaews the Ife of the all 4: com
| paratively sight ecpense. Old steel
ris and the sawai of nis of new
shee] palin are mule Its bars. harrow
teeth, plow beanie tire. springtatos] |
atl other forms pl shapes used by
fiakers of agricultural impletaents,
wagons sud earriiges.
The rails are fut by luge power
ledrs inte convenient bagths and
aid Banve to the required shape. If
it js desired to male Bary ihe places
of vail dest pass through the slitting
isle, wideh slit the wall into three
pieces-the head, web aod flasge. The
rounds and other toring of bars: the
rinse and spoke sicel: the flange is
reiied Gute fads aud sprog weal Thou
potash and phosphoric sell asd sent | Mods of tans of old Bessemer steel
phospt i radl have bea transferisod into mers
cliant steel and aurienitural shapes
in the couper district of Montana,
strap fron, a waste material, and the
waiter. whivh might be called waste
materinl. fram a copper mite are
hwught together to save ithe copper,
which is carried off In the water Nome
years ago some Don tools were eft
for a time in the strewn of water
which slowed from ope of the large
copper mines. A niiner passing saw
that the ron bad disappeared sud that
Capnet had taken itu place, EL
Belang a clever mon, he made some |
experinients, aml ston satisfied Bim |
gebf that thers was a fortune In the
wiuter which bad wen reuning away
utihesded ever sinde the mine was
cans aud placed them in tonks inte
wihiteh be ron the wilpr from the mine
amd Inn tie the ita, By chedslend ae
thom, Meant ihe eoppes which wis
afterward refined
Railroad companies, large manu
fatarers and the "iaptains of indus |
Ly” are ever on the lookout for ways |
Be bad received only ose vote, his op
sud methods fo torn waste material
into useful by-products, Portubes are
bhikden in garbage boxes and millions
of the scrap piles -Maleohn MeDow-
ell, in Chicago Ek recur: Herald,
Amushient From Precedent.
Lincols wan ence rguing a case
adiust an oppon il whe tied fo cue
pattor to law, acd (hat custhm makes
tiungs legal in all cases. Lincoln's |
reqily, given io Miss Ida Tarbell's lite!
uf the great war esident, was one
of his wany «fective analogies lg the
fot of a story.
Lincoln told the jury that he would |
arse the case in the same Wy as hiv
opponent. and began:
“4d Squire Bagly, from Menard,
CCRT lhe ly office one dav and sad:
“Lincoln, | want pour advice as a
lawyer, Has a nian winat's hee pleted
uation of the peave a right to issue
a marriage Heese?
=f told bhm sor; whiceupon the old
squire throw hlnsedf back i hia dlinte
very imligeantiy and sakb
“rhanwein, 1 thea: vou was a noe
ar. Now, Bob Thomas sod ue had at
Det on this thing, and wo agreed to it
you decide] bat if wis is your opine
tut, ¥ doen't wani it fie § Know a than.
White woolen rags are sent ts the : decin’ sight bettvr. Uve been a squire
shoddy wills, linen rags naturally | €igit years, and bave done i all the
start rot the ragan’s stocerools to
tae
Cierny a caliion Bre Hire times as
Big as Devsell, those of France wighs
teen tones and Britains aliwiyseven
thames bigger than Bensell.
ab rE tel Eat Ta hn
Seatland has Hue {rcishes witnout
papers, | pouesates, OF puklic houses
Par Back | in he mountain fantiisses
ot Cagayan, in unper Lusen, fu 8 tribe
of irreconciinbles kKuown as Kalingas
or “Lend huotsrs” from thelr horrible
practice of cotiing off the heads of all
their priscmers. An interesting sketeh
of these bloodihiesty , people Ix com
tained (0 a recent account of an x
pedition into (heir stronghold under
“the Jeadetrhip of Senior Constabulary
Taspector Frank Geere, stationes at
Tagnegarso, province of Cagayan.
“The Kalingas." says Inspector Geere,
tyre nou-Christiaus aod vory primitive
people. ‘Their intelligence ix of a
mite oviter. though they are sharp.
#irewd, lithe and sclive They war
a dood den! among themselves, They
never sleepy at nights in order to guard
#gninst attack. Their gnethods of ar.
tack dare by stealth. Burling a spear
from the lense ‘cogon’ at the umsnss
pecting traveler, stepping inte his
tracks froin coneealinent in the jungle.
and splitting his bead with a ‘pinapar
ing or beadax, a weapon with & eon
j eave odge and a long hook behind to
ad fn cligibing mcantains. The head
} of {he viciim is then backed off with
thin ax and carried to the village,
where It Is placed an a pole planted In
the earth, avound which they dance,
feasting in thelr houses for nine days
“Thelr method of defense is chiefly
planting sharpened poisoned stakes in
i the trails and gress bordering them,
around thidr houses or In other vant
age plates. They are sald to some
times poleon water, but | do pot be
lieve this Is 8 common practice. They
take the women and children of their
efismies ciptive. They are stalwart,
fuely bail men. expert monntsinesrs,
apd their ilothes are a gee string and
& andy toga. Their arms are barbed
Fpears. axes and woolen shields. They
cuitivate thee, maize, sweet potatoes,
tobueve, abd other produce In swall
i quantities, and the wilder ones grow
only such proguce as they need for
thelr awd sustenance. Those living in
proximity to the civilised native are
more industrions and less warlike, hav:
ing adopted some of their customs,
1hourh nol their religion. These have
incurred tlie eumity of the wilder set.
tiewents, and are referred to In my
report as ‘friendlies "Washington
Star. :
: An Foglish Legend,
The various old legends convected
with places are more easily forgotten
in London than in the provinces. How
miany, for instance, of the erowd that
i! swarmed on the banks of Putney aud
or recalled the old fairy story whieh
docounts fir the naming of these two
districts? The story goes that *two
Rlautesses Were enh building a ebase)
en opposite siden of the river (and
there stand, the churches now to give
verlpimiliGide to the jegend). Petween
them they sonld only nruster one ham
mer, so when the Surrey giantess
i wished to drive a nail she called 15
Ber friend, “Put it Bigh.” and when
tho Middlesex glantess text dealt with
wn nall she silouted, * ‘Send it full home”
Thes the churches and the districts
fae to be known as Fulham and
Putney, while the story goes on to tell
Bow the Bead of the hammer was
‘broken, so thatthe friends were obliged
10 go in search of a smith, who, being
found, gave the name to yet another
district—Ham persinith. This is an
excellent example of the phonetic
method of Interpretation of names
which is accountable for many inter.
‘esting legends trawsnitted to us from
the past.
Koew the Soutes of is Supports,
Speaking of campaign deceptions we
Are reminded of an elettion bold In a
Confederate company during the Ciel
War. A rather epotistie momber de
Celded tora for a Heutenaney which
i wis vacant The member. Shon we
will exll Dick, went vo his messsinte,
whom we will call Jack, aud ssked his
Bein in the election. Jack promised to
Work for his friend. and assured him
that he could be elected When the
ballots wery counted Dick found that
postent reesiving all the other votes
Cindigoant orer such a defeat Dick ape
‘proacbed Jack and exclaimed: “I
thought you were my friend snd you
progiised to electioneer for mw
Answered Jack, composedly: “I am
your friend and I did my level Dest to
elevt you. Bur the Boys who prowiised
oe that they would vote for you went
Vince the jury that precadent fs sue |
still id ad best aud pat in ene vote
for you”
back on towir promises. 1. Bowever,
This wade Dick madder than ever.
“You've a Hear™ he ered: “i put that
vote in mys." Nashville Banner,
Rubice in Places of Ashon,
“Metals wmiy be breed for tie sala
of the heat and Lght they produc,
Just as ordinary tuels are barged.”
‘8ald Professor Robertw Austen, in a
recent discourse at the Royal 10stit
tion, London. But the borning
Detalles, he proceeded to show, Re x
| from that of ordinary fuels in that the
products of combustion are not
BRseous but solid. “The burning of
| aluminum gives sapphires and rabies
is the place of ashes” An instance of®
burning Bett for the sake of Uglht is
furnished big the “maguesivm star™
8 euntrivapey by which a shell packed
with nr Mgomkimn am! atacled to a
parachute s fred clectrically high ia
the air. thos pralgcicg en Hhacyian.
ton of (he ground beneath at Bight.
Klis finds its use fa warfare. Recently
altmisury Lis beea found to Oe an
adusirable fuel for Iradueing an in-
tonse Beat to be used in welding, This
kind of wietaiite fuel has assutied
mueh industrial importance at Essen,
In Germany, where, in Consequence,
mealiurgy tiers ea a ew Phase,