Fkeeland Tribune. I'tTBIJSnKD EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Year ,! no Fix Months 7.-, Four Months „ 50 Two Mouths L'o Subscribers are requested to observe the date following - tbe name on the labels of their papers. Ily referring: to this they can tell nt.a glance how they 6tand on tho books in this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28June9"> means that Grover is paid up to June 28,1K0&. Keep the. figures in advuncc of the present date. Report promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will Iv made in the manner provided by law. A shovvngo of billions of feet of pine lumber is predicted from the great Northwestern territory. Lightning does strike twico in the panic place, the New York Mail and Express maintains, and a Honesdalc, (Pcnn.) farmer who was stunned twice during one storm in his barn one day last week Jives to certify that an old belief to the contrary is erroneous. When even electricity takes to repeat ing, tho need of reform must be ad mitted. One after another, notes the Chi cago Herald, tho theological sem inaries of this country nro opening their dodrs for the admission of women, and especially for such as would lit themselves l'or labor in tho mission field. The Cumberland Presbyterian Seminary at Lebanon, Tenn., is one of the last to fall into line in this great matter. Colonel Thornton W. Washington, of Washington, D. C., is dead. His death removes one of tho direct lineal descendants of General Georgo Wash ington. He was a great-grandson of Colonel Samuel Washington, tho old est brother of tho illustrious first President of tho United States, and the fifth generation in descent from Colonel John Washington, tho first immigrant of the Washington family in America, who camo over in 1(139 and settled on the border of Pope's Creek, near its junction with the Poto mac River, in what is now Westmore land County, Virginia. Ho served in tho Confederate army. His wife and Beven children survive him. A report on tho uncultivated bast fibers of tho United States by Chuilos Richard Dodge, special agent in charge of fiber investigations, has just been issued from the Department of j Agriculture. Among the plants do- j scribed arc species found in every see tion of tho United States, from Maiuo to Florida and from Minnesota to Arizona. Some of them are jute sub stitutes, while others, if cultivated, would produce a liber rivaling hemp. Over forty liber plants are treatod in the report, tho history of twenty forms being given in full with state ments regarding past efforts and ex periments toward their utilization. Special chapters are devoted to tho asclepias or milkweed libers, okr.t, cotton stalk fiber, tho common abuti lon—known commercially as 4 'China jute," but growing in the fence corners of every Western farm—Colo rado River hemp and many others. Tho Republican Senators whose terms will expire in March next are : Joseph M. Carey, Wyoming; William Chandler, New Hampshire ; S. M. Cul lom, Illinois; N. F. Dixon, Rhode Island; J. N. Dolph, Oregon ; William P. Fryo, Maine; A. Higgins, Dela ware; G. F. Hoar, Massachusetts; ('. F. Manderson, Nebraska; J. McMil lan, Michigan; R. F. Pettigrew, South Dakota; T. C. Power, Montana; G. S. Shoup, Idaho; W. D. Washburn, Min nesota; J. F. Wilson, Iowa; and E. O. Wolcott, Colorado. The Democrats arc: J. H. Berry, Arkansas; M. C. Butler, South Carolina; 1). Gallery, Louisiana; J. N. Camden, West Vir ginia; R. Coke, Texas; I. G. Harris, Tennessee; E. Hunton, Virginia; W. Lindsay, Kentucky; J. Martin, Kan sas; A.J. McLuurin, Mississippi; J. R. McPhcrson, New Jersey; J. T. Mor gan, Alabama; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina, and P. Walsh, Georgia. Ju a number of States, the Atlanta Con stitution remarks, the election of Sena tors has already cither been made or has been settled. Georgo Peabo ly Wefcmoro will succeed Dixon, of Rhode Island ; ex-Governor Gear will take the place of Senator Wilson, of lowa, and J. S. Martin will succeed Hunton. Lindsay and Gallery have had their seats already voted to them and Mor gan's return is assured. Other Sena tors, including Dolph, Frye and others, will bo returned without any great tfffort, •* THE CLOSING CENTURY. As one who, rousol froai sleep, hears far away The closing strokes of some cathedral bell Tolling the hour, strives all in vain to tell If denser grows the night, or p lies the day— So we roused to life's brief existence, say (Wo on whose waking falls a century's knell). I Is this the deepening dusk of years, tho fell j And solemn midnight, or the morning gray V j We stir, then sleep again —a little sleep ! (Ilowbeit undisturbed by another's ring !) 3''or though, measured with time, a century Is but a vanished hour tollol on the deep, Yet what is tims itself? Tis but a swing O. the vast pendulum of eternity. —Henry J. StockarJ, in tho Century. LOST AND FOUND. .v/. V ,:s - VAXALTIXE WJ** By was sauntering Ufsi \ h J jbSS leisurely down one h rfl Cio boil leva IW'v us y i" 1 j" is " Ji " ns " morning J tho nir i r®\! 's n> H w,w eris i j ai " l v <-- j #3w/ <""••• I'l'esh mi l in S AV P M viti,, l?—jst tile' R*l M. NJ? lilUage. Sliu hint walked all tliu war from her lieut- an I artistic temporary abiding place in the American colour ' to tho shopping district, had pur- | chased sundry trifles and looked at j thousands of arlicics she had not bought; had fascinated n number of clerks by her dash and brilliancy until they were ready to display for hor ■ especial bum-lit the wealth of the i world in feminine odds mid ends, an 1 now she was making her way home- j ward, eare free, and happily con- ; scions that many covert glauces were c.ist at licr stylish figure. At sixteen she was a eharmin- "irl • at twenty-six a behutifnl wife 'ail l ho.dcss; at, well, say thirty—an irre- j sislible widow, perfectly satisfied to ' saunter all by herself aionc; what re limine.l of life's floral pathway. With ' " more than comfortable competence she regarded tho future with compla cency ami the past with resignation. ' Not that anything very tragic was iu t' rwovcii among the yesterdays. Ex istence had flowed emoothiy enough u broken engagement, a heart wrung I for a time, a trip abroad, a weaKhv Miitor, a fashionable wedding, a pleas ing honeymoon, a series of social Sri- ' nmps, the demise of Jut belter hall", A I brief period for mournin g, and the com fortable present. She was childless, but she ha 1 many friends. It is true that sometimes something like a pang came to her 1 i when her mind revelled to child: n, ami bbf told herself that possibly a littb i no would not be at all 111 the' way, but, on the contrary, might give sweet solace to the few lonely mo- 1 incuts which came to her, who, gem : j ally speaking, did not know what hm- J Ii11• s was. As she walked along with ! superb movement, she observed two j pretty girls in charge of a nurse. The children were playing on tho grass bo- ! neuth the shade tr< es with which the boulevard was lined, while the nurse, who had the expressionless features o a peasant girl, was seated on a bench knitting. Mrs. Van Altiue stopped impulsively. "Oh, you darling," she said, and thereupon in her own peculiarly ( graceful way begun to question the i children and coo over them just as if sin know all about the language of j childhood. Nearby on another bench j was a little boy dressed in sailor's at tire, with the word "captain" oil his j cup. Lie looked forlorn and his- ; ttubed, for his month quivered ami there were tears in his big, blue eyos. "What's the matter, my little man?" i continued Mrs. Van Altiue, in the Jan- j gmtgo of the country. Jle only stared at her and rubbed | one of his eyes with his dirty fist. She placed lmr hand on his golden curls in a caressing manner. "Why don't you play with the other : children?" she continued. Foi answi r lie rubbed iiis other eye 1 with another dirty fist. "There, now, sailors don't cry," re sumed Mrs. Van Altinc, as she "wiped the grime from his face with a lace handkerchief. " J'licy go to battle and fight, and are ] brave. Arc you my brave little cap- : lain ?" "I don't understand," said tho boy in k'n:• 1 i h, plunging both lists into his vcs. "What! von speak English? You aie uu American boy ?" "And are these your sisters?" "And wllatV. vour name?" "Hobby. ' "Hobby what?" "Bobby Steele." " \ 1 1• I wlnre jo - yon from, Hubby?" I "t)e. a big place, much bigger and I nicer thi!n 11ns." " What, is it rail 1 "('lev land oh -boo -hoo—l want ! to go home. "but you can't go back t> Clove- i lan I to-night, Hobby. You are thon- j ban I- of miles from home." "i don't care— I waut to go home.'' "Is vour mamma v.itli you in \ V,, : v; 4 o in. Rho'.s in heaven. She's j n id. My mamma died when I was one year old. I'm all my papa's got and now boo! hoo! —ho hasn't got inc. J "in lost and shall never sec my I h pa again." "You poor child, you mean to say you can't lind your papa? "No; we wont out for a walk anl I stopped in a crowd to look in a win dow, Then my papa went away an I left me." "And you couldn't find him any where?" "NO'LH. I shall never see my papa "Nonsense! of course you will. Why, we'll go ami fiud him now." 1 "Will you?" Do you know my papa?" "I can't say that I do. There are so many Steeles in tho world. Is your ' papa slender, and does lie wear a little mustache?" "No; my papa's big and has a i beard." "Then I guess I don't know him. How long have you been waiting here?,* "Oil. hours!" "Well, you are my brave little cap tain, after all. I'll buy you some bon-bons." "Will you?" With great show of interest. "Yes." "And a candy cane?" "Yes." "And a liu soldier I saw?" "Yen." , "And f saw an elephant 1 want and two toy lions ami—" "My dear child, you evidently want to start a zoo of your own." I " What is that!" "Oh, a menagerie." : "1 went to a menagerie with my papa here yesterday. We saw theni ' feed tho lions." i "Where are you stopping here, my child?" "I don't know. A big place. Will I you take me there?" I "I will, ii' I can lind it from your in l de'inite description." i "What's 'indefinite' moan?" I "Never mind that now. Aro you ' slopping at a hotel?" | "I guess so." " Would you remember Iho name of j tho hotel?" "No." 1 Mrs. Van AHilie repealed a nura i bcr of names. "I don't know," ho said. I " Well," she remarked with a little sigh, "1 suppose wo had better call a carriage." | "That'll be fine," ho said. "I've gol a velocipede home." I "Have you? Well, just go and wave your hand at that man with the car riage. Remember you are my gallant little escort, aud you must be very polite." "All right." In a few moments they were com fortably seated in the carriage. "How do you like this?" she asked. "It's great." j "Where to, madam?" interrupted the coachman. "Ye- , whore to? That's tho ques tion,'' ruminated Mrs.. Van Altinc. "Where shall wo go. mon CApitaine?" "*et the tin soldier," said tho boy. "Very well. That will give mo time to think. Drive to a toy shop." As they dashed down tho boulevard Mrs. Vuu Altiue drew the child nearer I to her. i "Von don't feel lost any more, my i brave captain?" she asked. I 4 'Not so much so, thank you." ; "Aud it' we don't tind your papa can I have you ?"' j The boy's lips quivered. 4- Ob, I want my papa." j "Even it I should buy you an elc phant nn l—and a real pony to ride in the park?" Tne boy hesitate.l. He was evident ly sorely tempted. The real pony weighed against his papa was a por • plexing problem, but liuully he said ; stoutly: j "L want my papa." ! "And you shall have him," said Mrs. I Van Altiue. I 44 But 1 want you, too." i 44 I'm afraid you can't always have They drew up in front of a toy shop and Mrs. Van Alt me mid her charge entered. They purchased an elephant, : a tin soldier dresse I in French uni l form, a candy cane, and tho young ; niau would havo ordered half the store : if Mrs. Van Altino hid not prevented it. "Where shall I send these, madam?" 1 asked the clerk. 41 Where? I don't know. We'll take i them. Bobby, carry this elephant." i Bobby was only too willing to do this, aud again they entered the ear i ring". 44 i'o the Hotel St.Petersburg," com manded Mrs. Van Altiue. She vaguely remembered that many Americans , went to this hotel. In about twenty minutes they dashed up to this estab iishm nt and the carriage door was opcued by a big porter who looked around for their luggage. i "You can take the elephant and the tin soldier," said Mrs. Van Altiue, ; imperiously. The porter hesitate 1, his sense of dignity injured, but Bobby settled the matter by declaring: "No; he can't have them, I'll car ry them." Mrs. Van Altinc and the boy en tered I lie parlor theim and the haiul ! some American woman said; ' "Send the clerk to me." I Bobby set the elephant of tho floor j and seemed indifferent just then 1 whether he would bo found or not by his bereaved pareut. The clerk ap i peared. "JB Mr, Steele of Cleveland stopping i here?" 14 He is not madame?" 44 Has he been stopping here?" j "No, madame." "He is an American and is at some hotel, probably. How can I tind him? This is his boy, who is lost. ' "I. will send you a hotel register, a list of all Americana at 'tho different hotels." "Thank you. That is what T want." The list was duly forthcoming and Mrs. Van Altine scanned it eagerly. ".Steele—Steele—let me see— Smith, I Brown, Jones—no Steele—perhaps it in farther down—a common uauie, there are plenty of Steeles—Burman, "Walker, Melville hum! Steele, Steele—nl>. here is a Steele. Bubby, is your fat her's name Richard?" "Xo'rn," "Too bail. llow my heart jumped when I saw that name! What if— nonsense! By the way, Bobby, what is your father's name?" "Dick, ma'am." "nick?" "Yes'm." "Don't yon know that Richard and Dick are the same names?" she asked severely. "No'm. My uncle Silas calls my pa Dick." "Well, heie is u Richard Steele at one of the hotels. We will call ami see. But remember if your papa doesn't want you, Bobby, you are go ing off come and live with me." "Do you think my pa don't want me ?" "Bless my little sailor, no. Why, every golden lock must be precious to him. Do you know what I'd do, Bobby, if f bad a little boy like you?" "No, ma'am." "I'd—l'd love him to death." At the next hotel Mrs. Van Alii 110 wns informed that Richard Steele was stopping there; that ho had a boy; that the aforesaid boy was lost; thut .Mr. Steele was nearly frantic and that he had just gone to the prefect of po lice. "And where is that?" 'Must across the way, madam. "Come, Bobby, wo will surprise him. He must bo nearly crazy." A handsome American, thirty-five years of age, solid and prosperous looking, was conversing with the of ficial in the magistrate's office. "I will do what I can, monsieur. The lad will bo taken in, and our sys tem of communication ;.u such that the fact will be known at headquarters. I will then at once inform you of tliu circumstances." "Your reward shall be a handsome one." At this moment the clerk looked in. "A lady to see you, monsieur." "3ay 1 am engaged," responded the officer. "I did tell her that." "Well?" "She asked if in American gentle man was here. I told her 'yes,' aud she said she must come in at once." "Very well. Show her in." Mrs. Van Altine, a vision of glorious womanhood, stood in the doorway with Bobby by the hand. "J.s this your son, sir?" she said. Richard Steele sprang to his feet. Bobby dropped his elephant and the next moment was folded to his father's breast. Mrs. Van Altine seemed straugely moved as she regarded the scene. Her face was overspread with unusual pallor. "I was not mistaken," she told her self. "There are, truly, many Steele. 1 ; in the world, but it must have boon some psychic sense that caused my ' heart to beat when f heard this name. Let me see, now; it is sixteen years iince—and there ho stands and does not know mo. Time, time, how you level romance! He was slender. Now he is stout. Ho had such a dainty mustache. Now lie has a beard. Ideally, he is much better looking." These and other thoughts Hashed through Mrs. Van Altine's mind at thatmomeut. The American turned. "Madam, how can I thank you? I—" Words failed him. Ho gazed in growing amazement. "Fannie!" "Dick !" They clasped hands. The years that had passed were bridged by that pres sure ol hands. Plighted faith, resent ment, broken rows, pique, misunder standing, separation—alJ, all vanished, and in the sunlight of the present they gazed gladly into each other's eyes. "And Bobby is—" My boy? Yes." "Sho wanted to keep mo, pa," said Bobby, with the elephant clasped to his breast. Dick, who know all about Mrs. Van Altine's history, bout toward her as ho remarked: "There's away sho could do that." "Dear me, how Into it is getting! So glad to have met you, Dick! Charming to see old friends after so many years! Goodby—no, au rovoir, for 1 trust I shall see you. My salon, as I call it, is quite a resort. Come and I will introduce you to many clever people—true Parisians." "Who will bore me?" ho said, bluntly. "The same honest, outspoken Dick !" Then as .she entered the carriage, she said : "You ill come?" "To meet clever people?" "No, to see me." "Yes, I will come. I had intended to leave Paris to-night—" "But now?" "I shall remain--so a l * to call on you and thank you more fully for your great service to-day." "How adorable. You always were charming, Dick." ".Even when—" "When we quarrelled I Yes, indeed. You were the most delightful man to quarrel with I ever mot. If you had not been— But I must be going. Be sure and come— " "When?" "As early as you can." "To-morrow night?" "At once; to-night. I am all impa tient to tell you a hundred things, and—" "I will come." "And--bring Bobby, if you want!" —Detroit Free Press. The most wonderful cliff dwellings in the United States are those &f the ManeoF, in a Southern Colorado can yon. Some of these caves are 500 to 600 feet from the butfeftm of 1 fie per pendicular sides of the canyoif wall, and how their occupants gaiued in gress is a mystery. AT WORK UNDER WATER. PRESSURE MEN" HAVE TO BEAR IN DIG-CINQ TUNNELS. Peculiar Sensations Experienced— rl lie Greatest Banger Lies in Corn ing Out Into the Open Air. IABORING on the firm earth, C* with "all out of doors" to V breathe, perspiring and, may hap, grumbling at one's hard luck, a person seldom, if ever, stops to think that men work day after day deep down in the water, or the mud, with none but artificial light to guide their movements, and only tho air that is pumped to them to breathe. People who work in tho open air would havo only to work for a short time in a diver's suit, a caisson, or an airlock, getting a taste of what it is like and how it feels, to bo cured for ever of grumbling at their lot and to thank their lucky stars that it has boon ordniuod that they work on top of tho earth. The work of a diver, his sensations while under tho water, and his ex periences havo often been written about, but those of tho airlock and caisson worker have not. While he does not fnco tho danger of fouling pipes and lines, as does tho diver, he stays down longer, gets warmer, and his great danger lies in the stagnation of blood and paralysis, resulting from the change of atmosphere. Mr. R. C. Rapier, of East Cambridge, is an airlock worker, and talks most interestingly. His work was mainly in tho airlocks used in building the great Hudson River tunnel. To a Boston Herald reporter lie talked of soino of tho sensations, dangers and experiences. He said that, while n man working on tho surface of tho onrth bears up an atmospheric pressure of fifteen pounds to the inch, men in the locks bear a pressure of from fifteen to fifty pounds of compressed air, according to tho depth. Tho heaviest pressure ever worked under was borne by live divers on tho Swedish coast—sixty live pounds. Four of these died five minutes after coming out. While, as a general thing, tho diver stands not nearly that amount of pressure, and seldom stays down more than two hours, tho men in tlio Hud son River tunnel stood a pressure of from forty-five to forty-six and one half pounds, and worked on four-hour shifts. Some men stayed down twenty hours at a stretch, but did not work all the time, and Superintendent Has kius stayed down once twenty-four hours. Tho sensations experienced are pe culiar. When a man first steps in there is a tingling in tho ears and a pain in the head, and when he talks it in apparently through the nose. This is caused by the pressure, ami the remedy is to hold the nose, close the mouth and blow against tho ears. This relives tho pain and stops the sensation. When the pressure is all on tho worker feels all right and ex periences no discomfort. Then there is a sort of exhilaration, and a man does more work in the lock than he could outside. Another peculiar thing about tho action of the pressure is that a man may hpvo liquor enough aboard when outside to just make him feel jolly, but when ho steps into the lock ho is drunk as a loon. Tho danger lies in coming out c' the pressure into tho open air. It is then that a man is apt to suffer from stag nation of tho blood and paralysis caused by the change of at mosphere. Besides this u man may be attacked in the head or stomach with severe pains. Three out of live cases where the head and stomach are attacked result fa tally. Another severe malady resulting from tho change is what is called the "bonds." This is the air getting in between the flesh and the bone. It is extremely painful, and so severe that a quart of whisky administered in half an hour would not intoxicate tho patient. The stagnation and paralysis are the worst dangers, and do the work quickly. Many men have been keeled over by these causes, and not a few die. Old timers at the business sometimes get caught. Mr. Rapier himself was twice attacked. The rem edy for this paralysis is n quick re turn to the airlock. Tho effect of the pressure varies on animals, as is shown by the mules used in the Hudson River tunnel. Homo of these boasts are kept at work down below for a year, and on being brought up are worth more than when they were taken down. Others that had only been in tho works four mouths had to bo killed. The men, as a general thing, do not remain a great many years at tho business, and a man should never work at it after lio is forty years of ago. Cutting a holo and buildiug a tun nel through water is an extremely dif ficult thing, and by many was thought to be impossible. Still, it was done in the caso of tho Hudson River tun nel, and the method, as told by Mr. Rapier, is very interesting. The work on the tunnel had pro gressed until a body of water was struck. How to tunnel through this hole of water was a puzzling question. It was done this way: A so-called bal loon was constructed by making a net ting of wire rope aud covering this netting with canvas. The interior of the balloon was then filled with blue clay and salt hav. When filled, the balloon,thirty feet in diameter, weighed 140 pounds. Tho hole of water was then located, and with tli3 aid of a huge steam derrick the nalloon was dropped into the hole. Then several tcow loads of dirt were dumpe 1 down onto the balloon, and the whole tiling was left to settle. At the end of ten days the work of cutting through the balloon was begun. This was a very difficult job. An idea of whnt hnrd cutting it was may be gained from tho fact that it took months to dig through the thirty feet; the plates and brick were going in as the work progressed. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Agate is successfully imitated. Fossil bisons have been unearthed in Kentucky. Porcelain is to Vie substituted for gold in filling teeth. The whale is a warm-blooded, air breathing, milk-giving animal. Bedroom windows should never be entirely closed if the person occupy ing the room is strong. When ants show great activity it may almost bo invariably depended upon that rain will follow within twelve hours. "Tissus Microbicides," warranted to keep out tho most preserving bacillus, are being sold by some of the chief Parisian shops. Indian corn, or maize, never has an uneven number of rows of grain, be cause it has opposite radicals of growth from the co-center. One of the new rifles uSed by tho Italian soldiers sends a ball with force enough to go through live inches of solid oak at a distance of 1000 feet. According to M. Flammarion, tho great astronomer, the mean tempera ture of Paris for the past six years has been two degrees below the normal. A German officer has invented a motor in which a lino stream of coal dust is utilized to drive a piston by explosion in tho same manner as tho gas iu the gas engine. Aluminium bronze consists of ninety per cent, copper and ten per cent, aluminium, and possesses a tensile strength of 90,000 pounds. It can be worked in the same manner as steel. The idea of an ancient tropical con tinent at the South Pole, uniting South America, Madagascar and Australia, continues to arouse considerable in terest and discussion iu scientific circles. Professor Dowar has demonstrated that metals augment their magnetic qualities and increase in strength by diminution of temperature. Iron at ISO degrees can endure double its nor mal tensile strain. There is a mystery about tho method of motion of condors that has never been explained. They have been seen to circle to and fro in tho sky, half a day at a time, rising and descending without once Happing a wing. Touch the convex side of a watch glass upon filter so as to leave a drop hanging on tho glass. Pour a little ether into the concave side and blow upon it. The rapid evaporation of the other will render tli" glass so coldth.it the drop of water will be frozen. Lieutenant F. Boyer, of tho French navy, to avoid collisions, proposes to introduce at tho top on all fast sailing steamers an electric light which will cast a beam ahead to indicate the di rection in which the vessel is steering. So long as tho approaching ship was not in the actual pencil of light it would bo unnecessary to alter her course. A new anthropometric test of sensi tiveness has been designed by Dr. Gal ton. A band of color, showing all tho I sixty-fivo shades of blue, is slowly | passed before the eyes, and tho sub ! ject innkos a dot for every shade de j tected. As far as the experiments | have proceeded only about twenty shades are generally discovered. In I one case, however, a dyer deteoted about forty. A fish exerts its great propulsive i power with its tail, not. its tins. Tho ! pnddlewheel was mado on tho fin j theory of propulsion, and the screw propeller had its origin in noting tho action of the tail. It is now shown that tho tins of tho tail actually per form tho evolutions desoribod by the propeller blades, ami that tho fish in its sinuous motion through the water depends on tho torsional action of tho I tail to give it power. Rent lor Made Land. Tho St. Louis courts havo recently decided a case of no little interest to tho dwellers oil the batiks of rivers where new land is likely to bo mado. Mrs. Anna D. Allen owns 145 acres of land at the point where the river Des Peres enters the Mississippi, and she leased it to tho St. Louis, Iron Moun tain and Southern. Later soveuty-tivo acres was added to this tract by ac cretions from the Mississippi. Tho company has a transfer ut this point and was compelled to cross the new land in transferring cars. It, how ever, refused to pay rent for the land embraced in the new formation, on the ground that it was not embraced in the lease. Judge Dillon held that the accretions had become a part of tho original tract, and, inasmuch as the company had used tho land, it was liable for rent. The laud was valued by experts at $l5O per acre, and judg ment was given against the railroad upon the basis of six per cent, on this valuation. —New Orleans Picayune. Humming Bird Killed by n Bpo, A humming bird was killod by tho sting of a bee in Wisconsin not long ago. A boo keeper noticed a pair of ruby-throated humming birds flying around tho entrance of one of the hives. Soon a bee mado its appear ance from within. One of the birds seized it tore it apart and seemed to bo feeding on something found in the bee. Just then another bee came out .Hew and alighted on the bajk of the bird. The latter gave a kind of spas modic shudder, flew a few feet side wise, landed at tho foot of a currant | bush, and w is 'lev!, apparently killed by the sting of the bee.—New York I Bun. IN A SUGAR. REFINERY. PROCESSES 3Y WHICH THE RAW SUGAR 13 REFINED. Terrific Heat Endured by Sonic of the Workmen -bile in the Drying Dooms—Frightful Toil. IT is doubtful if there is any other group of buildings in or near New York where the fearful di fli rt oulties under which men labor for the bare privilege of living, are s i plainly shown an they are ill the towering, forbidding, fortress-like structures 011 the East Diver front of Brooklyn, owned by the American Sugar Defining Company, better known as the Sugar Trust. The big buildings cover a space of four blocks on both sides of Kent avenue, from South First to South Fifth streets, and on the west side of the avenue extend to the river front, their grimy, dull-rod walls extending seventeen stories above the street level. A close inspection of the Havemeyer refineries is necessary to a thorough realization ot the im mensity of the establishment, and this group is one of the refining places owned by the trust. It li is no equal in size; or in the amount of its busi ness in the limits of the Greater New York. The employes of the great concern are disciplined with rules m strict as those which govern an army. If one attempts to get into the refineries he meets the discipline in the shape of a gruff watchman an 1 a club, and a call at the offices reveals it in the shape of a more or "less polite negative from the clerks, who will say that they cannot answer questions. There are about 3000 men employed in the big refineries, and these are •divided into day and night shifts. About 5 o'clock in the morning half of the force can be seen filing down into the basement of one of the great buildings. Work is begun im mediately, and continued until 5 in the evening, when the men are sup plied with cheeks, showing that tliey were on hand when work begun. The majority of the workmen are Poles and Hungarians, and the severity of their labors is shown by the fact that they are nearly all thin sm I stooped, and rarely above middle sigo, it being a well-known fact that men employed in the refineries rarely live to old age. They are nearly new im migrants when first employed, and be fore work is given them they must be fouud perfectly docile and obedient. The rules of the refineries are laid down to the applicant for employment, and he is told that ho will receive $1.12, $1.25 or §1.50 a* the ease may bo, for the first year, and then, if his work is satisfactory, he may receive an additional five or ten cents a day. The niau is assigned to work in one of the many departments and if ha lias received the "tip'' from friends of his own nationality before going to work, he trembles lest the, cdiet may con demn him to the "dry room." It if bo that, however, lie receives it. with characteristic stolidity, an I is thank ful for an opportunity to earn his mis erable pittance, even under such ter rible circumstances. When ilie raw sugar is dumped from the ship in which it is brought to the refineries it is placed in a great cistern near tne river's edge, and is dissolved in hot water. From this vat a sweet, sticky steam constantly, arises, and every little while a workmau, dressed in overalls and an undershirt, pops out from it, and in a minute or so pops back again, and is lost, to sight in the moist cloud. The liquid is pumped up to the top story of the pile, pass ing through a wire strainer, which re moves auy particles of size which may be in it, and is emptied into great cop per receptacles heated to 2(US or 2ld degrees Fahrenheit, known as boilers. The .process of boiling requires con siderable skill, and the men who have charge of it. are paid §IOO or $l5O it month, the number receiving the lat ter figure being extremely limited, only one man in a hundred who re ceives employment in the refineries becoming a boiler, which is the highest ambition of the workmen. The boiling and bubbling sugar is passed down through funnels to the next floor, where it is emptied into a box, the bottom of which consists o' two thicknesses of canvas, one bciu ; coarse, the other fine. This thorough ly filters the stuff, and the room is kept at a terrific temperature in order that the liquid sugar may flow freely, and not become cool and thick. On the floor below is another great cop per tauk, some twenty-five fee deep and nearly tilled with bone black. This purifies the sugar, and, after be ing used for a few hours, becomes sur charged with foulness, and is sent to the lower floor, where it is burned again. The sugar, which is still kept at a temperature of about 150 degrees, is passed into another receptacle, which is made airtight, and the aic and steam are exhausted l>y means of a pump. As soon as the sugar is gr.nv ulated, if it is to bo soft, it is let oil by means of centrifugal mills. If not, it is passed on to the great plates to bo dried. The rooms in which the drying is carried on are veritable infernos. No man can stay in them over ten min utes without falling down utterly prostrated by the terrific heat. No one but au employe is ever allowed within these walls, and no one but mi employe would dare to go in tliaai when the heat is on and the sugar is drying. Clothing is discarded, with the exception of a "breech clout" and shoes, anil there is absolutely no ven tilation, as the windows are kept tightly closed, and at the windows m other woms which are open the men may be seen gasping for breath, and witu their hair and bodies as wet as if they had been plunged in the East Diver, in their snort respite from their frightful toil.—New York Tribune.