From 1871 to 1891 2,000,000 Ger
mans left their native land.
At the last census of this country a
number of people described their
religious faith on their census papers
as "dollars and cents."
Professor Lucy Salmon, Vassar Col
lege, is strongly in favor of the abo
lition of the college commencement,
-which she characterizes as "a relic of
mediaevalißin."
In fifty years of the existence of
navings banks in Massachusetts they
have had under their control the
enormous sum of $2,100,000,000.
They still control upwards of $500,-
000,000 and yet the entire loss to de
positors in this half century, charge
able to fraud, fault or u error, has been
less than $2,000,000.
Mancher F. Glidewell has conveyed
to the Church of Christ, in Indian
apolis, Ind., valuable real estate, on
condition that the trustees never per
mit the introduction of an organ, choir
or musical instrument inside the
church walls, and that fairs, festivals
and all other gatherings not enumer
ated in the New Testament be inter
dicted. A failure to carry out these
restrictions forfeits the real estate to
the faction opposing any innovations
in church worship.
In compliance with an order of the
Missouri State Board of Health in re
gard to quarantine, all officers who
take prisoners to the penitentiary must
carry with them a certificate of health
signed by a local physician and coun
tersigned by the Secretary of the State
Board of Health, which certificate must
Btate that the prisoner has not been ex
posed to any contagious disease for
thirty days prior to his transfer to the
penitentiary. This certificate must he
approved by the Secretary of the State
Board of Health at St. Louis.
The reports from Manila that reach
Hongkong in private letters are not so
roseate as the Spanish official returns.
These private correspondents, who
have no motive for misrepresenting
facts, declare that the authorities are
making no material progress in sup
pressing the insurrection. The rebels
are getting more confident, and if they
only had a supply of good arms they
■would not hesitate to attack Manila it
self. The Spanish cause in the Philip
pines, as in Cuba, nas been injured
seriously by the atrocious cruelties of
the officers and the wholesale execu"
tions of suspects.
Secretary Coburn, of the State De
partment of Agriculture, has issued a
special report on the poultry and egg
industry of Kansas. The product for
1896 amounted to 53,608,815, a sum
sufficient to pay all the State and city
taxes of the preceding year and leave
a surplus of $175,000. No field crops,
with the exception of wheat, corn, and
hay, equalled in value the poultry in
dustry. The yield from poultry was
ninety-five per cent, greater than the
same year's output of lead and zinc
mines of the State, and twenty-three
per cent, greater than the total paid
for teachers' wages and school super
vision. In fact, the poultry came
•within fourteen per cent, of paying
the entire cost of the public schools.
The poultry product was ten per cent,
greater in value than the potato crop,
and within twenty-three per cent, of
the value of all the coal mined in the
State for the preceding year. The
average value of poultry and eggs sold
annually in the State for the past five
years was $3,333,562.
"The city of Melbourne," declares
the New York Times, "is one of the
greatest colonial centers in the world
and is so situated that it has had the
doubtful advantage of testing nearly
all the new-fangled notions of munici
pal ownership and paternal govern
ment generally. The result is not at
all encouraging. The population has
been declining rapidly since 1891,
•when the census showed a total of
490,900. The decrease for 1896 is of
ficially stated at 3848 souls, and for
the five and three-quarter years since
the census the net decline is put at
42,486. This is a condition which
might well appall any city, but it has
been made worse by extravagant
financing. The corporation indebted
ness of Melbourne and its suburbs is
now little less than 850,000,000. The
annual interest upon this enormous
total by the time the Board of Works
haH completed its extensive borrow
ings will amount to about 82,125,000,
though the population iB not only fall
ing off so rapidly, but is nlso growing
poorer every year. Colonial authori
ties still speak hopefully of the out
look, but the future seems depressing
to the foreign observer. The greater
part of the immense debt is due for
public improvements which have been
lavishly distributed."
THE CHARLEY ROSS CASE
AN ABDUCTION CASE THAT ATTRAC
TED WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION.
The Story Revived by the Death of the
Hoy's Father—Tlo Roy Was Carried
Off for a Heavy Ransom, but was
Never Recovered by llis Parents.
The Philadelphia Telegraph gives
the following account of the abduction
of Charley Ross, brought to mind by
the recent death of the boy's father:
I Charley Ross and his elder brother,
Walter, were playing in front of their
home on East Washington street, Ger
mantown, when two men came along
in a buggy or light spring wagou.
These same men had passed by on
! three or four preceding days 'and had
given Charley candy. On this fateful
j day Charley, according to the story
subsequently told by Walter, had
asked the men for a ride. The men
told him they would give him a ride
from the top of a near-by hill, and
also promised to give him firecrackers.
| The two boys walked to the top of the
hill, and they were then taken into the
wagon.
i Walter wanted the men to take them
to Main street for the fireworks, but
the abductors said they would take
them to "Aunt Susie," a fictitious per
son. The men plied the boys with
candy, while the team was driven
rapidly toward Kensington. Charlie
cried and begged to be taken home.
At Palmer and Richmond streets
Walter was given a quarter and di
rected to get fireworks in a cigar
store. The boy obeyed, and returned
to find the wagon, the men and his
curly-haired brother gone. His tears
! brought a crowd, and in this crowd
; was H. C. Peacock, a friend of the
family, who took the boy to his par
ents.
The elder brother told an accurate
and coherent story of the abduction
and gave a full description of the ad
ductors. His story was corroborated
and a general alarm was sent out to the
police. A reward of S3OO was offered
for the return of the boy aud adver
tisements were sent to all newspapers
in this part of the country. Mrs.
Ross was ill at Atlantic City, and the
news of her loss was kept from her
for some days.
The police were unable to discover
a trace of the child, aud it was not uu
-1 til July 4 that anything in the nature
of a clue came to the searchers. This
was in the shape of a letter from the
supposed abductors. It was grossly
illiterate and evidently purposely so.
The letter informed Mr. Ross that the
abductors held the boy so securely
that no earthly power could reach him,
and that he would not be delivered
without the payment of a big ransom.
The father was warned that anv at
tempt to recover the boy by detectives
would result in his in stunt death. The
writer promised to communicate with
Mr. Ross within a few days.
Two days later they wrote demand
ing $20,000 ransom for the return of
the boy. This sum was promptly
raised by friends of Mr. Ross, but the
police stepped in and asked to be
given the conduct of the case. This
was granted, aud Mayor Stokeley of
fered a reward of $20,000 for the ar
rest of the kidnapers and the return of
the boy. This immense reward attract
ed world-wide attention and set thou
sands of detectives at work and mil
lions of tongues wagging.
During several weary months Mr.
Ross received sixteen letters from the
abductors, but they were so carefully
disguised that no clue to the writers
could bo found. The entire com
munity had become intensely excited
over the case, and volunteers stood
guard over almost every letter box in
the city, but with no result. Public
interest was at fever heat, and meet
ings of citizens were held in every
part of the city.
Staid men of business dropped
their commercial pursuits and became
amateur detectives. Others wrote
books on the subject, some of which
were serious and of value, while others
were the emanations of cranks.
Several persons became absolute
maniacs on the subject of the abduc
tion. Two men who had devoted
years of study to the subject took the
lecture platform, in addition to writing
books, and kept up the agitation until
recent years.
What became of the child was never
positively settled. It is generally be
lieved that he was drowned in the
North River, New York, while his
abductors were fleeing from detectives.
But it was pretty well established that
William Mosher and Joseph Douglass,
notorious burglars, took the boy from
his home. They were shot while try
ing to rob the residence of Judge Van
Brunt at Bay Ridge, N. Y., and in
their death throes confessed that they
had taken Charley Ross. Walter Rosa
fully identified them.
1 William Westervelt, a brother-in-law
of Mosher, had acted as go-between in
the negotiations with Mr. Ross and the
abductors. He was brought to Phila
delphia, tried and convicted of com
plicity in the conspiracy to abduct the
boy, and was sentenced to seven years
in the Eastern Penitentiary.
In the presence of Detective Miller
the wife of the convicted man begged
him to tell what lie knew of the crime,
but he maintained a stolid silence, and
if he ever knew anything he never
told it. He served his sentence and is
' supposed to have returned to New
, York.
A Premature Publication.
j Owing to the cat being let out of
the bag too soon the "Map of Africa
by Treaty" by the librarian of the
British Foreign Office has just ap
peared in a second edition, the first
edition having been hastily suppressed,
as the boundaries marked indiscreetly
showed the boundaries England in
| tended to demand in the near future
J and not those generally acknowledged
i to belong to her
SICK-ROOM HINTS. \
For cramps or pains in the stomach
try a tew drops of essence of camphor.
For a nervous headache a cup of
moderately strong tea in which two or
three Blices of lemon have been in
fused.
For tired feet put a handful of com
mon salt into four quarts of hot water.
Place the feet in the water while it is
hot as it can be borne. Then rub the
feet dry with a rough towel.
For making a clear complexion stir
two teaspoonfuls of flowers of sulphur
into half a pint of new milk. Let it
stand a while, and then rub the face
over with it a short time before wash
ing.
For binding up cuts and wounds
always use linen, not cotton, as the
fibres of cotton are flat and apt to
irritate a sore place, while those of
linen are perfectly rounded.
For baldness try the following tonic:
Liquid ammonia, almond oil and
chloroform each one part; alcohol, five
parts; oil of lemons, one dram. Apply
freely and often after first thoroughly
brushing the hair. This is a mild
stimulant and perfectly safe.
For a nail-cleaning liquid use the
following lotion: Tartaric acid, one
dram; tincture of myrrh, one dram;
eau de Cologne, two drams; distilled
water, three ounces. Dissolve the
acid in the water, mix the tincture of
myrrh and eau de Cologne and add to
the acid solution. Dip the nails in this
solution, wipe and polish with a chamois
pad.—New York Tribune.
Very Largo Dog.
Nero, a dog owned by Wayne Bailey,
of Rutland, is said to be the largest
canine in the world, says the Vermont
Phoenix. He tipped the scales Friday
at 2G7 pounds, and would undoubtedly
have gone ten pounds better three
weeks ago.
Nero iRa handsome half German
and half English mastiff, fawn brindle
in color, his huge head being of a tri
fle darker shade. He is as agile and
lively as a cat. He makes a splendid
watch dog, but is a kind and affection
ate animal.
Mr. Bailey bought him at West Rut
land when he was six months old; he
is now four years old. At the time of
purchase Nero weighed 102 pounds.
The animal stands up from the
ground thirty-five inches and girths
fifty inches. The dog's neck is unusu
ally large, measuring thirty inches, and
from tip to tip lie measures six feet
five and one-half inches.
Dwelt in a Tree Trunk.
The trial of John Rhodes for
vagrancy in the police court at Kansas
City, Mo., the other ilny disclosed the
fact that he and his two sons had been
living in a big hollow near the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge
since last March. Rhodes is a wagon
maker, fifty-two years old. Since he
went to Kansas City from Logansport,
Ind., a year ago, he did no work, but
depended for existence on what his
two sons could beg. Being driven out
of a hut last March, lie moved into a
large hollow tree on the banks of the
Missouri River. There he would sleep,
while his sons were out begging food
and clothing. Policeman Kennedy
arrested him for vagrancy. J. C.
Groenman, humane agent, took charge
of his sous and wants to find homes
for them. They are bright boys.
Their mother is dead.
Want Hugs Protected.
For some time past British ento
mologists, or bug-liunters, have been
exercised over the extermination of
certain insects in consequence of the
zeal of the collectors, who roam over
the country with butterfly nets. It
would be difficult to protect butterflies
and moths by legislation, as has been
done for birds; so an association has
been formed under the auspices of the
Entomological Society of London.
The members agree to leave rare in
sects alone for awhile and to do all in
their power to curb the sporting in
stinct in others. The insect collector
who abides by it will be more than
human, remarks London Graphic.
Imagine a stamp collector agreeing
not to pick up a rare specimen from
the roadside, yet a similar temptation
will be met nnd have to be resisted by
the insect collector.
IntercHtiiiK to the I'rosililent.
President McKinley Thursday passed
through the spot where he received
his first recognition as a public ser
vant. When the splendid presidential
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way reached Gauley Bridge, W. Va.,
Mr. McKinley looked out the window
of his observation car and remarked:
"This place seems familiar to me.
It was here that I joined General
Hayes's brigade in December, 1804."
A member of the presidential party
happened to remember it was at Gau
ley' s Bridge that General Hayes wrote
in his diary December 10, 180-4:
"Our new Second Lieutenant, Mc-
Kinley, joined us to-day. He is a
gentlemanly and intelligent young of
ficer, and we all like him very much.'
Chicago Times-Herald.
Killed by Potato Bugs.
Charles Price, a farmer, residing
near Hamburg, Ind., is dead, as the
result of poison from potato bugs.
He was at work in his potato patch
killing the beetles that were devour
ing the plants. Swarms of bugs
alighted on his face and hands, which
were soon impregnated with the
poison. He died in great agony.
Birdi* Within the Arctic Circle.
I It has been a source of interest and
wonder to Arctic explorers to find such
quantities of singing birds within the
Arctic circle. They are abundant be
yond belief. But the immense crops
of cranberries, crowberries and cloud
berries that ripen in the northern
swamps account for the presence of
i the birds,
A ITandy Garden Cart.
The sketch herewith shows n cross
between a wheelbarrow and a four
wheeled cart that will be found very
conveniont. It is long and light and
fitted for carrying almost any kind of
a load. Sides and a front end can be
life—~zr
CART TOR TIIE GARDEN.
provided if needed. Let the rims of
the wheels be wide, so that they may
not cut into the ground. The rods at
the rear keep such loads as cornstalks,
branches from pruning, etc., from the
wheels, but permit boxes or baskets to
be set in between them.—New Eng
land Homestead.
To .Break Up h Sitting Hen.
Tt is so natural for the hen to sit
after continuous laying until her egg
supply is temporarily exhausted that
we used when keeping hens to let
them have their own way generally
and bring off their broods. One of
the most beautiful sights in the farm
yard is the mother hen watching her
little brood, calling them to a favorite
morsel, or uttering the warning cry
which every little chick understands
when some strauge object above her
gives the alarm. A piece of news
paper blown by the wind is to the
hen's imagination a dangerous bird of
prey. While the lieu is sitting, if she
is fed and watered twice a day she is
probably recovering her strength and
bringing forward another lot of eggs
quite as fast as she would be if run
ning at large. It really does the hen
good to raise her little family, and
with the Asiatic breeds we doubt
whether you will lose any eggs by it.
The trouble is that while the hen is
sitting she is usually partly starved,
and so it takes longer for her to re
cover. If fed only wheat with plenty
of pure water, and in separate dish the
curd of milk, Plymouth Rock hens
will often begin to lay eggs while kept
in the coop with chicks too small to
care for themselves. Yet it is not
hard to prevent the hen from sitting
if you want to. Place the hen in a coop
where she can have no place to make
a nest, and with a young rooster from
another pen, if possible. After & few
days of this treatment, giving only
water and wheat grains, the liens may
be turned out and will soon go to lay
ing again.—Boston Cultivator.
Marking the Milk.
Where the milk is set in shallow
pans it is wise to mark each day's
milk, as "Tuesday morning," "Tues
day night," etc. In this way one can
see at a glance just when to skim, and
does not have to stop to reckon up the
number of pans used each day. It is
/
HOW TO MARK MILK.
also often desired to mark a particular
cow's milk, in order to observe its
quality. A label and method of at
tachment is shown in the cut. A strip
of pasteboard has its end bent over
and wire inserted as shown. The fold
is glued down, thus holding the wire.
Bend the double wire and hang it over
the pan's edge.
Browing Fall Turnips.
Where the land is fresh and free
from the seeds of foul weeds, fall
turnip seed may be sowu broadcast
from the first of July until the middle
of August, depending on the season,
and covered with a light smoothing or
brush harrow. Prepare the land very
carefully and pulverize and compact,
the seedbed thoroughly. New ground
the second year from sod gives best re
sults. The soil is then rich in plant
food and in good tilth. A piece of
sod ground broken during the sum
mer and seeded to wheat in the fall
makes nn excellent turnip field the
following season, after the wheat has
been hnrvested. Ordinarily such land
will not produce a sufficient number
of weeds to interfere with the full de
velopment of the turnips. Four or
five pounds of seed to the acre will
give about the right stand.
In sections of the country where
new land is not available, truck
patches from which early vegetables
have been removed will answer
admirably. Often wheat land is
plowed as soon as the gain has
been removed and seoded to
turnips. The ground must be rich,
for turnips are gross feeders, but soil
containing an excess of vegetable mat
ter will cause an excessive growth of
tops, to the detriment of root devel
opment. A cool, moist climate is very
favorable to the growth of turnips and
for this reason the seed should be put
in late if the season is dry, then most
of the growth will take place in fall.
While broadcasting answers very
well on new land, the best results are
obtained only when sown in rows and
cultivated. Have the rows about two
feet apart and the plants anywhere
from six to twelve inches apai t in the
row. Give level culture, keep tho
land free from weeds and stir the sur
face often.
Turnips are a valuable winter feed
for sheep and cattle, particularly the
former. When fed to milk cows give
just after milking. Otherwise the
milk may be given an unpleasant odor
and the butter an undesirable taint.
They must not he fed in excess to any
stock but when other succulent feeds
cannot be fed, turnips are invaluable.
—American Agriculturist.
Hisli Farming; on Cheap I.and.
The greatest difficulty in the way of
good farming in this country has al
ways been that prices of laud were so
low that those engaged in farming have
been tempted to buy more land than
they could profitably work. There
should always be an amount of work
ing capital equal to at least half of
what is invested in land. This should
be done even though the land be only
partly paid for. It is much better to
leave a part of the cost of land put in
a mortgage whose interest can be met
every year, than to pay all the money
down and leave nothing to work the
land with. In a great majority of
cases it is the floating capital, rather
than that invested in land, which pays
the greatest rate of profit. Farmers
have been complaining for years that
the merchant, who makes ten to twen
ty-five per cent, on his merchantable
stock, has the advantage of them.
They are tied to their farms, and like
the man holding fast by the wolf's tail,
cannot, safely, let go, while it takes all
their energies to simply hold on and
prevent the wolf from turning and
rending them.
On high-priced land near cities most
of the higli-pi'ieed farm stock is kept.
It is usually far more profitable than
the stock of the merchant, for that, ex
cept in case of a change in the mar
kets, cannot increase in value, and is
much more likely to decrease. The
merchant's stock cannot iucrease iu
amount as can that of the breeder. To
be sure, tile breeder has losses by
casualties to animals, but these are
fully offset if not more by the bad
debts that the merchant accumulates
on his ledger. If the breeder manages
rightly his stock may be made to in
crease with its product thirty to more
than one hundred per cent. There is
no kind of business so safe from loss,
other than farming, that pays so well
as this. Why then is it that so many
farmers are poor? It is because they
trust too much to their land to sustain
them without having the capital to
make the best use of it.
Most low-priced land is so because
it is far from market; that may make
such land unsuitable for growing the
fancy breeds of stock that can usually
ouly be sold by having those who in
tend purchasing visit the farm and in
specting stock on the ground. Yet
when a farmer is known to have an
extra good class of stock he will find
customers for it, even if they do find
it not very convenient to visit and in
spect it. There is no surer way to
make the farm richer than to use it for
stock-breeding purposes. If the fer
tility is put into the soil, there need
be no fear that some means will be
found for making it profitable. It was
the virgin and fertile soils of the
Northwest that attracted settlement
from all parts of the world. Increase
fertility anywhere and the land will
never lack purchasers. —American
Cultivator.
Horse Hints.
Being gentle with a horse will help
him to be gentle.
Keep the colt fat and he will make
an easy-going horse.
Sores on horses' shoulders are large
ly the result of ill-fitting collars.
An excess of food weakens a work
ing animal and disables it from work.
If young teams are overloaded they
are apt to become discouraged or
vicious.
Take the horse to the harness shop
and see that a collar fits him before
you buy it.
To a very considerable extent the
most costly farming is that done with
poor teams.
The farmers will always be poor
who continue to raise SSO horses at an
expense of SIOO.
Blood, food, care and training are
the essentials necessary for producing
a first-class horse.
There are few diseases to which
horses are subject but are easier pre
vented than cured.
Good grooming does not only add
to the animal's comfort, but to its
healthfulness as well.
The best farm horse is the one with
a kind and tractable disposition, well
broken and serviceable.
Feeding a little wheat bran with the
other grain will help to make tho
horse's hair sleek and glossy.
The feed and care necessary to raise
a poor horse costs as much iu every
way as it d<js for one of the best.
A horse needs exercise every day
to keep his system properly regulated
aud make his hair bright and sleek.
When the horse is brought in from
work he should be given a good drink;
if too warm to drink he is too warm to
eat.
The largest estates in Austria aro
those of Prince Schwartzenburg, 510,-
000 acres; Prince Lichtenstein, 450,-
000, aud Archduke Albert. 305,000. .
REMARKABLE BONE CRAFTING.
Transplanting u Lone Five Inches Long
From a Sheep to a Man's Leg,
A bone five inches long, taken from
the leg of a sheep, has been grafted
successfully to the tibia (large bone of
the leg) of a human being by Dr. De
Witt G. Wilcox, Surgeon-in-Charge at
the Lexington Heights Hospital, Buf
falo, N. Y. There is no record in
medical literature of a similar opera
tion of such magnitude.
F. H. Moir, twenty-four years old,
was injured January 1 by the explo
sion of a gas-drum. The tibia was
badly shattered. Ordinary methods
of healing failed, and then Dr. Wilcox
endeavored to save the limb.
The patient was placed under
chloroform, and the two ends of the
bone were cut off sufficiently distant
from the injured area to insure healthy
bone. This distance amounted to five
inches. The soft parts around the
seat of injury were well cleaned out
and put in a healthy condition.
While this work was being done
another operation was being conducted
in an adjoining room. Here a healthy
live sheep, one year old, was chloro
formed, a section of bone removed
from its hind leg, thoroughly cleansed
and made to fit into the interval just
created in the man's leg. This was
sprung in with snflicient pressure to
insure it keeping its place perfectly.
The cavity was again well cleansed
and the skin sewed up closely. The
entire leg from the toes to the hip was
placed in a plaster-of-paris cast. The
progress of the patient since the oper
ation has been most favorable.
When the bone was grafted in there
was allowed to formed a clot of blood
completely enveloping this graft.
Under favorable conditions such a clot,
with a bone for a basis, or, in other
words, to feed upon, will in the course
of time become bone itself. It first
organizes into fibrous tissue, then
gradually becomes bony.
There is every evidence that this
clot is thus hardening from the fact
that iu passing the finger over the
surface of the leg there cannot be felt
any marked depression between the
ends of the natural bone. Were this
clot not hardened a "soft interval"
would be quite distinct.
The repair between the ends of the
bone is, therefore, due quite a.s much
to the "blood-clot" formation as to
graft; but the graft must make the
frame upon which this clot can form,
and this clot must also be fed with
bone cells from the ends of the
healthy bone and its coverings.
It will be some weeks before the pa
tient will be allowed to use his leg for
walking, but there is every evidence
that the operation will prove a suc
cess. —New York World.
Smoke unil Health.
Fogs are said to have a very bene
ficial effect on the health of districts
where they are prevalent, as they are
great purifiers of the atmosphere, and
even the sulphur which makes the
London fog so pungent and irritating
is credited with effecting quite an ap
preciable limitation ot prevalent in
fectious diseases. Professor Maur is
now of the opinion that smoke may be
turned into a hygienic ally, and, under
some circumstances, be made capable
of preserving the public health to a de
gree little imagined. The dust col
lected from the smoke of some Liege
furnaces, burning coal raised from the
neighboring mines, produces, when
dissolved in hydrochloric acid, a so
lution from which considerable quan
tities of arsenic and several other me
tallic salts may be precipitated. It is
now suspected that this breathing of
arsenic and other minerals in a finely
divided state may account for the
singular immunity from epidemics en
joyed by certain industrial districts,
such as that of St. Etienne, and medi
cal authorities in those regions and
elsewhere are asked to throw upon
the subject what light they can. It is
suggested that the ventilating effect of
the numerous chimneys in iron mak
ing and other industrial centers has
its due share in constantly driving off
the vitiated air and replacing it by
fresh quantities of pure air. It was
noted that when pestilence was raging
in the English town of Clifton, an ele
vated and apparently salubrious resi
dential district, its inhabitants mi
grated to a low-lying and murky parish
in the adjacent town of Bristol, where
the air was black from the smoke of
numerous chimneys, while the mor
tality was lower than that of the fash
ionable quarter overlooking it.—St.
Louie Globe-Democrat.
The Lesson "Went Home.
Little Anita was an exceptionally
good girl when under the direct sur
veillance of her parents; hut once out
of their sight she broke loose and
played all kinds of pranks. This was
a source of much concern to her par
ents, and her father, desiring to cor
rect the habit, impressed upon her
mind that when she was out of huinnn
sight all her acts were still observed
by God. The moral lesson seemed to
affect her, and shortly afterward, as
she was leaving the house alone, the
old dog Fido attempted to follow her.
This annoyed little Anita very much,
and, turning pettishly around, she
said to the devoted animal: "Fido,
you do homo at once; it is bad enough
to have Dod following me everywhere,
without having you following me,
too." •>
Electrocntlnc AVhsles.
A Canadian sea captain has invented
an appnratns with which he thinks
whales con be killed by electric shock.
A harpoon is fixed at the end of a long
metallic cable, properly insulated, and
which serves in place of the usual
rope. Through this cable on electric
current of 10,000 volts is to bo sent by
means of a dynamo carried in the
whale boat. The inventor believes
that no whale would be able to with
stand the shock it would receive the
instant the harpoon entered its side.
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
All's Fair in War—Evanion—Danger of
Delay— Safe—No Kecarder of Persons—
The Cornerstone Surprised Bargain
Day in Stamps Far From It, Etc.
A bicycle corps.
With weapons galore,
All strapped to the broad, slanting backs,
Charged after the foe
With a whoop and hallo-
But the road had been sprinkled with taeksl
—Chicago ltecord.
Evasion.
Miss Rivalle—"Now, Mr. Jones,
I'm sure you think Miss Minks pretty."
The Astute Jones—"Yes; she is
pretty tall."—Pick-Me-Up.
Danger of Delay.
"Oh, doctor, you have been so very
long in coming that my pain Las left
me."
"I am exceedingly sorry, but I as
sure you it shall not occur again."—
Judy.
No Regarder of Persons.
"George, I fear you are marrying
me just because my uncle left me a
fortune."
"No, my precious. I'd marry you
just the same if atiy other person had
left it to you."—Tit-Bits.
Safe.
"Umpire, why didn't yon dodge
when that pitcher struck at your head
with his bat?"
"Dodge? Haven't I been watching
him play ball all season? He can't
hit anything."—Detroit Free Press.
City Nephew—"l have very little
money in the bank, but I have a good
deal tied up"—
Uncle Josh "Land sakes! I
thought you city folks was all past
keepin' yer money in stockin's."—
Puck.
The Cornerstone.
Mrs. Bumpus—"l see in the papers
that Millionaire Van Dough only laid
the cornerstone of his fortune a few
years ago."
Bumpus—"Ah, mebbe he was one
of the fellers that sold me that gold
brick then." —Pittsburg News.
Kiirgaln Dny in Stamps.
"Can't I get these two-cent stamps
cheaper if I take a quantity?" asked
Mrs. Chestnut of the stamp clerk at
the Philadelphia postoffice.
"I can let you have a dozen for a
quarter," replied the clerk.
"Very well, I'll take them."—Har
lem Life.
Far From It.
Mr. Citimau—"l don't see how yoti
can spend the best years of your life
in a place like this."
Mr. Subbubs—"Hang it all, manf
I am not spending the best years of my
life here. The years I have spent here
have been the very worst years of my
life."—Puck.
Athletic Diet.
"I know a man who lives on base
balls."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he begged a qnarter of me,
said he hadn't bad a square meal for a
week, and when I got out to the game
he had a better seat than I had."—
Detroit Free Press.
Not Much Luck.
"Are the fish biting well to-day?"
asked a man of a boy who was fishing
in a brook not far from Boston.
"The fish do not bite, sir," replied
the boy, respectfully. "They swallow
the bait, and the hook embeds itself in
their mouth. But they are \iry wary
to-day, sir."—Puck.
Not to be Expected.
Salesman—"lf the goods are not
just as represented, we will cheerfully
refund your moufiy."
Rural Customer—"Don't tell me
secli yarns as that, young man! Ye
might gimme me money back, but't
ain't human natur fer ye to be cheer
ful about doin' it."—Puck.
Interesting.
"I find the American farmer so in
teresting," twittered the poetess.
"I manage to extract a good deal of
interest out of him myself," was the
answer of the short, elderly, donble
cliinned gentleman, who, as it after
ward developed, was in the mortgage
business.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Changing the Figure.
Van Arndt—"See those two girls
over there? Not much difl'erenco in
their figures, eh?"
Fenilworth—"Not the slightest.
I'd call thorn both gawky, long and
angular."
Van Arndt—"Yes; hut the one in
blue is heiress to millions—so she's
always referred to as being 'svelte.'"
—Puck.
A Modern Munchausen.
"Any quail about this neighbor
hood?" inquired a tourist, who was
about to register at a Western Texas
hotel.
"Quail!" said the proprietor, with
an indulgent smile; "they've got to be
a nuisance. The cook complains that
she can't throw a piece of toast out of
the back window but four or five fat
quail fight to see which one shall get
it."—Texas Sittings.
Over-Cautious.
"I wish," said the clarinet player
thoughtfully, "that they'd leave out
one of the numbers in this pro
gramme."
"What for?" inquired the leader.
"You see, the gentleman in charge
of this occasion doesn't know very
much about music. That selection
requires me to rest for thirty-two
measures, and I'm afraid he'll think
I'm not earning my salary."—Wash
ington Star.