Only iwenly per cent, o? the mur
ders committed yearly in America aud
Europe aro ever found out.
In order to assist in sretting fallen
horses to their feet from slippery
streets, tho Department of Public
Works, New York City, is placing
boxes filled with sand upon the side
walks within a few inches of tho curb,
where they may bo opened in an
emergency and tho sand carried to
where it is needed. This is an excel
lent and humane idea, and will be wel
comed by all drivers iu wet weather.
"Some idea of the formidable char. '
•cter of our pension expenses may be
gathered," notes the New York Inde
pendent, "from the fact that the total
payments, including expense of ad
ministration, etc., amounts to $2,178,
753,270 in the past thirty-two years,
from and inclusive of 1806. Thest
enormous expenditures were ou ac
count of the Revolutionary War, the
War of 1812, the Mexican and Indian
Wars and the Civil War. The cost oJ
modern wars is truly prohibitory."
The falsification of wine, for man}
years a growing industry iu Germany
now is to be made a legalized industry
as well, writes W jlf von Schierbrainl.
Tho product is to be known under the
name of "Kunstwein." The govern
ment is to get a t'.x of twenty marks
for each hectoliter, and the stuff,prop- .
erly labeled, is to be sold opeuly. The
Federation of Husbandmen stands
sponsor for this queer attempt to make ■
tho wholesale defrauding of the public j
a legal act. The bill already has beeu
drawn up.
Cattle, wheu killed in Massachu
setts, as a precautionary measure,
sost somewhat more than the animals
would fetch at the butchers. In tho
auuual report of the State Cattle Com
mission, made to tho Legislature yes
terday, it is shown that the number
of cattle paid for as tuberculous during
the year was 5275, and the amount
paid for them was $179,867.52. Over
&5500 was paid for 100 animals in
which no lesions of the disease were
onnd. Quarantine, killing, and burial
expenses and arbitration brought the
average amount paid for condemned
eattle up to $3-1.12 per head.
The War Department is busy nowa
days over the problem of condensed
diet for tho starving Ivlondikers.
The3e investigations have elicited the
information that beef tea and extracts
in capsules are of no use for rations
for the array or for the Klondike suf
ferers. They are palatable and stim
ulating, but contain practically no
nourishment. A quantity of Hour
will be sent to Alaska, but not wheat
flour. Whole wheat flour and dry rye
flour will bo preferred, because they
lire more nourishing. Amoug the most |
interesting of the foods selected are
concentrated vegetables, especially
carrots and onions, whih have addi
tional value as antidotes to the scurvy. ,
There aro carrot chips, cooked and
evaporated to absolute dryness, which
come from California, while Germany
sends onions in compressed tablets,
four inches squaro ami one-third of •
an inch thick. One of these tablets
makes six ample portions, expanding
in bulk greatly when boiling water is i
poured over it. The material is used
like fresh onions.
The New York Journal preaches an
editorial sermon on "The Danger of
Getting Too Big," saying: A boy, ap
parently unusually robust aud vigor
ous, died suddenly in one of New
York's suburbs tho ether day of a
curious complaint. He was nineteen
years old, six feet two inches high,
weighed about 200 pounds and enjoyed
unusual muscular strength. But,
strangely enough, ho grew too big.
En proportion as height and weight
increased the vitality which animated
his enormous frame decreased. He
became bigger and weaker. He died
of too much size. The instance is a
sad one aud it teaches its lesson.
Other bodies than mere individual
human bodies disintegrate when they
outgrow the vital spark which gives
them force aud animation. The parry
which has an overwhelming majority
in the Nutional House of Representa
tives, for example, seldom holds it be
yond one Congress. The party which
carries a State Legislature on the eve
of a Senatorial contest usually is rent
in twain by rival ambitious created by
its very bigness. The biggest major
ity in a city election doesn't neces
sarily insure the longest domination
of the party winning it. Tho trust
with the most enormous capital ; s not
infrequently the one which goes most
quickly to the wall. In brief, it is nol
well to devolop a body too big for the
•oul. One cannot rely upon mere size
in politics, pugilism, financiering or
tuy other phase of human endeavor.
DON'T WORRY, DEAR.
Don't wnrry. dear; thebl<)ake9t years
That clog tho forward viow.
Each thins to nothing when it noar3,
And wo may sauuter through.
Tho darkest moment never comes, !
It only looms before;
Tho loss of home is what benumb"
Not trouble at tho door.
Dou't worry, dear, tho clouds aro black,
But with them ootnos tho rain.
And stiile l souls that parch uud orao u
May thrill with sap again.
Tho burdeu bear us best wo can.
And there'll be none to boar:
Hard work has never killed a man.
But worry did its sharo.
Don't worry, dear; don't blanch, don't
yield.
But daro tho years to come;
Nor give tho enemy the Hold
Beeaus) we beat Ins drum.
These little woes that hover near
Are nothing, though they gall:
Wo know that life is love, my dear, '
And life aud love are all.
Morwin, in Youth's Companion.
| THE OTHER GIRL. I
An HEN I arrived
If ftt 011 *
? * ou ' rtU( l
<\\ *h o French
w\n\"'fe r f'M mail had col
lecto't their
chattels and
stood round the
immense heap j
in attitudes denoting various degrees
of impatience.
I apologized.
"It is of no consequence," said Lady
Mauuiugton, in a touo signifying it
was of the greatest. Mollie shook her
head at me and smiled.
I looked at the two ladies and the
French maid, and then I looked at the I
miniature mountain.
"Tho brougham is only seated for i
two," I hinted.
"Celeste can walk,"said Lady Man- !
nington.
"I shall be glad of her company," I ;
responded, politely.
Lady Mauuington glanced at me ;
doubtfully. "Perhaps sho could
man.*ge by the coachwau," she sug- !
gosted.
"His wife is most particular," I in
terposed quickly.
"I should prefer to walk, mamma,"
said Mollie, with an air of much good- !
nature.
"Perhaps that will bo best," Lady j
Mauniugton conceded reluctantly.
"I am sure of it," I indorsed hearti- |
•y
--"If only your aunt had sent the
omnibus "Lady Mauuington began
aggrievedly.
"It was most careless of her," I
admitted iictautly. I caught Mollie's
eye. She has a curious way of smil
ing at nothing.
So Mollie and I started to walk
over the crisp snow. Just outside the
station I helped her over the stile.
"Wo may as well take the short cut,"
I observed; "it is not so very much
longer, and I have so inuoh to say to
you."
"What about?" asked Mollie.
I hesitated. "It is about a friend
of mine," I replied at length.
"Oh!"
"Ho is in tho deuce of a mess," I
began confidentially. "I want your :
help."
"What can I do?" asked Mollie, '
opening her eyes.
"You can advise mo," I replied,
taking courage. "A woman's wit "
Mollie was pleased. "Go on, Mr.
Trevor."
"I fear you will think my friend
particularly foolish," I said sorrow
fully.
"Very likely," replied Mollio, in
differently.
"I assure you ho has many good '
points. But it happened a girl want- j
ed to marry him."
"What!" exclaimed Mollie.
"I can't think what she saw in !
him," I replied uncomfortably.
"I hope," said Mollie, "you are not ;
going to tell me anything that is not i
proper."
"Oh, no," I replied earnestly.
"The girl was quite respectable."
"She could not have been quite
nice," said Mollie decisively.
I stopped to test the strength of the
ice over a pool.
"I have seen her look quito nice," I
remarked thoughtfully.
"You know her?" asked Mollie
quickly.
"Oh, yes. It wasn't really the girl 1
who wauted to marry my friend; it
was her mother. I woau tho mother
wauted the girl to marry my friend, I
hope I make myself clear."
"I don't think that improves mat
ters," retorted Mollie.
• '.Sho had a largo family of daugh
ters,' I explained.
"Ho on," said Mollie, with a se
verely judicial air.
"My friend was in love with another
girl—a really nice girl. In fact, a
quite splendid girl. One of the very
best," I said, kindling.
"You know that girl, too?" asked
M<llie, a little coldly.
"Ye-es."
"Well?"
"My friend was staying at a country
house, and so were both the girl aud
her mother, aud she—"
"Who?" asked Mollie.
"The girl whose mother wanted her
to marry him. I do Lope lam clear.
She got him into a quiet corner, and
somehow or other my friend found out
■he had hold, of his hand. I—l don't
know how it happened. It just oc
curred."
"How clever your friend to find it
out," said Mollie sarcastically.
I went on hastily—"And then ho
saw her head coming nearer and near
er his shoulder, and ho didn't know
what to do."
"I wonder,*' said Mollio, "ho did
not call for help."
"You see," I went on, "ho was
afraid she would propose, or—or —the
mother might come. Ho guessed the
mother was pretty near. Then he
thought of the other girl, and he got
into a dreadful panic. In fact, ho lost
his head."
"It could not have been a great
loss," observed Mollio disdainfully. i
"Xo-o. But it was the only one he !
had, and ho was accustomed to it. |
lie didn't know what to do. So he said j
ho was already engaged."
"Did he say already?"
"Yes." It was a cold day, but 1
mopped my brow with my liaudker- j
chief.
Mollie uttered a peal of silvery i
laughter. "I am really almost sorry ;
for that girl, but it served her right." |
"The girl didn't turn a hair. She j
simply straightened herself up and .
asked to whom he was engaged."
"Well?"
"He blurted out the name of the
other girl. He couldn't think of any
other name."
j "To wLorn, of course, he is not en- ,
! gaged?"
j "Xo. And I don't suppose she
j would have him. She is far, far too |
! good for him."
I "Is that your wholo story?"
| "Very nearly. The girl went away
I and told bar mother, who came up
| gushingly and congratulated him. She
!is a true sportswoman. After that
she went about telling everybody of
tko engagement, and my friend has
had to receive congratulations ever
since."
"How awkward!" said Mollie medi
tatively. "Has the other girl heard
of it?"
"Xot yet. This all happened yes
terday."
"Yesterday?"
I nodded. "And the worst is the
other girl is expected to arrive at the
Towers almost immediately."
"Dear me," said Mollie. "So your
friend is at the Towers now?"
"I didn't mean to let it out," I ro
plied, a little abashed.
Mollie began to laugh. "It is
most amusing; but why did you tell
me about it?"
"I want your advice."
"Who is the other girl?" asked
Mollio curiously.
"Please don't ask for natnos," 1
implored.
"But my advice must depend on the
other girl's disposition."
"She is everything that is perfect,"
I replied fervently.
"Xo doubt," retorted Mollie satiric
ally.
"Yon might almost be the other girl
yourself," I went on with careful
carelessness.
"Roally?" said Mollie. "I believe
that must be considered a compliment.
Thank you very much."
"What," I asked, with elaborate in
difference, "would you do if you
wero the other girl?"
Mollie stopped and broke off a sprig
of red berries. They were not so red
as her lips. "Of course," sho said,
"I iihould bo very annoyed."
"Ah, of course," said I, forlornly.
"At any rate, I should pretend to
be very annoyed."
"Butreally ," I began, delighted.
"Oh, that would depend on the
man."
"Supposing, for the sake of illustra
tion," said I, surveying tho whito ex
pause of a neighboring field, "I was
tho man?"
"This i 9 nonsense," said Mollie.
"We can't make believe to that ex
tent."
"Why can't we?"
"You would never bo so foolish."
"But if "
"Let us talk about something sensi
ble," said Mollie, with decision.
"But my poor friend is depending
on me for advice."
She thought. "Of course your
friend must get away from the Towers
before tho other girl arrives."
"You are quite clea: he ought to
got away?" I asked mournfully.
"There can be no doubt of that.
Just fancy everybody rushing to con
gratulate the other girl, and your friend
being present at the time. There
might be a dreadful scene."
"I can picture it," said I, repress
ing a groan.
Wo had arrived at the entrance to
tho avenue. I stopped and held out
my hand.
"Goodby," I said.
"Whatdo you mean?" she exclaimed,
i "I—l am going away. I am the
inau."
i Ido not think lam mistaken. Tho
I color faded slightly from her face.
| "And the other girl?" she queried
j faintly.
j "You are the other girl."
j The red replaced the white. She
stood quite still, with her eyes bent
downward; ami then she began to
trace figures in the snow with tho toe
of her tiny boot.
"Goodby," I repeated.
Sho looked up. "Of course, lam
very angry," she said. And then she
smiled and held out her hand. I took
it humbly, and forgot to relinquish it.
"Mamma will be getting anxious,"
9he remarked. "We must hu—
But we did not hurry.—Pic\-..*^-Up.
Women as Clerks.
Of the 20,000 Washington Govern
ment clerks, nearly one-third are wo
men. who receive from SOOO to SIBOO
yearly.
■Frozen Crenin.
New Zealand farmers now send
frozen cream V> London, wliera it ie
churned for butter.
FIELDS OF ADVENTURE.
THRILLINC INCIDENTS AND DARINC
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
A Clowe Cnll—Nip nnd Tuck Between Two
Miner* and a Mountain L.loll—An In
dian Girl's Daring; Hide—A Long;
Count anil a Cold Plunge ly a Bicyclist,
A number of sportsmen were re
cently talking over the good times
they bad had duck shooting last fall,
when the conversation turned on hunt
ing big game in the West. Some
thrilling adventure was related by
every one in the group but au elderly
man, and he in turn was asked for a
story.
"I don't suppose," began the silent
mnu, "that any of you young fellows
ever ran across a mountain lion, as
they are becoming rather scarce now
in the West. But early in the fifties,
when I first went to Colorado to hunt
for gold, these animals were quite
numerous. I recall on one occasion
having a little adventure with a lion
that almost scared me out of my wits.
Wi th a partner I was working a claim
in the mountains near Ouray, and one
day before the very cold weather of
the winter sot in we both wenttotcwu
to get some supplies, leaving our little
cabin on the mountain side alone.
"It came on to, snow so hard soon
after we arrived in Ouray that we did
not get a chance to return to our
claim for three days. On our return
journey we noticed as we were climb
ing the hills the tracks of a mountain
lion leading toward our cabin. Pres
ently, however, as we got nearer and
nearer to our little home, we lost the
track of the animal, and the sight of
an open window, which had been care
fully closed on our departure for town,
caused us to forget all about the lion
and its presence.
"Well, 1 had reached the window
and was just about to put mylieadinto
the apartment when there came a ter
rible growl and the next instnnt a great
yellow body sprang through the open
ing right on my back, its claws catch
ing my buckskin coat and ripping it
open to my waist, turning me com
pletely over and into the snow. My
parner took the dangerous situation in
at a glance aud whipped out his gun.
Then the infernal lion turned on him,
making a fearfnt leap in his direction.
Before he could ffire the infuriated
beast was upon him, and, seizing him
by the tdack of his coat, shook him as
though he were but a rat. I was on
my feet by this time, and drawing my
revolver, I sneaked up and put a bni
let right through his head. The ani
mal groaned and fell back dead and
my partner drew his breath freely once
more. It was a close cnll, but neither
of us was hurt, and the lion's skin in
another week was serving as a rug at
the foot of my bunk."
An Imlinn Girl's Daring; IMdf.
An Indian romance which almost
rivals that of Pocahontas and Captain
John Smith comes from Pine Ridge
Agency. William .Tacobson, a young
fellow in charge of one of the classes
at Carlisle, eloped with Julia Beallard,
an intelligent quarter-bred Sioux. The
couple rode from Pine Ridge to Chad
roil, Neb., on their ponies during the
night, pursued by the girl's relatives
all the way. They arrived in Chadron
in the gray dawn of the morning,
thoroughly exhausted, aud at once
proceed to secure a license. Then,
ill the presence of frionds of the bride,
they were made man and wife.
The couple met about two years ago
at Carlisle, where the young woman
was attending a private seminary, and
became enamored of each other." They
beeamo engaged, when the girl re
ceived a letter ordering her home to
Pine Ridge. The young couple kept
up a correspondence, fearing that their
attachment would become known to the
parents of the girl, who were very much
opposed to her forming an alliance
with other than a thoroughbred Sioux.
A letter to the girl was finally inter
cepted by a young Sioux admirer and
laid beforo the mother. Thereafter
not a letter was permitted. Becoming
alarmed at not receiving an answer,
Jaeobson decided to go to Nebraska
and investigate. Upon arriving at the
agency he contrived a secret interview
with the girl and arranged an elope
ment.
One dark night the girl stole forth,
and procuring a saddle horse from the
corral, slipped a halter over his head
and led him to the outskirts of the In
dinn village, where she was met by her
lover in a lonely canon, near the his
toric battle ground of Wounded Knee.
Mounting their ponies, they started on
their journey to Chadron. The echoes
of the hoof-beats awakened the village,
and a thirty-mile chaso was begun over
the roughest country this side of the
Rockies. The journey was dangerous
and hazardous. The road at times
winds around precipices aud rugged
cliffs and through rough canons, where
a misstep might plunge the riders into
eternity. For four hours they rode on
their ponies, expecting at every mo
ment to hear the cry of their pursu
ers. When the lights of Chadron ap
peared in view the pursuing party in
creased their pace, hoping to overtake
the fleeing couple before they entered
the city. They failed in this attempt,
however, and the lovers managed to
elude them.
A Truln-ltohhini* Rtorr.
The drummer bad just finished rend
ing a story of a train hold-up and let
his newspaper fall into his lap.
"I had a rather romantic experience
once with train robbers," ho said,
"which I think I won't ever forget. I
had been laid up sick for a week at a
tavern in a Kansas town and my at
tendant bad been a very sweet aud
gentle girl, who was a relative of the
landlord's. She was such a nice girl
, that I was in no hurry to get well, and
while I was putting it off all I could I
was as industriously putting on the
i chains of love. At the end of ten days
I was able to take up my sample case
again, and when I left the town my
gentle nurse was on the same train,
in my charge, bound for Kansas City,
where she was to be met by friends. I
had never talked love to her, and I
fancy she didn't suspect me of any
thing except a desire to flirt a little,
but I had made up my mind to talk
seriously to her beforo I let her
friends take her away from me.
"I fooled along, as most men ds
under the same circumstances, wait
ing for a real good chance to come in,
but before I reached the proper con
dition the train came to a sudden stop
in a lonely place, and by the time we
had asked what the trouble was a half
masked train robber stood in the aisle
of the ear with a revolver covering the
contents. The girl turned as white as
a sheet aud I thought she would faint,
but I told her she wouldn't be hurt,
and she sat there staring as if she had
turned stone. As it happened, I kept
my *wits, and when a shot and
a shout rose on the air on the out
side and attracted the robber's atten
tion for a moment, I whipped my re
volver out of my overcoat pocket and
would have got him sure, but as I
brought the gun around the girl at my
eide caught my arm and stopped me.
I looked at her in amazement.
" 'Don't,' she gasped, 'it's my father,*
and then she fell in a faint, while the
robber hiurried out iu response to the
calls from his partners.
"As for me," concluded the drum
mer, "I thought probably it would be
just as well for me not to add to the
poor girl's troubles by trying to get
into her family."
Took a Long Coast and a I.ncky Plnnj-e.
George Maybury, the son of a
farmer near Old Bridge, N. J., bought
a bicycle the other day and went for a
spiu along the New Brunswick turn
pike. At the Old Bridge end is one
of the worst hills in New Jersey. It
starts at the hamlet of Summer Hill
and finishes in the heart of Old Bridge,
a mile away by the read, but consider
ably less in au air line.
George had never tried coasting, but
had some sort of on idea that it would
save time if he let the pedals alone.
So at Summer Hill he took his feet
from the pedals and the wheel did the
rest. At tirsfc everything went well.
Half way down the hill the road makes
a suddeu turn aud around this George
went at a speed that would have made
Michael green with envy. A couple
of wagons were coming up the hill but
got rapidly out of the way when they
heard Maybtirv's hysterical bell. The
young man's hat had gone and his
Imir was making desperate efforts to
follow it.
At the foot of the hill are the tracks
of the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
There was a train only a few hundred
feet from the crossing as Maybury ap
proached, but the farmer boy was
going at a rate of speed never at
tempted by a Camden aud Amboy
locomotive, aud the agony wa3 over
before the train readied the crossing.
From the railroad the road slopes
gradually down to the bauk of South
River, where it turns and follows the
river's course.
Maybury was past thinking. All he
could do was to shut his eyes and cling
desperately to the handles. Straight
on to the river he went. The wheel
caught iu a heap of brush and stopped
short. Maybury didn't stop. He
went straight on over his handle bars
and took a neat header into the icy
waters of the river.
Like a true wheelman the first thing
George did after he climbed up the
bank was to look after his machine.
There wasn't a thiug broken.
"Thank Heaven 1" said George.
Afterward There Was Light.
An old fanner, well known for his
miserly habits, in order to save the
caudles, was in the habit of giving the
farm hands their supper in semi-dark
ness.
The laborers at first grumbled at
this, but the farmer took no notice.
Things went on iu much the same
Avay for some little time,till the farmer
had occasion to hire another farmhand
uaiued Tarn S .
Tarn, who was well known to som
of the other laborers as a wild and
reckless sort of character, and always
ready for mischief, was informed as to
how matters stood, and Tarn vowed ho
would alter things somehow.
That night at supper, which con
sisted of porridge, Tarn took his seat
on the righthaud side of the farmer,
aud, watching his opportunity,quickly
plunged a spoonful of the hot porridge
into the farmer's mouth. The farmer
jumped up, with a roar of agony, and
demanded an explanation.
"Weel, fairmer," replied Tam, "it's
sae daurk Ah couldna tell whaur Ah
was pittin' them; Ah thocht it was i*
ma ain mooth."—Loudon Telegraph.
A Marvelous Machine.
machine ha 3 been invented which
is composed of exquisitely grad
uated wheels, running a tiny dia
mond poiut at the end of au almost
equally tiuy arm, whereby one is able
to write upou glass the whole of the
Lord's prayer within a space which
measured the 294 th part of au inch in
length by the 440 th part of an inch in
breadth, or about the measurement of
the dot over the letter "I" in common
print, says the Philadelphia Record.
With this machine any one who under
stood operating it could write the
whole 3,556,480 letters of the Bible
eight times over the space of au inch
—a square inch. A specimen of this
marvelous microscopic writing was
enlarged by photography, and every
letter aud point was perfect, and could
be read with ease.
Keport by Phonograph.
A municipal council iu France has
ordered its proceedings to be reported
by phonograph. Should the expedient
prove successful, shorthand writing
will be dispensed with.
| A FAMOUS OIL WIZARD.
JACOB LONG'S UNERRINC FORKED
STICK POINTS TO THE FLUID.
Recent Discoveries Made His Reputation
National—For a Long Time Before tne
Oil Fever Occamo Epidemic He Was
Generally Known as the Water Wizard.
At Jefferson, Ind., lives a man who
has been famous because of his uner
ring prediction as to the location of
oil streams iu the bowels of the earth.
His name, says the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch, is Jacob Long. He does
the trick with a forked stick.
Twenty years ago, when yet in his
prime, Long was sought after l'ar aud
near. He was known as a water witch,
and whenever a saw-mill or place of
residence was selected it was then
that Long was called upon to see if
! nature had made provision for water.
J By means of a forked stick, one prong
of which he held in each hand, aud the
single prong pointing upward, Long
would begin bis search for the vein of
water. As he passed over the vein
the forked stick would turn in his
hands and point downward.
. So unerringly did Long perform his
work that no one thought of putting
down a well in his vicinity unless the
water witch was consulted.
Once, about twenty years ago, while
Loug was searching for water his
forked peach limb performed such an
tics that even the diviner was amazed.
When seeking to locate water the stick
always turned outward from him and
pointed down, but ouly when stand
ing directly over the \ein of water,
aud losing the strange power when it
was "crossed. But on this occasion
the peach limb turned both inward and
outward and on any place within a
several-acre tract.
This phenomenon was more thau
Long could comprehend. He studied
about it several weeks and Anally
went to J. 11. Dowell, a man of learn
ing, and inquired what else could be
found in the earth. Dowell, after
enumerating many natural products,
stated that in some parts of the coun
try oil and gas were also found. Long
then aunouueed to his rural neigh
bors that under their farms lay vast
| reservoirs of gas and oil. So absurd
did this seem that he was laughed at
and suspicions cast upon his sanity,
i He tried to induce some of his ac
quaintances to aid in proving his as
sertions, but without success. By
hard work lie had secured a little
farm, and when confronted by finan
cial difficulties lie deeded it to a
brother, who subsequently refused to
deed it back.
Long naturally resented this injus
tice, and after a stormy interview with
his brother ho decided to try his for
tunes in another State. He went to
Crawford County, Ohio.
During his stay there the county
experienced an oil boom, in which
Long and his forked stick cut quite
a figure. Finding few who would
believe in bis strange power and hav
ing no money of his own, lie gave his
services for little or nothing. He
worked hard to accumulate money to
put down a well for himself, but for
tune was reluctant to smile upon him.
He claims now to possess the secret of
a pool of oil three miles wide and a
little over a mile long in the Ohio
field, which he hopes sometime to test
aud of which he Lias told no one the
location.
While in Ohio lie learned that his
prediction mado to a neighbor in this
county twenty year? ago had been
verified, and be returned here. His
predictions since then have been ac
curate and precise, and ho is now be
ginning to enjoy the local fame he has
so long sought.
Long is sixty years old and a bach
elor. Although he was born iu In
diana, he cau speak English only
brokenly and prefers German. He
admits that aside from being able to
! locate oil wells lie is the most ignor
ant man in the country, being unable
to read or write, aud knowing little of
the outside world.
Always Paid Promptly.
I Two teachers of languages were dis
cussing matters and things relative to
their profession. "Do your pupils
pay up regularly on the first of each
month?" asked one of them.
"No, they do not," was the reply.
"I often have to wait weeks aud
weeks before I get my pay, and some
times I don't get it at all. You cau't
well dun the parents for the money."
"Why don't you do as I do? I al
ways get my money regularly."
I "How do you manage it?"
"It is very simple. For instance, I
mm teaching a boy French, and on the
first day of the month his folks don't
send the amount due for the previous
I month. In that case I give the boy
the following exercise to tiauslate and
| write out at home: 'I have no money.
; The month is up. Hast thou any
money? I need money very much.
| Why hast thou brought no money this
; morning? Did thy father not give
thee any money? Has he no money
I in the pocketbook of his uncle's great
aunt?' This fetches them. Next
! morning that boy brings the money.''
The Unforjcett ns Dojj*.
A story showing tlie lovo anil devo
tion of dumb brutes comes from Mil
ford, where two little white dogs,
whose master, Edward McDade, was
drowned more thau a year ago, still
may he seen every morning trotting
through Milford and Oldtown to the
ferry Janding where their master wont
into the river, and then going back the
four miles home, after satisfying them
selves that he has not returned.—Lew
ißtou (Me.) Journal.
Powder Mill Bricks.
Bricks made of plaster-of-paris and
cork are now ased in the construction
of powder mills. In case of explosion
they offer elight resistance and are
broken to atoms-
FAST FIRE HORSES.
The Quickest Ones in the World Are in
Kansas City.
F. S. Dejlenbaugh writes of "The
Quick Horse" .in St. Nicholas, his ar
ticle telling of the training of horses
for the tire department. Mr. Dellen
baugh says:
The quickest horses in tjie world
were at one time in Kansas City, at
the headquarters of its tire depart
ment, directly under the office of the
Chief, Mr. George C. Hale. To Mr.
Hale's genius, more than to any other
factor, the quick horse owned his first
development; for Mr. Hale is the in
ventor of the earliest swinging-har
ness—which made the quick horse
possible. When Mr. Henry M. Stan
ley and his wife were iu this country,
they witnessed an exhibition drill of
Che Kansas City Fire Department.
Che drill so impressed the visitors
that an account of it was published iu
a London journal, and this Euglish
article brought au iuvitation to Mr.
Hale to visit Englaud as the represen
tative of the American Fire Service
at the International Fire Tournament.
Mr. Hale and a picked corps went
to England, taking with them the re
markably quick horses "Joe" and
"Dan," and they became world-fam
ous. As the quickest harnessing time
of the Loudon Fire Brigade is one
minute, seventeen and one-half sec
onds, aud the Kansas City horses were
harnessed iu one and three-quarter
seconds, and were out of the eugiue
honse in less than eicht seconds, there
could be no competition. Iu Ivausas
City, four tine bays were harnessed to
the hook-and-ladder truck almost as
quickly as even Joe and Dan could
jump into their harnesses. It was a
pretty sight to see these four well
kept horses spring to their places at
the stroke of the gong, and in two or
three seconds stand ready to run with
the apparatus. Joe was killed by au
accident; but Dan, with a new mate,
is still in service, aud us quick as
ever.
The record for quickest time from
the engine-house to the throwing of
water on the Are is held by a Kansas
City company. In this instance the
horses were harnessed, a run of 2194
feet (a little less thau half a mile) was
made, and water thrown from the
hose in the wouderfully brief time of
ono minute, thirty-one aud one-half
seconds.
How To Drink Water.
There arc few people, who thor
oughly realize the value of water as a
beverago, or who know how to obtain
the greatest advantage from it. The
effects produced by the drinking of
water, as pointed out by Ilcaltb, vary
with the maimer in which it is urunk.
If, for instance, a pint of cold water
be swallowed as a large draught, or if
it bo taken in two portions with a
short interval between, certain de
finite results follow—effects which
differ from those which would have
resulted from the same quautily taken
by sipping. Sipping is a powerful
stimulant to the circulation, a thing
which ordinary drinking is not. Dur
iug the act of sipping the action of the
nerve which shows the beats of the
heart is abolished, and as a conse
quence that organ contracts much
more rapidly, the pulse bents more
quickly, and the circulation in various
parts of the body is increased. In
addition to this, we find that the pres
sure under which the bile is secreted
is raised by the sipping of fluid. And
here is a point which might well be
noted by our readers: A glass of cold
water, slowly sipped, will produce
greater acceleration of the pulse for a
time than will a glass of wine or spirits
taken at a draught. In this connec
tion it may not be out of place to
mention that sippiug cold water will
often allay the craving for alcohol in
those who have been in the babit of
taking too much of it, aud who may
be endeavoring to reform, the effect
being probably duo to the stimulant
action of the sipping.
The Reward of Valor.
Perhaps the most dramatic reward
Lord Charles Beresford ever got for
valor, was a few years ago. One bit
ter cold night, when his ship was off
the Fauklaud islands, there was a cry
of "man overboard." The sentry had
disappeared beneath the floating ice.
Though clad in heavy garmeuts, Lord
Charles instantly seized a coil of rope
and leaped into the sea. "I went
down and down and down," said Lord
Charles, whan relating the incident,
"until I began to think that the other
end of the rope was not fasteued to
anything. At last I grasped my man,
the rope became taut, and I began to
ascend. The ship's corporal helped
us both out." Fifteen years after
ward Lord Charles was speakiug at a
political meeting in support of Lord
Folkestone's candidature. The hall
was packed, and suddenly there was a
scuffie at the back. "Chuck him
out!" cried some one; but Lord
Charles invited the man to come up to
the platform, and they would listen
to what he had to say. The man
struggled forward in great excitement.
He only wanted to shake hands with
his rescuer. He was the sailor ho
had been saved by Lord Charles from
the icy sea off the Faulkland Islands.
—St. James's Gazette.
The Modern Shark.
The modern shark is deteriorating.
In ages gone by there were ferocious
sharks, such as would make a mouth
ful of you without blinking, seventy
feet in length. Pleuly of their teeth
have been found which are Ave
inohes long, whereas the biggest of
the teeth belonging to sharks that
exist at the present day are one and a
half inches long.
They Think In Millions.
The London Bankers' Clearing
House was established 125 years ago,
and last year nearly Si, ooo,ooo,OGf
passed through it. London's daily
) bank business averages 8125,000,000.