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The two great material conquests
which tnnrk the nineteenth century
are the building of the Pacific rail
roads and the digging of the Suez
canal.
The war department reports that
there are now 10,8!;;, 152 American
citizens eligible for military duty.
These iigures are enough to make the
entire Kuropeau menagerie pause and
ponder before tackling.
More than 13,000 Michigan farmers
raised sugar beets :or the first time
last summer, the result being a crop
large enough to keep ton factories
busy, and it is expo/ted that Ihe state
will soon he able to produce all the
sugar it needs.
Whatever may ho said for vivisec
t:ou as practised by learned and skil
lul surge us who experiment for the
be .etit of humauity, there can he no
possible defence for introducing vivi
senion into any school or college for
purposes of mere phsioiogica't in
.si action, observes the Christian Reg
ister.
The names of habitual drunk ards
a e posted in public places in Kenosha,
Wis., and the other day tlie common
cotiucil passed an ordinance provid
ing that habitual drunkards who have
been posted "have tintypes or photo
graphs of themselves attached to the
poster, and that unless the parties so
posted are able to pay for said ph ito
graphs, then the relatives be required
to stand the expense, lu case there
are no relatives, then the • ity is re
sponsible for the cost.
CI iris employol in a New Brunswick
department store have organized an
auti slang soci ;y. Fifty girls have
joined it. The girls do not bind
themselves not to use slang. In fact,
thev each will en. oarage the other to
u ■ sucii e vpressi us, for the <: ore dang
the more money there will be in the
treasury a tue end of the year, and
the better ti me can be pro vol 1. M cm
he! s hind thomscives to pay ii.to ilio
treasury oue cent for each slang word
or expression used in the hearing of
another person. There probably will
be some disputes us to what is slang
and what is not, hut these are to be
settled by vote as they arise.
A party of veteran newspaper men
were tnlkiugthe other day about tinea
Albany reporters who became mem
bers of the cabinet of th • prosi lent
ol' tiie United States: tho late Daniel
Mauuing, secretary of tho treasury
during Cleveland's fir t administra
tion; DauielS. Lamont, secretary of
war during Cleveland's second admin
istration, and Charles Emory Smith,
now postmaster-general. It was less
than 25 years ago that they sat side by
side reporting the proceedings of tho
.New York legislature. Colonel Micli
ener of Indiana recalls an even more
remarkable c unhination which ap
peared in tho United States court of
Indiana some years ago. Walter Q.
Gresham, tha prebdiug judge, after
ward became secretary of state. Beu
amin Harrison, who prosecuted tho
easo,afterward became president of tho
I nited States, while Thomas A. Ifen
d id;.-, was afterward vice president.
.Joseph I'. McDonald and Davi I Tur
]>ie, who aftc: vard became senators,
were on the other side. That group,
lor distinction, was probably never
s 11 pass. I in a single stu e: oue presi
deni, oue vice-president, a secretary of
fctute and two I'nited Stale* senators.
A Banq.r'Underground.
<•• 1 P.ca'udz'i.'nf). the governor of
I • South Wales, has had a novel ex
: i nee. While on a visit to the rol
licrics of Newcastle he was entertained
♦ a banquet in a coal mine 300 feet
below the surface of the earth. In a
batcher 00 feet long, 15 feet wide and
feet high. 70 guests sat down to din
r The novel dining room showed no
cigns of what it had been, for electric
u hts, flags, evergreens and carpets
had transformed it into an elegant
apartment.
Deducting dubious ves9efs, the com
pleted battleships of England now num
ber 36 and those of France and Rus
sia 38.
TO MY OWN.
BY EDWIN L. BAJBIN.
Xlio squirrel lier liid In his hollow tree,
All wrapped lu his long, soft tall;
Tho rabbit is gtuggled us snug can bo
Tu his homo'neuth the old fouoo rail;
Tin* partridge is only a bun oh of down
Where thickest the arching brush
They la the forest and we In the town,
Hush, my honey-boy, hush.
Tho field-mouse curls In a velvet bull
Fur muter the dead ftwump grass;
In ills hole by the frozou waterfall
The mink dreams oft of tho buss;
And every ohlck of the ground and air
Is cuddled iu huveu deep—
-80 horn, 111 tho glow of tho firelight fair.
Sleep, my houey-boy, sleep.
The north wind romps with tho whirling
snow;
Sly Jack Frost noses about;
But wood and Held are abed—for no,
Not even the owl is out.
Aud here, where the motherlcia's breast Is
warm,
Ami motherlcia's arms aro tight.
Safe from the suow ami tho frost uud storm,
Good-sight, honey-boy, good-uight.
—Saturday Evening Post.
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| A LAWYER'S STORY. §
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.—/- - j OUTH ia iinpa-
TtriC y yty tient aud tbe
V /s?g twelve weary
: iVP) months that had
*6 - \- crept hy Mince I
passed my
f>c1 -=Svil|iT|ipi trying' examiua
t'°" al "' keen
lulmittL ' a to u '°
•va* - * bar seemed au
eon of time. I hired n cozy little
oliieu iu n bnildiug filled with scores
of promineut law firms. After ar
ranging my well-stocked library, I
nailed up a uow sign among the rest
aud waited-for my cliouts to appear.
It soou became a sad trial of pa
tience.
Among tho many brilliant lights .of
tho day my own name passed un
noticed.
Day after day, and month after
month, I attended the courts or
passed the time in perusing cele
brated trial cases. Like Micawbnr, I
was waiting for something to turn up.
The small capital with which I had
started was dwindling away at an
alarming pace and, as yet, I saw no
prospective fee.
Oue pleasant afternoon Stanley
Ferris, a young lawyer, -who, like my
self, was unwillingly idle, dropped in
to see me.
"What news, Jack?" he aske
carelessly.
"Same as usual," I replied, d
spondently. "I've a notion to paea
off in the wilderness for a few weeks.
Everybody is out o£ town, and there
is little prospect of picking up a fee
until they return."
My friend was about to reply,
when there came a low tap at the
door.
"Come in," I said, carelessly,
hiukiug it some chance acquaint
ance.
As the door opened my heart gave a
great bound. I felt that my long
looked-for client had arrived at last.
At a single glance I took in all the
details of my visitor's appearance,
lie was a middle-aged man, dressed
in plain costume, and with u seeming
ly good-natured face. Most men
would have set him down at once as a
jolly, open-hearted individual; but I
did not. My constant attendance at
tho courts bad taught me much.
There was something underlying bis
oily smile and obsequious manner
that made me distrust him.
"Is this Mr. Burns?" he asked,
blandly.
I bowed in tho affirmative and re
quested him to be seated. Stanley
left the room at that moment, and the
stranger continued:
"My namo is Brown, sir—Martin
Brown. I have called upou you in a
case of emergency."
"In what way can 1 bo of service?"
I asked. >
"My friend, who is in a dying con
dition, wishes you to draw up a will
at once."
I seized my hut and hurriedly fol
lowed my visitor In tho elegantly
furnished room of a hotel we found
the man.
Owing to tho heavily darkened
room, I could distinguish nothing of
liis features, lie lay with his face
turned toward tho wall, and in feeble
tones dictated the terms of his will,
as [ drew it up.
I accomplished my task to liis satis
faction, and placed the document be
fore him to sign. As he did so I
noticed a deep red scar running across
ihe back of his hand. The whole of
the dying man's property—an immense
one, by tho way—was left to lus dear
friend, Martin Brown.
Two of the servants had been called
in to witness tho signature, and every
thing was performed according to law.
As I left tho houso the smiling Mr.
Brown handed 1110 my fee. It was a
beggarly amount—the moro so from
Iho fuel that Mr. Brown was soon to
become wealthy. The man's wily
smtic, too, " :hilc liis friend lay at the
point of death sickened me, and I was
glad to hurry awav. On my return I
met Stanley, and in answer to his in
quiries I related tho circumstances.
"A beggarly miser," lie exclaimed,
lidiguautly. "I'd never believe it
Vm his appearance."
It was nearly a week afterward that
a young lady, dressed in deep mourn
ing, called upon me. This time T had
a ease in reality. She was not more
than twenty, but her beautiful face
bore tte impress of deep grief. In a
few words she stated her business,
retaining the names until she had
heard my opinion.
Her story was as follows: Three
weeks before her uncle had left home
in company with a man he called his
friend. While in the city ho had been
taken suddenly ill and died. She liad
i'aceived no information of the fact
until p'tor her relative was buried.
Then oame the strangest part of the
•tory.
Two years before her unole had
made a will making her, his only liv#
ing relative, his sol© heiress.
On her arrival in the city, however,
alio had been shown a will drawn up
by her uncle on bin death-bed, iu
which 110 left his entire property to
his friend.
She could conceive of 110 reason for
such a strauge act, and, distrusting
tho friend, had sought out a lawyer.
Luckily she was unacquainted with
tiie names of our distinguished law
yers. My glaring gold sign had been
the lirst to catch her eye, and so she
called upou 111 c.
"The case certainly looks suspi
cious," I remarked. "I think I will be
able to make a fight iu your behalf.
Now, will you kindly furnish me with
the names of these parties?"
"My uncle, sir, was Andrew Thur
her. His frieud calls himself Martin
Brown."
Involuntarily my pen dropped from
my surprised fingers. It was the very
will 1 had drawn up myself.
She turned pule as I related the cir-
J cuuistances and arose to leave.
1 "I see I have made an awkward
mistake iu calling upou you," she
said. *adly.
"Wait one moment," I replied,
quickly. "This Martin Brown is a
total stranger to me. If he has been
engaged in an act of villainy I shall
not shield him."
Wo entered into a close conversa
tion, at the end of which I said, con
fidently:
"Leave the case to me. If I fail it
shall bo through no fault of mine."
She accepted my offer with thauks
and left 1110, thiukiug deeply.
During the interview I had learned
that tho deceased had no scar upou
his right hand. Now, certain of vil
lainy iu the affair, I set to work dili
gently to iiud it out.
Working cautiously. I found tho
mail who had lain the body out for
burial. From liini I learned that he
had performed his task on tho morn
ing of June 23, just tou hours before
I was called upon to draw up tho will.
Tho will had been already offered for
probate, so there was no time to be
lost.
Andrew Thurber's body was disin
terred uud tho contents of the stom
ach analyzed. It was found to con
tain poison.
By some means the sly wretch got
wind of my movements and attempted
to fly. At that moment the defectives
seized him. Confronted by the terri
ble proofs, he made a full confession.
Before his trial came off he ended
his life by swallowing a quantity of
the same deadly poison with which he
had killed his victim.
Miss Thurber met with 110 further
obstacles in regaining her rights.
Something still more important hap
pened to mo from my connection with
the case. I wooed and won the beau
tiful girl for my wife. As Stanley
Ferris remarked afterward, I "gained
fame and fortune with a rash."
Ill* Sclieino to Win a Girl.
"Ho was n good fellow," said he,
"but young aud without much capital.
The girl was a beauty and loved the
boy, but the father objected, and de
manded that the boy show that ho was
capable of supporting a wife. This
was in St. Louis about teu years ago,
aud tho boy came to me with his
troubles.
"'Novel- mind,'said I. 'l'll fix it
up all right. By tho way, how muoh
will you take for your right leg?'
"He looked at me as though I were
crazy, but made no answer.
" 'l'll give you SIO,OOO for it,' snid
I. 'Will you take it.?'
" 'No, I won't,' said he. 'What do
yon tnko mo for?'
"Well, I icuow the girl's father; he
was a merchant, and I called to see
him. We finally drifted around to
talking about this young fellow, aud
the old man ilared a little, staling that
he wanted some ouo who could sup*
port a wife to have his daughter.
"'Support a wife,' snid I, iu sur
prise; 'why, 110 certainly can do all
that. Only a few days ago ho refused
• •10,000 for a pieco of property.'
" 'His own property?' asked the
father. 'Certaiuly,' said I.
"'Who offered him tho money?'
asked he.
" 'I did, aud he refused it,' I an
swered. 'He claimed it was worth
more.'
"Well, this made a hit, and no
mors questions were asked. The boy
is doing well now, aud has a good
family. T haven't spoken to tho father
since."—Washington Times.
A Ctiro FOP Leproiy.
Two dozen specimens of the plaul
known in Venezuela as the tau' tan
have been sent from Washington to
Hawaii for the purpose of making a
test of its alleged power as a cure for
leprosy. Tho plant will bo tested at
tho leprosy hospitals there, where
1073 lepers will afford every facility
for a thorough trial. Surgeon Car
michol, of tho Murine Hospital, has
also sent half a dozen bottles of tho
I liquid preparation to Molakai, and
j this will bo used for immediate tests
[ while plants will bo set out aud culti
vated, with the purpose of providing
unlimited fresh matter for further use.
Wonderful stories are current iu Ven
ezuela about, the marvelous curative
properties of tua tua when applied to
leprosy, and tho Government phy
sicians attach considerable importance
to the evidence given them. It is
proposed aiso to test it iu tho island
of Guau, that tiny speck of Pacific
laud that came to us with our other
Spanish war acquisitions.
Irish Ad vim.
"Never he critical upon the ladies,"
was tho maxim of an old Irish peer,
remarkablo for his homage to the sex.
"The only way that a true gentlemau
ever will attempt to look at the fault;
of a pretty woman is to shut his eyes."
I —Collier's Weekly,
MEDICINE IN NEW YORK IN 1800
i'r, Carney Dewribeti <Jiiuiiit Kemedle*
uml i'lrni h Century Affo.
At the last meeting of tho New York
Historical Society Dr. Sydney H. Car
ney, Jr., lead a paper on "The New
York Medical Profession in 1800."
There were ninety-lour phyuieiaus
in New York in 1800. "They all used,"
Dr. Carney said, "that start* of rnedi*
cal propriety, a gold-headed caue."
These canes formerly had within the
heads aromatic vinegar, which had its
uses. "Small clothes," said Dr. Car
ney, "were rapidly disappearing, aud
pantaloons wero covering a multitude
of shins." There were five medical
| schools in the United States in 1800,
at. Columbia College, at Philadelphia,
Cambridge, Dartmouth aud Lexing
ton, Ky. The chair of chemistry in
cluded study of the natural bodies,
scientific medicine, rational aud ex
perimental agriculture and other
things. "No doubt the rational and
experimental agriculture instruction
was duly appreciated by youug medi
cal men going to practice in the coun
try," said the doctor. In 1708 sixteen
doctors here had lost their lives try
ing to mitigate the suU'dVings caused
by the plague. The pay of doctors at
Hellovue was theu twenty shillings a
day. The hospital was throe miles
out of town.
The propagation of disease by speci
fic germs was not then a fact accepted
by all. The yellow fever was brought
here from the West Indies theu as
now, aud conditions here favored its
spread. Yet a Philadelphia doctor
writing to one of his New York broth
ers said: "Yellow fever, so long as
tho laws of nature endure, cannot be
imported, but is the outgrowth of ex
isting conditions."
There has been some speculation
among ttie curious us to the prevalence
of gripes at bedtime among New
Yorkers of a hundred years ago. The
remedy for this complaint prescribed
by the pbysiciauß was nutmeg aud
braudy aud the yolk of an egg to be
taken before going to bed. For
apoplexy, salt aud cold water were to
lie used, whereupou the patieut was
"immediately to come to himself." A
toothache remedy efficacious always
with one exception in the practice of
one physician was to crush a lady bug
between the thumb aud forefinger and
then to rub the finger on the gum and
tooth. Freshly crushed bugs were rec
ommended. For the bite of a mad dog
tho prescription was an ounce of the
jawbone of the dog, some colt's tongue
and a scruple of verdigris, that taken
from the coppers of George I. aud
George 11. being preferred, of which
compound a teaspoonful a day was to
bo taken. Jf that failed to cure 181)
grains of verdigris and half au ounce
of calomel wore to be given in one
dose by a physiciau in person. If
this still failed four grains of pure
opium were given to the patient. This
last tvus a secret remedy so successful
that early in tho century the State
Legislature bought the secret for
$1001).
For a visit tho fee charged was sl,
for a visit and a dose $1.25. Pills
were twelve ceuts. Doctors got $1 a
mile for going out of town. It cost
S3 to get one to Brooklyn and $lO to
uave one visit Stateu Island. For
bleoeiug a charge of from $1 to $5 was
made.
Tadpoles figured in tlie regimen of
that day to such an extent that it is
said the people of Vermont in a sea
sou of scarcity almost fattened on
{hem. Aud one of New York's famous
physicians spout a part of his time in
the stud t f of tho alimentary qualities
>f these tid-bits.— New York Sun.
Facts About Ilusii.it. General*.
Herewith are presented some in
teresting particulars regarding the
present status of the entire staff of
:he Russian geuerals. The facts were
secured from a conversation with an
army officer, aud are undoubtedly
authentic.
Three times every year the "Russian
general staiV at St. Petersburg pre
paies a register of the generals, listing
them according to seniority. These
lists are never printed, however. Ac
cording to the last register, the whole
□umber of the genoralsor the imperial
ii-my is 1218. 'Che ages of these of
ficers range from forty to eighty-nine
\ enrs, and of the number 101 are full
generals, 305 are lieuteuaut-geuerals
and 782 are major-generals. The gen
erals receive in salarios an aggrsgute
of 7,000,000 rubles a year.
Of tlie full generals three are field
marshals general, thirty-seven are
aids-de-camp, and of these four are
foreigners, bill, notwithstanding this
fact, hold this-high rank and are at
tached to tho household of his Im
perial Majesty, The remaining fifty
seven full generals are in command of
infantry, cavalry, artillery or engineer
corps. The age of the full generals
varies from fifty-four to eighty-nine
years.
As to their education, five lmv3 re
ceived instructions at universities ti
nt the higher military academics. Tw.
have passed through both tho common
academy and tlie general staff academy,
tha highest in the empire. Forty
seven have passed through only one
academy, aud forty-one have received
their education outside these Institu
tions. Tho ages of the lieutenant
genera's ranges from forty-five to
eighty-fivo years, aud of the major
generals from forty to seventy-eight
years. --Moscow Correspondence Chi
cago Record.
Halting Pig* on "tlie 15ott!c.*
Charles Crotz, of Moon Township,
who some weeks ago was compelled to
raise a number of little pigs by the
time-honored means of tho bottle, has
achieved a complete and sigua': suc
cess. The whole twelve grow fat. and
hearty and have all been sola. They
were all fi-e animals, end a number
wcie above tha average.—Beaver
Fails (Peuu.) Review.
ANN PURKIN'S TRAGEDY.
A WOMAN OF STRONG MENTALITY
HELD DOWN BY ECCENTRICITV.
An Ohio Foliool Teuolinr Whose Mind
IV hh Full of llri Ilia lit Plans For Re
forming the World—Soltl Papers In
Grotesque Garb In Cleveland.
WITH the bruin of a Mrne.
de Stael, the iletormina
tion of a Charlotte Cor
day anil the luck of Cy
rano ile Bergenia, nil tivintoil. may
hap, but still so prououueeil that they
made their possessor utmost a beggar
instead of a queen. Anu Purkin,
seller of newspapers anil writer of
poems and essays, died in a bed of
charity at St. Alexis Hospital, Cleve
land, Ohio, a few weeks ago, aged
fifty years. For a score of years sho
had been the most picturesque figure
of Cleveland streets from the fact that
she wore the clothes that it pleased
her to wear. For most of those years
she has been hungry, at least part of
the days, simply because sho would
not nse her wits as the world wished
her to use them. She was a crank,
but a brilliant one. Her love of let
ters was ideal, passionate ami unre
quited—she died for her opinions.
Ann Purkin died with a trunk full
of poems and essays, half of which
are so good that many writers of
poetry anil philosophy would have
been glad to have written them. But
she was not only a dress-reformer but
a reformer of everything else almost.
Years ago sho addicted hersolf fo
spelling reform, and, as in all things,
she went to tho utmost extreme of it.
Mho would not allow a line sho hail
written to be printed otherwise than
sho liad written it, both as to spelling
and punctuation. She would rather
starve. This kept her out of priut
and made rubbish of what would
have been otherwise available matter,
for in whatever sho wrote there was
more or less of tho force and bril
liancy of the pen that has a right to
write for print. She made one excep
tion to this last summer when, during
tho street-car strike, she used to take
to the newspaper offices articles urg
ing the cessation of violence in the
fight against the company. With a
tone in her voice which a Hindu
mother might have had when she seut
her girl child to the husband that had
bought her, sho would say, "You may
change it if you want to," for she had
gone over the ground often enough to
know no newspaper would print what
she wrote as sho wrote it.
PRESSED LIKE A HOY.
Ann Pnrkin's death was the only
kind of a death her life could have
brought her. All winter, when sho
was not ill, she was at her usual cor
ner on tho busy square, selling the
afternoon papers. Her voice was a
shrill squeak as she cried out the
names of the papers. To almost all
the newspaper buyers she had ceased
Jo be a curio, they had known her so
long. If those who did not know her
stopped to gaze they saw that in her
lace which kept them from laughing
at her clothes. Her ill ess consisted
of a boy's woolen shirt—for she was a
very little creature, less than five feet
—a coat over it that lookod as though
it had beou made by tho wearer with
tho disregard fur it that sho showed
for all the other things that seemed
to her unessentials, and a pair of short
trqji'sers-like garments that reached
to her knees, The breoohes were
made of what looked like pieces of
horseblauket, aud wore shaped not
unlike an ordinary pair of trousers
cut off at the knees. Her stockings
were white anil her shoes heavy ones
such as working boys wear. Any
thing in tho way of head covering
wonlil do, anil there was not in the
whole of her costume any attempt at
ornamentation or care.
Funny as her clothes wero, one for
got them in looking into her face.
Tho eyes were clear, small and ex
pressive and there was in them, when
one talked with her, tho look of the
soul that thinks it lias never been un
derstood and has grown hopeless of
ever being.
But there was not a prouder spirit
in the breast ol any woman, It is not
known that she ever had a penny that
"ho did not earn. People who offered
her charity wero rebuked with a
severity they never forgot. It one
gave her a uieke'. for a paper and
walked away sho ran alter him and
made him take his change. Oneo sho
was ill for a week or two and the eity
relief department sent her a ton of
coal, piling it up in the one room
where sho lived, against her protests.
It was in tho dead of winter and she
was forced to use about a quarter of
the ton of coal. Then she carried
what was left of it down the stairs
and threw it out into tho street, from
where it was quickly taken by the
less scrupulous women of tho tene
ment. Then she went to tho city
hall, made her way into tho Mayor's
office and handed him a dollar, say
ing: "That is for what I used out of
that load of coal you sent to me. I
tlnow the rost of it into the street,
lint I want to pay for all I used and 1
want you to take the money so your
thie- iug clerks can't say I didn't pay
it."
REFUSED CHARITY FOOD.
A week before sho died the other
people in the Detroit street tenemont
in which Ann Purkin lived remem
bered that sho had not been seen for
some days. She never locked her
door, and wheu they went into her
room they found her p.louo in tho
cold, thore being neither fuel nor lire
in tho room, Jonly her trunkfnl of
manuscripts. existed botweeu
her and the poor.people among whom
she lived something of the feeling
that mailt) tho slums of Paris worship
Vorlaiuo. Tho refusal of tho world to
give the pootess what she deserved
and them what they wanted made a
bond of sympathy. Thc-y brought licr
food, which she would not eat, and I
built her a fire, which she could not i
prevent. For years she Las eaten j
nothing but fruit and such other food I
as she could eat uncooked. That was |
a part of her belief, that only un
cooked vegetable food should be I
eaten. For years she ate nothing but |
fruit, raw oatmeal and raw rice
soaked in water. She hated a doctor
as she did correct spelling and skirts, !
and was a hydropath. When the !
other people in the tenement called a j
doctor she refused to even allow him j
to talk to her, and she was taken to J
the hospital against her violent pro- I
t3st3. She was too small and weak '
and too nearly starved to resist par- I
ticularly, eveu iu words. At the hos- j
pital she said she had not a friend in
the world or a relative, and it was]
here that she displayed the only tliiug I
that seemed at all ) ; ke womanly weak
ness that is known of her. Jhe .'aid
she wanted to be buried in the old
cemetery at Berlin Heights, a country
village twenty-four miles from Cleve
land, where the graves of her father
and mother are.
WAS AX OHIO SCHOOLTEACHER.
Berlin Heights is a small country
community. There was once a wave
I of free-thinking sentiment there, and
j later the "bloomer" craze. Ann Par
kin bad been a schoolteacher there
and was the star of the woman's t
club. She donned bloomers aud wore
them ever after. It is told that she
was married at that tiuio aud that her
husband told lier she could not be his
wife aud wear bloomers, too. * She
chose the bloomers; and they separated
amicably. This the dead newswoman
denied, insisting that she had never
been married. She said her family
name was Perkins, but that was not
the way to spell it, aud ai there was
but oue of her, her name must be !
singular instead of plural.
All her young lii'o in the country i
sho had been writing poems and es- j
says, but tbo editors always changed 1
them and thereby harrowed her soul, j
So, twenty years ago, she weut to j
Cleveland. She was determined to i
make the world hear her. She lee- |
lured on dross reform aud wrote more ,
poetry. The poetry and some essays j
sho had printed in a pamphlet and ]
sold it iu the streets in her bloomer
costume. While the novelty lasted
she did fairly well, but Cleveland was I
not then large euouglisothat it ottered !
a permanent market, aud as soou as |
she had made money enough out of i
oue book she would get out another.
Sales dropped off, though, and she
went to Chicago thirteen years ago to j
work on a womau-sutt'rage publication. j
After remaining in Chicago six ]
mouths, sometimes lecturing and ]
sometimes workiug as a servant, she
came back to the Cleveland streets I
and newspapers. The newsboys came
to recognizing her as a judgo for their
differences aud advisor for their :
troubles. One of her principles was
that when one had made money 1
enough for his necessities ho should ,
stop aud give others a chauee. When !
sho had sold a certain number of pa
pers—aud she sold them rapidly be- ,
cause of the attention sho attracted
sho would stop and go home.
• WANTED TO REI'ORM TIIE WORLD.
Her miud wa* always full of brill
iant plaus for reforming the world and ;
making it a heaven. A lifelong vege- j
tarian of the strictest sort, not using
milk or eggs, the scheme that filled i
her uiiud during her last days was a
magazine to bo devoted to vegetarian
ism. The simplicity of her mind is
shown in the fact that she was going
to call it "The Fig Loaf" and edit it
herself. In her delirium iu the hos
pital sho bemoaned her inability to
liud a backer for the magazine.
{She refused to take any medicine at
the hospital, refused food aud would
not evou allow the hospital doctor to
take her temperature. When any one
approached her bedside r-lie would ask
"Are you a doctor?" aud if the answer
was "Yes" she would insist that ho go
away from her. Her attitude toward
all iiumauity Avas hostile, savo that
she took a motherly interest in news
boys, and toward reporters showed a
disposition that was a quaint mixture
of friendliness aud adoration,so strong
was her love of all that pretended to
the guise of literature. At the last,
before she died, the hospital doctors
got to telling her that they were re
porters in order to do the little that
was possible iu her aid.—Chicago
Record.
Disks T<- Groat.
A rtable lad was taken ill on a visit
to London, and a friend gave him tin
address of a doctor to whom to go.
The lad camo back shortly and re
ported progress.
"I've got some mediciuo," said lie
"but I'm blowed it I went to that doc
tor of yours!"
"Why?" asked his friend.
"Well," replied the boy, "I was
just about to go in when I saw on the
door jfiato his name, 'Dr. X.' and be
low it 'lO co I.' When I unw tha. J
said to myself. I'll be hanged if 1
take any such risks as that!' So 1
went two doors further, aud saw an
other plate, with 'Dr. Y,' aud below
it 4 :i to 5.' The odds were shorter,
and 1 weut to him."—Pearson's
! Weekly.
Aulcfliluvi'in ISonoynril.
Phosphate rook is mined in South
Carolina ami converted into tv flour.
In the mines have been found many
queer substances which givo ovideuos
or life before the deluge. These
antediluvian relies have attracted tho
attention of scientists of two worlds.
There are moustor tusks, tooth of all
sizes and ohapo3, fish bones in great
quautity, i.ll of which is ground up
and made to produce the great South
ern staple—cotton.
Japan to-day li:u 2300 mi'.oa ol
railway, 11,720. wiles of laud tele
graphs, 387 of Biibranriue, aud 1114
telegraph oilioo*.
MAKES WONDERFUL KNIVES.
j S Secret of Tempering Steel by Which
He Will Not Profit.
I Dan Stockton has the secret of
I tempering steel that was believed
to have been lost with the death
[ ol' the makers of the famous To
| ledo blades, writes the Fort At
kinson (Wis.) correspondent of
I the Chicago Chronicle. And this
secret will die with him, for he can
not tell how he does it. It is all in
his head and finds expression in lira
work, but if he wished he could not
toll his process. Dau makes carving
knives, not swords, but the knives
are of a quality so rare that the old
Toledo sword is the only thing that is
a fitting comparison. A few people
in Chicago, New York, Cincinnati aud
Milwaukee have knives made by Dan
which they would not exehango for
the weight of the knife in gold, if
another could not be procured, aud
the knife is not light either.
These carvers are marvels. Their
temper is so flno that they will keep
a razor edgeforyears,withuothingbut
a steel as a sharpener, and they are a
source of constant delight to those for
tunate enough to possess them, and a
perpetual guarantee of good nature
iu the head of the household who
does the carving. But the knives are
not on tho market and money cannot
buy them. That is to say, he does
not make them for every Tom, Diek
and Ilarry who comes along with the
; price and wants a knife. He only
makes them for his friends aud for
those who are fortunate enough to get
n friend to intercede for them to have
Dau make them knives. To these
people he charges a nominal price,
which is not in the least commensu
rate with the value of the knife.
Dau is about fifty-five years old
and has spent his whole life on these
waters. He is a blacksmith by trade,
knocked around the West for a while,
was with the army during tho Civil
War, acquiring in military service so
much rhenmatism that he cannot fol
low his trade, though very expert at
it. Ho can temper steel as no other
man can and has plenty of work tem
pering tools to out stone, which is a
great industry here, but he never has
work enough to interfere with his go
ing down on Koshkonoug every Sat
urday for two days of shooting and
lishiug. He will make the seven
miles down to Sim Card's place if he
has to pull a boat alt the way, and
when he is there lie is in his element,
iio matter what the season of the
year.
Dau has been making those won
derful carving-knives fora great many
years, aud he can make any kind of
knife you may draw him a plan of
better than any otio else in the coun
try, but he cannot make a business of
it. He would no more think of hav
ing two knives to make at the same
time thau ho would of flying. II
would disturb him so that he could
not make any to have three to finish
at once. He has a proper pride in
his work, and the knife, when finished,
bears "D. Stocking" iu bold lettering
on the blade, aud epicures who do
dainty aud artistic carving are proud
enough to show a knife with that im
print.
Dr. Franklyn 11, Tower, of Mil
waukee, had a knife mado from a spe
cial design he drew himself that is the
envy of all his friends, bnt they can
not get similar ones because they do
not know Dau Stocking. Postmaster
John A. Childs, of Fvanstou, has
made all his club friends jealous by
Allowing them one of Dan's enrving
knives, and Mr. Loudon, of the Skin
ner & Loudon firm in Cincinnati, has
done the same thing in the Qupen
City, while George Tnylor is boasting
of their wonderful quality around
Marinette. ->a-
Dan takes proper pride in making
such knives as no one else can make,
but if he should make any money out
of his knives ho would bo miserable.
I)o Not Drink Water.
There are at least two individuals in
this country who have lived without
wnter. Dr. John Haddou, a medical
man at Hawick, in Roxburghshire,
states that there is no difficulty iu
doiug so if a strict vegetarian diet is
adhered to. "We get," he says,
"plenty of fluid iu a cup of tea or in
fruit and other foods; aud I find it a
great advantage, more especially when
traveling, to bo able to do without
drinking either water or milk, the
weil known vehicles of so mauy dis
eases." The second abstainer from
drinking water—Mr. John W. King, a
wholesale jeweler at Clerkeuwell—
says there is uothiug wonderful iu
doing without water for drinking pur
poses, and ho stated: "I have not
drunlc any water since the cholera
visited London, I am afraid to think
how many years ago, and for the last
fifteen or twenty years I have been an
abstaiu'er."—Tit-Bits.
Contraband of IVur.
Many old stories are told with re
gard to tha difficulties in detecting
contraband of war, but thcro is an
other side to tho question. During
tho Franoo-Prussian War a lady in a
carriage was stopped cn her way
through the Prussian lines. A search
was institntcd to see whether she had
been playing the spy or had suspicious
papers. Nothing wa.3 found until tho
Prussians cumo to a certain black
box, which tho lady positively ro
fuaed to givo up or allow to be
opuued. Sho was told that sho must.
She refused, nbused the soldiers as
cowards and soreainod loudly. Eventu
ally tho box was opened by force in
spite of her resistance, aud then it
was found to bo full of toilet acces
sories—contraband of the tournament
of flirtation. She was passed on with
apologies aud smiles.
When He IK at Ilust.
A clever man always likes to sit next
to a clover woman at dinner, because
a clever womau never expects a man
to bo.—Now York Press.