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It Is alleged tlmt a New Yorkwotaan
who attended the recent horse show J
In the metropolis wore a costume j
made of the skins of unborn lambs. |
Yv'e guess old Nero might learn a few j
things i.f he could come back and get
into New York's swell set for a little |
while.
llerr von KardolT, of the German
Reichstag, seems to be a Teutonic
economist who knows a thing or two. i
He is quoted as saying that the de
pression of German industries in iron j
and steel is due to the gigantic growth j
of American metal works, llerr von
Kardoff has sounded the keynote of j
the situation.
There is a good deal of talk about !
the wily Turk which really does the j
"befezzed" gentleman too much credit. ;
The aptitude he shows in dodging his ;
creditors is not such a rare quality.
There are others who are not one- ;
tenth as much talked about who play I
the role of protracted debtor with as j
much success as the Turk, even though
they do not live on the shores of the j
Bosporus.
A now source of supply for gutta
perclin has just been discovered in
Zanzibar, East Africa. It comes front
n fruit that looks like a peach, hut is
as large as the average cantaloupe. It.
is wholly unlit for food, but through
experiments it was found that the
milky juice, when thrown into boiling
water, would harden into a substance
so nearly like gutta percha as to be al
most impossible to tell the difference.
Nature seldom puts all her eggs in the
same basket.
It is significant that such subjects
as the conditions under which coal is
subject to spontaneous combustion
when in process of shipment are now
attracting a great deal of attention in
the United States. The scientists who
dial with such matters find that the
increasing exports of mineral fuel to
Europe make their remarks more in
teresting than formerly, aud, as a eon
que lice, American scientific journals
are printing numerous articles which
may assist practical men in their ef
forts to guard against the dangers
which attend the transportation of
coal by sail or steam vessels.
Cave nr 111.' King', Beard.
King Leopold of Belgium is more
particular about his toilet than proba
bly any reigning monarch. It is stated
that when he retires at night he has
his luxurious beard carefully encased
in a sort of siik bag to keep it from
getting snarled or crumpled.
The doctor lias ordered him never to
eat rich food, and the nobleman whose
principal duty in life is to see that Ilis
Majesty does not overeat has anything
hut an easy time of it. One day re
cently, at a big dinner, a tempting dish
of grouse was set before the king,
whereupon the nobleman gently but
firmly seized the royal disli and placed
it beyond the roach of ids royal mas
ter.
"Oh, please let me have a little of
the breast," pleaded the king, quite
like a spoiled child begging liis mother
for cake.
"No, Your Majesty," was the reply.
"You would only he ill to-morrow."
The king heaved a sigli and turned
his attention to some plain roast beef.
Even kings, you see, can't always have
what they want.
Complexion* la Great Britain.
In 100 Britons you will find only
forty-three light coraplexioned against
fifty-one dark. The other six are red
haired.
Feeding the Elephants.
Elephants in the Indian army are fed
twice a day. When meal time arrives
they are drawn up in line before a row
of piles of food. Each animal's break
fast includes ten pounds of raw rice,
done up in five two-pound packages.
The rice is wrapped in leaves and then
tied with grass. At the command, "At
tention!" each elephant raises its trunk
and a package is thrown into its capa
cious mouth. By this method of feed
; -g not a single grain of rice is wasted.
—Chicago Chronicle.
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~ WOMAN.
r :t
I Sh# raid "What is..there that I would not
1 I I "
For ,\'4rr dear YnkeV What change of t
it liiinkl or hukft
I t,„. i.rtib,: in any. eviy part !
if Love but say . nis lit- <l< : - of tisu*V
L'eu as ihe wiuie moon nil.* the restless j
And thaws its tides to answer her sweet ;
will.
So d< ■. your slightest wish arouse and
thrill,
Aha um.' obedience an ecstasy."
Oh. foolish heart of woman ! Even so
Thov H I 1: - f man a ma . •. tin unto,
iml I s, !ve by loving ;• a or late I
i monarch u :ries ..f Ids wo: ' i;>. Lo. j
This oniv '; "nut love. when i ,v enu be '
Doth pi'uiid ami humble in reunllty. |
The.'i! •in Dickering tlani HI. in the |
New Lippincott.
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II BECAUSE. |
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*<3 ooc oceoo cc-s
"Ycu are too provoking for any
thing, Jennie Norton. The very idea oi
your giving up Mrs. Preston's recep
tion for an old tiresome prayer met t
ing. Why, you can go to a meeting I
every week, but it isn't very often one
has the streak of good luck to be in
j vited to a brilliant reception."
j "I don't blame you, Alice, for be- !
! ing surprised at the turn of affairs.
; It seems that Miss Rice had to go
i away suddenly and was unable to en- i
j gage a substitute to play at the Fri- !
day prayer meeting. Mr. Allen asked
| me as a last resort, and after a great j
i deal of teasing I consented to give
| up the reception for a plague old pray
lar meeting. Now. Allie, dear, if you
tease mo any more, about it I'll give
j n the very last minute and disappoint
I the Rev. Sydney Allen. And you'll
! admit that would be rather hard on j
| a new minister.
"I suppose all the girls will think
; I've turned goody goody when they
; hear of it. but it's no such thing. 1
| never felt so rebellious and wicked in
i all my life as I did yesterday, when I
! promised to play on Friday evening.
| "I don't think I would have given
I in if grandpa hadn't come In and said i
I to Mr. Allen, 'Of course Jennie will j
gladly accommodate you.' I knew
| then it would be useless to refuse, j
so I said yes in my snappiest tone, j
What can't be cured must be endured, j
I do hope that you will have a lovely |
time at Mrs. Preston's, and when you |
! are enjoying yourself do not fo r gct
' poor little me listening to hallelujahs |
and loud am ens."
| It was Friday night, and the ves- ,
try of the Methodist church on Shir
iey avenue was pretty well filled with
: worshippers. They were just singing
J "How Firm a Foundation" when a
j finely built young man entered the
| room ami took a seat in the rear. His
magnificent baritone joined in the
hymn. Somehow it must have reached
the ear of the player, for she glanced
j up quickly. As if by magic eye met
1 eye. A clashing discord made Jennie
( Norton realize that she must attend
| strictly to business, so with height
ened color and somewhat unsteady
j fingers the hymn was finished.
At the close of the meeting Jennie
Norton chatted with several, but
I kept out of the way of Mr. Gordon.
| She spent fully five minutes talking
j pleasantly with the pastor. Gerald
j could harly keep his patience under
I coutrol as ho noticed the look of
honest admiration in the eyes of Mr.
i Allen.
Old Deacon Norton was much
; amused at the actions of the young
I people. He well knew that his grand
daughter Jennie was simply using her
I coquetry on the young minister to
; arouse Gerald Gordon's jealousy.
Two years ago young Gordon had
; proposed to Jennie, but just for the
1 fun of it, as she afterward told her
most intimate friends, she gave him
! "no" for an answer.
I "Love is blind," or else the young
man would certainly have seen the
love in Jennie's sparkling eyes. Men
in love will always have the sad les
son to L ani that, as a rule, a woman's
"no" moans "yes." Swallowing his
disappointment as be. t. he could, Mr.
Gordon went abroad, and for two
! yeais Jennie had heard from him only
through his sister Alice.
Poor Jennie often regretted her
. foolishness, but was too stubborn to
' let Gerald know. On the day of the
j reception the Gordon family were sur
| prised at the arrival of Gerald. At the
| dinner table Alice was telling the
1 i family how poor Jennie was obliged
' jto give up the reception. The result
i 1 was that Gerald found his way to the
; ! prayer meeting that night.
No wonder the young man could
hardly restrain himself when he no
ticed how Jennie avoided him and yet
lavished her smiles and honeyed
words on others.
"Gerald, my boy. where have you
been keeping yourself all this time?
• lam glad to see you in Boston again.
, It has been very lonesome at the
, house since you went to Europe.
Jennie hasn't seemed like the same
girl, and I almost think that you
managed to take the sunshine with
I you. I am sure I don't know what's
keeping the naughty puss tonight. She
[ Is usually only too anxious to get
away from the meeting, but this even
ing she is bold enough to flirt even
with the new parson. Young man,
r you'd better put in an oar. or some
\ one else will win the prize. I'm going.
. Tell Jennie that I asked you to see
hor home. Remember. Gerald, 'faint
heart never won fair lady.' "
With this particular advice Jennie's
i grandfather left the encouraged
5 suitor.
/ With a determined look on his
handsome face Gerald Gordon strode
up to the pair and delivered to the
now trembling girl Deacon Norton's
1 message. Miss Norton welcomed him
< home and accepted his escort. She
then introduced the somewhat embar
. rassed minister. He. seeing how
things stood, said a few words of wel- '
come to Gerald and, thanking Jen
nie for her assistance, quietly left
; them.
| On the walk home Jennie asked
her companion about his trip. Not a
: word of love is spoken between them. ;
Gerald realizes that the golden mo- ;
| menta are speeding away, but some- |
j how he docs not have the courage to
j tell of his love. To again hear "No" I
would be terrible, but Deacon Nor
ton's words still rang in his ears, j
"Faint heart never won—"
I "Jennie, two years ago today I
i asked you to be my wife. You refused,
and I went away to try and forget
' you. Distance only made me realize |
how dearly I loved you. My darling, j
I loved you then, 1 love you now. j
Again I ask you, will you be my
j wife?"
With white, anxious face the young
man bent to get his answer. Was he
dreaming? Surely his ears did not
deceive him, for he most certainly j
heard a faint, but a "yes," neverthe- j
Straining the young girl to himself, |
Gerald showered kisses upon the
yielding lips of the lovely girl, who ,
nestled so lovingly on his breast.
! After a few minutes of lovemaking
the man puts his hand under Jennie's
chin and, looking straight into her |
eyes, asked this question: "Jennie, j
! my dear one, two years ago why did
you say no? Answer me honestly; j
I did you love me then?"
I "Gerald, I loved you then with all 1
i my heart, but I said 'no' well, 'be- ,
j cause' "
| And with that woman's reason j
| Gerald Gordon had to be satisfied.—•
j Boston Post.
WHAT IS LLOYD'S?
i The Place Where You Cnn lie Insure*
Affit I nut Twins.
I "Most of the members of Lloyd's '
I carry on easiness as brokers or under- j
writers on their own responsibility. |
j As a corporation, Lloyd's assumes no
financial liability for the failure of
I any of its members or subscribers, i
But it admits to membership only |
: men of reputation and means, who ;
| must deposit a pecuniary guarantee j
; In order to become an underwriting
and non-underwriting member, an an- |
j nual subscriber, or an associate. An !
; underwriting member must deposit
with the committee of Lloyd's £SOOO j
j or £GOOO, on which ho receives inter
i est and which may he returned to him !
three years after he ceases to be an
| underwriting member. He pays an I
entrance fee of £4OOO and an annual
subscription of 20 guineas. An an- j
nal subscriber pays no entrance fee, i
, but an annual subscription of seven 1
. guineas; an associate member pays •
five guineas.
"There were in 1771 only 79 sub j
scrlbers to Lloyd's. There are now |
nearly 1000. The subscribers in the j
j < Iden tim*', as now. did not confine '
; * homselvib to marine insurance. They ■
j were will'ng to take a risk on almost
i anything. There is still preserved *t
I T loyd's a policy on the life of Nap > !
leon Bonaparte for one month at a
; premium of three guineas percent. !
Bank dep- sits arc insured in Lloyd's; j
also race horses, and the lives .f
j threatened monarchs. An odd case ;
j was the covering of a risk on a glass
; bed packed 20 cases for acer- '
, tain sultan. Lloyd's Insured the
I Prince of Wales jubilee stamps, guar- ;
| anteelng that the issue would be suc
cessful. The voice of a prima donna
has been insured. A tradesman in a
| London street who has an impression
; that a monument may fall on his
j shop, has taken out a policy at the
I nominal premium of two shillings and
| six pence percent. Gate money for !
| cricket and football matches; animals
I of all sorts ashore and afloat are sub
j jects for Insurance; policies against
! twins is a favorite form of insurance.
I A well-known underwriter is said to
I he always ready to lay a thousand to
i one against twins. Lloyd's issues in
| surance against burglary. Elephants
| are insured regularly. The life of the
! great Jumbo, who came to New York
on a Monarch line steamship, was in- |
! sured in Lloyd's for the voyage to I
j New York. He was not insured when
the life was knocked out of him by a
locomotive on an American railroad
whose tracks he was crossing. A cele- ;
brated singer recently took out an in- .
surance in Lloyd's on the life of
Queen Victoria. She paid a big pre
mium on account of the age of the
Queen. The reason the singer did
this was not because she cared any- ]
thing more than most folks for the '
Queen, but because her contract to
sing would have been abrogated by
the Queen's death, which would have '
plunged England into mourning and
prevented the singer's appearance in ,
opera."—S. A. Wood, in Ainslee's.
Surgery in Old Pompeii.
A recent discovery in the excava
tions going on at Pompeii shows in a
very striking way the iruth of the j
old adage that there is nothing new '
under the sun. The find consisted of
a number of surgical instruments.
Among them was a collection for
use in a special branch of surgery,
which, with the exception of fine work
manship and finish, are almost exact j
duplicates of those now used by sur
geons.
There is an instrument considered
indispensable today by the gynecolo
gist, from the invention of which Mar
ion Sims the famous American sur
geon, made a great deal of reputation,
' and money some years ago, but this
name speculum was in use in Pompeii
in 79 A. D.
Most of the others, supposed to he
the result of modern knowledge and
ingenuity, were found in this urst cen
tury surgeon's instrument case, and
it Is quite evident that so far as in
struments are concerned, this branch
of surgery has made little advanc*
during the last 2000 vears.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A geological commission i 3 at pres
ent endeavoring to prove that a val
uable and workable coal seam ex
tends beneath the sea at a point on
the northeast coast of England.
The use of superheated steam in
stationary power plants has proved
highly economical, and of late the ex
periment of putting superheaters on
locomotives has been tried in Ger
many. At least two such engines are
now in service on the state railways
and a third has been exhibited at the
Paris exposition.
The typhoon of the Orient is an
own sister of the West India cyclone.
It is generally in low latitudes, late
in the summer or early in the au
tumn, at the western edge of the Paci
fic, not far from the Philippines. It
begins its career by moving westward,
but in time returns to the coast of
China and Japan.
M. Pierre Baudin, minister of pub
lic works, is preparing a list of all
the paved roads which are now im
practicable for the bicycle or automo
bile, within a radius of 40 miles
around Paris. According to the indi
cations thus furnished, which are to
be checked up on the spot, he is to
commence a series of improvements
in the roads, beginning with those
which seem to be the most urgent or
offering more interest for touring or
circulation.
A cap nut lock for propellers has
been invented by Captain Lewis Davis
of Liverpool, and is intended to pre
vent the loss of blades at sea. The
centre of llie cap nut and the centre
of the fixed stud or bolt are bored,
and a left-handed flat-head bolt is In
serted. Through the head of this bolt
and on the cap-nut are a number of
holes, so arranged that locking pins
can be inserted. A fiat cap piece is
also screwed into a recess made on
the head cf the bolt, and again
through the centre of this is screwed
a small-headed screw. The worming
of each bolt or nut is contrary to that
preceding, so as to check any loosen
ing tendency. A rubber washer is
placed under the flat cap to prevent
the entry of water.
In a recent lecture at the Royal In
stitution, London, Sir Andrew Noble
mentioned that in experiments with
high power explosives used in guns a
chronoscope had been employed
which registered the velocity of the
projectile at 16 successive points be
fore it left the bore. It was possible
with this apparatus to register time
to the millionth of a second. In the
older experiments, where the velocity
did not exceed 1500 or 1600 feet per
second, the projectile recorded its
time by knocking down a series of
steel triggers projecting into the bore.
But with velocities of 2500 feet and
more per second, the trigger, instead
of dropping, frequently plowed a
groove in the projectile, and another
device was necessary.
Mr. James Judge, an engineer of
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, has in
vented a gun which, whatever its
practical value may be, is certainly
a new and ingenious application of
centrifugal motion. The contrivance
consists of a disk, so connected to an
electric motor that it can be revolved
at an exceedingly high rate of speed.
Bullets are introduced into the in
terior of the disk at the centre; and
travel along specially arranged curved
chambers to the circumference, and
from here ore thrown with great velo
city through the barrel of the gun.
The disk it is claimed will rotate at
the rate of 12,000 revolutions in a
minute, and will eject bullets from
the muzzle of the gun with an 'nitial
velocity of 2000 feet per second. The
bullets ore spherical and measure
3-1G of an inch in diameter.
Parcel Post Oilditic*.
Referring to some of the contra
dictory mles of the British postofflce,
J. Henniker Heaton, M. P., writing in
Pearson's, says: No living creature,
"except bees," may be sent by post
(although in France crabs and in
Germany human beings, may be so
forwarded). The prohibition of liv
ing creatures is no doubt due to the
experience of the officials charged to
open parcels forwarded by entomolo
gists, rat catchers and other scion
tists, though one Is puzzled to account
for the toleration of bees. Perhaps
some postmaster-general was an
ardent apiculturist; but anybody who
has ridden in the Australian bush
would certainly back a swarm of bees,
irritated by several hours' jolting in
a freight train, to clear a sorting
office in record time. Arms may not
be sent to "prohibited districts" in
Ireland in a parcel, and "the expres
sion 'arms' includes any cannon."
It may seem to follow that a can
non may be sent by parcel post to any
other part of the United Kingdom.
Eggs may be sent by parcel post, but
no compensation will be given for
injury to them, though payment will
he made if the parcel be lost. This is
| why, when all the egg 3 in a box have
been smashed into fragments, and
j the liquid contents have oozed out,
| the box containing the empty shells
is invariably delivered with scrupu
lous care to the addressee.
One
"Now that you are married," said
her intimate friend, "do you intend to
hyphenate your name and call your
self Mrs. Plumb-Duff?" •
"No," replied the lovely bride, with
a shy glance at her fond and proud
young husband. "This is not a con
solidation. It's an absorption."—Chi
cago Tribune.
LITTLE INSECT PESTS
ARE THE BNEfIY OF COfl/ION HOUSE PLANTS
The arch enemy of the window gar
den is the insect pest. Tliey spoil a
plant's good looks and lower its vital
ity until it either dies outright or
ceases to bloom or make active growth.
Probably not one woman in twenty
takes fcer plants through a winter
without having them attacked sooner
or later by insects. Once on the spot
and unmolested, they increase like the
hordes of Egypt, eating the leaves and
sucking the sap until they quite ruin
the little garden.
The reason insects are worse on
house plants than in the garden iB be
cause the first are grown under highly
artificial conditions. Living rooms are
unhealthfully hot; the potted plants
are cramped in root and subject to
water gorge or thirst starvation if the
watering pot is in careless hands.
Moreover the atmosphere is surcharg
ed with dust and coal smoke. And as
insects always attack first weak and
dirty foliage there is a special attrac
tion to them in every struggling house
plant.
The common houao insects arc aphis,,
or green plant louse, the scale and the
red spider. The aphis is the most
common. The usual recommended
keroecne emulsion will kill them read
ily enough, hut the trouble ia that at
the first sprinkle they drop off and
fall to the earth. Hero thay hide,
ready as soon as the flurry is over to
climb up to the stems and go sucking
the plant's juices again. To avoid this
lift the plant from the shelf with great
care, so as not to jar or dislodge them.
Wrap a cloth around the top of the
pot and close to the plant's stems, ao
the earth in the pot can neither tumble
out nor the insects tumble in. Then
quickly Invert the plant's top fnto a
pan of water, and if the water la quite
warm so much the better. Lift the
plant out and shake vigorously. Dip
again in the water, then again shake,
and so continue until every tiny louse
ANTI-PROFANITY CONFERENCE
An anti-profanity conference was re
cently held in Albany, N. Y., under
the auspices of the Holy Name So
ciety, a Roman Catholic organization.
The Holy Name societies of Brooklyn
recently assembled in that city, and
marched through the streets in a great
procession. The thousands of men in
line represented no less than sixty so-
THE PISTOL HABIT.
One the OoirU Should I)u Their I!et
to Discourage.
The courts are not severe enough it
would seem from the unremitting ac
counts of crime and accident, in pun*
ishing the pistol carriers. The law
against the bearing of concealed weap
ons is susceptible of much more effec
tive application than is usually given
to it. The habit of carrying "gun 3"
still clings to the inhabitants of cities,
and the death record is swelled annu
ally as a result. A tragedy In New
York the other day illustrated the evil
(forcibly. A man was kneeling on the
jsidcwalk in front of his place of em
ployment, marking a packing case,
(when another man chanced to pass
tjust as the worker turned his head
and expectorated 011 the sidewalk. The
pedestrian was angered at a supposed
Insult, and after the exchange of a few
words, drew a pistol and fired a fatal
shot into the kneeling man. Within a
minute two lives were ruir.eil for a
trifle. The man with the pistol never
had the slightest legitimate need for
the weapon. Doubtless never in bis
life had he been in such danger as to
warrant its use or even display, par
ticularly while proceeding through the
streets of a city in broad daylight. It
is with the pistol carriers engaged in
otherwise proper pursuits just in large
measure as it ie with the burglars, ob
serves the Washington Star. They are
potential man-slayers, and as such
are amenable to severe punishment
when detected. If the courts were to
insist upon proper verdicts in the
homicide cases which so often the ju
ries will leniently term manslaughter
or justifiable killing, and were to im
pose the maximum penalties whenever
pistol bearers are convicted of the of
fense, this "habit," a relic of the fron
tier days and the wild times of war,
would be discouraged.
Cornstalk* Tolson Cattle.
Cattlemen in the vicinity of Kim
ball, S. D., are much exercised over
losses of cattle which have been graz
ing in fields of cornstalk 3. Nearly ev
ery cattle raiser has lost from one to
twenty head, and examination of the
stomachs of the dead animals shows
no unusual conditions. Sometimes a
steer will drop dead almost immedi-
EGYPTIAN WOMEN
The condition of women in Egypt has
greatly changed since the old days
when Cleopatra reigned supreme upon
the Nile and had the whole world at
her feet. Miss Carrie Buchanan.a mis
sionary of seven years' experience,
testifies that woman's lot is, perhaps,
the most deplorable feature of the
country, "They are rated below
has been dislodged. Rinse the top
well in clean water and return to the
window. If a thorough job lias been
done there will be no more trouble,
but the plant should be examined
again in a couple of days and, if need
be, the treatment repeated.
Scale insects stick to the bark or
leaves as though they were glued
there. Dislodge them with a wooden
toothpick, keeping a close lookout for
them and finish.by washing the plant
well in soapy water. This must be
repeated every few days until no more
scale can be found. They are not
over-common, but a peculiarly stub
born pest. Red spider is almost as
common as aphis, but so tiny that few
know that this is what is the matter
with their plants. When without any
apparent reason leaves turn a sickly
color or show little yellow specks all
over them, or begin to curl at the
edges, we may suspect little Mr. Red
Spider, no bigger than a grain of red
pepper and camping with his wife and
babies, his parents, grandparents,
aunts, uncles and cousins on the under
side of the plant's leaves. Too hot and
too dusty air is the cause of the red
spider. Thero is one sure and simple
remedy for him and hi 3. It is water.
Have it warm and plenty of it, and
see that the under side of the leaves
get as much wetting as the upper,and
this foe is soon vanquished. A plant
can be dipped in water as hot as the
hand can be borne in it and It will not
hurt in the least, if not kept longer at
a time beneath the water than two or
three seconds. That degree of heat kills
the red spider quickly. Dip half a
dozen times in the hot water in quick
succession and the work is done.
Wash all plant leaves often. A
clean plant is not inviting to insects.
Kill the first foe that makes his ap
pearance and you have solved the se
cret of keeping house plants free from
insect pests of all kinds.
cieties of the Holy Name, attached to
as many churches. At the conclusion
of the exercises a cablegram was read
from Leo XIII. bestowing the Papal
blessing on the members. The streets
were crowded along the line of march:
and the influence of the demonstration
reached far beyond the considerable
membership of the societies which
participated in 'lt.
ately after being turned in among tho
stalks. Several animals may thus 1)3
lost, yet when the herd is turned into
another field of stalks close by no evil
results may show themselves. . i
Walks with a Broken Back.
A case that is attracting attention in
the surgical world is that of Michael
Kepler of Raveno, Pa., who is suffer
ing from a broken back. Five years
ago he fell and sustained tho injury.
The local doctors did not give him
much relief, and after two years he
went to Blossberg. Since then he has
undergone fourteen operations. He
was discharged from several hospitals
as incurable and was told to prepare
for the end. Kepler never became dis
couraged, and about a year ago ho
commenced to gain strength and for
several months he has been able to
waik. His health Is excellent, but tho
pain in bis back is intense. The bone
is decaying, and a large amount has
been cut away. He is one of the most
jovial, good natured young men in
the town. He has gone to Kane for
another operation.—Philadelphia Led
ger.
Sonrllng Mrtcarlnp* to Army.
. Those who wish to send magazines
and other reading matter to the sol
diers in the Philippines can avoid
transportation charges by forwarding
the books to any commissary depart
ment of the army. These books must
be in good condition and the literature
of a wholesome character. The book 3
and magazines must be packed in sub
stantial boxes, but not addressed to
any individual. They should be ad
dressed to hospitals, commands or
brarles.
Geian Improved by Gitfdlght.
The appearance of all fine gems Is
improved by gaslight. A perfect
emerald, despite its color, which in
anything else would turn to a dull
bluish hus, is only intensified in bril
liancy of color by artificial light. The
blue sapphire, though darkened, re
mains true to its color, as by daylight.
The alexandrite is the only gem that
changes, turning from a dark olivine
to a brilliant blood red by candle or
gas light.
brutes," she says. "A man might
speak of his domestic animals, but to
mention his wife's name in public is
a breach of etiquette in its worst form.
If it does happen that by a slip of
the tongue tho wife's name is spoken
the husband spits on the ground im
mediately afterward, to show his
tempt and eleanse his mouth.