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McKinley, like oar other two as
sassinated presidents, left only a small
fortune.
The International Seasickness asso
ciation and the Amalgamated Hay Fe
ver society should fuse and break into
politics.
Arizona olives are said to be better
♦han the imported ones. Evidently
nobody has found out, as yet, how to
adulterate them.
The mission of the new problem sto
ry is said to be "not to settle prob
lems. but to raise them." Most people
can raise their own problems without
any assistance.
The new woman is in the medical
profession to stay. The fl-st of the
class obtained her diploma in 1849.
There are now COGO women graduates
in medicine in this country.
Electricity is finding additional favor
in Sweden. The government of that
country is figuring upon utilizing it
as the motive power upon all the rail
roads of that country. The supera
bundance of water power in Sweden
renders this easily possible.
New England still holds the record
for density of population in the United
Ktates. Rhode Island has 407 inhabi
tants to the square mile, Massachusetts
249. New Jersey comes third with 250
gtnd Connecticut fourth with 187. There
are only lour other states—New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio—
which have more than 100 inhabitants
to the square mile.
A suction dredge has been
specially constructed at Richmond,
Va., for use in the southwest pass of
the Mississippi river. The craft is
able to steam at the rate of 10 knots
In hour. If it can be operated in
rough water, which no dredge yet in
tented has been able to do, it may
aolve the problem of reaching the gold
bearing sands underlying the ocean off
Cape Nome.
America's latest invasion has dis
rupted the ancient glass-blowing in
dustry of Belgium. An American firm
has paid ?i0.000,000 for the principal
r;lass-blowing business in that country.
Consequently there is a new impetus
Ugaiust American methods, and the
Belgian parliament has been asked to
"'keep the rascals out." The decline
In the glass industry in Belgium, and
its wonderful facilities for continuing
St, led the American investors to save
it.
From France and not America
romcs the latest novelty in insurance,
lays a London correspondent of the
Pittsburg Dispatch. Up to the pres
rnt the Yankees have led the way in
innovations, and many of them have
been so popular that they have been
grafted on to English and French sys
tems, but so far no Americau com
pany has been bold enough to insure
it candidate for parliamentary honors
against risk of failure at the polls. A
French company, however, has under
taken this work.
The cost of harvesting wheat on the
Pacific coast has been so lessened by
the use of automobiles that a greater
amount of the grain can be produced
at the same actual expense than in the
Argentine Republic, where labor costs
only a fraction of a dollar a day. The
Jargo automobile traction engines, now
used in California, am of 50 horse
power, and are provided with driving
wheels CO inches in diameter. They
do the plowing, planting ana harvest
ing, in their proper seasons. One trac
tion engine performs the triple work
of plowing, harrowing and planting in
one operation.
The skin of the Canadian black bear
brings from_sls to SSU.
THE TWO SIDES OF IT.
There was a girl who always said
Her fate was very hard :
From tho one thing she wanted most
She always was debarred.
There always was a cloudy spot
Somewhere within her sky ;
Nothing was over quite just right,
She used to say, und sigh.
And yet her sister, strange to say,
Whose lot was quite the same,
Found something pleasant for herself
In every day tliut came.
Of course things tangled up sometimei.
For just a little while ;
But nothing ever staid ail wrong,
She used to say and smile.
So one girl sighed and one girl smiled
Through ail their lives together;
It didu't come from luck or fate,
From clear or cloudy weather.
The reason iay within their hearts,
And colored all outside;
One chose to hope and one to mope.
And so they smiled and sighed.
—Priscilla Leonard, in Yonkers Statesman.
\ The Turtle Doves. [
"It is very kind of Clincher to make
a present of two turtle doves, Samuel.
I wouldn't have thought it of him."
"Clincher's fond of us, Maria."
"But its only a week ago ho got
them for himself, Samuel, and here
they are."
Maria presented her husband with
two doves in a wicker cage. Spofflns
had a general belief in human nature,
but he had not implicit faith in
Clincher. The doves, however, cood
so prettily and looked so innocent
that Spofflns became enthusiastic
about Clincher's present. The cage
was hung up outside the kitchen door,
where the doves cooed and cooed.
"Just like a married couple, Maria,"
remarked Spofflns.
"Yes, Samuel."
"Stuck in a cage and can't get away
from each other —so fond of kissing,
1 mean."
Tho doves cooed all day, and
Spofflns swaggered about the garden
proud of being the proprietor.
At daybreak Spofflns awoke with a
start.
"What's that?"
"Coo, coo, coo, coo, coo!"
"It's —no it isn't, Maria."
"Yes it is, Samuel; it's Clincher's
birds."
Sleep was impossible, so the Spof
finses came down to breakfast in the
early morning.
"I wish those birds wasn't quite so
affectionate, Maria —lisen to 'em."
"Coo, coo, coo coo!"
"It doesn't sound so lovely as it
did."
"No they den't, Maria. I'll put them
down the garden."
Spofflns did so, with tho suspicion
of a wish that some prowling cat
might make a meal off them.
The neighbor at the bottom of the
garden soon sent in to have them re
moved, as the noise disturbed his
household. Spofflns brough them into
the house, where they cooed louder
than ever.
"Clincher is a smart man," mut
tered Samuel, as he saw the reason
of his friend's generosity.
Then the Spofflnses couldn't stand
the row any longer; so they gave Jane
a holiday, as she also was getting ill
with the cooing. Locking up the
house, they went to Bushey Park.
On their return they found the let
ter box filled with complaints from the
neighbors about the doves, who, hear
ing Samuel and Maria enter, cooed,
seemingly, louder than ever.
"I'll make them a present to
Plumpthimble," shouted Spofflns, as
the fiendish idea took possession of
him.
Unhooking the wicker cage he flew
round to Plumpthimbles, and made
him a present of the doves.
The Plumpthimbles were overjoyed
—nothing could exceed Spofflns kind
ness—they were just what they had
always longed for.
Spofflns received their thanks with
gloomy reserve, and went home. He,
Maria, and Jane passed a quiet night
and had breakfast without the usual
irritating accompaniment of cooing.
But, alas! only a day elapsed and the
birds were returned. Plumpthimble
didn't want them.
"What shall we do?" sobbed Mrs. S.,
as the cooing began again.
"Do? Why, give 'em to Stiffbaek,"
replied Spofflns.
The birds had not been five minutes
in the house when they were sent to
Stiffbaek as a present, with the kind
est greetings. That evening the Stiff
backs called and thanked Spofflns
exuberantly for such a thoughtful and
delightful gift.
On the following day, however, back
came the doves with a message from
them.
With an expedition horn of subdued
anger, Spofflns sent them to Miss
Shiver of Sparrowfleld Park. "An
old maid's sure to like them," said
Spofflns, considering within himself
that he had finally got rid of them lor
good.
Jane returned with tho doves in a
very short time, with a message from
Miss Shiver to say that she had kept
doves before, and didn't want them.
"Nobody seems to want them,"
groaned Spofflns, and then in dispalr
he sent them to the Red Lion Hotel,
which let apartments to newly mar
ried couples.
The proprietor thought tho present
a very delicate compliment, and he
thought his guests would appreciate
the novelty.
Tito business of the hotel declined
so rapidly after forty-eight hours
cooing that it seemed probable that
the doves would be its only tenants.
The landlord was not a man to give
anything back or away, so he organ
ized a raffle for tho doves. One night
at the hotel, Spoffln was asked to join
a raffle. Without troubling himself
as to what the raffle was he paid half
a crown and selected hit number.
Next morning he received the con
gratulations of the landlord of the
Red Lion.
He had won the doves!
There was a pigeon pie at the Spefr
fins's for supper that evening; the
bird cage is empty, and no cooing is
heard now in the vicinity of Spoliins's
residence. —Pick-Me-U p.
REGULARS AT DRILL.
Hon tli* Soldier® Are Trained in the Tac
tic* of Today.
Any one who has a nice precipitous
defile to rent for .strenuous picnic par
ties can find a two days' tenant by
addressing the commanding officer of
the United States troops at Fort
Wayne.
This Is the time of year when Uncle
Sam's hoys are having their schooling
in the practice of real war, and all
that is lacked by the battalion of the
14th infantry here is a nice defile. The
program of operations laid out by Capt.
Patten includes almost every form of
military action that infantry Is likely
to he called upon to perform, and in
the list is a day set apart for practice
in guarding a defile and another for
forcing the passage of a defile. All
that is lacking is the natural setting
for the maneuvers.
The training which the battalion Is
now undergoing is exceedingly varied
and each day has a different drill. The
program takes two months to complete
and includes scouting, practice
marches, advance and rear guard duty,
intrenching patrols, signalling, sick re
lief and outpost duty. One day a con
voy is to be attacked, another an out
post carried, and again advance and
rear guard formation in passing
through a town is to bo taught. A
number of very exciting skirmishes
have been fought in the scouting which
has been done. At one time a whole
detachment of the scouts who were
trying to slip past the guards Into
Fort Wayne under command of a cap
tain, were neatly ambushed and cap
tured before they had time to escape
from the trap.
A feature of the practice that shows
the different conceptions of army ac
tion between American and European
military men, is the dependence placed
upon the non-commissioned officers.
They are sent out in command of de
tachments and are expected to carry
out the movements ordered on their
own initiative, while in continental
armies all orders come from the officers
and their men are but machines. The
difference is shown when American
regulars are thrown into tight pinches
and in emergencies when every man
must think for himself.
Twice a week all the companies at
the fort engage in battalion, which is
in reality a rehearsal of the move
ments of a battle of the modern sort.
There is no posing or drawing of the
men up in useless lines. They are
used as they would be in real fighting
and taught to advance and retreat with
the greatest efficiency and safety.
At the start the companies are put
in double line at one end of the parade
ground, which is supposed to be be
yond the enemy's range, one company
in reserve. Then, rushing in platoons,
half the line companies trot forward
and drop to cover the advance of the
remainder by their fire. Tiie second
set of platoons likewise rush forward
to fill up the breaks in the line, and by
their fire cover the second rush of
their comrades. As the advance con
tinues the platoons break up ' into
squads of eight, for the smaller the
units of movement the less the loss in
hit. Finally they are far enough for
ward for a charge, and then the line
concentrates with a last sweeping fire
from the distance of 200 yards from
the mythical intrenchments.
Then, with a yell that has become
familiar to Filipino ears, they cover
the remaining distance at a gallop,
firing at will. It is all very life-like
and the realism is not diminished by
the fact that most of the men in the
charging, firing, yelling lines have car
ried out the grim reality of the thing
in many a furious overseas fight,
where the little brown men of the trop
ic Islands have been the foe and the
charge was directed against very real
intrenchments sputtering with Mauser
fire. —Detroit Journal.
VVliero lie Fill • I.
The other morning a youthful des
perado appeared at a police court to
answer to a charge of shop-breaking.
He undertook his own defence, and
did it well up to a certain point.
Then, however, came an utter col
lapse.
"I didn't break into the shap, yer
woshup." he told the chairman of the
bench. "I just fell into it." And
then, seeing the astonishment this
announcement created in the court
he went on to explain:
"Yer sees, it wos this way. I was
agoin' for a walk when I 'appened to
bump agin the shop door. The win
der (fanlight) over the door fell down
an' I climbed up to put it right agin.
Just as I'd nearly got it right I
overbalanced an' fell into the shop.
As soon as I'd picked myself together
agin I climbed out agin the same way.
It wes just then that the bobby saw
me an' collared me."
"But," said tiio chairman blandly,
"how came it that you had half a
dozen mouth organs in your pocket?"
After a thoughtful pause the youth
ful prisoner shook his head.
"That licks me," he replied, gloomi
ly. "That's just the bit as I can't
explain."—Tit-Bits.
There are now 1142 different subma
rine cables, with a total length of 19,-
BSII miles, owned hy governments, and
318 cables, altogether 146,000 miles
long, in the hands of companies.
BEDFELLOWS IN MEXICO.
Experience of a Traveler Wlille Fanning
Through That Country.
"I had a rather unhappy experience
once, myself," said a listener, "but
It was at a time when my nerves
could not stand a great deal, and the
shock was no surprise to me. I was
really happy when I found that my
eyes had played me no trick and that
the things about me were real things,
j I had journeyed down into Mexico, for
the purpose of spending some time.
The trip was partly a business trip,
and partly for such pleasures as I could
get out of an experience in a country
that was new to me. I ought to say
here that I had never been in a tropi
cal country. My life had been spent in
the north, and whatever I knew about
many of the forms of life in tropi
cal sections was altogether theoretical
I had merely read about many of the
things, but I learned afterwards that
thore were many things I had never
dreamed of evon in moments when my
mind was inclined to conjure with the
horrors of uneven sleep. Well, I found
myself In Mexico, I was in the wilds
of Mexico, and that, whero one could
find but few of the comforts known
to the more advanced ways of living.
I stopped with an old Mexican one
night, and he put me in a dumpy little
room off to myself. I slept on thg
floor, or rather I started to sleep on
the floor and it was a dirt floor at
that. I coiled up on a mattress made
of some light material. I had just
closed my eyes when I felt something
scramble rapidly over my forehead.
It started me a bit, but I kept cool
and still to see if it would happen
again.
It happened in less time than it
takes to tell it. This thing kept up
until the experiment was disorganizing
my nerves, and I could stand it no
longer. I got up and started out, and
I felt the same thing happening to
my feet. Partly panic stricken, I
rushed into the room of the old Mex
ican. "Something in yonder," I said,
pointing toward my room. He took
in the situation at once, and assured
me that it was all right He struck
a light and went to the room with mo
to assure me that there was no danger.
When I got back to my room I was
paralyzed. Crawling over the walls
of the hut and scramping over the
floor, over the mattress on which I
had lain, and running here and there,
and eyerywhere, was a perfect army
of lizards of all sizes, ages and varie
ties. I told the Mexican to leave me
the light, and that I would occupy
the room for the night. And so I
did. But I did not sleep, for I did
not want the lizards however harm
loss and companionable they might be,
to convert my face and forehead into
a promenade. This wound up my ex
perience in Mexico and I scampered
over the border as soon as possible,
and since that time tne wilder regions
in the tropics have had no fascination
for me." —New Orleans Times-Demo
crat.
The Ideal School Teacher.
The teacher must teach more, and
know more; he must be a living foun
tain, not a stagnant pool. He should
not be a dealer in dessicated, second
hand knowledge, a mere giver out and
hearer of lessons. That is the chief
and humiliating difference between our
secondary teachers and those abroad,
who are mostly doctors of philosophy,
as they should be. If we could move
many university professors to the col
lege many college professors to the
high school, many high school teach
ers lo the grammar school, and some
grammar school teachers with at least
a sprinkling of college graduates, into
the kindergarten it would do much.
In the German and French school the
teacher is one who knows a great deal
about his subject, and is nearer to
original sources; who tells the great
truths of the sciences almost like sto
ries, and who does not affect the airs
and methods of the university profes
sor. Very many secondary teachers
are masters and authorities. Here,
most of our university pedagogy is a
mere device for so influencing high
school principals and teachers as to
correlate curricula, in order to corral
In students, and little Interest is taken
in the grammar grades and none in
the kindergarten.—The Forum.
None Could Climb It.
Fifteen hundred people saw a Mal
tese sailor try to fix a flag to the pole
In Jackson square and fall. He climbed
almost to the top and then slid to the
bottom. But he v/as not discouraged.
Once more ho tried to get to the top,
but it was not to be. He got about
half way up, and again his strength
gave way and he had to come to the
bottom. But still ho was not dismayed.
He tried the task again and again. He
seemed to think he was til* man for
that job, and he wanted to make a
showing before the crowd there assem
bled, but he failed. He could not
climb the pole, and so the idea of hav
ing a flag on the top of the staff had to
be abandoned.
Several others essayed to do that
which the Maltese had tried and failed,
bu. they had no better luck, and so
the attempt was given up, and the tall
est flag pole In the city remains with
out a flag, for the reason nobody with
nerve and skill enough could be found
who would venture to make the as
cent —Now Orleans Tlmos-Democrat.
Iceland'* Conatbln Ciciirottn f^nre.
The cigarette smoking mania has
lately broken out with excessive viru
lence among the boys and girls in Ice
land. A proposal to cop© with the
nuisance is being considored by the
municipal authorities of Reykjavik. It
will, if adopted, empower any male or
female adult to box the ears of a ju
venile offender, annex his or her weed
and impound the 6tock of cigarettes.
SCIENCE AND INDUS TRY.
Brazilian carbon, which is worth
about $45 per karat, or about four
times the value of ordinary diamonds,
is used in drilling some of the gold
mines of South Africa.
The suggestion has recently been
made that for permanent record sheets
aluminum might be used to advantage,
instead of paper. Aluminum can be
rolled to a thinness of 1-250 of an inch,
and in this shape it is no bulkier and
rather lighter than paper.
During the past summer months ex
periments were made in Austria to de
termine why the modern method of
destroying hail-clouds by the use of
artillery sometimes fails. The experts
found that failure was due usually to
the employment of too small gun 3 or
too little powder.
Is the spectrum of a solid or liquid
body veritably continuous, as is usu
ally declared, or only apparently so?
If we admit that a material molecule
is made up of an assemblage of a num
ber of particles, each one of which can
emit only radiations of a single special
period, the number of different radia
tions contained in any spectrum what
ever is necessarily Unite and conse
quently the continuity shown experi
mentally can only be apparent.
There has been added to the exhib
its at the Glasgow exhibition a new
telescope gun sight, the invention of
Sir Howard Grubb, F. R. S. This sight
is on a totally new principle, there
being neither back nor fore sight re
quired. Aim is taken through a small
lens, when an image of a bright cross
is thrown by an optical contrivance a
long distance in front of the gun, and
in line with the barrel, which image
forms the foresight. For aiming it is
only necessary to superpose the cross
on whatever object it is desired to hit.
Benjamin C. Tilgham, inventor of
the process for reducing wood to pulp,
for paper making, by the aid of sul
phurous acid, died recently in Phila
delphia. He discovered the principle
accidentally, from having noted the
effect that sulphurous acid had on
wooden barrels in which it was stored.
His first patent was taken odt in 18(19.
Other inventors soon followed him into
the same field, and the result is that
today very little material beside pulp
wood is used in paper making. The
lowest grades of paper are made from
ground wood, while the better grades
contain more or less sulphite or chem
ically digested pulp, or cellulose.
Tho last vestige of worth in the su
gar beet is to be exhausted by the con
version of beet sugar molasses into
neutral spirits. After the extraction
oi the sugar the pulp remaining is
used as cattle feed, but there has been
much waste in tho disposition of the
molasses. Now a distillery in Michi
gan is giving a money value to this
by-product. Heretofore only small
quantities of rum have been made from
this molasses and that industry is con
fined to the vicinity of Boston. But
the readiness with which the Molasses
may bo converted into spirits opens
up a new industry wherever the sugar
beet thrives. The process is simple.
The molasses is allowed to ferment,
ar.d from this comes neutral spirits of
100 percent proof, used mainly in
compounding, for preserving speci
mens, and for use in the arts. One
gallon of molasses will yield throe
fourths of a gallon of spirits.
THE STORY OF THE SWORD.
Fnglaml Practically Loadu In tli Mnnn
faoturo of Them.
The date of the first production of
swords at Sheffield is lest in antiqui
ty, and very little is known of the
early history of sword manufacture in
England. There is, however, a picture
in existence copied from a manuscript,
psalter of the timo of King Stephen,
which shows two men engaged in
grinding a sword blade.
About the year 1689 serious inter
national considerations roused England
to the necessity of competing with tho
world in the manufacture of swords.
A movement was inaugurated in Cum
berland for the purpose of making hol
low ground sword blades. Mills were
erected by a company of cutters, and
a considerable number of German ar
tificers were employed, but the work
was very inferior and the project
failed.
In 1783 the sword sellers of London
petitioned the lords of the treasury for
to import German swords
free of duty. This extraordinary ap
plication called forth an indignant pa
triotic protest. A few years later the
supremacy of the British made sword
was finally established without a
doubt. Ten thousand cavalry swords
were required by the East India com
pany and the order was divided be
tween English and German makers. Of
this order Mr. Gill of Birmingham se
cured a large share. A special ma
chine was suggested by Matthew Bol
ton for testing the swords. In this
machine each blade was forced into
a curve reducing from 30 inches to 29
inches.
The result was that 2G50 of those
made by Mr. Gill bore the test and
only four were rejected. Of the Ger
man swords 1400 were accepted and 28
rejected. Immediately the fame of Mr.
Gill spread over Europe and in a short
time officers of the German army were
his principal customers. Since then
English Arms have practically led the
sword making industry and Sheffield
steel has become world famous.—Lon
don Mail.
Oats are cultivated in a corner of the
Boston Common, where grass would
not grow.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
He who makes a practice of deceiv
ing others is often the worst fooled
man in the crowd.
The grave of each conquered sin is
an earthwork behind which we can
fight and conquer a greater evil.
A debt paid when needed is doubly
thanked and heeded, but a debt too
long delayed ie oft but half way paid.
Those who dislike us serve us in a
certain way, for they put us on our
mettle to disprove their disbelief in us.
Mock modesty, like a patch, is used
to cover a hole, a place where the in
tegrity of the cloth or character is
broken or wholly lacking.
When a good mother's teachings
leave manhood's best lessons unlearned
and his self respect failing, no wife,
however loving, can reform him.
Misfortune is a tide that sweeps
small souls under and drowns little
minds and bears great and brave ones
on to noble and generous heights. . A
Bad manners soil fine clothes from
within worse than contact with the
world does from without, and courtesy
and kindness win where force fails.
We seldom forgive those we hava <.*
Injured, and the effort to justify our
selves makes us willing, aye, eager,
to believe any false or evil rumor we
can place between them and our con
science.
Our enemies do us little vital harm
in speaking evil of us, for the friend
ship that crumbles under the lash of
an evil tongue is best put away as
good riddance of bad rubbish, with
thanks to those who unconsciously
saved us from lavishing tho best in us
on an unworthy object.
BIG NEW ENCLAND FAMILY.
DMCuniletl from Ilcnjiimin Kielflier, Who
Cnmo Over in lUO2.
About 300 descendants of Robert _
Fletcher, who came from England to T
Concord in 1630, gathered in Lorimer
hall, Tremont Temple, on Sept. 4, to
celebrate the quarter centennial of the
organization of tho Fletcher family
union.
The president, Austin B. Fletcher of
New York City, presided and intro
duced Rev. Mr. Staples of Lexington,
who, in a brief prayer, evoked the di
vine blessing on their deliberations. In
a brief address the president told of
William and Mary, sovereigns of Eng
land, having sent to the colonies in
1692 Benjamin Fletcher to govern New
York, and said that the Fletchers have
since then been found in gubernatorial
chairs from Missouri to Vermont. He
spoke of the advantage of unions of
this kind in bringing together long
separated relatives and strengthening
family ties, and said that this fact
had been emphasized during the quar
ter century's existence of the union.
Prot William I. Fletcher of Amherst
college followed with a few words of
greeting, and indulged In humorous W
reminiscences of past meetings which
he had attended. He described at some
length the branch of ihe family to
which he belonged, and then passed
on to a more general consideration. He
said there is now a tendency to wor
ship an ancestry, as is shown by the
desire to study family and town his
tories.
Photographs of houses still stand
ing, originally occupied by members
of the Fletcher family as early as 1G53
and 1696, were shown and passed
among the audience. It was announced
that the oldest person present was
Mrs. Maria L. Needham, aged 85, and
the youngest Master Charles Warren
Fletcher, aged 1 year. The oldest mem
ber of the union is a lady 98 years
old, whose infirmities prevented her at
tendance. A letter was read from Sen
ator Redfleld Proctor of Vermont, a
member of the family, whose absence j
was due to the presence of Vice-Presi
dent Roosevelt In that state.—Boston
Transcript.
Tho Mnrdorer and Captain Kvrvte*.
McGloin was a young ruffian who
had murdered a saloon keeper at a
midnight raid on his place. He was
the fellow who the night before he
was hanged invited the chief of de
tectives to "come over for tho wake;
they'll have a devil of a time." For
six months Byrnes had tried every
thing to bring tho crime home to him.
but in vain. At last he sent out and
had McGloin and his two pals arrested,
but so that none of them knew of the
plight of the others. McGloin was tak
en to Mulberry street and orders were
given to bring the others in at a cer
tain hour 15 or 20 minutes apart.
Byrnes put McGloin at the window in
his office while he questioned him.
Nothing could bo got out of him. As
he sat there a door was banged below.
Looking out, he saw one of his friends V
led across tne yard in charge of po
licemen. Byrnes, watching him nar
rowly, saw his check blanch; but still
his nerve held. Fifteen minutes passed;
another door banged The murderer,
.ooking out, saw his other pal led in
a prisoner. He looked at Byrnes. The
chief nodded.
"Squealed, both."
It was a lie, and it cost the man his
life. "The jig is up, then," he said,
and told the story that brought him to
the gallows.—Jacob Rils, in The Out
look.
Human Nnturr.
Tommy—lf I had a million dollars,
Billy, I'd give you half.
Billy—You don't mean it.
Presently Tommy picked up a 10-
ccnt piece and he never said a word
about sharing it with Billy. There's
a good deal of grown-up human na
ture in boys.—Boston Transcript. ,
The carat used in estimating the V I
weight of gems is a grain of Indian i
wheat I