EVENINC AT THE OLD HOME.
Back to the hallowed hills which child
hood knew,
Made sacred ground by memories sweet
and true,
I wandered listlessly one summer day.
T blotted out the waste of many years,
Folded the pages that were stained with
tears,
And fancied I was*but a child at play.
But when the evening came and twilight
- fell
Above the gray-roofed home I loved so
well.
And still no voice called from the vine
clad door,
I went as only they can weep who know,
The loving voices of long ago
Will call them from their childish sports
no more.
—Beth Whitson, in the New York Sun.
| Abel Mitchell's £
I Last Will. I
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J, Another Tale of Cupid's Triumph
nr BEL MITCHELL called to his
/\ typine. "You may go. Miss
Morris," lie said. lie did not
look up from the papers be
fore him.
The young woman turned to the
clock with a little start of surprise.
It was only 4.30. But she quietly put
on her hat and with a murmured good
night left the room.
Abel listened to the departing rustle
of her skirts with a thoughtful expres
sion. There was a sensible girl, a girl
who never grated on his feelings, a
girl who asked no useless .questions.
She had reached an age of discretion.
If .Tim was determined to marry a poor
girl, why could not he have taken one
like Emma Morris?
Abel opened a heavy envelope and
drew forth a folded paper.
"Jim never was conlldential with
me," he grumbled. "Perhaps I didn't
invite his confidence. I don't know.
Now he has disobeyed my direct com
mand. That can't he overlooked.
When he told me about this girl, I said,
'Wait.' 'How long?' he asked. 'Until
you reach years of discretion!' I cried,
and turned away. Jim is twenty-four.
Twenty-four! And I mai'ried at twen
ty-one! Yes, and ran away, too! But
it was different with me. My father
had nothing to give me. I was quite
independent. He was glad to have me
shift for myself. Jim's father is a
rich man. Jim's father has given him '
pounds whei'e my father begrudged
me pennies. Jim owes me filial obedi
ence. He has disobeyed me to his
bitter cost."
He unfolded the paper that he had
taken from the envelope and ran his
keen, gray eye down the closely writ
ten lines.
"He has given np his father for a
pretty face," he murmured.
"Let him stand by the consequences.
Who is she? Who is she? It matters
not. No doubt they trapped him into
this marriage. 'A rich man's son,' they
chuckled. But they'll find they're
fooled. 'Father,' lie said, I am to be
married to-morrow night. Will you
come with me to the wedding?' I
turned on my heel. Then I looked
back. 'You know the price you may
pay?' I cried. 'Yes, father,' he said,
tvith his head high up; *1 know. Good
by, and God bless you.' He asked a
blessing on me! Ha, ha, ha! That's
too ricn! But he'll get evil for good
Ibis time. I'll cut him off with a shill
ing. Let him sup on herbs for a while.
That'll take the veneer from love's
young dream. I'll draw up a new will
at home to-night and have it witnesed
before I sleep. And to let him know
what his foolish fancy has cost him, I'll
write him a letter—a letter lie can
show to his new relatives. That's the
thing—the letter."
He bent down with his head upon
his hand and his eyes upon the paper.
A rustle of skirts in the doorway drew
his attention. He did not look up. It
was away lie had.
"Ah, Miss Morris," he said, "hack
again?"
He had quite forgotten that he had
sent her home.
The young girl in the doorway did
not answer. Her bright eyes were fixed
upon the old man. She expected him
to look up. If he had done so he would
have seen a charming vision. She was
a very pretty girl—dainty and neat
from the crown of her new lint to the
tips of her new shoes. But he did not
look up.
"Just in tine." he added; "I want to
dictate a letter before you go."
Ho paused, and the young girl, as if
seized witli a sudden fancy, quietly
stepped into the room and seated her
self at the typewriter.
"You have been with us so loug, Miss
Morris," the old man continued, "that
we view you as a confidential agent.
Besides, this will lie public property
very soon. I am going to write to my
son. Last night he married an un
known girl against my wishes. I am
going to tell him that I wash ray
hands of him and his; that to-night 1
change my will, cutting him off with
h single shilling. Are you ready?"
The girl at the typewriter gave the
instrument a preliminary click or two.
"James Mitchell," began the old man,
'as you have seen fit to disobey me, to
cast my fatherly wishes in my teeth, I
desire you to know that I have no
wish to hold further communication
with you. While I cherish the impres
sion that you were lured into this uu
>appy marriage "
'The typewriter stopped.
"Unhappy marriage," the old man
icpcated, and the clicking recom
menced, "yet I cannot accept as any
excuse for your undutiful conduct. To
night I change my will, and you may
test assured that your name will he
passed over with the Smallest possible
financial consideration. I prefer to
have you understand this here and
now. It will prevent you and your
new friends from cherishing any false
hopes. This is all I have to say and no
reply will be expected.
"ABEL MITCHELL."
The young girl drew the sheet from
the machine and. briugiug it forward,
laid it on the old man's desk. Abel
glanced it through.
"A beautiful copy," he said, and knit
his brows.
The girl at the end of the desk ex
tended her hand.
"If you have no objection," she quiet,
ly said, "I will deliver it to him in per
son."
The old man looked up at the fair
face bending over him.
"Why, who are you?" he cried.
"I am Alice Mitchell," said the young
girl.
"Mitchell?" repeated Abel dully,
"M-rny son's wife? And what "
But the ugly words would not come,
lie could not utter them in the light
of those gentle eyes.
"Will you be seated?" he lamely
added.
"Thank you—no," said the girl. "1
have but a few words to say. They
will not detain you long."
Abel's gaze droppel to the letter and
the will, and a sarcastic smile twisted
his mouth.
"No, no," the girl quickly added. "I
have not come to plead with you. You
are quite wrong to imagine such a
thing. And you were quite wrong, too,
to insult me as you did in that letter."
He looked vp again quickly. There
were tears in the gentle eyes. And
there was a glint of fire in them, too.
"Y'ou insulted me, and you insulted
my dear father. I have no mother."
She paused a moment.
"When you insinuated that my father
was mercenary in this matter you did
him a cruel wrong. He was bitterly
opposed to our marrying without your
cousent. I disobeyed my father, too.
But it was uot for your mouey. This
letter will bring us 110 surprise."
Tlie old man dropped ids eyes be
neath the reproachful gaze.
"Perhaps I am hasty," ho slowly
said, "but the provocation was great."
Then he added quickly: "But know
ing as you did that I opposed the wed
ding, and your father opposed, it, too,
why did you permit yourself to marry
my boy?"
"I could make it clear to you, I
think," said the girl gently, "if you
loved your boy."
The old man trembled. If lie loved
bis boy! All that was near and dear I
to him—all that was left to him of kith
and kill. Tile babe that a dying wife
liad solemnly placed in his paternal
arms. If he loved his boy! He drew a
long breath and stared hard at the
blank envelope on the desk before hira.j
"And now," said the young girl, "I [
only want to add that I think Jim was ■
quite wrong in crossing your wishes.
He might have waited. I wanted him j
to wait. Hut be Is so proud—so self-1
willed. I am very sorry that I should
lie the means of separating you, and I— !
I am quite sure I am not worth the
great sacriUce my dear—my husband— I
has made."
Abel was quite sure there were tears
in her eyes again, but he did not
up.
"Where is Jim now?" he asked. Then
ho smiled grimly. "And why are you
not enjoying your —your wedding .
tour?"
"There was a vacancy In the bank j
where my father is employed," said the
girl, "and father secured it for Jim.
Ills duties began to-day. Perhaps we
will take our wedding journey later.
We have to look out carefully for the
main chance now, you know."
"And you didn't expect to fall back
on my sovereigns," said the old man.
"Not a penny of them," quickly re
plied the girl.
The old man fidgeted in his chair.
"And why not?" he asked.
"I think you understand," said the
girl, and her gaze dropped to the letter
011 the desk.
"Does Jim know you arc here?"
"No. At least he didn't know I was
coining. Father will tell him to meet
nie at the corner at 5 o'clock. I must
so."
"Wait," said the old man quickly,
He looked at her searchingly. She met
Ills gaze with a smile. Her mind was
011 Jim.
Abel deliberately put the will back
in its envelope and the envelope in its
pigeonhole. Then lie picked up the
letter in its unaddressed envelope, tore
it into minute particles and tossed them
into the waste-paper basket.
"I've changed my mind," he softly
muttered.
lie pulled down his desk cover with
u bang and reached for liis liat.
"There." lie said, "I'm ready." Then
lie added: "Will you give me your
arm, my dear?"
As they passed through the doorway
lie paused.
"I think, Alice," lie said, "that you
and I are going to be very good friends.
And now we must hunt up Jim and
take him home with us."—New York
News.
The Telegraph l'lunt of India,
Tlie telegraph plant of India fur
nishes an interesting illustration of
how plants avail themselves of various
means of self-preservation. This plant
must have light 011 every part of its
leaves, and Its device for securing it is
ingenious, if the word may be allowed.
The leaf is composed of three leatlets,
t lie largest of which holds itself erect
•luring the day anil turns sharply down
at night. The two smaller leaflets
move constantly, day and night, de
scribing complete circles, with a pecu
liar jerking motion like dint of the
second-hand of a watch. Thus every
part of the leaf is brought under the
full action of the sunlight.
MILK AMEANSOF SUICIDE
DEADLY FORMS IN WHICH THE IN<
NOCENT FLUID FIGURES.
rite Lethal Kfl'ecta of Milk Are Much Un
derrated—Usual Result From Fating
Cherries and Drinking Milk—lce-Cold
IX is a Very Harmful Beverage.
It Is remarkable that so mild and in
trinsically harmless a beverage as milk
should be so frequently chosen as a
means of exit into the other world.
Yet at this season the lethal effects of
milk seem to be much underrated,
for example, we read in the dispatches
from San Andreas that "a prominent
young man of Calaveras County died
here to-day as a result of eating cher
ries and drinking milk." This is a
slight variant from the usual combin
ation. Probably the most deadly is
pickles and milk. Strawberries and
milk are only mildly toxic; with young
and hardy stomachs they are often
partially digested; with older ones
they frequently cause nothing more
than eructatlve dyspepsia, or at worst
hives, nettle-rash, urticaria, or summer
complaint, therefore those who are
fond of this combination rarely abstain
In the face of these comparatively
trifling ailments.
Next to pickles and milk, probably
the most deadly form in which the in
nocent fluid can be made to figure Is
the cheap ice cream combination. De
spite the toughness of juvenile viscera,
milk in the ice cream form, if judi
ciously administered, has been known
to lay cut in intestinal kinks many
scores of children on Sunday-school
picnics. With their elders, the combi
nation is not infrequently fatal. Of
course it requires much care to make
milk so deadly. In fact, with careless
mixing this kind of ice cream may be
taken with comparative impunity, or
only a slight illness. When it is pre
pared with attention to the proper sep
tic and toxic conditions, however, milk
in this form may be looked upon as
practically certain death; it would bo
invaluable as an apparently Innocent
means of hurrying off rich uncles, tar
dy spinster aunts and other rich per
sons who linger superfluous on life's
stage. In its most potent form, when
the innocent milk has become merely
a culture bed for billions of ice cream
ptomaines, the doctors call the mixture
"tyro-toxicon." This name is imposing
and scientific sounding, and doubtless
gives a certain chastened satisfaction
to the mourners much more than
would plain milk.
To return to our original remark—it
is extraordinary what pains people
lake to render deadly this harmless
beverage. Even if the cow be sound,
they will expose the milk to all man
ner of impurities—including typhoid
germs—before they put it inside of
them. Even if it be perfectly pure
they take it at temperatures and un
der conditions that are unwise, if not
dangerous. To take a glass of milk by
Itself is a sensible proceeding; to take
it on top of a hearty meal composed cf
proteids, carbo-hydrates and hydro
carbons Is most unwise; to take it with
acids is to woo dyspepsia. Yet the lat
ter method is the one most preferred,
for cream is used as a mechanical lu
bricant with all manner of acid fruits.
As to temperature—in the summer
season people prefer it ice cold, and
some lunatics even put ice into it. If
they take it at the temperature of the
air, without accompanying solid food,
it is probably speedily absorbed with
out going through the complex pro
cesses of gastric and hepatic digestion.
If, on the other hand, it be taken ice
cold, it at once coagulates and the
stubborn casein in it sometimes re
quires hours for digestion; tills latter
is invariably the ease when it is accom
panied with solid food.
Many a man and woman has died
through drinking freely of iced milk
on a hot summer's day. Adelaide Niel
son, the beautiful actress, went into a
Paris restaurant on the way to the
Hois dc Boulogne one summer day
one of those broiling, blistering, steam
ing days of which in Paris they have
so many, and of which we hear so lit
tle. She ordered a glass of iced milk;
she did not sip it—against the advice
of her companion, she drank it rapid
ly, and followed it witli another. In a
few moments she was dead.
Eheu! She was a flue actress and a
very beautiful woman. They show
you the room In which she died. They
even point out to you the lounge on
which she yielded up her last breath.
"Yes, monsieur. Yes, madame, Voila!
—that is the place where the beautiful
actress Angluis have die. She was
very beautiful, very gentile. Oh, yes.
It was a grand pity. Oh. yes. She
drink a glass of the milk—cold, very
cold. Thank you, monsieur. Thank
you. a thousand times. Good day,
madame; good day, monsieur."—Argo
naut.
Solomon's Temple.
The Neues Wiener Tagblatt states
that Dr. Sellim, professor of evan
gelical theology at the University of
Vienna, who Is exploring in Palestine
on behalf of the Imperial Academy
of Sciences, has discovered the walls
and gateway of an ancient temple of
Solomon in the neighborhood of Jano
hah. Dr. Sellim has drawn up an ac
curate plan of his discovery, which is
of very great importance to archae
ologists.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that what Pro
fessor Sellim has discovered is the
fortress of King Solomon mentioned
in the Bible. The fort has been en
tirely destroyed and plundered, yet
it was possible for the explorer to
make an exact plan of it. Professor
Sellim had previously discovered a
Canqanitish fortress, built before the
conquest of Palestine by the Jews,
and also many other pre-Israelitish
antiquities.
FACTS y h
Coal gas was first used for lighting
houses in 1797.
Wireless telegraphy is to be used on
Italian trains as a means of preventing
railway accidents.
Last winter a building was set on
Are at Jackson, Miss., by an icicle drop
ping into a barrel of unslaked lime.
Cork trees in Spain and Portugal, if
not stripped more than once in three
years, thrive and bear for upward of
150 years.
An examination of the skull of the
eminent philosopher Leibnitz shows
that he was the possessor of a very
small brain.
Chinese officials are held to be guilty
before the Son of Heaven for floods,
droughts, famines, fires and other nat
ural calamities.
Camel teams are now being used for
the carriage and distribution of mining
machinery on the North Coolgardle
gold fields, Western Australia.
Albert Nicholson, of Alloway, N. J.,
has grown a radish that measures
twenty-three inches in clreumfereuce,
and that bids fair to be even larger.
The Lion bridge, near Sangang, In
China, Is the longest in the world,
being five and a half miles from end
to end. The roadway is seventy feet
above water.
At Evian-les-Balns there is a doctor
who does not waste time. When he
makes the round of his patients he car
ries in his carriage a basket of homing
pigeons. Before he leaves the house
he writes out a prescription and fixes
it under the wing of a bird, which flies
straight to the dispensary. An assist
ant makes up the medicine, a cyclist
delivers it, and the patient receives it,
all within a few minutes of the doc
tor's departure.
A Kingman County (Kan.) farmer is
growing a row of corn a little more
than twenty-five miles long, for no
other reason than to be singular and
extraordinary. He commenced in a
fifty-acre field and went round and
round in a circle with a lister until he
had planted the whole in a single row,
which commences at one of the edges
and terminates in the middle. When
he cultivated it, of course he had to
plow the same way.
To Save the Buffalo Herds.
According to Forest and Stream,
there is a herd of buffaloes of about
twenty-six now 011 Antelope Island in
tile Great Salt Lake. The owner of
this bunch, Mr. Dooly, is apparently
willing to part witli ids buffaloes and
the island to the Government, to es
tablish there a national buffalo reserv
ation, and the subject certainly de
serves consideration by the authorities.
The island is described as about
twenty miles long, three to five miles
wide, and with excellent water supply.
The buffaloes are said to be In good
condition, nnd to maintain themselves
during both summer and winter. Mr.
Dooly's herd is slowly increasing, and
he has very wisely arranged to make
some exchanges of stock with the
National Zoological Park, and thus to
infuse fresh blood into his herd. Such
exchanges of blood between different
buffalo owners are of the utmost im
portance, for it is the only way that
the various small herds can be kept
from deteriorating and finally running
out.
It has been suggested that if the
Government should see fit to secure
Antelope Island and Mr. Dooly's buf
faloes as a beginning of a national
park in Utah, there is room also on the
island for other wild animals,
A Toy Telephone.
A toy store novelty is in the shape of
a telephone. The outfit is complete
aud costs $0.30.
In addition to the two "hello" ends,
which look like those of any well-regu
lated telephone, there are the two dry
cells, 130 feet of wire and staples and
screws complete.
From the house to the big doll houses
some children have on the lawn it
serves admirably, or from mother's
room to the nursery or piay room, or
from the house to the stable. At the
store selling It one is in constant use
from tlie first floor to the basement.
It is a clever, high class toy, and
so very useful. Better yet, it is of do
mestic make. So pleasing to the young
sters, too. because it's just like those
used by their elders.
14 Fxaminltls."
A new disease just discovered by a
French doctor might be entitled "ex
aminitis," says the New York Herald.
He has found that an examination
always reduces the weight of candi
dates. 1-Ie took 240 pupils and weighed
them before and after examination,
and in every case there was a loss of
weight, in some cases as much as a
pound and a half.
The stiffer the examination the
greater the loss of weight.
This is a proof that a few hours'
strain in the examining rooms brings,
about a serious derangement of the
nervous system, which he considered
In the eminently unhealthy is likely to
do permanent harm.
Large Estates in Bohemia.
In Bohemia sixty-three nobles own
the greater part of the country. None
of their estates are less than 12,000
acres.
j THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER,
Bome iDtsreltlnK Statistics Gathered by
a Census Expert.
William S. Rossiter, of New York,
expert special agent of the Census Bu
reau, lias prepared a ruport of unusual
interest on printing and publishing in
the United States In the last decade.
The statistics he has gathered show
that there has been no radical change
in the gathering of news or in the man
agement and scope of daily news
papers. One characteristic of the de
cade, however, was the great increase
In the quantity of news published.
"Partly because of the ambitious and
progressive spirit of the period," says
Mr. Rossiter, "and partly because of
the lavish expenditures of capital made
by reorganized or newly established
publications In order to break Into the
patronage of prosperous • competitors
and secure a foothold, the dailies of the
great cities became the purveyors of
the news of the world to an extent
never before attempted. In many cases
—especially In New York City—lt was
freely admitted that this expenditure
was carried beyond the boundaries of
business prudence."
There were no less than 22,312 estab
lishments in the United States engaged
In various lines of printing and pub
lishing in June, 1900, when the census
was taken.
Their aggregate capital was $292,-
517,072, and the value ot their total an.
nual output, $347,055,050. The figures
of the report from which we quote
cover all concerns which publish books,
newspapers and even those that do
job printing.
A distinct division, however, is made
between newspaper enterprises, with n
total of $108,930,707, or 48.3 per cent,
of all, and the general publishing busi
ness, or $175,789,010, or 51.7 per cent.
It will be seen that the value of the
newspaper product of the country is
nearly equal to of all other kinds
of our publishing combined.
The people of the United States pay
far more for newspapers than for
books. The census brings to light
many very interesting facts concerning
the wonderful growth of the newspaper
business of the country.
While the number of newspapers has
not Increased in the last two years as
It did in the immediately preceding de
cade. the total newspaper circulation is
greater and continues to grow im
mensely. The reason is easy to see.
The great and successful newspapers
are reaching out at an unprecedented
rate, while weaker and less interesting
ones are failing.
The newspapers devoted to news top
ics and general reading are increasing
in their business steadily, while those
devoted to special interests are losing
circulation.
There was in .Tune, 1900, an average
of one daily newspaper sold to every
family, two weeklies and two month
lies. In New York the average was
four dailies to every family iu that
community.
The total consumption of printing
paper during the census year was one
and one-quarter billion pounds, or 025,-
000 tons. This affords the best oppor
tunity to compare the newspaper and
the book publishing business. Of the
paper used, 77.0 per cent, went for
newspapers, 10.4 per cent, for books
and periodicals and six per cent, for
Job printing; In other words, the news
papers turned out five times as much
reading matter as all the books and
magazines together.
It will be seen that the average
American gets five-sixths of his read
ing from newspapers.
This Is one of the many reasons why
all the great advertisers in the United
States rely upon newspapers ns the
best means of reaching the public and
Increasing their sales.
Wealtlilnat Koyat Family,
The Russian reigning house has. It is
said, greater wealth than that of any
other royal family in the world. In
the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson's "Living
Itulers of Mankind" it is said that the
minimum revenue the Czar derives
from the crown and State domains in
estimated at $7,500,000 a year. More
than forty members of the imperial
family not in the direct line of suc
cession draw revenues from landed es
tates set aside for that purpose by the
Emperor Paul I. To these estates Is
given the name of the Imperial appan
ages; they cover an area of 2,000,000
acres, larger than Scotland, and the
total Income derived from them Is $lO,-
000,000. Before the emancipation of
the serfs 800,000 peasants were at
tached to these vast estates, and were
in a sense the property of their owners.
Another item of the vast wealth of
the imperial family, we are further
told, is the quuntity of jewels its mem
bers possess:
"The Russians love gems. Serfs have
toiled to fashion these wondrous jew
els; Emirs and Shahs, the vassals of
the Czar, have laid them at his feet.
The English Ambassador's daughter
snid, laughing, that when Alexander
111. presented the various Grand Duch
esses, ladies of the Imperial Family,
witli most costly jewels on the occasion
of his coronation they thought nothing
of the gifts, but tossed them carelessly
in a drawer. To ladles so plentifully
supplied with pearls and diamonds a
fresh necklace or tiara was a thing of
small account.
Swimming In Apartment lluutet.
One of the new apartment houses in
New York City is equipped with a
swimming pool in the basement.
Good SIR lit.
A person with good sight can see an
other person's eyes at a distance of
eighty yards.
Belgian railroads have added to their
trains ladies' smoking compartments,
where ladies may smoke without intru
sion by men.
' Incandescent lamps emit more heat
than is generally supposed, only six
per cent, of the energy of the current
being converted into light. A sixteen
candle-power lamp, fed by a current of
100 volts, has heated ten ounces d?
tvater to boiling point in an hour, and
ares celluoid in five minutes.
I An efTort is being made to secure the
establishment of a Government biolog
ical station on the great lakes. The
purpose of such a station is to investi
gate all the problems connected with _
the Usherles of these lakes throughout
their whole extent, principally for the
protection of the commercial fish.
I A new lifeboat from Scotland is in
dated automatically on being plunged
into the water. A perforated metal
ease holds materials for generating
gas, together with a spiral spring held
under tension by a strip of paper, and
as the paper becomes wet It tears, re
leasing the spring, and this causes the
mixing of the chemicals and the begin .
uing of the gas-muking. I
| It has remained for a New Orleans
railway company to discover the deco
rative and advertising value of a smoke
Stack. Its height obviously renders It
a conspicuous feature of the city's per
spective, and when encircled with a
spiral of incandescent lamps it stands
' out in the night n veritable beacon of
light. The top is decorated with clus
ters of lumps, the light from which re
dected on the clouds of smoke Issuing
from the chimney make a most pleas
ing picture.
Experiments by the Government
have shown that no matter what the
I process of cooking, meat loses a grent
deal of its bulk, owing to the evapora
tion of the water, which constitutes a
large part of all flesh. This loss is .
greater In small pieces than in the jh
larger ones. In a lean piece of beet'
| weighing from one to one and three
quarters of a pound, the loss of weight
was 45.0 per cent., while in a piece
! weighing from dve to dve and three
j quarter pounds the loss was only 30.8
per cent. The loss of nutrition is not
' nearly so great, however, as that of
the weight would seem to indicate.
The substitution of crude oil for soft
coal as a fuel for both stationary and
I locomotive engines is steadily grow
ing. If the cost of oil can he mate
rially reduced the use of it will increase
even more rapidly. Most of the fuel
oils now come from the new fields In
Texas and California, and the great
drawback to their general use is the
lack of facilities for regular and clean
delivery. The oil producers say that if
there wore a line of tank steamers,
they could deliver oil in New York at*.
I thirty cents a barrel, and that would
be equivalent to a supply of coal at
one-third the normal price. Oil lias
many advantages over coal—it makes
steam more quickly, kepps the press
ure more event emits no smoke, leaves
no ashes and does not clog the titles.
In the cost of handling too. it has the
advantage, for one fireman using oil
can do the work of four using coal.
THE OLD-TIME PRINTER.
Live Othello, He Ilea Found Hie Occii
pillion Gone,
When old enough to make the iuitiul
move toward seeking a channel of fu
tore livelihood, the newspaper otßce
was the magnet of attraction, says a
writer ill Donahue's Magazine. In the
day of my entrance upon the "fourth
estate" the chief road to the editorial
sanctum lay through the composing -
room, n knowledge of the mechanical I
departments of a newspaper being held 1
requisite before one could hope to as
pire to even the reportorlnl dignity.
There were no schools of journalism
In those duys where ready-made editors
were turned loose upon an unoffending
public. Neither were the professions
of Inw and medicine so crowded as to
cause the diversion of a stream of
college graduates to the news
paper editorial rooms. I am not
one who laments any change
that time in accordance with the law
of necessary progression brings about.
Conditions will continue to change and
the new take the place of the old, when
the latter shows a faltering step in
keeping up with the procession. I re
gret, it is true, the gradual extinguish
ment of the old-time printer with his
encyclopaedic mentality. The opera
tor of a typesetting machine, however
uecessary he may be, according to the ■
present day demands, can never hope
to attain the informative position of
the typo who has been displaced. I
am speaking of the old-time printer as
I knew him after having summered
and wintered with him, and I cunnot
but regret that, like Othello, he should
tiud his occupation gone.
An Automobile Clock.
Carriage clocks, besides hardly being
up to the strain of automobiling "lied
Devil" fashion, do not look heavy
enough to fasten to these later more
massive machines.
Hence the automobile clock.
Very large and strong is the clock
part proper, the movement being strict
ly reliable. Its face is a great convex
rock crystal, which inagnilies both the
hands and figures tremendously and x
makes them plain at a glance, even to
the most excited, wildest-eyed chauf
feur or chauffeuse.
A handsome black patent leather case
holds this desirable time-keeper, and
i the price is $25. This doesn't seem
cheap, perhaps, to the persou who
tiuds trouble enough paying trolley
fares, but for those who invest in elec
tric record-breakers it's another story.