THE IRISH EMIGRANT. BT LADY DUFFEBIN. I'm sitting on the stile, Mary, Where we sat side by side, On a bright May morning long ago, When first you were my bride. The corn was springing fresh and green, And the lark sang loud and high, 'And the red was on your lip, Mary, And the love light in your eye. The place is little changed, Mary, The day's as bright as then; The lark s loud song is in my car, And the corn is green again. But I miss the soft clasp of your hand, And your warm breath on my cheek, 'And I still keep listening for the words You never more may speak. *Tii but a step down yonder lane, The village church stands near— The church where we were wed, Marv. I see the spire from here. : WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BULLION-BOX By H. J. HER.VEY, Late of the ln< Saharunpore, [This story was related to the author by Mr. Hope Kavanagh, the District Superin tendent of Police at Saharunpore. It de scribes how a native banker resorted to deception in order to safeguard a casd~of bullion which he was sending by rail to a customer, and how by a clever trick the contents of the box were stolen en route, the unhappy banker being precluded from prosecuting the thieves, although they were discovered, through the possibility of being involved in severe penalties himself.] THE firm of Bhugwandass, Jey lcissen, Singh & Co., bankers and merchants, of Kangrl, was one of the wealthiest Concerns In Upper India. With a far teaching connection all over the penin- BjrlQ—and even farther—old Bhugwan dass, the principal, was wont to boast that his signature stood equally good London as In Lahore, and that he Oould give yon n hoondee which ■would be honored with the same promptitude in Chicago as In Calcutta. Among the employes of the firm was a certain Tbotarnm, the son of a for mer client. Failing at the entrance ex amination for the subordinate Civil Service he had been taken on by Bhug wandass as an English writer. At the time referred to In this story Thota ram had been some ten years in the Arm's employ, and for a mere copyist he had risen, through undoubted merit and perseverance, to the comparatively responsible post of confidential clerk to the managing partner. Now, while we must suppose that iThotaram had during his career been subject to temptations, the equal In ference Is that he had hitherto suc ceeded In withstanding all assaults on his moral rectitude. Anyhow, up to the period I am writing of the man's record was clean, nnd lie was looked on by all, from Bhugwandass down- Ward, as the exemplification of unim peachable Integrity. He had worked himself into the good graces of his pa tron; he was ever willing, hard-work ing and ready to please. Often, when others had cleared out at the recog nized closing time, Thotaram would lie found somewhere about, prepared to <3o anything tlint might be wanted— ffom Igniting Bhugwandass's hookah and placing It before lilm to drawing up a promissory note, unlocking the strong room, and counting out 1000 ru pees or so for some belated borrower. One day the bank had occasion to tend a consignment of bar silver to a correspondent named Pusa, a gold and Bllver smith residing near the small town of Nnglna, distant about three hours' journey by rail. The bullion, valued at 4000 rupees, after being duly weighed by Thotaram, was packed tind nailed down by him In a stout deal box—all under Bhugwandass's imme diate supervision—and the ease was then deposited on the floor close to the principal's desk. At noon, when most of the employes left the building for the usunl lunch hour, Bhugwandass BigTicd to Thotaram to remain. When the office had emptied the old man called the clerk to him and said, in the vernacular: "Did you hear of that ease about n box of sovereigns being broken Into during transit by rail between Agra and Bombay?" "Yes, sir," replied Thotaram, In the same tongue. "I read an account of It In the Amrlta." "Well," continued the principal, sink ing his voice to n whisper, "we must nvoid running any such risk! I have got a good idea. Take some black paint and address that case of bar silver to Pusa, Soonar, Soonarl Bazaar, Nagl na.' The clerk did as he was ordered. "Now. above the address, write 'Old Nails' in large letters, till In the con signment note in the same manner, and go yourself to book the box at the rail way station. See that the weight tal lies with ours, and do not talk to the railway people nbout the case. Take it carelessly in a bullock cart with you, and go quite alone, so as to cause no suspicion as to the valuable nature of Its contents." Thotarnm carried out these instruc tions to the letter. On his return to the kotbi (bank) lie sought out Blmgwan dass and handed him the consignment note. He ended up by asking for a week's leave, to proceed to his native place near Bareilly. After transacting his errand nt the goods slied he had strayed, he said, on to the passenger platform, and among the travelers in a train that happened to arrive he met n fellow-townsman, who had Informed blm of his uncle's serious Illness; It wa for the purpose of visiting thla reh But the graveyard lies between, Mary, And mv step might break your rest, Where I've laid you, darling, down to sleep With your baby on your breast. I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But, oh, they love the better The few our Father sends. And you were all I had, Mary, My blessing and my pride; There's nothing left to care for now, Since my poor Mary died. I'm bidding you a long farewell, My Mary kind and true, But I'll not forget you, darling, In the land I'm going to. They say there's bread and work for all, And tne sun shines always there, But I'll not forget old Ireland, Were it fifty times less fair. idian Government Telegraph Service, N.W.P., India. atlve that he now craved the Indulg ence. The request was granted and, after profusely thanking his patron, the confidential clerk withdrew. Instead, however, of proceeding to his village, Thotaram, disguising himself as an in fantry havlldar or sergeant on the look out for recruits, took the next train to Nagina. He was well aware that the ease of "old nails" would not ar rive for another four days by goods train, so he had time to mature his plans. He first set to work to ingra tiate himself with the handful of na tive employes at the small station, which was easily done. He knew there were no military In those parts, and, being a well-set-up fellow, he was able not only to pass himself off success fully as a recruiting sergeant, but re ceived permission, as such, to put up on the premises till the people poured in to the local fair, which he gave out he was golug to attend. In a noncha lant manner, and not too hurriedly, he sauntered off to the little mal godam, or goods shed, where he found the sln gle clerk, n Bengali named Illralal Seal, doing nothing In particular. Ex erting all his inherent affability Tho taram speedily established a good un derstanding with the halm (clerk), and by closing time lie had pretty well as sured himself that the latter would prove only too ready to fall in with his views. Seal, for his sins, had been shunted to this great distance from Lower Bengal; ho was an Idle, disso lute fellow, but had so far been able to escape the consequences of his bad conduct through the Influence of senior relatives holding respectable positions in the head oftieo of the railway. That evening the two met by ap pointment, and Thotaram, Intuitively divining the shortest road to the ba bu's heart, treated him to a regular jaunt, after the native Idea. Thotaram paid for everything throughout, much to the Bengali's admiration and envy. He bemoaned his state of chronic im pecuniosity and his wretched salnry of twenty-five rupees a month. This was precisely the state of mind Thotaram desired his comrade to be in. Seated with the balm on the station yard fencing, preparatory to parting for the night, little by little the schem er unfolded his plan. He found Seal not only pliant, but eager to partici pate, mid before they separated the two young scoundrels had agreed to help themselves to the contents of a certain case marked "Old Nails" the moment it should turn up at the Nagi na goods shed. In due course the precious case ar rived and was unloaded at the goods shed. Thotaram, by now a privileged loiterer—especially in that part of the station premises presided over by .Steal —took occasion to examine the box. He felt satisfied It was intact; in exact ly the same state as when booked by him at Kangri. That evening Seal cas ually mentioned to the chotfkidars (watchmen) and porters that as ho had some returns to get through he should not leave the shed till late. He ordered the lamp-man to prepare a lamp and place it in his partitioned office; had all the doors and exits except one se cured, and told all the underlings to go home, but to return punctually at !), and that he would lie responsible for things in the meanwhile. Native-like, and nothing loth, the whole posse cleared out, and hardly had the last man disappeared when Thotaram, stealing up to and tapping gently at the unbarred door, was admitted by ills confederate. The two had prepared everything beforehand cold chisels, hammer, pincers and. what was more important than nil, a plentiful supply of old nails, which had been collected and smuggled in during the interval of waiting. After thoroughly searching every dark corner of the shed, and even walk ing twice round its exterior to assure themselves that no one watched them through possible cracks and Assures In the woodwork, they put the case on the platform scales, carefully noted the weight, compared it with that entered in the invoice, and then gingerly opened the box. This done, they took out the silver bars, and then, emptying the case of the cleats used to hold the precious metal immobile, they replaced the box on the weighing machine and crammed ill old nails till the original weight had been arrived at. After this they carefully re-nailed the lid, using ♦1" same boles, aud the first act In the robbery had been accomplished! Tbey then descended to the permanent-way which ran through the shed. Here they dug n hole, kindled a fire, set an Iron pot thereon, and melted two of the four bars at a time. This was a very neces sary operation, as the Ingots bore the impress of the consigners. This work finished, the two conspirators obliter ated all traces of the fire, threw the melting-pot into the well, and each concenling on his person his portion of the "swag" they calmly awaited the return of the elioukldars and porters. On the forenoon of the next day Pusa came for his case. Everything was in order; the consignee produced the rail way receipt, it was compared with the invoice, the weight of the box was ver ified, the book signed, delivery taken and the old silversmith set out on his return Journey to his village, carrying the box with him in a bullock-cart. In the meanwhile a few days' leave being due to Hlrnlel Seal that youth applied for and obtained It. He hnd decided on spending it in a holiday at Kangri, the delights of which town Thotaram hnd already Impressed him with. Here, too, Thotaram said they would find no difficulty in converting their plunder into current coin of the realm. The two therefore returned to Kan gri with a hardihood and effrontery al most Inconceivable, and the confiden tial clerk resumed his duties. But on the very night of their arrival Thota ram was seen in the company of a young Bengali babu, a stranger to Kan gri, at a native theatre, occupying front-row seats. Further, when Jn hoora, a famous dancer and heroine of the piece, at the conclusion of the performance applied to the audience for largess, it was noticed that Thota ram and his Bengali companion each gave her a handful of rupees. These curious facts reached the ears of Bliug wandass the next morning, and that afternoon, while the banker was in the middle of admonishing his protege on the evils attending extravagnnce there ensued a commotion in the outer court, and amid a storm of lamentations Pusa was introduced. He and a servant car ried between them nothing less than the case. "Behold, MaharnJ!" cried Pusa, ad dressing the hanker, as lie tore open the lid and disclosed the interior chock full of rusty nails. "Behold what you scut me In return for my re mittance of 4000 rupees!" For a short while consternation pre vailed, but Bhugwandass's suspicions dkl not take long in assuming shape. He pieced the whole thing together in a few seconds. Thotaram's knowledge of the contents, his OWD overweening confidence In the fellow, especially with reference to the false declaration and false superscription, Thotaram's departure on leave, fitting in so well with n new friend, and last, not least, the happenings of the night before at tlie native theatre—all tended to con firm the old banker's opinion that one at least of the culprits stood before him. Ordering Thotaram not to stir from his presence, Bhugwandnss in structed one of his clerks to find Tho taram's companion, and, under a pre tended message from that youth him self, to Inveigle the stranger to the bank. The emissary succeeded In find ing his man, and in half an hour's time returned with the Bengali. Addressing the precious pair the hanker accused them point blank of concocting and perpetrating the rob bery, and asked them if they hnd aught to say in extenuation of their of fence before he called In the police. Thotaram was speechless, but Seal was not so easily disposed of. "What," asked lie, "did the railway consignment note declare the contents to lie? The invoice, the receipt handed In by the consignee, arid tlie superscrip tion oil the box itself nil notified the same thing—'old nails,' weighing so much, and 'old nails' of the specified weight were duly delivered to Pusa, the consignee. Why, then, do you ac cuse us of stealing your bar silver? Who beyond yourself Is there to say that the contents were bar silver? Even granted such to bo the case, who saw us take It out? Who saw us even as much as tamper with the box? Where are the slgus of any such tam pering?" "All the circumstances point toward you and Thotaram being the robbers," rejoined Bhugwaiidass, somewhat ir resolutely. "Assuming that we are," retorted Seal, insolently, "supposing you have us apprehended, and the affair goes be fore the magistrate, how will you ex plain your false declaration of the con tents of the case? You have rendered yourself liable to a prosecution under the Railway Act for misrepresenting tlie contents of your box. Come!" he shouted, seeing the effect that his words had on the unhappy banker, "take us before the magistrate. You shall tell your story, I will tell mine! lie will ask for nil the documents 1 have mentioned, and when he peruses them, who will 110 convict—me of rob bery, without a scrap of evidence to support it, cr you of false declaration —to prove which these documents will speak, let alone tlie words 011 the box?" As he finished speaking he gazed at tlie banker triumphantly, hut the lat ter only knitted his lirows in woebe gone perplexity. He realized only too well that Bliug wandass, Jeyklssen, Singh & Co. were powerless to move hand or foot. The scoundrelly Seal had them, as it were, "on toast." All rbey could do they did, and Thotaram was dismissed from their employ, hut Seal got off scot-free. That was all that happened to the per petrators of as impudent and bare faced a robbery as had ever been known to have been committed on au Indian railway. But Bhugwaudass. Jeyklssen. Singh & Co. no longer send bullion under the guise of "o!il nails." —The W""-> World Magazine ITHE OLD ENGLISH SUNDAY. How tli Day AVas Observed Prior to 11). Kngllih Revolution. For a considerable period prior to the English revolution. Sunday was n day of great festivity and high revelry in the old country. Incredible though it may appear, Its observance was gov erned and ordered by a paradoxical royal declaration, Issued by King James I. This document is generally known as "The Book of Sports." In its preamble it recites a royal rebuke, administered to "some Puritanes and precise people" for "prohibiting o' un lawful punishing of Our good people fo: using their lawfull Itecreations and honest exercises upon Snndayes and other holy days, after the nfternoone sermon or service," and then it refers to "the gencrall complaint of our peo ple, that they were barred from all lawful Recreation and exercise upon the Sundayes afternoone, which cannot but produce two evils; the one, the liin dering of the conversion of many, whom their priests will take occasion hereby to vexe, persuading them that no honest mirth or recreation is law-, fully or tollerable in our Religion, which cannot but breed a great dis content in our people's hearts; the other inconvenience Is, that this prohibition barreth the common and meaner sort of people from using such exercises as may make their bodies more able for Warre, when we or our successors shall have occasion to use them." The follows the royal mandate "that no lawful Recreation shall be barred to our good People," and "The Bishop and all other inferior Churchmen and Churchwardens" are enjoined to "bee carefull and diligent, both to instruct the ignorant and convince and reforme them that are misled in religion." "Our pleasure likeylse is, That the Bishop of the Diocese take the like straight order with all the Puritans and Precisians within the same, cither constraining them to conforme themselves, or to leave the country according to the Dawes of Our Kiugdome and Canons of our Church." The declaratiou pro ceeds to define "lawful Recreation" as "Dancing, either men or women. Archorie for men, leaping, vaulting, or any oilier such harmlesse Recreation, Including May-games, Whltsun-Ales, and Morris-dances, and the setting up of May-poles and other sports there with used. But withnll wee doe here accompt still as prohibited all unlaw full games to be used upon Sundayes onely, as Bcare and Bull-baitings, In terludes, and at all times in the meaner sort of People by Law prohibited, Bowling." A penalty was Inflicted upon those who did not join in the Sunday sports, and no one could take part in them without having first at tended divine service in the parish church, which was also enforced under pain of penalty! In those days the clergymen would, in obedience to the royal decree, pub licly recite the "Book of Sports" from the pulpit; after divine service, he, with his churchwardens, would pro ceed with the congregation on to the village green, there to indulge in all kinds of "lawfull Recreation." While the sports were going on it was the custom for the parson and his church wardens to retire to the adjoining inn. Starved to Collect Antiques. An aged Frenchman in thread bare clothes not only of the fashion but of the nctual production of the year 1800 dodged all his countrymen through many years In Rome. A few of these knew that his name was Au guste Dutuit, and be was known to be so desperately stingy that the opinion gained currency that he was rich. Through an old woman servant some prying people also ascertained that the old man was starving himself to death for the want of decent food that he could well enough afford to buy. But it took him a long time to complete the process; lie was ninety years old when at last lie gave up the ghost—and he had lived in Rome very much in this way, seeing generations of his curious countrymen come and go, for sixty years! When at last he did die the fact came out that he was a multi-million aire—in francs—and had bequeathed to the city of Paris, his native city, a col lection of pictures, medals, prints, man uscripts, bibelots, books and oilier things valued at 3,000,000 francs. And he had given not only these tilings, but money enough to install them, and property enough to take care of them and provide them with a curator and custodiuu. and also large bequests to the city of Rouen, where his parents came from, and to Marseilles, where lie made most of ills money. All these unsuspected years he had boon spend ing, spending at Rome, to amass liis collections, and saving, saving, in or der that lie might spoiul more largely He provides in his will that the mu seum which lie bestows 011 Paris shall tie freely accessible to nil t lie people Therefore all Paris rings now with the name of Anguste Dutuit, of whom it never hoard before. But Paris won ders at a temperament which led a man to live thus scorned, despised, as a miserable self-torturing fool, for the sixty years that he spent in getting things together to add to its instruc tion and pleasure.—Harper's Weekly. Proverb I'nrnsrrnplii*. Wise saws of the aucicnts are more or less rusty. A strong miin is weak if lie has no faitli in himself. It is the guilty man who is always afraid of his "shadow." Tile more liasto the longer yon have to wait for the other fellow. It is tlie polished villain who beats the bootblack out of his fee. Many a man's crookedness is due to his attempt to make Dotli ends meet. liosslps arc not (0 blame if one-half 1 Hi* WU'-'.J duoao'l Lnuiv hu\ uie wthef itntf lives.-Libitago Kens, FARMERS THE RICHEST CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE richest Individuals in the United States are not farmers, but the richest class, accord ing to the latest census bul letin, Is the farming class. This bul letin gives the statistics for 1800, the latest available, and according to these figures, the lands, buildings, imple ments and live stock of the farmers in the United States are worth over twenty billions of dollars. In com parison with this the total manufac turing capital In the country, from the Steel Trust to the smallest factory, Is a little less than ten billions, and the total value of the railroads, counting bonds and stock capitalization, is a little less than twelve billions. The farmers, therefore, are worth almost as much as the manufacturers and rail road magnates combined. Bradstreet's notes that the manufacturing products, ( however, outvalue the farm products in the ratio of $13,000,000,000 to $5,000,- 000,000, and notes that "every dollar of manufacturing capital produces $1.30 worth of product, while agricul tural capital produces less than twen ty-five cents' worth." How the profits compare is not stated. Comparing the farming industry with the railroads, the New York Financier reckons that the farmer is better off than the rail roud magnate. It says; "The farmer, so far as actual wealth is concerned, is the capitalist of the United States. The Census Bureau re port on the value of farming property of the country issued lust week, esti mates that the 5,730,057 farms of the United States are worth $10,074,090,- 247. Of this amount $3,5G0,108,191, or 21.4 per cent., represents the value of buildings, and $13,114,402,050, or 87.G per cent., the value of land and im provements. Farm implements and machinery arc worth $701,201,550, and live stock $3,078,050,041, making the total farming wealth over 20,514 mil lions of dollars. "This is undoubtedly a very low es timate, but accepting it as correct, oth er forms of industry pale beside it in comparison. The value of the railway systems of the United States, approx imating 200,000 miles, is about 11,800 million dollars, counting bonds and stock capitalization, or but a little over half the farming wealth. The rail ways, In fact, constitute the only sin gle industry in the country which ap proaches, even remotely, the stupen dous totals revealed by the census enumeration of (arming wealth. It is impossible, of course, to compare the operations of these two important di visions of industry, for the simple rea son that they are distinct in their re sults, and the items which enter Into one are not found in another. Still, It is not without interest to classify as far as possible the operating totals, with the idea of affording a rough approximation, at least, of income yield on investment, etc. "The railway systems of the United States in 1000 reported gross earnings o.f $1,501,095,378, or a little more than 12.0 per cent, on the total stock and bond capitalization. The gross farm income In 1800 was $3,704,177,700, and the percentage of gross Income upon investment was 18.3 per cent. It will be seen that the farming industry made out better than the railways. The net earnings of the farmer cannot he cal culated, but assuming the railway av erages as applying cquully to both, the expense of operation ranges some where around 70 per cent." Some may suppose that farming is on the decline in this country; that idea, indeed, is often expressed, and young men are advised to enter some other branch of industry. The Finan cier says on this point, however: "Rapid as the development of rail ways has been, however, the rise in farming wealth has been greater. Thus the total value of farm property in the United States in 1900 was more than five times as great ns in ISSO, and 28.4 per cent, greater than In 1890. The railway Industry was in its infancy in in 1850, so that comparisons extending bnek fifty years are unfair, but tak.'ng 1800 as a basis, it is found that railway property, as indicated by total capital ization, rose from 10,029 millions of dollars in that year to 11.592 millions in 1900. This Is an increase of 18.5 per cent, or nearly 10 per cent, less than the increase in the value of farms. In this connection recent in vestigation of farm and railway values, growing out of an attempt on the part of the Legislature of lowa, to incronse railway taxable values, may be cited. Tlie claim was made that inasmuch as tlie railways had increased their earnings and enhanced share values, assessments should rise in proportion. Tlie railways opposed this proposition. Without denying the faets, they con tended that the appreciation of railway values hnd not been as great as the rise in realty values, and to prove this a committee of attorneys representing the principal railways began an inves igation ol' farm values. Records of ac tual sales publicly filed showed that in the last half decade the average ap preciation of land in lowa had been in excess of S2O per acre. The present value of farm lands in lowa is stated by conservative authorities to he SSO nu acre. If this is true, it follows that In,live years the appreciation has been 00 2-3 per cent., which is much in ex cess of the riso of railway values. The figures give an idea of the enormous rise in agricultural wealth. lowa has gained alone in the salable value of her farming lands in five years an amount much in excess of tlie total capital in vested in hanking in the State, and the same ratio of rise holds good In many other agricultural sections. "The farmer, considered in every, light, is an individual much to be en vied. As a class, he is prosperous as never before; his capital account, as represented in the value of his plant,- Is appreciating, and his iucorne yield, based on present prices of his product, is above that of other industries, or avenues of commercial investment. It Is idle to repeat that he forms the real backbone of the country, and none will begrudge him the easy pnth into which he seems to have entered. As long as he is prosperous, the country has noth ing to fear in the way of Industrial depression." Where Do Salmon Feed T There is no family of fish more Inter esting than the salmon, and in no other fishery have the benefits of artificial propagation been more clearly demon strated. The homing instinct of the salmon enabled the propagators of fry to learn, at the beginning of their work that it was worth doing. Salmon hatched In any stream usually return to that stream when they are of spawn ing age. The propagators reared sal mon to the size of fingerlings, marked them and turned them loose. In due time the marked fish returned and were caught in the home stream. It is a curious fact, however, that, in spite of the homing instinct salmon are found at the spawning season in the brackish water at the foot of Alaskan glaciers, where, it is believed, no tlsb was ever hatched. Another curious fact,learned through marking the artificially propagated fish, is that n flngerllng weighing from one to two ounces may grow to weigh from two to ten pounds in six or eight months, and in two years a weight <Jf forty pounds has been reached. The growth depends, of course, on the food supply. But where salmon feed and what they feed on have not yet been learned. It is supposed that they find small marine animals so numerous In their deep-sea haunts that they swim about "as if in a soup." Perhaps the deep-sea haunts will sometime be dis covered.—John R. Spears, in Success. Becret of Blaking Cast Steel Stolen. *'l The history of cast f steel presents a curious instance of a secret stealthily obtained under the cloak of nn appeal to philanthropy. In 1700 there lived at Attercliff, England, a watchmaker named Huntsman. He became dissat isfied with the watch springs in use and set himself to the task of making them homogeneous. He succeeded, his steel became famous and about 1770 a large manufactory of this peculiar steel was established at Attercliff. The process was wrapped in mystery,, faithful men were hired, high wages,, paid and stringent oaths administered. One midwinter night, as the tall chim neys of the Attercliff steel works belched forth smoke, a traveler knocked at the gate. It was bitterly cold and the stranger awakened no suspicion. Moved by motives of hu manity the foreman let him in. Feign ing to be worn out with cold the fellow sank upon the floor ahd soon appeared to be asleep. That, however, was far from his intention. He saw workmen cut bars oT steel into bits, place them In crucibles and thrust the crucibles into the furnaces. The fire was urged to extreme heat until the steel was melted and then drawn out and poured in liquid forms into molds. Mr. limits man's factory had nothing more to dis close; the secret of making cast steel had been stolen.—Mining and Engi neering Review. New Money For Old. There is an unprecedented demand for new money. In reaching out for the evidence of wealth aesthetic taste is asserting itself in the choice of the tokens of prosperty. New, clean, crisp notes are in demand, and persons do not hesitate to ask for them, There is a strongly asserted objection to receiving old, dirty, crumpled paper money that looks as though it might be a vehicle for all sorts of disease germs. This fact is in evidence at the win dow of every bank paying teller in the land and at the cash counter of every store. "Please give me new money." and "Will you give me a cleaner bill in place of this one";" are requests heard thousands of times every day. These requests are having their effect so fat that there is a growing tendency t. pay out only the clean, unobjection able money. It is an illustration of the old truth that people get what they want and insist on having. Every bank will verify this fact. Old and objectionable bills go into them, but they do not go out to their cus tomers. They go to the redemption division of the National Treasury, where they are exchanged for new money and then destroyed. That de partment reports nn immense increase in this branch of its business—New York Herald. How to Hum Soft Coal. That there is an art in burning soft coal is admitted by all who have long been accustomed to its use. J. W. liartness, who has had thirty years' experience in Cleveland, Ohio, with all qualities of bituminous, says: "If users of soft coal will follow these direc tions they will burn more smoke and less coal for a given amount of heat. Never throw fresh coal on a lire; push the live fire back and drop the fresh coal in front, a few shovelfuls at a time. This is the principle that all successful stokers work on. It will cost nothing to try it"—New York Press.
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