FRIENDSHIP. It is not while nelies and splendor jur- Though on love's altar the flame that is round us, glowing , , , . , . That lovers and friends can be put to the Burns h-1 .Miter, yet friendship ais stead test; ier far; 'Tis but when affliction's cold presence lias One wavy id turns with eacli wind that uound us "is blowing, We find which the hearts are that love And is but a meteor; the other s a us the best. star. For friends will fawn In vouth love's light At fortune's dawn, Burns warm and bright, Wliilc the breeze and the tide sweeps us But it die * ore the winier of age be past; steadily on; While friendship's flame But when sorrow o'ertakes us Burns wor the same, Kach false orvc forsake us, Or gv but the brighter, Uio nearer the And leaves us to sink, or to struggle alone. last. MORE WAYS THAN ONE. I!y A. ST. JOHN AOCOCK. P I mtt ponns " TTT I "When Wi-e you not?" \l\[ | ho interrupted, In a voice of exaggerated surprise. 'tit' "When I was younger, Then," she laughed, "if that is any bet ter." "I think It is—much." . "Well, then, when I wns younger " "Before I knew yon? n "Long before. In fact,, when I was qnlte a small child." "A very nice small child, I'm sure," he murmured, with a sigh. "That shows it was Before you knew mo," she laughed again: "I was the very worst small child you could pos sibly imagine." "1 can't possibly imagine that." "If I hail been a little angel " "I should never have met you." "Oil, you night." "Thank yon. But I'm afraid not. Lit tle angels don't stop 011 earth." Their glances met; livr eyes caught a twinkle from his, and they laughed {together." s "What were we enyiug?" "I was saying," herenflttded licr, "that we arranged list week that I sltould come and escort you and your mother to the Koyal Academy this afternoon, and now when I end—end, ns I pointed out, it isn't every day-that I can leave toy military duties at the War Office to look after themselves—your mother Is lying down with an attack of neu ralgia, and has asked you to postpone jgoiug till to-morrow " "Oh, yes! And then you said she was perverse, provoking, capricious, hnd all sorts of things, and I said I be lieved she was, and I took after her " "And I said you were mistaken In Hint." "So I was going to tell you an nnec dotc of myself to prove that I am not mistaken, only you keep interrupting too." "Please let me have the rest of the feaecdotc, and I'll fi*y not to interrupt again—l'll try hard." lie was young; what was more, lie Was decidedly good looking; what was more still, his manners were engaging and persuasive,' and his dry, gently Ironical trfciks of speech Rave his airy nothings a pleasant piquancy, nil of Which must have .prepossessed her in Ills favor even had 110 subtler senti ment inclined her toward him. "Well, when I was u small child," She yielded to his entreaty, "I was dreadfully wilful, and liad the most 1 Shocking temper "You must have lost it before I met yo.11." "And I remember one day I was out with my nnrse, and, being iu one of j ray wickedest moods, I insisted on do ing everything she told me not to do. For instance, I would keep running races with Charley—dear old Char ley- " "Oh, why wasn't I Charley? 1 ® "He was only a dog." "Ah, but you didn't treat him like ©no." "You promised"not to " "I apologize. Not another word!" "I kept running races with Charley, and nurse kept telling mo not to; she said I was overheating myself and! Should catch cold, and that, racing In 1 the middle of the road, I should be | tun over and killed; but I took no no-! tice. The more she warned me and ordered me to walk quietly with her, fhe more disobedient I was, and at last, all of a sudden, she managed to catch hold of me and slapped me afigrily " 1 "No—noi" ' ''Slapped me so lisrd that I cried." "This is heartrending I" lie leaned back in his chair and re garded lier with pensive sympathy. "I won't toll you any more," she said, mulling, "if you Are going to be Billy about it." "Tell mo the rest," he implored, "and I will lie wise." "It happened that our dear old vicar Was coming up the pond " "Dear old chap!" ho murmured nb iently. "Why wasn't I the vicar!" "Ife saw nurse ship mo, and when be penciled us be stopped and spoke 1o her, and patted mo on the head and told me not to cry. Of course, I cried more than ever " ."Naturally—you would!" \ "It made him fancy I was hurt, find Jhe lectured nurse quite o - /c rtly on the binfuhn ss of letting her angry passions trise. He told her she ought to he patient with me and win my affection, and govern me by kindness, not by force. It made me feel good to listen to him, and I know it made me think What a bad woman nurse really Was." "She hadn't a word to way for her pelfV" "On the contrary, she ©aid a, great Heal. Sin? said I was wilful find pas sionate, and everything that wns con tradictory 'and unmanageable, and there was only one way of dealing With me, and that was by punishing toe and making me do as I was told." "Tlio dear old vicar didn't admit that, 3 hope?" "He was angry with her. He said there wore more ways than one in Which I could bo managed. lie said I was high-spirited and self-willed and ; obstinate " "What a dear old friend!" "He told her I vrns one of those who could not bo driven, but I could very easily be led, and all that was necoe sary was a little tact." "I hope it did the nurse good?" "Only for a few minutes. As soon as we turned, a bend of the road, and were out of his sight, she shook her finger at me, and said she didn't care for the vicar, lie wns an old donkey, and the next time 1 disobeyed her she would make mo remember it." "What did you say to that?" "Nothing; but I ran away with Char ley at once." "I knew you would." "I suppose I am naturally perverse. It is always the same—if anybody I< anxious that I should do anything, 1 feel a natural, wicked impulse not <0 do it; and if anybody does not. want me to do it then somehow I don't want to do anything else. It was this feel ing that made me run off with Charley almost before nurse hnd finished speak ing." "Did she punish you again?" "She couldn't catch me?" "I guessed as much. WJIO can?" Ho gazed at her meaningly, with a wry shake of the head, and she blushed and laughed, as understanding him. "I ought to know," ho sighed. "Now you are going to be silly Again." "No; I've given it up. I've been silly twice, hut I'm trying to be sensible now." "You find it difficult?" "It's not as easy as being sl'Jy. 1 suppose it never Is. for any one. But I've got to persevere—l've got to make the best of my miserable lot, some low, you know." "So very unhappy Is It?" "At present—yes. But I daresay I shall get used to It. When one has been living in the tropics, and is ban ished to the North Pole, he feels nt first like perishing in the cold; but in time he becomes so thoroughly aeelimn iized that if ever he were allowed to return he would certainly die of a sunstroke." "And you are thinking of going to the North Pole?" He gazed at her reproachfully. "I nm there already," lie said. "I lmve lveeti there for some weeks, and am beginning to get reconciled to the climate. 1 nm making up my mind to i merry and settle down there, and try to forget how happy I used to l>e before I was an exile. You have heard, no doubt?" "Heard what?" "These things generally get about fast enough. I made sure you would have heard." "Perhaps I bad. When you tell me what you are referring to " "I thought I had. To my marriage, of course." She gave him a quick, startled look, but said nothing. "You had heard?" "No." ITev speech and manner had under gone a sudden curious constraint; when she spoke her voice hnd such a far-off, ' alien Bound, she could scarcely Iwliovo 1 it was her own. 1 "Well, now you have, you don't con ' gratulate me." "I do. Of course I do." "Thanks—l had hoped " "That I wouldn't? Why shouldn't T congratulate you, ns much as any 0110 ' else. 0:1 your happiness?" "Because I am not happy." "Not? Then why are you " "For that very reason—'because T nm net happy. How can I be while I am " always hi suspense, and hoping after I the Impossible? If I definitely cut • | myself off from that lwrnplncss, and M my last hope of it, I mnv 1> alle to I settle down into some sort of resigned I poftocfulness, you see. I can't hope for more than that now. There was a ! j time when I hoped—but you 1 now I what." " I She remained silent, eh- dug and un- I clasping her hands on 1 • lap in a p dreamy Iwwllderirent. "When I first t<M you that I loved " you, Notta"—all trace of gayety and l - indifference seemed to have fallen from him, ami left him pathetically ennobled by an intense earnestness—"nn<l you laughed at mo, and sent me away " "I—l did not laugh nt you— -5-1 She fired resentfully, though the j c tears she was* keeping back were j '• stinging undor her eyelids. y "When you sent mo away," lie con- 1 ri tinned, sorrowfully, "I thought my heart wns broken. I didn't want to y live; I felt that the whole world was empty, without you. For days and *• days I was unspeakably wretched and then " t She bit her lip and kept her eyes ?- turned away from him, nhgry with 1- herself for being taken unawares and d overcome by his unexpected news, and g touched by the pathos of hl3 confes g slob. " "Then I began to hope again," be t, went on, "and by and by I fooled myself into fancying that you had d changed, and one day I came to you II as I had come before. . . . And you d sent me away as you had Bent me be- fore. If I came to you again In the same way I feel that. In the same way, you would only send me away again; so what am I to dos" She did not answer him. "I thought to myself, I must die out of my old lifo and begin a new one. When you're past hope, the wisest tiling is to give tip hoping; then you're past despair. Once I might have been j happy; now I shall have to be satisfied if I am not miserable. I can never leave off loving you, Netta, but I shall not make myself a nuisance to you " "You luivo—you have never made yourself a " Her voice fluttered in her throat, and she discreetly let it die there, sooner than it should falter and die on lior lifis, and so l>etray her heart to him. "You will forget me, no doubt, but I shall remember you always." Ho glanced toward her. file was not look ing at him, but an indefinable souie thing ill her subdued expression, in her very attitude, thrilled him through villi an ecstatic consciousness and as surance t'li*it Is'ouglit him instantly to his feet With a tremulous cry of "N'ettn!" She rose, startled, nnd made a eon fused little movement, as If sire would have evaded htm and escaped from his sight before her self-restraint was broken down altogether. But there wna no escape for her. lie caught her impulsively in his arms and drew hoi - , after a faint, futile resist ance, close and closer to him. "Only tell me I have misunderstood you," lie pleaded; ."1 havo been too Impatient " "No; it is too Into," she faltered, ashamed of her strange weakness and clasping lior hands over her face to hide it from him, since she eou'.d not free herself from his detaining em brace. "It isn't too late, Netta," lie insisted, drawing liev head down on Ids breast so thnt her face was hidden there. "I love you more than ever, and If you love me only ever so little, IHJIV can tt bo too late?" "How can you tell—her-—" "I have told her!" ho laughed, exctt cffly. "If you are not angry with nae, she won't Ist. If you love me, she will love me. If you will marry me ■" Netta wnfteti. "I shall merry her!" And in a flash sho saw through lrts deceit. "Don't look -np, dear," he said, keep ing one arm rosottrtoly about her nnd laying a hend lightly on the curly brown head. "I am ashamed of my self for such trickery. But I had no idea of behnvtng so meanly when I caino tills afternoon. I had not planned tt at all. It really was' not my fault" "Do you mean It was mine?" , He was not sure from her votoo whether she was laughing or crying. "No, no—not yours. It was ell through the dear old- vicar. It was entirely Ills fault While you rrr.ro telling me liis notion thnt you could be led but not driven, and what he said about more ways than one, ft struck me suddenly that I had tried one way twice, and I wondered whether it was any good trying again, and trying in a different way. . . . Will you forgive me, Netta, and let's blame the dear old vicar? . . . Don't look up, dear, until you can forgive mn —I don't want to see yon looking tfngry with m.o, now." But she did look up, at last, and she didn't look angry; for though there were tears In her eyes, thero was a wistful light shining thrqugty them that made them sweeter and happier than any laughter.—Black'and White. After-TUnnor Speakers. The fako-humorous speaker lias nn easier career than even the fake-elo quent; speaker. Yet at any given din ner the orator who passes out more elo cution to his hearers has a success al most as instant and splendid as Ids clown'ug brother. It is auutaing what tilings people will applaud when they havu the courage of each other's inepti tude. They will listen, after dinner, to anything but. reason. They prefer also tho old speakers to new ones; they like the familiar taps of humor, of elo quence; if they have tasted the brew before, tliey know what they are going to got. Tho noto of their mood'ls toler ance, but tolerance of the accustomed, the expected; not tolerance of the nov el, the surprising. They wish to be at rest, nnd what taxes their minds mo lests their intellectual repose. They do not. wish to climb any great heights to reach the level of the orator. Perhaps, after all, they are difficult in their tor pidity. W. D. Howells, iu Harper's Magnate. Love-Making In Mexico. Br. Carl Lumholte hail some inter esting tilings to tail Ids audience at a recent meeting of the Royal Gcographl- I ml Society, but nothing was more cu rious than bis account of the love-mak ing among the natives of Northwest Mexico. There, lie Fays, the courting is nil done by the lady. Tin young peo ple meet at the feasts, nr.d there the damsel, who lias fixed upon a member of tile opposite sex wiioni she wishes to become tier husband, tries to attract his attention by dancing before him. persistently keeping her back toward him. Eventually she may sit down near liiiri nnd pull his blanket and sing tn him In a genfle, low voice. When siie desires to tiring matters to a focus stie begins to throw pebbles at the cho sen one. If ho throws them back at her they are betrothed. ltomnnco of Slllllonn. From Odessa comes a romantic story of a miser's millions. A man named I'.aell died some mouths ago amid sur roundings indicative of the utmost penury. On his death bed lie said to ills l'riends: "I leave nothing but debts," tout on a judicial inventory of ids possessions being made it has been found that he died worth 920,000,P00, most of which was invested in British securities. i I ptock 0 § L 1 i \fldVenfGre. j| f A NERVY WESTERN GIRL. -34QSV ISS EMMA KELLOGG, of it Routt County, is an appli § iVI 8 can ' : *° r t ' le Position of Game Warden for Routt KfOW and Rio Blanco counties district. Her arrival lu Denver re cently created a sensation in the Capi tol corridors. Many of the legislators were curious to meet her, and Fish Commissioner Thomas Holland, who accompanied her, found Ills eompar'on always a centre of Interest. A woman as Game Warden will be a novelty. Mr. Holland knew nothing about Miss Kellogg until she went to the ofllco hunting for tho new Game Warden. Mr. Woodward. The young larly was very ready to state her quall fications for the jiiace, and from the facts she gave of her experience with game it is evident that few men In Routt and Rio Blanco are better ac quainted with the varieties of that I section. Miss Kcllogg's most thrilling adven ture was a wild ride on the back of an elk. While out In the hills one day she came suddenly on an angry bull elk. Silo had leaned her gun against a tree, and before she could get it the elk was upon her. She took refuge In a sapling nnd tried to hold the animal's antlers around it, hut her strength was not, sufficient, nnd the elk broke away. Miss Kellogg took advantage o< a mo ment's respite to climb a troa and rat on tho first limb. This angered the elk more than ever, and lie gave the tree such a bump that Miss Kellogg fell ofT. She would have been stamped to Death by the animal's sharp hoofs had it not been that luckily she fell on the oik's back. Then, with great presence of mind, she grasped the antlers "nd held on for dear Hie. The elk was net expecting a tneut ef this kind, and it laws oft through tile woods, terror sliicken. en deavoring to shako off lis burden. Miss Kellogg, however, did not pro pose to be shaken, nnd she only clnng the tighter. Away they went, the erased animal Hashing through tlio trees with the velocity of an express train. Up hills nnd across valleys the animal sped, jumping over the rocks with tremen dous leaps 'hat almost unseated tho frightened rider. Miss Kellogg was becoming weak from the terrible strain and felt that she must soon release her hold, when nn unexpected incident proved her de liverance. The elk had made violent efforts to dislodge the girl, and it was one of the animal's tricks to accom plish this which saved Miss Kellogg's Iffe. The elk darted through .some thick brush where overhanging branches came low down. In order to brush the rider off. But the terrified animal mis calculated about its antlers and got taught In the branches. It struggled and struggled, but could not get loose, nnd it was bnt the work of a moment for tho intrepid mountain girl to kill the captive animal by cutting its throat with her hunting knife. After her ride of several miles was over and tho danger was nil past, the lucky girl eamc near collapsing from nervous reaction. Sho could hardly make her wny home, but she got help nnd returned to claim the animal. This exciting adventure occurred sev eral years ago, but Miss Kellogg has lost none of her nerve. Sho says she would have entered the bronco-busting contest last fall had not her parents dissuaded her on the ground that she would he the only lady entered. She lassoed a young bear once nnd took it home alive, by glving her pony rein whenever tt tried to attack her.—St. Louis Republic. 'A COUGAR FIGHT. The Northwest has probably fur nished more cougar fights nnd encoun ters Willi wild animals than any other part of the United States. A success ful cougar fight 1s never a dull reminis cence, particularly when n human be ing gets his congar. .Tames McGlnnls. who came from the Red River in Northwest Canada, to tho wilds of Cow Creek, tn Southern Oregon, n few years liacir, had a very interesting lougnr fight in the Cascade Mountains. McGlnnls was au experienced hunter. Fie is of Scotch and Canadian stock Rid raised on the frontier, and is now Jiving on tho south half of the Colvilie Indian Reservation in Washington. In his days of vigorous manhood he was a large, muscular, powerful man about six feet tali nnd weighed about 175 pounds, without- carrying much fatty tissue. Shortly before Ids encounter wiih this cougar he had been thrown from a wild horse that lie was breaking and ] received some injuries which required j some medical treatment To secure his medicine ho had to travel perhaps five or six miles to the doctor. On the lirst trip he noticed many cougar signs along the trail which he had to travel. On his second visit to the drug store he concluded to carry his rifle, and well for him thnt ho did, or ho should not now be living to tell about his cougar tinttle, nor would he be able to show In evidence the fonr long cougar teeth taken from the mouth of his van quished wild antagonist. McGlnnls" faithful old dog also was along, and was no small factor In the final strug gle. The cougar first attacked the dog, 'which made its escape in eonsiclerablo terror. The savage brute then jumped at MeGinnis, whose big rifle was rather heavy, and his aim was rather hurried. 11l this wny the bullet only grazed the cougar's head and Inten sifled its rage. While McCiimis was endeavoring to eject the spent cart ridge, the mechanism of the rifle failed to work, and before ho could get It out the big cougar was at close quarters with him, tearing his clothes and claw ing away at him. By a well-directed blow of his list under the jaw of the cougar he succeeded in turning the ani mal away from his a little way, and at this juncture of affairs the old dog, which Mac was lustily calling, had re covered his courage and got hold of the cougar by the ear, and then they had some diversion of their own. While the dog and cougar were engaged tl:o hunter managed to get another cart ridge In his rifle, and by the time the beast had disposed of the faithful old dog he again attacked. McGlnnls. So enraged was the cougar that it came right up with its mouth open, and so fiosdy that McGlnnls shoved the rilki ivinrel 1n its mouth and blew its hoad off", The cougar. In biting the rifle, took the silver bend off the barrel. TLo animal was an old female and meas ured eight feet from tip to tip. Mac has the four cougar tearing teeth as trophies of his very serious but vic torious encounter with a bad and hungry cougar.—Forest and Stream. A MAN OF INDOMITABLE GRIT. A patient walked into a New York physician's office the other day, placed a hand over the small of his back, and said: "Doctor, I've a severe pain here. What's vlio trouble?" "Strip to the waist, and I'll tell you In short order," replied tile practitioner. After a brief examination lie added: "You've an ugly tumor on your liver." The man tlxmglit a moment, then, "I want it removed at once," he said quietly. "Tut, tut, man, don't be so hasty," replied the physkkin. But the patient, more doggedly than before, answered: "I mean it, doc. I want that tumor removed before I Vsave this office." The physician looked (ho man 111 the ores and saw that they wavered not Re felt, liis pulse and examined his Kemrt and found them normal. "All right," he said shortly. Within fifteen minutes the man was lying on a couch and tile physician was making a ten-inch incision in liis bticte. Naif an hour lator the tumor was re moved, and an honr after be had sub mitted to the operation, during which he had refused ether, the patient, with hie ttver cleansed, rode to his home In n cab, calmly undressed, went to bed and then told his wife what had hap pened. "He never whimpered, never quiv ered an eyelid," declared the doctor, as be related the incident, "and lie would hare gene home alone had I net forced myself into the rati. He showed abso lutely no rear at anything, nnd In ap pearance he looks like a men who lias only an ordinary amount of grit. Yet his exhibition of nerve was the most Inspiring that I have ever oeen." "Bnt your nerve, doctor, 111 perform ing such an operation offhand," inter rupted one of the auditors. The reply was laconic. "Lay it to the foudness for handling the knife." For three hours after the recital of tho doctor's story the men who had listened to it recounted remarkable eases of nerve that they had heard or met with. SAVED HIS MASTER'S LIFE. Jammed between two log;; on ah un sheltered trail, exposed to the elements for two nights and two days, without food and without companionship save that of a faithful dog, was the terrible position front which Robert Browulee, of Vancouver, B. C„ was extricated, says the Chicago Chronicle. Brcrwulee, who Is a logger employed by the Hastings mill at Bear River camp, arrived in the ctty this morning on the steamer Gassiar. Oil Sunday afternoon last, with two companions, he set oirt from Rock Bay to walk to Bear River, a distance of ton miles liy the trail. On tho way Browulee, think ing to tn!'.' a short cut, branched off on a side line from the main trail, his companions still contiuulng their jour ney on It. When H.omlw's friends reached Bear Bivcr late Sunday afternoon tliey found that lie had not arrived. On Monday morning nothing had been heard of tlio missing man. On Tuesday morning it was decided that the while camp should take to the woods and look for Erownlee, and accordingly some sixty men not out. The search had progressed for two or three hours without any satisfactory result when several of the men hap penod across tho dog which had accom jvanlod Browulee when ho took the short cut from the main trail. The dog seemed anxious that the men should follow him, demonstrating his desire by fixMjtient harks, and they accom panied him some distance through the brush and came uixm Brownlce, pinned down liy a log and unable to talk. He was released and taken to Bear liiver. After leaving his companions Brown lee hud slipped "while crossing n fallen tree and fell in such a position that he could not extricate himself. The ex posure he had suffered had so reduced his vitality that, although he frequent* ly heard the noises made by the search ers on Tuesday, ho could not raise his voice to call them to him. The dew: re mained with Brownlee all the time, and was the means of ultimately sav ing him from a horrible fate. Trice® nnil A<l vcrttsinjf. An experienced merchant affirms that it Is to the advantn.se of the advertiser and also of the public for the former to tlx a price for his goods which will include the cost of his advertising. It is also reasonable that the buyers who receive the benefits of advertising should contribute to its cost. wiSSj^m Electrically operated shears, guided by hand, clip the lleeee from an aver age sheep in three minutes. The fast est operation with hand power shears requires eight minutes to the sheep, v ■ The electricul clipper has the form ot the barber's clipper. i Germans who use retort coke ovens get coal-tar products worth twenty eight per cent, as much as the coke, and save nearly all the forty per cent, of the volatile elements of the coal which are lost In the open "beehive" ovens used in America. | A curious theory is being investl | gated by the Paris Academy of Sci [ eaces. Human stature is supposed to i be controlled by the gland in the | throat under the larynx, and artificial ' stimulation of this gland is claimed j to cause any child to grow to rnaxi-'- | mum height. | It used to ho thought flint a j learned to fly, or a duck learned to 'I ; swim, by watching the old birds, but 1 Frofessor Morgan conclusively proved that this was not so by taking duck j eggs which the duckling had almost j broken through and opening it letting the small bird drop out into a basin | of water and the bird started to swltn i around right off. | Tile steam turbine has lately been ! used in tlie reversed direction for com ! pressing air, an ordinary steam tur- I bine being coupled direct to the air j turbine. This air turbine is very simi | lar to the steam turbine, and consists, | ns usual, of alternate rows of moving I blades and guide blades, and Is driven 1 at a high speed, each row of blades in- I creasing the pressure, and giving a ! steady blast. j Tlie coral trade of Naples last year ) 1 amounted in value to $1,600,500. The J I banks, from which the corals chiefly | come, arc situated off the coasts of I Sicily, Calabria. I.lparl, and in the Seas of Corsica and Sardinia. The | fishermen of Torre del Greco are the I most expert and have the best boats. ! Some of these keep to the sea for sev- I eral months, in all weathers, the Ital ian Government having wisely pro vided a gunboat to cruise among them, partly with a view of preserving order, but also to provide drinking water for the fishing fleet. I A now process for drying fruit and vegetables—already in use for drying ! hops—consists in drawing air through j a gird work of steam pipes into a cliam ! bcr below tlie slotted floor holding tho 1 materials to be dried. Absorption of j sulphurous gases is avoided, whilfb ■ burning is impossible. In a test | Worcester, England, samples of ear i rots, potatoes, sliced and shredded ap | pies, and other Traits and vegetables, were kept at temperatures of ninety degrees to 300 degrees for six hours, j reaching the ordinary commercial state ! of dryness. Tlie cost of working be ing small, it is expected thnt an ira j port.unt new industry will soon de ! velop In England. Swallowed n Fortune* Thirty years ago I was on my way home on board a Norwegian vessel from South Africa with one of my friends, Monsieur Jacquin. The ves sel went down, and the two ot us saved our lives by clinging to a barrel. I had saved n little metal box, containing | 3100,000 worth of diamonds. 'the shipwreck had taken place at ) night, and I had nothing on but a i night shirt, so that I was obliged to* 1 j keep my box of diamonds beneath my at one arm. j 'They represented my whole fortune, ! and I had lieen twelve years collecting j them. I suddenly thought of away of saving them. My arms wore getting very tired, and I knew that I should i have to drop tho box presently. I ; .resolved to swallow the stones one by j one. They might kill me, I thought, ' but the risk was worth taking. 1 I climbed up on tlie barrel, sat astride of i it, and swallowed thorn. As I swnl- I lowed tho last one, my poor friend Jac quln lost his hold and was drowned. A few hours afterward I was picked , up by a Hutch vessel, which brought '• me back to Europe. I was fearfully | ill, but my life was preserved, and : the week after my arrival an opera -1 Hon which succeeded perfectly restored i y.155,500 of my fortune.—New York I News. Why tho Stomach Lasts. \ | 'An old question which lias long puz* J > sled physiologists is, Why does not the j stomach digest itself? The walls of ' the stomach are In substance not un like the food which they contain, and which is digested by the peptic fluid. Tho stomach is able to digest prbteid food when Introduced into it, yet it dons not digest itself. The reason for tills has recently been shown by Weinland. Weinland found that a substance can bo extracted from the cells of tho stomach which, when lidded to proteld material, will not allow It to be acted upon hy the pepsin of the stomach. This substance belongs to the class of so-called antl fcnncnts—that Is, u group of bodies which by their presence inhibit fer mentative actions. The presence of the W anO-ferment in the cells of tho stomach > prevents them from digesting them selves. After death, when this substance decomposes, tho stomach will digest it self.—New York World. London's Flro Alarm System. In London there are 700 fire alarm call-points. They vary from 200 yards to 400 yards apart
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