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Life’s Common Things.
A pink an<l < , rim , *on s>nn'<'t cloud,
A fair fount; fnco nrnld tho crowd,
A moment's trlimpso of moun'alns bluo,
Em houses tall shut out the view,
A flower, behind a window-pane
When all without is dark with rain,
A bluebird poised on airv wings—
How beautiful life's common things!
A letter from a distant land,
A cordial grasp of friendly hand,
A happy daydream, pure and fair,
Tho* but a castle in the air,
A word that giws us courage new,
A smile that beams as fair as true.
A voice that hope and sunshine brings—
How good, how true, life's common things!
' j,oukn< e M. Wbioht, in Youth’s Compan
ion.
The Professor’s “Power,”
“The influence that ono brain has
directly upon another,” said Major
Dennett grandiloquently ut the club
olio night, “is immense and nndeni
able, ” Ho was a little taken aback
when ho mw that Dr. Macpherson had
quietly entered tho room as ho spoke;
for tho great brain specialist generally
manages to take considerable discount
off th worth of tho superstitious
Major's scientific assertions. On this
on vision, however, Macpherson hap¬
pened to agree with him to some ex
tent.
“Tho direct power of the brain is a
subject which needs investigating,” ho
said. “The pity is that the science is
ai present almost in the hands of char¬
latan Now, I met a man onco who
could kill a person simply by willing
it, liis own brain controlling and par¬
alyzing that of his victim ; at any rate*
that is the power ho claimed for him*
self. Unfortunately, he waskilledbe
foro 1 had an opportunity of verifying
his claim to any extent. But I am iu
torrupting yon, Major.”
Dennett w.is more anxious than any
of us to hear a case which seemed to
illustrate what ho had been saying,
and a very remarkable story tho doc¬
tor told us.
“I mot 'Professor Lyas’—as lie call¬
ed himscll -on board an American
liner,” bo began. “My brother had
become engaged to a Now York lady
traveling in Europe, and as her people
wore anxious that tho wedding should
take place at her homo, wo were all
going across to the States. I had been
wanting a holiday, nnd Robin, my
brother, was anxious that 1 should
officiate ns best man, so I managed to
join tho party going across. It was
on tho second day out that this Lyas
began talking at dinner of his w on
tier fill power of will, and ho offered to
convince any sceptical persons by
operating upon them. Ho would not
kill thorn outright, ho said, kindly,
hut if the proper conditions were
served ho would ’v “imply
into ft. -..t jwt’s eyes, suspend
moment the action of tho heart, and
take them as near death ns was expedi¬
ent for an experiment. I volunteered
instantly, and tho Professor was mak¬
ing arrangements for the public dis¬
play of his power when, to every
Doily a surprise, a lady also expressed
her willingness to undergo the experi¬
ment. She was a puot-Iooking littlo
woman of thirty or so, who was tvtiv
ding alone, I was told afterwards, to
join her husband in the States, and
her offer surprised me all the more
when 1 observed from her face that
she was evidently of a highly excitable
and hysterical nature. Tho passen¬
gers generally seemed in favor of the
lady undergoing the tost instead of
me. Finally the Professor decided to
try his will-power upon us both in
turn, And we adjourned to tho deck
for the experiment. Unfortunately it
was decided to take Mrs. Maple, tho
Quiet littlo lady, first. Tho Professor
sat in a deck-chair facing her, at the
distance of a few feet, and fixed his
remarkably piercing little black eyes
on her face. N\ o gathered round iu
quite a state of excitement, which be¬
came indescribable when in less than
live minutes the lady turned white and
fainted. I hurried up at onco to at¬
tend her, and applied the usual re¬
storatives, but it was quite a long time
before sho regained consciousness.
She seemed to be in a state of catal¬
epsy, and the passengers were iu a
fearful state, thinking that they had
helped to kill her. They were relieved
when I came up from her cabin, to
which the Professor had helped me to
carry her, with the announcement that
sho was well on tho way to recovery;
but when 1 expressed my willingness
to subject myself to tho experiment
the} rose in a body to protest against
it, and the captain put au end to the
matter by absolutely refusing to let
another trial of the kind take place on
liis vessel. I was amused to see how
thoroughly the Professor's feat had
impressed everybody on board, and I
noticed a general inclination among
the passengers to give him a wide
berth and avoid his eve. For mv own
part, 1 should have been more satis¬
fied with his performance if I had
boon the subject, and, since there ■
no chance of another public trial of
his power, I determined to ask Lyas
to give me a private one in my c ibin.
Before I had au c ipportuuity of asking
him, however, my views with regard
to the Professor underwent a c hange,
1 had been considerin' him simply a
charlatan. Mv brother informed rue
that he wu ■s u blackguard, It seemed
that ho had been i rseentino- Yfi**
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casually a year before in New York,
and tho fellow was presuming now
upon iheir slight acquaintance to make
violent love to tho lady, iu spite of
her unconcealed dislike for him and
the fact that she was about to marry
rny brother. Itobin was furions, of
course, and asked me to be present at
the interview he was intending to have
with his fiancee’s persecutor.
“I was quite willing.
“ ‘I will run up on deck and fetch
him down now, if you will wait here,’
I said, ‘and we can have him oil to
ourselves while we give him a bit of
our minds.'
“I strolled up on deck to look for
tho Professor, but as it was pretty dark
I had noma difficulty in finding him.
At last, however, I caught sight of
him leaning over tho tnffrail, talking
to a lady. When I found that the lady
was Miss Gavin, I felt no hesitation in
interrupting the conversation, which
I knew must be distasteful to her. As
I was about to do so, however, my at¬
tention was arrested by something the
villain was saying, and I am not in tho
least ashamed to confess that I waited
without disturbing him to hear a little
more of it. The Professor’s chief at¬
traction was a singularly clear voice,
and, although he was speaking almost
in a whisper, I could catch everything
ho said. He was threatening to kill
her lover by this will power of his un¬
less sho promised him to break off the
engagement. My blood boiled when
poor Kate Gavin answered, and her
voice told me how frightened and im¬
pressed she was. Of course, it sounds
strange to yon, gentlemen, that a sen¬
sible young lady could be alarmed by
such a threat, but you must remember
that tho experiment of the morning
had created a tremendous impression,
and that there was scarcely a person
on board but believed that Professor
Lyas had tho power to kill a man by
willing it. That Miss Gavin believed
it thoroughly was proved by her tone,
and by tho fact that she allowed tho
fellow to speak to her nt all. She
tried to argue with him.
“ ‘You dare not,’ sho said so fierce¬
ly that I could hear her plainly; ‘you
dare not commit murder.’
“ ‘Pardon me,’ replied the villain in
his clear, distinct voice, ‘I dare do
anything that is not punishable. And
my way of killing renders it impos¬
sible for tho death to be brought home
to me.’
“I found it hard to keep still in my
hiding-place under the deep shadow of
the deck-house, while my brother’s
fiancee seemed to argue and plead in
turn with him. Her
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pyttnw
t lately rofus^
turned away.
“ ‘All right, as you will, Miss
Gavin, he said impressively, ‘remem¬
ber that his death will be upon your
own head.’
“She did not reply, but from the
way her hands clasped and uuclasped
over the taffrail I could tell how deep¬
ly tho threat affected her. I was in
doubt whether to go to her, and set
her mind at rest as far as I could, or
to stop Lyas, and carry him off to be
interviewed by her lover.
“As it was I wassavod the troublo of
deciding by being obliged to take a
third course. Although I had no idea
of tho fact, Mrs. Maple, who had re¬
covered sufficiently to coine on deck,
had been standing almost close to my
side in the deep shadow. She attract
ed ray attention now by fainting again
as she had done during tho experiment
in the morning. For the next ten min¬
utes all my thoughts were taken up by
attending to her. The stewardess had
luckily passed at the moment I found
tho lady swooning, and we got her be¬
low without nuv body on deck being
the wiser. I left her in the steward¬
ess’s charge as soon as consciousness
returned, and hurried off to the cabin
where I had left Robin. He was still
there, wondering what had- happened,
and we remained for a little while con¬
sidering what course we ought to pur¬
sue, whether to put the matter in the
hands of the captain or to content
ourselves by warning the Professor
what would happen if he continued to
auuov Miss Gaviu. When we had de¬
cided on the former coarse, we opened
the cabin door to carry it into execu¬
tion at once. But at the very door¬
way we met Katie herself coming to
us, her eyes starting with terror, her
beautiful face blanched.
“ ‘I have killed him! I have killed
him, to save your life,’ she cried hys¬
terically ns she threw herself into
Robin’s arms, and without waiting to
hear more I hurried on deck, oppress¬
ed by a terrible fear. I could under¬
stand so plainly how the poor girl
could have been driven into what was
scarcely a crime by the panic for
which her victim was himself respon¬
sible. If she had indeed killed Pro- I
fessor Lyas it was clearly a case j
justifiable homicide, but what jury !
! could understand the case sufficiently
to view it as such? I was sick with
f ear> am j when I reached the deck t
only to find that the Professor had
| really been killed, I foresaw nothing
but tragedy and horror in store for
| the couple who seemed the happiest in
the world. Ibe rest of the case I
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Wo conM none of ns claim a mem¬
ory bo long for newspaper reports, and
Major Dennett asked eagerly whether
Miss Gavin was acquitted.
“She was never tried,” said Mac
pherson, with his quiet smile. “The
murderess got off with imprisonment
for life.”
“The murderess?” we all exclaimed
in one wondering breath, and the doc¬
tor nodded.
“Yes, Mrs. Maple, as she called her
self. She was, as you will have
guessed, an accomplice of Professor
Lyas, and traveled separately for the
benefit of their schemes. They were
well-known siwndlers, nnd the will¬
killing wa3 probably part of their
stock-in-trade; it must have proved
rather useful in wringing money from
nervous people afraid of the man ex¬
erting his power against them. His
mistake was to use it to the detriment
of his partner in crime. It was his
pursuit of Miss Gavin, or Mrs. Robin
Macpherson, as she is now, which
r aised the jealousy of an ill-balanced
mind and made the woman go to his
cabin and stab him immediately she
recovered from the swoon into which
she had been thrown by hearing tho
conversation to which I too played
eavesdropper. ”
“But what made Miss Gavin accuse
herself of the crime?” I could not help
asking.
“That was the result of a most re¬
markable coincidence,” explained tho
brain specialist, “I left Miss Gavin,
you know, imagining that Lyas was
about to kill her lover by his will
power. After the experiment in the
morning she never doubted his ability
to do so. Suddenly it came to her as
an inspiration that her will might be
stronger than the Professor's; that if
she concentrated her mind on killing
him she might be able to save her
lover’s life. At tho end of her effort
somebody rushed on deck with tho
news of Lyns’s death—a coincidence
which would bo too remarkable for a
story.”
The doctor glanced at me as he
spoke, for he is, of course, aware of
the use which I make of his club
anecdotes.
“If it is true, I must risk its im¬
probability,” I said. “But my read¬
ers will want to know why Mrs. Maple
fainted during the experiment.”
“It is a gift that some hysterical
patients have of becoming catalenti^
ut will,” answered Macnlmr^^B®
“You see c i
tie.
Arrested by the Sheriff’s Hog.
Bill, a shepherd dog belonging to
Sheriff Sherry, executed a feat at
Muncie that was wonderful. A couple
of vagrants in jail broke away as a
crowd was being taken to the work
house. Sherry ran after one of the
men, using his revolver, but without
effect, and the man escaped. The
officer was surprised when a police¬
man marched the other one back soon
afterward. The dog had 6een his
master chase one of the men and ho
took after the other, who ran in an
opposite direction. In the Court
House yard the dog jumped at tho
man’s throat, finally setting his teeth
in the prisoner’s coat and vest cellar,
pulling him down and holding him.
A crowd ran to the man’s rescue,
thinking a mad dog had him, but a
policeman recognized Bill and took
the runaway back to jail. Bill will
have a collar presented to him in¬
scribed with an account of his exploit.
A Psychological Pltcnoinonon.
“Yes, sir; I ken remember things
that happened ’fore any of you fellers
came to this part o’the country,” said
the man whose boasting takes the
reminiscent form.
“Go ’way,” replied his auditor.
“I recollect when this here town
wuz jes’ a swamp, an’ land wasn’t wnth
$2 an aore, ”
“Wall, I don’t contradict you. But
you certainly are a car’us case. Yer a
mystery an’ no mistake.”
•‘Ain’t nothin’ so mysterious in my
rememberin’ these things, is they?”
“No; but what I don’t see—an’ I
would’t mention it only as a matter of
scientific investigation—is how a man
that kin remember years an’ years
back, like you do, could forget that
$3 lu borried more’n two months
ago.”—Washington Star.
Savage Implement Makers.
Civilization is making rapid strides
in South Africa, but the Bushman
yet makes his own knife and with con¬
siderable ingenuity. They dig a little
iron, find a broken hatchet or a hoop
from a rum barrel, and out of these
parts they form even axes, adzes, ham
mers and about everything they need
t ^ at D ne * These implements are,
of course, vet T crude, but the native
faas patience, and will not forego
h is bottle of rum for the cost of the
imported tool.—New York Telegram.
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With the close of this month Sebas
topol will cease to exist as a port 1 for
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A CROESUS’CHATEAU
Vanderbilt s Palace in t the North
Carolina Mountains,
A. Lordly Domain Amid Wildly
Picturesque Scenery.
George Vanderbilt’s country resi¬
dence is within a few'miles of Ash
ville, N. C., a spur of the Bine Moun¬
tains. His new home, which has been
building for four years or more, is
now practically completed. The house
is an imposing gothic structure of In¬
diana sandstone. It is the most im¬
pressive and commanding of the many
residences belonging to the Vander¬
bilts.
The mansion is not long and low
and rambling as most Southern dwell¬
ings are. Instead, it rises to the
height of four stories, not counting
the lower ltoor where domestic work is
done, or the story next to the roof.
But it is broad aud long and impres¬
sive. Mr. Vanderbilt was largely his
own architect, and the result would
indicate that he is not a bad one. He
has been courageous enough to bor¬
row literally from others, but mainly
from Switzerland, for the house as
seen from a distance resembles an Al¬
pine chateau. The massive mountains
near by add to this impression. The
halls iu it are as wide and lofty as
those in the old houses in England,
There are no small rooms, The din¬
ing halls are immense. There are no
less than fifty guest-chambers, an in¬
dication that Mr. Vanderbilt does not
intend to bo a hermit in his mountain
home. There are several large rooms,
evidently intended to be reception
rooms, and there is a huge ball-room
looking out upon the mountains,show¬
ing a most romantic scene by light.
The baths are of marble, mined from
the mountains near by, and the whole
interior is rich in appearance and ar¬
rangement. Tho stables at a distance
alone are finer than many modern
houses, and the kennels—for there is
yot game in the mountains—are on a
piano with the other buildings.
Withal there is nothing glaring or
garish about all this. Many modern
house would look ridiculous in tho
midst of the wild mountain scenery,
but Mr. Vanderbilt tins Loan
was ridiculously
sorts of ordinary labor, for slul^i
labor had to come from the North at
Northern rates of wages. But the
building material was right at hand to
be cut or mined, and nature herself
had been the surveyor and landscape
gardener as well.
From his library window Mr. Van¬
derbilt can see the Blue Ridge, the
Alleghanies and their tributary moun¬
tain ranges rising and stretching away
in the distance. He can see Mount
Pisgah raising its pine-clad head more
than 6,000 feet above the plateau.
Black Dome, Clingman’s Dome,
Mitchell’s Peak, and a score or more
of giants are near by. Between these,
like silver threads, run the French
Broad, tho Hiawassee aud near half a
dozen other rivers. He may’ see if he
wishes the spots over in the Tennessee
mountains that have been made in a
way famous by the charming stories
of Charles Egbert Craddock. And
here and there he may see the cabins
of the mountaineers.
Mr. Vanderhilt's place contains
about 20,000 acres in the immediate
grounds or park. Several miles be¬
yond he owns on Mt. Pisgah and in
its neighborhood about 100,000 acres
more, intended for use as a hunting
and shooting preserve.
George Vanderbilt is the student of
the family. He is an ardent lover of
books and nature, is unmarried, is 38
years old, and is worth $1,000,000 for
each year of his life.—Chicago Times
Herald.
A Victim to Etiquette.
The rigid etiquette which prevails
in Korea as to ceremonious banquets
is inconvenient for strangers, whose
untrained appetites, says Youth’s
Companion, are scarcely up to the
Korean standard. An artist, making
a stay in Seoul, was bidden to a royal
feast at the king’s palace, to his min¬
gled joy and despair. Ignorant of
native customs, he appealed to Mr. G.,
the English Consul, to guide him
through the ordeal. The one thing
impressed upon him was this: “It is a
great insult to refuse what is offered
yon at table, and a greater insult not
to eat all that is on your plate.” The
account continues:
YY e all sat down gaily, and the feast
began. All the products of the coun¬
try s?emed to have been cooked and
put before me, including meats, fi-k,
honey, sweets, vegetables and sauces,
of which, mind you, we had to eat
“mountains” piled on our plates.
Young pigs, in the puppv state, were
also there, and were much appreciated
bv mv pir> P- J - c C dv ^v eaterta ente-ta.nera. ; ner-'
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digestive sppsr*ts* r
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I raised my eyes pleadingly to Mr.
g., but he shook his head sternly.
The servants, seeing me hesitate, plied
me busily with potatoes, barley, niil
let and Bt least « bushel of beans.
After Tainl V praying for courage
v -
and dexterity to slide the food under
the table. I made desperate inroads
upon the heaped-up vegetables. Once
again I rolled my eyes in dumb en¬
treaty toward the consul, who once
again shook his head, this time with a
sardonic grin which made me deter¬
mine to get through the feast some¬
how, but in silence.
After this I was treated to lily-bulbs
and radishes dipped iu the vilest of
sauces, besides a largo portion of a
Puppy-pig roasted, and fruit in pro¬
fusion, with foreign and native wines.
At length, when I felt that with the
next mouthful I should groan aloud,
the end was reached. That unhappy
meal began at noon, and was brought
to a close at 7 p. in.
To those who appreciate tho pleas¬
ure of eating, let me recommend a
royal Korean dinner. No pea can de¬
scribe the agonies I endured ns I was
carried home in my green sedan-chair.
For days I scarcely ate a mouthful,
and to this day the sight of a puppy
pig is unbearable.
Wears an Alumiutim Ear,
We have had people with glass
eyes, porcelain teeth and artificial
whiskers, and now along comes a man
with an aluminum ear. Ho is sixty “
three years of age and was admitted
into the Queen’s Hospital, at Birming
ham, England, iu April, 1893, with
an epithelioma of the left auricle.
The greater part of the diseased ear
was cut off by the attending surgeon
and a plaster-of-paris cast was taken
of the left side of his head. Then an
artificial ear was built up in wax to
match the healthy one on the opposite
side. The bogus ear was then made in
vulcanite and aluminum, tinted and
enamelled to harmonize with the corn
plexion. No artificial contrivance,
such as a spectacle frame, was made
use of to support the aluminum ear,
and adhesion to the head was affected
by means of a saturated solution of
mastic in absolute alcohol.
The mai 'Law can hear as well ns
SHRI , ppluminoSity .ui
reduced, the various colors in great
measure disappear, a person with nor¬
mal vision passing through a stage of
red-blindness, as the intensity is dimin¬
ished before ho arrives at absolutely
monochomatic vision. Captain Abney
points out that tho curious color of a
moonlight landscape is entirely ac¬
counted for by this fact. While light
becomes greenish-bluo as it diminishes
in intensity, aud the reds and yellows,
being reduced or absent, are not
reflected by surrrounding objects.
Hence, moonlight is cold, while the
sunlight is warm, owing to their pres
ence. The loss of colors iu flowers as
night draws on may be easily followed.
Thus orange-colored flowers may bo
plainly distinguished, while a scarlet
geranium appears black ; green grass
will be gray when the color of yellow
flowers may yet be just visible.—Lon¬
don Lancet.
Driving a Bargain.
The mean man often overreaches
himself in a way that is delightful to
those who have no use for stingy peo¬
ple. A London journal tells a story
of one of this class of persons, which
is most amusing. The man went into
a butcher’s shop and inquired the
price of a soup bone.
“Ob, I’ll let you have that for noth¬
ing,” replied the butcher, a more or
less generous person.
The customer was slightly deaf, and
missed the answer.
“Can’t you take something off
that?” he asked, never supposing that
the butcher had offered to give him
what he wanted.
“Oh, yes,” replied the butcher, with
a smile. “Call it twopence. ”
And the mean man paid the two¬
pence for the gift, and departed think¬
ing how clever he was.—Harper’s
Young People.
An Impatient Couple.
A swarthy Italian and his wife came
into the Fitch Hospital the other af¬
ternoon and placed a ten-months-old i
baby, which was about as long ns a
pine-apple, on the operating table I
The doctors examined it carefulir and
not being able to find anything wron
with it asked the parents what the
matter was.
“Oh, nothing,” they answered, •
“only it can’t walk.”
And the doctors laughed a hearty
laugh at the idea of expecting a baby
to walk when it is scarcely old enough
to cry. — Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier.
The special train used hv On»n Queen
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o. M cars.
When 0 „, to use it i« kept gf the Bras
$$1# nation,
RAD ROADS A BANE
They Are an Enormous Drain su
Our Resources.
Value of Improved Highways
To a Farming Community.
Colonel Francis Vinton Greene has
recently delivered an address on tho
subject of good roads iu the Butter¬
field Practical Course at Union Col¬
lege. In the course of his remarks he
showed that while Massachusetts annu¬
ally expends §60 a mile on roads out¬
side of cities, New .Terse}’ $13 and
New York $30, the average exjmmli
ture iu the other states is much less.
If it is only $18 a mile, this means a
total annual expenditure throughout
the country of $20,000,000, and much
the larger part of this vast sum is lit¬
erally thrown away on roads that are
not only the cause of vexation and dis¬
comfort to those who drive over them,
but that entail actual loss upon those
who are compelled to carry their
goods over them to the market or to
the railway stations.
The enormous drain made by bad
roads on our resources was estimated
by Colonel Greene, and his figures
will not be doubted by any one who
has pnid any attention to tho subject.
He said: “It has been proved, not
only by mechanical experiment but by
actual test, that the same forco which
draws one ton on a muddy earth road
will draw four tons on a hard Macadam
road. On the improved roads of New
Jersey loads of four to five tons ar©
habitually drawn by a two-horso team,
This effects a saving of fully threo
fourths of the cost of hauling to the
station, and reduces the cost of road
transportation from 30 cents to 7}
cents per ton per mile. What this
saving amounts to may be imagined
when it is known that the New York
Contral Pvailrod carries nearly 20,000,
000 tons of way freight in a year. If
this is hauled only two miles by road,
to or from the station, and a saving of
221 cents per ton per mile could bo
effected, it would mean a total saving
of $9,000,000.”
In other words, tho question of
roads in many of our agricultural
communiHesis a question of farming
]}'L Iftrofit. And there is
the
;ui
volve little, if any, increased taxation.
The plan that is here suggested has
been tried in towns near New York,
and it is noticeable that every good
piece of road that has been con¬
structed in these communities in¬
creases the sentiment in favor of
spending money in this way.—Har¬
per’s Weekly.
Faster Steamships.
A London magazine has been inter¬
viewing the principal builders of fust
steamships in this country on the
point made by Gy Warman in a recent
article to the effect that the next dec¬
ade cannot possibly match the increase
in ocean speed recorded in the past
1 ten years. Sir Thomas Sutherland
; says: “For the moment we appear,in
the Lucania and Campania, we have
reached the limits of sea-going speed
on long voyages. But the tendency is
towards larger ships and a higher
speed -where such vast passenger traffic
is concerned, and new materials or
; new applications of existing appli
ances may come in to solve the prob
'i lem > whic k appears extremely diffi-
1 cult in the meantime,because the only
! solution of faster ships is bigger ships
and bigger machinery, and this in
the present condition of things means
larger and deeper ports and docks, as
they have almost reached the limits of
existing accommodation in f%is re¬
spect. ”
Yarrow and Co. believe the limit in
size has been almost reached for tho
present. They say: “Tho direction
in which improvements in the immedi¬
ate future are likely to be made is in
increased revolutions of the engines,
by which lighter machinery will de¬
velop equal powers; by the adoption
of lighter and stronger materials,
thereby saving weight, and by the in¬
troduction of the water tube in the
place of the ordinary marine boilers.
All these points tend to reduce weight,
and consequently Bpeed is increased.
But how far this can be carried out it
is impossible to forte 11.”
Thorn T oroIt * Co. says: “Some re
dact,0 “ no doabtbe accomplished
“ h,ghcr Bt0!,m > ,reMareB > ''“ ter ‘" b ®
bollerS and lmprovod “‘c™ 1
trod " ced; hut the price which has to
be paid for an increase in speed above
that at which the passa S e is now made
is almost prohibitive. ”—San Francisco
Examiner.
New Sole for Berman Shoes.
A new out sole is being tried on th.
boots of the German soldiers by direct
order of the emperor. It consists o
a paste of linseed oil varnish and iron
filiiDgs which is said to render tkc
soifc flexible and make it more durable
than the new aluminum boot sails, — 1
Qbwgo Tim?
Speak, I Tray You, Sweetheart, (
Speak, I pray you, sweetheart— be your
answer yes or no.
Rid the sparkling gleams of love light from
ray dreaming pathway go.
Or ope the gates of loveland—lot hoping shed
its light—
Let the glow of sweet affection on ray heart
its blessing write?
Speak, I pray you, sweetheart—shall tny soul
forget tho pain
That doubt, in darksome brooding, on its
anxious lips has lain?
Sing me a song of welcome, and let its sweet¬
ness flow
A gracious benediction—speak, I pray you,
Yes or no!
Speak, 1 pray you. sweetheart—must this
vision puss away,
Shall tho rays of dear contentment lose them¬
selves iu gloom, or stay?
Will you have me linger, sweetheart, or to
grieving go?
Speak the word, I pray you dearest—speak,
1 pray you, yes or no!
—Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOROUS.
Hard to bent—A wet carpet.
Ladies, you can find the best jam in
town at the bargain counters.
Paradoxical as it may seem, tho
minor, to bo successful, must dig iu
vein.
As soon as you convince a man that
he is « genius he begins to neglect his
creditors.
Most people’s lives arc spent in get¬
ting wliat they don’t want nnd want¬
ing what they don’t get.
Babies are described as coupons at¬
tached to the bonds of matrimony;
but no paper gives a prize for collect¬
ing them.
A schoolboy asked to define the
word “sob” whispered out: “It means
when a feller don’t want to cry nnd it
bursts out itself.”
A man may think ho adores a
woman, but his love is put to a terri¬
ble strain when she asks him to button
her shoes with a hairpin.
“Your beautiful clock was received,”
wrote a bride, in a letter of thanks,
“and is now on the mantelpiece iu tho
drawing room, whero wo hope to soo
you often.”
The class in natural history being
asked tho differences between a dog
aud a tree, tho head boy answered “A
tree is coverod with bark, while a dog
seems to bo lined with it.
Party looking for lodgings—But tho
use of a piano is of no use to me. I
rr- Landlady—Qh^ sir; but
have tho use of it all tho samo.
HH^uugktcr is alway practicing.
g “I lovo you with a love that burns,”
W He cried. Then said Maria :
i “Is it a love that will get up
Each morn and light tho Are?”
Bweet girl—Papa says you can’t
afford +o mor-r.y Ardent. YTuith— Jftgr
sonse ! I can get a preacher to per¬
form the ceremony for $2. Sweet girl
Can you? How foolish papa is?
Teacher—Do you understand tho
moaning of terms capital and labor?
Small Boy— “Tes’m. If ft boy has a
sled that s capital; if another boy rides
down with him and then pulls the sled
up, that’s labor.
Editor Well, did you interview
Mrs. Twaddle, of the Woman’s Right s
Club? Reporter- I saw her, and she
said she had nothing to say. Editor
— Well, squeeze it down into a ool
umn; we’re crowded today.
Bjones (very parsimoniously) —It is
a great comfort to mo to reflect that
time is money. Brown—Why? Bjones
Whenever I want to be particularly
liberal to my friends I go out and
spend some time with them.
MrB. Peck—this paper says that a
sea captain says that in times of great
disaster women are more cool than
men. Mr. N. Peck—I have seen in¬
stances of it. You? I’d like to know
when. When they were getting mar¬
ried.
“My friends tell mo that there is a
magic spell about my writings,” said
the author, complacently, as the ed¬
itor glanced at his manuscript. “There
is; but I prefer Websters’a style of
orthography myself,” said the editor,
as he handed the manuscript back.
“Great Scott, Bill!” said the excit¬
ed green goods mau to his partner,
“don’t stop at gittin’ the old guy’s
roll; git his watch ; git his boots: git
his clothes; make a living picture out
of him. He’s the duck that charged
me $15 a week last summer for hog
meat and a corncob bed.”
Ilessic Knew.
The other day at the Teachers’As¬
sociation a class of children, ages
from 5 to 9 year?, were giving an ex
ercise in phonics, Tke teacher had
received Correct answers to descrip¬
tions she had given of trees, woods,
etc., and then thought she would de¬
scribe a brook.
“What do we find running through
the woods, moving silently on the
ground, with but little noise?”
For a long time the little ones were
quiet, and then a little hand was
raised.
“Well, Bessie, what is the answer?”
the teacher questioned Bmilingly.
“Tramps,” piped out the little one.
Newark (N. J. ) Advertiser.
Mr. Morgan, director of the Egypt
jan excavation, has found in a pyra¬
mid of Dahshur more than 5,000 ob
jeots dating back to 4,000 years B. c.,
among them jewelers’ work oi thf
emttei artiitw vertmion,