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7IMMSBNTERPMMI THOMAS VtLLE, FEBRUARY, I, IMS. THE AIR CHAMBER * By STEPHEN HALLETT. ( OHN BLATCHFOItP, civil engineer, nt out m tlic ♦pen, vrltfa III* aya* renting reflectively on • round In' (trtnnent, with flgnrei an It, and « needle. It reeruibled ■8 aneroid twreniHer, bflt It tree not. It wan a peculiar air gauge, a KcottUh I Invention, and Qlatchrord liad not teen A . one of tile Kind elnce tie had lielpnl build the treat bridge ot Cbepnltepec, - In Mexico. Then he wn* n RUbordlii- ate neelatant; now, et elghly-nml- i , twenty, be wo* engineer of the Mur- bury Tunnel, under the river of thnt name. )uat oulalde Ihe Important . nuunfaeluring town of Beleheeter, , Blatehford‘e recollection* of tropical Cbepnltepec, nltbongh donbtlee* Melt' Ing, were, however, auddenly Interrupt ed by the advent of n young girl, wbo»e footet/p* he had not heard, and who now etood timidly lieforc .him. , The yonng ongineer wee on Ida feet ’In en Inetant. He bad a very gallant I tearing with women -irrespective of clMe—but be we* particularly etten- Myo If they happened to be pretty wo- - mint. "Bid yon with to aeo me?" bo aeked, amlllng. . "Oh, no, air. 1 ” faltered the girl; “I ■- 'thought—that le-,1 came with e nice- enga to—" P . '"One of the men, perbapa?” ./ "yea." '' • “Yon have n brother working down In the itlr chamber?" Tbo girl blnahed. “.Not a. brotbot-a friend." “Abl Well, tbe men will be up •Port ly for dinner. You bod better wait. ,. Yon eee, we are retber eliort-banded at pment, and 1 am obliged to tend tbe gauge luyaelf. flit here and watt.” * Hbe aeatrd Ueraelf, looking Very ■ pretty, Jilaieliford tliongbt, with her 'beet, aliaple attire and thick auburn -• • treaaei; had tbe very flint thing that caught her eye waa tbe dock-faced oh- • Ject which Hlntcbford had called the • “#Ulge.” He eaw her glnnce riveted upon It, and good-naturedly undertook to eaplaln that It reglatcred the amount, and preaaure of air In the , working dumber far beneath the . river, where, at that moment, *evcu ajr.lwart men tolled at the tunnel. <’ "l« It very dangerous?" she nuked, * , "What—the work? Well, that tie- ' pends. You gee, ntr seems limoeent enough, hut It Is a power not to tie ■ trifled with. Krery man down at the bottom or Ibis shaft Is working nt n •;.* pressure of tblrly-flre (utuiul* to every . equate Inch of him. It la almost lll-.e bflng.huggcd by a bear. Wheu I press i this lever—tills wny-nlorc nlr Is forced , down." Ha toudied one of tbe levers just beldw tbe gauge mid pointed to •the needle. "There, you see, It Is now • Ablrty-slx, thirty.*,van, thirty-eight, " fhlrty-ulne pounds to me Mitturo lueb; and' by 4 mere (oucii of my Unger It could lie fbreed higher—even up to sixty-five. Tl|ls Is almost strong enough to crush a mail." ■fit "How wonderful that mere air tbould be so strong!" exclaimed the flirt. "But wbnt Is tile lire of It-tlil* - *1 rr illreonreged nntll the flaxen-hatred Leslie appeared on tbe scene. At 0ret the feud toidr the form of sarcasm, but this quickly developed Into great bitterness of language. Barly Jim Burns, the foreman of the gang, was obliged to act tbe part of peacemaker a dor.cu times a day, when, as he put It, “the youngsters' tongues got n-wnggln'." "Lat him alone, Ned," he would soy to Hart; “wlint d'ye want to be nl ways worrying Bob for?” Of It would be, "Drop It, Bob, of I’ll act old Widow Daft an ,ve. fllie'H make it lively for Jre, t reckon. 1 ' on this particular Jane day, the at tcreation between the pair began on tbelr way to tbe tunnel; and Kate, who bad beard of the angry dispute, experienced n dread of open trouble between tbem which greatly nlfectcd her spirits all that morning. The flash of gibe and repartee continued as tbe two rlvnl* descended the narrow tube at tbe base of the shaft Into the bowels of tbe earth; and so far from bettering the situation, lieslte's aelf- aatlsfled air and nllecteil carelessness only made matters worse. For be not without reason for satisfaction, nl though the truth was known to only one other man In Belcheiter, Kate Maxwell had promised, on the previous evening, to be hla wife. And Edward Itnrt, tbe rejected suitor, knew this— knew It from Kate's own lips. This fntnl knowledge, fatal to all hla hopes anil dreams, entered the soul ot Ed. ward Dart like n bar of red-hot Iron He was a bigger and stronger man tlmn Leslie, and would relish nothing better than to carry the quarrel to blows. There wps something grlnt, uncanny, in the Idea of these two mor tal rivals being shut up together In a narrow, dimly lighted liox, seventy feet underground, for konrs at atreteb. Once Inside tbe nlr chamber, they worked for several hours silently. Then, just about noon, Leslie's pick ac cidentally struck ttpoi. Dart’s foot. There was an oath, n shuttle, and, like a mastiff, Dart was at Leslle'a throat. In this small space—bnrdly bigger than ■ ship's cabin—live men flattened themaelven against tlip sides while Dart and Leslie fought like demons In tbe darkness, for In tbe struggle tbe lump bad been extinguished. Then there was a piercing cry—Dart had got hie bends 011 a pick; he wns seeming ly about to wield it. But too late! his antagonist forced him 'backward; he fell with a crash upon a heap of tools, and DaVt's arm and ankle were brokeu, snapping like faggots. For many weeks there had been peace between the successful and ting unsuccessful suitor far the hand of Kate Maxwell. Tbe affair in the nlr chamber, which had deprived the tun nel of Dart's services, wns pnt down to nil accident. Mr. Blatelifard never heard of .the battle between the two men. Leslie made a point of looking III at tbe Dart cottage on tils way homo from work to see how the man with whom he bad so long been nt en 1 "Use? Wly. we harness It anil make "'"Y- *"d with.whom lie had so lately '■•V n.wbrs: It helps us. dig our tuimejT”*” 0 blows, progressed toward, re- under.llio river, by forcing out the watcrsml mud. Then, besides, it Is for tbe workmen to brvntlic. But, Artlq! why ere you so pale?" Kate .Maxwell smiled nervously, dis playing twin row, of perfect teeth. - "Oh, nntlilug. Only 1 wns thluklug It must lie very terrlbl > to work down there. Suppose something was to go wrong with the ntr-plpcs, nnd they were to get too much or too little nlr?" * Illalehfonl, who, young ns be was, wee familiar.with death nail danger, shrugged hie sbonldeni. 1 "We must take risks in every trade, . , If tie men got too little nlr, tip. rlvcr- or part of It—would pour in nnd drown them; If they got too mu(h nnd there . Wes no way for It to eseaiie, it would crash them. But, after nil, it Is mile likely that either of these terrible thing* could hapiien, because, you see, It |* so carefully regulated mid the gauge Is so accurate and reliable. Anyone of Intelligence could kin p the supply nt thirty-live pounds, which t* •• much e* a man might to *tnnd." He pulled out bis watch amt looked nt the time. "Hello!" he ejnculntcd, la surprise, •‘the men are late lu coming up to day." 1 The girl shuddered at his words mid csst an ominous glance at the greet Iron door which barred tbe eutrmiee to tbe sir lock nnd led to the working chamber, ae It wns called, under ibe - river. "Robert!" formed Itself Involuntar ily on her Up*. Although none knew It, Knte Max- well's Unaccountable misgivings were not without Justification. Even os the • pair had been talking, sereuty. feet be low where they stood, a terrible scene .wee being enacted. It bad liecn a struggle for life In the darkness and oppressed atmosphere of the subter ranean air chamber, snd her lover, Robert Leslie, was one of the nouns. A feod^bad for tome time existed be- twese young Leslie ami another of tbe pressure-workers. Edward Dart, and this feud, of which Kate Maxwell .wns tbe hapless origin, bad of late, for nous-cause or other, .increased, at leasAn Dart's side, to great intensity. brt had Always borne a good repu tation in Belchester. and waa the sole support of 4 widowed mother; hut uis temper was none of the best, and it .was known tbatlje could he vindic tive. It was rumored that his atten tions to Kite bad extended over a couple of yoartp and bad never pet-u overy, Dart hail boon rather n f:i vorlte of Mr. Blntchford. nnd was not miliopular among the men, so thnt there wns general regret nt the Injury he had sustained. >Vhen the news came, therefore, that Ilia engineer of the works had of fered the convalescent man the not very arduous post of look-tender, Les lie was one of the first to congratulate Dart. « hut In her timorous, Illogical, wo manly fashion, Knte, remembering the conversation she Imd had with Mr. ltlatchford, was not much pleased at the news, though she brought herself at length to laugh nt her fears. There wns safely In numbers, and after nil, It was not likely that oven one ten times more vindictive than tlic man she had rejected ns a lover, would injure seven men lu order to gratify a grudge to a single one. HesUles, did Dart still herish n grudge? Is so, It wns so well concealed thnt nobody noticed It, not eveu Knte Maxwell. Hut one day, coming across the fields, she observed a small launch lu the river Just over whore the tunnel lay, making rapidly for the other shore, where similar work* were also In progress and had been for months. Op It she recognized 'tlu\ forms of Hums. Tyler, PococU, nnd several of the workmen employed In tlie tunnel. As the gaug were usually at work on the north side of the river at this hour, she stopped an acquaintance, in the vi cinity of Hip tunnel, now nporonohlng completion, and naked 1dm what it meant. ••Oh,” said the man. “tbe>*re gone over with Mr. Hlntcbford to wotfk nt the other end of the tunnel.** Knte closely scanned the occupants of the boat, and even tcok out her handkerchief nnd fluttered It In hope of a reply from her lover. There was no response. Perhaps In* was there nnd did not see her. I appointed, she turned away, but wended her way to the head of the north tunnel shaft, thinking he might have been left be hind. As she drew near, the sight that met her gate sent a chill of apprehension through her, she scarce dared tell her self why. It was only the lock-tender Dart, with hix arm- still in a sling, studying the indicator. One hand was on Ihe lever. It was the expres sion of lux face which repelled Kate. “If there is no one down in the nlr chamber” she thought to herself, “why it be here?” Suite clow she came, without Out's parcelvln* her proximity. Hla whole mind wee intent on the sense, hie lips were sllshtly parted In a most nnpleae- ent smile, and be muttered phrases to himself ns he scanned the motion of the needle. Tbe jronns woman wee about to accost him, bat before a syllable bad left her lips, her eye fell on tbe fisure to which tbe fatal needle pointed. The sanse registered already fifty- ■even pounds of air to the Inch, end wan solas higher. In other words, that powerful,’ relentless, modern force, compressed air, wee flowing fiercely, yet silently Into the chamber far beneath the river, which, did it possess an occupant, would prove per haps a chamber nf death. "Edward Dart!' 1 cried Kate passion ately, pointing to the gauge, "what doei that mean?” The man'a hand aprang back from Ihe lever, an to wrench the latter In Ita socket. -What are yon doing here?" he asked roughly. Tell me—la any one Inside the lock?" •Tell you? What for?" ‘Because I must—I will know, cause Mr. Blntchford explained to me the working of this lock, and I know that that pressure Is dangerous. I cannot trust you.” Then she added, trembling like a leaf, "Where la Bobert —Robert Leslie?” “Hotv do I know?” he sneered, al though heads of sweat etood out on hia brow. Hie hand was hack on tbe steel rod. “Then take your band off that lever, t tell yon—reduce that pressure of nlr!” Dart made no movement. Tbe needle now (Minted to sixty-four. In her frensy for the supposed safety of her lover, Knto sought to drag Dart ntvny from his post. He seised her In stantly with both bauds, thus show- fag that Ids broken limb had entirely healed, although ho bad seen fit to hide the cure, for purposes of bis own. '•Help! Help!” she screamed. A plcco of Iron lay near by. She seized It nud struck him a blow full on the temples, and the fellow collapsed like an emptied sack. Then she Instantly clutched the right A Hero of Panama. Career of Herbert O. Jeffries, of Hew York, Commander of the Pacific Flotilla—Stormy Incidents of Guatemala Under the First Barrios, Tyrant and Despot. . . . P Jr t« ever written, tbe story of tile life of Herbert O. Jeffrie*, commander of tbe Pacific flotilla of tbe new Panama Republic, will make the lurid talcs of our West ern scouts seem to fit only for tbe nur sery,” said tbe member of the Geolog ical Survey, who has spent consider able time In Central America, aaya tlfe San Francisco Bulletin. “It wns my privilege to be on terms of good fellowship for several months with this daredevil soldier of fortune, and I gathered sufficient Information concerning his remarkable career In tbe turbulent Central American repub lics to ratlafy me that he has not had n surfeit of tbe commonplace. Very little of this Information was obtain able from him. for. like many men of bis peculiar type, he waa not given to talking about bis own deeds. “Jeffries Is a New Yorker by birth.* n graduate of West Point, and a nat ural bom fighter, lie la an athletic blonde, about five feet nine Inches In height, of calm and quiet tempera ment. “In hla aerenteen year* In Central America he lias been a prominent fac tor In every Important revolution In Guatemala, Salvador. Honduras and the United fitatea of Colombia, lead Ing tbe forces of tbe Government or the revolutionists with equal courage, nnd usually with success. It cannot be anld that hla rewards were ever commensurate with his works, adage, 'Republics are ungrateful,' proving true In Ills case. “Jeffries wns the general In charge of the forces that fought Guate mala under the first Barrios, r tyrant and despot. Several of the bat ties which he directed were marked lever and lowered It, gasping and j by deeds of heroism, nnd^ were full of choking In her excitement. She ex- | slaughter. pected It to turn the opposite dlrcc- “In those fights, as in all others, Jef tlon, hat to her terror, It continued to J Mm Jed his forces, a custom which, revolve ns before. perhaps. It Is unnecessary to'remnrk. Sixty-live—sixty-six—sixty-seven — 1 1* uncommon in those countries, where Merciful heavens, what should sho marksmanship Is not a strong point, do? ' v and where the machete has a more prominent plAce in battle than the musket. You see, your average Cen tral American, being afraid of his guu, shuts his eyes as he polls the trigger, nnd the commander In front stands good chauce of being perforated In the back “Jeffries fell oat with Barrios, and was exiled and n price set upon his head. He fled to Guatemala with Gen, P. P. Brannon, n redoubtable Pennsyl vania fighter. “Both were welcomed by Don Luis Bogrnn, known ns the Dins of Central America, then President. They planned the ambuscade which resulted In the slaughter of nearly 400 Guate malan Invaders. “Under President Bogrnu's adminis tration Americana were strictly in It. Concessions were granted them nearly everything they nsked, nnd peace prevailed throughout the laud. “An American named Cecil was made administrator of the telegrapli lines; n Virginian built the water works nnd a wagon road to the Pa eifle coast: a Louisianian was chief of police, nnd Major Burke, once .State Treasurer of Louisiana, managed the mineral resources, “Among the Americans who flocked to the capital nt Tegucigalpa wns a Nyw Yorker named Palmer, a polished gentleman nnd the possessor of a mag nificent baritone voice. Palmer and Jeffries became chummy at or.ee, nnd for months were Inseparable. Both were in demand nt social functions. Jeffries being a fine tenor singer and passionately fond of music. ( “Their popularity aroused the Jeal ousy # aud envy of Cecil, who, whllo carefully avoiding Jeffrip*. constantly sought a quarrel with Palmer. On the night of n Presidential bal!, Cecil, drunk and noisy, met Palmer In the barroom of the PJeadllly Hotel, gross ly insulted him. nnd then shot him Instantly she grasped the other lever and exerted nil Iter strength. Every, second of suspense seemed au eternity. Kato Maxwell wns now firmly ccu- Inced that her lover, Robert Leslie, wax in the air chamber at the bottom of the shnft. How could she save him? She pictured him fallen jjpon tlm slime of the river bed, with the. terrible compressed nlr, gripping his body nnd slowly crushing it, as a bon constrictor would email a hound. To reduce the volume of nlr would bring relief at once-rperhnps save bis life. Her lips formed a silent prayer, ami ax if In answer to that supplication, the needle of tho gauge at Inst wav ered In the balance, then begnn to slowly move In the op|1osito direction. When Jt got to thirty-five she would depress the lever and stay Its (the needle's) course. Fifty—forty-five— forty—figure by figure It turned slow- Thank God, the danger wax pastl But horrors—wlint was this! Al though she pressed with all licr might, the needle continued to turn, after thirty-five was passed. She sprang nt the other lever; she gripped It with both hands; she shrieked for help. If It reached a certain point, the water would he unchecked, -uiul It would flow Into the air-chamber, and Leslie would be drowned like a rat In a trap. Thirty — twenty-five — twenty-four— twenty-three—twenty-two! Could noth ing be done! Tweuty-one—twenty—uinetcen—eigh teen. In vain the youug girl put forth her full remaining strength. Dart's I fall must have destroyed the uico I mechanism of the Instrument, and I Kate had thus become, unwittingly, ; an accessory to her lover's murder. The needle pointed to nine aud wns j still descending when she fnluled at the door of the lock. A few luomeutH later, John Itlatch- __ font, cufflneer ot tbo Mnrbury Tunnel, i uWit.Ro~ powerful was Cecil’s Influ at last completed after many mouth of labor, enuie up the shaft, smiling, ! followed by his little gaug of faithful j workmen. At the spectacle which met their j eyes, they xtopped short, nml Robert | Leslie, ax pale ax death, flung him- I self beside tho recumbent form of hix | sweetheart, who lay white and still, scarce two feet from the great Iron door which barred the way Into the tunnel. Several of his comrades turned their attention to Dart, who was subsequently home home, suffer ing from shock. When Kate Maxwell recovered con sciousness, she clasped her lover close ly. “The gauge,” she murmured, trctching out her finger. “I thought f ou were dead down there. Aud the levers would not work.” Mr. Blutcliford examined the indica tor and lovers while she spoke. Tbta p gave a low whistle. “By Jupiter!” he said quietly, “you turned on less air at the right momeuL Mistress Kate. I was out six feet 1" my reckoning, and the two ends of tbe cnee that he wax not even arrested, “Jeffries wns at Yucatan, two days distant by the usual mode of travel, but he made the Journey In twenty- four hours, killing two mules en route. He wired Cecil that he was coming to kill him. “When Jeffries rode up to tbe hotel, fnlly twelve hours before he was ex pected, he found Cell In tb barroom surrounded by a number of native of ficers, boasting of what he would do to Palmer’s friend. Jeffries' entrance was the occasion of a stampede on the part of the natives, many of whom threw themselves headlong out of the windows In their frantic efforts to es cape the calm, determined looking man In the doorway, whose big re volver reemto to cover every man in the room. “Two shots rang out almost togeth er. Jeffries strode into the yard, quietly mounted his mule, and, wlthont a look backward, rode away. “Cecil was found a few minutes later, dead, with a bullet In bis heart. Just over the panel of tbe door arrested tbem and sentenced tbem to be shot. “They were chained to a stake in the cuartel yard and doomed to die at sun rise. In some manner, which neither would ever, explain, they extricated themselves nnd clambered over tbe wall. “On stolen mules they started In tbe darkness for the Uonduraa tprder. Be fore daylight a party of Ezeta's noted black rangers was In hot pursuit. + “Near the border Brannon's mule was killed and he received a bullet In the thlglv Jeffries strapped hftn to bis own mule, nnd In the darkness they crossed the line Into Honduras, where they were safe. It was fire days before Brannon received proper medical care. “In 1893, under the rule of the benev olent old Don Ponclano Lelva. hla nephew. Nuilla. started a revolution nt Truxlllo. nnd Jeffries was sent out with a small party to capture the reb el. The task proved an easy one. and Nullla was captured In n narrow mountain pass in less than a week, losing only a few men. “From Honduras to tbe United States of Columbia was only a short step for Jeffries. His work In behalf of the Government Inst year is quite well known. “He came to New York two years ago uml married the girl of his boyhood choice, and slie^ remained with him during hla I ant campaign. Jettrlea owns about 50,000 acres of valuable timber land on the line of the Panama Canal, so thnt his interests, naturally, are with the new republic. He can be counted upon to give a good account of the little flotilla under his command if the opportunity Is presented.” Drain* Come From th* Farm. - “The Chautauqua meetings in the country are the manufacturing centres of material to re-enforce played out nn^ sluggish cities,” said the Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulns before the fifth annual seslon of tho International Chautauqua alliance In Victoria Hotel yesterday afternoon. “Tlie country boy’s best chances for education are found nt tne summer meetings. How many have benefited? A recent canvass of the city has shown this: “Out of one hundred of Chicago’s prosperous business men I found that eighty-four, beginning with Marshal Field, came from the country* Seven ty-six out of one hundred of the best lawyers came from the country. Seventy-one out of a humlcrd of tho Irest physicians came from the coun try. “The Idea prevailed that the best privileges of life belong to a class of *elf-cou«tructed aristocrat*; but the fact is thnt tlreso privileges belong to the poor, ordinary man, nnd the Chau tauqua meetings have taken tbem to him. Tbe purpose of the meetings Is to build the real American civilisa tion.*'—Chicago Inter Ocean. Interest in the Flamingo. There are larger birds than the fla mingo, and birds with more brilliant plumage, but no other large bird Is so brightly colored, nnd no other brightly colored bird Is so large. In brief, size and beauty of plume united reach tbelr maximum of development In this re markable bird, while the open nature of its haunts nml its grcgarlousness in sitecially designed to display Its marked characteristics of form and color to the most striking advantage. When to these more superficial attrac tions Is added the fact that little or nothing 1» known of the nesting habits of this singular bird, one may, in a measure, at least, realize tlie Intense longing of the naturalist, not only to behold a flamingo city—wlthont ques tion the most striking sight In the bird world—but nt the same time, to lift II through which the-fiumlngo's home life hns been but dimly seen.— From Frank M. Chapman's “A Fla mingo City,” In the Century. Th« C«iU«c» Boy's Cushions. Nothing so pleases the heart of a college hoy as a new pillow for Ills couch in the dormitory room, and the number he has usually represents hix summer’s conquest uml the nlmbleness of his sister’s fingers. The favorlto design 1* a satin pillow lu one of the' shades of his university’s flag, and In the centre or one of the corners lx the college shield heavily embossed in embroidery of the second shade. Flagshaped cushions in the proper colors and stamped with the names of any of the larger universities, are at tached nt the points of the base by a The Carnegie Steel Company is ex perimenting In rolling shapes for steel Ilea to replace the usual wooden tics. More than 2000 skilled workmen have left the French silk factories within a year for the United States. Waste leather is no longer thrown away. Manufacturers use It in a com pressed form, instead of Iron, to make eog-whcels. Georgia has held the lead in the pro duction of peaches for the F*astern market since 1902. She has t over 7,060,000 trees. Ants are the most brainy of all Creatures. In proportion to Its size, an ant s brain 1* larger than that of any other living being. In 1878 something happened in *Tn- pltcr which caused a red blotch to ap pear In bis southern hemisphere, near on© of the great belts that cross hla disc like huge bands of colored clouds. It was 30,000 miles long and 8000 miles broad, yet, ufter all. only a little patch on the mighty disc? It lias re mained ever since, sometimes bright- eniug to almost the crimson hue of fire, and sometimes fading nearly to invisibility, yet always, even when faintest, certifying its presence and its power of keeping the area originally covered by It clear of all other objects. Tho electrical treatment of sewage, ns tried by Dr. Rldeal, at Guilford. England, seems to* have proven sim ple, inexpensive nnd effective. A solu tion of salt and water, or even ordinary! aca-water, is decomposed in a special' electrolyzer of large surface and using a large volume of current, and the so- called oxychloride solution resulting is added to the sewage In quantity vary ing with circumstances. Any kind of sewage liquid may be treated. Tho worst forms are readily made as freo from bacteria as drinking water, and raw sewage receiving eighteen and one-half gallons of solution per or.© thousand gallons -showed a reduction of organisms from 23.200,000 to 540 per cubic centimeter In five hours, bacilli allied to those of typhoid diminishing from over one million to noue. Keep th« Month Shot. Keep tbe mouth shut. This perempt ory command Is to insure proper breathing; that Is, breathing through the nose. One should never, unless absolutely necessary, breathe through the mouth. It Is the duty of the nose, and It was made for that express pur pose and is specially constructed to aid correct breathing, says Farmer’s Guide. In tho first place, it is pro vided with tiny hairs that trap dust and Impurities that may be In tbe air nnd prevent their Invading the system, Tho nose has also what are known as turbinated bones. These net as warm ing plates to temper the air cs It Is In haled. It is farther provided with an apparatus for furnishing moisture to the air. An these processes are quit© essential before the air Is drawn into the luugx, and If the breath Is drawn through the mouth many ot these essentials are lost. It is an ex cellent plan to take a good brisk walk every morning and to compel oneself to breathe through the nose all tho time. This 1* a first-rate hygienic prac tice. At first It inny be difficult to do no, but it is worth persisting in, and “practice makes perfect.” Twain and Girl Who Didn't Lanth. Mark Twain once expressed the fol lowing sentiments to a young woman who had not smiled at a thing thnt ho had said during an impromptu recep tion In hls honor at Bryn Mawr Col lege, to which his daughter has invited him. All the young ladles but one were !tk a state ot great jlco during tho hn- morlst's address—all but one had laughed heartily at every witty re mark. Just ns Twain finished, ho turned to the youug woman who had not laughed, and said, in cn under tone: “You are the only sensible on® here. I have not said a single amus ing thing. If it wore cot for tho con- splcuoufness of it, I would like to press your band.”—Success. tmrac met «oner than I expected. I , b „ wU|ch Kth-lea entered, on a But If we had met. with the prewuro j 1Ine wltll h! , wnl the mark of here at •Ixty-Hve. whether there had | Ceclr , bnlIet . „ w „ a duol t0 the heeu an explosion or not It won d j doath and Palra „ r wa , avcn? „,. have been rather rough on Leslie. Ho | Th “ , , , would have been paralyzed for life, j ..,q, a „. provinB tirMom .. JcffriM nnd Utata the worat of putt.nga alck man | Brannotl Leered over Into Salvador, ou duty: there* alway. the rt«k of a ; relapse at the wrong moment.” Kuto' Maxwell, looking up iiito her lover’s face, was silent—New York Weekly *— where they engaged in railroad, build lug. Wheu Branuon presented'a bill of 200,000 pesos President Ezeta. ’Lion of the Frontier,’ and the biggest rob : er that ever went unhung, promptly A Weighty Sqnash* TVhr.t la said to bo tlio ^greaUcSl Squash ever grown was on exhibition; In Canada's section of the Palace of Agriculture. It weighed 403 pounds, measured three fret in height, five and one-half in length nud focr feet In width. The squash waa grown by William Warnock, or Godrich, Ontario. Mr. Warnock is a market gardener and fruit grower. Ho makes a specialty cf growing fancy squashes, and In former years haa raised come that rope cord finished with bJg tassels, j weighed more than throe hundred that the pillow can he hung over ' pounds. He declares that,this was tko the back of a chair.-New York News. largest that was ever produced In a.iy country. It Is of tho variety known :: t the “Mammath.” No one has i»?c • j found who claims to have seen u larger product cf the vine.—St Louis Feline Sarcasm. The freezer had been left on tho back porch and the tin cylinder Inside wax filled with delicious cream. The cover was not on tight and a predatory cat had crowded it off and was looking at the toothsome stuff and at the same time licking her chops with delightful anticipation. Republic. Widowhood in China. '•Wording to the lawa of good socie ty in China, young widows should not remarry. Widowhood is therefore held “And to think,” she said, in her pur- I in highest esteem, and the older the ring way, “that St. Louis society lx all | widow grows the more agreeable her torn up over the question of whether ice cream should be eaten with a fork or a spoon. How ridiculous these ab surd mortals can make themselves!” And then she dipped her whiskers in the trapped mass and industriously regaled herself. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. position comes. Sbould^shc reach fifty years, she may, by applying to tin Emperor, get a sum of money wii!» which t® buy a tablet, on which virtues are Inscribed. The tablet is then placed over the door at tho prin cipal entrance to her house.—New York Hews. • -
