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VrfE TIMES* n 521 !; degenerate! Man’s faffch = 1 , ! than of old. No crumb- [from the immortal soul its n^?cl linS greater than itself, The th cherished file’s we in our youta it to lot us welcome new-born Lot worship at the ancient shrine [ Lot his lace passed; in self-accusing he hails fairer scorn is a [ himself a something half divine: worm whose heritage is sin, t of God—he feels the Christ tel eiiovak with a frowning mien hips. Nay, through love and not kgh [tae fear is truth, and finis its soure 3 ind owns the power of things un- icehe scoffed. God’s groat pri¬ ll elan folding in the soul of man. jeler Wilcox, in the Cosmopolitan. IDE DY SIDE. BV Xj. H. BICKFORD. IR3T, to discover a mine. Second, to know that you have I. something to base j your hopes on, and •ik @ last, to get into a law¬ suit and evcnually the Supreme Court by *0 litigating with your neighbor in under¬ ground adventure. This, I believe, is the c- t Aspen method. With- [ ■"-* out entering upon a discussion scientific tic a 9 to apex and side lines, [ou loutset, of an all Aspen the elements exception. of It ■: a ■m Lvr, both sides, from a lawyer’s and might now be enjoy- lusty run in the Circuit As * fi;b others of its class. It a pity that it isn’t, if you worn what the newspapers call meet.” f ia point is that of Boulder fcg, kin a prospector. One of bis the Woody district; no ere; it is enough that it was aider usually spent the month hjer at this particular claim, fcntiy did more of his assess- jtke |!ace, law half required. It hill, was and an way up a pg seemed to fit in with it, ler of the rocks and burnt p apart from them. He was 'jiiddle-aged tree anyway, he ■<4£f At. There were four reasons ■ le first was that he was dumb; feout the others; if there were led it would be, under the |es, fci adjoining useless to belonged tell them, I lit to one was said that he was ■but Boulder and he got along ■considering lo everything that lack. cause trouble, from wind- I They met duriug two When the third came e lached the ground first, leabin was closed when he lit was closed for two days. Ber woke up on the morning I he looked across the little law the door open. Icame out. 0 questioning Boulder's sur- was not much for women, them during the winter at its and in the vandevilles at he never had to do with 1 in the summer he was too lis ideas of them were un- lan was not much for looks could judge. Her hair was „ i like streaked talc. Her kas patchy, like riffle blocks, fce she was not graceful. At i was fetching water from the sleeves of her dress Ip, showing big arms, with ■. Seeing Bouluer, she ■instant and regarded him lulative stare, Boulder p pally because he could filing return else the just salutation, then to do. but "W into the cabin. A little 9 W&jjg Uhe came out again, this lc and shovel and her feet fM* jots. k material She wore and a red miner’s shirt a lect was wholly sanguinary, jgness that she either in- I an express train or to lead j pssuming of revolutionists that there against land were bastiles in the Woody p there are not. F over toward Asechiga's P paused on the dump to Bate Boulder. It has been this mine, which has ■ e Cheetah—not that there P I had thereabout, but because once seen such an Bia —was but thirty feet Being own modest prospect, P-tive abrupt. under this deliber- B of the person in skirts, Bore, Ary. with results equally The woman turned Bdiass, Jerward lowered the bucket disappeared down -Joulder shook his head went to work himself. It was not clear to him as to what course should pursue. The Cheetah was claim; what manner of right had a woman to work it? He could come but one theory. She was trying to it. If it had been a man in the matter, Boulder's course would have been instantly plain; but a woman? Midway between the claims, and serving as a boundary post, there was a small blackboard, securely nailed to an old tree. This had been provided by Boulder as a convenient methed of in¬ tercourse between Asec'uiga and himself when they were “on top” during the day. It was his custom to write his question and answers on the black sur- tace with a piece of chalk which he kept hanging by a string from the top of the board. When he came up, an hour latter, he noticed that the woman was just leaving the tree, and, further¬ more, that she had written something. Boulder went up to the lice. He read: •‘i know you. you are dum. i am Asechegas widow, he got kiled in a st>ow~ slide, i am here to worke his ciame.” She was standing on a knoll, a little way off, and Boulder nodded again. This time she returned recognition. Carefully rubbing out her words, the man replied: pleased make acquain¬ “i am to your tance i am not deef you kau tak to me all rite but ill have to write to you.” She came down to the board again and took the chalk: “i dont care wether you are pleased or not. I dont talk because I am in your fix only worse—I am def and dum.” Boulder looked at her sympathizingly; a look thpt met with a cold return. The reply shocked him. “go to grass with your sympathy i dont want eny more to say to you. just wanted you to now I a int here to jump.” With this she went to her cabin. Boulder returned to his prospect. If he had known anything about women he would, probably, have considered her a queer one but, as I have said, he didn’t, and was merely puzzled, He went about his work iu his usual methodical way, ignoring his neighbor just as suc- ces^ully as she ignored him. In this way an uneventful month passed. Finally Boulder struck a vein in his prospect and prepared to follow it up. It led northward, and in the eccentric way some veins have, trended up instead of down On the seventh day he was in a good ten teet when he met with a sur prise. He could distincty hear the un¬ steady and yielding thump of a pick almost in front of him. Now, by all reasonable calculations, Boulder's claim extended twenty feet to the north; the stump blackboard proved this; that was mainly what it was there for. It was plaiD to him that the woman, striking the evidence of a vein at its upper end, was, with a true miner’s instinct, fol¬ lowing it up, or, in this case, down, and had, in her ambition overstepped the bounds. Making this discovery Boulder paused a while, and in the cool blackness at¬ tempted to decide what course to pursue. Finally the sound above him became more and more distinct. Suddenly there iras a crash. The yielding mas 3 came in down and with it a red petticoat excited, which floundered a very geeatly Sitting not to say frightened woman. debris she there on the mass of mineral blinked in a dazed manner at Boulder s candle and then at Boulder. In an in¬ stant she was up again and climbing through the aperture she had uncon- sciously made. Boulder also started for tb « surface through his own property, Tbe Y arrived at the blackboard by a common impulse almost at the same time. Boulder seized the chalk, “Your on my ground.” and Her fingers were still yellow gray iu from the mass of stuff she had struck her fall, but she found them useful enough to write: “Your a lire.” Boulder did not hesitate this time. He wrote: “Your a lady.” her somewhat. Perhaps this appeased indisputably Perhaps the modest and manlike attitude ot the miner took her fancy. She was certainly less vehement in her use of the chalk when she replied: “Wharc is the line.” Boulder indicated the tree aud board and, taking a stick, traced a mark in the ground for several feet between the claims. Common sense was enough to show the creature in the petticoat that the mau was right. She did not trust herself to reply, but walked away. Fif¬ teen minutes" later Boulder saw a blanket flying, without any visible means of lo¬ comotion, from the doorway of her cabin. It was followed by another and then another. There was no doubt of it, Mrs. Asechiga was preparing to leave, and that suddenly. himself hesi¬ . Boulder, looking toward over, the door tatingly walked timidly bhe did and beckoned her to come out. so and walked behind him ungraciously foUowed toward the blackboard. She him with interest as he formed the lol- lowing: the wnrs o “I don’t like to give you of this: lak it. Thare is one way out intrest in my ciame and I U t ak i m vours.” J She nodded “no.” and wrote: “No, that woldn’t be fare to you, vou haf the vane.” the offer, But she was waverin< T ia after she had deckned it. They evea looked steadily at one another for some time; nnaiiy, seized with an idea and growing bolder, the man ventured this : “i am 45 yrs. old and want a part¬ ner, and liaf a little money and we mite get ritch. Will ycu axcept a proposle of murage?’’ Mrs. Asechiga looked at him doubtfully for a second, and then even became coy as she took the chalk: “Asechiga sed he mared me because I was deef and dum and couldn’t talk him blind.” This time, she handed the bit of white over to him, and their hands met for the first time. I believe there was some blushing, and Boulder inscribed his final message: i know a ’justice of the pece in aspin who will marry us for § 2 , we can go over to-morrow; will you? And she decided: “Very weil.” I believe they are working the Chee¬ tah Tiger together now.—New Yurk Press. Oil From Corn. It will probabiy be a surprise to many to know that there is a company whicn purchases corn solely to extract the oil from it. This is precisely what a sugar refining company in Chicago is doing, This compauy is the only one which has the secret of obtaining the oil, and em¬ ploys it a iter the corn has been converted into a starch or glucose so that nothing will be wasted. The oil is a soft yellow liquid, and resembles linseed oil in ap¬ pearance. Dr. Arno Behr discovered the process of separating the oil from the corn, and the doctor says this in regard to the oil; “It has been known for a long time that maize contained an oily property, remaining for some one to turn the idea to account. There is no dan¬ ger of corn oil ever taking the place of linseed oil. Iu the first place, it will be too scarce. The amount of oil contained in corn is only four per cent, of its total weight, and we lo3e almost half of it in the process of abstraction, so that we get a very small amount of oil after all. The assertion ha 3 been made that corn oil can be put to little use—that it can- not be employed in making either soap or paint. The great value of linseed oil paints is that it dries readily, and it has been asserted that corn oil will not dry. Now, this is a mistake, and as a matter of fact, corn oil can be used in making paint or varnish, and also in soaps. It makes a splendid soft soap. That there are valuable uses to which it can be put is shown by tbe fact that there is a de¬ mand fov it in foreign markets.”—Amer¬ ican Farmer. A Mooted Question. Why some seals sink and are lost after being shot and others float, is a mooted question not likely soon to be decided. Wuere they are struck or whether they have much or little blub- ber, all of which have been urged to ac- count for tbe anomaly, seems to have little or no influence. It ha 3 been often observed that a seal falling head down on being 9 hot will come up and float, while if the head is up he sinks and is lost. It may be that in the latter case he more readily fills. With weak seals or pups it has been seen that they, too, arc often not recovered. Of those tljat are killed, discarding pups, the chances seem to be about equal as to whether they will sink or float. Sometimes a considerable interval elapses before the dead body rises to the surface and ha 3 te or carelessness may loose it. The great damage to the sealing industry lies uu- doubtedly in the indiscriminate killing which lays low so many cows ou their way to the islands, heavy with young, I whereby two lives are lost. It is impos- sible to distinguish the female iu the water, and she would not be spared were it possible to do so.—Detroit Free Press. A Fly Iuiliug Brigade. The last Siam Free Press says that an order has ju3t been issued from Siamese military headquarters directing that the troops in garrison at Koh-si-chang should be employed in killing flies. Each man, said the order, must exert himself to the utmost and capture each day at least a match box full of blue-bottle flie3, or be punished in default. Says the paper: “Though the order reads exceedingly ridiculous there is no small need for thinning down the myriads ^of imperti- nent blue-bottles that bask in the smile of royalty at Koh-si-chang. The Siamese warriors will have their hands full, and arenottobe envied. The pity is that the troops were not exercised in some evolution by which the nimble enemy may be annihilated at one stroke. How- ever, with our new coionels we have sufficient military taleDt to guarantee the success of some strategy by which the grand army of blue-bottles might be destroyed, and at the same time a very coveted decoration well earned-com- maaderofthe fly catchers in ordinary to his Siamese Majesty may yet be eag- cdy competed for amo n s Sia«e. s m, li.ar, m “- - ---- A Simple Test for Milk. The following test for watered milk is simplicity itself. A well polished knit- ting needle it dipped into a deep vessel of milk and immediately withdrawn in an upright position. If tbe sample is pure some of the fluid will hang to the needle, but if water has been added to the milk, even in small proportions, tbe fluid will not adhere :o the needle— Boston Commercial. ---- -- Even au all-round nan ought to ba square in his dca.icgc—Lowell Courier. HIKING STICKS OF CANDY. WHAT A REPORTER SAW IN A BIG CANDY FACTORY. How the Candy is Mixed, Boiled, Fla¬ vored, Colored, Rolled Into Strips and Finally Cut Into Sticks. Y j Y HE particular candy factory the I News reporter visited is on Chambers street, and if you *£* ever go to the ferry at the foot of tuat street, you have, perhaps, seen below the level of the street, the huge copper cauldrons in which the sacchar¬ ine substance is boiled. This is, per¬ haps, all that you can ever see of candy¬ making, unless you can convince the proprietors of the establishment that you are in no wise financially interested in the candy trade. There are secrets which they do not care to have known in the trade, and it is necessary for them to take precautions to keep those secrets from leaking out. Once inside the factory you are con¬ fronted by walls and bare rafters j.made half white with powdered sugar, A hundred workmen with bare arms and wearing huge apron 9 , move about in an atmosphere, which is about as warm as one can stand, and laden with an almost overpowering odor of sugar. There are at least a dozen of the large cauldrons filled with gallons of sugar and water undergoing the process of being trans¬ formed into thousands of jars of stick candy, for the delectation of more thou¬ sands of north and south aud east and west side youngsters. Each of the cauldrons contains a quan¬ tity of water, into which fifty pounds of tbe best white sugar has been placed. Stick candy is the healthiest you can eat, because it is made of pure sugar and water, flavored with some sort of essential oil and then colored. The ma¬ terial with which this coloring is done is harmless. It is cochineal, mixed with cream of tartar, soda and alum, Such small quantities of each are used iu the candy that even if you should cat au un¬ usually large number of sticks they would not injure you because of the coloring. Of course, stick candy is like everything else, if you eat too much of it you are liable to have a pain, but you can’t blame the ingredients for that. The flavoring is as harmless as the coloring matter. Only pure essential oils are used, and it may be well to re¬ mark that New York is the city which furnishes these oils to candy-raaker3 throughout the length anc. breadth of the United States. Lemon and pepper¬ mint are the favorite flavors, but large quantities of sassafras, cinuamon, winter- tf reea au< ^ strawberry are also used, When the experienced the eye o e candymaker tells him that sugar an water is done, tbe contents are dumped * nt0 aa * roa P ot aa ^ carried from uere t0 a bu S e niarb.e slab, plenti u y sprinkled , with powdered sugar, and workman turns the mais over ovei oa t^e table as it spreads out w lie un- dergoing the cooling process. I hen he mixes with the candy a small quantity of essential oil, winch he pours out o A bottle before beginning the folding, ^ sooa as ^ be ® ix ture * s co en0U o he divides . and . to handle it gives one- ba ^ to anotber workman. F lica ® rolls his share into the shape of a onto bread and prepares for tne interesting process of putting the stamps on w 11 c at ^ to its value at least a hundre P er cent, in the eyes of the juvem e population of the country. Transform tbe P^ e ' nto stic ks as it .ay, and it would be plain white candy. While it was yet warm he had cut off a arge chunk and had pulled and pulled it over a hook until it was almost pure w ate. This piece he divided into a dozen nar- row strips, which were well saturated with coloring matter. These he stuck on the loaf parallel. filled with There was a furnace g ow- . ac 0 a ong ing coa s the candy soft 7 This was to keep enou J to ™°rk. The loaf : was pi the furnace, and the ca y- dipped his hands and arms to s m powdered sugar. Then he began to nea e oa 1 f 3 ,"° ^ ^ , , 6ee “ a After he bad worked it thi way suffi- cl * ? ltb ntly the he palms ^?!);“?!* of his baa .J, 1 « {fin b a 1 haa ^n worked out into , a !on strip, 6 rc ® 1D ° * I an ° , ... f ... reduced it .till further in . diameter .. , white . .. constantly increasing its length, ^n t i reached a third workman at the exl reme ®Jj . 0 e a ,® - a v ith hi* n*'m« 1, s as ma “ r "' y L,ua . . . , un * 5 T* 18 c - ,ze •“ • ve-poun Thus in a ump few moments^the 3 ran - twenty- eix-foot strips, witn stnpes, all ready t be cut 20 into j fe proper len ths “IlLi for jars.^Here J tl! with red spiral . ', stripes, produ x h by the C S >ltI t tbe desired diameter the men would roll half a dozen at a time. All that remained to be done was to cu t the long strips into short sticks, pack them in boxes and ship them to the candy shops. All this is common- place except the cutting process, which jg done with a long sharp pair of shears. It is no easy matter to cut stick candy without breaking it. All the long strips are laid together, and the lower part of the shears slid along the table under them, while tbe upper blade comes down aQd SQ aps them apart as clean as if they bad been cut w Uh a razor. The im- % 7*11 Zll £ the cauldron and used in making candy of mixed flavors. After this comes the packing, shipping and eating process, and vou have a complete history of the simple stick of candy from the factory to the consumer.-—New York News. SELECT SIFTINGS. Manitoba is the prize wheat section. Ships were not copper-bottomed until 1783. The first horse railroad was* built ia 1S26. The first photograph was made ia July, 1839. Twenty words per minute is the aver¬ age at which long hand is written. In the United States there are about sixteen million cows—one for every four persons. A corncob in Georgia is shaped like a human hand, having four well defined fingers and a thumb. A woman’s tombstone is the only one in England upon which the epitaph is written in shorthand. St. Martin’s, Canterbury, is said to be the oldest church in England, It was built about 360 A. D. There were five Mondays 1644', in February of the years 1616, 1673, 1700, 1713, 1740, 1763, 1796, 1808, 1836, 1864, 1892. The like will occur iu 1904. . The largest child ever born, it is said, was the son of Bates, the Kentucky giant, and his wife, the Nova Scotia giantess. The “baby” weighed 23| pounds. A fisherman caught an immense trout in the Austrian province of Istria a short time ago. The fish ia said to have been over a yard in length and half a yard in circumference. In Chiua the cobbler goes from house to house, announcing his approach with a rattle and taking up his abode with the family while he does the necessary making and mending. The following advertisement recently appeared in the Wiltshire (England] Times: “Notice—Baptizing by the Itev. A. E. Johnson, Stournore Water, next Sunday, at 10:30 a. m. Photographers invited.” William M. Rice, who went from Massachusetts to Texas in 1838, lias given the City of Houston $200,000 in money, $17,000 in securities, and 9000 acres of Texas farm land to found a college. A Philadelphia optician which makes regis¬ a special summer thermometer ters ten degrees of heat less than the ac¬ tual temperature, and he says that per¬ sons with vivid imaginations can keep cool with one in the house. A resident of Columbus, Ind., has a gamecock which was recently attacked by a bull, but in a very few minutes the bull was miuu 3 an eye. About a year ago tbe gamecock killed in one day seven geese, eleven turkeys, and three roosters. An invention for the use of bathers at Trouville, France, consists of a couch made of a sheet of canvas stretched upon a light metal frame, with a canopy, and kept afloat by means of large hollow metal tubes filled with air. On this the bather reclines at ease floating upon the water in calm weather. A curious marriage custom is recorded by Dr. Post as existing in southern In¬ dia among some of the primitive non- Aryan tribes. This consists of wedding a girl to a plant, a tree, an animal, or even to an inanimate object, the notion being that any ill luck which may follow an actual marriage may be averted by a union of this kind. He Smiled at tile Savages. Italian soldiers used to be trained, it is said, to look as fierce as possible, so a<i to terrify their foes by the faccia feroce; but Lieutenant H. Crichton Browne, of her Majesty’s service, during his reccnt dangerous ? / journey ' across the Ve , dt3 of Sou h Afr ca> f und that a smile was far more potent than the fiercest frown to subdue the savage breast. He relateg llo >v one day a swarm of wild Africa) s cime upon his little band and tilled hj s soul with “an inward sinking,” buthegays; t q knew that my safety depended on my maintaining external ; coolness, ^ and so I remained irnperturba- ^ j distinguished in front of mo> to the rigbt , an i n d una or R . kop (lea(Jer3 aaiong the Matabele wear a black ring on tbe head) who was particularly violent in his objurgations, and on him I fixed my eve smiled, ' WfaeQ j first sm j led OQ this Ring-kop Matabele he was the picture of savage rage; aJ} j wcnt on smiling he mollified, aud ^ j 8 , niled again aBd again hebroke into a hoarse laugh. It was a hoarse laugh> but x thiak l ncver heard a j oliier one. and to.Mdhl.lj I followed „p mj od-oohge. The s .v„ g e s were seen » pacified that they were willing to do anything to oblige the Lieutenant and his party.—New Orleans Picayune. The Legion of Honor. The French order of the Legion of Honor at present counts no less than 45,000 members, of which number 12,- 458 arc civilians. Of grand crosses, in¬ eluding fourteen civil members, there are fifty-nine; the grand officers and com- maDders number 1400; the officers, in- eluding the army, 6000.—Detroit Free Press.