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- , tragedies of the mines, Oarloui Accident* That llhvc Happened to Delven After Hidden Treaanre. “lit tfoim line of work we come across acme carious accidents and narrow escapes,” said Deputy Mine Inspector frank Hunter the other night. ‘‘One thing strnck me long ago, and that is how much it takes to kill a man some times and how easily the thread of life is often snapped. “Down in Colorado I knew a fellow who plunged down BCO feet in a single compartment shaft. He went to the bottom, but did not break a bone. Os course he was pretty badly jarred up and a good deal frightened, but he was all right again in a day or two. When he fell, be went down feet first, and a big oilskin that he wore opened out at the bottom and acted as a parachute. He said the last part of his descent was so much slower than the first that be hardly thought he was dropping at all and half expected to remain suspended in the shaft, like Mohammed’s coffin. “Nearly always when a man falls any distance he turns over, if he starts feet downward, and finishes his plunge head first. I have seen a number of cases where the man fell with his boots on and was found barefooted when he was picked up. I suppose this is because the blood goes to the head, making the feet smaller, and besides the pressure of the air upon the heel and acts as a bootjack. “I had to go over to Sand Coulee to investigate an accident in which one man was killed and another had three ribs broken. Speaking of Sand Coulee, it struck me while I was there that if I wanted to commit suicide I would go there to do it I don’t mean that life becomes such a burden in the coal coun try that the ties that bind are more easily severed than elsewhere, but that it affords unsurpassed facilities for a cheap and hhppy dispatch. It’s a won der to me that some of the many peo ple who annually launch themselves into eternity from Butte do not take the Sand. Coulee route. ‘‘Down in the coal mines there is one passage that is three miles long, and in some of the chambers air does not seem to circulate. Upon the walls there is a gathering of moisture, and if you puff a cigar in one of these cham bers the smoke will seek the walls, where it clings with an undulating movement like a spray of weeds under running water. That dew on the walls is white damp, and the dead air of the chamber where it is found is poisonous. In a few minutes a feeling of drowsi ness steals over a man who breathes it, and before long he is asleep and dream ing deliciously, so those say who have been resuscitated. But the sleep is akin to that of the lost traveler over whose numbed limbs the arctic snow eddies and drifts, for unless help comes soon there is no awakening. If, however, the venturesome explorer of these under ground deathtraps realizes his danger in time and manages to stagger out in to the fresh air, he has an experience to undergo which may cause him to re gret that he did not remain inside. Ev ery bone and muscle aches with the in • tolerable poignancy that is known to convalescents from yellow fever. The treatment is simple, but effective. Be ing nearly dead, the sufferer is nearly buried. A hole is dug in the soft earth, and the victim is made to stand up in it while the dirt is thrown in around him until only his head is seen above ground.- This seems to draw out the soreness, add in a short time the patient has ful ly recovered.”—Butte (Mon.) Miner. IJfe of the Snltan. Richard Davey, in his book, “The Snltan and His Subjects,” says: “As to the sultan himself, his life is of the simplest and most arduous. He rises at ft and works with his secreta ries until noon, when he breakfasts. After that he takes a drive or a row on the lake, within his vast park. When he returns, he gives audience to the grand vizier, the sheik-ul-islam, and other officials. At 8 o’clock he dines, sometimes alone, not infrequently in company with one of the embassadors. Occasionally his majesty entertains the wives and daughters of the embassadors and other Pera notabilities at dihner. The meal, usually a very silent one, is served in gorgeous style, a la Francaise, on the finest of plate and the most ex quisite of porcelain. The treasures of silver and the Sevres at Yildiz are hors ■de ligne, both in quantity and quality. Very often in the evening Abdul Ham id plays duets on the* piano with his younger children. He is very fond of light music, and his favorite score is i that of ‘La Fille de Mme. Angot. ’ He dresses like an ordinary European gen tleman, always wearing a frock coat, the breast of which, on great occasions, , is richly embroidered and blazing with decorations.” I High Priced Bumblebees. Many years ago the farmers of Aus tralia imported bumblebees from Eng land and set them free in their clover fields. Before the arrival of the bees , -clover did hot flourish in Australia, but after their coming the farmers had ho more difficulty on that score. Mr. Darwin had shoWn that bumblebees , were the only insects fond of clover neo- ■ tar which possessed a proboscis suffi ciently long to reach the bottom of the ( long, tubelike flowers and at the same ] time a body heavy enough to bend down ( the clover head so that the pollen would fall on the insect’s back and thus be carried off to fertilize other flowers of the same species. According to a writer ] in Popular {Science News, the bumble bees sent to Australia cost the farmers ( there about half a dollar apiece, but , they proved to be worth the price. ] . " ■ '■■■*■' ■ ■ » Their Boatman. Mrs Eastlake—You visited Venice ’while you were in Europe, I hear, Mrs. Trotter? ■ i Mrs. Trotter—Yes, indeed, and we were rowed about by one of the chande- i liers for which that city is noted.— ' Harper’s Bazar. • i SCHOOLS AND POLITICS?* A Scheme With Real Eatate Trimmings That Won In Oregon. ‘‘Speaking of schools in relation to politics,” said the ex-boomer from Ore gon, ‘‘always reminds me of a campaign in which I was interested some years ago. The Douglas county representative in the Oregon state legislature, realiz ing that his popularity was not exceed ingly great, had been talking of build ing a new state normal school, presum ably at Roseburg, the county seat and his own home. This caused great con sternation among the 350 inhabitants of the little city of Drain, who had been profiting by the courtesy title of ‘Drain Academy and Oregon State Normal school, ’ under which the school there had been run since 1885. The postmas ter, who kept a drug store and sold school supplies, took counsel with his sister-in-law, who dealt in millinery and ran a boarding house for students, and she sought the mayor, at whose general merchandise emporium she was the principal customer. “The mayor was a man who thought slowly, but to a purpose, and, having set himself the task of devising some way of circumventing the member from Roseburg, he passed the next three days in profound cogitation. He con ceived a scheme whose various elabora tions and ramifications were too diver sified for him to handle alone, and he came to me for help. I had just gained considerable influence in the county through backing a projected railroad to the coast, and also as a real estate deal er and sawmill owner. With my busi ness methods and the mayor’s knowl edge of the conditions confronting us our plans were soon put into operation. First, we suggested the candidacy of an ambitious young Drainite, a dealer in leather goods and hardware, for mem ber of the legislature, taking all the wind out of his opponent’s sails by heartily indorsing the talk in favor of a new normal school. Meantime we had a large grain field of the mayor’s, which had begun to lose its fertility on ac count of overcultivation, surveyed into city lots, and as soon as our candidate had received the regular party nomina tion we put the town site of East Drain, with its streets named after conspicuous men of the state, on the market and gave one of its centrally located blocks for the new normal school. “Well, everything came to pass ex actly as we had planned. Our candidate was elected, and the building of the new normal school on the site we gave was authorized. We sold a sufficient num ber of East Drain lots to more than pay for the land and all expensea The con tractors on the new school were men who had aided the legislation authoriz ing it, and they got their supplies from the mayor, their hardware from the member and their lumber from mp. My mill also supplied lumber for other buildings in East Drain, including a new boarding house for the milliner, who has prospered ever since. The post master’s increased business soon war ranted his moving into one of the two brick buildings in the city of Drain, and the former dealel in leather goods and hardware is still member of the Oregon legislature. ” —New York Sun. Duration of Human Life. That the human being was intended for greater length of life than is usually attained in our artificial existence is probable from the fact that he does not reach his full and complete development until his twenty-fifth year. The life of most of the low animals is reckoned to be about five times their maturity in a natural condition, and, although dis turbing causes interfere with human life in the present day, jtet within cer tain limits man is subject to the same laws as every other type of existence in either the animal or the vegetable king dom. Nature has assigned to him a certain period during which he should attain to a sound physical and mental maturity, and any attempt to curtail that period by early forcing is and must be neces sarily productive of lamentable results. The boy or girl may be developed under a system of steady “cramming” into a highly accomplished man or woman, long before full age has been reached, but it may be accepted as an axiom in almost all instances that the earlier the development the earlier the decay. The least® to be learned from the records of those who have lived to advanced years is that moderation in all things, whether physical or intellectual, is the secret of long life, and that it is easy by system atically violating this rule to produce an artificial old age.—Nineteenth Century A Friendly Bar Examination. A Georgia correspondent sends us this account of a young man’s oral examina tion for the bar by a local committee before an old judge, who was also an old acquaintance of the candidate. Be ing asked, “Whatis arson?” he scratch ed his head and finally said, “I believe that’s pbou, ain’t it?” On this the old judge, to help him out, says:* “Tut, tut, Jim. Suppose I were to set fire to your house and burn it down, what would that be?” With quick and emphatic reply Jim says, “I think it would be a dad dratted mean trick. ” But*although this answer was not technically accurate Jim was in the hands of his friends and was honorably admitted. —Case and Comment. Walked Right Over Them. “So your wife won that suit about her real estate?” “Os course. You didn’t suppose that such little obstacles as a judge, 8 law yers and 12 jurymen could throw her off the track, did you?”—Detroit Free Press. ■ Physiological. Instructor —What is it that gives to the blood its bright red color? Little Miss Thavnoo —I know. (It’s the corpuscles But ours ain’t red. They’re blue Mamma says so.—-Chi cago Tribune. -•-- I A PRIVATE AMBULANCE. 1 Reminiscences of the Civil War Related by an Old Soldier. ► “Among the men wounded in my regiment at a battle in Virginia,” said 1 the old soldier, “was a man in my com i pany who was shot through the body ’ and taken to the rear. Our troops fell back after the fight, and we had more wounded than we had transportation for, but two men out of his own tent sot out to carry this man wherever we 1 were going, which was presumably the camp behind intrenchments that i we’d left in the morning. “They took turns at backing him foi half a mile or so until they came to s farmhouse that had a grassy yard in 1 front They laid him down on the grass and took a little look around the houw to see what they could see. In a build ing at the rear they came across some thing that made ’em stand still and look at each other and laugh. It was a hand cart. What nse the folks here had made of it they couldn’t guess, but they knew what use they were going to make of it They got it otft of the building and rolled it around the side of the house alongside the wounded man and dropped the handle on the grass. He laughed, too, when he saw it. He was going the rest of the way in a private ambulance. “The two men took their blankets off ■ their shoulders and untied them and spread their rubbers down on the bot tom of the hand cart and spread their woolen blankets down on them, and then they ran the hand cart up and rent ed the handle on the front steps of the house and lifted in the wounded man and laid their guns in beside him. Then they turned the cart around again, and one man got inside the shafts, with the crosspiece aganst his waist belt, and the other man got behind to push. They all smiled again when they started, wounded man and all. ‘•‘lt beat backing him out of sight. It was dry weather, and the roads were sandy, and up hill and on the level the wheeling was hard. But there was more down hill than there was up, places where they had to hold back, and it was all immensely more com fortable for the wounded man, and so they got him back to camp and to the surgeon again. But he died after all. ’ ’ —New York Sun. FORTUNES FROM GARBAGE. Science Converts the Refuse of Cities Into Steam, Fertilizers, Soap, Etc. William George Jordan, writing on “Wonders of the World’s Waste,” in The Ladies Home Journal, says: ‘‘The garbage of a great city is worth a for tune every year if properly utilized. In St. Louis the refuse is placed in enor mous vertical cylinders, Surrounded by steam jackets, which evaporate the 75 to 80 per cent of water in the garbage. The fatty substances are dissolved, and as the result of a number of'processes a fertilizer is produced which is worth from $9 to 112 per ton, the demand ex ceeding the supply. One of the' purest and best soaps of the country was made of garbage grease before cottonseed oil entered the field. It is now proposed to light London by electricity for nothing. It now costs that city SLSB (4s. Bd. 1 to get rid of a ton of garbage. A combina tion of rollers and otheA apparatus has been devised that can burn-the-garbage at 24 cents (1 shilling) per ton and gen erate steam sufficient to run enough dy namos to light the entire city. “London can thus save 3s. Bd. on each ton and in addition illuminate its city without cost. Garbage, by a machine called the dust destructor, is converted into clink ers, which can be used for roadways, as artificial stone for sidewalks and as sand for mortar and cement. In Paris the invisible particles of iron, worn from wheels and from the shoes of horses, are rescued by passing powerful magnets through the sweepings. ” A Vision of the Future. Clarence King, formerly chief of the United States geological survey, says; “The time is not far distant when a man can start out of Denver and travel to Klondike, stopping every night at a mining camp. Already two Ameri can stamp mills are pounding away on the borders of the strait of Magellan, and the day is approaching when a chain of mining camps will extend from Cape Horn to St. Michael’s. I believe we are about to enter upon a century which will open up vast resources and will be the grandest the earth ha? ever known. Before the end of the twentieth century the traveler will enter a sleep ing oar at Chicago bound via Bering strait for St. Petersburg, and the dream of Governor Gilpin will be real ized. ’ ’ Slang. The difference between ancient and modern slang was amusingly illustrated in a recent incident at the Chautauqua assembly, when the teacher of English literature asked, “What is the mean ing of the Shakespearian phrase ‘Gc to?’ ” and a member of the class replied, “Oh, that is only the sixteenth century expression of the modern term ‘Come off.’ ” The two phrases, while appar ently opposite, do, in fact, substantially mean the same thing.—Chicago Chron icle. A Natural Inference. “Did you hear what Whimpton’s lit tle boy said when they showed him the twins?” “No; what was it?” “He said, ‘There, mamma’s been get ting bargains again.’” Collier’s Weekly. It 4s an extraordinary fact that only two presidents were born between April and October. The record by months is as follows: January, 2; February, 3; March, 4; April, 1; July, 1; August, 1; October, 3; November, 4; December, 2. In Russia woipen householders vote for all elective officers and on all local matters. ' —' . ■» W- *-* - ■ . Manx mental Impudouee, A soldier stationed at a Kansas poet got Ms discharge from the service a few years ago by a steady display of monumental impudence that could be attributed only to insanity. The third day after thia sol dier arrived at the Kansas poet with a shipment of troops from a Nebraska gar rison he was put on guard. Ho was walk ing No. 1 post In front of the guardhouse when the post chaplain, a very pompous tnan, came along. The soldier gave him no rifle salute nor any other sort of recog nition. The chaplain turned .and walked back past the sentry. Ho did not get so much as a look from the man pacing his post. The chaplain strode up to the sentry With wrath in his eye. “My man,” said he, "do you know who I am?” “Naw,” said the sentry. “Who the h—l are you anyhow?" The chaplain looked aghnst. “I am the chaplain of this post,“ he managed to utter. The soldier looked him over critically from head to foot “Well,” he said finally, “you’ve got a d—d good job, haven't you?” Ten minutes later the sentry was re lieved of his gun and belt and was in the guardhouse. In the afternoon he was taken before the commanding officer. He looked at the commanding officer quiz si oally. “ You’re a blooming old fraud,’’said he to one of the most stately colonels in the army. The post surgeon was called in. He be gan questioning the soldier, who would answer no questions. ■ “Oh, you’re the sawbones, I see,” said he to the surgeon finally. “And you don’t look as ft you knew as much about surgery as me aunt in Ireland. ” This soldier was outside of the post gate with his discharge in his pocket two weeks later.—New York Sun. Interesting Legal Possibilities. When the learned assistant corporation counsel came into court the other day wearing “a gray skirt, narrow white leather belt, black and white check shirt waist, standing collar and black tie,” it was at onoe apparent to the chroniclers of the proceedings that the time for a depar ture in the musty methods of setting down the evolution of the law had arrived. The entrance of the learned assistant corporation counsel was, In fact, a kind of formal notification that the law is even now in the process of being invested in shirt waists, gray skirts and the other mysteries of multifarious feminine habili ments, and that due regard must be paid to that fact hereafter In the literature of the law. The lawbooks will in time be strewn with descriptive sentences of the sort used In reporting those present at the charity ball. Thus; “Opinion by Juggerson, Ch. J. (Black silk, cut high in the neok, trimmed with jet.) “Dissenting opinion by Pugsley, J. (Tailor made gown of blue cloth, full in the skirt, pearl ornaments.)” The journalistic account of the trial will say: “Counsel for complainant then arose to reply, wearing a lovely satin dress trim med with lace. ’ ’ What a world of opportunity for crush ing repartee the new order will afford 1 , Thus, in the beat of forensic debate, , shouts like this may be delivered, “I dis sent, your honors, from the position taken by counsel for the other side, whose hat, I ' may remark in passing, is not on straight. ” Or: “May it please the court, the prece dent which opposing counsel has cited no I more fits this ease than her jacket fits her back. Her deductions, like her front hair, are false. ” —Chicago News. , A Town of Icelanders. The most Icelandic town in America is Minnesota, Minn. Even its mayor is an Ice lander. As most of these Icelanders are Lu therans, they joined together a few years ago and organized an Independent synod. Until recently they have been greatly ham pered by the lack of a literature. This lack, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, has been felt with much severity in their Sunday schools, where they had nothing to read or study printed in a language that either old or young could understand. To meet the want a firm of young Iceland ers has recently started the publication Os a Sunday school paper containing the les sons. These Icelanders live, for the most part, in Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba. Two years ago the Manitobans suggest ed the foundation of a college. It met with instant approval, but the town of Crystal, N. D., which has in it some New England enterprise, got in the first inducement to locate in the shape of an offer of a bonus of 12,000 and six acres of land. Park River, N. D., almost immediately offered $4,000 and ten acres of land. This was all done before Winnipeg had waked up. The latter claimed that as the suggestion had come from it, it ought to have a chance to hold out an inducement to build the school in Winnipeg. Accordingly, to give the slow Englishmen up there time to decide whether or not to help their Ice landic neighbors, a decision concerning the location was postponed until the Ist of next January. On that date Park River, N. D., is to have the Iceland college if it raises its bonus to $6,000, and if Winnipeg meanwhile is able to make no tempting offers. An Unsuspected Bribe. Justice Brewer of the United States su preme court recently told the following anecdote: “Several years ago a cigar maker in Washington named Scott got up a brand of cigars which he called the ‘Supreme Court. ’ The labels on the inside of the boxes were pictures of the entire court, and tho cigar was a good one. I know this becausexme day each of the jus tices received two boxes of them, with the compliments of Mr. Scott Nothing was thought of this fact at the time, and it was taken as a slight courtesy in return for the use of our pictures, but several weeks later we learned that the cigars had been sent to soothe our anger. One of the clerks had gone to Scott and told him that the members of the court were much pro voked at him and intended prosecuting him for taking such liberties with their pictures. Scott was frightened, and he bit upon the idea of bribing the justices, and I suppose thought he succeeded, for be was never prosecuted, nor had such a thing been thought of.” Chicago Biver. “The cost of widening the Chicago river sufficiently to secure 300,000 cubic feet of water per minute for the Chicago drainage canals,” says the Philadelphia Record, “is estimated to be $375,000 by the committee of real estate experts appointed by the board of-trustees. This committee divides the costas follows: Real estate, $73,000; purchasing and rebuilding docks, $35,000; dredging, $75,000; construction of by passes, $200,000.” " ' ---w- * I SEE TH AT the' i IU-RIA h I ■ FAC-SIMILE l E SIGNATURE slmfiatiriglhfFoodandßeCufaL ■. lit^iheStomadisand.Bcrweisaf’l ■ of less and EfestContains neither ■ Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. ■ tcj ojT TWtt Not Nahcotic. ■ u | WRAPPER-i I I OF EVERT J I bottle of Aperfect Remedy for Constipa- jLii ft Pi lion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, 9IE M II I ■ fcJ Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- 91 II W a M»f# EmH ness and Loss of Sleep. I IIBAI gI ■ Facsimile Signature of 9WllN< ■ WSaStito KEW YORK. 9 Clitoris li put up la obs-slm bottles only. It I 9•» not ia balk. Don't allow unycns to E y° u cuythit;’ rn t’. ■ ;!a promiss th I kS is “just a> goal” and "will answer every pur- CM gg—SlM pm." Ks See tut yos grt O-A-S-T-O-B-I-A. EXACT COPY OF WRAP?UH. 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