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StTNDAY MORNING.
n OLD TIM& FAVORITES !j
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the IRISH EMICRANT.
BY LADY DCFFEBIX.
I’m sitting on the stile, Mary, But the graveyard lies between, Mary,
Where we sat side by side, And my step might'bleak your rest,
On a bright May morning long ago, Where I’ve laid you, darling, down to
When first you were my bride. sleep
With your baby on your breast.
The corn was springing fresh and green, ~
And the lark sang loud and high, I ™ very lonely now, Mary,
And the red was on your lip, Mary, For the poor make no new friends;
And the love light in your eye. But, oh, they love the better
The few our Father sends.
The place ia little changed, Mary, „„„ , , „ ... T ■ i■
The day’s as bright as then; A ™ a)1 ! had ’ M , ary ’
The lark’s loud song is in my ear, 3, le *" and nl t y P r,de; f
And the corn is Jrcen again. dfcl n ° W ’
Bnt I miss the soft, clasp of your hand, I’m bidding you a long farewell,
And your warm breatb on mv cheek, My Mary kind and true
And 1 still keep listening for the worda But I’ll not forget you, darling,
You never more may spenk. In the land I’m going to.
*Ti* but a step down yonder lane. They sv there’s bread and work for all,
The village church stands near— And the sun shines always thorn,
The church where we were wed, Mary, But I’ll npt forget old Ireland,
I sec the spire from here. Were it fifty times less lair.
WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE BULLION-BOX
By H. J. HER.VEY, Late of the Indian Government Telegraph Service,
Saharunpore, N.W.P., India.
{This story was related to the author by
Mr. Hope Kuvariagh, the District Superin
tendent of Police at Saharunpore. It de
scribes how a native banker resorted to
deception in order to'safeguard a east? of
bullion which he was sending by rail to a
customer, and how by a clever trick the
contents of the box were stolen en route,
the unhappy banker being precluded from
prosecuting the thieves, although they were
discovered, through the possibility of
being involved in severe penalties himself. J
THE firm of Bbugwondnss, Jey
kissen, Singh & Cos., bun kern
mid merchants, of Kangri,
was one of the wealthiest
Concerns In Upper India. With a far
reaching connection all over the penin
sula—and even farther—old Bhugwan
daas, the principal, was wont to boast
that his signature stood equally good
In London as In Lahore, and that he
could give you a hoondee (order) which
would be honored with the same
promptitude In Chicago as In Calcutta.
Among the employes of the firm was
a certain Thotaram. the son of n for
mer client. Falling at. the entrance ex
amination for the subordinate Civil
Service he had been taken on by Bbug
wandass as an English writer. At the
time referred to lu this story Thotn
ram had been some ten years In the
firm’s employ, and for a mere copyist
he had risen, through undoubted merit
and perseverance, to the comparatively
responsible post of confidential clerk
to the managing partner.
Now, while we must suppose that
Thotaram had during his career Been
subject to temptations, the equal in
ference Is that he had hitherto suc
ceeded in withstanding all assaults on
his moral rectitude. Anyhow, up to
the period I ant writing of the man’s
record was clean, and he was looked
on by all, from Bhttgwnndnss down
ward, as the exemplification, of unim
peachable integrity. He had worked
’himself Into the good graces of his pa
tron; he was ever willing, hard-work
ing and ready to please. Often, when
others had cleared out at tin 1 recog
nized closing time, Thotaram would be
found somewhere about, prepared to
Vlo anything that, might be wanted—
from Igniting Bhugwamlass’s liooknh
and placing it before him to drawing
up n promissory note, unlocking the
strong room, and counting out 1000 ru
pees or so for some belntod borrower.
One day the bank had occasion to
send n consignment of bar silver to a
correspondent named Ptisn, a gold and
silver smith residing near the small
town of Naglna. dlstaut about three
hours’ journey by rail. The bullion,
valued at 4000 rupees, after being duly
weighed by Thotaram, was packed
and nailed down by him In a stout deal
box—all under Bhugwnndass’s limne-
Mia(e supervision—and the case was
thei deposited ou the floor close to the
principal’s desk. At noon, when most
the employes left the building for
the usunl lunch hour, Bhugwandass
signed to Thotaram to remain. When
the office had emptied the old man
called the clerk to him and said, in the
■vernacular: “Did you hear of that ease
about a box of sovereigns being broken
into during transit by rail between
'Agra and Bombay?"
“Yes, sir,” replied Thotaram, In the
same tongue. “I read an account of it
In the Amrlta.”
“Well,” continued tho principal, sink
ing his voice to a whisper, “we must
avoid running any such risk! 1 have
got a good Idea. Take some black paint
and address that case of bar sliver to
Pusa, Soonar, Soouarl Bazaar, Xagi
na.’
The clerk did as he was ordered.
“Now. above the address, write ‘Old
■Nalls’ In large letters, fill in the con
signment note in the same manner, and
go youqself to book the box at the rail
way station. See that the weight tal
lies with ours, and do not talk to the
railway people about the case. Take it
carelessly In a bullock cart with you.
and go quite alone, so as to cause no
suspicion ns to the valuable nature of
Its contents.”
Thotaram carried out these instruc
tions to the letter. On his return to the
kotbi (bank) he sought out Bhugwan
dass and handed him the consignment
note. He ended up by asking for a
week’s leave, to proceed to his native
place near Bareilly. After transacting
his errand at the goods shed he had
strayed, he said, on to the passenger
platform, and among the travelers iu a
♦rain that happened to arrive he met a
fellow-townsman, who had informed
him of his uncle's serious illness: it
yvas for the purpose of visiting this rel-
ntive that he now craved the Indulg
ence.
The request was granted and, after
profusely thanking ills patron, the
confidential clerk withdrew. Instead,
however, of proceeding to his village,
Thotaram, disguising himself ns an In
fantry havlldnr or sergeant on tho look
out for recruits, took the next train
to Nagina. He was well aware that
the case of “old nails” would not ar
rive for another four days by goods
train, so he had time to mature his
plans. He first set to work to ingra
tiate himself with the handful of na
tive employes at the small station,
which was easily done. He knew there
were no military In those parts, and,
being a well-set-up fellow, lie was able
not only to pass himself off success
fully as a recruiting sergeant, hut re
ceived permission, as such, to put up
on the premises till the people poured
In to the local fair, which he gave out
he was going to attend. In a noncha
lant manner, and not 100 hurriedly, he
sauntered off to the little mal godam,
or goods shed, where he found the sin
gle clerk, a Bengali named Hiralal
Seal, doing nothing in particular. Ex
erting all his inherent affability Tho
taram speedily established a good un
derstanding with the liahu (clerk), and
by closing time lie had pretty well as
sured himself that the Intter would
prove only too ready to fall in with his
views. Seal, for his sins, had been
shuuted to this great distance from
Lower Bengal; he was an idle, disso
lute fellow, but had so far been able
to escupe tho consequences of his bad
conduct through the Influence of senior
relatives holding respectable positions
in the head office of the railway.
That evening the two met by ap
pointment, and Thotaram, intuitively
divining the shortest road to the ha
lm’s heart, treated him to a regular
Jaunt, after the native idea. Thotaram
paid for everything throughout, much
to the Bengali’s admiration and envy.
He bemoaned his state of chronic irn
pecunlosity and his wretched salary
of twenty-five rupees a month.
Tills was precisely the state of mmd
Thotaram desired Ills comrade to he in.
Seated with the babu on the station
yard fencing, preparatory to parting
for the night, little by little the schem
er unfolded Ills plan. Ho found Seal
not only pliant, but eager to partici
pate, and before they separated the
two young scoundrels had agreed to
help themselves to the contents of n
certain case marked “Old Nails” the
moment It should turn up at the Nagi
ua goods shed.
Jn due course the precious case ar
rived anil was unloaded at the goods
shed. Thotaram, by now a privileged
loiterer—especially in that part, of the
station premises presided over by Seal
—took occasion to examine tile box.
He felt satisfied it was intact: in exact
ly the same state as when booked by
him at Kangri. That evening Seal cas
ually mentioned to the chou'kldars
(watchmen) and porters that as lie had
some returns to get through he should
not leave (he shed till late. He ordered
the lamp-man to prepare a lamp and
place it In his partitioned office; had
all the doors and exits except one se
cured, and told till the underlings to go
home, but to return punctually at 9,
and that lie would be responsible for
tilings In the meanwhile. Nntive-like
and nothing loth, the whole posse
cleared out. and hardly had the last
man disappeared when Thotaram,
stealing up to and tapping gently at the
unbarred door, was admitted by his
confederate. The two had prepared
everything beforehand cold chisels,
hammer, pincers and, what was more
important than all, a plentiful supply
of old nails, which had been /collected
and smuggled in during the interval of
waiting.
After thoroughly searching everv
dark corner of the shed, and even walk
ing twice round its exterior to assure
themselves that no one watched them
through possible oracks' and fissures In
j the woodwork, they put the ease on the
platform scales, carefully noted the
! weight, compared it with that entered
in the invoice, and then gingerly
j opened the bos. This done, thev took
1 out the silver bars, and then, emptying
; the ease of the cleats used to hbld the
precious metal immobile, they replaced
the box ou the weighing machine and
crammed lu old nails till the original
weight had been arrived at. After this
they carefully re-nailed the lid, using
lie same holes, and the first act in the
robbery had been accomplished! They
then descended to the permanent-way
which ran through the shed. Here they
dug a hole, kindled a fire, set an iron
pot thereon, and melted two of the four
bars at a time. This was a very neces
sary operation, as the ingots bore the
impress of the consigners. This work
finished, the two conspirators obliter
ated all traces of the fire, threw the
melting-pot into the well, and each
concealing on his person his portion of
the “swag” they calmly awaited the
return of the ehoulsidars and porters.
On the forenoon of the next day Pusa
came for his case. Everything was in
order; the consignee produced the rail
way receipt, it was compared with ♦in
invoice, the weight of the box was ver
ified. the .book signed, delivery taken
and the old silversmith set out on his
return journey to his village, carrying
the box with him in a bullock-cart. In
the meanwhile a few days’ leave being
due to Iliralel Seal that youth applied
for and obtained It. He had decided
on spending It in a holiday at Kangri,
the delights of which town Thotaram
had already Impressed him with. Here,
too. Thotaram said they would find no
difficulty in converting their plunder
into current coin of the realm.
The two therefore returned to Kan
gri with a hardihood and effrontery al
most inconceivable, and the confiden
tial clerk resumed his duties. But on
the very night of their arrival Thota
ram was seen in the company of a
young Bengali babu, a stranger to Kan
gri, at a native theatre, occupying
front-row seats. Further, when Ja
hoora, a famous dancer and heroine
of the piece, at the conclusion of the
performance applied to the audience
for largess, it was noticed that Thota
ram and his Bengali companion each
gave her a handful of rupees. These
curious facts reached the ears of Bhug
wandass the next morning, and that
afternoon, while the banker was in the
middle of admonishing his protege on
the evils attending extravagance there
ensued a commotion in the outer court,
and amid a storm of lamentations Pusa
was introduced. lie and a servant car
ried between them nothing less than
the ease,
“Behold, Mabaraj!” cried Pusa, ad
dressing the banker, as he tore open
the lid and disclosed the Interior
chock full of rusty nails. “Behold
what you sent me in return for my re
mittance of 4000 rupees!”
For a short while consternation pre
vailed, but. Bhugwnndass’s suspicions
did not take long In assuming shape.
He pieced the whole thing together in
a few seconds. Thotaram's knowledge
of the contents, his own overweening
confidence in the fellow, especially
with reference to the false declaration
and false superscription, Thotaram's
departure on leave, fitting in so well
with anew friend, and last, not least,
the happenings of the night before at
the native theatre—all tended to con
firm the old banker's opinion that one
at least of the culprits stood before
him. Ordering Thotaram not to stir
from hiß presence, Bhugwandass in
structed one of his clerks to find Tho
taram's companion, and, under a pre
tended message from that youth him
self, to Inveigle the stranger to. the
bank. The emissary succeeded In find
ing his man, and In half an hour's
time returned with the Bengali.
Addressing the precious pair the
banker accused them point blank of
concocting anil perpetrating' the rob
bery, and asked them If they had
aught to say in extenuation of their of
fence before lie called in the police.
Thotaram was speechless, but Seal
was not so easily disposed of.
“What,” asked he, “did the railway
consignment note declare the contents
to be? The invoice, the receipt handed
in by the consignee, and the superscrip
tion on tiie box itself all notified the
same thing—‘old nails,’ weighing so
much, and ‘old nails’ of the specified
weight wore duly delivered to Pusa,
Ihe consignee. Why, then, do you ac
cuse us of stealing your bar silver?
Who beyond yourself is there to say
that the contents were bar silver?
Even granted such to be the ease, who
saw us take it out? Who saw us even
as much as tamper with the box?
Where are the signs of any such tam
pering?”
"All the circumstances point toward
you and Thotaram being the robbers,”
rejoined Bhugwandass, somewhat ir
resolutely.
“Assuming that we are,” retorted
Seal, insolently, “supposing you have
us apprehended, and the affair goes be
fore the magistrate, how will you ex
plain your false declaration of the con
tents of the ease? You have rendered
yourself liable to a prosecution under
the Railway Act for misrepresenting
the contents of your box. Come!” lie
shouted, seeing the effect that his
words had on the unhappy banker,
“take us before the magistrate. You
shall tell your story, I will tell mine!
lie will ask for all the documents I
have mentioned, and when he peruses
them, who will he convict —me of rob
bery, without a scrap of evidence to
support it. or you of false declaration
—to prove which those documents will
speak, let alone the words ou the box?”
As he finished speaking ho gazed at
the banker triumphantly, but the lat
ter only knitted his brows in woebe
gone perplexity.
lie realized only too well that Bhug
wandass, Jeykissen. Singh a I'o. wort
powerless to move hand or foot. Tl;<
scoundrelly Seal had'them, as it were
"on toast. All they eonld do they did
and ’I Uotaram was dismissed from
their employ, but Seal got off scot-free
That was all that happened to the per
petrators of as impudent and bare
faced a robbery as had ever beer,
known to have been committed on an
Indian railway. But Bhugwandass
Jeyklsson, Singh A Cos. no longer send
bullion under the guise of “old nails.*’
—The Wide World Magazine.
THE BRUNSWICK y DAILY NEWS.
FARMERS THE RICHEST CLASS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
IIE richest Individuals in the
* United States are not farmers,
' but the richest class, accord
ing to the latest bul
letin, is the farming class. This bul
letin gives the statistics for 1899, the
latest available, and according to these
figures, the lauds, buildings, imple
ments and live stock of the farmers
in the United States are worth over
twenty billions of dollars. In com
parison with this the total manufac
turing capital in the country, from the
Steel Trust to the smallest factory, is
a little loss than ten billions, and the
total value of the railroads, counting
bonds and stock capitalization, is a
little less than twelve billions. The
farmers, therefore, arc worth almost
as much as the manufacturers and rail
road magnates combined. Bradstrect's
notes that the manufacturing products,
however, outvalue the farm products in
the ratio of $13,000,000,000 to $.3,000,-
000,000, and notes that “every dollar
of manufacturing capital produces
$1.30 worth of product, while agricul
tural capital produces less than twen
ty-five cents' worth.” How the profits
compare is not stated. Comparing the
farming industry with the railroads,
the New York Financier reckons that
the farmer is better off than the rail
road magnate. It says;
“The farmer, so faras actual wealth
is concerned, is the capitalist of the
United States. The Census Bureau re
port on the value of farming property
of the country issued last week, esti
mates that the 5,739,037 farms of the
United States are worth $10,874,090,-
347. Of this amount $3,560,198,191, or
21.4 per cent., represents the value of
buildings, and $13,114,492,030, or 87,0
per cent., the value of land and im
provements. Farm implements and
machinery are worth $761,261,550, and
live stock $3,078,050(M1, making the
total farming wealth over 20,514 mil
lions of dollars.
“This is undoubtedly a very low es
timate, but accepting it as correct, oth
er forms of industry pale beside It in
comparison. The value of the railway
systems of the United States, approx
imating 200.000 miles, is about 11,800
milllou dollars, counting bonds and
stock capitalization, or but a little over
half the farming wealth. The rail
ways, in fact, constitute the only sin
gle industry in the country which ap
proaches, even remotely, the stupen
dous totals revealed by the census
enumeration of farming wealth. It is
Impossible, of course, to compare the
operations of these two Important <B
vlsions of Industry, for the simple rea
son that they are distinct in their re
sults, and the items which enter Into
one are not found in another. Still, it
Is not without interest to classify ns
far as possible the operating totals,
with the Idea of affording a rough
approximation, at least, of income yield
ou Investment, etc.
“The railway systems of the United
States in V.aXI reported gross earnings,
of $1,501,695,378. or a little more than
12.0 per cent, on the total stock and
bond capitalization. The gross farm
Income in 1899 was $3.764,177,700, and
the percentage of gross income upon
investment was 18.3 per cent. It will
be seen that the farming industry made
out better than the railways. The net
earnings of the farmer cannot be cal
culated, but assuming the railway av
erages as applying equally to both,
the expense of operation ranges some
where around 70 per cent.”
Some may suppose that farming is
ou the decline Hi this country; that
idea, indeed, is often expressed, and
young men are advised to enter some
other branch of iudustry. The Finan
cier says on this point, however:
“Rapid as the development of rail
ways has been, however, the rise in
farming wealth has been greater. Thus
the total value of farm property iu the
United States in 1900 was more than
five times as great as in 1850. and
28.4 per cent, greater than in 1890. The
railway industry was in its infancy in
in 1850, so that comparisons extending
hack fifty years are unfair, but taking
1890 as a basis, it is found that railway
property, as indicated by total capital
ization, rose from 10.029 millions of
dollars iu that year to 11,892 millions
in 1900. This is an Increase of 15.5
per cent, or nearly 10 per cent, less
than the increase in the value of
tarms. lu this connection recent in
vestigation of farm and railway values,
growing out of an attempt on the part
of the Legislature of lowa, to increase
railway taxable values, may be cited.
The claim was made that inasmuch
ns the railways had increased their
earnings and enhanced share values,
assessments should rise iu proportion
The railways opposed this proposition.
Without denying the facts, they con
tended that the appreciation of railway
values had not been as great as the
rise in realty values, and to prove this
a committee of attorneys representing
the principal railways began an inves
tigation of farm values. Records of ac
tual sales publicly filed showed that
In the last half decade the average ap
preciation of land in lowa had been in
excess of S2O per acre. The present
value of farm lauds iu lowa is stated
by conservative authorities to be SSO
n acre. If this is true, it follows that
in five years the appreciation has been
00 2-3 per cent., which is much in ex
cess of the rise of railway values. The
figures give an idea of the enormous
rise in agricultural wealth. lowa has
gained alone in the salable value of her
farming lands in five years an amount
much In excess of the total capital in
vested iu banking in the State, and
the same ratio of rise holds good in
many other agricultural sections.
“The farmer, considered in every
light, is an individual much to be en
vied. Asa class, he is prosperous ; s
never before; liis capital account, as
represented in the value of his plant
is appreciating, and his income yield,
based on present prices of his product,
is above that of other industries, or
avenues of commercial investment. It
is idle to repeat that he forms the real
backbone of the country, and none will
begrudge him the easy path into which
he seems to have entered. As long as
he is prosperous, the country has noth
ing to fear iu the way of industrial
depression.”
Where Do Salmon Feed?
There is no family of fish more inter
esting than the salmon, and in no other
fishery have the benefits of artificial
propagation been more clearly demon
strated. The homing instinct of the
salmon enabled the propagators of fry
to learn, at tho beginning of their
work that it was worth doing. Salmon
hatched in any stream usually return
to that stream when they are of spawn
ing age. The propagators reared sal
mon to the size of fingerings, marked
them and turned them loose. In due
time the marked fish returned and
were caught in the home stream, it is
a curious fact, however, that, in spite
of the homing instinct salmon are
found at the spawning season in the
brackish water at the foot of Alaskan
glaciers, where, it is believed, no fish
was ever hatched.
Another curious fact,learned through
marking the artificially propagated fish,
is that a Ungerling weighing from one
to two ounces may grow to weigh from
two to ten pounds in six or eight
mouths, and in two years a weight of
forty pounds has been reached. The
growth depends, of course, on the food
supply. But where salmon feed and
what they feed on have not yet been
learned. It Is supposed that they find
small marine animals so numerous in
their deep-sea haunts that they swim
about “as If in a soup.” Perhaps the
deep-sea haunts will sometime lie dis
covered.—John It. Spears, in Success.
Secret of Cast Stel Stolen.
The history of cast steel presents a
curious instance of a secret stealthily
obtained under the cloak of an appeal
to philanthropy. In 1700 there lived at
AtterclitT, England, a watchmaker
named Huntsman. He became dissat
isfied with the watch springs in use
and set himself to the task of making
them homogeneous. He succeeded, his
steel became famous and about 1770 a
large manufactory of this peculiar
steel was established at Attercllff. The
process was wrapped In mystery,
faithful men were hired, high wages
paid and stringent oaths administered.
One midwinter night, as the tall chim
neys of the Attercliff steel works
lielchcd forth smoke, a traveler
knocked at the gate. It was bitterly
cold and the stranger awakened no
suspicion. Moved by motives of hu
manity the foreman let him iu. Feign
ing to be worn out with cold the fellow
sank upon the floor and soon appeared
to be asleep. That, however, was far
from his intention. He saw workmen
cut bars of steel into bits, place them
in crucibles and thrust the crucibles
into the furnaces. Tlte tiro was urged
to extreme heat until the steel was
melted and then drawn out and poured
in liquid forms'iuto molds. Mr. Hunts
man’s factory had nothing more to dis
close: the secret of making east steel
had been stolen.—Mining and Engi
neering' Review.
Xew Money For Old.
There is an unprecedented demand
for new money, in reaching out for
tile evidence of wealth aesthetic taste
is asserting itself in the choice of the
tokens ot' prosperty. New, clean, crisp
notes are in demand, and persons do
not hesitate to ask for them, There is a
strongly asserted objection to receiving
old, dirty, crumpled paper money that
looks as though it might be a vehicle
for all sorts of disease germs.
This fact is in evidence at the win
dow of every bank paying teller in the
iainl and at the cash counter of every
store.
“Please give me new money." and
“Will you give me a cleaner bill iu
place of this one?" arc requests heard
thousands of times every day. These
requests are having their effect so far
that there is a growing tendency to
pay out only the clean, unobjection
able money. It is an illustration of the
old truth that people get what they
want and insist on having.
Every bank will verify this fact. Old
and objectionable bills go into them,
but they do not go out to their cus
tomers. They go to the redemption
division of the National Treasury,
where they are exchanged for new
money and then destroyed. That <C‘-
partment reports an immense increase
in this branch of its business.—New
York Herald.
How to Burn Soft Coal.
That there is an art in burning soft
coal is admitted by all who have long
been accustomed to its use. J. W.
Hartness. who has had thirty years*
experience in Cleveland, Ohio, with all
qualities of bituminous, says; "If users
of soft coal will follow these direc
tions they will burn more smoke and
less coal for a given amount of heat.
Never throw fresh coal on a fire;
push the live fire back and drop the
fresh coal in front, a few shovelfuls at
a time. This is the priaciple that ail
successful stokers work on. It will
cost nothing to try it.”—New York
Frer-
Is it merely electrified matter, asks
the London Electrician, or is it some
thing essentially different from ordi
nary matter and of a separate and in
dependent substance from atomic sub
stances? Are we in the electron, face
to face with electricity itself as a thing
apart from matter (that is. is an elec
tron simply an atom of electricity), or
have we therein imply a minute, ma
terial chip off an atom, electrified to an
enormous degree in proportion to its
mass? When these questions are an
swered they will solve many funda
mental problems in dynamical science.
Inertia may he discovered tc be eleetrS§
cal iu its essential nature, and even
matter itself may prove to be nothing
but electric whorls.
Dr. Deslandres, of Paris, has applied
a fertile spectroscopic method to the
determination of the rotation times of
the superior planets. As the planet ro
tates one end of its equatorial diameter
moves toward us. the other away from
us. The rotation will produce, instead
of a circular image of the planet In
the spectroscope, an elliptical one. Dr.
Deslandres uses a spectroscope of mod
erate dispersion with a wide slit and
therefore employs a great part of the
light of the planet. The method lias
been applied to Uranus, regarding
whose rotation little is known, and the
observations show that the rotation is
retrograde, as was to lie expected. Its
velocity will be determined by later
observations. The velocity of Jupi
ter's rotation agrees with the results
from observation by other methods.
The possibility of melting carbon and
maintaining It in the liquid condition
has been demonstrated by Dr. A. Lud
wig. The heating was effected under
great pressure in the electric furnace,
and a curious phenonemon noticed at
1500 atmospheres was a very brief fail
ure of the electric are, the current re
fusing to pass, even when the voltage
was much increased. It is supposed
that, as the carbon passed into the
liquid and transparent state it assumed
a rare allotropic form, becoming a non
conductor. The experiment was too
brief for a study of this condition, but
was made to include a sudden cooling
of the molten carbon by a flooding with
water of the interior of the pressure
vessel. Though minute diamonds were
recognized in the gray powder thus ob
tained, the result was not wholly satis
factory.
Sir Joseph Hooker, the famous bot
anist an<l director of Kew Gardens,
lias devised an ingenious and useful
new pocket micrometer. By the sim
ple adjustment of a scale to one arm
of the micrometer the length of an ob
ject is recorded up to a fraction, and
can Vie road off at leisure. One side of
the scale is graduated to inches, the
other to millimeters. For microscopic
work there is obv4Rsiy great advan
tage in the use of such an instrument,
as a measurement can be made with
out moving the specimen or removing
the eye front the eye-piece.. The length
of the arm of the micrometer is exactly
four inches, and this is graduated to
tenths of inches and can therefore lie
used for larger measurements. The
instrument, says Nature, from which
the foregoing description is taken, is
small and handy, and can he easily
carried in the waistcoat pocket.
A dispatch from Geneva to the Lon
don Chronicle says: A Swiss amateur
photographer, M. Adolphe Gartner, re
siding at Berne, has. it is said, discov
ered the secret of color photography
after a number of years of experi
ments. The inventor takes his photo
graphs on glass, porce.lain and paper,
and in any color, the best results, how
ever, being obtained from blue, red and
yellow. His productions oh glass are
veritable pictures, being true to nature
in every detail. Even the shades of
coloring in a rose are easily distin
guished in the photograph. The photo
graph of a landscape, viewed front a
distance, resembles a painting. Some
of the bolder colors give better results
than the quieter ones, and M. Gartner
is at present occupied in remedying
this partial defect. The secret lies in
the “bath” and in the developing pro
cess. for the photos, it is stated, are
taken with an ordinary camera. Many
Continental firms are taking a great in
terest in the discovery.
A Hard Way.
In 1594 a fugitive from Vienna with
$250,000 in trust funds. In 1902 a
slowly perishing pauper on Blackwell’s
Island, New York—-his wife Wragged
with him down to the public almshouse
in a foreign land. Such is the summing
up of eight years in the life of Adolph
Bettelhcim, Boedeseb.
Crime doesn't pay. Or when it does
It is in an exceptional case that proves
the rule. In Brooklyn borough this
very year there was the ease of a man
who had been a thief all his life. He
had stolen $1790 and served eighteen
years in prison. Results of his efforts,
State board and $99.41 per year aver
age plunder.
In Bettelheim’s case fright and con
science opened a patli to blackmail.
His dollars went chiefly to buy the si
lence of one who knew where they
came from. Sin worked a third degree
of its own. and has eclipsed the punish
ment possible under the law. If men
would learn some things as easily as
they do others a very few such exam
ples as the Bettelhcim incident affords
would keep many from roguery.—New
York World.
Fortune and MUfortuue.
A woman’s face is her fortune and
her clothes her husband’s misfortune.—
New York Press
NOVEMBER 16
THE MEW GIRL
When the New Girl and Cnpid first met,
How the little god sighed with regret*
*‘l suppose, now. be said,
“I must aim for the head.
And my old-fashioned methods forget.”
But she dodged, and the shaft went astray;
So the moral is this, one wouid say,
He must send his best dart
At the New Maiden’s heart
In the dear old Ar cadian way.
—Anna Mathewson, in Leslie s Monthly.
Teacher— " What is the force that
moves men along the street?” Tom
mie—“ The police force.”—Town and
Country.
"Do yon have trouble with your
cooks boiling coffee too long?” “Good
ness. no! They don’t stay long enough
for that.”—Puck.
Madge— “ Why is she having her poi
trait painted?” Marjorie - "She Ims
reached that nge when she doesn't look
well in a photograph."—Judge.
The automobile struts around
With jaunty, careless air.
But let )t view the bicycle
And see its finish there.
—Chicago News.
“Well, young man. to be successful
in business you will need considerable
means. Have you any financial pros
pects?” "Yes. sir. I'm engaged to
your daughter!”—Life.
Mrs. Klondike Nuggets—“ Who arc
these people, anyhow?” Mrs. Corn
squeeze—“ Made their money iu Texas
oil.” Mrs. Kloudike Nuggets—“Dea>
me! How painfully recent!”—Puck.
"Paw.” said little Willy, “is they
such a thing as a 'cradle o’ the deep?'
"Certainly. son.” replied I’aw
"There’s got to be something to stop
the squalls at sea."—Baltimore News.
"I fight quite shy of cupid’s dart,”
The worldly cynic said;
“For he who wins a woman’s heart
Must first lose his own head.”
—Phdadelphia Record.
Mr. Marryat—“l see. old Roxley lias
left an estate worth $2,100,000 at least.
Wouldn't you like to be his widow?''
Mrs. Marryat (ambiguously)—“No.dear,
I’d ratber be yours.” Philadelphia
Press.
“You officeholders." sneered the man
who was vainly trying to be one,
"don’t die very often, do you?” “No.”
replied the man who was one, as he
smiled benignly, “only once.”—Phila
delphia Press.
A.—“ That woman who just went out
is the partner of your joys and sor
rows. I suppose?” B.—“ She’s partner to
my joys all right, but when it comes to
my sorrows she slips over to see her
mother.”—Tit-Bits.
Friend—“ Hard up and been married
only two months? Well, take cheer
and remember love makes tile world go
round.” Benedict (sadly)—“Yes, but it
doesn’t make the milkman and the
butcher boy goround.”—Chicago News.
Barnes—“ Your nephew, I understand,
has got through college at last?” Shedd
—“Yes, and what good did it do him? 1
don't, believe he learned a thing the
whole four years. Why, man. I doubt
if he could repeat the college yell.”—
Boston Transcript.
A Very Clever Sv indie.
For some years a little wagon has
come into Paris daily from one of the
suburbs and in accordance with the
regulations it has been examined at
regular Intervals by custom house of
ficers.
Their task, however was easy, for
they never found in it anything but
fruit and vegetables, which are free of
duty, and so they naturally regarded
the driver as an honest countryman,
who was taking to market the produce
from his little farm.
The other day through a mere acci
dent they found out their mistake. A
brewer’s wagon came in collision with
the little cart, and. as the heavy shaft
shattered one of the sides, a stream of
rich oil gushed out on tiie sidewalk. As
there is a heavy duty on oil the custom
house officers arrested the" innocent
looking countryman and discovered, to
their amazement, that there was a
false bottom in the cart, and that con
cealed from view was a tank capable
of holding several quarts of oil.
Subsequent investigation showed that
oil had been brought for a long time
in this surreptitious manner to a dealer
in Paris, and the authorities are now
carefully examining every little wagon
that enters the city, in order to find out
whether it also lias a double bottom or
not.
Deceitful Appearances.
Once again the fact that appearances
are ofttimes deceitful lias been proved
true. The interest of a number of
those in the audience at a local theatre
one evening was evenly divided be
tween the action on the stage and the
conduct of a couple seated In the sec
ond row of orchestra chairs. During
the intermissions between acts, as well
as a goodly portion of the time, while
the curtain was up. the two folks re
ferred to gave evidence of being more
concerned about themselves than in
the play. Each gazed lovingly into the
eyes of the other as a whispered con
versation was carried on to the extent
that the people sitting near-by felt
warranted in making mental compari
sons with turtle doves.
All the romance was ruthlessly
dashed from the situation, however,
when those in the row of seats directly
in the rear of the couple chanced to
overhear a portion of what was under
discussion. The man was describing
to his fair companion, in a most mat
ter-cf-fact manner and with much ear
nestness the mussed condition in which
one of hjs shirts had that day reached
home from the laundry.—lVashington
Star.