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SUNDAY MORNING. A RACE TO THE SWIFT. The year was—well. I can't tell you that without disclosing my identity, •t/hich for obvious reasons, 1 am de barred from doing. The season was spring. The occasion was the five mile ■unateur championship of the world at Lillie Bridge. I had just run and won that event, and having donned my sweater and overcoat, was walking back to the dressing room when 1 was accosted by an elderly gentleman. “Pardon me, sir,” he said In tone of enthusiastic commendation, "but you ran superbly. The way you lost those other fellows in the last lap was a treat to witness. And you don’t seem much distressed by your efforts, either,” he added, regarding me criti cally with his keen black eyes. “Oh, not worth speaking of.” I re plied, "I’m in the very pink just now. And I finished with a good bit up my sleeve, as i generally do.” ‘That was evident," he answered, ‘•you had the other fellows in hand all tue way. Excuse my asking, but I am Informed that you are one of the junior clerks in the -— — officer’ “You are informed correctly,” 1 re plied, somewhat surprised by this in quiry on the part of a total stranger. . “And that your salary iB only £750 a year?” “Really," I answered, for I naturally resented this sort of catechism from a man on whom 1 had never before set eyes In my life. "I don't see that my salary Is any concern of yours. How ever, there’s no secret about It. You ran find It for yourself In any direc tory, and It Is the precise amount that you have mentioned," “Forgive me," he exclaimed quickly. T had no intention to offend. But the Idea crossed my mind that a man like you—such a perfect specimen of health and vigor—ought to be worth more money.” ‘There 1 quite agree with you," I laughed. "And If you can persuade her majesty's government of the fact 1 shQll be extremely obliged to you.” "If you'll give me youi l attention for five minutes I’ll explain," he answered gravely. “Oh, I’ll give you my attention right enough,” 1 laughed rather flippantly. “I’m always ready to do that when there are thousund poundses flying about," "First, let me tell you who I am," he replied, ignoring my sarcasm. “I am a man not altogether unknown in Ihe medical world. My name is Jasper Harvey.” "Sir Jasper Harvey! The celebrated Burgeon?" "The celebrated surgeon—since you lire good enough to use the phrase,” he answered modestly. I looked at him In some suspicion. Was he speaking the truth, or was he merely an imposter with swindling de signs upon me that would peep out later on? He saw my suspicions and answered them: * “I see you doubt my bona fldes, and I am not surprised, since you have only my hare word for mv identity ■with Sir Jasper Harvey, However, I can easily satisfy you on umi pomj. Are you engaged this evening?" I replied in the negative. "Then will you dine wfth me at my house in Brook atrecc at 7.30? You will thus be able to satisiy yourself that I am really the man 1 represent myself to be, and we can further dis cuss the matter to which l have re ferred. What do you say?” After some slight hesitation I said 1 would go. "For at worst," 1 thought to myself, "If this man is an imposter trying to hoax me 1 shall find it out when I arrive at Str Jasper’s house in Brook street. While, on the other hand, {f he is really Sir Jasper, and is kind enough to wish to put me in the way of making a thousand pounds it would lie rather foolish on my part not at least to hear what lie has to say. Ten to one. of course, there will he con ditions attached that I can't possibly comply with. I’ve always heard that Sir Jasper is a bit of a character, with some rather cranky ideas, and i dare ay this is one. However, l may as well go and take the offehance of being put on to something sound.” When 1 arrived at the famous sur geon's house on Brook street all my doubts as to his identity with my in terlocutor at IJllie Bridge were in stantly dissipated, lie received me in his library with a polite and courteous greeting; then we repaired to the din ingroom and discussed a simple but admirably served repast, tete-a-tete. Sir Jasper's conversation was pleasing and Interesting. He talked and talk ed well, upon many public topics. But. not until we were seated over our wfne. and the servants had withdrawn, did he touch upon the particular matter which was the object of our inter view. Then he said, with almost startling suddenness: "1 told you this afternoon that I rould put you In the way of making • thousand pounds." I nodded. My heart began to beat' To me, who had not a halfpenny of capi tal. a thousand pounds seemed untold wealth. What was 1 to be called upon to do In order to qualify for such af fluence I waited with eager impatience ,#r Sir Jasper to proceed. "And when l speak of a thousand pounds," he continued deliberately, "I must give you to understand that this sum, handsome though it is, does not represent the full pecuniary emolu ments that are latent in my proposal. You will get your thousand down in any event. But if the matter in hand tarns out successfully—as I hope—you will be a further two thousand in poc ket. What do you say to that?" 1 said—as. Indeed, I felt~that such a sum of money was beyond my wild est dreams. "But,” I added, cautiously, “I know enough of business to he aware that 3000 sovereigns are not exactly (so to speak) given away with a pound of tea; and 1 surmise that some pretty stiff if not impossible conditions are attached to this viery tempting offer.” Sir Jjuiper smiled. “The conditions are certainly not Im possible,” he replied. "For my part, 1 should not even call i u stiff. How ever, you shill hear them. Cray give me your most careful attention." "You may be sure oi that," I cried. Sir Jasper went on; “The facts of the case are these. I have a patient in the country w„o is suffering from a severe attack of ner vous collapse. 1 have tried many rem edies. They have all failed. It occurs to me, however, that the transfusiou of blood into my patient’s system from the body of a healthy, vigorous man will give a very good chance of com plete recovery, and I have singled out yoii, because you arc healthy, vigorous and fit beyond any one I have ever come across. This is the whole matter in a nutshell.” We were met at Leicester station by a smart brougham, and presently drew up before a large and imposing coun try house. An imposing butler usher ed us into a reception room leading out of the entrance hall. ”1 will tell my lord that you have arrived,” said he to Sir Jasper. After no more than a minute's In terval an elderly man in evening dress made his appearai|c< He shook hands with Sir Jasper, then he looked keenly at me. “Is this the gentleman of whom you spoke?" Sir Jasper nodded. * . "I am extremely obliged to you, sir, for coming,” said the other to’me cour teously. "You will excuse us, perhaps, lor a minute or two." The room in which I stood was a spacious and magnificently furnished apartment, suggestive both of wealth and taste on the part of its possessor. So he was a nobleman, ine ”my Lord" had told me that. But Of what rank —duke, marquis, earl viscount or baron? I looked about me for possi ble indications of his identity, any let ters or papers addressed to him, any books that migh bear his name writ ten upon the front page. While I was thus employed (to no purpose, 1 may add), Kir Jasper, by himself, reenter- room. Wlis face wore a tense and excited expression. An eager light glittered ia his dark eyes. "1 have just seen my patient," he said. "The operation of transfusion must be performed tonight.’! "To-night?" "Yes, tonight; in fact, at once. Ipm afraid I must ask you to submit to be ing anaesthetized, i suppose you have no objection. ’ “Anaesthetized? But, is that neces sary?" "Absolutely—for two reasons, in the first place, because It. will greatly fa cilitate'the operation. In trio second, because —I may as well be unite can did with you—the circumstances are of a peculiarly delicate character. The patient, is a young lady, and the opera tion has to he performed under condi tions which make it —aliom —essemlal that you should be unconscious of what to going on. 1 need not enter in to details. What I have already said will show you the necessity of the course 1 propose." "1 uni in your hands,” I said. “Some how it had never crossed my mind that your patient migtu be a lady. Is she the daughter of Lord —Lord —’’ Sir Jasper smiled rather grimly. "No use smelling for information," he said. "I am not at libery to disclose his'Lordship’s name or to tell you any thing more than 1 have already done. Some day. perhaps, I may be able to enlighten you. But not at present. And 1 will ask you, as a gentleman, to re spect the secrecy with which this case is. for good, sufficient and perfectly in nocent reasons, surrounded, and not to ask any further questions." Then, alter a short pause, ho re marked: “May 1 ask you to take off your coat and waistcoat, and to unfasten your collar?” "Eh?” I ;exclaimed, as 1 began to carry out his request. "Are you going to perform the operation here —in this room?” "Never mind. That is my affair,” he answered, rather shortly. And he rang the bell. The butler answered it. "Tell Dr. Jenkins that 1 am ready for him.” “Yes, Sir Jasper.” The butler went off on his errand. In the course of a minute or two. pr. Jenkins who was. It appeared, the at* aesthetist, came in. "Now then." said Dr. Jasper to me, “kindly lie down upon that sofa.” I did so. my heart beating with ner vousness and excitement. Dr. Jenkins came and stood over me. He adminis tered the chloroform. And then—a dead blank. When 1 recovered my senses. I found myself in bed. A young woman, In the garb of a hospital nurse, stood beside me. Sir Jasper leaned upon the rail at the foot of the bed with his shrewd eyes fixed upon my lace. "Well, how are you feeling, now?” he inquired, kindly. "Awfully limp—and—sick,” I mur mured. "Just so. Loss of blood —chloroform. But that will soon pass off. Lie quite still and don't talk. No. fatiguing your self on any account. See to that, nurse, won’t you?” I And he went away. There was no need to tell me to lie quite still and not to talk. I felt for too weak and ill to have any inclina tion —even if I had had the strength— for either indulgence. Indeed, It was full three days before 1 found* myuelf equal to the exertion even of moving' in bed; and 1 was not able to sit up for more than a week. Sir Jasper looked in to see me twice or thrice daily. With returning strength, my curiosity find interest reasserted themseives and l asked him eagerly: "How did the operation go off?" “Very well," he answered, briskly. “I trust that the desired effect will have been produced on my patient; . though t can’t speak with certainty at present. It must he a matter of time.” "1 am glad to hear that. Tell me this, though—tor i can t get anything out of tne nurse —am l b 1.., in Lord —Ixjrd— What’s-his-name’s house?" “Yes, you are still in Lord What’s his-names house; but 1 propose to move you ir. an ambulance tonight.” “Where to?” "to one of my nursing homes in London,” But why—why—do you want to move me at night?" “For the same reason tnat l brought you here for at night,” answered Sir .Jasper, frankly—"in order that you may not he able, by employing your ge ographical Instincts, to discover the locality of his Lordship’s house, which would be the same thing a3 discovering his Lordship’s identity. I have no doubt that you are dying of curiosity. But, owing to the circum stances, at which 1 have already hint ed, It is undesirable that your curiosi ty should be for the present, at any rate, satisfied. You must not think us unreasonable; especially as you have been so handsomely paid for yohr ser vices. And all being well, that Is to say, if the result of the operation upon my patient is such, as I hope, 1 shall enlighten you in due course. So with this promise 1 was fain to be content. The same night I was removed in an ambulance, via Midland Railway, from Leicester to Sir Jasper’s nursing home in North Audley street. Here 1 rapidly became convalescent, and within a mouth 1 was, as he had foretold, back at Somerset House. Before 1 left his home, Sir Jasper had exacted from me a promise to say nothing to anybody of what bad occurred, adding that the further 20uu pounds, which he hoped, in ca long time, to be in a position to pay over to nie, would be contingent upon this promise being Deserved. I assured him that l would keep my promise, and I was scrupulously care ful to do so. But time went by; the weeks grow into months, the months into yeurs, and i liegrd nothing more from him, until I was driven to tho conclusion that the operation had been less successful than he had expected and that those 2000 pound* wuu.d not come my way after all. But at last, three years later, when I had long abandoned all hope. Sir Jasper himself looked in one evening io see mo. He was iu the best of hu more and spirits. f-i.s veiy look be tokened it. “How do you do?” he said. “I’ve just come to tell you that operation lias turned out suceesaf illy—most suc cessfully. So here’s your 2000 pounds, you !uef:y fellow." As ne spoke, lie handed me his check for that amount. "By Jove! i am glad. Thanks aw fully." I exclaimed, feeling in ihe mood to stand upon my head lor delight. "You had need to be glad," smiled Sir jasper, "i cioubt if 3600 pounds was ever so cheaply earned before. By the way. 1 promised, when the time came, to cnlignten you upon certain matters. Well, ihe time lias come now. There is no longer any reason for se crecy, seeing that the operation has turned out so well. The house to which I took you on that memorable occasion was Bishopsford Castle. ' "What! The seat of the Earl of carshalton?" "Yes. And the patient into whose system your b'.ood was transferred was” • Lord Cnrsha! ton's daughter? The beautiful Lady Constance Rosehlll?" No," ansewered Sir Jasper, quietly, “but Lord Carshaltons beautiful three year-okl filly, Rutting Track, who has today realized for his Lordship his life's ambition and won him thex first victory in the St. Leger.” In the course of uirther explanations of this astonishing statement Sir Jas per said: “The idea was Lord Carshai ton's. He has always been, in his eccentric way, a bit of a physiologist, and it some how’ crossed his mind that, if the blood of a man was transfused into the sys tem of a newly horn foal, some of the physical and nervous qualities of the man might also be.communicated— th~ superior to the inferior. Lord Carsh alton is a very old friend of mfiee. 1 must tell you, and at the'outset of my career, laid me under obligations which, even to this day. maae it diffi cult for me to refuse him anything. So when he presseu me to co-operate with him in the soheme which he had in view I felt bound (though I considered the scheme wudly ohimeriea.i to lend him my assistance. That scheme, in fact, was nothing less than to try the experiment upon the little filly foal with which his famous brood mare. The Abbey, had just presented him. •* -All her stock.’ he said. are flyers up to a mile: but they are non-stayers. And it is the dream of my life to turn out a real stayer. Can we not get hoid of some athlete of tried stamina come prominent long distance run ner—and induce him, for a considera tion, to submit to the experiment.’ THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. “I tried to dissuade him. I suggested that If the transfusion were made at all it should be made from another horse. But he would not hear of it. “ ‘ft must be a man,’ he declared. ‘The essence of my Idea ia that the blood of tue superior animal will dominate that of the inferior.’ “At length I consented to co-operate. He uad fixed on you as the most prom ising subject from the first. It was left with me to secure your compliance on whatever terms and in whatever way I could. So, partly in order to persuade you the more easily, partly because I did not want it known that I was as sociated in such tin apparently insane proceeding. I represented my patient as human, and adopted those other pre cautions against discovery of which you are aware. Now, however, that the experiment has proved so astonishing ly ouccessful" “What! You reaiiy believe," 1 ejac ulated, "that my staying qualities were transfused together with n.y blood. Into that conlouifded filly foal” Sir Jasper shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows in a comical gesture. "Anyway, that confounded little fitly foal has won the Leger,” he tad, "which was al! that Lord Carshalton aimed at. And you've got your 30C0 pounds which is all that you bargained for. If you're not satisfied, you ought to be. And I'm not going to answer any more questions. Good night."— London Truth. b:ans and beans. To Know Them llt Sttvanr VnM !?* I'n* miliar Hit It StiiiH* Klijhfv Yari*le. Did you ever watch beans grow? They came up out of the ground as if they' had been planted upside down. Each appears carrying the seed on top of his stalks, as if they were afraid folks wouid not know that they were beans unless they inKmediately told them. In early accounts of American discovery beans are mentioned as found among the native a tribes. In 1492 Columbus found beans in Cuba. According to De Veafcs the Indians of Peru had sev eral kinds ’of beans, in Bancroft’s “Nativjf Rices" the beans of Mexico are mentioned. De Candolle assigns the Lima bean In Brazil, Vhere it has been found Sowing wild. Seeds have teen found in the mummy graves of Pern. Tn southern Florida the Lima bean seed white blotched or speckled with red, is found growing spontaneously in abandoned Indian plantations. It has not been found wild in Asia, nor has it any Indian or Sanscrit name. It reached England In 177!). In central Africa but two seeds are ever found In a pod. It is not prob able that the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) existed tn the old world before the discovery of America. • evidence for the an tiquity of the bean in America is both circumstantial and direct, ami tho varieties were numerous. in 1609 Hudson, exploring the river that bears his name, found beans. In 1640 Parkin;on says: “The varieties from Africa, Brazil, West and East Indies, Virginia, etc., are endless to recite, or useless, only, to behold and contemplate tho wonderful works of the Creator.” In the report of the Missouri botan ical garden of 1901. H. C. lrb:h gives an exhale-ive paper upon “Garden Beans Cultivated as Eseaulents.” He gives ten pages of pictured beans, re minding one of SO varieties a boy in Vermont collected and carried to th • fair many years ago, in the United States beans are soaked in water, then boiled and baked. In old times ihe Vermont beans were soaked in cold wafer cv< r night, then boiled all the forenoon and baked all the afternoon in a brick oven, generally in the company of brown bread amt Indian pudding; also a bit of salt pork was added I e fore being baked, the rind evenly slashed. ( m ill mi Mnnl*r. Newfoundland is probably the only country in the world where venison, salted or fresh, is a staple article of diet for the masses. The coas.foik make their plans with method and deliberation. From the harbors where they reside they go in their boats tq the rivers and fiords which strike intif, the interior. When navigation is no longer possible they debark and con tinue on foot to the deer country. They carry barrels filled with salt and sometimes go in large companies. the rendezvous is reached they camp. Then they ambush themselves along a promising “lead,'’ Or deer track, armed with long, six -foot, muz zle-loading sealing gnus, which they charge with about “eight fingers" of coarse gun powder and "slugs'’ of iead, fragments. of iron or bits ot rusty nails, whichever they may nave. They fire point blank into a. herd of caribou, as it passes, and being usually good shots, contrive to kill almost abythlng they aim at. or to wound it [so badly with these dreadful missiles that it soon collapses. Then they skip and tut up the meat, for these mqn know a little of every trade, and pack in the barrels with the salt as a pre servative.—Relentless Pursuit of the Newfoundland Caribou, in Outing. *r* •'(! ivjtdom. The world insists that age and wis dom must go hand in hand: the so lemnity and profundity of a young physician's hems and haws increase in direct, proportion with the growth cf his beard. —New York News. On *’•" lllilne. It is stated that from the month to the source of the Rhine 725 castles, formerly the homes of warlike chiefs, are to be feutid overlooking its wat ers. WORLD’S FUEL SUPPLY. COAL RESOURCES HERE AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES. Difference* in Minins Me hnds - fubatf fuie t or Coni— '•olid l’**tr<l-uin Hiwl- Irtl Like Coke—The Po biliii#** of ilic Use of }*ent a* 1 nel in tho 1 attire. "The world’s fuel supply,” sahi an officers of the Bureau of American Re publics, “has recently been made the siibjict of an interesting study by. I)r. Ferdinand Fischer of Guttengen, Ger many, who has collected with much care all the available data as to the coal resources of the globe. His find ings are made of peculiar value by the recent anthracite strike here, with its focussing of American attention on fuel.” It is a curious commentary, that while China, so far as i3 known, is richer in coal than any other country in ihe world, almost none of it is yet available for stearmpower. It is large ly used by the CljEese, but mainly in the regions whortrit is mined. The land routes are @4 poor that it does not pay to more than 25 miles. Unless anine is within this distance of carriage, the area of the distributiffti of the output is confined to the 'Humediale neighbor hood. Steamships at Shanghai are to day filling thciij bunkers with coal brought from Europe, because it is cheaper than coal l expensively brought from Chinese mifies in the interior. in Dr. Fischers opinion, Germany has a coal supply, that will meet the needs of that country for about 1090 years. Dr. Fischer also reaches tue conclusion that pfbl’aijly within the next 50 years, and certainly within this century. Great Britaiu, at the present rate of consumption, will exhaust her coal resources. She certainly cannot go on supplying dre larger part, of Ihe world’s export. The total production of coal in Great Britain ia 1991 amounted to 219,446.945 .gross tons, against 225,181.300 Cons in 1900. Japan has large coal resources, particularly in the southern province of Kiushiu. Borneo is rich int||Dal formations, as is als New South, Wales, a fact that is enabling Sydnejf to forge ahead of the other Australism cities in industri al development. AAfrica and South America are poor* in coal than any of the other contiiumts, but the devel opment of coal mijtes in South Africa bids fair to supply the industrial needs of the country, .y According to rrtiirns to the United States Geological Ijurvey from produc ers representing fully 97 percent of the entire coal output of the United States, the production of 1901 amounted to 292,240,758 short tons, valued at. $348,- 813,831. As compared with 1900, when the output amounted to 269,831,827 short tons, worth $300,891,964. this rep resents an increase of 3 percent in quantity, and 13.6 percent in value. The production of Pennsylvania an thracite showed a phenomenal increase from 51.221,353 long tons in i960 to J 0,342,580 long tons in 1901. This rep resented a gain of 17 1-2 percent, the largest percentage of gain made by the anthracite trade in 20 years. Part of this increase was due to the strike in 1900, which reduced the output that year by over 2,500,000 long tons. Tho Increase in the value of the anthracite product is still more striking, the amount received at the mines lasi year showing a gain of more than 31 per cent over that of 1900. A period of prosperity enabled consumers general ly lo pay higher prices for their fuel, and a railroad monopoly made them do so. The production of bituminous coal, lignite, cannet coal, etc., iff the United States increased from 212,513,912 short tons in 1900 to 224,769,091 short tons in 1901, indicating a gain ofAbout G per cent. The value of niis product amounted to $236,309,811. as compared with $221,133,513 m 19otj! an increase of sls.li’c29S, or a little less than 7 percent. The coni production of the United States last year was nestriv 20 percent more than Great Britain’s; nearly SO percent larger than Germany's; nearly seven times that of Austria-Hungary, and more than eight times that of France, England, however, continues to export more coal than all other countries. It supplies far more coal ing stations than any other country. The business of selling coa! abroad is usually very profitable, and one rea son why England sutpasses all com petitors in this.line is because h# coal is so near the sea that she is a\ile to ship it less expensively than any; other exporting nation. Owing to the more extensive use of coal-mining machin ery. much of the Lotted Static coal at the pit mouth does not cost a£ much as British coal when raised to tile sur face, hut by the time it is shipped on the ocean it usually costs more than British coal. England has special ad vantages for the export coal trade, and she improves them to the utmost, in spite of the fact that, assert that the present century will see the end of her coal resources. A comparison of the coal resources of Great Britain and the United States was recently made by A. S. E. Aeker mann, who shows that the area of coal fields in the United States is about 225.000 square miles, as compared with 900 square miles in the United King dom. When it comes to actual mining op erations the American uses much more machinery than the Briton. Mr. Ack ermann says that the annual product of the American miner averages 52tl tons, while that cf the British miner is only 300. In America the railway freight charge per ton-mile is about one-sixth as large as in Great Britain. Three causes operate to produce the result. Coal in the United States if usually shipped in cars holding 50 tons, while in Great Britain it Is broken up into six-ton or ten-ton lots; second. the original investment of capital In railroads is inucb greater a mile in England than in America, and the rates must be heavier in order to pay divi dends; and third, our hauls are longer. A recent report by Consul Brunot of St. Etienne, France, states that a con cern in that country is now engaged in the manufacture of solid petroleum, tha) Is. petroleum so treated that it may oe handled as coal or coke. This product is manufactured in the form of briquettes, wuich are composed chiefly of petroleum, either crude or refined, and possess all the desirable qualities of coal and ordinary petro leum without any of the objectionable characteristics of either. The principal expense in the manu facture of the new fuel is the oil, the other ingredients arid the labor cost ing comparatively little. Serious attention lias been given in recent years to the possibilities in the use of peat as fuel. In Norm Euro pean’countries, in Ireland, ad in seme other regions, the peat deposits have formed for a long time an important fuel supply. Even in Germany, which is relatively rich in coal, the peat bogs are exploited expensively, ia the United States there has been littie imjucement for the development of the country's peat wealth; nevertheless, many be lieve that there is a wide field for profitable use ci this fuel in this coun try. Far greater possibilities in this direction exist ia Canada. That coun try is practically bare of coal, but rich in peat, and may be forced to consid er the use of the latter on an extended scale. Peat, in its natural state, is a poor fuel. It holds, suspended in the meshes of the network of vegetable fibres of which it is composed, a very large percentage of water, and also contains mnch water in more intimate combination. A number of methods of treating it are in operation. It has long been realised, however, that the most desirable peat product would be a coke, and numerous attempts have ' ben made in this direction. Up to the present none of these have proved suc cessful. A process developed quite re cently promises better results. If the claims made for it are well founded, the peat coke it produces will soon be a valuable fuel. —New York Post. TAKEN AS AN OMEN. ffhon till* Kanatnan’s Itopn Drake All , Salt! I'Tircly Ha# Innocent. “Although I never saw but one hang ing,* I witnessed a sight that even pro fessional hangmen have not seen,” said A. A, Albrechtcn of Columbus, ivliss. “It was at my home. A young Mlssissippian named Purdy bad been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to hang. The evidence was wholly circumstantial, and before he was accused of that crime the young man had borne an excellent reputation. He was also connected by marriage with some of the best people iix'Jie state. “Nevertheless, no was sentenced to hang and the governor would not re prieve him. There were two factors in the community, one believing him guilty, and the other considering him innocent. The latter talked of rescue, i ul it was all talk. "The scaffold was not inclosed and when young Purdy ascended the gal lows he walked erect and fearless. He qenied his guilt, and all who saw him were compelled to admit his bearing was that of an innocent man. The blatk cap was pulled over his face, the sheriff pulled a leter. and the next we saw was a man getting up from the ground snatching the black cap from his head and declaring dra matically: ’God has proved my inno cence.’ "The rope had broken. That was enough. Former enemies turned into adherents, and before the sheriff could again take his prisoner to the gallows and got another rope he was in the centre of a crowd of thousands of people, all of whom were swearing there were not sheriffs enough in Mississippi to hang an innocent man. “Purdy was taken home, and an es cort of 250 armed and determined men went with him and remained, until (here was no danger of any lurthcr proceedings being taken. Without any legal formalities the matter was al lowed to drop and Purdy is living 18 miles from Columbia, respected an/ happy. "Joy aimost killed his wife whon ’ he saw him alive at the time she ex pected fcis corpse to be brought home. To say Purdy is guilty is now almost as mui h as a man’s life is worth down ; here."—Denver Post. and Inspiration. "1 was once told,” Jaid Anthony Trollope, the novelist, That the surest aid to the writing of a book was a piece of cobbler's wax on my chair. 1 certainly believe more i.i the cob bler’s wax than in inspiration.” And by way of explanation he adds: "Noth ing is so potent as a law chat may not be broken. It has tha force of the wuterdrop that hollows the stone. A small, daily task, if it be really daily’, will beat the labors of a spas modic Hercules. It is a tortoise which always catches the hare." It w’a* his custom to rise at 5.30 and write for three hours, with his watch before him. He required cf himself 250 words an hour. This, at the end of 10 months, gave him three irhee-voiump novel:;. The man who everlastingly keeps —whatever it may be—a success— New York Press cmfwyp chmfwyqpj New York News. Th* I.ib nriHii’* Humor. "What," we ask of the librarian, "do you suppose is the greatest library book in the world—the bool: that is !a the most demand?” "Carnegie’s bankbook,” he responds confidently, without looking up f ro2l his- work—Baltimore American. DECEMBER 7 SCIENCE AND INDUSTRr. Anew calculating machine invent ;d by W. L. Bundy, also the inventor jf the time clock, has many new fea tures. This machine prints names with the figures and will handle a column it six figures. The characters struck appear in a dial in front of the opera tor Ju order that any mistake may be noticed and corrected. The ingenious apparatus of Mr. H Galopin records continuously— at in tervals of 10 minutes or so —the flow of any fluid, such as air or water, and it may serve as a ship’s log cr tor Pleasuring the velocity of a stream cf water. ,It depends upon the defec tion of a pendulum by the moving li quid or gas. The deflection is shown upon a dial, and the is made by a suitable mechanism driven by clockwork. The novel invention of Professor” Ar temleff gives security to workers In laboratories using high tension e;c tric currents. It is a safety dres: ' ’ fine, but closely woven wire gun'• weighing 3.3 pounds, and comeple.s-iy enclosing the wearer, including hands, feet and head. The cooling surface Is so great that a powerful cur: .H passed for several seconds from ... e hand-to the other without perceptible heating. Clad in tills armor, ii: ventor received discharges from cur rents of 75.0hd .tf> liu.OOG volts, and handled live wires at pleasure, all without any sensaticn of electric 3hock. The photographic chart of the ; will include all stars down to the magnitude, the negatives being' tt;, r with exposures of 40 minutes; and t v catalogue plates, whose stars are i be measured and numbered, win', brace all magnitudes down to the lit!;. The Greenwich observatory, to wile): was assigned ihe region between declination 64 degrees, and tho N r. Pole, has finished its plates, the ma iirement and counting being now progress. Assuming the star e’euri:; of the entire heavens to bo the same as that of the region already cover. I by the counting, tho complete char:, as made by the 18 observatories at work upon it, will contain about i!!.- OOO.OrtO stars, and the combined cata logue more than 3,000,000. A healthy infant sleeps most of tkl time during the first few weeks. an<B in the early years people are dispose Iw to let children sleep as they will. But < when six or seven years old, when school begins, this sensible policy | comes to an and and sleep is put off persistently through all the years up to manhood and woman hood, states Public Health Journal. At ihe age of 10 and 11 the child is aliowed io sleep only eight or nine hours, when the parents should insist on its haying what it absolutely needs, which is 10 or 11 hours at least. Up to 29 a youth needs nine hours sleep, and an adult eight. Insufficient sleep is one cf the. crying c-vils of the day. The want o£/ proper rest and normal condition;: of the nervous system, and especially the brain, produce a lamentable condi tion. deterioration in both body and r.iind, and exhaustion, excitability and intellectual disorders are gradually 1 taking the place of love of work. ? eral well-being and the spirit of ix.tjfl ative, am A HiiffiinAter, ;]sw| Last year $21,500,000 worth ct Wm cions stones were imported into 1 nited States. The importation of rnonds exceeded that of any previflH year, and never have larger or finor stones come to t.iis country, says \sjx Kurz. the gem expert of the Unitfajjg States geological survey. Emerrid*® have greatly increased in public favors | mid coral, long out of fashion. once more become popular. Although turquoise is now mir." i bB rix different companies in the Unite® Siate3. and they all have had fail yields, the popularity of the stone ha* been such that the entire product vJ consumed. "The first year of tho new century, said Mr. Kunz. "has been the greates in the history of the precious-stum i: dustry in the United States. Never•fia the prosperity and growth of a cou: try been more faithfully indicated, t if by a sensitive barometer, than i the wonderful increase in values ar i usiness in the jewelry trade in t United States during the past ye: Never were more diamonds, pearis emeralds sold, nor did fine gems ci before command better prices, r were they ever more firmly held: a yet diamonds are likely to advai still further during the present yea jMpanfte Trnvellnsr < hair. The Japanese traveling chair ’w used in Japan universally before i introduction of the jinrickishaw. vhee! carriage drawn by men, and still in use in parts of the islands fiequented by Europeans and in mountain districts. It is made of b: boo and bamboo fibre and swi loosely from the heavy pole suppor on the shoulders of the chair cool The passenger kneels inside in the < ventiona! Japanese sitting posture, ter hanging ner high wooden cl from the chair back and placing baggage on the top. The chair coolies can swing ai with their burden at a swift day. resting for a moment from t to time while supporting the shou poles with the staves in their hand The Kchl Problem. “Do you expect that you will able to make a filing machine will really fly?” "I'm absolutely cc-rlain of it." swered the inventor. "It's no Dr at all to get a flying machine tt The difficulty is to make or.” will let you have some idea ot m way it is going and how it will li: