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;(fdnn/(ria §entiud. «=-■- ■ ■ J» —■- -=x- • ■ -re-wres: -aa hablem. Georgia PUHI.ISII KU JtVKKY THUHSDA Y. X3m.llmz*cl «*» Atlxlneoix, PBOPKXCTOBa Many axplcwionji in flour mill* are now said to have been < anted by electricity generated by belta. Even ordinary belt* arc found to generate aufficiently atrong currents to perform tbe common experi ment sos which electrical machinea are uacd. A resident of Columbia, N hn» gone into the c ultivation of the aunflowcr on a large scale. He bat several ocrer planted with different varieties ot the flower, and exp <:» within a short time to be abl< to nipp y the Southern market with the product. Tin seed make* splendid food for poultry, and horses and cattle .ire quite fond of it. 'llteacademy of Medicine in Paris has just been listening to a report on uu un usual surgical operation which ended successfully. The c ase was that of a young mm who ut of bravado had swallowed a fork. It was extracted by an incision in the stomach. For many days after the patient c onfine 1 himself strictly to a diet of soup and iced cham pagne. Liter car he took *om • milk, mid on the twelfth day was nllowe I a cullet. He is now quite well. A correspondent of the London Stand ard liner ts that statist! al evident' gathered in the United States points tc the phy-ii id inferiority of the emigrant class to Hint of tin- gem ral population of America and Great Britain. Ju the l ite war an enormous number of men were measured, with the result that tiro aver age stature of American born men was 5 feet 7.07 inches, mid those of Britidi birth were only 5 feet 0.58 inches, or mi inch less; while tho committee already mentioned found the stature of men at hometobe 7.00, or practically identical with that of native Americans. Even the British laborer who stays at home has an average stature half mi inch greater than that of the emigrant class. Two years ago not more than six roll ing inilis and steel Works in the Unit d States used natural gac in fire’; now wc have n record of OS tolling mills and steel | works which use the new fuel, and of 10 which are making preparations to use it. roll." , mitt <iud *teel works in Al- [ legheny county, Pennsylvania, 55 in nil, | now uses natural gas. In wi stern Pen sylvania outside of Alleghany county it is Used in I*d mills mid steel works; and I seven other-, inclu ling the tolling mi l and G.iutior departments of tho Cam- ; bridge Iron Works, 71) miles east ol j I’itts'-urg, arc preparing to mo it. <tn > rolling mill in Ohio is now u-ing it, mid eight mills are getting ready to use it. At Wheeling, West Virginia, one mill is ' making arrnn;; ments to intr luce it. In all but a very few of tho mill , and steel I works referred to natural gas is used as fuel exclusively. i Thu late G. S. Hubbard about 57years ngo entered, for tho first tima, the mouth of the creek which has since bi come ono es the limbors of Chicago The sole settlement there then was a i Stockade, known as I'nt D'irborn, a block house of mi Indian trader, mid a i decayed but, occupied by n forlorn half- . breed. Hubbard organize I, after a while what w..s regard cd ns an active trade in that region, flr-t loading boats nt Mackinac with m-inlumdise, mid later by putting pack horses or In dian ponies in their stead. Sixty years ago the country around T-rrc Haute and Vincennes, Indiana, began lobe settled, and the settlements steadily grew. In 1832 Hubbard opened n per.nanent lin-i --nras at Caie.igo, then a hamlet of 150 t > 160 Inhabitants. To day that hamlet lias income a mighty city of 650,000 people, and one of the most important centres ot commerce mid trade in civili sation. It has l>crn for a long tim ■ asserted and believed that the island of Barbados, with 160 square miles mid a population of 175,000, which is 1054 persons to the square mile, was the mast densely in habited port ion of the earth’s surface. From n c< luniuli.cation of Mr. John Worthington, tl.e Consul of th. United (state, at Yale tin, M it, it appears that in the matter of density of population Barbadocs must yield the palm to Malto. That island contains 1)5 square miles of surface mid contains 142,500 inhabitants (exclusive of the British garrison and visitor* aad n- n r.-st ent-', which is an io rage of 1500 to the squire mile. Tiie city of Val.ctt.i emt iins a t■ ,t j lethora of population, its area facing 0.318 square mile, mid its population 24,854. a popu lation of 78.157 persons to th square mile. There is one spec ally populous quarter of Valetta, known as the Mandcra gio, the area of which is 0.0J4 square mile, or 2.56 acres, wherein dwell 2544 person- -a proportion of 636,000 soul* to the rquarc mile. If we exclude the one-third < f the island which is unsuitable fcr cultivation and the area occupied by b .tidings the population of Malta reaches tbe large number of £OOO persons to the square mile. Edward A. Stuvcnson, Governor of Idaho Territory,has mode bis annual rc- I port to the B -cretary of the Interior. As I an evidence of growth and progress of the territory the governor cites the fact . that in 1870 there wcro but 2, 777 children ' ot school ago in the territory, while now there are 18,000. In 1876 $10,500 were paid for school purposes, while last year the amount pni 1 for that purpose exceed ed $l3O, opo. Attention is called to the fact that Indians occupy large reserva tions, which the governor reoommends be opened to settlement, and the Indians !>• lomjie.lc 1 to take their lands in sev ernlty. Tin- Chinese labor question is alluded to ns one of the gravest that the people of the Pacific slope have to grap ple with. Fish is generally regarded as a light, easily digested, and nutritious article ot food, and as such is often preset.bed for patients during convalescence. But every now and again tbe medical frater nity is chagrined nt the sudden act back of such a patient, anil occasionally a fa tal relapse follows the “bit of fish” or dared a* the proper thing for an inval.d’ meal. Dr. J. Stuart Nairne, surgeon to tho Glasgow Samaritan Hospital for Women, calls attention to the fact— learned by him through some very dis tressing experience* -that it is tho cook ing and preparation of the fish, and not the fish itself, which is nt fault. Boiled fish, fried fi-h, link d fish, are all inferior in digestibility to stamed fish. Dieting I js the half mid sometimes tho best half of medical treatment, and medical men are but poor doctors if they arc not good cooks. But not all good cooks know that n steamed fish may be safely mid beneficially partaken of when if cooked in any other way it might boa seriously ind igestll »le pint. How much has been said and written of the “Bad Lands" of the far West, and how little they are understood'. 1! fore the construction of the Northern Pacific railroad they wcr..'believed to be a per manent hindrance to the development of the country. No one really knew about them ; but they were u great bugbear. It was dec ared that a railway could not be built through them; the hunters pronounced it absolutely impossible The exploring expedition under Custer f in 1872, furnished the first positive in- 1 formation concerning the Bad Lands. They arc filled with cones, turrets, pyramids of red and brown terra-cotta. In some places smoke may be seen issuing from n hill-side. It is not the tCIlt- i us ft rvlt.ino, ln<t II In n Motion l from which the coni has been burned by spout,■incouscoinbustiun in recent geologic periods, leaving the earth in the form of cones and pyramids. It is n natural terra-cotta pottery—a kind of brick-kiln —ten miles wide, and extending for hundreds of miles along tho Little i Missouri, wide i runs through Wyoming, Montana and Dakota, and whose mouth I is more th in 1,800 feet above sea level. When Lewis and (hark ascended the ' Missouri, in the early part of lit- century, ; they saw the ground on lire nt divers 1 points and were unable to account for , it. The railroad met with no difficulty in its progress. Th Bad Lands, instead of being sterile, have proved extremely fertile. In the center of the region, on the bank of the river, is the town of Medora, with a vast abattoir, where beef is dau ditered and sent to the New York market in refrigerator cars. The B.i I Linds were the favorite grazing grounds of tho buffalos, as they are of the steers of to-day, and have been made beneficial j to th- human family by the construction of the Northern Pacific. So the world moves. Tho Hen Minister. At an Island on the coast of Maine which is much resorte 1 to there is an es te med local clergyman who is known to ' the summer residents, nearly all of win in are Bostonians, as the "hen minister." This is by reason of his habit of telling in season and out of reason, u certain story which qucerly illustrates th.- idea of faith. "1 preached a sermon one Sun day," the good minister will say, “on the doctrine of faith, in which I taught l my hearers the good Christian doctrine that all things may bo brought about by faith, instructing them that faith is the evidence of things not seen, tho sub stance of things hoped for. There was a farmer's wifain the congregation who l wa« greatly edified by the sermon, and came to me and told me that she now understood just what 1 lit'a was. Next Sunday m ruing I overtook her on ths way to church. ’S.-e here. Parson,’ s.i'vs she, ‘I don't think much of your teachin’ about faith.’ ‘Why not I’ I asked. •Why,’ sirs she, ‘the other day I heard luy s|K'ek < d hen a-eacklin’ like all t, pay.’ "Now,'say, I, ‘here i* a chance ti show what faith is. That speckled' hen’s egg is the evidence of things not seen; the substar co of things hoped for. lhave faith that she's laid an egg, and 1 am sure that when I go out to the shed 1 I’ll find it.” So I goes out and looki for it, ami there wasn’t any egg there, and that speckled hen hadn’t laid any. ; Now what's your faith good for. I’d lik< toknowf ’And then,’ the minister wi! , say, ’1 told her what was the mattei with her faith. It was meant for a re buke to you that you didn't find any cgs there ’ ‘fid I. You’d ought to he.vi t usted i i God and not in the ben.’— 1 Treosarv. The flowers i p-auled m ib> flush of syiring Hara budded, bloom'd and withered long ■CO The grain my lavish Angers use-1 to throw f/mg since was rnop-d for others’ garnering; i Yet lam rich amid my nature deart h ■ My gol 1 is » here the rainbow touches earth. My wealth is molten of full many an ore Dug from the sacred caverns of tbe Past: Htored where Uie Present's quiet light is cast; All blent together, all of priceless worth, All hid just whero the rainbow touch-* earth. And Memory, Faith and Hope its guardians are, As holding Love’s strong band I make my Knowing I near a little every day The one sure goal where, passing o’er the bar, I find, in all tbe glow of second birth, My Treasure, where the rainbow touches earth. —All the Year Hov.nd. THE GLOVED PACHA. “Do you see that tall, handsome man now talking to His Highness?" inquired an old diplomat of one of the State balls given by the Khedive of Egypt in his fairy summer palace at Gezireh on the banks of the Nile. "What,” said I, "do you mean Mus tapha Pacha F., the Cabinet Minister 1” "Yes ; und have you noticed that his right hand is always gloved? Look at it now. He is the only man in the room wearing a glove on that hand, which is contrary to a-H etiquette. If he were to remove it you would perceive an ugly kind of semicircle scar. Come into the gar-lens and 1 will tell you under what peculiar circumstances he received the wound, the traces of which be is to anxious to hide.” Nothing loath I wandered out in the fresh night air with my old friend, and established ourselves comfortably with our cigarettes on the marble balustrade of the Palace Quay, I listened with interest to the following story : "In 18715, the English government alarmed at the Khedive’s terrible ex travagance, ami repeated appeals to the European money markets, sent out to Egypt a special mission consisting of the Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, Sir Rivers Wilson and others, to inquire into the state of the finances of the country. These gentlemen, although received with flattering hospitality and courtesy, ex perienced the greatest difficulty in ob taining the information they required. In the short space of ten years over $500,000,008 had been borrowed the Egyptian government, and of tffls im mense sum only $200,000,000 had found its way into the state treasury. What hud become of the balance? Two peo ple alone could tell. One of these was the Khedive himself, and the other his minister of finance, Mustapha Pacha Sadyk, the most powerful man in Egypt. It is impossible to conceive the enormous wealth of the latter. Large tracts of country belonged to him, and he had the right of coining money in his own name. His splendor and magnificence were unequalled in the East. His harem of over 3,000 women occupied the three immense palaces in which now all the Government offices are located, and he had a special bodyguard in his seraglio of over 400 superb ama zons who, on state occasions, donned ar mor and hclmlets of pure silver. Mem ber of almost every European order of knighthood, he was on terms of intimate acquaintance with all the principal statesmen of Paris, London, 8.-rlin and Vienna. The English envoys according ly devoted all their energies to win him over from the Khedive, in order that they might be able at last to sound the dark depths of Egyptian finance. It ap jwars that they were about to succeed. "Late ono Thursday night in the month of June a carriage stopped at one of the side entrances of the Abdeen Palace, a short stout gentleman jumped out, and limped rapidly up the stairs, demanded to see His Highness at once. The Khedive, on being informed that his visitor was Mr. Julius Blum, confi dential secretary and factotum of the Minister of Finance, ordered him to be admitted immediately. After kissing the hem of the monarch’s coat in truly oriental fashion, tho secretary informed the Khedive that the Minister had been won over by the English envoys, and in order to save his own position had de termined to turn King’s evidence and to reveal to them on the following Saturday the whole of His Ilighne-s's financial transactions. The latter, fully aw re that such disclosures would inevitably result in his deposition, immediately de termined at nil cost* to prevent their being made. The next day was Friday, the MoliammeJau Sabbath. After per forming his devotions at the mosque, the Khedive proceeded in an open Victoria to the palace of Mustapha Pacha Sadyk and invited that Minister to ac company him during his usual after noon drive. As this was by no means tho first occasion cn which His Highness had thus honored him, the Minister had no reason to be surprised, and pleasantly chatting together tho Khedive and Mustapha Pacha Sadyk drove to this very I’alac- of Gezireh. On alighting at that door you see there, the Khedive, turning to tho Minister, in v 4-d him to supper on board the Vice- R-gal yacht, which lay moored in mid- stream. and suggested that Mustapha Pacha Sadyk should go on board im mediately with the Prince* Hussein and Haosun, saying that he himself would follow as soon os he had taken a bath. Tho Minister accompanied by the Khe dive’s sons, embarked at these very steps and was rowed off to the yacht. A merry evening was spent on bjard, the whole ship being illuminated, and oc casional snatches of music and laughter being wafted over to the shore. At about 11 o’clock the Khedive and both Princes returned alone, leaving on board the Minister with the two Vice. Regal chamberlains, Mustapha B y F., and Sami Bey Biroudi. Shortly after ward the sounds of a short scuffle on deck were heard by the people on shore, and then all was quiet and the lights were extinguished on board. Soon after midnight the yacht cast loose from her moorings and noiselessly glided up the the stream toward the first cataract. "Nothing more was ever seen in this world of Mustapha Pacha Sadyk. "On the next day a decree was issued stating that the Khedive had banished his Minister of Finance to Upper Egyp ‘for having dared to oppress his much beloved subjects,’ etc., etc. Four days later the yacht returned to her moorings off the Gezireh Palace, and when the two Chamberlains above referred to resumed their service, it was noticed that Sami B y wore a handkerchief round his throat a* if to hide some wound on his neck, and that Mustapha Bey F. had his right hand in a sling. Nothing can be kept secret in the East, and it soon oozed out that Simi’s throat had been lacerated by the nails, and Mustapha’s hand had been bitten through by the teeth of the unfortunate Finance Mini ster, when they strangled him with their own bands on the night of the supper. Both Sami and Mustapha were rewarded for their services by being made Pachas Sami, after being Prime Minister at the time of Arabi’s insurrection, is now in ex’ ile at Ceylon, while his companion, Mustapha, after being engaged to an English lady who broke off the marriage when she heard the history of his hand, >s now a Cabinet Minister. Blum, the private secretary, who betrayed his bene factor and master, was naturally also re warded by being made a Pacha, and is at the present moment Under Secretary of State in the department of which Mus tapha is Minister.’’—A’«w York Tribune. The “ Gyascutus.” Considerable discussion prevailed iu the newspapers some years ago regarding the remarkable animal, supposed to be extinct, but known as the "Gyascutus.” O der people will remember that twenty year* or more ago it was reported that in Indiana a live gyascutus had been found and caught. The story was to the effect that the said wonderful animal was advertised by two middle-aged scientific persons as a creature of great strength an I ferocity, long supposed to be the only specimen of its kind in existence, which would be on exhibition in the local temple of the muses on a certain evening named; curtains to rise at 8. The evening appointed, according to the chronicler, a large and intelligent audience of tire first citizens was in early attendance, and the heart of tho enter prising scientist at the door was gladdened by the chink of many shekels. The audience having been fairly hive 1, ami in a state of enthusiastic expectancy, ju-t the moment appointed for the rising of the curtain there was the noise of a great roaring and confusion behind the scene*, which was followed by the ap pearance of Scientist No. 2, disheveled and wild. “Save yourselves, ladies and gentlemen,’’ he cried, “the gyascutus is loose!” Then, it is said, there was what the late Byron finely described as "hurry ing to and fro,” though more of the “fro” than the “to,” and they were “the first citizens” who reached the side walk first. Every citizen saved himself entirely whole, barring twenty-five cents paid the scientist at the door. The two scientists also saved themselves, as was generally believed, by taking to the ad jacent timber. In the course of time, one of the victims made bold to a k his neighbor if he “saw the Gyascutus.” Tiie question was repeated by others, and soou “Have you seen the Gyascutus?” became a synonym for “Have you been victimized?” and as such the saving became current all over the United States. (ilobe Democrat. The Use* of Lemons. Lemons arc one of the most useful fruits in our domestic economy. The juice of half a lemon in a glass of water, without sugar, will frequently cure a sick headache. If the hand be stained, there is noth ing that will remove the stain better than a lemon or a lemon and salt. After the juice has been squeezed from the lemon the refuse can be used for the pur|K-se. Lemon juice is also a very good remedy for rheumatism and the so called biliousness of spring. In the latter case the juice should be taken before breakfast. The pulp may also be eaten, av riding every particle of skin. L mon juice and sugar, mixed very thick, is useful to relief coughs and ; sore throat*. It must be very acid as well as sweet. L.monadc i* not only a luxury, but | exceedingly whoiesor. c. A gkeatjjbrary. The New Structure For the Library of Congress. Librarian EpofforJ Talks About Noted Collections of Books. Speaking to a Philadelphia Time* representative about the massive edifitSe authorized by Cqngrcss for the accom modation of the National Liorary of the United State*, Librarian Spofford said: “The capacity of the building will be for three and one-hnlf millions of books. We now have five hundred r.nd seventy thousand volumes, not counting two hundred thousand pamphlets and a large and rare collection of manuscripts. The interior of tbe building will be finished for the books we now have, leaving the introduction of additional iron alcoves as required by the growth of the future.” “How long will it take to fill the build ing with books?” “At the piobablc rate of increase, about two centuries. The presentgrowth is about 25,000 volumes annually. There will be a large res.-rve s[»ice in the rear of the building for the construction of an annex, which will accommodate two million more volumes. The growth of great libraries in the United States and other countries in the nature of things i is without limit, so enormous has be ' co:nc the development of the art of printing. This library in the United States is destined to distance all others ia the future. “When I took charge of this library i twenty-two years ago there were twenty ' five larger libraries in the world. Now there is but five larger. Until recent’y the Boston Public Library, founded in 1852 from funds raised by city taxation I on a liberal scale, was the largest in tbe ; United States, with 430,000 volumes. Now this library exceeds it by nearly 200, iOO volumes. The Philadelphia i Library Company, founded in 1731, and Mercantile Library, of Philadelphia, founded in 1821, have less than one third the number in this library, “The largest library in the world is the Bibliotheque Nationale of France, or Na tional Library, formerly Royal, then Im i pcrial, according to the changes of gov ernment. It was founded in 1737 by a royal printing tax requiring a copy of each bock printed for the King’s library, and contains 2,250,000 volumes. The library of the British Museum, founded in 1753 from a donation of books and private gallery of Sir Hans Sloan, con tains 1,500,000 volumes. It became a great library through liberal donations from subjects 8f the Crown, including many great private libraries. The books, engravings, arts, antiquities and natural history have long since outgrown their present quarters. All collections except books, engravings and few anti quities have been successively removed to Kensington to make room. The St. Petersburg Imperial Library, founded by ' ukase of the Czar, has 1,000,000 volumes. The Royal Library of Berlin, ' founded by a copy tax in 1661, the od est big library on the globe, has 700,000 volumes. The Library of Munich, Ba varia, founded in the sixteenth century, claims 800,000 volumes, but includes pamphlets, which we do not. If we counted pamphlets we would have 770,- 000. The next in size is the Library of Congress, which is our national collec tion. “A great library is like a great army, a chaotic mass, without organization, but when divided into army corps, brig ades, regiments and companies you can put your finger on every man. So with books, no matter how vast the collection once adopt a clear and intelligible sys tem of classification ami any one of the million volumes may be found as readily as if there were but a few hundred. “The origin of the Library of Congress was an appropriation of a few hundred dollars in 1800, the year the government occupied Washington. President Jef ferson took a great interest in it. John I Randolph, chairman of a special com mittee, reported in 1801 favoring a liberal policy towards it. In 1814 the li brary had but 3,000 volumes and SI,OOO a year. In that year it was burned by the British. Jefferson, ov>r taken by debts, tendered his library of 6.700 volumes, which was purchased bv Congress for $23,950. In 1851 it reached 5,500 volumes, when it was again almost t tally destroyed by fire. About 20,000 vo umes, the least valuable portion, was saved. In 1860, two years after my ap pointment as librarian, it had but 40,000. It now has, as I have said, 570,000 vol umes and 203,000 pamphlets. It is pe ' culiarly rich in rare American manu scripts and works on American discov ery, settlement, history, biography politics and resources. Its collection of for ign and scientific works and law li brary have no equals here. "The Alexandrian Library, said to have contained 700.000 volumes and burned by the Caliph O.nar in the seventh century, is lost in the midst of fiction and tradition. Much that is said about it has been proven apocryphal upon highest authority. There is no • doubt of a collection of books having ex- ' isted and some were burned, but as to 1 the number said to have be.-n destroyed centuries before the invention of print ing, that is impossible. All volumes then were in manuscript. The err approach to a library was brought h light in recent Assyrian discoveries a-q consisted of Babylonish books on ( .; a ' v tablets, supposed for public instrm-tio? 650 B. C. Tbe public library, M w ’. understand it, is a modern invention 1 presume the oldest library in the United States still in existence fa the Philadei pbia Library, founded over a century and a half ago. The number of pubijj libraries iu the United States t<-j '. runs up into the thousands. Hardly a community of a thousand or two „f people is without some k.nd of a <■., ; e( ? tion.” "When do you expect to occupy th, new building?” “It will be under roof in two years and half, or say in 1889, the exterior will bo completed. The interior will be arranged for about a million books to begin with. After that we can spread out as the increase of books demands ’ Ingenious Smugglers. The ingenuity of smugglers has never perhaps been more strikingly illustrated than it was a few days ago on the Swiss- Italian frontier. An wagoner, with a wagon load of cheese arrived at the Italian custom house at Chiasso. He had come from Lu.-nno and his destination wis a small Italian village called Marignau. The cheese weighed three tons, and the wagoner who was "child-like and bland ’’ whistled blithely as he duly presented his papers, which certified that he was employed by the firm of to convey tb.e cheese, which foiincd part of only a larga order, to its purchaser at Mari„- nan. The papers were examined and found "correct, and before resuming his journey the wagoner stepped into a neighboring case with one of the doua niers, for the day was hot, and a cigar ette and a glass of wine could net fail to be acceptable. But the delay for re freshments was destined to prove fatal to the wagoner’s hopes, for during his absence another douanier wistfully gazed on the tempting load of cheese, and, thinking that a slice from such a quantity would never be missed and at the same time would, in conjunction with a raorsal of garlic and a piece of black bread, afford him a delectable supper, he whipped out his knife and, selecting a prime looking cheese,he pro ceeded to cut into it, or rather he did not cut into it, for either his knife was blunt or the cheese was uncommonly hard. This peculiarity induced him to consult with a colleague, and together they proceeded to make something more • than a cursory examination of these re markable cheeses. Lo and behold I They proved to be not cheeses at all, but solid, compact rolls of tobacco art fully done up in cement; this again was covered with canvass, which was painted to represent cheese. Os course tiie ‘find’ was instantly confiscated, and the blithe wagoner was transferred from the com forts of the case to the hardships of a jail. Chicago Tines. African Constabulary. Following is an extract from David Ker’s letter from Accra, Africa, to the New York Times-. I espy something which at the first glance looks like a yel low-headed African whose hair has grown down to his waist. But the next mo ment I sec that the supposed Esau if wearing an enormous hat of dried grass, the long straggling ends of which com pletely hide his upper figure, and make him appear as if carrying a huge truss of straw. He has scarcely passed when up come four or five stalwart blacks in dark blue uniforms and scarlet facings, who carry their rifles in a smart, soldier like fashion suggestive of long discip line. These are the famous Moussas, the Sikhs of West Africa, who form a kind of armed constabulary along the whole Guinea coast. Though almost unknown to the civilized world, they have done many a deed of valor as heroic as any which has been famed in story and song. Only the other day one of their English officers was telling me, with a glow of honest admiration on his handsome face, how thirty of his negro warrior* made good their ground against ten times their number of savage Awoonas till their am munition was spent and then charged home with the bayonet, sweeping away their swarming enemies like chaff. His Trick Exposed. It related to a well known Micon man that he recently went to Griffith and at tended the church with a young lady on whom he was very sweet. When tho contribution box started out on its rounds the young man took a five-dol'ar go d piece cut of his vast pocket and displayed it in such n way that the young lady saw it. She mildly rebuked his extravagance, but he said he often contributed that much, especially when in strange churches. Watching his chance b’’ slipped tho gold coin into his pocket and slyly took out a silver quarter which U ' as slyly dropped into the box when it reached him. This fixed the impres-ion on the young lady that her beau was generous and held the church in high esteem. At the close of the services, was the custom of the church, ■h .imcunt in the box was announced. The total was $3.75. Griffith has no charms for the man now. —Jfucoi), Telegram.