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PITTSBORO1, CHATHAM CO., N. C, FEBRUARY 11, 18!)2.
NO. 24.
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Visions.
Visions come mid go agiln.
Leaving in the ir airy (ruin
Flint a rhythm, soft and low,
Of their movement to and fro
Something like an old refrain.
"Tin the wsy with summer rnln;
T's I lie way with joy mid aiu;
'Tin the way with a 1 wc kcu
Of the lives of i.inrlal men ;
Just to cun 10, tln'ii go nain.
W. N. Houmly in Harper's Weekly.
PAINTING ON CHINA.
Mrs. Barbara Bunt wi ono of tho
weetoat, most peculiar old ladies in
llio world. To begin wiih, sho wa
vory rich. Tlmt in itself is, perhaps,
not so much of a peculiarity. But
then ilio was spare and crooked and
withered up like a crnb-applo wliicli
has hung too niT on the tic, nnd sho
wore a lilt lo black rat In capo and a
cap trimmed with ribbon bows, Mich
ns wcro in fashion half it century ngo,
nnd alio walked with a gold.hcndcd
cane, n la Fairy Godmother; ami her
eyes sparkled weirdly through gold
spectacles, nnd her hnnds were covered
wilh little knitted ftilk nu t". And ns
flio sal by her drawing-room firo
drinking chncOnto mid talking wiih
another witch-like little old woman,
they made a very funny pair indeed.
" Yes," said Mis. Barbara, i.odding
her liead, "I couldn't enduro it any
longer. I told lier blie mint either
give up mo or give up her everlasting
dabbling in paint an I VHriiUht"
"Dear, dear," said Mrs. Fanshaw,
t!ic aeeond witch-like little old woman.
"A tri flit more sugar in my chocolate,
please, dear."
"For my part," obsoi veil Mrs. liar,
barn, "I don't know what this world in
coming to. In my time, vc used to
loavo that sort of work to the trade,
people. Hut Gladys had nu odd noiioti
about independence. And she it.horitcd
Fo.nu of thut artist blood from hor
father's family. There's titmo of il iu
Iho Bests, I'm very sine."
'No, to be sure not," said Mrs. Fan.
shaw.
"And I told Gladys plainly that 1
would not tolerate it," said Mrs. Bar
bara. "Chooo betwen us," said I.
"Be a lady or a grubbing artist, which
ever suits you best. llccau e," said I,
"If you don't coii.itlt my wishes I shall
disinherit yon, and cast you oil'! I
know of another young relation whom
I cun adopt, and who cares no more
for art than 1 do for llio Egyptian
obelisk."
"And what did she say?" asked Mrs.
Fanshaw, contentedly tipping her
chocola'e.
"Sho told mo to do just ns I
pleaded," answered Mrs. Barbara, in
I'ggrioved tonoof voice, "Because, -he
said, sho intended to tnko tho samo
privilege."
"What shocking ingratitude!" com.
moiled Mrs. Funshuw, heaving a deep
sigh.
"Of com so wo parted good friends,"
raid Mrs. Ba bara. "But Gladys
knows very well that I shall never
see Iter again. If she hit wrecked
her own fortunes, she has only herself
to thank for it."
"And whero is slio now'asko I Mrs.
Fanshaw.,
"In a studio, somcwhero on Sixth
avenue," solemnly answered Mrs. Bar.
barn. "With a sign out : 'Art (Sale,
room,' nnd 'Painting and Decorating
Dono to Order.' "
"Did you ever!" exclaimed Mrs.
Fanshaw.
And, by way of a:iswcr, Mr. Bar
bara only groaned:
"But I like Lovel very well." she
added, "lie's a splendid young fel
low, ul tho ugh I fcometiinos find his
college bills high and his flow of spirits
raUier overwhelming. But lie's a
gentleman. A real Best!"
"Does l.o know nbout Gladys?"
Mis. Fanshaw akcd, iua mysterious
whisper.
"Certainly not," said Mrs. Barbara,
"Ihero is just enough of the I on IJ.iix
ole about him to make him go to son
or luke to verse writing or some other
preposterous business if ho thought
lie was standing between Gladys and
her foitune which he isn't," Mrs.
Barbnra added wilh emphasis. "The
money is mine, to leave to whom I
please, nnd he is just as near a relation
on the side of the Bests, as Gladys is
on the Mnlthiuds!''
"Dear, dear, how silly young folks
arel" said Mis. Fanshaw.
"All 1 want lliem to know is that I
ii in not to be trifled with," said Mrs.
Barbara with tho air of a Nero, in !
black satin and little corkscrew
curls.
In tru'h Mr. Lovel Best was a frnnk,
1 yal-nutured, handsome young fel
low. He liked Aunt Ibubur.i because
Aunt Barbara wns kind to him, I lit
lie rallied her lo her face, Ica-cd hcr
at rot, made her pug baik, laughed
at the stiff old portraits of the dead
andgono Bests that bung on the par
lor walls, nnd kept astonishing her per
petually. But all tho time Aunt Bar
bara knew that Lovel v s fond cf Iter
in bis head, and it warmed her chill
old I ulscs to hug this knowledge lo
her.
"IIo's a wil.l chap," she said to her
self ; "but he'il couio out all right.
The Bests always do, when they have
had their fling. lie has uono of
Gladys's obstinacy abonl him."
And Gladys? Well, that head
strong young votnry of art lived on
the least possiblo amount of money,
nnd dreamed rapturously over hor
sketching-board. She had a very
littlu money, wh'ch her mother had
bequeathed her about sufficient to
rent tho little studio and pay the gas
and fuel bills.
"As for cnling mid drinking, what
does that signify?" said Gladys.
S she (auL'bt n clnss daily iu Miss
Mineiicr's Academy, to furnish the
bread nnd cliccso ni t of tho business;
and very tedious work sho found it.
"But I shall soil some of my plRcqn.es
and vaes soon," said she. hope
fully.
Sim did not, however. To bo a sue
cess ful ni list, ono intru have an appre
ciative public, nnd tho public never
eaino near poor Gladys Mnitlaud. In
vain slio decointed tho doorpost with
signs; in vain sho put outlier prettiest
paintings mid most spin vd sketches;
nobody caino to buy. The agencies
represented themselves ns overcrowded
when Gladys camo blushing in with
l ccimciis of her work, and our little
hnroliio begun to wonder how long
this sort of thing was to endure.
"Even Itosa Boiiheur didn't get rich
all at once,'' she comforted herself
by reflecting.
But one day there came a gleam of
li' ie athwart (lie Cimmerian darkness
of her prospects. As sho wns work
ing at her easel footsteps stumbled
up the semi-lighted stairs, and u knock
sounded at the door.
"Is this Miss Miiiland's studio?"
demanded a cheerful voice.
"Why," ciiod Gladys, drawing n
quick breath, "why, I.ovel!''
"It's Gladys!" exclaimed Lovel.
For the young con-in had mot tnco
years ngo at tho seaside, mid they
never had forgotten ono another.
"Why," cried I.ovel, nibbing his
forehead as if not quite certain but
that ho was dreaming. "I thought you
were adopted by some rich woman
hero in the city !''
"Art is the only mother that I
know," G adys answered, laughing.
" I hope you've brought me an order,
I.ovel."
" But I say," persisted I hi be
wildered law-student, " why don't
you coino nnd livo with Aunt
Barbara?"
" Oli, I've tried that," said Gladys,
shaking her head, "and we couldn't
get along at all together."
"Speaking of Aunt Barbara," said
Lovel, mysteriously, opening a paper
parcel on llio table " behold!"
Half a dozen bits of old china fell
out with a c ink nnd a clutter.
"Oil!" cried Gladys, stiffening
with horror. "It's Annl Barbara's
painted cliinal Oli, Lovel, how did
this happen?"
Mr. Best smote himself pathetically
on the chest.
"Like Georgo Washington," bo con
fessed, "I cannot tell a lie it was I!
I was doing my gymnastics iu the
storage-room Indian wnr-clubs nnd
all that sort of thing, you know
when, all of a sudden, I lost balance
nnd tumbled over tho pile of boxes.
Down they went I Aunt Best keeps
'em packed, you know, in caso of a",
cident, nnd, of course, the china must
needs bo under all tho rest, and got
the hardest thumps. '
"What did she say?" cried Gladys,
with uplifted hands und eyes shining
humility.
"Sho doesn't know," Lovel an
swered, with twinkling dimples
ii roil i id his lips. '!), you suppose I'm
going lo 'fess' before I'm obliged lo?
1 set.ed a pattern-cup broken in not
more than six pieces and lied franti
cally (o Iho nearest china-shop. They
recommended me here. To .Miss
Maitlaud, o. Sixth avenue. But I
never dreamed that 1 was coming lo
my old phiymatu? Now, Gladys, I
inn nt your mercy. Can these ruin
be repl iced or can ihey not?"
Gladys frowned, half closed her
lovely limpid eye, put'M'd up her lips
iu tho intensity of her attention, and
finally nodded her head.
Yes," she said. "But it will he,
oh, so expensive! First, wo must or
iler the china manufactured in just
that outre, iiuc'ent shape; then it must
le painted, piece by piece."
"Lei us hope, "said Lovel earnestly,
"that thero will be no grand family
festival lo use the china before "
Aunt Km bara never uses it," suid
Gladys. "She only unpacks it at in
tervals, to dream over the graudsur
other ancestors. Coinage, Lovel; 1
iliink wc shall save you yet 1 '
"But, Gladys," saidlhn young man,
wistfully, 'mayn't 1 (ell Aunt Bar.
bara (hat you are here, alone? lam
quite sun; sho would invito you to her
house, if "
Gladys colored to tho very roots of
her linir.
"If yon do, Lovel," sho said, "I
will forgivo you. No. Wo neithor
of us wish to see each other. Let
things remain as they are."
"But 1 may coino and see how the
cbiiin gels on ?''
"Oh, yes," said Gladys, brighten
ing, "you may come. But, mind,
not a word to Aunt Barbara."
Tho important business took time,
as all sueli things do, but drew to a
close nt lust, and ono day Iho box of
china now, yot such a perfect imita
tion of tho old ono thnt Aunt Barbara
herself cuild not havo told tho differ
ence was safely smuggled into tho
backdoor und up to tiio storage
rooms.
"Now," said Lovel, laughing, "I
shall breathe freely nt last."
Ho gave Gladys a chock for a
hundred and fifty dollars, but as she
took it ho looked earnestly at her.
"Gladys, darling," said ho, " I
can't keep my secret any longer. I
lovo you I"
" I know that, long ngo," said
Gladys, in the sweet, solemn way she
hud.
" And you, donrest?"
" I lovo you, loo," said Gladys.
" Isn't it tho most natural thing in
the world? But I am not going to
burden you with a penniless wifo.
Wo must wait until 1 nm a great
artist, you u prosperous lawyer."
Lovel Beat secretly made up his
mind that nothing of tho sort should
occur.
"I'll go homo nnd tell it all to Aunt
Barbara," lie resolved. "And if she
consents, nil right; if she doesn't, all
right, just Ihosnnic! Gladys is better
than a d zcu fortunes!"
But when be reached home, (he ser
vants camo to meet him with pale,
troubled faces. Aunt Barbara Best
had been found sitting dead in her
chair.
Her will, nil signed and scaled, left
all that sho had to Lovel Best. Gladys
Mailluud's uaino was not once mentioned.
But Gladys was co-heiress nil tho
samo as I.ovel's wife; nnd, perhaps,
had the old lady known il, sho would
not havo been displeased. For coming
death lifts the vail oil' our hearts, nnd
Mrs. Barbara hail tnoro than onco
wished that she had not been so sharp
and stern wil l Gladys Maitlaud.
The Ledger.
He Wag Off.
Thero was nu oldish couplo sitting
on a bench at the Bridge piers, when
Iho man suddenly caught sight of a
policeman coining up the proineundo,
ami he rose and walked down to meet
him.
"Docs this bridge connect New
York and Washington," he asked.
"Of ourso not," replied the of
ficer. "Is tint Brooklyn over there?''
"Yes, sir."
The old man went down into a coat
tail pocket and fished up a very long
and very black-looking cigar and held
it out.
"What is this for?" asked tho
officer.
Sli! Don't talk so loud I It is
for you. I want you lo do me
favor."
"Well?"
"I told tho old woman that the
bridge connected New York and
Washington. She sorter doubled
it. If she asks you tell her the same
thing."
"But you aro way off."
"1 know il, but I'm not so all fired
way (ff as I will bo if sho finds out
sho's right and I'm wrong 1 Why,
she'll want to keep right on living for
200 years more, in order to twit me
of it about (en times a day!" Now
York World.
A Grand Horseflesh Banquet.
It is really quite hard to account for
taste. The latest eccentricities of
Berlin, Geimany, gourmets and
more Ihnn half of them aro women
is a cravo for horseflesh. A grand
banquet of this meat is to take place
iu one of tho principal restaurants in
that city. Dishes prepared only from
this delicacy will be sorved, and the
menu comprises the following:
Ilorse broth with Tapioca.
Horse tongues glazed sml ornamented,
ilotsc brains a In Toulouse.
Rostt loin of horse. Cranberries.
HorscVt hrsil en tortus with ml ail.
A horse restaurant is iu courso of
construction, and a specialty will le
made of horse meat in its most attrac
tive forms Now York Commercial
Advertiser.
t'lllLDKEX'S ( OI.I M.V.
PASOMSS roil M'llol.Mt.
A qof little man kept na alplriliet simp,
Al ii out from his coll n t r. Inpptly hop,
(le dnnccd until be was ready to drop,
tiiiiinu mid shouting with newr u slop;
"t'oine in, littlu scholars
With bright ajlver dollars,
Or if you've not any
Then come with a pi nnj,
I have bumble its
And marrowfat I's,
Some Chinese Qs
Anil Japanese Ts,
A flock of J
And lo's of Es,
And perfectly beautiful dark-Mue Ts;
This is the place to buy your knowI"ils',
At cheaper rales than are Riien at coIli n''!''
Then he'd draw long hreath and spin lik
a top.
This queer Utile man in an alphabet-shop.
Anna M. I'ratl, In St. Nicholas.
THE (SUNT CttABS OF ENOSIIIMA, .TAI'AN.,
Kiioshima is an island lying some
thirty miles below Yokohama, At
low tide Knoshiina is a rocky penin
sula joined to tin land by a long sandy
bar. At high tide tho water covers
this sandy strip, nnd in times of heavy
storms also, the far-renching waves
make it an island and surround it with
foam. Enoshiina Is covered with
groves and niici'iit temples, and tli 'io
is even n temple far in under tin: is.
land, which one ran enter only r.l low
tide. Tea houses ami pretty snnincr
villas peep from the dense groves: nnd
while pilgrim resort l hero to , ray,
other people go to enjoy fisli dinners
and to buy all the curious shells,
sponges, corals, sea -weeds, nud pretty
trifles that can be mado of shells and
fish-scales.
The only unwelcome visi'or to this
beautiful beach is the giant crab,
whoso shell it about as largo as llint
of Iho green-turtle, whose eyes project
and wink, nud roll horribly, while
each of his clnws measure five nnd lii
feet in length. Tho ordinary visitor
does not meet Ibis crab walking up
tho beach in the daylight. Heavy
storms sometime sweep them in from
tho deep waters where Ihey live, and
the fishermen hunt them on the reefs
olT-sliore, or to their surprise bring
them up in their nets. Tho weight of
the crab and the thrashing of his claw
generally ruin the fisherman's net,
and he is an unpleasant fellow-traveler
iu a small boat. Such a crab in the
middle of a boat 13 feet long could
reach out at both ends of
it nnd nip iho men at bow
and stern; and his rench, measured
sidewise, in Iho real crab-fashion is
soniotimcs over twelve feet. The fish
ermen used to consider it bad lurk to
hnul up one of these eiabs in a net.
Thoy would make (pi ck work of
throwing Iho crab back into the water
and nftcrwnrd beg In iho hvo shrine
of lion ten Sama that (lie gods ( hould
not plague them with any moro such
luck. In this modern anil money,
making day the fishermen havo learned
thut one liig crab is worth more than
a whole netful of common fish.
Every perfect crab lauded oan be
sold for $o or more, and in time each
travels to a foreign country and be
comes the gem iu soino imr-oiii;i's col
lection of shell-fuh.
The fishcr-folk along ibis fur Pacific
strand (ell some stories ilmt -1'i'ko a
bather find this crnb ns dreadful ns tho
cuttle-fuh, which also inl.ablil lhee
waters. Thoy claim that the I'hf crnb
will fight fiercely when attack's'', nnd
will, without reason, nip at cy mov
ing thing. Then, too, they sy lliat
its eyes givo out light nud g'..r liko
balls of fire in the dark. .'"O'lie ro
velers coming homo very late itrhi the
tea-houses of the neighboring Tillage
of Katnflo havo been frighinuv sober
by seeing the beach full of tlr!se red
eyed crawling monsters, wbo-aek'd
their claw in tho air and ratl'i their
bodies over the stones as ihly gavo
chase.
In Japaneio fairy stoilof. these
crabs have run nwny with b fit littlo
boys nnd girls, haunted wicl ;d per
sons' dreams, nnd tnkoii otlusT part in
human affairs. The Kuoshiu a. crabs
were brought into modern English
fiction by Uider Haggard, iu t'j story,
"AlhiTi Qitait-rnian." Iu tt?t book
iho heroes came out from n?. under
ground firc-chiiiiiher and lorttd along
u deep and narrow canon. W". imi they
stopped to rest and cat, nny of
crabs camo up at the smell -.' food,
and rolled their eyes and ciatliid their
claws, until tliey frightened t .s heroes
aw ay.
Mr. Ilnggsrd says in a Vrt.noto
that ho had rend of these '.rubs in
some bjok of travel, and fyrroivod
them for this canon rcciio ' make
Allan (Jtiaitei main's advcu?u6v tho
more cxciiiiii.' Sr. Nichols"'
1
Foreign Honors.
I'l imus Johnson lolls mo .(icy gave
him the freedom of t lie city when ho
w In London.
Srcund i Well, it is possible, sou
know, that he mav have succeeded in
seltjug bail. LVtcb.
BIG FARMS.
Great Tracts of Land Under Cul
tivation in North Dakota.
Their Size and Value Dis
cussed by Senator Casey.
j Ono of tho biggest farmers in the
United Stales, nud thv man who con
trols perhaps :.s large an amount of
cultivated land ns any man in the
United Stales Senate, is Senator C'a-ey
j of North Dakota. Tho Carrington &
Casey Land Company has a largo num
ber of Mjiinro miles of Dakota land,
nud il has 6000 ncrcs under cultiva
tion. Senator Casey is the business
manger of this tract, and ho is one of
llio broailest-miuiled fanners in the
; country. Ho looks, however, more
like a scieiitilic liMcralrtir than a
f irmer. When asked the other day to
tell something of the big farm- in the
I Iniled States, in: repli ed :
" I suppose the highest farm in the
I'nil' d Stan s is iho D.ilrrmplo farm
which is located in the l'"d li ver
Valley, und belongs to Oiver 1 .!
rymplo. This farm contains "o.n-.io
acres of (lie i ichesi uf Dakota lands.
It is well farine I, and its output is
very large. The line.-l farm in the
I " it it oil Sales is the Gruuliu farm,
which belongs lo '.. II. nnd .1. I..
Griindin, who came from Tidei'tile.
Fa., soino years ago and bong . I a
largu tract of Dakota land. This
farm is m the II d I.'lwr Valley,
about twenty-live, miies north of
Fargo.
It has from 10,ihi ) to J ;.,o io ac -es
under cultivation, ii'id it has made a
profit of i? 10, o"u during the last ton
years. The lauds comp ing it are
now worth from ii.io to .'."in per ncr,
and Mr. Grand. u has other f u nis near
this, lie is one of the best farniei'i
in the country, and has as supi rintcn
denl Mr. A. W. Dalrvinple, a nephew
of O.iver Dairy tuple, who owns the
big farm. In addi icti to the-e farm
there nre in North Dakota a givut
number of farms ranuinii from limn
to fiOt'O acres. We have ;ihhi in one
place, and we keep V:" ;.ce (,f this
under ciiltvul io:i."
"II 'W can von m mage such a large
fin in y
"The big Dakota farm- tire run on
bllsitie-s principle.," rop;i.i. Senator
Casey. "F. cry ih'ti:; i- sv-nniati-cully
arranged, and we know j ex
actly what cverylhi'ig eo'ls and what
everything is wi itii to n-. A farm
liko ours, for in-ianre, has its book
keeper, its overseer and 'us employes.
We have i epul is evi rv day from tho
farm, showing just whit h is been
dono during the day and wha'. each
nan, eaeli horse an I each machine has
done. Wn estimate the wear und 'ear
of every machine, in proportion to tho
amount of work il doe and we credit
it with all the repni's and know its
lifo and vahl . Wc know j i-l what
encliiicreofwbc.it costs u tin I the
profits arising from it, and we can tell
to accllt just how mite t of an intcrcd
wc nre gct ing on the capital invested.
All farming of this kind is done on a
large scale.
"Wo have, for instance, twenty liar
vesiprs, and we can harvest :'.'.) acres
pf wheat n day. In putting in the
sVhcat we drill in about 2"u acres a
lay, nnd our machines ui) all worked
under the directions of a forem.au, so
that neither time nor labor is lo-t. In
thrashing we ran thrash from l'-'oO to
jpCOii bushels of wheat a day with one
machine, nud tho grain runs from the
thrashing machine into wagons,
find these aie dumped into the
pit of our grain eleva'.or and are
.carried by an endless chain of buckets
to tho rooms iu which we w ish it to
o stored."
"Do you not think, Senator, that
tho tendency of the times is toward
small farms rather than large ones?"
"No," replied Scna'or C.i-ey, "I
do not. I think everything points to
expansive farming. The t'aitus of the
future in this country wi.l be large
ones rather than small ones. Farming
becomes more of a business every
year, and Iho outlook is thai from now
on farming will bo one of the best
paying industries of the I'niied States.
The day of cheap lands is pa-.-Ing
away. There is very, little unoccupied
Government land left which is worth
anything, and the day has cine when
tho prices of ceieals inii-1 risr a id the
people must pny the fariuei - w hat
their products are wotth. Tim in
creased consumption of wheal the
world over averages 40,01111,1100
bushels every year, and ibis iucrcuo
will go on. The time wili c ine when
Ibero is lo-s wheat than the world
wants, nnd prices will have to ri-o lo
induce the farmers 10 rai-e it.
"As it is now it d es not pay to
raise wheat in ino-t part of the I'nitud
States. Tho State Board of Agricu-
t ire for Ohio lately investigated tho
imiltiT and found that it costs .20 1111
a -re lo rai-e w heat in that stale, and
the Secretary of the I'.oard of Trade
of Toledo made a -imiiar inve-liga'ioii
and found il cost $20 101 aero to raiso
wheat iu southern Mlchiian. Wo
find that it costs u- nbout .' per aero
for all the wheat we raise iu North
Dakota, and you cann t gel Iho farm
ers to raise wheat in Ohio until you
pay them a price thai will net them a
Kood percentage over the if'-'O that it
co-ts to rai-o it. I look for the time
when wheat will be a bushel,
and even ut this rate it will hardly pay
to raise it in some parts of the I'liioii.'
Condensed Medicines for the Army
Tin) method of supplying medicines
lo military organizations is undergo,
iug a revolution. The inedie'nes urn
now compressed into tablets, which
occupy but little of the space formerly
required. S inn idea of the perfec
tion which this art of compression has
been brought may be formed from th0
statement that if the contents of the
lobulation light wotxleu chest, about
twenty-three inches long, fourteen and
one-ha'f inches wide s.:,! seventeen
and throe-fourths inches high, iu which
are packed sixty square bottle", con
taining as 111 my dilVereiit kin Is of
1 lieine, were liipiilie I, an I in their
cii.loinary j us and bottles, thoy would
ocoupy nearly one-half the Fpace c f a
tegular fre:ghl eir. Twenty-live of
the most important medicines, such as
qniiiiue, enrhnrlic pill- and mixtures
designed to correct troubles uri-ing
from 1 he use of imp. ire water, aro con
mined in four nud twi-ounco bottles,
wlii'e medicines of loss importance and
ib maud aie curied iu half-nuiie' bot
tles; let till of them nre in tablet
form. Whi-kcv, brandy, alcohol nnd
ea-lor oil nre carried in larger bottles,
I tie ir ingredient rendering it impos-
ili!e to form tlietn into lab'ets. Cod
' liver oil is one cf the things th.v can
! J.' table!: 'd. Win n a certain medi
cine, s. iy H cough Olivine, i- needed
I ill quantities, si bottle leddirg a gi.l
I of the compressed tablets i- opiiva
1 lent to a gallon of li.pli'l, and should
the bottle break in transportation the
! merits of the lal h" are not impaired,
j due of these 1. 7. :i::o- or tabid con
tains all the i;t -e .-try ingredient of
j 11 famous liniment and when di-so'vo I
iu an until'.' of disti I. d water it heal.
, in"; pr per ties are the same as If it
Were in liiplid -h -p" O'ld iu :i I'':.' g 'i-s
jar. Ti e army niediciue 1 !e i.- w in
vogue w ei hs iibcm! eiirhty.th p MitM
; complete. ir"l tbei-ff. re two ; tie in
: can be ea-i.y eirriod by a p. o k ionic
j Courier .loiicna .
j l'lioto". Sent hj ire
j The ii aiiMiiis-ion of pieture by
I clectrieily is one of the bites; npplica
j lions of the subtle bill extremely ti-o-j
fill fluid, mill iho principle of ibis new
I di-covery is si mewbiit similar to that
I on which the telephone is based, use
1 being made of Varying degrees of
light, iniead i f sound, n in the tele
: phone. In order to send a picture
j over a wire it is first photographed
' on what photographers call a stripping
j film, composed of gelatine and bichro-
male of potash. After the pieitno is
transferred 10 Ibis li 1 tit the liitu is
warhoil with ltikcwnriii w.a or, by
which nil but the lines of the picturo
are icinoved, leaving llio photograph
iu I'o.icf.
The point of n liti.-ing apparatus,
when ill awn aeros-, this liltn from
side to side, rise and falls as it strikes
each linn of the picture. This we
like iiiolion of the tracer is made u-o
of to produce similar motion iu an
other tracing apparatus at the other
end of the line by means of c oopli
cated electrical iiiec!iau.-lii, and i n'li
depression and elevation in ll. e picture
is rcptodiic d in a waxen cylinder mi
the receiving instrument. To aecotli
p ish this it is iiece aiy lo go etitiiely
over the picture that is being trans
mitted, 11 neing linos acros ihe sur
face. A single line convey- no iileti
of Ihe picture, but a- they follow' each
oilier they gradually outline tho ob
ject. l'.lcctricity.
Iron's Greatest 1'nrtnj.
A French cheiu:-t lei discovered a
new proce-s for coating east-ii- .a Ves
sels with a li lii of lii.inel c oxide of
Ion so tliat exposure of the arliclcs to
the : 111 .sphere for consi.b rab'u lime
shows not a sign of rust.
The proi e-s consi-t- in depositing
by galvanic means a nielal or metallic
I nlloy which i- susceptible of volati.l.
j atiou at a temperature of about p.110
1 degrees. After receiving t,jp coating
I ihe at licles are si bjeeted to .1 heat of
looo ,. grees or more, accordin-j to
he lvqu led amount to cause the
! vohiti i ilion of the mei.ibir deposit.
! The forinaiiou of the magnetic ox
j ides by ihi- process is spoutaiieoii-,
I being perfectly adhesive and uniform.
1 i'liihi'lelphia Record.
A Song.
I stood upon Hie bill-top,
And beard the soft l.rfeze rln
An echo of the wild-bird
I pun its fru.'iaiit wing.
I saw the tiny-god slipping
Ailown the sky of blue;
I saw him kiss the flowers.
And then I thought of you.
I followed long the windings
of a gentle little stiaani.
Whose low croon seemed an echo
OI music in a dreain.
1 paused to pluck the cresses
That on the margin crew,
Itnt truaefly my thoughts, dear,
Would wander back toyou.
And when the day was failed
Ami shadows felt apace.
I closed my ryes in siuinber
To si r again your face.
Your kle-ulfast eyes were tender
With love so fond and true,
Tlmt all my dream ;i brightened
Jty Hint brief K'iiii"-e of yoll
L. Wyiie, in New Vorlt Advertiser.
IH'MOIfOrS.
The slugger
make
monev
hand
over list.
The proper breakfast faro for
athletes : Turnovers.
The smuggler appear to be a fellow
who has no great amount of respect
for the customs of the country,
i " There's a great ai l," says Mickey
Dolan. "in know in' what not to know
whin ye don't want to know it."
t When a tramp is fortunate enough
! to get hold of Ihe upper poi lioi of a
; roasted fowl be generally makes a
' clean breast of it.
"What drove thii poor man insane,
doctor?" "He tiled lo figure out hi
wife's reasons for selling the clock
; iihead whenever the wished lo get up
; early."
j Mother (reprovingly) to litllo girl
I ju-t ready to go f r a walk): Dolly,
i that hole was not iu your glove this
: morning. Dolly (promptly) : Whero
I was it, then?
I lb- (despairingly 1 : It doesn't mat
ter if I have got luis of money, I cull
not forget thai my grandfather was 11
stage. driver. She (sweetly ) : That is
all right. V011 can refer lo your an-
1 cestral haul without going into par
ticulars. A little girl being sent to 11 drug
slote lo buy some dye sltilf, and for
gelting the name of toe article, snid
to the shopman: 'h:it do folks dye
with?'' "Why, with 1 holera, some
times," ho replied. 1'hen," said tho
linle girl, "give me livo cents'
worth."
Trump ho Steal i'ide 011 Tritins.
Slid :l I'elilisvlv.llii.i conductor, "f
have found tramp iu more odd posi
tions on a ft eight trai'i than you
would imagine ever existed. But,
for thai matter. 1 have ecu them bid
nwny in the wood. 11 ve-iibules of a
mail train. That is f..st (raveling. but
not coiuforlublo, for they must stand
bolt uptight wi.liout moving or (hey
will bo delected. You know how
many trainmen lake pity on a well
meaning felloe nud let him through,
even in the conches. They crawl in
' between two teats with the backs re-
: versed. These are not generally pro-fcs-ioual.
But on freight cars I hnvo
often found ihciil slowed away ill 11
j big water main 011 top of n flat car.
; Voti may find a dozen (lamps in a CTir
1 load of mains. Tramps cnti't very
well rido on tho trucks of freight
' cars; they would get thrown off com
iug around a sharp curve. But ex
press and baggage car trucks allow
room enough to get a good hold.
"Still, I have found them riding
underneath freight oarsiu what would
soi 111 to be in. ire perilous places than
(u tho truck.
"Many of ihe larger cars have long
connecting rods reaching from one
truck to tho oilier, underneath, to
braco the car up under the heavy
weight. Sometimes there lire throo
or four of these rods, a foot or so
iipurt and parallel. They i,rc stretched
over a bridge six or eight inches high,
like Ihe strinur over the bridge of a
fiddle. There i- plenty of room for
Mr. Tramp to lie in between, nnd if ho
happens to have 11 small board along
ho can travel very romfoi tably,
ns I have frequently seen them.
"Tramps are a necessary evil and I
know of no way of getting rid of
them. Some conductor givo lliem a
lift, even letting them 1 i lo in Iho ca
boose if a man is at all decnut, but
this is against the rub's. I expect this
par ly .accounts for the groat distances
that you hear of their traveling. But
where you have a veiy long Iraiu it is
impo-ibio always to keep them off.
nnd when they arc on, ami the train is
iu motion, you don't suppose that
bi tikemiiii is going to run the length of
'evenly-live coal cars lo have a tussle
w ith one of those fellows, do yon?
A brakeman's life is worth a trifle,
even if a hump's isn't." New York
t-un.