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V inn w. Wear rncnsDKY bt T. Editor ani Proprietor. ALLSBUKY, N. C. PrTcEOF SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 Oa: Year Six Months. . . Tame Months 1.00 5u Advertising Itates by contract, leasombl'. EnterYat the-Poit-OOisc. at Salisbury as Mccon'i-cliiS-t rnitter. S George- du Mmrier. tho English 'so ciety" artist, -is authority for the state ment that women are growing taller, blonder and generally healthier. The Boston Transcript remarks that n mild winter is just as old fashioned a? a cold winter, the only difference beinc that the oldest inhabitant never remem bers the former. The honor of" perpetrating the longest n.essagc ever sent to a State Legislature belongs to Governor Pitt:son, of Penc- His message recently trans it - mitted fill yghteen solid columns of the Piuladelrf papers. AccorJg to the report of the Pal! Mall Gspttc, Spurgeon'g successor, Dr. Piersoy told his congregation recently that t .Bible which he use3 in his ser viccsere contains no less than 500, OOC notnpy his own hand! lie. ha3 beeo usif this Bible over ten yea. !he Paris Exposition of 1885 cost ,000,000: the London Exposition o! .62, $2,300,000 ;. the Vienna Exposi oo. of 1873, $7,850,000; the " Pari' Exposition of 1889, $6,500,000. The cost of the Columbian Exposition will, it is estimated, reach the sum of 22, 000,000. The San Francisco Examiner observes: Mechanical skill had perfected a lock that was warranted to defy the most ac complished burglar. Along came ar unpretentious thief, armed with a. bristle from a pig's back and opened the perfect lock just a little-easier than it could have been done with a key. Mechanical kill has, it is hoped, not reached the climax of development. The New Orleans Picayune maintains that "attempts at raising sheep on a large scale in Georgia have failed, from the fact that the entire country is iniested with dogs, which are more destructive of sheep than ever were the wolves, foi the extermination of which large sums of money have been paid. Not only docs this plague of dogs exist in Georgia, but also in all the other Southern States." Oregon furnishes an instance that re calls to the San Francisco Examiner the account oi the proceedings of the Scien tific Society of the Stanislaus. A skull was digged up at Baker City believed to be of prehistoric man, photographs taken, aud one of them sent to Professor Con don, naturalist of tho State University, for interesting study and scientific essay. The professor quickly declared the pal pable classificition. It had belouged to an ox of very thick skull and very little brain. The late Jay Gould is reported to have said: T don't think 1 ever had an am bition, except to break the world and to see what it will say about me when I am dead. No niaa will be cruel enough tc ay what be really thinks of me when I amleavl." In pursuance of an arrange ment made by Edwin Gould, shortly after his fa'ther's death, he has received 20,000 newspaper clippiugs of obituary notices; 1, 000 ofthese were takeu from the press of the United State and Canada, 3000 from the British news papers, two from Turkish publications, ndthe remainder from France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Holland and Spain. "The well-known character of the ma jority of these clippings," remarks Pub lic Opinion, "renders comment unuccei- aarv. England in India is finding a new tor mentor. The natives over there have a ; 'National Congress" which ha? ar.auai meetings, and although this body has no legislative powor. nor, indeed, any con nection with the Imperial Qovcrainenr, it does much talking that shows the native's to be quite as intelligent and thougbTful as their present rulers. Seven hundred delegates attended the last meeting, and although.their resolutions were couched in respectful language they were highly radical in tone, regretting that the people were not allowed to elect representatives to the viceroy's council, and asking the Government not to meddle with the sil ver question until the natives could thoroughly discuss it. The more intelli gent natives, thau whom there arc no longer-headed people alive, admit that England's method of rule is better than that which it displaced in India, but they are just a3 persistent as the Irish in longing forborne rule. As for England, she has for a century bcea taking expen sive yet valuable lessons in the art ol letting foreigners alone, so her always terrifying Indian question may jet be ttled by allowing the natives to maa - aheir own affairs, with a figure head . pt the results for the crown, jusff jtuns b orzanixiiur eemtmhm 'Ut-mtuurr omninUcrf ta J ' The new Governor of Colorado want3 the acceptance of a railroad pass, by a State official to be made a penal offense. Modern charity, according to the New York Independent, is developing along two lines the line of personal contact and the line of scientific method. Itfs claimed that over $30,000,003 has beeD invested in the phosphate busi ness of the South, and that the business Las been overdone, at least, temporarily. Ten of the twenty-seven Governors Missouri has had came from Kentucky, and an almost equally large percentage of Illinois's Executives were ot Blue Grass ancestry. Vermont sheep are among the best in the world for breeding purposes. Tuey are sold in Texas, Anstralia, South America and warm countries generally, to improve the strain. English millers and bakers find there is a remarkable difference in the flavor of American wheaUfrom different sections of the country. They pronounce Cali fornia wheat to be dry, starchy, and in sipid; that from the prairie States to be strong, glutinous, and well flavored, while that of the Atlantic seaboard, and especially from the southern portion, is milder and still better flavored. Says the San Francisco Chronicle: "It is the custom of the Eastern play wright when he wishes to depicit the newly enriched millionaire to select hi type from California. This may sound better on the bills and it may free hira from intelligent criticism, for the aver age Eastern man's idea of California and Californians is like the Briton's conception of the North American In dian. But the dramatist could find more perfect types of the ignorant ,and con ceited plutocrat in New York City than in any other place in the country. The metropolis is a great magnet which .at tracts millionaires from all parts ot the country, and the number of those who have risen from the gutter is far greater than of those who have inherited wealth for three generations." Says Once A Week: "The South no longer sends away its entire output of raw material it now turns thousands of tons of cotton into its own mills, to be made into cloth; it raises millions of bushels of corn and wheat, instead of buying them up North and paying freight on them; from its own mines, furnaces and mills it gets much of iron, in all forms, for home consumption, and Southern forests are being turned into furniture, wagons, agricultural imple ments, etc., in home factories. All this tends to decrease the volume of railway traffic, but it certainly increases the prosperity and self-reliance of the South. Railways in some of the newer Northern States have suffered from similar causes, but the communities forged ahead all the same. It does no barm once in a while that raijway3 were made for the people not the people for railways." According to the Golden Rule the Christian Endeavor Societies in the United States are distributed as follows: New York is still in the van, with 2778 societies. Pennsylvania has 19S9; Illincis, 1618; Ohio, 14S7; Iowa, 1096; Massachusetts, 1092 ; Indiana, 939 ; Kan sas, 902; Missouri, 705; New Jersey, 699; Cbnnecticut, 678; Minnesota, 673; Michigan, 651; Wisconsin. 5S6; Maine, 523; California, 516; Nebraska, 473 ;i Vermont, 319; New Hampshire, 272 Mayland, 222 ; Colorado, 219; Tennessee', 212; Oregon, 201; Texas, 197; Wash ington, 171; South Dakota, 167; Ken tucky, 166; Rhode Island, 134; Ar kansas, 116; Florida, 108; Georgia,-It?, West Virginia, 89; Virginia, 77; Ala bama, 71; District of Co'umbia, 6$; Utah, 58; North Dakota, 54; North Carolina, 53; Louisiana, 47; Delaware, 35; Montana, 35; Oklahoma, 33; Soutii Carolina, 29; Idaho, 28; Indian Terri tory, 22; Mississippi, 16; Wyoming, 16; New Mexico, 9; Arizona, 6; Nevada, 3; and Alaska, 2. The waste problem confronting an ef fective scientific method is graphically put In figures by Alfred Bishop Mason in his article, "Tilings to Do," contrib uted to a recent issue of the Charities Re view. Referring to New York City, 3Ir Mason says: "The charities of our im perial city are imperial too. This com- munity is said to spend each year in pub lic and private charity hot less than 10,000,000. These figures tell a terribTe truth. An investment of $1000 in a productive) industry is supposed to be the steady employment of one man. The unit of industrial population in the family of five father, mother and three children. If then, the 10,000,000 which will go into charity in 1S92 were invested in productive industries, it could give permanent employment to 10,000 men and could thus support .10", - 000 families or 50,OJO souls. If this could be repeated year by year, until the birth of the Twentieth Century, 1931 would see 500,000 people permanently- supported in self-respecting toil by the moneys which New York will ; spend in this decade in her eternal, weary and iplendid struggle against the forces which make for unrighteousness. Will our charities in this decade count for as much? Will they make 50,000 people much less 500,000, aeU iupportiog, and seix-respectiDst ' A. MODERN VALENTINE,' Pve written it, love, with a stiff steel pen; Jror tne geese, i trmierstand. Are so learned, now, that their ouills t trow. Must supply their own demand. Tve secured it, love, by the aid of glue. Instead of a strand of hair. Which I cannot obtain, for 1 see, with pain, I have really none to spare. I send it to you by the postman, love: ror Cupid, I grieve to hear, Is afraid of the cold, and has -rrown so old That he doesn't go out this year. But the message is ever the same, my love. While the stars their course fulfil. Thouzh to me and to you it may seam quite new, ; Tis the old, old story stiU. C. W. Latimer, in Harper's Magazine. THE PIECEOF GOLD. BT JAMES VAUGnX. -HERE are times in every circle of story tellers, when a spirit of reverie seems to come upon every one. Thus it when the was learned judge of the court, sit ting with his friends, had re lated an instance of one who through trying to defraud a sis ter cf her "share in the father's property, out witted himself and came to a miserable, end. For several minufes nc one snotce At last, the lawyer said: "Gold is worse than an enchanter; it is a demon. As you said, juage, men will sell their very souls for its posses sion, it any one of us could be eriven the power of seeing all the passions and motives of men laid bare, it would drive him crazy in a day. If what men con ceal could be opened to the light, how men would recoil from their own doings ! It is only by concealment that the petty, the mean, the dishonest can be satisfied with themselves." "Very true," said the judge, still in clined to be silent. Another spell of musing, which was broken by the lawyer. "I oace had a queer experience in my own practice, in lact as odd a case as I ever knew. One of rav first clients ih New York was a wealthy, retired merchant, named Ber trand. He lived very simply, alone ex cept for his housekeeper, in a retired, but very respectable part of the city. He had a nephew, Frank Bertrand, a broth er's son, whom he regarded as a scape grace, and witn wlion ne was not at all on good terms. "Frank seemed to mc to be a modest, sensible sort of a fellow, and I wondered at the old man's feeling towards hire, when he was the only relative he had in the world. My curiosity arbused, I pon dered the matter somewhat, and came to the conclusion that the fault was the old man's, not Frank's. He was rather high spirited and wilful about making his own way in the world and doing as he pleased with himself, instead of allowing his rich uncle to dictate what he should do. This seemed to be the extenc of his offence, so far as I could learn. The old man was testy and choleric, and childish about having his own way (a family trait, I guesO, and not only for bade the nephew the house, but required me to nrake his will, cutting Frank off with only a very insigniScant sum. Ail the i est of his large property he gave to his housekeeper, because, as he said, she had been kind to him, and would take care of him as long as he lived. I talked with Frank about this disposition ol the property and advised him not to throw away such a chance but to attempt a reconciliation with his uncle, so he might change his will. The young fellow was obdurate and would promise nothing. He was an artist and his whole soul was in his work. This his uncle detested more than all else as a species of vaga bondism he could never tolerate. No reconciliation was possible while this re mained, ana I could not help admiring the boy's energy and spirit when he de clared he would not give up his profes sion for all the fortunes in New York. He said he had no ill wili against bis uncle, his property was his own to do with as he pleased ; he spoke pleasantly of his uncle's peculiar notions, his tem per and bis-weaknesses, and mentioned the housekeeper kindly as one who had treated him well. As he left my office I said tc myself, 'Well, Frank Bertrand, you deserve a fortune it you don't get one. A man has reason to be proud of such a nephew as you.' "Not a month after that interview word was brought me that Mr. Bortrand had been found murdered in his library. I summoned the best detective I knew of and hastened to the spot. An en trance had been made through the or dinary passages of the house, as there was no breaking. The victim had been struck from behind as he sat in his chair. The instrument used was a heavy one; the skull had been crushed and death was instantaneous. At first we thought not a thing in the room had been touched, but the housekeeper called my attention 'to the fact that a nugget of gold which remained attached to a piece of its quartz matrix, the single geological specimen and; curio which adorned the library, was missing, as well as the little velvet lined box in which it had rested. Every thing else was in its usual place as if nothing had happened there. This was our only clue, and . to my . astonishment and iismay it speedily led to the arrest of Frank Bertrand a I the murderer. "I had formed so good an opinion of the boy, and his m:nliness seemed so cer tain, that I found it hard to believe that he was even accused of murdering his uncle. T,hat hef'wa3 guilty was to my mind beyond the bounds of probability. I resoluely put I tat down for a fact. It being learned tpat he was seen in the vicinity of the ilou?e at the time of the murder, the detective went to his room to interview h:n as to his knowledge of the affair, and found him standing in the middle of the apartment in a state of ex- citement. and! holding m his hand that same tell talj jo r bed was he nugget of gold. So ab- tin it that he did not notice Ihe quiet apprl ach of the officer until he was close upoi him. Then he made a movement asi if to hide the nutrset. It was a perfectn case of circumstantial evi dence againk him. Being arrested he uapetuotnir 1 defied his accuser, and V would have resorted to violence against them, had I not appeared on the scene and bade him desist. Seeing me he burst into a flood of tears. "I demanded a further investigation of the case, but the detective informed me that it would be useless to look further for the murderer. 'Of course, my first move was to secure a calm, rational interview with Frank. This was in his cell. I will not repeat his indignant declarations ojf in nocence, nor his pitiful appeal to me cot to believe it of him. How came he by that piece of gold, and whv was he at his uncle's house? ' Those were the ques tions to be answered. " 'I can answer the last easv enough, he replied, but about the nugget I know no more than you.' " 'You were taken with it in your hands,' I said. r " 'I know it; I naj just taken it from my pocket." . 'How came it in your pocket?' " 'I don't know.' 'Well, that's singular, to sav the least, saiu x.. Now, how came there?' . ' . you " 'Mr?. Bland uncle wanted to called and said my see me. I went, of course. "3Irs. Bland waUhe housekeeiier. I I f huht 1 hf a ffc uid ucij u-, v "uiiucj puiwy. uui you see her when you got there?' I asked. " 'I saw no one there,' Frank replied. My ring was not answered. I tried the door and it was fast. I did not want to disappoint him after he had kindly sent for me, so I attempted to go in the back way as I had used to do. i but I fouuu that fast also. Then, as I ; could rouse no one, I turned and came away. When I had got back in mv room somewhat nonplussed at not being admitted after my uncle had sent for me, I happened to put my hand in my pocket, and found there the nugget. I knew it was my uncle's for I had often seen it there, and how it came to be in my pocket was a mystery that excited me somewhat. It seemed like witch craft.' " 'Devil-craft more likely,' said I who was now more mystified than ever. I did not doubt the truth of Frank's story in the least. 'Some one put it in your pocket to throw suspicion on you; but how, and when, and where? Did Mrs. Bland come close to you when she came to say your uncle wished to see you?' . " 'No. she did not come in. She left word at the door. But irom my window I saw her go by. I'm sure it was her, but she could not have put the in my pocket.' nugget "I may a3 well say here that the housekeeper had been investigated aid was conclusively proved to be elsewhere when tne murder occurred. Was she an accomplice?' was the question I was pondering. A thought occurred to me. 'Did you find in your pocket the little velvet-liued box, that held the nugget?' I asked. " 'No, there was nothing but the piece of gold, that I saw,' Frank replied. 'I went straight to Frank's lodgings and made a careful search. I searched the Bertraud mansion for the missing box, but found nothing. "Mrs. Bland seemed very much dis tressed over what had happened and was much concerned for Frank. She de clared she didn't believe a word of the story that he was guilty. She said his uncle called to her from his room, as he often did, and directed her to call Frank. As she was going to a neigh bor's she stopped on the way for her er rand. She locked the house behind her On leaving, as was her custom, and found it locked on her return. She did not see Mr. Bertrand when he spoke to her; only heard his voice. . "I then went to my office and shut myself into my private room to quietly analyze the situation. Who, besides his housekeeper had a motive for murdering Mr. Bertrand? I pondered the question over and over again. That there was an answer to it, I was sure. But who had that mctive. That once settled fairly in my own mind, I would look further for the little box. I could easily see how Frank Bertrand had a strong existing motive to keep his uncle alive until he should m.ke a different will. Iu his death he lost all hope. Only sudden anger under strong provocation could have moved him to the deed. But he was already out of my suspicion. "I am a great believer in motive a3 the lever that moves human being3 m the commission of all deliberate crimes. That it was not mere robbery, in this case, wa3 evident since only the nugget of gold was taken, and that I attributed to a momentary fancy rather than to any previous intention. It could not be hatred, for the old man had not an enemy in the world that we could" discover. It must then be greed of some sort, some advantage to be gained though Mr. Bertrand's death. Here was another dilemma. His house keeper was to have all the property, and she could not have co nmitted the murder. It must then be somebody reaching further, somebody hoping for gain through her. But the old woman had not a lelative in the world that I had ever heard of. She had lived very many yeare in the family, and I thought her relatives would have been heard from, if there were any greedy enough to commit murder in order to give her property which they might not get after ' all. Had she a lover? "The thought struck ms with such a sense of its affording a solution of the mystery, that it was like an electric shock. She would not marry while Mr. Bertrand lived ; his death would make her free, and besides would make her wealthy, two great points to be gaiued, which might have a strong influence on a weak minded man. I was sure also from the taking of the nugget, that whoever he was he would be found to have been a miner or a collector of ores or minerals. Full of my new idei, I started out to investigate. "I had great faith in Mn. Bland's honesty in the matter, but I did not think it prudent to go to her now for information, for I had not proved her intern ty as I hid Frank's, and she might, if aa accomplice, give a warning tw would defeat my purpose. I went to the few persons she'was intimate with and made cautious cqwutc "v. wntlomen friends. It is almost needless o to say I found one. He was a tall gaunt fellow, and swarthy, like those who have been much exposed to ths sunlight. He had been a miner in Australia. Mrs. Bland had confided to a female friend that the maa proposed, bat he refused him. 'because Mr. Bertrind.' I ttrai-ht to Mrs. " she could not leave now decided to go Bland and ask if this man knew of the contents of the will. Tears came intc her eyes as she admitted that he did. She had inclined to favor his proposal, and had agreed to marry him alter Mr. Bertrand's death. 44I found where the man had his lodg ing, and taking an officer made all haste there. His rcom was shabby enough, but ah, there were the minerals, as I had surmised. We arrested him as the mur derer of Henry Bertrand, and after some search among his rather mixed belong ings found there the box with the velvet lining. "When that wi3 brought forth, hia defiant manner fell away from him and he begged for mercy like a child. He confessed all, even to brushing against Frank Bertrand on his way home, to slip the nugget intc his pocket. At the time of the murder he caoght sight of the gold lump, and was suddenly possessed of a fancy for it. Realizing later how dangerous was its possession, he dis posed of it to throw suspicion upon Frank. All my theories were thus curiously verified." The lawyer paused, apparently at the end of his story. There was one present who had the general appearance of a de tective, who had been carefully follow ing his narrative. He asked : "Pardon two questions, sir. now came the murderer in the house without the housekeeper's knowledge, and who was it sent for the nephew?" "I was going to tell you that present ly," said the narrator. "The fellow explained that he had been determined for some time to get Mr. Bertrand out ol the way, as that meant for him both a wife and a fortune. He had been wait ing for an opportunity. Gang 'to the. house that day, he found the door unfastened aud slipped in and concealed himself. He heard the old man give directions to have Frank called, and heard Mrs. Bland say she was going to stop awhile with a friend. Fortune was favoring his plans. Not only that but the fear came that Bertrand wa3 relentina towards his nephew and might spoil a'l his hopes unless speedily despatched. Frank Bertrand would be brought to the house just in time to be accused ol the deed. It was the propitious time. "The blow fell, the old man passed tc his reward, and he fled. To his annoy ance the door locked with a spring behind him, and Frank, whom he was watching as he came, could not get in. Then came the thought to fasten the crime on him more severely by putting the nugget in his pocket. "It has been truly said that men com mitting great crimes alwavs do some act or leave some act undone, despite ail their precautions, that tells the tale of their wroag doing. So this man, whe seemingly had all his plans perfect, in his eagerness and excitement, forgot tc put on Frank's person the box as well as its contents, and now it rose up a con clusive witness against him." "Now I've got a question, " ventured another listener. "What did the old lady do with the property? Did she hunt up another husband, or, as some of them do, give it to an asylum?" "Neither. She was a really good woman, and was struck with horror at the villainy of the man who wanted to marry her for her prospective money. I think that every day, for she is now living, she thanks the Lord that sue es caped the fate of marrying him. She turned the whole property over to Frank, saying she had no doubt his uncle would have relented toward him if he had lived. She lives with him, making a home for him like a mother, and they think a great deal of eac'i other. The piece of gold and the velvet box which played so important a part in the tragedy of their lives, still rest in their old place in the library. Yankee Blade. Big Cotton Stalks. "Yes, I have seen the big cotton stalks grown in India and the cotton plantations of the Brazos bottom in Texas," said Alonzo T. Yerger, of .Way- cross. Ga.. at the Southern, "but down in Washington County, Mississippi, they grow cotton stalks not stalks either, because they are trees that beat any and all things in the cotton line that I have ever seen or heard of. Why, on a plantation belonging to one of the Wil- zlnky's, which firm failed the other day. 1 saw a field of cotton that looked like a forest of sycamore trees. The cotton plant had grown to an enormous size. almost as large as trees. Colored children had to climb them in order to pick the fleecy staple. When the crop is gathered along in February the tenants cut down the stalks and chop them up for fire wood. The wook makes a bright and hot fire, burning as quickly as fat pine. I saw one of the stalks exhibited t Greenville a few davs ago that had borne 1151 bolls, and the cotton in the seed weighed 120 pounds. According to that rate it would require only twenty stalks to make a bale. But, of cour.e, there are but few specimens of such phenomenal irrowth recorded in the world's history." St. Louis Republic. The World s Shipbuilding. The statUvtic3 of the world's ship building in 1892 sho w a large tonnage. notwithstanding the depression that pre vailed in the industry during the year. l ae London iron states that lou ves sels were constructed las year in the ship yards of the world, aggregating 1.451,919 ton, or a diminution of only 37.996 tons compared with 1391. The two greatest centeis of the shipbuilding industry point to fairly important in creases, the Clyde total for 1892 being 33C.4U tons, against 326.475 tons in 1891, and that of the Tyne 207,210 tons, against 185,233 tons in the previ ous twelve months. Outside of the British yards the slackness of the trade seems to have been most acutely felt, for the tonnage built bv the United States and Canada is given as 22.213 tons only, compared with 63,813 tos in 1891, while the continent of Europe con tributes out 1 1 y.ta tons, in compari son with 157,632 tons in the preceding year. Contagion S.read in School Pencil. The experience of Detroit, JLch., shows that contagious diseases are easily spread iu ways that seem perfectly inno cent. In that city the scholars in the public schools get oce pencil to-day and another to-morrow, all the pencil being dropped into a box at the close of school vh dav. Children have the natural habit of putting pencils into their mouths frequently and in this way diphtheria om?ht to be discontinued wherever it 1 rvistla Precaution in smau uungs u often more neceuarv thta la Urge way, York TribMC. . POPlJLAIt SCIENCE. Cork is about stance. the most buoyant sub- The microsccpists say that a mosquito has twenty-two teeth. Yawning is caused by a deficiency la the air supply to the lungs. The carbons of electric arc lamps are now being made of powdered graphite, instead of coke. Scales are now made that will weigh the flame ol a candle or the smallest strand of hair plucked from the eyebrow. In England farmers always soak their seed in bluestone of vitriol to prevent smut and rust. A pound of vitriol to four bushels of wheat is the proportion used. Variations in the size of raindrops are attributed to atmospheric disturbances and to the heteht from which the fall. those from a high altitude being much the smaller. The new screw propeller of English origin ha3 two flat blade? in the usual form, but the remaining two, which are opposite each other, arc looped, so that they form practically a revolving figure S. The platinum beds in the Ural Moun tains in R ossia are the only ones in the world iu which that metal is found in grains. In several places it is to be found imbedded in the hard .serpentine rock. but only in the Ural in grains. A recent inventioa is a new type of refrigerator car that can be run for twenty days without re-icing. It is charged with ice and certain chemicals, the com bination maintaining a freezing temper ature during this long period. It is said that a really indelible ink and a kind of vinegar can be produced from the juice3 contained in the banana peel. The fiber of the peel, it is said, can also be utilizad in making cloth of great strength and remarkable beauty. An Ottawa (Canada) electrician claims to have discovered a process for utilizing electricity for light, power or heat, so as to abstract the heat from cast iron blocks until they are reduced to the temperature of ice. He claims that this can bo done at a price to compete favorably with the latter. London scientists have recently de monstrated that the purest air in the cities is found about twenty-five feet above the street surface. Heretofore it has been thought that the highest floors in tenement houses had the best air. The investigations above referred to show that the healthiest apartments are those on the third floor. An Exciting Time on a Hand-Car. "Undoubtedly," said II. G. Orcutt, "the most exciting experience that! ever had was in Iowa on one of the big trunk lines that cross the State. It was a ride on a hand-car. Now, I have never been a section boss, neither have I been a railroad employe in my lile, but a com bination of mishaps secured me a night ride on one ot them. I was in the town of Emporia, and I wanted to get to Strong, a little town some hfteen miles iartner west. uiy ODject was to see a m . . W 1 leading merchant of that town who was, I understood, to leave at nine that night, just a half hour before I could reach the town by the regular tram. The clerk intimated that I might ride to Strong on a hand-car. ' Some necessary work had delayed the section gang at Emporia, and now, at eight o'clock, they were preparing to return. I found the boss, told him my object and my distress, and asked him to take me aboard. We started, and after we had gone some twelve of the fifteen miles, working along at a good rate, we were startled to hear the whistle of an engine in the di rection of Emporia, and directly in the distance we could see the dim gleam of a headlight. Something was wrong. No train was due over the line for fully an hour and ten minutes. We did not stop to argue the case. The train would be on us before we could throw the car off. The order of the section boss was to keep ahead of the engine, if possible, until we passed Strong, thinking, no doubt, that the approaching train would stop there. We worked like Trojans. Eerybody laid bands on the power-bar and worked for dear life. My, but we made that hand-car fairly sinj! We kept ahead of the train for at least a mile and a half. Then it ran into us, but we were going so fast that the shock was slight, .1 would not like to repeat the experience." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.' The L'nirendty ot Fez. A very interesting artie'e in the Fort, nightly Review is Sir. Bonsai's account of the University of Fez, the students of which spend the greater prt of their time in love-making. Judging by the specimen whic'a Mr. Bonsai gives of the kind of information which is impaired under the name of geographical science, they do not lose much learning by their diversion. The map of the world, as used by the University of Fez, is the most extraordinary production that any geographer ever sketched. Eoglaod is represented as a small, unnamed island, lying immediately to the south ot Thibet; Spain lies on the other side of E ypt, immediately to the south of the 3Ie liter ranean or White Sei. JJu'garia lie to the north of tne Russian Empire, beins sandwiched between the Russian and GDjj and Magog. Mr. B-oasal aays that he does not believe that therr ii either a student or professor attached to the university who has any mugiviogs iu his mind but that tois map is a perfectly correct representation of the world. Toe map contains no allusion whatever to the existence of America, Australia or any European country, with the excep tion of. Russia, Bulgaria and Spain. Among the other faculties ot the univer sity are astrology, divination and alchemy. The professors at Fez are firmly convinced of their immeasurable superiority to the rest of the world in every branch of knowledge. Oiher uni versities- are, in their opinion, onlr fctra.'gling schools, where the false knowledge and the o lac it art are taught; and they are quite convinced that there are no learned men outside of Morocco. -New York liecorder. The Dromedary Parcel Post. The dromedary parcel post service in the German territories of south we.rera Africa has given results better than were expected. The dromedaries are adapted to the climate, are not affected by tne I made foot-sore in stony regions and do i not bullct airame isim woea aeprivea of water for . week. They trnel carrying a weight of 250 pounds, 1 as aa ox team. Now York Wita as fast Wttaesa. KISSED HIS MOTHER. She sat on the porch in the sunshiaa As I went down the street A woman whosa hair was sil ver. Bat whose face was blossom sweej Making me think of a garden Where, in spite of frost aula Of bleak November weather Late fragrant lilies grow. I I heard a footstep bebin 1 ma And a sound of a merry iai And I knaw the heart it cam Would bo like a comtort!n In th. t!m mn.i tha MlT C? ' One of the hearts to loan c When we think that thi ; So wrong. I turned at the click of th And met his macly look A face like his gives me r L-ate latch Like the page of a pe8j It told of a steadfast t ur Of a brave and dar.a-r. wl A face with a prom is? it) That God grant tii ? years UfilL He went up tha pathway sit I saw the woman's eyes Grow bright with a wordless wl?om. As sunshine warms the skies. 4Back again, sweetheart- mother P He cried and bent to kiss The lovrnj face that was lit ted For what some mothers miss. That boy will do to depend on; I hold that this is true; From lads in love with taeir mothers ' Our bravest heroes grew. Earth's grandest hearts hava been lovi hearts Since time and earth bean, And the boy who kissel his mother Is every inch a man ! Eben E. lie x for J. PITH ANIl POLYf. Opera bouffe A French duel. A first-class fellow-r-The freshman. A tramp steamer The statjjtfsipuse lodging roooir " " I " A reformer is a man whVsure that his interest is the public interest.- Puck. It is easier to restore a smashed egg shell than to bring back confidence o'oce lost. Truth. The milk of human kindness would be a good deal richer if it wasn't skimmed so often. Puck. When a ship begins to pitch the passengers all arc anxious to make a home run. Chicago Inter-Ocean. , 'Why do you love me, Love, so much?' 1 passionately cried. She pouted, mused, then said "Bcciuser' And 1 was satisfied. I'uck. Mr?. Plume "Don't you think my new bonnet is a perfect dream." Plume "Yea: and a michtv bad one." , - a -. Puck. - It is .curious how much faster a street car humps along when you are running after it than when you arc riding on it. Richmond Recorder,. Judge "What is your age, madam?" Aged Witness "I have seen thirty seven summers." Judge "How long have you been blind?" Texas Siftings. 44 Well," said the man who handed his last cent to the lawyer, "I suppose turn about is fair play. I broke the law and the law broke me." Washington Star. How many suddeu griefs would nit Far from this world of blues, . If all umbrellas had to fit The came as overshoes I Washington Star. There are too many singers iu the choii who do not know any more about the gospel they sing than the town pump does about the taste of water. Ram 'a Willie "Papa, someone has invented a magazine gun. What kind is that?" Papa (reflectively) "It must be one that goes eff once a month." Pittsburg Bulletin. One good way to discourage the man who thinks he has an aptitude for saying iunny things is to call him back soberly and induce him to explain his jokes. Somerville Journal. Mrs. Youngwifc "Tom has a dread ful disposition I fled." Mother "What does he do?" 3Irs. Youngwife "Do, why he never gets mad when I do. Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Where are you staying? I'll call and see you." V'Don't. You'll only think the worse of me when you see ray sur roundings." "Ob, my dear fellow, that's impossible, you know." Punch. I've felt what "tin to love and kwc. And what it is to have the bluet. But that at which rnj heart mot bled Was what it cost to win and wed. "ew Yofc Herald. It was a simple thing, to fall out about, but since Buggins met Muggins coming out of a pawnshop and asked what was up they don't speak as they pass by. Philadelphia Record. "I want," aid the astronomer, "an inscription for my new telescope which shall be in the mature of an address to the" stars." "How would 'Here's look ing at you do?" Buffalo Express. A conflict i approaching, it come, nearer everyday; The foe no Knr jveikitha ail of taltb;. And we Wonler ich will coaurr la the worH-importint lrj. The bacillus or to? offtnr of beiltb. ' Vaabmjton is tar. Mr. Grigsoc "I wonder what old Geceral Bulleaoggc can sec in that odiousy made-up .Blanche Dapuisl" 3Iiss Golightly "Oh, the old war horse likes the smell of powder, I guess." J udy. Herbert 4If she loves biro, why doesn't she marry him la sjJte of ber father's objection?" Stella "3Iercyl isn't it a good deal easier to give hiai up inaa to aamit sac ti ac wuicagu inter-Occan. I consider." siid the new maa on the staff, deeply hurt, "that I have been snubbed. I arc chockful of unwritten editorials and they've sent me out to wiite up the bo:he-made pie industry. Chicago Tribune. "Yer lock bad, Jim.. Been caropin out?" "Sorter. To-day the fust time I've been out t-r doors in three months." Wnot was the matter with yer?" "Nothin; but the Judge wouldn't be lieve it." Comjc Cuts. Mother 44 Jo'aanie, why are you cry ing? I'm only gmg to be away a week and your papa wilt be home with you." Johnnie "No, be won't; he's going to Rome." 'Going to Rome! Why, child, what do you mean!" I beard a w him aay that ne wouin maxo iwrnw howl when you left. Oh, indeed I vVell, I won't leave you, Johnnie" Texas Sifting. 3
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