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SNOWDRIFTS.
Listen to th plaintlvo stories
Bung by moorland winds today I '
Dirges rang o'er vanished glories.
Love and hope have flown away.
Where are Summer's airy minstrels,
Where our wnrblers debonair V
Can they sing pne strain prophetic,
Can they consolation bear ?
Guild of faith ! What promise golden
Nestles 'neath your drooping wing?
We would bear Us balm ixnfolden
In our hearts until the Spring.
Saith it, "Not a sparrow faileth
On the dreary, dreary snows,
But its cry to heaven ca'leth.
And our Heavenly Father knows."
RUTH'S
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rf-F"" V V V C"
When Rodney Dare came home
om the war without his strong right
arm Ruth Trevor's friends wondered
if she would marry him.
"Of course she will," said the friend
who knew her best. "Why shouldn't
she? He's the same Rodney Dare
ndw that he was wheu she promised to
marry him, isn't he?"
"Yes, but thee's a difference," was
the reply. "Then he had another
arm to tight the battle of life with.
Now well, I suppose it won't make
any difference with Ruth. She always
was peculiar."
"Thank God for such peculiarity, "
said her friend. ".She wouldn't be
the woman I have always believed her
to be if she refused to marry him be
cause he had lost an arm. She will
take its place to him. I know Ruth
Trevor too well to believe that the
idea has ever occurred to her that this
loss need make the slightest difference
in their plaus."
"r yld her friend was right. When,
day, Rodney Dare said to Ruth:
have come to tell you that, of
Jsd, I do not expect to hold you to
.'A1 promise to me, under existing
' circumstances, if you care to with
draw it," she rose up before him with
something akin tb anger in her face
and looked him squarely in the eyes.
"Have I ever given you any reason
to think I cared to withdraw it?'! she
asked.
"No," was the reply. "Rut wheu
you gave it I was man. Now I am
but part of one."
. "I'll take that part of the man
that's left," she said. "It's the part
that the Rodney Dare I love lives in.
Never speak of this to me again," she
. added. And he never did.
Rut he would not talk of marriage
until he had obtained employment of
some sort, aud for this he began to fit
himself. It was almost like beginning
life over in learning to make one arm
do the work of two, but he had a brave
heart aud a strong will, aud love stood
ready to help him in the times when
he felt incliued to become dis
couraged. One day Ruth said to him:
"I'm going away for a month or
' two. I've had a letter from Aunt Mar
tha, who lives in the prettiest little
country village you ever saw, and she
wauts me to visit her. I shall enjoy
a breath of pure air so much! Only,
I wish you were going with me. Rod
's ney. I shall think or you back here
in the city and feel half ashamed of
myself for having such a good time
' that you cannot share."
"I shall share it in thinking how
much good it is doing you,"
he said. "One does not always have
to take part in the pleasure of others
to be benefited by them. There's a
"Ihat sounds quite metaphysical,
laughed Ruth, "but I think 1 under
stand what you mean, and I promise
to enjoy myself to the utmost in order
that you may feel this 'reflex influ
ence' to the fullest extent."
Before Ruth had been at Aunt Mar
tha's two days she found that she had
f been invited there for a purpose.
"Your coil sin Hugh is coming next
'"week," said Aunt Martha. "I wanted
you to meet him. I know you'll like
him at least, I hope you will, and the
better you like hiin the better suited
I'll be."
Ruth looked at her questioningly.
" "You wonder what sort of a plan I
1iivpi in mv head. I sunnose." said
her aunt. "I'm not going to say any
thing more about it now, but Hugh
knows."
"I infer that it is a sort of niatri
..jnonial plan," said Ruth. "If it is,
put it aside at once! I may like my
cousin very much I hope I shall
but I could not marry him."
"Why?" asked Aunt Martha.
".Because I am to marry Rodney
Dare," answered Ruth.
ia T?nilnv TlarA'" fripd
M her about her
t"' cried Aunt
quietly,
her
',)ve
I am caught in crystal shower3,
Feathery Hakes and fairy blooms,
Winter flings her seentless flowers
O'er her dark, unlovely tombs !
Airy whispers float around me,
"Trust His love and perfect rule.
Though his keenest arrows smite thea
Lo ! He giveth snow like wool."
Koyal touch and flashing token
Kingly presence here reveal.
Faith in Him may bo unbrokon.
Love may smile in woe or weal.
By the splendor of His pathway
Diamond flash in triple ray
Sure I am that Ha is near me,
That u King hath passed this way !
Clara Thwaites, in Sunday Magazine.
LEGACY.
k. nEXFonn.
two brothers. You represent one of
them, Hugh the other. I wanted you
to marry each other and keep the
property together. If yon persist iu
your determination to marry this Rod
ney Dare, Hugh may get it all."
"Let him have it," said Ruth. "All
the wealth in the world wouldn't in
fluence ine iu the least in this mat
ter." "You're a Trevor all through," said
Aunt Martha, angry, yet admiring the
spirit ot her niece in spite of . herself
"Well, since you've made up your
mind, we II let the matter drop; but
if you are not mentioned in my will
you needn't be surprised. "
"I haven't asked to be remembered
iu it,"said Ruth. "I don't want you to
think for a moment, Aunt Martha, that
1 care tor your money. 1 assure you
I have never given it a thought."
"Perhaps not," responded Aunt
Martha, "but money conies handy
sometimes, and one wants to think
twice before throwing away such a
chance as this."
"I would not change my mind if I
were to think a thousand times,!,' said
Ruth. "I am just old-fashioned
enough to believe that there are other
things more necessary to one's happi
ness than money."
"Very well, you'll do as you choose
about it, of course," said Aunt Mar
tha, frigidly, "but I think my oi:in
ion worth considering, notwithstand
ing." Cousin Hugh came. Ruth liked him,
but he wasn't Rodney Dare! Mil
lions of money wouldn't have tempted
hev to marry him if she had had no
lover
"I suppose you haven't changed
your mind about matters aud things?"
said Aunt Martha one day, the Aveek
before Ruth went home.
"Not in the least," replied Ruth.
"You're a foolish girl," said Aunt
Martha.
"Maybe, but I think not, " responded
Ruth.
. When she got home she told Rod
ney all about Aunt Martha's plans.
"Do you think I was foolish?" she
asked, smiling into his face.
"I think you're a noble, true-hearted
little woman," he answered.and kissed
her. "I hope you'll never regret giv
ing up your share of your aunt's for
tune for a man with but one arm to
protect you with. I feel unworthy of
such a sacrifice."
"There was no sacrifice about it,"
said Ruth. "I don't care for the for
tune, and I do care for you."
Six months later a telegram came
saying that Aunt Martha was dead.
Would Ruth come to the funeral?
Ruth went, and after the funeral
she and Cousin Hugh sat down, in the
old-fashioned parlor together, with
Aunt Martha's old lawyer and one or
two of hev intimate friends, to listen
to the reading of her will.
In it she bequeathed to Hugh
Trevor "the property now in her pos
session, to which she had just title
and claim," with the exception of the
old family Bible. That went to Ruth.
"I have brought my legacy home
with me," she told her mother on her
return, as she deposited a package,,
wrapped in thick brown paper and se
curely tied up, on the parlor table. On
the wrapper was written: "Ruth
Trevor, to be given her, unopened,
after my death," in Aunt Martha's
prim penmanship.
"You don't mean to say that you
were left nothing but that?" cried
Mrs. Trevor.
"It's as much as I expected," an
swered Ruth.
That evening Rodney Dare came in.
Suddenly Ruth bethought her of
the package, which had not been
opened.
"I must show you. my legacy," she
said, bringing the package. "Cut the
strings, Rodney, please."
He did so, and Ruth took the old,
worn Bible from its wrappings. As
she did so, some papers slipped from
between its pages and fell to the floor.
She stooped and gathered them uf.4
One was a some what bulkv' document.
The other was an envelope on which
her name was written.
"Here's a letter from Aunt Martha,"
she said, and opened it.
As she read it a tender light came
into her face. Then a look of surprise
and bewilderment.
"I I don't understand,!' she said,
looking from Rodney to her mother.
"S!ie fays something about deeds,
""hat, does she mean by that, I won-
AVYy took the large document
i 'Myth's hp and unfolded it and
glanced over the half-written, half
printed page.
"It means that you're a wealthy
little woman in spite of yourself,
Ruth. Your Aunt Martha had half
her property deeded to you before she
died. That which she spoke of in her
will was the other half of it, which
had not been deeded away, and you, of
course, supposed that represented all.
She leaves you her old home and other
property in its vicinity, to the value
of a good many thousands of dollars, I
should say."
"It can't be!" cried Ruth, excited
ly. "And yet it must be so. Read
her letter, Rodney read it aloud, and
maybe it'll seem clearer to me:"
Rodney read:
My Dead Niece Ruth: I do not think I
have very long to live, therefore, I shall so
arrange matters now that there neod be lit
tle trouble in disposing of what I leave be
hind when I am dead. When you told me
you could not fall iu with my plan about a
marriage with Hugh I was indignant. If I
had died then, you would have got little
from me if I could have had my way about
It. But by and by I began to think it over,
and I caraa to bolleve that vou were right
and I was wrong. I calculated Trom the
head, you from ihe heart, and the heart ii
to bo trusted most in such matters, I think.
I admire you lor your honesty to your wom
anhood aud your loyalty to your one-armed
lover. You did just right, my dear niece
just right! and to prove to you that I bear
you no Ill-will for not falling in with an old
woman's foolish plaus. I shall have half my
property deeded to you at once, so that, at
any time after my death, which I have reason
to believe may happen at any time and sud
denly, all there will be for you will be to
take possession. God bless you, dear Euth,
and make you very happy with the man you
have chosen. He ought to be proud of so
loyal-hoarted a wife as you will make him.
Sometimes think kindly of . the woman who
never got much happiness out of life, and
may this legacy bring you more enjoyment
than it has ever brought me.
"Dear Aunt Martha!" said Ruth,
softly, with tears rolling swiftly down
her cheeks. "I wish she could know
how much I thank her for her legacy
and her letter. Do you know, Rod
ney, I'm not sure but I value that
most?"
For answer he bent and kissed
her.
"Your love and loyalty are worth a
thousand legacies," he said. And
Ruth threw her arms about his neck
and cried: "I'm so glad for your
sake, Rodney!" New York Ledger.
"Higher When Head's Off."
About 10,000 pounds of eiderdown
are cellected annually in Iceland, 7000
being exported to foreign countries.
Formerly the peasants used to receive
over 21 shillings a pound, but the
price has now fallen to half that
amount. The peasants seldom re
ceive money and are obliged to barter
their down for merchandise furnished
by the Danish merchants at the little
settlements on the fjords.
An old Icelandic proverb illustrates
the strange elasticity of the down:
"What is it that is higher when the
head is off?"
"An eiderdown pillow," is the an
swer. A pound ot down can be com
pressed into a ball the size of a pint
bowl, but, once released, it swells and
mounts like something alive until it
would fill a bushel basket. A pound
and a half is enough to fill an ordi
nary bed-puff.
These very comfortable articles are
found in the guest room of every Ice
landic farm, however poor and small
it may be. After a long, hard day
in the saddle the traveler longs for
warmth and shelter. Rut these litt'.e
guest rooms have never had a fire m
them, and, built as they are on the
ground floor, there is in them a dread
ful chill. Ouce tucked away, in bed,
however, and well covered with the
down-puff, a delightful sense of com
fort follows, and tired bones lose their
pains and stiffness. Good Words.
A Frojf Almost lOO Tears Old.
A strange story of a rog is told by
one who is acquainted with the facts.
On the old , Ritchie place, whicli
abounds with relics of early day, is
an old log spring house, built at the
beginning of the century by John
Ritchie, the inventor of the sour mash
process of making whiskey. A never-
failing stream of ice-cold water Mows
into this old house, forming a pool
soveral feet deep. Here, since John
LUtchie left Lynns fort and built him-
elf an independent dwelling, it is al
eged a giant bullfrog has had its
home. As the frog family is endowed
with great longevity, it is said by
those who ought to know that it is
reasonable to suppose that the frog is
the same one which took up its. resi-
enee in the Ritchie spring house in
pioneer times. What lends color to
this theory is the fact that there has
never been but one frog seen in the
eiorhborhood of the old spring, and
Stephen Ritchie, now a mu' well nd-
aneed in years, slates that this same
rog, or one very similar to it, had its
o?!vtf in tha snrincr when he was s
ttiitd, and that he has often heard his
grandmother term the frog her ram
gn. The frog is said to be of vast
proportions, with a thunderous voica
that can bo. heard a great distance. It
very active, and shows no evidence
: its century or more of years.
ardstown (Ky.) Record.
Expense No Object.
"You have put too manv r's in tin,
word 'very,'" sniddhe tutor.
"What of it?" .retorted the tam
pered scion of a nvly rich house. "J
guess paw is ableto pay for the ink,"
'Jmcmnati Enqprer.
SUPPLANTING THE COW.
MAKING BUTTER DIRECT FROM THE
FOOD FED TO CATTLE.
The Alleged Discovery of a Baltimore
Inventor Electricity Utilized in the
FroceHS of Turning Gratis Into Best
Dairy Butter Without Bovine AstdMtance
Butter without the aid of a cow is
what Willard G. Day, an inventor, of
Baltimore, Md., promises.
Electricity, says the New 1'ork Her
ald, is the chief agent Mr. Day pro
poses to employ iu the production of
butter directly from the vegetables
which form the food of cattle whose
milk is used in the churn.
Mr. Day discovered first that the pe
culiar characteristic traits of different
varieties of butter, cheese, etc., were
owing to two general causes. One
was the kind of food on which the
cow was fed; the other was the kind
of microbe nourished at and by the
roots or the plant which furnished the
food to the cow.
Armed with these two secrets, Mr.
Day began his work, which consisted
in extracting and then assembling ar
tificially the same products which are
usually brought about by nature.
He succeeded in producing from the
vegetable kingdom oils which differed
very slightly from those of the animal
kingdom. Having gone this far, the
next step was to change the vegetable
oil by giving it the same chemical con
stitution as that possessed by the ani
mal article desired in other words to
make the animal' butter oil out of
grass, corn, and similar vegetable
substances. ' i
The secret in this part of the proc
ess Mr. Day found to consist in the
fact that animal and vegetable carbo
hydrates strongly resemble each other.
The differences which are found in
oils are nearly all owing to the nitro
genous sheaths in which the globules
of oil are contained. Thus to this
sheath is due the tallowy smell of tal
low, the mutton smell of mutton, as
well as all the rank odors of many veg
etable oils.
When oils are extracted by heat, or
the mechanical violence of pressure,
the deletereous nitrogenous character
istics of the globule sheaths are im
parted to the oil globules themselves,
and no art can separate them af
terward. Here comes in the great
discovery in the use of the electric
light.
Mr. Day found that when these oils
and fats were subjected to the radiant
energy of powerful electric light the
nitrogenous sheaths were shrivelled
and their contents put in a condition
to be milked out or extracted by a gen
tle pressure, without being contami
nated by the characteristics of the an
imal or plant itself.
Another effect was also produced.
Whatever microbe was associated with
any particular oil or fat was killed by
the actinic power of the light.thus leav
ing the article free from any of its native
microbes and ready to be used as a
culture medium for any desired mi
crobe. Among the microbes destroyed by
the light are those which cause putre
faction and decay, and so the articles
acted on by the light are readily pre
served as long as they are protected
from new invasions of nature's host of
destroyers. As a result, the various
kinds of butter, cheese, etc., madeunder
the Day processes show most remark
able keeping powers, far surpassing
those produced by the old fashioned
methods.
For the same reason, the new arti
cles are not affected by any diseases,
such as tuberculosis and typhoid
fever, which may be carried and trans
mitted in the milk of cows, as well as
by contamination from barnyard asso
ciations. The day process does not end with
the treatment of fats and oils, but is
applied to all the flesh of animals, as
well as of lish, crabs, oysters, fruits
and vegetables. Mr. Day found that
the application of the radiant energy
from the electric light produced pe
culiar and wonderful effects on all
these substances. Fresh meat was
made rigid and hard as wood. It
could then be ground or pulverized
into powder, and this, when put into
water, would swell up, and when
cooked would have the substance and
the good qualities of fresh meat. The
electric curing process reduced four
pounds of meat to one pound. In this
condition it could be transported any
where, and would keep in any climate.
Then by adding the requisite amount
of water the article would be ready to
be cooked and served up, thus furnish
ing an ideal meat, as to which "diges
tion waits on appetite, and health on
both."
Mr. Day tested the merits of his proc
cess in many ways. He found that
meats could be cured in large or small
pieces; in fact, that by suitable ex
posure to the electric light, bodies of
any size might be first disinfected
from all microbes, and then preserved
indefinitely. No matter what the
germ might be, the inventor found
that powerful light was fatal to it. He
experimented with the entire range
of germs supplied by the physicians
of the Johns Hopkiu3 hospital, and
killed them all.
Extending the range of Ins process,
Mr. Day found that fruits and vegeta
bles could either be preserved very
nearly in thoir natural condition anq
'size, or they could be made dry an
hard as wood, reduced in size, atnj
.w eight, then ground to powder and af.
terward restored again to a food form
by supplying moisture.
POLITENESS IN TATTERS.
Not Easy to Juclgre a Man hy the Condition
of the Clothes He AY ear.
The Utah Northern train was dis
appearing in the distance when Arch
Cridge, the storekeeper at Market
lake, who had gone over to the station
to ascertain if any oysters had coma
up from Granger for him, saw a badly
battered and tattered figure hobbling
along the ties, coining from the direc
tion of the vanishing train. Cridge
forgot his oysters iu wonderment at
the outlandish raggedness and genera
damage and disaster revealed iu the
person of the oncomer.
He saw a tramp, and his face was
scratched and his eye was blacked,' as
Cridge saw when he drew near. But
he was a polite tramp, nevertheless.
"Good morning, my friend," he
said, bowing courteously to the store
keeper. "Can you tell me the name
of a man who would care to share in
the benefits rising out of $50,000.
He did not appear to be crazy, so
Cridge, who had once chased elusive
gold mines, gave him some attention.
"I don't just know," he said. "I
mvself "
"Exactly so. And a first class part
ner you will make. Twenty-five thou
sand sounds nice, doesn't it? Let ma
have a chew of tobacco, please."
Cridge gave him a lump of the de
sired commodity and asked hiin to ex
plain what he meant.
"You observe the train now dim
ming in the distance?" inquired the
tramp. Cridge did.
"Y'ou might not believe it, but I
wras ejected from that train for the
vulgar reason of poverty."
"But you have how about your
fifty thou "
"One moment. Wait. I was thrpwn
off like a mere bag of rags. I rolled.
I scraped. I skinned myself. I tore
my apparel. I cracked my kneepan.
I dug up the soil and turned seven
somersaults. "
Cridge nodded sympathetically.
' 'In other words, I was treated vilely.
By a breakman. A red-headed brake
man who used profane language. I
think he also struck me, but there
was some confusion, and perhaps it
was a telegraph pole. Receiving such
indignity you can readily understand
what must be the prompt action of a
gentleman. "
"Well, I do'no,"said Cridge, guard
edly. "But a man with money "
"Exactly. I see you perfectly un
derstand. Y'ou appreciate the enor
mity of the offence. I shall sue for
$50,000 damages. You will pay the
costs and give me $5 now as a guar
antee of good faith. When I win I
shall levy on the road to pay my claim
and you will be madegeneral manager
with power to issue passes. Please
give me the $5 as soon as possible. I
am aware that my present guise and
garb "
"Well, I do'no," said Cridge, draw
ing hack. "Y'ou see "
"You surely don't doubt my word?
Y'ou surely don't question that I was
thrown off the train, substantially as
described?" ,
"No. I should ruther guess there
was even more hustle to it than you've
told. But ."
"Y'ou don't deny that I was dam
aged seriously? This eye. Thi3
peeled arm. This ear."
"No, that's all right; but I can't go
into it."
The tramp looked upon the store
keeper with great loftiness beaming
from his one good eye.
"I see. You are not in sympathy
with the poor and oppressed. Y'ou are
allied to the money power. You are
subsidized. Your finer feelings of
humanity have been crushed out by
your association with capital. Nevei
mind. I am used to disappointments.
If you will give me 10 cents I will
dance three extremely interesting j igs
and will then by a clever feat of par
lor magic swallow a knife aud with
draw it from my ear."
lut Air. cridge said lie had to gc
and see about his oysters. Chicago
Record.
Four-Cfjnt Check.
A firm of life insurance agents in
this city believes that every man's
time is valuable, and that he may be
induced to read the prospectus of tha
company mailed to him and at the
same time be compensated for , the
time thus consumed, a check on the
Central National bank fot four cents
accompanies the prospectus. The
letter of explanation reads as follows:
"Herewith please find our check for
four cents in payment of two minutes
of your time, assuming the same to be
worth $10,000 per annum, asking that
you devote the same to the careful
consideration of the inclosed." Phil
adelphia Record.
iot Off Kasr.
First Reprobate Well, old man,
did you get home all right last night?
Second Reprobate Yes; but my
wife wouldn't speak' to me.
First Reprobate Lucky beggar!
Mine did! Punch,
Afghan women are never jealous of
each other.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
The average weight of the brain of
a Scotchman ii larger than that of any
other race on the globe.
A Russian admiral has invented an
ice plow capable ot breaking through
ice from twelve to twenty inches thick.
A German professor reports that he
has found living bacteria in wine which
had been bottled twenty-five or. thirty
years.
Berlin is to have a combination
electric street railway, part of the sys
tem being underground and part run
on the American elevated method.
Artesian wells have proved success
ful in New South Wales, the area
within which underground water is
found extending 62,000 square miles.
The Japanese cite 2G9 color varie '
ties of the chrysanthemum of whic'
sixty-three are yellow, . eighty-seVt ,
white, thirty-two purple, thirty red,
thirty-one pale pink, twelve r'usset
and fourteen of mixed colors.
Munich used to be notorious for its
excessive typhoid-fever death rate, it
being twenty-nine per 10,OC0 in IS50.
Yvith the introduction of a pure water
supply and improved sewer system it
has fallen to less than two per 10,000.
The Berlin Post says that the estab
lishment having exclusive rights to
manufacture Berlin's anti-toxin pays
him a monthly royalty of $17,500.
The Paris Figaro quotes these figures,
and observes that L'r. Roux, assistant
director of the Pasteur institute in '
Paris, does not profit at all from his
discovery.
Plague bacilli, it appears from the ,
elaborate report of the German gov
ernment commission to Bombay, in
most cases enter the system through
small wounds or scratches, and the
disease is mostly confined to dwellers
in poor and insanitary localities. The
bacilli are very quickly killed by ordi
nary antiseptics, and heating serum
inoculations gave little protection in
the Bombay epidemic, but Haftkine's
method proved very successful. This
consists in inoculation with the prod
ucts of bacilli culture. To a virulent
growth of plague bacilli was added
carbolic acid solution or essence of
mustard, destroying the microbes, but
leaving products having remarkable
protective power. An even better
vaccine resulted from heating the
plague cultures to 150 degrees Fahrn
heit for an hour.
The 5r3-stery of Sleep.
The sleep of a human being; if we
are not too busy to attend to the mat
ter, always evokes a certain feeling of
awe. Go into a room where a person
is sleeping, and it is difficult to resist
the sense that one is in the presence
of the central mystery of existence.
People who remember how constantly
they see old Jones asleep in the club
library will smile at this; but look
quietly and alone at even old Jones,
and the sense of mystery will soon de
velo1. It is no good to say that sleep
Is only "moving" because it looks like
death. The person who is breathing
so loudly as to take away all thought
of death causes the sense of awe quite
as easily as the silent sleeper who
hardly seems to breathe. We see
death seldom, but were it more famil
iar we doubt if a corpse would inspire
so much awe as the unconscious and
sleeping figure a smiling, irrespon
sible doll of flesh and blood, but a
doll to whom in a second may be
recalled a proud, active, controlling "
consciousness which will ride his bod
ily and his mental horse with a hand,
of iron, which will force that body to
endure toil and misery, and will make
that mind, now wandering in paths of
fantastic folly, grapple with some great
problem, or throw all its force into
the ruling, the saving, or the destruc
tion of mankind. The corjse is only
so much bone, muscle and tissue.
The sleeping body is the house which
a quick and eager master has only left
for an hour or so. Let, any ono who
thinks sleep is no mystery, try to ob
serve in himself the process by which
sleep comes, and to notice how and
when aud under what conditions he
loses consciousness. He will, of
course, utterly fail to put his finger
on the moment of sleep coming, but
in striving to get as close as he cau to
the phenomena of sleep, he will real
ize how great is the mystery which he
is trying to fathom. London Specta
tor. The Kuliy uml the Diamond.
A well-known jeweler ays that a
perfect ruby is of far more value than
a diamond of similar size. The gem
seldom weighs more than four carats,
aud when a perfect, carmine-tinted
stone appears on the market it will
bring ten times as much as a diamond
of the same weight. A six carat ruby,
flawless and of the same rich, deep
color desired, will easily bring $5000
a carat, or fifteen times as much as a
diamond of identical size and similar
flawlessness. The finest, rubies are
found in Burmah, and it is a law in
that country that all rubies over a cer
tain size shall belong to the kiug, no
matter who finds them. In the East
the ruby is the favorits of all gems
and considered the most valuable. -New
Y'ork Tribune.
The trees iu the streets of Pari3 are
looked after by a public official &ri
pointed solely for that purpose.