Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 39, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 July 1897 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

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INDIANA.

.10011 after tbin; this f. ;iow w ,

given ordrrs to tin. I Vol. liouuce" au.l tick tu him. I , ,,f half a lu he reported t liat In- h oi ,u -k. .1 up his ü,u n. uil we Ml quite certain that within Week Hi' should k r. 1 1 v ih,,f. t,...i

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PLEASANT WORLD OF BOOKS. - it i r u- those who And their haj.plneaa in trolling near and far. A If erchan their l.irth had been bent-nth some errant star, The trackless desert bc-ckon them, they scale id. mountain peak, An J ever ji at beyond them me umi- glad I.. S.S eny to ecek .

stille my fire, and

For me. I alt beside my flrt-, und with be

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- .-.. i vU noun. mr I1UDOO 1 palace Fi-m I- ... familiar h- lve. th.-y snub, my l , ill. a.-.tnt frlt ti the book. , u" " "

We Ulis-, , I it by ot ra,i ,,,,, f colonel" high enouffc, He didn't look oeriiitelligent. I. tit we had a fox to deal with, lie l.mfed for uhont a week, puke freely J I, in past ty the capta.n's Mfnurt an. I tinaUy sought and obi taim-d employment with a native jeweler. As soon us. he hat done, thin we three parked off to the hills, leaving the

r.rvant on watch. The unbolt'., n.-.i-,,...

pleasant friends, the book.

A world of sweetest company, t he.t.-w ellbeloved ones wait For any mood, for any hour, tin y keep a courteous state, IMMM and unperturlie.l umld the ruffles of my day. They are the bread my spirit craves, they Idea m) tuil.iiK j

A pleasant worl.l Is theirs, wherein, though battles wax and wane, There rolls the sound of triumph, and there .IwHls surcease of pain, On panes sparkling as the dawn forever breathes and glows Through aSM red w ith patriot hlood, white freedom's stainless rose. In this fair world of calmest skies I meet the martyr's palm. There float to It dear melodic- from coasts of heavenly balm: All comfort here-, all strength, all faith, all bloom of wisdom lives. And be the day s nee.' what It may. some boon this wide world gives. T..c freedom of the city where one walks in crowds alone. The silence of the upland, where one climbs anear the throne. The blltheness of the morning, and the solemn hush of nlsht. Are in this pleasant world of books, for one who reads aright. Here, pure and sharp, the pictured spire its cleaving point uplifts. There, swept by stormy winds of fate, time's aands are toasted In drifts. And I who sit beside the Are am heir of time and sense. My book to bm, the angel of God's sleep. less providence. W ho w ill, may choose to wander far over sea and land.

For me the table and the lamp extend a friendlier hand. And I am blessed bejrOfl 1 compare while with benignant looks From home's familiar shelves they smile, my pleasant world of books. Margaret K. HanKster. In Youth's Companion.

5 A SYNDICATE OF THREE. I

BY LEWIS MASON.

lOopy right. 1897.

WHKH the irr. at mutiny broke out there was no end to the princes i.d nabobs in India, and without exception, all were rich. The Houoralbb s as -

fast India o.im.atiy had forcibly ilt

posed some from power and had laTSfct

nlT others; but from hijrheM t.i lowest

tin y still had their palaces and retinues

HI d retainers. A few of these potea fetes threw their fortunes with the Brit

ish, but the reat majority east their

lot with the rebels or affected a neu

ti.ilitv almost ns dangerous. No doi.t

many of them .sacrificed all their wealth

t. help alone- the cans.-; .ut there were others who transferred their treasure to safe daces, and let it remain in on

cea Intent until Ions after peace had

been proclaimed. I nder a military

edict all hidden property becnuie loot for the soldiers, and scores of them

Were enriched by their findings. It w as ten years after the close of the War that I landed in K.-lhi. and the "nr.li for hidden treasure had long b, en given up in that district. I had Dumber of friends s.HHS S the Knglish fibers in the Tenth native infantry: and one night, as I sat smoking- with Maj. Trainor in his quarters, he suddenly turned on me and said: "You saw me in the baaar to-day talkiug with a native?" "Yes." "That man was for a year or bo in command of the 400 soldiers in the letinue of the nabob of .lumna. as he t ailed himself. The place stood over in the hills, and the nabob leaned towards our aide for a few weeks that is, until he got his treasure safely away. Then he went ocr to the rebels, bag a in I baggage, r.nit he made a mess of it. Inside ' three months he was killed and his force scattered; and a doen of his folio, crs who found their way back after

peace was proclaimed, were hung in short Or4r. This man. whom we used to call Col. bounce, arrived here only to-day; and do v u know. 1 believe he has an eye on that treasure. He insists that I am mistaken in his identity, ami that he was never in this pnrt of the tonntry before; but I know I nm right." "What do you projtose?" I nske.l. "That we find the treasure ourselves. You sere going up the country. .Tut et tie down here for three months, mid I'll make a millionaire of you. The nabob of .lumna was not as rich as some. I it his trensure house held a king's ransom. As things are dull now. I can

ruins, hut we were not at all interest. -.i

in that direction. The place had be n

explored again and again, und without

luck. We had to do some figuring antl tiien regulate our movements accordingly. First, we took it for granted that the nabob hut) run off his treasure. In so doing he would have t.take

it least half a Onsen men into his confidence. As commander of his forces. "Col. Ilounce" would certainly be one. The wealth- had not been taken to the city, nor had it been turned over to anyone for safe keeping. It had certainly been buried somewhere, and he hills offered main advantages over the open ground. It was more than even chances that the trensure had been walled up in a cave or cavity of some sort, and that w ithin six or eight miles of the palace. As a beginning to active operations we drew a map of the locality and divided It off with lines radiating like the spokes of a wheel, the ruins being the hub. Each man was to take a line and ftdlow it by compass a distance of sit miles then cross to another and return to the hub. As the lines were

only ten rods apart, according to our

scale, it would be easy to inspect everv

foot of the ground passed over. There

were days when the heat was toe rreat

to move, and at the end of three weeks

we had finished only a quarter of the

work. It WS! then decided to chance

the plan and let each man search ns

he would; but a fourth week passed, nnd we were just where we were at the start. W.- would have given tip now but for a flying visit from the captain's man. who reported that "Col. Ilounce" had unit the nlncc and left the cite

lie bad purchased, s horamaad a ipinntity of provisions, and there was reason to believe that he would show up in the hills and seek the treasure cave. We at once moved our camp and set a watch f'-r the man. Two days later he showed up and went into camp alxut a mile away. He had no reason to suspect our presence, as we were supposed to have gone north for tigers; hut he was playing for a big stake and would take no chances. Our men had an eye on him day and night for ten days before he moved. To some root hunters he ex-

trail of the previous nigh!. We had not v.-t st un hed in that direction. Afu-r going half a mile w.- dropped into a iuine. and as 1 made a slip and threw out a hand und clutched a bush there was a rattle of iron against tone, in another minute 1 had drawn out a short crow bur, und then we felt certain that the cave was in the ravine. This was w hat our spy had taken for a stick, ami it had been brought along to work at masonry. It was the major who found the cave, und it was his broken leg that lost iw the treusure. As we walked down the ravine, carefully stunning the rocky walls, ,e slipped on a wet stone and pitched forward against a bush. The bush was uprooted and he swayed and fell, and bis first i n was that the cave was behind it. So it was. A stone

j which must h.ne required the services

of six or eight men to lift had been cemented into the mouth of cave of

some sort; and but for the

scams would have been nam to un

eye on the lookout. So anxious wan tin- injured man to learn th. entente of the care that be insisted on our beginning work at once. 1 his we would not hear to. and making a rude litter we bore him buck to camp. Then 1 set out for Delhi and u surgeon, and it wa mldaf ternoon before we landed oui patient in tin- hospital. Then ( apt. Cordon and I made all speed back to camp and the cave. His horse had been left there but was missing, as vv as also some bedding and provisions. We made for the cave on a run, fearing the worst, and neither of us were surprised that it had been opened und rifled. This was all I hud to bear, but the cuptain had more. In a few hours he learned that his trusted servant had been working in concert with Col. Ilounce." He hud watched us ns well as him; and on the wuy to town he had retracted bis charge, and the puir had Ix-en kicked and set at liberty. The Ceylonese had fitted himself out nt his master's expense, and

, . though the pursuit of him was long and

expensive be w as never captured. hat the amount of the t reasurc w as we could only guess; but w ith the breaking of the major's leg the syndicate of three went out of business and hud no profits to divide.

HUMOROUS. "o, I never talk to an inferier." Tut have you ever met one?" Courrier it-h EtaU I His. "You prot.-t that )ou love mc, Emily, but 1 um still wuitiiii or the i t kiss." "Well. Mrfcj is) J wuit?" - ntogmde Illuetter. "I have here a Heat and pretty little letter opener." began the Ifettt. "' have I at home," said the bu mess man, sadly; "I am married." I incinnuti rribtUM "I have bitten off more than I can (low," remarked the boa constrictor, as IK young gaclle disappear d w ithiu its a,pa iow-, jaws; "but thank fortune, I don't have to chew!" And it curled ilaelf up for a six w eeks' nap. Chicago 1 film Stern Party "Well, sir, I don't know as I am particularly desirous of becoming your father-in-law, young

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CAN MOVE ANYTHING. Marvelon Frnta of the Müder

( , uui iuoiri-111-iii , bush the mun!.. ChoIIy Seeke- 'Er eh-

REMOVE HATS IN CHURCH. OrKsnlisliiin rornictl at IntliunapolU Ace oMiiliahes lis I "u r -. The other Sunday the women's circle of the Eirst Bgptisl church of Indianapolis, Ind.. attempted an innovation by uncovering their heads during religious services, but only a few responded, and it was spitefully said that those who had elaborate and cost I v exhibit

of the milliners' art treated the retpiest w ith contempt. The next Sunday

the women's circle won u notuble victory. Much proselyting was evidently done during the week, for as each lady Stored her pew she carefully removed

?7

THCftB WAS A KATTLdE OF IRON AOATN'ST PTONR.

plained that he was camping out for his health, and he did little hut sleep and cat. We had to hung about tilt 111 p In be ready to take up his trail, and the call cauie at an unexpected hour. One night at midnight he rose up and started off along the hills to the north, carrying in his hand what our men, took to be a stick. Instead of following his man the spy enme to amuse us, and of course we realized that it vat no use searching in the darkness. Something came of the movement, however. The spy hastened back to find the man just returning. His walk had last..! while the other had run four miles anil talked with us for five min-

. .. . I uir. i nivi nu.uii ... hi. hot mucn more t ' iMVfe of absence for three months., than a mile out. He had no stick in his

..-.onion can. to trie same, we three hand on returning; and was evidently will the, form a treasure-hunt- m,1(.h Piate(1 mer w,inethinr. The epv - s.vn.l.catc; ami if you don't Wear nw hini lake from his luggage .tou! some of the dead nabob's rubies and i j ..n..

. ' l .i-ii nni. iiri him t uieiljliv lllspt'CI Ca m.iiirlu mit ..f I . .1 . I'... . - - - - isin . . '

. v iuuiu in uu y I w i II . I . I apt. . onion was called in, and qradtoato duly organized. I'nlikc ' K other s. mlicutcs. little or no capitl was needed for it. The major -.vhs atbmtd that the native had returned h but one object in view The first ' m was U ari-TOt him. und frighten ''mi int.. givi ig p the secret. This

on probably have been done five end I should blush yean earlier, as the Hriti.i, ,i;.i tb

It,, L ... - . ..... ..u. J I

- t in.o s w neu a prisoner w as ob

it; two or three times he rose up and

seemed on the point of leaving camp again. He slept no more that night, but wulUed about uneasily; nnil when the report was made t- us we knew that he hud found the t ave and was about ready to appropriate t he contents. He must be got rid of, for a day nt least, and if he had not ov . i r. ;o bed us in the

with shiime over

I" '""Iiri w ti 'I en t . I . a . . -

nie nays hnd gone Q,v w hen -onfession BÜfM be forced. It was "n.illv decided to leave I. 1 I. n . l : 1 .

, .... " inwriy

waten his

this pan D"rning.

eo h.Hi0?"n Iff aC'In"rvsnt had often shown hie .martueas in

was

every movement; and et In motion the next

The captain's man was instructed to

tch for the pntml .in the highway at

the foot of the hills, and to r 'ort that "Col. bounce" had conspired with him to burn a public building in the city. This plan was carried out. and "the "( olonel" w as arrested and taken to town; he was only well away when era took up what we believed to be his

her hat or bonis, t. This example Wae followed by members of the chureh not m MW rs ,,f the cin-le. and a i.umbet; of DOBmambera also took off their hats. Not one half doen out of the IS9 membership of the circle failed to respond, and the ciroje is now felicitating itself that the battle is won. The congv gatioii. at least the male members, take vrery kindly to the innovation. Ilrflectlona of a llnohelor. Xo mnn ever gets quite ns close up U God as ha does when his little child ii si.k. A man who will admit that he is sentimental has no more of it about hiin than a frog. The average woman goes tohergrnve remembering what girl gave her the

; -' weeding present she got. A girl's idea of a lovely married couple is one that always gives a party on

the anniversary of the day th.-v first met. When a girl who has prett v f. et Ii. down in a hntnmoek she always goes tu lots of trouble to cover them up ami doesn't. You can BVVef tell hOWftfrirl looks nt the breakfast table by the sfa an limks when she sits out on the porch in the evening. . Y. Preaa. A Xlev Dish. Mrs. I'nenmoiicv P hn-e two pounds of that sage cheese, and I'll have a pound of impunitv, too. (iroeer Marin? "One pound will be enough, I guess Dr. Kod.lle says that sage cheese can le eaten with impunitv. but then, vou

know, i may not like uuuuaJty. 1

ton iranscripU

i.v.r thought of that. Y'ou w wo would

n-bc my lutlier-m-law, wouldn't you? I gftMM we'll l-let the er- m-inatt. r Irapi fOOd A .lay." Truth. How It Came About. "I have been wondering," suid Champion Abdul Hamid to his grand vi.ier, "whether w c had better follow the example of our fellow-champion Eitsimmons und go on the stage." "Twenty thousand caudle power arc light of the universe," replied the vizier; "I fesir you would be i nable to square the critics. I have a better plan. We can force the (i reeks to pay well for the show we have gr.cn them." And forthw ith the claim for the farth was framed. Philadelphia Norte American. THE SULTAN'S MOTHER. KolMllment of a Msrtinttia Fortune Teller's I'ropbrples. The present sultan of Turkey is par.iaily Erench by descent, a curious fuct, from which hangs a romance.

Every loiterer in the pleasant byways of history will recall the charming story told aneut Kiupreas Josephiue and her friend Clara Bazillais of how a mulatto fortune teller prophesied that each of these young beauties of Martinique should nisirry uu emperor. Josephine, who was then merely Mile, de la Paferie, laughed ut what she deemed s piece of idle flattery; and so did the equally incredulous Clara Kazillais. Hut nevertheless the prophecy came true in both cases, .loscidiiuc became

er empress of the French, and Mile. Haaillais, by as st range a turn of the wheal of chance, ended her life as the first consort and only act ual wife of Sultan Malunoud 1 1. The late Sultan Alxlr.1 Ma. Ijid, while in Paris in 1897, told Napoleon III. the full story of his mother's romantic nd. ventures. Mile. Baxillaia w as on her way

from Martinique to Marseilles when captured by a piratical galley off Malta and carried to onstantinople. There she was exposed for sale ni the slave mart, but Sultan Mabmoud, happening to pass that way, fell in love with the fair maid of Martinique, and bought her for a very large sum. Mile. HasUlais acquired an extraordinary influence over the grand Turk so great a one, indeed, that he married her formally, having divorced all his other w ives. She remained a Christian to the last, nnd after her consort's death in 1830 she retired to a beautiful villa ou the Hosphorus, where she pent her w idow hood under the no me of "Mme. de Mnrtinjqne." Her eldest son became Suhan Abdul Madjid. and her grandsons were the late and present Sultans Mured V. Ud Abdul Hamid II. Mabmoud II., consort of the ci-derant Mile. Hnzillais, was one of the bestand most energetic sovereigns that modern Turkey has known. He it was who first Introduced the customs of elrlli.tl court at Constantinople, and placed the Turkish diplomatic service fipon a proper footing. May we not ascribe some, utj least, of these tendencies toward civilization to the infl

Clara Hazillais, girl friend of Josenhltie

do la Pag. rie, whose hand the mulattc fortune teller read BO skillfully in fariff Martin ique? Chicago Journal. The Climate of Oreenlnnd. During a series of observations made last summer by a profexsor of Cornell university, it wu d..covered that there had been a most amazing change in the climate of ( .reenlanil since the first records made concerning thnt region. It would appear that there ore, on the Creenland eoiust, unmistakable evidence

of su.'iniergence of the land. Whether this has caused a diversion of ocean currents is not v.t determined. The explorers found on the Creenland coast blossoming flowers, rainstorms, fresh, balmy air nnd birds and insects in great abundance. On the American nhore thousands of miles to the south the conditions were reversed, and there was every evidence of wintry wenther, the shores being covered with heavy snowbanks and with great floes of ice in their vicinity. The professor, in discussing this subject, makes the following interesting inquiries! "Is (Jreenland now passing through the stage of ice withdrawal from which the American, Labrador and Huff in Land have so

recently escaped? And is there unv

relation between the down-sinking of (.reenland and the nrnfiatttf of Labrador and Itiiflin Land .' 1st',. ,, ; i.

drawal directly due to the Inno movement, and is the load of ka really the ennse for the sinking which allows its Withdrawn? That is, does the ice inTeam la area and extent w ith DO oilier row It than its own destruction In depressing the land. a,.d hence removing 'lie cause- of supply?" N. Y. Ledger Mittlern Inataaee. Weary Watklns Dia here newspaper M - that half Um cause of de Isnrd tin.es Is de overcrow din' of de professions. Hungry II iggins -It's tittitr that wny In our profession, to a tlead certainty. In.riannpolis Journal. Frllnt. Felicitation. Debutante I wonder If I shall loae my looks, too, when I jret your sjre? Seaeoned Sister You will be laaXtf you dot Pouch.

Methods of Pdatila. Then- are certain men working quiets ly in various parts of the United States who could if thev . hose to doit, move the l'vv.iini ls, pick up the 1'g'yptiun obelisks, or lilt a modern skM.-ruper from its caisson be I and carry it across the street. There are not many such men, . t few, if Hay, ponderous objects wist in the vvotl.l winch the) will not attempt to move intact for a consideration. In the directory these men are called house movers, but they are entitled to a designation of far greater dignity, for some of their achievement re numbered among t he great engineering feats of the world. Wit bin the past few mouths tiie house movers have experienced an unwonted activity. Some really creditable ami in some eases stupendous feats have been performed. The moving of Lovering hall at Johns Hopkins university was one of tin sc bats, the mm ing of un upper New York house 1. blocks along the public highway w:us another, and the very recent Moving und n-M-tting of a tail smoke stack at M.inhanset was a third. tic of these house movers declares that there is no building, howev.r h.-avy, however bulky, which cannot be lifted from its foundations and conveyed any distance. This means, of course, without uny damage to the building itself; thut the very ornaments on the mantel piece, the bric-a-brac in the cabinets will in no wuy be li,t urbed. that the window glass will not be even cracked, that the home life of the family occupying the moving house will be nadlet III bed. Such is absolutely the fact. It is not necessnry for the occupants of the building to temporarily change their quarters; to take the castors off the ledsteads, uor to pa-k up all the jierishable articles in the house. It is on record that, un old tall clock which was in a house which was moved In Westchester county, N. Y., never topped running nil during the progress of removal. On the other Irani! there seems to be no limit to the

mover's capabilities as far as weight in cone. med. The Hrighton Beach hotel, which mm placed on 150 flat cars and moved Hill) feet, weighed .',000 tons. The weight of the recently move. railroad station at Mott Haven, N. Y'., is l,7oo tons. This building was rimpopod entirely of brick and atone and the weight is very unenuallv distributed II ee li t ni 1

tower alone weighing 100 tons. Tobe ; frank, these feats take aU of the won

derment out of the raising of the pyramids and obelisks, inasmuch aafho iimst primitive tools are used by the cngineers. Louisville Courier-Journal. HARNESSING THE TIDES. Onr In ma net- la hlrh the Ponrr lias lie. ii Rueceaafally Applied. Various plans have been suggest .1 sit diiTenuit times for the Utilisation of the energy developed by the rise nnd fall of the tides, but the Intermittent character of the BOW has usually prevented any satisfactory solution of the problem. There is, however, one, instance in which tide power has been quite successfully applied in a very simple manner. Along the river front at Liverpool there is a tendency for the accumulation of silt against the dock walls, requiring occasional dredging for hs removal. Instead of using scoop dredges, this mud is removed at dif

ferent periods by the use of tide power in the following manner: Along the base of the .lock wall is laid a pipe, perforated with holes, directed outward, this pie being connected with the interior of the dock .system, and suitable valve being provided to permit or heck the How of water Wlmn tk

tide is very low, und consequently the head of water measured from the surface in the docks is at its greatest, a sudden opening of the connection permits a rapid flushing action by the water escaping through the holes in the pipe at the base of the walls, scouring out the mud ami driving it out Into the liver to be earriod away. Aa the tides at Liverpool average about 25 feet or more, it is evident that this simple form of dredging apparatus may be very effective, and as the time chosen

for using it may be selected when the supply of wuter is greatest, it docs not Interfere with the regular use of the

Hocks, ultimately, no doubt, the introduction of practical and economical forms of power storage will render the equalization of tide power commercially practicable, but at the present time this example serves to demonstrate the fact that solar and lunar attraction, as expressed by the tides, have been harnessed in a small way at leaat.assier's Magazine. Falllna; Walls at Klres. There are several kinds of fulling wulls, and the fireman of experience knows them well, and w Tint to expect from ench. There is one kind that breaks first at the bottom and Oomci down almost straight, somew hat like a curtain. This makes a big rloise, but

is not very much to be dreaded. Then there is another that bulges or "buckles" in the middle at first, and makes a sort of curve as it descends. This is a little more serious than the first, nnd ha caused many fetaUtloa. Then there is the one that, breaks at the bottom and comes straight out. reaching clear loss the street, and remn i inn g almost anild until it strikes, und. ns nn old fireman nn. c remarked: "That's 1 he k i nil ...'ivvnnt todmlfe" Thiskind of "falling wall" has caused moreof thedeathin the department than any other danger the firemen have to contend with. It has killed horses ns well ns tart:, nnd destroyed nppnrntus; and it is so rapid in Its descent, and covers ec much space, thnt to escape it the men have to be quick, indeed. --Charles T. Hill, in St. Nicholas. Took It. "I didn't know thnt your folks took (he ITowIer. Johnnie." mn'am. we've been taking H ver since the Poolers moved nway " "Did you subscribe for it then T "Xo, ma'nm; the Poolers forgot ftt etoc t." Cleveland Plain Dealer.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Rev. Henry liuup, the oldest seilte clergyman iu 'I'inoia, now m hia) ninety-third year, la still strong audi vigorous, and preaches every Sunday The golden jubilee of Lehnt college will be celebrated ou June M

A bust of Dr. Aarou Lucius hapiuv who was president of the college for 3ti y ears, . ill be unveiled, and addns.ses will be made by many distinguished men. Brook lj n presbytery on May M released Lev. Dr. C. C Hall from the pastorate of the l'irst Presbyterian church of Hrooklyn, nnd in doing so adopted! resolutions testifying to its appreciation of his qualities as a Christian gentleman, his devotion to high scholarship und to truth, and of his unbroken fidelity as a preacher. In a glowing speech commemorative of Queen Victoria's long lease of pOWOfi Hr. l'arker, of London, declared the other duy: "We do not Ol l. brate the queen's long reign, bufc the queen's good reign." With a fine independence. Dr. l'arker added : "Wo owe much to the queen, but the queen mem much more to us. Let her close her splendid reign by restoring to Qmfll the titles 'Head of the church' and 'Defender of the faith.' " This passag; was greeted with loud cheers. The impracticability of some pioua souls is well illustrated by a conversation which once j Missed between Ir Crcigbton and another English bishop regarding a man for whom thev wanted ,

to do something. The bishops spoke at leng-th about his virtues, and detailed his good qualities, they considered what he could do and what could be done for him, but at last one of them, heaved a sigh and remarked: "ne iat as good as gold, and he will go to Heaven; but he is no use." Rev. Dr. William II. Mübarn, the blind chaplain of the United State senate, sailed for England recently with bis daughters. He is a frequenttraveler over the Atlantic and is well known ir rcJigious and social circlea in the ltt.ish . .es. He has a number of pulpit engagements this summer. Until the United States senate adjourns his post w ill be filled by President McKinley' pastor. Bear. Dr. Hugh John ston. Vice President Hnbart kindly consenting. UNCLE SAM'S FORETHOUGHTOfficials Making ll.mli to Obaerre h- saa'a Total Kellpae ta 11SMI. Tin- I'nited States government ia already preparing to take observations of the total eclipse of the sun which is to t uke place on May 2H, 1900. Observation stations will lie established along the path of the total ei lipse and exjierienced astronomers in the service of the government will be sent down to take the conservations nncf make the astronomical calculations which it is exjM-i ted will be so valuable to science and to astronomy . These observations will be for the purpose of determining the best points at which to establish the permanent stations, where the final observations will Ik taken during the eclipse of 1900. The path of the total eclipse will extend in a direct line from .New Orleans to Norfolk, Va., and will pass through Georgia in the locality of .Macon. Blank report sheets have been sent to all the wenther bureaus in the vicini

ty of the path of the eclipse with the instruction to the weather man to secure the services of capable and intelligent men to take the observations and register the results in the sheets mado for the purpose, ilie exact condition of the sky, of the sun and of the whole heavens will be marked down in the sheets every morning of the month when the observations are being1 taken, nnil all of the sheets when filled out will Ibe sent to Washington and carefully graded. The permanent observation stations will be established, at the points where the first observations taken receive the highest percen tage. Atlunta Constitution. Unman Hair (iroirthi. Prof. Kxiier, of the Vienna Medicak society, trenting-of the functions of the human hair, remarks upon the somewhat curious fact that writers have hitherto ocsupied themselves mainly

wun speculations as to the circumstances which have led to man becoming denuded of his hairy covering the hairs, however, being not only degenerated organs, but having alo to full fill some functions. There is a group; says the professor, such as the eyelashes and the eyebrows, for instance, which are sensorial organs, possessing tactile functions, and, moreover, serve as a protection to the eyes; and in place where two integumentary surfaces are in contact, they act as rollers and facilitate the gliding of the integumentary surfaces on each other. Further, there is no doubt that the hair of the scalp protects the head against extc al cold, and also prevents the loss of h i through very low conductivity of 1 .air cylinders and of the c ushion of air in term in tried with them. Chicago Inter Ocean. It Waa aa Rvri Thin. The irate father had overtaken the eloping couple, hut he was a little too late. A complacent clergyman had tied the knot. "Sir." said the irate father, "this ia simply outrageous. Can you forget that she is my only daughter." "I'll tell you what I'll do." returned

!e groom, who nlwnys wanted to do the right thing. "I confess I didn't think of itnt the time, but I will agree never afrain to forget It If you w ill also kindly remember that she is mv only wife." Everyone agreed thnt it was a fair proposition, but somehow itdidn't seem to soothe the old man's temper to any nppreciable extent. Chicago Post. rsefsl Art. Teacher What is a synonym? Dngbt Hoy Tt'a a word you ean oaa n plee of another one when yen don't know how to spell the other ma. Tkm ton TranecrtmV

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