Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 January 1903 — Page 7

Che Ligonier Bannes LIGONIER, ¢ INDANA (A Child - Witness | By FLORENCE LILLY.

; Y childhood hdéme was in a M quiet. little country town where the short 12 years of my life had been spent in peaceful happiness. The days slipped away and the world, to me, was only a great big playhouse, until something happened which brought me to a realization that it was indeed a playhouse but on its stage tragedy and crime played a conspicuous part. My c¢hildhood dreams had a rude .awakening. One morning, as I was busy at work in my little garden. I was startled by the sharp clatter of horse’s feet, coming down the street. The easy, graceful rider-was Harry Derbin, & young man of our town. - He was, indeed, a man to be envied, being endowed with everything to make his life a success. He was handsome, popular and wealthy, and report said, soon to be married to a lovely girl in a neighboring town. . " I saw from his flashing éyes that something was terribly wrong. In -an instant he had dashed up to the placksmith door across the street, and with a few words I could not hear, leveled his pistol at the blacksmith’s head. The poor fellow begged piteous1y for mercy, but without a tremor or one relenting glance, young Derbin fired, and the unfortunate man feil to thé' ground with a groan. I was rooted to the spot in horror and amazement, but my eyes refused .to leave the man. who could by one act of ungovernable passion. cast aside all thought of his future and wreck a life so full of promise as his. _ - With a glanee at his prostrate vietim, he coolly placed his revolyver back in his pocket. and rode off down the street. As he passed me by, he glanced down at my trembling little figure as if to say: “Well, did yousee it, little one?” cand my throbbing heart an.\\Vex'e(?:' “Yes, I. and only I. and your Maker saw the deed.”” Then, as a crowd came rushing up the street, <dazed and trembling, I turned -and went into the house—not the happy, careless child that came out, but one blindly confused at this first glimpse of tragedy in the world’s playhouse. - Upon investigation it proved that the motive for the deed, while extremely aggravating, did not justify the taking of a man’s life. The klacksmith had struck Henry Derbin’s little brother for some mischievous. prank in his shop. but this was too much for the proud, fiery spirit of the elder brother. and nothing but the man’s life would pay the penalty. He was promptly arrested, and for a time there was great excitement, but after awhile the tumult subsided and, owing to his popularity and the fact that he was the moving spirit in the town’s enterprises. public opinion sgon began to lean very much in his favor. Hearing the ‘matter discussed so ‘often, 1 soon began to consider him as my persecuted hero, but consoled myself that I was the only one who saw the shot fired. " But I was bewildered when father brought home one day my summons as the principal witness in the case. I did not then realize what it meant, although father very solemnly told me as we went to the courthouse that “a man’s life was in ‘my hands.” and that I must *“tell the truth and nothing but the truth” about what I saw on that terrible day. ‘He led me into the crowded courtroom, and I searched in vain among the sea of faces for that of my hero. 1 tremblingly obeyed the call to the witness stand. and at last saw the pale, ‘handsome face of the man whom my simple- words would condemn. There he sat with his mother, ‘sweetheart. money and friends on one side of his scale of destiny, but alas! soon to be overbalanced by the law, my testimony and justice. His glittering eyes were fixed upon me as if to say: ‘‘Be merciful. little girl; you know not what you do.” The tears streamed down my face, and between my sobs I .told my simple story, which must have. carried cenviction with it, for the jury had been out of the room only a few moments when they. returned with the verdict of “guilty,” and then, as the judge thundered out the sentence that Henry Derbin was “to be hung by the neck until he was dead, dead, dead,” I realized that this man’s life had indeed been placed in my hands. . : ) While the words of the judge rang in my ears the condemned man gave me one reproachful look. then bowed his head and wept as I had never seen a man weep before. . . Pudplic sympathy by this time was so much in his favor that the most prominent citizens, by a widely circulated petition, got his sentence commuted tolife imprisonment. = THE SHIPS NEARING HOME. ‘Why the bright lights in the karbor that twinkle like stars o'er the foam? ! The ship's nearing Home! Why the glad voices, clear-ringing from valley to.garlanded dome? The ship’s nearing Home! L The pain of the perilous voyage is past; The rocks where the wrecks are; the biliow; the blast; - ; The sailors sing joy for the home-shores at last— . The ship’s nearing Home! - ; All stormy the voyage, where ocean- . wrecks roam, But the ship’s nearing Homeé! . The breath of green meadows, the larks in the loam— 2 The ship’s nearing Home! Was the Night long, O Captaln, {from wild - east to west? Do the lilles of Love hide the wounds on your breast? - % Boon—soon the sweet haven—God’s green - vales of Best— : The ship’s nearing Home! ~F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. . Not Worrying Over the Bacterlia. - A German scientist has found that 12,000,000 bacteria inhabit the skins of half a pound of cherries. The lonesome worm inside, however, says the Chicago Record-Herald, is the fellow that causes most of the trouble. -

From that time my happy, careless life was ended. In vain they tried to impress me that I had only answered the demands of justice, for that shadow was always across my path, and, my thoughts and dreams were haunted by the sorrowful, pleading eyes of Henry Derbin. ; Ten years later I was married and lived in a neighboring town to our old home. Strange tosay.my husband was one of the lawyers for the state in the case of Henry Derbin. At that time he was just starting out in the profession, and his eloquent speeches in® that trial was the starting point on his road to success.

We often spoke of the case, and while, of course, as a lawyer, his econscience did not trouble him, he vainly tried to impress on me that™l had done only my duty, and that my ideas about it were all a mistake.

As if it were only yesterday I could! in imagindtion, see his pale handsome face and reproachful eyes as they carried him away to prison. . ' 1 think the shock to my sensitive, childish mind completely hushed ali whisperings “of justice, and the fact only remained that by my words I had doomed a fellow mortal to lifelong misery. and shame. My heart ached for him when we heard that once he had attempted to escape by jumping from a boat into the river, but owing to his shackles was promptly captured and returned to prison. ' One evening, not long after this, about dusk, my husband and I were sitting on our front porch, when a man came walking quickly down the walk and halted at the steps. 1 was horrified to see that his hands were shackled together, and on one foot he dragged a long chain; he wore a convict’s garb, and in his pale, thin face we both recognized the features of Henry Derbin.

He it was—but oh, how changed from the handsome, dashing fellow we had sent to prison years ago! The beautiful brown hair was cut close to his head and the once flashing eyes had the hunted look of a closely pursued animal, and the hideous convict clothes hung like a sack from his emaciated form. sHe glanced nervously from my husband to my own startled face, but [ was glad to see he did not recognize us.

“Friends,” he said, “‘as you see, I am an escaped convict. No doubt you have heard of Henry Derbin, sent to prison from this county years ago. He now stands before you begging for mercy. I have not long to live, but before I die I must see my mother, and the woman who has been true toa convict lover all these years. 1 escaped, but can do nothing in these shackles. The officers are not far behind, but they will never take Henry Derbin to prison again,” and he significantly

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tapped a revolver in his pocket. “So, friends, for the love of God, file off these chains and set me free.”

‘Oh, how my heart leaped at the thought' that I could :now unde my work and ease the long troubled conscience. I looked imploringly at my husband, who bid me go and bring the file. I went with flying feet. Asl gave it to him he must have read my thoughts. How I longed to tell the poor fellow the part I had taken in his life, and ask the forgiveness I craved, for, as he took the file, he said: My .man, biam a lawyer, and strange to say, one of those who convicted you, and as such should deliver you up to justice, but for the sake of my wife here, who was your child witness, and has always grieved over your sad fate, T will set vou free.”

He fixed his sad gaze upon me and said: “Do not trouble yourself, dear madam, it was justice, for I brought it on“myself by my rashness and fiery temper, but God only knows how I bless you for giving me even a few hours of freedom.

He left us and hurried away toward his home. My heart felt lighter than it had for years, and I prayed that the poor fellow would have the privilege of seeing his mother and sweetheart again.. But my hopes were dashed away as a number of officers dashed past the house in close pursuit of their prisoner. They had only been gone a few moments when a pistol shot rang clear and sharp on the evening air. My husband caught my shuddering form in his arms, for we knew that, by his own hand, the soul of Henry Derbin had gone to trial in a higher court, where I would not be called as a witness.——New Orleans Times-Democrat. INTEMPERANCE OF WOMEN. There Are 8,000 in London Who Have - Been Convicted of Drunkemnnesa More Than Ten Times. Intemperance among women was the formal subjéct of discussion this week at the Church house, Westminster. Sir Thomas Barlow, the king’y physician, speaking on the medical side of the question, said that intemperance among women had a striking effect on the nervous system. - : The type of illness, said Sir Thomas, due to drink, resulting in paralysis, was much commoner among women than men. None of the worst alcoholic diseases could be cured in less than 12 months. Removal of the cause was more efficacious than other treatment. The bishops of London-and Kensington testified to the terrible results of taking drugs, which habit they said, was very prevalent among society women in the west end of London. It was stated, says the New York Times, that in London alone there were 8,900 women who had been convietéd of drunkenness over ten times.

DEATH OF DR. TEMPLE, ! ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

London, Dec. 24.—Most Rev. Frederick Temple, archbishop of Canterbury and primate of all Englana. who had been ill for some time past, is dead. .

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DETECTIVE MURDERED.

Prominent Hot Springs Officer Killed by a Man Whom He;@ttempted A 5 to. Arrest. Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 26.—Chief of Detectives Jack Donohue was shot and killed on the street by Frank Dougherty, a race track (follower here Thursday. Dougherty, it is claimed, had struck a woman with an axe, and as Donohue came up and attempted to arrest him Dougherty shot the detective over the eye, killing him instantly. He then started to run up the street, but only got a short distance when a boy, 16 years of age, who was in a buggy, got cut a shotgun and shot Dougherty in the face and breast. Dougherty then fired a shot into,his own head. The doctors say he cannot live. He was taken to the police station and crowds soon began forming and talk of lynching was treely indulged in, but on the assurance that Dougherty could not survive his wounds the crowd dispersed. s

Laura Biggar Acquitted.

Freehold, N. J., Dec. 25.—Laura Bibgar was acquitted and Dr. Charles C. Hendricksand Samuel Stanton, formerly justice of the peace, were found guilty by the jury Wednesday in the case against the three defendants on the charge of having conspired te get possession of the entire estate of Henry M. Bennett, a capitalist of Pittsburg, Pa. :

Deed of a Jealous Husband.

Eugene, Ore., Dec. 26.—George Carter shot and killed his wife and then killed .himself Thursday. Jealousy was undoubtedly the cause, as the couple have been having frequent quarrels for several days which culminated in a separation Wednesday.

Want Statue of Yates.

Springfield, 11l;, Deec.26.—lt is announced th#t over 100,000 signatures have been secured to the,petition asking the legislature to erect a monument to the memory of Richard Yates, the war governor of Illinois. ,

Sue Coal Firms for $210,000.

Springfield, 111., Dec. 26.—Suits aggregating $210,000 against the Vietor Coal company, of Pawnee, were begun in the circuit court. The suits are for personal damages suffered by employes October 11, when an explosion of gas caused the death of three men and injured a score of others.

Burned to Death.

Malone, N. Y., Dee. 26.—Four persons were burned to death Thursday in the house of Julius King, of Piercefield, a prominent pulp and paper manufacturing town in the Adirondacks.

Both Are Dead.

Searcy, @Ark., Dec. 24.— News has reached here that Messrs. Miller & Mahan, partners in a general store at West Point, nine miles from here, had a difficulty over business affairs and shot each other. Mahan was killed instantly and Miller died a few hours later., No one witnessed the shooting. »

Gives $1,000,000 to _“'orkmen.

Madrid, Dec. 26.—John Oliver, a ptosperous English ironmaster here, won the first prize of $1,000,000 in the state drawing. He distributed the money among his employes. -

The primate«died of old :age. .. The pathetic scene in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of King Edward was one of the earlier indications of his failing strength. 'Then came the collapse in the house of lords at the conclusion of a vigorous speech in support of the education bill. He had not left his bed since. The deceased churchman was born in 1821. The son of Maj. Temple, for some time the lieutenant of Sierra Le.one, he was educated at Blundell’s grammar school, whence he went to Balliol at Tiverton, and thence to Oxford university, entering Balliol college and taking his B.'A. in 1842. Frederick Temple was an unusually brilliant collegian and was elected mathematical tutor of his college, but preferred to enter holy orders. Ordained in 1846, he was two years subsequently appointed principal of the training college at Kneller Hall, a post he retained until 1858, when he was made head master of the famous public school at Rugby. Dr. Temple in 1869 was consecrated a bishop at Westminster and for 16 years served in various capacities always active, always distinguished by his vigor and originality in every enterprise he undertook. In 1885 he was transferred to the bishopric of London, which he filled for 11 years. In 1896 he took the last possible step upward in the Angelican hierarchy and became archbishop of Canterbury.

SHOCKS CONTINUE.

Further Damage Reponted Due to Earthquakes in Andijan—Losses . ; Reach Several Millions.

St. Petersburg, Dec. 26.—According to the latest advices from Andijan, Russian Central Asia, the shocks of earthquake are continuing there. There have been four or five seismic disturbances daily, and a particularly violent series of shocks during the night of December 22 and the following morning set all the rolling stock on the railway in motion, resulting in a panic among the railroad men. Traffic is still suspended on the railroad and the station is closed. The military authorities are taking over the control of the line for some distance from Andijan. The damage resulting from the recent earthquake amounts to several million-dollars. i Ca-ttlei Starving.

Denver, Col., Dec. 26.—Thousands of cattle are reported to be starving on the range in northwestern Colorado. The Humane society appealed to the owners to rescue their stock, and they have replied that they are powerless to do so. The cattle are snowed in on the high ranges in Routt @#nd Rio Blanco counties, without pasture and without water. It is impossible to get feed to them, and equally impossible codrive them into Suitable winter quarters. A i

Killed Wife and Self.

Sioux City, la., Dec. 26.—At Algona, la,. Thursday afternoon Harry Adams killed his wife with a shotgun and then blew his own brains out. The couple had been quarreling for six months, &34 at one time she ran away with another man, but afterward returned tc Adams. She leaves two young children.

KFatal Explosion.

Norfolk, Va., .Dec. 24.—~Tw0 men were killed and another fatally injured in an explosion of the boiler of the towboat Lizzie Massey, on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, at six o’clock Tuesday evening.

Will Be Shot to Death.

Salt Lake, Dec. 24.—District Judge Booth refused a new trial in the cases of James Lynch and P. L. King, under sentence of death for the murder of Col. Prowse nearly two years ago, and sentenced the men to be shot to death on February 20 next. :

Wages In creuue{i

Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 26.——Employes of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad have been granted a seven per cent. increase in wages, effective December 1. The company employs about 12,000 men, almost all of whom will bénefit by the raise. :

More Fighting in Moroceo.

Tangier, Morocco, Dec. 24.—The imperial troops have been totally defeated after a sanguinary battle with the rebels headed by the pretender to the throne. The latter decapitated 40 of the sultan’s soldiers. Their heads are mow ornamenting his tent.

A Philanthropie Work.

Chicago, Dec. 25.—The Salvation Army distributed dinners for 12,000 persons, and also gave away 2,300 baskets of coal. Banks and other business firms presented employes with Christ. mas gifts. .

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TREATIES ON RECIPROCITY.

Prove a Failare—The Protection Theory Is Breaking Down with : Ita Own Weight,

In making treaties with foreign c¢ountries, the administration, evidently, does not understand the counditions that exist about the commercial matters that the treaties are drawn up to cover. The | latest treaty to : receiyve black eye is that concluded by the state department with I\'ewfm}miland which those interested in th? fishing industry of the New England coast claim is disastrous to their interests. -The opposition of some senators to the treaty is so decided that it will, like the French treaty and others, be either laid aside, or, 1f brought to a vote, will undoubtedly be defeated. ‘'T'hese treaties gre ail supposed to e made by the rule of reciprocity—that is, some one or some interest must suffer to open oux markets to some foreign production. The foreigner will not open his door unless we will open our door to the same extent. Therefore reciprocity and protection do not work smoothly together. For if the door is opened by reciprocity, even a little bit, some protected industry feels a draught and at once protests that it will be made sick and perish if the door is not promptly closed. Trying to amend the protective tariff by the round-about way of reciprocity is prowing an utter failure, or else the republican management of the state department is not equal to the occasion. = All of the important treaties - that have been arranged since the prohibitive tariff was enacted have not been enacted by the senate and there. is no probability that any of them will be. The ,trusts will, in the future as in the past, if they continue to manufacture a surplus, be compelled to sell at a far less price to the foreigner than the protective tariff allows them to exact from our own people. Certain trusts would be glad to see a treaty ratified that would open foreign markets to their products, but the equivalent reduction demanded by the foreigner on the other prcducts, pinches the toes of another trust and interferes with its monopoly so that no agreement can be arrived at. fom

Monopoly of the home market and enormous profits for trusts is the principle upon which the protective tariff rests and any competition from outside breaks down the theory and practice which supports. it.

It Is an Il Wind, Ete.

The Standard Oil company advanced the price of kerosene oil one cent per gallon on December 10. This makes 31, cents advance since the beginning of the coal strike. The New York Commercial says: “There has been no advance on the Standard Oil products shipped to foreign countries, because there is no coal strike there, and because there is competition with Russian oil. *““The Standard Oil company has been using every possible means to develop the use of kerosene in heating and cooking stoves since the beginning of the coal strike. The increased consumption, a Standard Oil official said yvesterday, had been very large. The general impression in Wall street of late was that the Standard Oil company is trying to make its profits large enough to pay a 50 per cent. dividend during the prgsLnt fiscal year.”

The coal strike is a Godsend to the hungry Standard Oil trust. It is coining money out of the misfortunes of the poor.

Controlled by Trusts.

The party which now controls congress is fully committed to the policy of artificial prices. In spite of the protests of a-minority it insists on standing by the present law and frowning down all “tinkering” with it. In framing that law the powerful interests got all they wanted, and what they wanted was a law to shelter monopoly. Otherwise expressed. they wanted authority to maintain artificial prices. Having done what they could in that direction by law they accomplished the rest by combination so as to throttle competition at home.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

———Tariff revisionists are not wholly damaged by the attitude of the republican leaders. The latter may be able to prevent action on the matter, but they cannot stifle public expression in the halls of congress. Tarift revision is too vital an issue to be wholly throttled, even in the house of its enemies,—Buffalo Times.

——The republicans feel quite hapTy over having ‘“‘a solid north.” They row know how we feel about the solid south, and should quit wanting the whole earth, as it were.—Atlanta Congtitution. g

WILL DO NOTHING.

There Will Be No Ac¢tion on the Part ;| of Congress to Regulate Ratlroads.

What . will congress do about the interstate commerce ecommission's latest report? Nothing. 9

Yet that report sets forth Bner more a condition of things which should startle a self-governing pecple into insisting ~ upon immediat> drastic action by the nation’s lawmaking body. ; : v ~ The 'commission sets forth, what everybody already knows, that the railroads of the country have practically ceased to compete with one another; that they give secret ratey to favored shippers which enable those shippers to kill off competitors, and that the transportation man: agers pay no respect whatever to the law which forbids diserimination:

“There ought to be some power,” gays the commission, *which can not only compel those carriers to maintain the published rate but which can compel them to publish a fair and reasonable rate.”

There is such a power. The commission itself points straight at it when it declares:

“The fullest power of correction is yvested in congress. and the exercise of that power is demanded by the highest considerations of public welfare.” ;

But congress. which for years has had complete knowledge of the facts, has done nothing, and will do notking now. :

Why? . Because the shippers favored by the railroads are the big trusts.

ALMANAC OF FREE TRADE.

The Publication That Should Be in the Hands of All True Democrats.

The 1903 almanac of the American Free Trade league contains much excellent material on the tariff question. It should be in the hands®of all good democrats. ' The secretary of the league, Gen. Hazard Stevens, thus accurately and truly charagterizes our socalled system of “protection:” “No longer needed as a defense against the foreigners, protection has now become the thumbscrew of extortion upon the American people. It is the dam holding back foreign competition and behind which the great trusts levy high prices upon their countrymen, upon the same class of goods which they are exporting in great quantities and selling abroad at 20 to 30 per cent. less than at home. Hence their stubborn resistance to any reduction of daties which protect them in their monopolies and extortions. *“This whole doctrine of protection is a blunder that rises to the level of a crime. Inculcated by selfish and corrupt interests: until it has become a party fetich, protection has at last reached its acme, done its perfect work, by demonstrating that it is } system of monopoly and extortion. I{ fosters greed, begets fear of the for eigner, and paralyzes self-reliance. It is the champion of special privileges, the offspring of injustice and inequality, the corruptor of legislation and politics. Every true interest of America cries aloud for its overthrow.”

The League for Civil Service Reform

The National Civil Service Reform league, at a convention just held in Philadelpl"ia, commends the policy o? President%l{onsevelt in making federal appointments. The league did not resol¥e on the endorsement of the notorious Addicks, nor did it say anything about the saturnalia of pernicious activity on the part of the federal officials in Wisconsin which even the republican convention of that state denounced as ‘‘in flagrant violation of civil service laws in attempts to forestall conventions and caucuses of the party and assisting professional lobbyists before the legislature and elsewhere in defeating legislation in refutation of party pledges.” As President Roosevelt has not removed these officials, in spite of their “flagrant disregard of ciwil service laws,” it is fair to presume that the league is willing to condone any such lapse of virtue, if it is only a republican that offends.

~ ——The ship subsidy bill seems to be about the deadest thing in Washington. It will be a long time before any subsidy measure or measure designed to nurse more infant industries will be in favor there again, if Washington refleets public opinion.—Minneapolis Journal (rep.).

~——Readjustment of the tariff by means of reciprocity treaties is a cumbersome way of getting at the needed reform. As an adjunct of tariff reform reciprocity is excelient; as a substitute it can never be wholly satisfactory.—Utica Observer.

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But it isn't absurd, and it can be done, and this is the way to do it. Don’t tell anybody, what ~you are told here, but surprise them by performing:the trick some time, and you will make a reputation as a pretty skillful amateur magician. Fill the goblet nearly full of water and place it on a table. Then place

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the palm of your hand over the top of the goblet, bending down your fingers at a right angle. Bear down hard on the rim and suddénly straighten out your fingers, never relaxing for an instant the pressure downward. .

This action will make a “partial vacuum between your hand and the water, and you may then raise your hand gently, and the goblet will stick to it and rise from the tabie clinging to your palm. | = v Would you like to know the reason? Because, by exhausting 'some of the air in the upper pdarf of the goblet, between the water and the rim, you have made the air pressure lighter there than it is outside, and the outside pressure, bearing on your hand and theé goblet, keeps thein together. L .

It is exactly the same principle that enables you to lift a brick with a wet leather sucker, -You press the sucker down hard on the brick with your foot, and that drives_ the air from between them; then lift the sucker by its string and the brick comes up with it because the outside air keeps them from separating. —Brooklyn Eagle. i

Dog Dug His Own Grave. C. M. Lee, of 147 Elmwood avenue, Providence, R. 1., is authority for the statement that a spaniel, a great pet in his family, was taken ill and dug its own grave, lay down in it and died. . Double Action.: : “But why do you -carry two watches?"” ) SRI “I keep one slow to go to work by and the other fast to. quit by.”—N. Y. Journal. The Usual Thing. “The bride looked like a queen.” “The groom looked like the deuce.” —Judge. i

CORNUCOPIA WATER WHEEL

g 158 5 S/j'f/ /"' R WAL \\.u e 3 = - 2z, ; - V i“\\ é:_/// :::1;,..}:_:.- : // 2 '._.‘ N \“\:_/ . 7 & - \\ noy : : il > D s o I\ M = . TW Y £// ,\‘. il by = e | /7 % .’II/V s / i s /“”“ /e i al GaIHE water wheel shown in our illustration is taken from the Bostom i I p Globe. It is easy to make, but nevertheless a very amusing plaything. i The principal feature of it is an octagonal thin wooden wheel, which we havp to prepare first. Fake ‘the top of a cigar box and draw a circle with the help of a compass. Take a rule and draw a line through the center of the circle. Connect the points with straight lines, and the octagon to it. Divide the four right angles and draw the lines through the center of the crcle. Connect. the points with straight lines, and the octagon is ready to be cut out with the bow saw. .Cut a round opening through the center of the octagon and insert a cork through which you have stuck a knitting needle as axle. Tywo erect pieces of wire are inserted in a block of wood and provided with -a loop at their ends to hold the axle of the wheel. Fasten with the help of little tacks on each of thé eight sides of the wooden wheel a cornucopia made of cardboard, with their openings all to one side, as slrown in our illustration.. The wheel is set in motion with the help of water, which we either pour down upon the cornucopias out of a glass or pitcher, or, # we want a constant motion, by connecting a rubber tube with the kitchen water faucet and fastening the tube somehow over one of the cornucopias. ; : z o e

SAFE SHOOTING GALLERY. New Indoor Sport Which Affords Lots " of Fun ¢o Players as Well as Speciators. 1 To make this get a piece of closegrained wood one foot square and half an inch thick. Draw four circles, the first two inches in diameter, the seeond five inches in diameter, the third eight inchesin diameter and the fourth eleven inches in diameter. Paint the space between each circle a different color and also that outside the circles.. ‘Brads three-quarters of an inch | S T - =—‘='=—-':lo=:—'_-="=-§ = 20 % —— 1 —_ @ Z=mmET = — _ = 4 /HE TARGET C?MPLETED. ong are to be driven from the back inside of the 11-inch ecircle, covering every part about one-half an inch - apart. - Be very careful not to split the board. Balls, about one inch in diameter,l-are to be whittled from candles and thrown at the target. When ' they strike they will stick to the nail points. Each player has three throws. The target should be numbered like the illustration, and the player making the highest score wins.—Howard L. Jameson, in Washington Star.

MERCHANT WAS TRICKY.

How a French Business Man Saved Expensive Cable Tolls im Japanese Failure.

Recently a wealthy merchant in Paris, who does an extensive business with Japan, was informed that a prominent firm in Yokohama had Jailed, but the name of the firm he could not learn, though he was most anxious to ascertain whether it was the one with which he did most of his business in that city. - He could have learned the truth by cabling, but instead he went to the man, a well-known banker, who had received -the news, and requested the banker to reveal the name of the firm 'to him.

“That’s a delicate thing to do,” replied the banker, “for the news is not official, and if I gave you the-name I might incur some responsibility.” The merchant argued, but in vain; and finally he made this proposition: “I will give you,” he said, “a list of ten firms in Yokohama, and I will ask you to look through it and then to tell me, without mentioning any name, whether or not the name of the firm which has failed appears in it. Surely you will do that for me?” “Yes,” said the banker, “for-if I do not mention anynhame I cannot be held responsible in any way.”

¢ “The name of the firm which has failed is there.”

“Then I've lost heavily,” replied the merchant, “for that is the firm with which. 1 did baesiness,” showing him a name on the list. ““But how do you know that is the firm which has failed 2"’ asked the banker, in surprise. - ~ “Easily,” replied the mgrchant. “Of the ten names on the list only one is genuine, that of the firm with which I did business; all the others are fictitious.” 2 , “When He Whaa at Sea. A New York clergyman, who had neglected all knowledge of nautical affairs, one evening undertook to deliver an address before an audience of sailors. He was discoursing: on the stormy passages of life. Thinking he could make his remarks more pertinent to his_hearers by metaphorically using sea expressions, he said: ‘“Now, friends, you know that when you are at sea in a storm the thing you do is to anchcr.” A half concealed snicker spread over the room, and the clergyman knew that he ‘'had made a mistake. After the serpités one of his listeners-came to higg and asked him if he had “ever been at sea?” The minister replied: “No, unless it was while I was delivering that address.”