Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 December 1901 — Page 8

LGUBEPS QUEER TROUSERS. President Loubet has five Prince Albert coats two for summer, two for winter and one extra for grand occasions. This last one has been worn only three times 'at the opening of the exposition of 1000, at the reception of the king of Sweden and at the garden party in honor of the shah of Persia. This "gala" coat differs from the others in that it has heavy silk lining and lapis. M. Loubet invariably wears a piain, black satin tie not tied bv hand, but sewed together and attached with a clasp. M. Loubet used formerly to wear false cufTs, but one day while making a sudden gesture the right hand cult slipped olf and lolled on the iloor. This happened at the Luxembourg palace, when M. Loubet was president of tivj senate. Since then M. Loubrt's shirts have been mad? with permanently attached wristbands. M. Loubct's trousers are very peculiar. They are black or gray in color, but their cut is of the old fashioned pattern, with the top of the trousers coming up as high as the armpits. M. Loubet has always worn trousers of this quaint type, and is so accustomed to ihem that ho has an inveterate cislike for evening clothes, which, with lov; cut, open waistcoat, render the armpit trousers impossible. The president's wardrobe is, however, provided with several pairs of evening trousers suitable for low cut, open waistcoats. Argonaut.

Built With Tomato Cans. A remarkable little building stands on the kwn of Dr. Xaaniau H. Kcvscr's house" on Church lane, Germantown. It was erected by Dr. Kevser himself when a 'jov, tome addition or alteration bein.; made to it each year during his vacation - The architecture of the quaint little building is old English. Thclower part is wooden, and the upper part h?s the efTcct of tiling, the tiles being made out of old tin cans. The youthful architect persuaded the boys of the neighborhood to collect cans from the various dumps, I, 000 of them being used on the building. The bottoms of the cans blocked over wood formed circular tiles, with which the rcof is covered, and the remainder of the tin, being beaten out flat and also blocked, made square tiles for the upper part of the walls. Philadelphia Record. Anarchy In Francs. An item of news from Paris gives indications of se.'ious conditions in France. A party of soldier?, reserves, openly cheerr-d anarchy and shouted for social revolution. When the police attempted to quell the disorder, they were charged upon by the soldiers and overcome. Paris lives in constant dread , of a recurrence of the commune. It is small wonder. When the red chapter of history was written, by the commune, the "army was. not so possessed of anarchistic doctrine as at present. The commune sprang mainly from obscure streets and byways, but at present anarchy stalks openly upon the boulevards of the gay capital, finds lodgment in the arsenals and expression in the military barracks. Pittsburg Dispatch. Windmill Electricity. Electric energy from wind has been successfully obtained in both England and Germany, but it is in the latter country thit it has been actually put into use. ? M. G. Couz of Hamburg used a windmill with a regulator, which would keep its cpeed constant, no matter what the speed of the wind was, and succeeded so well that there is a strong probability that it wili be used in small villages in Germany and supply light and power at a small cost. The American Girl. Minister Wu says that as far as marriage is concerned the AmericarJ girl is too particular. He does not seem to realize that the fact stated keeps up the standard of the American man. He judges from the oriental point of view. , The Chinese girl meekly takes what she can get. The independent American girl takes only what she wants, and that stimulates the American man to enter into the competition. Baltimore American. Earning Their Fee. Recently an Indianapolis jury brought in a verdict of griilty against a woman charged with profanity, and then paid the fine imposed upon her themselves. At nrst it was" supposed that they were Influenced by gillantry, until it was revealed that their own fees for service in the jury box depended npon a conviction. For superlative nerve that jury is entitled to the blue ribbon. San Francisco Chronicle. - Tolstoi's Opinion of Women. From my own personal experience I know that women are inferior to men. Count Tolstoi in a Pari Ixterriew. The Dream Fairy. When all the bright un'i glory Is sinking in the west. The children bejj a atorj j Before they go to rest. r So mother reads of fountains All filled with fairy gold And lofty, rocky mountains Where dwell the giant, bold. Then, when the tales are orer, "Good night" to aU is said. There cornea a fairy rover To erery good child's bed. With fair food he feeds thesa ' And talt them by the tzzt3, , ad in tiir dreams he liidi ttea .

An Unhappy Reminder. While Francis Wilson, Frank McKee and several others sat around a table at an uptown restaurant the other night "talking shop," the peculiarities of a certain actress, who is anything but popular with members of the profession, were dissected. Wilson finally remarked: "She is morbidly sensitive.". "I don't agree with you' said McKee. "Why do you think so ?" "She is so nervous that she will not even have a tea urn in her room, that's why' replied the comedian. Xow, every one realized that there was a joke somewhere, so one of the party asked: "What's the answer, Franeis?" The comedian, with a dreamy, faraway look in his eyes, replied: "She can't bear to hear it hissing; it recalls unhappy moments of her life. See ?" New York Times.

Feeding an Obstinate Ostrich. The ostrich which the king sent from Windsor to the zoo some time ago has shown his disapproval of his change of quarters by going oil his feed. To prevent Ins committing suicide by starvation the keepers have consequently -found it necessary to resort to a process of "stuffing." While one kcoper holds the bird in a corner ancthcr, with deftness gained by long practice, seizes the upper part of the beak with one hand and causes the ostrich to open his mouth. Then he thrusts down the unwilling throat a large ball of nourishing food, and the ostrich is left to digest it at leisure. London Express. The Cuss Came. Some time since, when Laurence Hutton was traveling in southern Europe, Mark Twain had occasion to write him. Knowing he would "be in Florence on a certain date, he so addressed his letter, substituting for "poste restante" the injunction in good plain English, "Keep it till the cuss comes." "They kept it," Mr. Clemens remarked afterward, "and the cuss came." "Yes," rejoined Mr. Hutton, "and the cuss kept the envelope too. There it is, framed, on my desk." New York Times. Too Good to Be True. Truly this is an age of inventions, and the west is at the front in designing them. Somebody has invented a housecleaning machine! A big red van is stationed in front of the house. The operator runs a hose into the rooms, and with an odd little device resembling a carpet sweeper inverted he cleans everything in sight and out of sight, walls, draperies, upholstery, everything is made clean without clearing the rooms. It sounds too good to be true, doesn't it ? Petrified Forests. The petrified forests of Arizona were recently examined anew under the direction of the general land office. The silicified logs lie in the greatest abundance within an area of eight square miles in Apache county. In some places they lie more thickly than they could have stood while living as trees, and it is thought that they must have been carried there by a swift current of water in the mcsozoic ae. The Billionth Minute. When the twentieth century dawned on the world, the number of minutes which had elapsed since the beginning of the year 1 A. D. was 99S,G40,000, and we shall celebrate the thousand millionth minute at the end of April, 1902. Or, if you prefer to have it so, the anno Domini clock will tick for the sixty thousand millionth time at 10:40 on the morning of April 30, 1902. Rap! 4 Coring. A novel method of boring holes in a- flat bar of iron was recently adopted on a ship where a breakdown occurred. To repair the breakage it wa3 necessary to make bolt holes in a spare bar, and, as the engineer was without the appliances required for the purpose, he marked the exact places in chalk and then fired a .30 caliber bullet through each from a rifle. Reciprocity. Congressman Littlefield of Maine, himself a total abstainer, is tcllins pi a temperance advocate who recently offered a saloon keeper $10 to be allowed to hang a temperance placard behind the bar. 'Til give you the same amount," was the reply, "if you let me hang my ad. back of your pulpit." They Struck Oil. Some time ago men drilling for oil in Ohio sent a number of nitroglycerin shells into the hole, one of which exploded when it reached a depth of 25 feet. There was a tremendous gush of oil, the flow being so strong that the derrick was deluged from top to bottom: Apparently here was the biggest well in the history of the oil business, and the firm which was doing the drilling naturally exulted at the prospect of a fortune. But their joy was short lived. The Buckeye Pipe Line company's eight inch pipe, through which C,000 barrels of cil pass each day, suddenly ehut down. An investigation was started, and before many hours it was found that the new well had been drilled close to the pipe, which bsd been broken by the explosion, und the oil, which 6eemed to coma from tha well, really came from ths pip line. Tins ended tha career ci o "great epoutcr."

FOR THE LITTLE ONES. A Sentinel Vho VouIdn't Allow the King to Pass. The test of the fidelity of a sentinel by the "powers that be" has resulted happily in the case of an Italian soldier who "held up" the king. Kins Victor Emmanuel is fond of making himself personally acquainted with the thoughts and feelings of his soldiers and for testing their courage and fidelity. The ovher day he was walking alone, dressed in black, in the Quirinal gardens, and approached a sentry on guard, who at once presented arms. "You know, then, who I am?" the king asked. "His majesty," was the unhesitating reply. The king smiled and continued hi3 walk, making as though he would pass the guardhouse. "Your majesty cannot pass this way," said the scntrv resolutely. The king pretended not to hear and walked on. "Without orders from the corporal of the guard, I must not let any one pns, not even the king." Victor Emmanuel, pleased and smiling, turned back, saying to the man, "You arc right." Trie next morning the captain of the Calabrian company, to which the sentry belonged, handed to the soldier a fine silver watch bearing the arms of the house of Savoy and the words, "To the Soldier" Who Knows How to Obey Orders."

An Ingenious Coy. Iloward Roalf, Kecne, X. II., with some assistance from his father, has built a little yacht that he claims can beat any other boat of the samo size anywhere. The yacht's name is Alva. Howard is mm? kV'ih1 iV: i ä I MIT . t.r- -" 1 HOWAKD A2fD HIS Yi-CHT. fourteen years old, sings in the Episcopal choir and sells daily papers. He is in the ninth grade in school, and his ambition in life is to be a naval constructor, and here's that he may be ! American Boy. A Young Patriot. While some soldiers were passing through Kentucky one morning recently on their way south a small, barefoot boy, with a tin bucket in hi3 hand and a look of complete absorption on his face, was standing near the train when it stopped a few minutes at a wayside station. The soldiers were taking a long ride and had had nothing to eat since the night before and they were cjuite a hungry lot. One of them called to the boy, "Sonny, what have you got in our bucket ?" "My dinner." "I'll give you a dime" for it," said the hungry soldier. The lad quickly handed the bucket to the speaker, but when payment was offered he shook his head. "Xo, sir, I wouldn't charge a soldier for anything to eat. You aro welcome to it." And when the train moved off one lad trotted dinnerless to school, but with a patriotic heart beating loudly in his bosom. H. C. Wood in American Boy. . A Mystery Solved. Bessie and her father were sitting out on the lawn looking at the stars. "That very red one," said her father, "is Mars, named after the god of war." "The god of war!" cried Bessie. "Oh, papa, I wonder if that isn't where the shooting stars come from?" How Rugs Have"Llghtened the Fall Housecleaning. Vast steps have been made in cleanliness sinse the rug was invented. II does away with half the terrors of old fashioned housecleaning. Where there are no hardwood floors in the house the cracks between the boards may be puttied ehut and floor paint mixed with varnish applied. Then a strip of a rug before a bed, another before the dresser rnd another under therocking chair, and the bedroom is furnished. Every sweeping day these rug9 may be taken up and every grain of dust beaten to the winds. Moths Lave no chance to flourish, and there is always that blessed feeling that one is clean. Daily the broom swathed in a dusting bag goe3 over the bare floors. One acquainted with the rich, dull colors of Turkish and Persian rugs knows that they are without rivals. If born with that discontented mind that is satisfied with nothing bnt the best, it is just as well not to cultivate a taste for oriental rugs. Fall housecleaning is not what it ted to be. Now all that is left to do ' is to wipe the dust from the pictures and walls, dust the books r.ncj rygiend get out . the extra 'pil

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lows and hangings that were put put of sight during the summer. Oleo Has a New Rival. Anxious housewives will be. glad to know that "vcgctaline," made by a Marseilles firm bv refining oil cxtracted from the copra (dried cocoanut), and now placed on the English market, is not, as it was feared, an imitation butter or even a substitute for butter in its domestic uscb. According to the maker's agents "ves:etalincv is almost entirely a manufacturer's article, although it can be used in the kitchen for making pastry and will be supplied in retail if there is any demand for it. But the value of the process by which "vcgctaline" is made will, it is claimed, be in providing bakers and biscuit manufacturers with a substitute for butter which is not only pure and chejp, but which, for biscuits in particular, k better than butter. London Ex-

pre To Cook White Onions. A delicious way to cook young white onions is to peel them and let them soak in cold water, slightly salted, for about six hours. At the end of that time pour off the water, put them in a saucepan over the fire with enough cold water to cover them well. Cover -the saucepan closelv and let the onions boil slowly until thoroughly done all through, then pour off the water, and to a dozen small onions put in a generous tablespoonful of butter, a half tcaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of red pepper. Stand the saucepan back cn the stove and let the onions simmer very gently for twenty minutes after the butter and seasoning are added. Serve with a very little chopped parsley sprinkled over the top of the onions. Home Remedies. Glycerin is recommended by a physician as being good for sore eves. Camphor and vaseline should be used for bruises, the camphor being an antiseptic and calculated to prevent the injury from assuming a malignant form. Vaseline is an extract from petroleum and is softening and healing. A dentist prescribes the following remedy for toothache: Take a muslin bag about an inch long and one-third of an inch wide and fill with ginger. Place in the mouth between the cheek and the gum where the irritation is felt. This will effectually remove all inflammation. The Original of Tom Brown of Rugby, the Schoolboy Hero. Few better books aro known among English speaking boys than "Tom Brown's School Days at Bugby." Thomas Arnold, Jr., was at Rugby when Thomas nughes, the Tom Brown of the school life, was a pupil there, and in "Passages In a Wandering Life" gives his recollections of the boys' hero. Tom Hughes at fifteen was tall for his age; his long, thin face, his eandy haii;- his length of limb and his spare frame gave him a lankness of aspect which was the cause, I suppose, of the boys giving him the extraordinary nicknaiae of "executioner." Ko name could be less appropriate, for there was nothing inhuman or morose or surly in his looks, and still less in his disposition. The temper of a bully was utterly alien to him, and he was always cheerful and gay. He was one of the best runners in the school, and many a time have I seen him in the quadrangle just before "hare and hounds" he being one of the hares lightly clad and with a bag of "scent" strapped around him. He was too keen eyed and observant to "be specially popular, but all the small boys liked him because he was kind and friendly to them. He reached the sixth form, but left before he haä risen high in it, feeling, no doubt, that his work lay elsewhere. Prince Rupert's Drops. Glass is an extremely bad conductor of heat, and the reason why tumblers and other vessels made of glass crack when hot water is suddenly poured into them is that the interior of the glass expands before the heat can penetrate through the particles on the outside, which are consequently then riven asunder. Small glass toys called Prince Bupert's drops, which may be obtained at a glass blower's, show very clearly the effect of heat on bad conductors. They are made by dropping a small quantity of lass while almost in liquid state into water, by which means a globule with a spiral tail is instantly formed; the outside of the globule cools and solidifies the instant it comes into contact with the water, before the inner part changes, and this, as it gradually hardens, would contract were it not retained and kept in its form by its adherence to the outer crust. If the tail is broken off or any other injury done to the globule, it will burst with a slight noise and fall to pieces. , In order that glassware may be durable it is annealed that is to sa, it is put into an oven, the temperature of which is allowed to decrease gradually. Doy'r Wild Ride In the Cky. That' it pays to look out and to keep cool nas just been impressed on Stanlav Honkins. a twelve-vear-old boy of Lynchburg, O. At thej : : r. i X i it. I to hart? ona rope. 2000 fg t up in

the sky. There was a balloon" ascension at the county fair at Hillsboro, and as the big gas bag shot up Stanley got tangled in the guy ropes somehow and was jerked high into the air. Women and children fainted at the sight, but the boy kept his wits, grabbed the ropes and hung on tight while the balloon soared nearl' half a mile, with tho aeronaut trying in vain to get hold of him. Finally the man, after telling him to keep holding tight, let some gas out of the balloon, and they slowly came down. Stanley had been gone only eight minutes, but the crowd was so glad to see him that it almost smothered him.

The Honest Man Vins. The world at large soon recognizes the honest man in business, and it is quick to give him its approval. "Why do jou deal with Mr. Jones?" asks one person of another. "Because he always deals squarely with me," is the reply Such a reputation soon becomes widespread. 7obody wants to be cheated of the least farthing, and so everybody flocks to the place of business of him who gives value for value and who trades according to the tenets enunciated in the Decalogue. An honest business man is not only the noblest work of God, but he is the crowning triumph of stranding humanitv. Our Bigrjest Gun. Some spectacular particulars arc given of the United States gun which will preserve America's inalienable riht to possess the "biggest thing on earth." It will weigh 12G tons, will have a length of 49 feet 3 inches and a diameter fine by degrees and beautifully lessvarying from GO inches to 2S inches. It will be able to fire its 5 foot 4 inch prcjcctile an extreme distance of nearly twenty one miles 20.978 miles is the exact figure and a projectile fired at the elevation required for this distance will attain a height of S0,51G feet, "higher' says the picturesque recorder, "then the combined elevations of Pike's peak and Mont Blanc." Thus the record distance fired by a Krupp 9.2 inch gun on April 28, 1S92, when twelve and a half miles were covered and a height of 21,456 feet was attained, will be completely surpassed. London Post. The Yellowstone Geysers. Edwin Jlinckley Barbour, professor of geology in the University of Nebraska, thinks the geysers in Yellowstone park are disappearing. "The rapid decline of the geyser phenomena in the Yellowstone National park," he says, "seems to be but little understood, but to those who will visit the spot frequently the changes seem startling and to the geologist alarmingly rapid. If cne may judge from impressions, it seems safe to assume that if the decline in geyser activity noted during the last four years should continue for the coming eight or ten years the features which most impress the geologist will have disappeared. As a warning, every geologist who intends visiting the park should not postpone the trip a year, but should visit it at once." The New Mint. 'There is no danger that any on5 will carry away Uncle Sam's money stored in the new Philadelphia mint," says J. K. Taylor, the supervising architect of the structure. "The vaults are built on the solid rock underlying the city. Fortunately it came to the surface here and extends under the building and clear across the street. We found early in our work that there would never be any danger of tunneling, as the rock is so full of spring's that the smallest opening is immediately flooded. The would be tunneler would be drowned. "The vaults are built of solid steel, the gold vault being seven inches in thickness, while the silver vaults are an inch thick. It is not necessary to take so great precautions with the silver, as it is so bulky and heavy it could never be carried away except with drays. Even now there are big ingots of silver lying about the hallway just covered with tarpaulins. But wo have no fear of its being stolen," A Stout Man Demonstrates the Harm Done by Fool Diet. "Are you aware, sir, what you are doing?" The stout, florid faced man in the restaurant, who was about to help himself to a generous portion of mince pie, looked up in astonishment at the nervous, thin, little individual opposite. "What do you mean ?" he asked. fl have been watching you," said the nervous manj "eating your dinner, and impelled as I am by love of humanity I cannot see you leave this table without a protest at the diet which you are killing yourself with. First, you had fish chowder; no protein, but slight hydrocarbonates. . Then you had corned beef and cabbage, containing full 80 per cent of deleterious matter. Then you had pie, with a mountain of sugar. Are you aware, sir, that this can only be digested by the duodenum? Think of it I You'll be a wreck in a few years." The stout man he addressed gazed at him compassionately for a noment. "You don't look as if your diet was doin you much good," he said 'quietly. "Thit, sir," replied the thin man, Is no fTrr nt pt flL You were

hlialthyTö- start with", andTwasn't. You'il go to pieces in a short time, and I'll live to be an old man, because I know the percentage of fruit Ealts the human system can stand." "You'll live for years beyoncj your allotted time, will you?" said the stout man. "Yes, sir; I will." "Then," said the stout man as he rose and paid his check, "that only bears me out. It only shows what harm can be done to humanity by a fool diet." Life.

The Real and the Unreal. "Do you expect to realize a fortune from your latest invention?'1 asked the capitalist. "Xo," said tho inventor. "I don't really expect to. I had some hopes, but i suppose it will be the usual programme. I'll imagine the . fortune and some one else will realizo it." Washington Star. The Visitor From the Mountains. An old native inhabitant of a village in tho mountains cf Japan came out of his seclusion recently and paid a visit to the city of Kumamoto for the first time in 23 years, says the Chicago News. A quarter of a century and three years had naturally made a great change even in the old town, and everything the aged rustic saw there was a wonder to him. More mystified than astonished, the man went back to his mountain recesses and the first thing he is reported to have said to his wondering villagers was : "Well, I declare! For the soul of me I don't know what the Kumamoto folk do with so many wistaria vines stretched along the streets!" He meant the telegraph wires. A "Kathleen Mavcurnen" Lor-n. William II. Piogers, cashier of the Nassau bank of New York" and also one of the best known men in banking circles in New York city, tells the story of a customer wh. came to the bank and said he hatjust declined to make a "Kathleen Mavourneen" loan, says the New York Times. In his long experience in banking Mr. Bogers had heard of many varieties of loans, but never one of this frenuG. So he asked what kind of a loan a "Kathleen Mavourneen" loan was. One of the sort that, "may be for years and may be forever." The Peking Gazette's Adventures. The Peking Gazette, which justly claims to be the oldest newspaper in the world, having been founded in 1130, may be said to have appeared with an irregularity tantamount to suspension during the late Chinese troubles. A very few copies of this journal have survived those troubles, as the Boxers made a point of destroying all the printed matter they could lay their hands on containing edicts, etc., hostile to their cause and of decapitating its publishers. Consequently The Gazette had to be secretly printed, and it is only lately that some members of the editorial staff have been able to return to Peking under the protection of the American authorities there. It is a significant circumstance that during its existence for seven and a half centuries every suspension of its publication has been followed by the establishment of a new dynasty. London Chronicle. Actually Carried a Chair. Many people seem to remember only by an effort that the Empress Frederick was the princess royal of England. She herself never forgets it. It was a grievance of the German court that the wife of their crown prince always remained "die Engländerin." Bismarck was never tired of growling at it. Her easy, informal manners were always scandalizing the stiff Prussian court. Soon after her marriage she shocked her lady in waiting by carrying a chair across the room for herself. The lady protested. It did not become a princess of Prussia, she remonstrated, to carry her own chairs. "Well," replied her mistress, "the princess roj'al of England doesn't mind doing it. In fact, I have often seen my mother carrying two chairs." London Answers. VERY MUCH WANTED The Last Few Years Has Shown a Rema kable Increase of Sleeplessness How to Overcome It. Sleeplessness is one ot the most prolific sources producing weak nervous and restless condition There is no sen'.e in using opiates, they only undermine the constitution Nothing has ever been known to perfectly control this condition until the advent of Dr, A, W. Chase's Nerve Pills-Their action is bo gentle and soothing-ewreet Refreshing sleep follows then nature has a chance to build up. Mrs. J. Swearingerof 715 West South St., Plymouth, Ind., Bays: "Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pill9 we got at J. W. Hess's Drug Store proved with us an excellent nerve and general tonic, We know the results obtained from it will make weak nerves 'steady, build np the run down and debilitated, and give them strengt! and to the restless at night bring sleep by its quitting tonic properties. It is a good meaicine and I an glad to recommend it." Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pilla are bold at 50c, a box at dealers or Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. See that : portrsit and signature of A. 7. Chzz9, II. D, are oaeverjr pacre. 10

Eczema How it reddens the skin, itches, oozes, dries and scales ! Sorue people call it tetter, milk crust or salt rheum. The sufierins from It Is sometimes intense; local applications are resorted to they mitigate, but cannot cure. It proceeds from humors inherited or acquired and persists until these have been removed. Hood's Sarsaparilla positively removes them, has radically and permanently cured the worst cases, and is without an equal for all cutaneous eruptions. iiooib JiiLS are the btst cathartic, i'rice iiceut.

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lj?s Crcai'i cican?cf,sootbear.(iliel3 the tLiear-ed ireaibrane. ?'VVSL It cures catarrh an A drives f&K-Zh B'vay a cold iu tte hc-a-1 yr.hrrzs. Cream Tt.-.lm !a placed Into t nostrils, spreads over tte iuCir.brAre r.t.d is tforifciL Relief is iniinediat? an 1 a cure f oiloivs. J. is tot lrj iri does not produce encejin. La-ge I'i cents t Druggists or y ; Trial SI.?, lö cci ts ty ra;.'VLY liliOTUEn. 5o Würreu Street. Stw York. HOLIDAY TRiPS .At Reduced Fares via Pemsyjvar.ia Lines. Excursion tickets will be sold Doc. 24th, 25th. and 31st,' 1001, and Jan. 1st 1002, via Pennsylvania Lines, account Christmas anc New Years Holidays. Kate tor adults will not be less than 20 cents, nor less than 15 cents for children. Tickets will be srood rcTurnir.fr until Jan. 2d, 1102, inclusive. For details about fares, time of trains, etc., call on or address Ticket Agent IIanes. Schley's Prize Money. Washington, D. C, Dee. 24 The treasury department yesterday drew a warrant in favor of Rear Admiral Schley for 3,034, his share of the prize money due him for the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago on JulyS, 1S9S. CONDENSED STORIES. "Bobs'' as Sherlock Holmes and the Remark He Overheard. A delightful story is told of ''Bobs" in the role of amateur detective. Many years ago the gallant field marshal was commanding a native regiment in India. The men were excellent fighters, but their moral standard was not quite what one would consider perfection. Their peccadillos were regarded leniently, but the line had to be drawn somewhere, and one day when a sergeant complained that his watch had been purloined by a comrade Major Roberts decided that the time had come. He accordinglv harangued the regiment at large at evening parade on the heinousness of the crime committed by one of their number, and, knowing the native character, he tried what could be done by bluffing. Therefore before dismissing the men he assured them that he knew the thief and that unless the watch was restored to its owner before the next reveille sounded he would be tried by court martial. The next morning the sergeant reported that under cover of darkness the watch had been restored to hia locker. The major was naturally pleased with himself, but during the course of the day he overheard two of his men talking in a way which somewhat lessened his self satisfaction. 'Vhat a wonderful man the sahib is!" said one of them in a tone of admiration. "He actually knew who took the sergeants watch and made him return it!" "Ah, my brother," replied the other, "of course the sahib knew where the watch was, and why ? Because he stole it himself!" Home Notes. Senator Scott's New Shoes. Senator Scott of West Virginia wore a new. pair of shoes to the White House one day recently. According to him, they were giving his pet corn "Jessie." While he was THE OFFENDING SHOE WAS CUT. waiting to 6ce the president he slipped off the offending shoe. When he tried to get it back again, it would not go on. At this juncture Secretary Cortelyou said: "Senator, tho president is D)7 craning xo see you The West Virginian looked perplexed. It would not do to keep tho president waiting. In a few moments ly? reached in his tvousera pocket and pulled out a fFilly Barlow" knife. With this the offending shoe was cat, and Senator Scott WC3 tbxs cabled to clip It on.

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