Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 January 1897 — Page 3

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A FACTORY OF FEAR.

A WOMAN'S VISIT TO THE LARGEST POWDER PJLANX IN THE WORLD.

She Look* Wpndejringly at Workmen Shoveling Dynamite With a Cateless lillanc'M of Consequences.

On a low hill close to Sail Pablo bay sits surly giant fouling the air with his sulphurous breath as he waits in treacherous itittness, watching for his chance. The least cjyelpBBnees, a shadow of neglect on the part of those who serve him, and out will flare his red wrath and then there will be a reign of terror and flames, such as only the great Dynamite can bring in. Oh, but he is well tended. All day long eager hands administer to his slightest want and smooth away every annoyance that might rouse the imperial temper. Whoever else goes without, the giant is served. .. •,

How does it feel to spend one's days dancing attendance on such a master? To visit the works of the Giant Powder company, a permit must first be obtained fom the manager, says the San Francisco Examiner. This is not merely an empty form. There is a good deal of hesitation and pencil biting and a mildly humorous attempt to dissuade you before the permission is finally handed over. "You know accidents do happen up there," it is suggested. In other words you may reach heaven by special delivery. If the giant sees fit to lose his self-possession.

You declare you are not in the least afraid. "But we don't want your heirs bringing suit against us," the manager gbes on, with a beautiful forethought. When he has been earnestly assured that they wouldn't think of such a thing he finally puts aside his Bcruples, prudential and humane, and arranges about your train and the carriage to meet you as cordially as though he himself were the next to kin.

Under the charge of Superintendent Roller we saw every department of that wonderful process that turns a few harmless elements into the deadliest powder in the whole world. We climbed window towers and peered gasping through handkerchiefs, into vast leaden caverns, and went wild over the Iridescent flames of burning sulphur, whirling and flowing like a thousand Loie Fullers on a mad revel. A long day was no thalf enough for it all. To realize the power of the giant's domain it must be seen, not heard.

We asked the superintendent if he never felt nervous as he started out on his rounds.' "No, I don't think about it," he said! "We take every precaution in our power, and one can't do anything more than that. I don't mean I have no feai\ If a man who •has been in an explosion or seen it, tells nie he wasn't frightened I simply don't believe him. Every human being is at heart a born coward, when it comes to violent death and explosions—well, you don't want any more to do with them than you can help. What is it like? Well, first you hear a terrible noise that benumbs you from head to footi and then a bell shaped cloud rises like a huge balloon, and pauses a second before it spreads out and fills the air with great black smoke. Everything that went up with it comes down in fragments almost too small to see. A heavy timber will be turned ito splinters not as long as my thumb. Often we never find out what caused the explosion, for there's no one alive to tell. By the way, this is dynamite."

I looked around with a start, for the enemy was on every side of us. Great tubs of white, powdery dynamite stood in every corner. Cheerful coolies mixed and shoveled and swept it with grinning disrespect as it flew out from the great wheels that were crushing nitrate of soda, wood powder and nitrate of glycerine together with deadly intent. It drifted across the floor and ^gathered like little patches of yellowish snow on coats and skirts. The men worked on imperturbably with their rubber-tipped wooden shovels, but to the one who looked on it felt very much like the third act of a melodrama, when the heroine's life about to be attempted and a special horror have been promised on the bills. The workmen have the satisfaction of knowing that if they go up irretrievably their salaries will be paig faithfully to their wives so long as these remain widows, and that there will toe pensions for all the injured but the heirs of an exploded journalist have not even the products of the unfinished article to look forward to.

But this is not considered one of the really dangerous places. The mixing house,where the nitro-glycerine is, made, and the wash house, where it is cleaned of acids and impurities, hold the truly* deadly reputations. They are in the, Control 6f thr6e meh, young and alert loojcirife, vrhi 'accent the danger gladly for the sake of tqe lightness of the work and the $75 £o $100 Sf month salary. Should these be extinguished, there would be hundreds of applicants clamoring for their places before the smoke had cleared away. "You get used to the danger when you've been here awhile,"' two of them said. "You never think of it." The third kept his eyes -on his work and made no comment.

We stood face to face with two open Jars of nitro-glyeerine while the superintendent explained just what wouIuTfe 'necessary to send them off. A drop -of rain slipping in through a leak in the roof (and outside it looked ready to pour any minute) and falling Into one of the jars would start an instant decomposition in the fluid, and before we could move hand or foot—well, there •wouldn't be any burial expenses. Or if a high wind blew a leaf or any little pieqe $i&«f

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the leaves of the encalyptus, and I edged nearer the door. "Of course, under some circumstances, a man who was very cool and quick eould ward off an explosion," Mr. Roller said, but I was more anxious to leave before the explosion happened than to learn how it might be avoided.

Six or eight women with flying hands stamped and pasted the paper shells which were to hold the dynamite, and in talking to them I solved something that had puzzled me all day in the ^voices of the workers with whom I had discussed the giant's powder. It flashed across me that this alert cheerfulness of tone was very much what one would employ in announcing that one was not in the least afraid of burglars,, and had,a load7 ed pistol, when one suspected an alien presence under the bed "Oh, no we're used to. it. ^Te're not a bit afraid," they declared, and I, too, fancied that the giant was listening as we valiantly assured each other, that there was nothing to be afraid of. It takes a brave front to keep the wicked old bully down.

One with a sweet face and .the. prettiest of .brown eyas-gave me a brief leisson in forming- the shells with paste and a round stick

"Sometimes I'm

nervous,

especially when

anything has just happened," she said, in a low tone, in answer to my,question. "You can't stop for that when you must earn your own living. It's nice work, clean and light, and many a woman would be glad of a place here. You always have to put up with something, I suppose."

Afterwards I was told that her husband had been killed in the last

explosion,

while

their wedding day was still less than a year distant. I felt as though I had been treading on a grave.

Perhaps it is easier to serve the diabolical stuff with your own eyes and hands than it is to be the wife of someone who does it. I went to see a woman whose husband worked very close to the giant's great fist. "Oh, we get used to it, too. We are not afraid," she began, like all the rest but when she had sufficiently impressed the enemy her tone changed and her eyes wandered restlessly to the window.

There is really less danger in giant than there is in many dynamite factories, for the fifty odd buildings are scattered over nearly 400 acres of ground, and one department may blow up without necessarily sending up all the- others. The men who have to handle the powder are paid by the day, so that there may be no temptation to hurry and carelessness, and even fright is guarded against, for it is strictly against the rules to move any faster than a demure and alarming jog trot. A man run ning has a terrible significance in a giantpowder factory. We were standing by a building when a Chinaman skurried out, tearing off his rubber gloves, to plunge his burned wrist into a water barrel. "Burned himself a little. He needn't have Come, so fast," muttered the superintendent.

Explosion is.not the only danger to be guarded against. Those who work where the fumes are strongest have to protect mouth and nose with heavy cloths, and now and then the flames of the petroleum that runs the engines flare intq, a man's face, and leave him to grow another complexion as best he can. But these casualties are few and far between for a factor/ that can turn out 40,000 pounds of dynamite and 20,000 pounds of Judson powder iaa day.

Besides these, there is made at Giant tha deadliest explosive .to all the world. The specimen I saw looked like a dirty slab of tough wine jelly, and the superintendent handled it with careless familiarity, but for all that, in its 92 per cent of nitro-glycerine and 8 per cent of gun cotton, lurked 4 power before which dynamite is a helpless weakling.

The fact that poWdsr factories can always get more workers than they know what to do with, even where the fragments of old employees are still unfound, is generally explained by saying the wages are so high but they are not .so very much above the average. The worknien, who number about fifty Chinese and sixty white, do not get more than $1.50 or $2 a day, and the women who make the shells only receive twenty cents a thousand, which amounts to about the same by the day. The real attraction is that the work is light and clean and above all, steady. The works never shut down, and sometimes must run Sundays as well as week days to fill the big contracts that pour in. For though it has many great rivals, Giant is-still the largest factory in the world. It is time now, past time, for the tragedy that it would seem has to come once in so often, but so far faithful service and the wisest and most conscientious of superintendents have kept disaster, at bay.

Perhaps the fierce old giant has at last found his master.

Use Dr. Price's Baking Powder and thus secure food wholesome and delicious.

English Dairy Products."

English daily authorities state that the English «owp produce 1,400,000,000 gallons of milk annually, if which 400,000,000 are used for making butter and cheese, 600,000,000 as milk for the table, at an average of 16 gallons per inhabitant, and 400,000,000 in fattening calves.

Kew» In Briff.

Severe snow storms prevail over the whole of France. There has been a severe storm in the gulf of

Cadiz and twenty-four fishing boats have been lost near San Lucar. A Home dispatch to the London Daily Mail says the pope is considering the compromise clauses of the Manitoba school bill.

A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from nombay says the actual number of deaths from plague is double the loose official estimate. and the malady is spreading slcfwly but surely. There are daily reports of fresh outbreaks. •:.

To Care a Cold in One Day

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POKER ON THE TRAIN

AN OLD CONDUCTOR TALKS OF THE HALCYON DAYS ON THE ROAD.

How He Was Taken In bytlw Hand That Couldn't Lose—The Ganw In WkiokJtfsey Jerry's Four Aoes Were Beaten by

Uncle Joe Beii the Old Drowr.

I was a conductor on a trunk line railroad In the flash deys that immediately preceded the cjlo^e of the war and prevailed for a ffciy yean after the close. I bad been on fchejro«J we*k or tjw§iui was not yet aocH»infced with. a)J its patrons, In going'ttTCBgh tbe oolleoting fares tbte fl*y I ifaak elf oame to four paMeqmrswbo *tere absorbed In a game of poker, a newspaper spread on their laps to plsy op. "Fare*, pJmm," I apid.

People dMn't nrooh about baying Hokets in diays, and a large proportion of the fares were j$ld on tbe tjrqinp. Three of the men handed over their money. The fourth, who seemed somewhat exoited, said:

Conductor, can't you come round a little later?" I told him I must have his fare, then and there. He looj^4 at his companions, hesitated a moment a&'d then said: "Will yon let me take a little rake off for my fare, fellows?"

They declined to do so. "Conduotor," said be, holding up a handful of gun wads, "them stands for all the money 1 got. I'm goin to bet 'em on this here hand, and tbe mischief of it is I'll have to call before I've done it justice. This is the hand."

He passed it up to me, shielding it carefully from all other eyes. It was four aces, I became interested at once. I had $60 in my pocket I reached in and took out $30 and handed it to the holder of the big hand. .. "Go ahead," said I. "Bet that on it too."

He did so. Two of the other players dropped but. The fourth atdid, and "I passed my remaining $40 to tbe riian with the four aces. That was my pile, and be had to call. He ha tea to, he stjid, and I hated to have him do it, with a hand like that, but there was no iiqlp for it. H,e called. The other man showed down a straight flush. He got my^inoney and the money of the man I backcd, and I hudn't even got the man's faro. I stopped the train and put him off, and1 that was all tHe satisfaction I got out of it. Thp next station was the end of my run. That same evening I saw the man I had backed and put off the train and his three oompanions board an east bound train.

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you know any of those chaps?" I

asked the station agent. "Know 'em!" he replied. "Rather. They're fou^of ^Re slipperiest card sharps on the line of tlie P., G. and W."

They had initiated me that was all. A great many drovers traveled on the railroad during the war. They carried plenty of money and were generally easy and profitable game for the professional card players. Some of the drovers, though, had the reputation of being very handy with cards themselves and bragged of it. I used to hear of Unole Joe fieddy, Big Ike Sloat and others as among the quick witted drovers who were said to be able to take care of themselves against the tricks of the sharpers. One day I noticed among my passengers a note#'card sharp, known familiarly as Jersey .Terry. At a way station a little old man, gray and wrinkled, but still active and spry, got aboard the train. He was a very loquacious old gentleman and gave me the impression that he had been indulging overmuch in apple) jack, that being a belt of country famous for that insinuating and lingering tipple. He talked to everybody within hearing aod finally expressed a willingness to play any one a game of old sledge for a quarter a corner. Nobody paid any attention to the garrulous old fellow for a long time, and then Jersey Jerry began to take an interest in him. This surprised me, as the old man seemed t6 me to be rather small game for that farreaobing individual. At tiny rate, before long Jerry was busy playing him old sledge for a qyarter a corner, and the old man was winning every game, much to hiis apparent delight, and in the process of putting away and producing his stokes he displayed a wallet the plethora of whioh explained the interest Jersey Jerry was manifesting in him.

After, awhile, in going through the train, I noticed that the game had changed to poker, and that Jerry had evidently led his intended victim along until they were playing a pretty stiff game, but the old man was winning, and he was elated beyond measure and more garrulous than ever. I stopped to watoh the play. It was Jerry deal. I knew somehow that now he had worked up to his game and that the climax was at hand. I felt sorry for the old man, but it was not my affair. He had paraded himself too much anyhow. As Jerry tossed his opponent's cards to him I caught a glance of each and would have sworn that four of tbein were kings. The old man took them up cautiously and held them close. He seemed to gloat over the possession ef them. He drew no cards. Jerry drew one. Then they began to bet. The old man was game, and came baok at Jerry without a quaver. Four kings was a tremendous hand, but I knew that Jersey Jerry had given himself a better one as well as I knew I was there. By and'by there was more than $200 in the pot, and the old man seemed satisfied. He called. "What 'a' ye got, ye young srnarty?" be said.

Four aces, pop," said Jerry. "That's all." "Ye hain't got enough on 'em, Jerry," exclaimed the old man, and Jerry started to hear his name called. "Ye hain't got enough on 'em, 'ceAse I got five on 'em myself."

And the old man, with a grin that meant a great deal and a look in bis eyes that meant a great deal more, spread five aces on tbe newspaper they were playing on aDd coolly raked the yioney in and stowed it in his wallet. To tbe utter amazemJht of myself and every one else who saw it Jerry got up without a word and went into the next car. The old man only grinned the more, and in less than five minutes was sound asleep in his seat. "I wonder who that man is?" said I to the head brakeman as I went out, pointing baok to the seat where the grizzled old passenger was asleep, with his head thrown back. Tha bead brakeman knew every body. "Who," him?" said he. Why, that's old Uncle Joe Reddy, the drover," ... ^Unclfc\ Joseph had played its way down an tbe sharper, for he knew him. and hps game and a trick worth two of his.—Now York Sun*

HUGb'S DRAWINGS.*^

The Puuooi French" AtthW Might Hikta

Been 4 Great Fainter,

It will not be without interest to say a word or two with regard to the drawings of Victor Huao. We shall find some excellent specimens banging in the billiard room. Victor Hugo drew with passionate enthusiasm, and this enthusiasm passed from his brain into tbe least line he drew. He bad besides this an inatinot for the dramntic ho found it everywhere—in the tempest, in the calm, in a tuft of grass as well as in tbe sidereal'lmmensities. This perpetual consciousness of the dramntic in everything was so natural to bim that if he took a sheet of paper, a little black ooffee and tbe end of a match he could, by looking into his own imagination, that transformer of memory, draw in quiok succession, as if from life, the dramatic plotures~#bich' followed ono another there?

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onatinf thelagtastia andyirtonary. TThia was Qustave Dqo. Jjfee fantert!* of. DotecpmmonplBoe«at without dignity, whereas that ofHugo

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nal. And why? Without doubt because Huso was transmuting bis own partioular dreams, wbfoe Bore? realized tboaaof all the world. •*j

Then i« no aoiantUta skill in tbe vulgar aanse in Hugo's drawing*, but a spontaneous creattreneea, conbsoiptuotM of all rule and ef everything mmtetm bffore. It is the vigorous and pnra expreeiion 01 tbe Mm predominating fer tbe moi+enp in bis mlndj Che only one, Kfeatm of Its verj Intensity, and tM» sptiMaMlty fa carried to snob a degree tint aliost all these drawings seem to have two doj» by the light ofa flash of lightning. Add to this that this MB, so agtf* wftb bis bands and yenwvcviag, bNiagbt an immense amount of oancentigrifen and skill to bear upon bis works, whiqb *a*« tfesm the air of tbiqga materially ftfe Tb**e observations* *een» to up to fxplftib why Victor Htao, in, his jTObie artist, remains an inimitable master and of power equal thai whini be displayed in a literary direotlen,—G. Jeanniot in Sciibner's.

TRAINING THE DEAP.

Habits Formed ln the Earliest Classes Are of Fundamental Importance The first few months of tbe.sobool life are devoted chiefly to exercises fer ih.e development and training of those senses still' possessed by the ohild, wbioh must do the work of tne^ miesiiig sep.se in addition to their,own and

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cultivating in

him the habits of obedience, attention and concentration, without which ho can make no progress. The attention on the part of the deaf child in the ojtamropm must be closer than is required of a bearing pupil, for if his eyos wander from the teacher's lips he immediately doses the connection, since bis ears do no(r tell him what is being said. T^e habits formed in tbe dferllest olasses are of fuocjan^entij,! importance, and a gr»t iteponeibflfyy rests upon |ho teachers QI the 'lowast g**2es.

Before the edtuol teqcbfng of speeoh tbe attention of !^e.pbi|d.}|Qufit jjje aroused, his interest awiike^kl, $e flb}$£of ob^rva^ tion, imitation qjnd qbgaJeftcie cultivated, and the sepse^ of alert. Tbia dUtfftvy exercises play. The games a^jarr^cged to train the sight to rapjd a^a agcjjrate reoogoition iorjas and in tbe sense of foate disQSimina-

of objects, movements' and-to touch a swift an tion between fpmM weights and flHall^ must do tbe work fifi bending the speefeh rtnd't»e taotile sense murt tbe rescue in tbe training and guidIh£Tbf tfr,e pupil's own qrgaas of speeob.7 *Flft ability to distinguish differences of vibration by teuefa is the objective point? ofc fall tactile training, and tba «xerpisee beating directly upon this are eondueted with musical instruments, such aatbe guitar, zither and piano, and then applied to the vibrations of tha voioe as felt in. the chest, throat and bead. —John Dutton Wright in Century.

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WALES IN AMERICA.

His Memorable Visit to the United States In 1860. Stephen Fiske, in recalling "When the Prince of Wales was in America," writes in Tb« Ladies' Home Journal that on Sept. 17,1860, he "entered tbe United States for tbe first time, riding to the American side for a farewell view of Niagara, Then, after the usual ceremonies at Hamilton, the prince, arossed-to Detroit on Sept. 80 and beoaiofttbft gt&st of. the people of this republic. The Ujuke of Newcastle had insisced that the prince, as Baron Renfrew, should be received by tbe people, not officially by the government, ahd this arrangement was carried out duq|ng his tour. It seemed as if all the people, headed by tl)e governor of Michigan, had rushed "to weloomo b|m at Detroit. The crowds were qp dense that the royal .party could not get tf. their hotel through the main •tmST "Thece wasV similar crowd at Chicago, which was reaobed two days later. St. Louis, where the prince bad a splendid reception on the fiftr grounds and opened the Western Acad&riy of Arts, and Cincinnati, where another tremendous crowd awaited bim and he' danced all night at another ball, made the prince glad to get to the comparative ^quietf of Washington, where he was introduced by Lord Lyons to President Buchanan and Miss Harriet Lane and was elegantly but privately entertained at the WbitecHouse."

Subsequently he visited Richmond, Philadelphia, New Y.orjk, Boston and some other eastern cities, in nearly all of which he was sumptuously entertained, and was the guest of honors ^captions, balls, dinners, eta On Oct. the prince re-em-barked from Portland, Me., for England. Owing to a severe storm his ship, Hero, had been driven out q^ber course, was several days overdo^ and£ her officers and crew were rednced to scant salt fare. England was greatly alarmed for the safety of the young prince and rejoiced when the Hero finally landed bim safe on bis native shore. V,

Arctic Sea Temperatures.

fn Tbe Geographical Journal, which publishes the proceedings of the Royal Geographical society, Professor H. Mohn discusses the scientific results of Dr. Nansen's north polar expedition, and particularly tbe temperatures of the water. Imthe oiroumpolar sea Nansen's expedition found below tbe 100 fathoms' level a temperature above tbe freezing .point, also by about half a degree—L e., nine-tenths of a Fahrenheit degree—and, so far as may be gathered from tbe available information, this toznperature extends to the very bottom.a However, on the north of Spitzbergen,* that passage from temperatures below the freezing point to temperatures above it took place at a depth of 500 fathoms, and the warmer temperature was maintained to the bottom. The unexpected discovery of a deep sea containing water whose temperature is above the freezing point, in the vicinity of the north pole promises to explain a great deal bf tbe life of the globe in a quite different'way from what has hitherto been considered as tbe right explanation. And, t»y %he way, it is worth noticing that just asNansen's greatest disoowy in Greenland-r-namely, that its interior contains qne of tbe poles of cold of tbe earth—was made^notwitbstanding that his thermometers were not able to sb.ow tbe lowest dogre8sv:ot .-0o]d, so also the sounding apparatu^^akeq /on, the Fram was, far from being^hbj ip measure depths of 2,000 fatboma. B^.Napsen is the man to ^create means where there were none, and, tbe sounding ^apparatus yrbiub was made proved to be).oT "the most modern sprti It was mad^ oi^t of iron wire taken from an iron cable.

The Cao&& of'FaralyslK

In a late number oi a French medical journal a writer of notje gives some facts on paralysis and it? ixcjting causes Which throw new light op-the subject. He says that overexertion and inaction after a life of activity are the l'libst prolific causes of tbia disease. In patients who have been busy during the greater part of their life-' time, and wbo, baying made fortunes, retiTe tc/take life easily, paralysis is among tbe moat hopeless of maladies to combat. Persons who are fairly active, without being subjected to undue mental or physical •train, are not likely to ba?e paralysis. It is extremes of bodily or mental fatigue whksb ara the predisposing canals.

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WEAK, Tip, IifSCp*GED.

Benefited by the Dr. i^reene's

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Miss Anna King, 136 Diamond St Phila^ delphia, Pav says :—"My nenop bad become go weak as to render meincapableoWblfill my duties. I bad nij oonftdsatein aiys I would at times grow so weak tiiat tt seemed as if I sbanld »e\«r be able to move agair. conld not reqiefaber aDythiac. Dreadful shooting phins ocenrred jqaqfoafly allttoongh

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my eyes and head oftpn severe headaches would follow'which would prostrate nie for hours. I was in despair until I took Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. By the time I had'taken the first bottle I found that I had been greatly benefited. I continued its use and hate'now regained my original health again."

If constipated, use Dr. Greene's Cathartic Pills with the Nervtra. Dr. Greene, 35 Wesfl4th St., New York City, the most saecessfnl physician in curing nervous and cbrooip diseases, can bo consulted free, peysobally or by letter. '"Tj

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speech. I went tribal), got a seat welj forward and tO'pblnt oiit Mr. Lincoln whit* be ojinje in. "You won't have npJtpottbJffe Knefwip hiin when he comesl"'saSJ -isy tttend, #6d I di(toJt. Soon a taD -gannt mkn caliae dowp the aidie and w&| atbearty appfeuse.

I was specially- fmp'risftsa wiifethe £atrness and honesty of the man.-: Ha began by stating Dowglaw^potnjfcs as' fully and fairly as Daugbui^ivmki hava: dpnft It strixjk me tbit -be -er«a aTec(H(i it in bis anxkfty to put bin oppousn#*sarg®ftnent in the most

Cnrions Effect Produced on a Crowd by a Toy Bear. An enterprising confectioner of Helena, Mon., has in his'store window a mechanical device representing a little bear, which by tbe aid of olookwork inside is made to constantly, move his bpad from side to side. The bear is an excellent miniature of a perfect bruin and attracts a great deal of attention. The drollery of thte expression of his face was caught with admirable exactness by the designer.

Men, women and children atop to look and are captivated by the Ifttlo animal, wbioh hardly ever fails to provoke a laugh. Sometimes they remain in front of the window, captivated by tbe expression of bis face, until they unconsciously fall to following tbe movement of bis bead from side to side in an endAvor to note the varying expressions of bis eyes.

At times a crowd will gather, anda dozen persons at one time fall into the side to side movement until toan outsider it looks really funny.

The discovery of the cffect of the little •toy was not made by a man standing in tbe window and probably never would have been, for those wbo see it fall uncon

looks like a orowd with St. Vitus dance. Let's go over." Go over they did, be and his friend, and hefore they knew it they were wagging their heads from side to side in unison with tba little figure in tho window.

I-declare," said one of them, laughing,

"x aeciure," saia one 01 tnom,

as he realized that they had fallen

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The Case On* Man Who Lived Team in the Grave. I at.—H. Ellen

There ts a regular crusade going on in Sn Hungary."

the different oounfcrios of Europe against liasty burials of those supposed to be dead. Solent]fie men and women of high staul

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tempted'to inaugurate a crusade in tbis country similar to

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went at those arflpspsntf.and answered them so cqwfno^y that there was nothing mora to be eajfd.

Mr, 14aoi$.n'i}Aruano8y so charmed me that I aikeo?o meet hittfi after thaaddresg, and learwing that ha was tp be. isu towD thq next ds^a£^din&eourt:.Iinvited him to dine with me. He came,'and we Bad an interesting visit.

Tbe thing that most impressed, me was his reverence for learning. Recently come from divinity studies^I Was full of books, and be was esirnest i® drawing me out, about them. He was by no moans ignorant of literature, but aB a man of affairs naturally bet bad not fallowed new things nor studied in. the lines I bad. Philosophy interested bim particularly,, and after we bad talked abodfc some of the men therein vogue he remarked'how much he feltfthe need of rending and what a loss it was to a man not to have gpown np among books. "Men ox force," I answered, "can get on pretty well without books. They do their "ling ii other men think, "Yes," add JJbTr. Lincoln, "but books serve to show a man tha# those original thoughts oft his aron-'t very new, after all."

own thinking instead of adopting what

I met Mr, Lincoln several times later, tbe next time a long wfeil$r after in another place. I thought he would have forgotten me, but he knew ma on sight and asked in tbe gentlest way possible about my wife, who had been ill when be oame to see us.. But ol all my memortaS of Lincoln tbe one that standi ont strongest was his interest in pootxy and theology. He loved the things of the spirit—New York Tribune.

IMITATE AN AUTOMATON.

K*.

•'I bat— ±9** my miMl wbten the

found perfect fc*«b »nd natural Wid

cU a»p" the body out aiapoaraodrmaiftta sMi Icatoioo wltJbki*«cnlB^. surprise «nd, itewgb had ^the botowW^ bwlbera 'deodanii^uxied

for

ovw^reejMra-fcs^ntfy to a sitting pos'tttwand wftbjn a fejry fbw momeats was tboropgbly nesusCitated. Tb§ young Hwd fcr more tW8g jeare after. £b|s Strang* exparienca."—St Louis Republic.

ANC^NT BgtLS.

S. f*" Well Known to tlyaLlJfcyatiana Before the Jewiib-'^odoa.

Bells warn welV-known to.tbe Egyptians ^before tbe-ilme oj^tba Jewish exodus. In the description ofr Aaron's sacerdotal robe mention.ii^made of tjje fact that upon tbe hem of tbe garment there were bells of gold alternating with pomegranates of blue, of pUJjJ&'apd of scarlet: "4 golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate upon the hem of» the robe round about. At$ it ahall be upon Aaron to minlstw, flj»d Ws fwuntl shall be beard when he gooth into the ho|y place before* the Lord, and vrfien he eomelb out, that he die not.

Hand jaedls wew,io.oe»vicc»:i«se the ancient world. The e^^tf of bells in obuM«» folgbfceaiiiig awajf fi^e-.e^il^fptfits whicS yiete believed to ^rff€&jr^rt^®d air, an^

tyVQTQ OQJloVVU l/U TOiUU?«p*U

His Fairness In »eb»te ani His Views on earf^t.'oy^^'y^f^p^ .tfg&hlV I Strtetjy^Sotojtifto Way of to rid tbe noigb^A'fe^'of ?be villus or ^st tV \z 1 atirl /*Knf/»"h fit rfnlnntlVa. Tf itau llo«n .lAaa

The whimsical Sovaroff, one of tbe ^Empress Catharine'siavortteB, onrecaiving tba marshal's baton, erdered a "TeDeum""and commanded a number of obairs'to be.plaeed

UUYO UOOU| 1U1 bUUBO TT4JU BWi l« 4*'" —. Bciously into the habit themselves. A man tbe Greek assembly May 7, 1832. Iroin was standing aoross tho street talking to a his aceession to the present, Greece has had man in the doorway of a shoe store. Ho but two kings. noticed the crowd aoross the way. ,—1_1_1—J— "What ails those people?" he said. "It Use the baking potrder that goes farthest,

service tbis do»op^^a^O was itang ip ffivp n0^^t«:tbe#devli, if ha, ^tbe. t)Me* bi chancBd'to be BWMBOt, t^t^be^^timnbtt hiie?it befbie %e,sieyati$n. m^l

Sabty II11 gists Is

Buntia'

Sixth a?" P«.vl4

wertr

Tba monumentqf.Poriiena^-.tbe Etrurian king, was decorated Witib piianaoles, eacfr gurmomited vyitbf a bell, J^DkJed in tbe braeze. Tbe army of Clpfcbairejpalso^ the siepe of Sons-on^dooaunt ctf a panic 00casioned amiofag tbe man by a sudden chime from the beHs of St. Stephen's cbnrob.

The largest, bell in.tbe worid.is-in tbe Kremlin at Mqspow. Ittp weight is 260 tens, and the value of tbp bell metal alone, not countl&g tbe gold and silver ornament which were thrown into the pots as votive offerings, is estimated at £66 065,, or about 5 $838,825. ^9t, Louis Gl^-Eto"«Jrat. ml

To the Point.

"I once be^rd a shout that sounded as if it came from the vory heart of the nation," said a lady a few days ago. "M was at the close of one of'General Grant'd public speeches." "Did you liear the speech?''

Whir.

The word

whir" is regarded by some

because best, Dr. Price's.

The Wolf.

A big gray wolf bad crossed tbe path few yards in front of its and dived into tho

forest

b?y°nd

iDto

too. "It cornea natural, but who would was1 alone-aod have thought it would affect oue that S'iS" °/!T Tl lS ^cIfT^ prooeed. Animals can scent a wolt imme diately-and are more terrified at biros than

V' 1 they are at a bear. 13-ut, as a mattes- of Tfi&aiSy Price's Baking Powder^ as it will faob,,wolves u?e only formidable when you ... TYinof 4- Cam A

HASTY BURIAL^''

Browning

with

the people. It appear. frSi the expressions shoulder blade sick headache naus^ of those engaged in this laudable effort irregulanty of the bowels. To the, rethat thereis only one sure and positive ^val of each and all of these discomforts test of death, and that is

decomposition

which is now on

in Europe. Ha first tbe matter a

in Wanderings

The T.lverv of lilliotmnes*

ing are wB^ingBvwy poawoi countenance and eyeballs. It is accompaof suspended animation and making the l, mnnitn nf •u„«„ irnnWt, *o Inied

Pronounced yellow. It is visible in the

uneasiness beneath the right ribs

of i« well as their cause, Hostetter Stomach

the tinsues of tbe flesh. All other tests, so Bitters Is admirably adapted. This prelt is claimed, prove nothing and are there- eminent family medicine also remedies mafore absolutely inmlrmii.

larlaJ

Seven or eight years ago Dr. Tanner— nervousness and debility. It promotes, apan inrestigator and experimenter of tbe petite and sleep. highest rank, although known to people in T~ general'-otfty as Tanner, tbe faster—at- Tbe wind is one of the most active dis-

rheumatic and kidney complaints,

••Jninators.of plant- lifeiover tho globe. A *egiou visited by a deflating lire will in jffre couno of a few mwtbfl be restocked m&n^iifferant kinds of plant*

&0CTSR

SAL LEFf Tl MB* &

asvtheasfr eota«r as4 Ifal»

streets. W. D. Wagguaer, cormr bash av«nu«.,

Hitdtnua, earner XttiC jEttC*

ave&ui. S. WAggOI Kd Httmpt

J. A. Willisan, ooinicr^IxtMU)^ cn^' iMUyjettv avenue. J. K. Allen,1423.No*tlfca»ltt

Ow S. HhMdq, cOafUpr? 0 and Poplafc, UR. BAliLENTINOJS RBMEfllfiS.

Have aroved a positive" icu^e for U& .most stubborn ancf dangerous disease ffbt/y-'t new hope to eyerx guffwfefl1.

ure?

by strong drugs.^os 'factetest -mediaii»es \m no areume&t' Mrain«» thBii«'RMOMuML

-ult his. corps ot*phjteicians. f' BOOK MAILED F«EE.

Those who live at a. distaac Dr. Bailentine's Little Book'-onri«oma *jur« and the advice of hi3 corps"of pnysioianfff un til cured, absolutely of pos'u' WrI(,\.lot book or send a brief-description ofyouit^yiap. toms and a history of your" case.

BALLENTIfti

REMEDY OOHIPAfKY, 18 and 19 Wben-^ock,

IncRenapsHs^tfld.

-M, vtli

INVfiNTtONiQiF A SAVAGE.

r__

y,1^

"Every word." "Do you remember any of lt?'^ "I can repeat it from beginnlbg to end. It was at Springfield, Mass. Grant'and bis party were on their way to Boston to be present at the laying of the cornerstone of the new postoffice building, I think, and stopped at the Massasoit bouse for a luncb. "These was a orojyd of people hoping to get a g}impser of tb§ gceatf man, and in response bo repeated calls be came out upon the litfcjS» baloony and said: 'l am to see yoai, my friends, but as tbe tbna belongs to we railroad company *n&nofr to me I shall have.tobid you good afternoon.' "Then thorshout want up as if from one threat in response tjbe simple presence of the m'an wbo had done something to prove himself worthy tfhe loyeof the people? and of the highest position.in tiiair gitt."

Sutflk a dqmonetrthtion wou^i have been, impossibla fqr/a man whoJbad not won bitf way by bis own acts.—Youth's Cofnpin iob.

Ain Agile Marshal.

of CjrwMntf a

JiVian rl AA.VOI

11 bau .been sss^ban-100 years «inc»ciy.Jlizetl baplany odd dbv.iteiSfe for ^e. Iy tb^coun

'and-'tiic^Was

iklr'"

'$% wfbloc^^si|b^wpl of

rnbK as a protootiqn agditist thnnioer and pawtj^-in .fife paitj^flojlWbe): Witt" a" tew, to llgbtning.

waa {,»!#•'

S|t sidtt^a eti($s tdg^ijar «n frictlbn ^ns.the method Jttsad by|hejpv«' ag^s ofi^lit'.ttin^in nearly*airther lanas cf the gUbe. bere was ope^gingular exception, bewever, tQi$ of' tbe^above, as well t&r&nny atbef 'of theimore Miufbon metbo^i of "striking liMt a^ yhat ruesSrfri,va8 praati^ea by a rade trifi&of .s^mise'y^ges' inhaSitlia^. eastern Tibet. Cifvi'ous ac it may ieear, tfoae rude"savagw.obtained flue' on stoi(rtly'aoiet}tftio prirfoi{jJe9, wbioh lak' volved ^bnderftijf WdiWietfee of W ojEs?op-' ertiea dj ooitpre^fed air. Tho apparatus^

neqeasity. Bub&njj thpy vVere fireS \ij

.. uuac» ,ci« UUO DUUiJj

Into t®is cylinder—wliicfi "tapered off at| oneopduntil it was not larger .than a com-i mon lead pencil-—was fitted an airtightj {@ston, whicb had a iar^vflat knob at the' top. Theotha- end c^ijfftfctfton was slightly hollowed tt^ indentation being intended for tie recepoion of a email piece of tinder,'' or punk. When this apparatus waif in use, it was held io oue band, tbe piston being inserted with the other, and about h$lf way down. A very! sharp blow was then given with the palm) of tbe hand on the top o^ the iarge or knob end of tbe piston. At tbe same instant! the fingers were closed aiteunjd tjie knob] and the piston instantly withdrawn. If! everything had worked to perfeotionV.tbe scientific savage was ^ually^ revst jded byj finding th^t tbe tinder had been"lighted, and a .fire was assured.

Sir--Wifti£mr Gill, the English scientist, who Investigated this queer mode of strik-. ing a lfgbi says that "it requires skill to use this flte 'prdduciiig apparatus, as well asSOieuce to invebt it"—San Frattcisco" Chronlble.

Ufce only Dr. Price's Baking Powder, it is"-in every way superior to all others.

"13= SYMPATHY PAID HIS WAY.

Hoaband and Wife Travel Onder Widely Differing Cor ditions. A conductor has no bq^lQgss with a heart," said an employee -of rfC., B. and

in the center of tbe oburoh, one for eacb Q. train to a report^. "Ve esrconnter offioer bis senior. He appeared in-tbe eacred many queer schemes to beat tbe"\i£n»E^ny, edilee arrayed in his pyjamas, or some- and tbei1© are cases-w^iwonld be thing less tb^n their equivalent, and pro- to overlbofe if it wouldn't "Sb as much as seeded to vault over these flies |f chairs, our.own job-is -worth. taking each in its due succession. It was "Do you wpn^pber jjhe year of the not uutll tbe conclusion ol tills perform- gtrikes and bank failures? Oil© nigptas i* through the train on.my ffec colleoting trip I noticed a pretty littlfc pale woman with a baby a year or so old in her lap. She was orying*aud seemed anxious and worried, but as she had a through tick-

ance that bo donaed tbe now uniform and desired tbe horror stricken clergy to proceed with the office.

to Sioux ^7,

philologists as a natural symbol of the idea common as tickets witb^traveling women, of revolution. The German has wirrea," I

no mo a

to twist the French, "virer," with the "When we got^outab^ same meaning^ the English, "veer" and we broke adra?''^ order to^nioceed. "wear," the latter used with reference to dbiin tbe carstoge discovered a the turning of a ship. Tbe root of the When we stopped wn also dl^verod a sameword is foundin w^so sMffaiS Wl°y fro.en thathe'tum warp, worm, writhe, wrench, wrest wrig- *heD pUned out. He began and many others. tefllng a hard luck taio which I hadn't tiiiie to listen to. However, as we none of

The present king of Greece is George I,

who ascended the throne in 18(58. Otho

I, prince of Bavaria, was elected king by

OQT8fce(j the job

ready, Ttold

]u^b'I»o8 howl. No

o{nrata

miieg

1 toid him to climb un-

fastPll

the chains, and I would

give bim a rlffe anyway. It was a bitter cold night

and

one that would bavo kepo

a professional tramp under cover somewhere, but he jumped at the offer and worked

hard

and willingly. When wo were

him to get on with the rest.

"When in the coach, we found his hands were nearly frozen and that he was thinly though neatly clad and was a refined looking fellow. He told me bis story. Ho waa^ a clerk and prosperous once. Tbon tbe firm failed, and he found himself out of wort' and with no money. Then a letter from a friend

Sioux City offered

him

The sale of tbe few traps which

Wfil f. ifi

Kcet tfiem- in packs. ,A single. wolf is scaro§ly ever -known ,to attack a htjman bning, tbeugh p^ .will pariry off sheep, calves, «to.. ^^tpi it,is not pleasant too meet one, even When b^.^e alone.aud ^011 are driving. '^ire* Wolves.are not pretty gr reassuring to loo

good

place if he wbuld come at once and take

it.

remained

brought just tbe price of tho

ticket,

but:

there were his .wife and baby to starve if he left them without homo or money, bo no put bis- wife on board with

the

ticket,

while be risked his lifo on tho trucks, intending to ride until discovered and then 'flip' the

train. Well, I tokl

to go back mi toll bis wife be

reached Sious City

him

was safe,

and I would put ft}m off later. I dul-ac the end of my run.? I don't

know

managed after that, but I

bohe

ratbar

think he

scmehow

body

is accompa-

nDd the lit

tie woman dkl not again feel that bis dead

rm„x

might be lyiag miles behind on tba, i-sw "—Chicago Tribune.

Won't Tobacco Spit nad Bmoke Your Life

Aw»y.

If you want to quit tobacco usiug easily and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new' life and vigor, take No-To-Bac. the'wonder worker that raaka* weak men strong Many sa*n

ten

P°unds

in t£M1

days*

0«r 4»!o0«B"* No-To-Bac from your ora ausslst. who cure. Booklet aad

sample

York-

mailed free. Ad

dress Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New

,-rlk

Good lump coal al Coal Qo. Cash onl*. Eevenih^