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, -v- j-xs&-'tt: rG-"- r 11 I . CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOSTS Detroit lias Jlade Elaborate l'rrjmrH' tloni to utertala the Visitors at the Convention. Dbtkoit. Jaue 1C. Independence dav '09 will find Detroit arrayed in gala at tire for a double purpose. Besides the usual accompaniments of the nation's birthday, the streets and buildings will be Ray with streamers, flags and bunt ing in honor of the Christian Endeavoi hosts, who will 12 the city's guests foi the week following the Fourth of July Recent canvasses of the city demon stratcd that all the expected visitore can be cared for. and the C. E.'s world's membership of 3,500,000 is expected to be represented in .Detroit oy some tu, 000 Endeavorcrs. Arrangements have been made to meet every incoming train 50 miles from the city and care promptly for the arriving delegations. The Kronnd selected for the main con vention gatherings is hi a large level space bounded by Cass, Kirby, Second and Holden avenues. It is surrounded by a fine residence section. Here will be pitched Tent Endeavorer and Tent Wiluston, each 261 by 1S1 feet in size. Adjoining these will be information, bicycle, hospital and press tents, with restaurants, temperance refreshment tents, surrounding the outer sides. The program generally speaking will be "quiet hour" in, the light guard armory at 8:15 each morning led by Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., of New York; main meetings of the day siinultaneou.-.lv in the two big tents from 10 o'clock till noon; .the afternoons to be chiefly devoted to meetings in churches and lialls throughout the city, devoted to denominational conferences, pastors' meetings, prison, charitable and other branches of endeavor work, state aud junior rallies, Sunday school ouferences, tc. Nightly meetings will bo held in the big tents, addressed bymiuy distinguished religious ora torn. On Su iday evening, 20 consecration meetii gs will be held in as many churchy. A feature of convention week will be a grjat outdoor "international peace and arbitration" meeting, Satur day afternoon, on Belle Isle, to be ad dressed by American and foreign fcpuakors. FIGHTING IJ SERVIA. Albanians anil Turks Attuck Villages. Nnniber Reported Killed. Belgrade, June 10. A number of Albanian bands, assisted by 2,000 Turk ish regular troops, are reported to have attacked a number of Servian villages in the .Tavlonitza -Jistrict. It is also added that during tlie fighting a large number of men were killed and wounded on both sides. The Turks," it is pointed out, being in superior force overpowered this frontier guards and now blockade threo villages. A force of Servian regular troops has been sent to the .scene of the conflict with.ordors to expel the invaders. IAV AS J rUTIJo Al STAKE. d.rmy Itegulatiuns Against Clustering Out Tenth at Pittsburg. PinsBUKG, Juno 16. Mayor W. J. vlienl received a letter from Lieutenant 0. E. Hawkins, which read as follows: War Depaktmext, Washington, June 14. ? Mayor W. J. Diehl, Pittsburg: My Deau Silt Major Johnston of tlie adjutant general's department, agrees with me that the Tenth must be mustered out in San Francisco, or lose both travel pay and ration allow ance, and according to the law on the subject would have to be mustered out i.t tlie state rendezvous, probably Camp MeaJe or Mount Gretna. The loss to each, tosiug into, account both travel pay aal ration allowance is as. follows: Privates, 82 cents for every 20 miles; corporals, 9J cents; sergeants, 1.02; first sergeants, $1.30, sergeant major, $1.66; second lieutenants,- ijJ.b'O; first lieutenants, $1.17; captains, 5; majors, $3.91; lieutenant colonel, $3.33; colonel, The amount for tlie eutiro regiment, you can plainly sce,;is very great, and it would bo. a great injustice to all the men. I sincerely hope that yon will full' represent this to the committee. The program, as laid out by the commit tee, to have tne regiment mustered out in Pittsburg, and yet obtain travel pay and ration money is impossible, and di rectly opposed to regulations on the subject. Very sincerely, O. E. Hawkins. Mnscnlar Powers of n Beetle. The following anecdote of a three horned beetle will give some. idea of its vast . strength of body. A beetle was brought in, and, there being no box at hand in which to put it, it was clapped under a quart bottle of milk, which happened to be neon the table, the hol low at the bottom of the bottle allowing the insect to stand upright. Presently the bottle began to move slowly and glide along the smooth ta ble, propelled by the muscular power of tbe imprisonrd beetle, and continued its travels ft r some time, to the aston ishment of all who witnessed it. The weight of tbe bottle and its contents could not Lave been less thin three pounds and a half, while that of the beetle was about half an ounce. So that it readily "moved n weight 112 times greater than its own. A-better notion than figures can con vey will be obtained of this feat by sup posing a lad of 15 to be imprisoned under a greet bell weighing 12,000 pounds and to move it to and fro 'upon a smooth pavement by pushing it from within. New York Snn. Tbe Diet of the Consumptive'. Dr. Cutter of New York, one of the editors of The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, declares the most important part of the treatment of tuberculosis patients is the diet. It should, -he says, consist largely of animal foods. Of these, eggs and milk should preponder ate'. Eggs are best given raw when the patient can take them thus. The albu men of tho egg is similar to blood albu men and ii digested, or rather absorb ed, into, the blood without undergoing an elaborate digestive process The white of the egg, mixed with water, is often tolerated when the yolk cannot be borne by tho stomach. Bone marrow of the ox he regards as of greater value than cod liver oil. Good butter may be used freely and should be spread thick ly on thin slices cf bread. Heavy meals are to bo avoided. The patient shonld take small quantities of food between meals. A Qnention of Color. "I met that red haired Jones girl to day," remarked the young woman. "Tnt, tut, my dearl" cautioned her mother. "Her hair is auburn now. Sho has just inherited a fortune. " Chicago Post. A Miner Goes Over the Precipice Into "Death Valley. WEIRD PANORAMA OF A BCSY LIFE ClatcliinK AVildlJ Fur Cnclus anil Itockn on a Darren Slope "It Mast Be l'rotidence Thrft AVntcIic Oicr Prospector." J. P. King, who owns a mice dose-to Death va'Iey, in the great Panamiut range, casie very near losing: hU life while on a prospecting tour lately. King is a typical California miner, says tbe San Francisco Call, and does not seem much the worse for his experience. But lie admits that his nerves are pretty well " shak en, and he affirms most solemnly that he would not go through the same thing again for all the wealth of Guzerat or Golcouda. "One blazing hot day," says King, "I left my camp in Pleasant canyon, where the big ledges are to be found. "After climbing the hack of .that im mense lidge which leads by a series of broken dikes and rugged ascents almost to the foot of Telescope peak, that giant OVEB THE PRECIPICE INTO BEATH VALLEY. sentinel of the range which towers for nearly 11,000 feet into the burning sky of the desert, my eye lit upon some well defined outcroppings of quartz. This seemed a likely spot at which to com mence my prospecting, and hobbling my burro and taking my prospecting pick I began slowly to "traverse the course of the vein as it was defined by the crop pings. As I descended toward the Death valley slope of the ridge the vein showed still more strongly, and, intensely inter ested, I failed to notice that the ground over which I was slowly picking my way grew more and more precipitous. "Suddenly, as I rounded a -rocky es carpment, the awful panorama of Death valley unfolded itself to my view. I had nevef contemplated this scene without a certain feeling of awe, aud 1 now stood motionless before the vast spectacle. '"Seven thousand feet below me lay the valley, hideous, repulsive, appalling in its vista of desolation, its course de fined by apparently endless upheavals of volcanic origin, while borne on the wings of an approaching storm an enormous cloud was sweeping toward me at least half a mile below. From the center of this cloud flashed incessant lightnings, and the reverberations of the accom panying thunder, echoing from rock to rock, completed this picture of a verita ble inferno. ''I can't tell you just how it happened, but something moved under my feet as I stood watching the storm, and before I could belli myself I was slipping down, down, with a rapidity that took away my breath, toward the .sheer" edge of the precipice. "As I slid, however, I retained suffi cient presence of mind to clutch at every thing which might impede my progress, but there was not much on that barren slope. The next few seconds were ter rible. I knew that if nothing stopped me I was lost. It was while I was sliding these few last feet that the phenomenon so often experienced by men who have keen suddenly put in extraordinarily per ilous positions occurred in my own case. In a single instant it seemed a's if tlie whole panorama of a busy life, extending over 47 years, was Hashed before me. 1 pns&ed in one moment from mj- child hood's home in Connecticut to the awful realization of present peril. Then, there was a sudden 'shock. I was brought up by something that struck me under the left arm, and I opened my eyes slowly, to find myself in a peculiar position. "I was lyiug on my back at an angle of about S3 degrees, my feet resting against one of thove yellow, "cone shaped cacti, which take such deep root in the soil. My left arm was clutching a projecting rook, which jutted to a length of jiliout IS inches from the face of the precipice. Xeit'ier of thcc would of itself have ar rested my fall. Unchecked by my spas modic but wholl.v unconscious seizin e of the rock as I swept pat it, on the one hand I must have plunged through the cactus against which my feet now letted. On the other baud, if my feet had not struck the cactus my hold would have been torn from" tlie rock, which in its turn partly supported me. "I was sua ed! This was my first reflec tion. Saved! Yes, but for a lingering and cruel fate. "I was miles fiom a human habita tion. Accustomed to be gone from camp for a week or more nt a time, my part ner would not be at all alarmed at my absence. Besides, how long could I re tain my present position? Already my left arm was stiffened and cramped by holding on to the rock, for I was afraid to trust all my weight on the cactus. "Just then a shadow passed between nie and the sun. I looKed up. An enor mous vulture was flouring a few score feet above me. I felt my nerves grad ually breaking down as the utter hope lessness of escape forced itself upon me. "AH this time I hud not noticed that I still grasped in my light hand the small prospector's pick with which I had stait ed out. I still held it in a convulsive clutch. It was this which finally saved me. "As I say, I had utterly lost my nerve. I dared not glance downward. There was a dreadful attraction about that awful nbyss which 1 instinctively felt would drag me to destruction. A voice seemed to whisper: 'Why prolong this torture? Let go your hold. It will soon be over.' "I reviewed every action of my past life. Severed from all hope of earthly llfJiff'ffZ7Z f "" JO f tgyJ f If r ' r aid, I turned my thoughts to u.aven. I have no distinct recollection how long this continued, but the sun went down, and the stars came out. and I fell into a kind of trance. Soon thj moon, peering over the mountains, penetrated into the valley and cast the shadow of the great peaks in fantastic streaks miles in length, so that in my weakened state I fancied giants were advancing over the floor of some vast, sanded parlor, "HonFs passed. A frightful thirst had assailed me, exposed as I had been all day to the burning rays of the sun, and I now felt my tongue swollen to such an extent that it seeined to fill my mouth. I could not summon a particle of moisture to my cracked lips. "The night parsed thus. When day dawned, I still held the pick, and my nerves had somen hat recovered their nor mal cjudition. It was then that 1 con templated, for the first time, the possibili ty of cutting steps up the almost precipi tins face of the mountain. "How did I Mit about it? I struck the pick by a backward blow of my right arm into the earth, relieving myself of its weight and at the same time freeing my right hand. I then slowly turned over on my face aud, supporting myself by the cactus caught hold of the 'rock with my right hand in this reersed po sition. "I then raised my head and took a sur vey of the situation. I should say here that the fact that my face was turned from the depths below me toward the mountain did much to restore my nerve and give me confidence in my undertak ing. ' Then I cut my first step. "It was early dawn when 1 began. It was nearly dark when I finished the one hundred and thirty-second step, and, 'nearly exhausted, crawled past the spot where I had commenced to slip. A few rods away my burro was contentedly munching at a sacebu-di. I staggered to my canteen and drank until nearly chok ed. Then I flung myself down and slept "I guess there's a Providdence that watches over prospectors. Somehow I've come to believe it." OCEAN GAMBLING. Crook Who 'Work tlie Unwary on Atlantic Liners. The Atlantic liners suffer much at the hands of professional gamblers, who cross the oeeaii more than a dozen times in a year, liwng in the lap of luxury, for uo other pnipoce than to fleece the gulli ble people among the better class passen gers. One of the most successful Atlantic "crooks" was n man who served a num ber of terms of imprisonment and used so many aliases that no one knows pre cisely what was his real name. His suc cess was due to his marvelous skill in se cretly marking the cards with his nails, which he did so quickly and cleverly that once a pack had passed through his hands he could almost invariably identi fy the cards by his acute sense of touch. His occasional failures were resultant of the suspicions aroused by his wonder ful luck rather than by any weak points in his methods, and no one ever satisfac torily decided how he manipulated the cards to such personal advantage until one day, when intoxicated, he disclosed some of hissecrets. During one Atlantic trip he fleeced three young men of an ag; gregate sum of nearly $25,000, and on another occasion, when posing as a Brit ish -army officer, he succeeded, without arousing any suspicion, in cheating one of our congressmen of a considerably larger sum. One difficulty which the single handed sharper has occasionally to face is the presence on board of a rival sharper whom he did not recognize or suspect, and this generally means bad times for both, and sometimes great amusement to those passengers who care to watch the card play. Horrors of Chlneae Slavery. Vancouver advices speak of the sale of two Chinese girls into slavery by their fa ther at Quesvelle. A pioneer of the Cari bou district is reported as saying that fn his experience this has occurred more than once, for girls have been brought all the way from China to be slaves of bach elor Chinese, who live by mining or fish ing in the interior. He says that as high as $500 has been paid, and then the snirrrsG a chinksk slave giul asfiseigut. girls were only 13 or 14 years old. On one occasion a Cl'nese gill was sent to Caribou crated as fieight. At the end of the tiip he was mi exhausted that she became hysterical and was thus discov eied. The authoiities say that this kind ot trnllie has been going on in an under hand way too long, and people in the community in which the outrage was per petrated threaten to deal summarily with the offenders. The gills are bright chil dren aud aie very adverse to returning to their unnatural parent. Soldering Glnsa. Margot, in tome interesting investi gations in soldering glass, husestablu-li-ed the fact that 'an alloy composed of 95 parts of tin'and 0 parts of zinc will welt at about 302 degrees Fahrenheit. Be coming firmly adherent to the glass, it is unalterable and exhibits an attractive luster. An alloy containing 90 parts of tin aud 10 parts of aluminium will melt at 5U0 degrees Fahrenheit, and also forms a strong and brilliant solder for glass. With -these two alloys always ready to hand, glasi may be eoldered as easily as two pieces of metal. When tbe glass is heated in n furnace, the sol dering can be accomplished by rribbing the snrface with a rod of either of the compositions named. The alloy as it flows can be evenly distributed with a soldering iron. St Louis PostrDis patch. Supplying- the Innplrntlon. Caller Why do you piny the piano constantly when your husband is busy at his literary work? Doesn't It annoy him? Hostess On the contrary, ho Insists upon my doing it. You see he is en gaged In writing a tragedy, and he wants something to make him siivnge. Chicago News, A SERIOUS APPRENTICESHIP. R S 4S A Story of Simple Love Between g Two Lowly People. k One morning I was called to the study to see several foreigners with whom Ran dall was talking. One was a Swede who knew little German and less English. With my assistance we managed to un derstand that the couple he had brought in were recent immigrants and that the conversationalist of the party wanted a place in some one's household for the girl. ' The couple stood modestly waiting, side, by side. It was already cold weather, aiid the woman had a cheap plaid -.bawl over her head, a bright ribbon tied around it to form a hood. I spoke to her in a kind voice, and she looked me full in "the face with the bluest pair of eyes I had ever seen. The two were loers from the extreme northern part of Sweden. They were the children of fisher folk, poor. They had despaired of marriage at home, hut one day walked away together, reached a seaport town, and there both, with hard labor had earned enough money to come across the ocean. The interpreter was her cousin. He was also poor and had a family. "Jlaguus has a place in the raihoad yards," explained the cousin. "He lives with me. She live with you. After while they have money and they get married." It was finally decided that Christina Eid hould come to us. The lover was to bring her chest from the railroad station at once. It arrived iu an hour, a huge affair, and carried by the man, Magnus Liefs-en, without apparent effort. She helped him take it up stairs, then the two said farewell in my presence. Christina had removed her shawl and rough cloak. Her head was crowned with heavy braids of flaxen hair. Her skin was white as mi'k, and ou each cheek burned a sjMit thai was like a pink rose. When she saw that her lover must go, she went to him. They took each other's hands and stood silent for a few mo ments; .then his lips moved. He drop ped her bauds, and she turned away to me, a haunting look of pain in her blue ejes. I was therefore left with a ninid who could not understand a word said or re ply to me. I pass over the trials of the next few days. I grew patient because of the girl's extreme willingness and real intelligence, and I began to realize what dumb faithfulness meant. At first she was timid, but in a few 'days she began to repeat names of articles, address us and grew' more cheerful. At the end of a mouth we got along quite well. Three times a week her lover came to see her for two hours." It was not long before I happened to go into 1he kitchen one evening and found lmth laboring over copybooks. They were learning to write English, with the cousin's small son to guide them. Our household settled down into peace and comfort. Christina was so strong, so determined, so cheery and became so full of resources as time passed that we won dered we hod managed to live without her. "Have you any fault to find with me?" asked Christina one day in the spring-, time. "Is all the work finished well?" I believe I am just. I told her 7 had no leason to complain about it. After that their hoard grew, and as it did the spirits of the two rose. When Magnus sat at tho copybooks, Christina sewed swiftly on all things necessary to their house fitting. Not once did she lose her head. All she bought was sensible, good, necessary for a neat home. Christina was indeed good and beauti ful. When she came to church, as she often did with Magnus, I saw that peo ple observed her. I told her story to one of our church societies, aud I heard that they intended to" add to her modest out fitting by a present. I must confess that at times I felt that Christina might do better than to wed such a stupid man as Magnus Leifssen. But suddenly the man I thought stupid, rose to the height of a hero. It was all in the morning papers. Ran dall ate the breakfast Christina had pre pared and unfolded his journal while 1 sipped my coffee. He jumped to his feet. "Where is Christina?" he asked in a low toue, his mouth twitching. She was singing somewhere: She had a voice like a lark. "What is it, Randall?" I cried, running around, to him. He pointed" to the great, black head lines. I lead, breathless, of the attempt ed robbery of a railroad pay car prepar ing to set out in tlie gray dawn. The car had been drawn up. in the switchyards and guarded by the policeman and sever al section men. It had been a foggy night, and the attack on the car was made so suddeidy and quickly there was not a second of time to give a whistle of alarm. Two" section men were knocked down, one tied, and the car door was defended alone by a brawny Swede, who fought steadily, doggedly, stubbornly, his eyes filled with blood, his wounds incredible. No shot had been fired. The policeman was in the roundhouse, not SO feet away, telephoning to headquarters, when the fleeing Irishman burst ill upon him with the news. Help arrived in time to save the car from being looted, but Liefb-on was picked up for dead. He had bsen taken to the hospital and was the city hero. There was little hope for his life. Beloved pastor t'lid I took Christina in a carriage to the hospital. Her face had been like marble siucc we told her. He had nut regained consciousness, Ho was only a poor bandaged mummy when we stood at bis bedside. Christina said nut a woid. She stooped and, iu spite of the nurse's protests, took him into her two strong aims. Tlide was a perceptible shudder in his frame. "Speak to him!" cried the surgeon, eomiiig up. "He may reus-.'." Krom Christina's lips burst forth a ter rible tenderness. She called" him endear ing nmnes iu her strange language, she showeicd kisses upon his cheek,-slielaiil hers upon his unhurt hand. At lat ho opened his eyes and gazed stupidly at her, then smiled and muttered a word. Christina laid him down and stood erect. She looked full at Randall. "Beloved pastor," she said iu her splen did voice, "we have done wrong. We have serve loo long for money. He have called me wife. It is now the right time." And in the afternoon their serious ap prenticeship to prudence was at an end. They were made man and wife. Ex change. ASTOWAWAYSLEUTH ODD VOCATION OF AN OLD SAN FRAN CISCO BOATMAN. tic TtmiH.IIIfi Prey to Water Inntcnd of to rjiirth How the Stownivnyn Gel Ahnnril Ship und II01V They Gcncrully Come to Grief. Down by the city's sea wall a queer man pursues a queer vocation. He is'n, water front "character," aud his busi ness Is the sleuthing of stowaways. He doesn't run his prey to earth, however, after the manner of other hunters of human game He runs It to water. This weather hardened, wrinkled man is at once the terror and the friend of would be stowaways. He is known as Captain Jack, but his name has half a dozen variations, all of which smack ot the salt, salt sea. Thcs are some of his aliasc?: Wharf Hat, Water Fowl, Sea Dog, Whaler, Old Man Jack and The Boatman. His stock in trade consists of his shrewdness in "spotting a stow" and a battered but seaworthy old bout which rides the water by night aud day through successive seasons. The town's attractions do not lure him from his long accustomed haunts among the masts, ligur.dieads. piers and piles, sails. neK stringers and multitudinous varieties of merchandise that crowd the bay's edgi:. Captain -lack came out of his sea shell of reserve long enough the other day to tell a bit of what he knows about that venturesome creature of chance, the stowaway, who would fain "voyage out of port without the previous formality of. paying for pas senger privileges. "I've -been in this business a long time," he said, "an I can gen'rally spot a 'stow.' "Different ones has different meth ods. Some hangs round the docks afore a ship sails, offerin to lend a hand, or proposin to work a passage somewheres. When they find this don't go the way they want it to, they commence to talk big inquire 'bout sea weather, the cost of a cruise, the time it takes to git to the islands or Alaska or Panama. They're always just a-goin to make the trip. But there's soinetliin .so hungry an home sick an tired lookin about 'em that It gives 'cm dead away leastways It does to a person who's spoilt a good many years studyiu their kind. "Others, though, wait till the last minute, then come bustliu along as if they was too rushed to buy a ticket or as if they had one in their pocket. Why, I've even been asked by 'em to row 'em out to a ship after she'd got clear out into the stream. If a skipper happens to be good natural, he'll slack up an take passengers aboard. An after all that bother I've had to bring 'em back again, for nary a red did they have. "This class of deadheads is gen'rally supplied with clothes, gripsacks, hat boxes, steamer trunks, canes, umbrel las, cameras, fo'din chairs an some times' a servant." "Not a valet?" "Sure. That's what we sailors call puttin on a terrible lot of dog. Them's the fellers that always has friends 'mong guvnors, rajahs, lords, dukes an consuls, an likewise money to burn but always across the water some wheres. I don't mind the men, but I bate to tackle a woman." "Women stowaways?" "Sure. When the Klondike boom" was op, I used to bring In as many women as men. Some was only girls Utile slim things, goin to the icy gold mines with no more outfit than" the thin clothes they stood iu. "The easiest part of the stow's plan inmaki- an escapeis the gittln aboard. Nobody knows who's who the day a ship's leaviu port. If she's crowded so much the better. The stow can hide in the hold without beln spied. But it's mighty hard to git past the Heads, for by that time tho ship's been searched an the stows yanked out ou deck.'.' Captain Jack spoke truly. The stowaway who passes the Heads has run the gantlet safely unless an in coming vessel be at band to convey the intruder back again. When the final gong has been sound ed, the warning "AH visitors ashore!" given, the gangplank withdrawn, (he last rope loosened and the screw turned, the vessel's interior is care fully explored. Meanwhile Captain Jack's weather beaten boat is speed ing in its wake. If a stowaway be discovered a signal is seut from the pilot's bridge and Captain Jack is quickly alongside. A rope ladder Is lowered, aud toward it the purser or other officer and his aids escort the discomfited "stow." "Every day, continued Jnok, "I l'elch In men an women that want to git away. They're broke, an thought they'd try their luck in some other place. I lump most of 'cm off at Meiggs' wharf. It's a heap easier for ine an for the stows. There's more lumber there an fewer folks to stare. Some of 'em turns out all right, an ronie is afterward fished out of the bay. Then they go to the corouer. A dead man, it seems. Is worth more to the city than a live one." Aud thus it is that tho stowaways sopuer or later all journey with Cap tain .lack some to begin life all over again, others to lie for a brief time on a marble slab at the morgue marked "Unidentified." San " Fran cisco Exa.niuer. Pre-eiiiptcil, "Found!" cried the explorer, as the north pole hove In sight. "I annex this district in the name .of my gracious sovereign." "Too late," murmured a native la conically. "AH this district Is under the control of the Ice trust." On her wedding day the Danish peas ant girl wears a simple crown of myr ile with her national costume varying with the district, but always charming and pots of myrtle are carefully cherished by girlish hands through the long winters In anticipation of the ?reat event A DAYTON LADY Offers Some Valuable Advice Every Reader In terested. Perhaps the reader is a "Doubting; Thomas" for Akron is full of them. Doubt, as .1 rule, leads to investiga tion, aud as "Doubting Thomas" will not accept as facts a long: state ment giving: particulars of some in credible cure on the other side of the continent, he is asked to investigate the following testimony of n local citizen: Mrs. K. Eiimiel, of SOS Cross St., says: "Roan's Kidney Pills did me much good by relieving me of symp toms of kidney disorder such a lameness in my back and depressing headaches through my forehead anil temples which came on by spells. My- back pained me so that I could not lie in bed and when I arose J. was was but little better. In the morn ings it seemed as if I could not do my housework I was miserable. Pro curing Doan's Kidney Pills from -Lamparter fc Co s drug store, tlieir use stopped the headaches, banished the backache and the acute lameness in my loins soon left me. Doan's Kidney Pills are a reliable remedy and I do not know of a single case where they have failed. My hus band used them," obtaining prompt ana enective reiiei." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers, price oOcents perbox,orsent by mail upon receipt of, price. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sole agents for the 17. S. Remember tlie name Doan's and take no other. HOW UN.GLE SCIPIO TESto A BIG SHELL. By Wallace P. Reed. It was a sultry day in August during the siego -of Atlanta. Sherman's guns Tero throwing shells into tho city. "That 24 pounder," said a one legged veteran of tho Mexican war, "which you havo just pioked up and carried into your Storo has no business there. Some fool Will tamper with it, nnd then there will he an explosion." Tho merchant promised to have it car ried off and immediately called an old negro who was working in tho rear of the store. "Uncle Scipio," he said, "tako this thing to Captnin Jones at tho pistol fac tory. Tell him that I sent it. He will know what tn do with it. Be careful now. If you drop it or hit that cap, you will bo a dead nigger." Scipio listened with a broad grin on his black face. "Shucks, Marse Bill," was his quick response. "I ain't easily skecred by a lit tle thing like that. I'll tote it all right." He stooped and tried lazily with ona hand to pick up the shell. "Hi," he exclaimed, "but it's heavyl Must be nailed to the floor." "Take good hold with both hands," romrannded his master. "Hold it close to you, and if you valuo your lifo donlt drop it or run against anything." With a bewildered look the negro took tho shell and, hugging it closely to his breast, started off with it. "That's right," said tho man with tho wooden leg, "don't let any of them stay nround here. They are liablo at any time to receive a blow that will explode them." Just then Scipio reappeared still hug ging his iron burden. "Marse Bill," ho began. "You black rascal!'' yelled the mer chant. "Don't you comeback hero. Tako it over to Captain Jones and give hhn my messago." "Yassir," replied the old darky, "but you see, Marse Bill, I met Tom out here, and Tom says that all I havo to do is to take off tho cap and dig out the powder. Lcmme have a hummer, nnd I'll fix It." Ho looked around the store, evidently In search of a hammer or a hatchet. "As I am a little lame," hastily re marked the Mexican war veteran, "I guess I'll take my leavo right now." He hobbled down the street, and two or three others followed at n rapid pace. "Scip." said his master, "you'ro a fool. If that thing bursts, it will kill overy one of us. Do as I told yon, and take it to the factory." But Uncle Scipio was a good old coun try negro who had been a pet in his mas ter's family for two generations. Ho was not afraid of his master, and he could not lie induced'to give up his project. For a moment tho merchant was tempt ed to knock him down, but as that would cause the shell to fall with enough force, to explode it, tho idea was quickly given up. The loungers in tho store darted out in every direction, leaving Scipio, his master and two frightened clerks. "Keep perfectly still, Scip," pleaded tho merchant. "Don't movo an inch, and hold to that thing. Now, Scip, you plan tation niggers don't understand these things. The cap on that shell will explode it if anything 6trikes it, and it would kill all of us and tear down this house. Tako it to Captnin Jones, and when you come hack I'll givo you a dram." But the petted nnd spoiled family serv ant was used to having his own way, nnd he paid no attention to his young master. Laughing with tho gleo of n child over a new toy, the innocent darky picked up a hauimor, and", taking a seat on a box, ho placed tho shell between his knees with tho cap uppermost. "Tom told mo all about it," ho said glibly, "and Tom knows. I'll get tho powder out, Marso Bill Youjist watch mo." Ho adjusted tho shell nnd then raised the hammer, talking all tho whilo, as ho made his preparations. Tho proprietor of tho littlo store fled through the front door and did not stop until he found himself in safe shelter in tho next block. Tho two clerks wcro afraid to makp a rush for tho front, as they would havo to piss tho nminblo idiot with the shell. In tho twinkling of an eyo the- made tlieir way to tho rear, tumbled through tho window nnd qraw-lcd into thu cellar of tho next building. Theso movements were executed with almost lightningllko rapidity. The frightened merchant and his clerks wero not a moment too soon. Tho delay of oven a half minute might hovo proved fatal. Beforo they had recovered their breiitt they heard a deafening explosion and u shower of flying fragments clattered against their places of refuge When they reached tho scene, they hard ly recognized tho place. Tho littlo ouo. story brick storo bail fllsippcarca, leaving a smoking wreck where it had stood. Two of tho adjoining buildings wcro badly damaged nnd a inulo In tho street had been killed by picco of tho destructive 24 pounder. About that timo tho Federal batteries resumed tlio bombardment nnd tho ruins of tho fctoro wcro not explored until tho following day. Undo Sclplo's master, was nover qulto certain that he had found any of his old servant's remains, but something ghastly and utterly unrecognizable was scraped up and decently buried. The incident was soon forgotten among the other horrors of tho siege, but for a timo It caused all explosives to be handled with greater caution. -Scipio was not tho only victim of a spent shell. For months, and even years, after tho bombardment of Atlanta occa sional fatalities resulted from the reckless handling of these infernal inventions. Atlanta Constitution. Cnnndinn Statesmen's Salaries. Some interesting figures have been pub lished as to tho various salaries that are paid to Canadian statesmen, from which it appears that Dominion ministers have salaries of $7,000 per annum, oxcept the premier, who gets an extra 81, 000. Tho senators are appointed for lifo by the crown. They are 81 in number and are paid sessional allowances and railway fares. The house of commons consists of 213 members, elected for live years, and each member receives $1,000 as a sessional allowance, with traveling expenses to and from t)ttawa, but he forfeits $5.60 for every day's absence beyond a certain limit fixed for each session. Ministers of tho Ontario government receive a salary of $1,000, except the premier, who gets $7, 000, and members are paid $000 each ses sion. Detroit Free Press. I'crllonn Dell Itinclnp. The dawn of Easter is announced to the miuute by the 20 bells of the Giral da in Seville. Owing to the way in which the hells are hung, the inward swing sends the counterpoise, with the ringers, far out :ibovo the city, and "one can see them," says a French writer, "astride BELL I1LNGING IN T1IK GIKALUA. their brazen mounts, like new centaurs, borne out into space. Shonld they lose their balance God receive their soul! for this work would be the death of thcui. Put every Spaniard's birthright is to be a good rider." Sometimes, however, they get a broken bead or so passing the arch, so narrow is the space between the bell and tlie masonry. The Cor 'Wlndoiv Again. Fuddy You know how loving Tom and Miss Kumfort were? Well, she has thrown him over. Cuddy How did it happen? Fuddy Charley Titler, who also has an eye on Miss Kumfort, saw her and Tom sitting iu the car as happy as two turtledoves. He got a woman in the next eat to ask Tom if he would please open the window. Of course Tom tried to comply, and of course he failed mis erably. That was too much for Miss Kumfort. A woman cau't be expected to respect a man who has made himself ridiculous in public. Boston Transcript. Conversation "Witliont "Words. The traveler in a foreign land is not necessarily bnlpless becanse he does not know the langnage. Nor was a corre spondent who admits that when he en tered Italy his nine wcrds of French and 15 words of German were of no great nse to him. He says: In Genoa I went into a photogra pher's shopand selected a dozen photo graphs. I pointed at the photograpijOnd look ed at him inquiringly, which meant "How much?" He nodded his head and wrote "14"" on a slip of paper. I nodded, signifying "I will tase them." He walked over to a calendar hang ing on the wall and pointed to 29. Then he walkbd back and picked np the photo graphs and shook his bead, which clear ly' meant that he conld not allow me to take tbe ones I bad selected, bat would have the others. printed by the 29th. Thereupon I pointed to 25 on the cal endar and said "Roma," which meant that I should depart for Rome on that date. He nodded and then pointed to 30 and asked "Eh?" which meant, "Shall yon be in Rome'nntil the 30tht" I nodded violently. "Hotel i" he asked. I wrote my Rome address on a slip of paper. In making change he held out 1 lira. "Poate," he explained. Then I departed. Ordinarily a shop per selecting n dozen photographs to be printed to order and forwarded to him at the next town would spend ten min utes or more in making inquiries and giving directions. Our total conversa tion was just five words. Chicago Rec ord. A Loud Interruption. "I declare. Maria, this is too irritat ing to bo endured I I told you I didn't want to be disturbed, nnd here some body has suddenly sprung a most in fernal clatter on me. What does it mean?" "There wasn't any clatter, my dear." j "What was it, then? "Why, I just happened to pass throngh tho room in my new red and yellow shirt waist: that's an." "Well, dou't do it again. "Cleve land Plain Oealer. Will Soon Strike Terra FlnnR. Tho Inexperienced Ha says hq can hardly restrain himself from falling down and worshiping her. Tho Rejected Tefi him not to ge nervous; she'll throw him down scos enough. Pittsburg Press. -mi md mBL ty jib-, CASPAR ZIN"TE:i- Maiuifacturer of all kinds of brushes. Orders promptly attended to. 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FIRE ALARM CALLS. 1 Central Engine House 2 Buckeye "Works 3 Akron -Iron Works 4 Diamond Rubber "Works 5 jrniiiand Market 0 No 2 Engine House, Sixth ward 7 N Broadway, near Market S Buchtel av and Bowery 9 Schumacher Mill, Mill st 12 Prospect, near Mill 13 Furnace and Broadway 14 Main and Keck 15 Ash and Park Place 16 No 3 Engine House, West Hill 17 CaYrolI and Exchange 18 Emp re Mower and jReaper "Wks 19 Ak on Rubber Works 21 Prospect and Perkins 23 Forge and Market 24 Sherman near Exchange 20 Main and Exchange 2G North Howard and Tallmadge 27 AV Market and Greene 25 Akron Knife works 29 Washington and Hopp alley 31 'North Howard and North 32 E Market and Spruce 34 W Market aud Valley 35 Carroll and Spicer 36 Carroll and Sumner 37 North and Arlington 38 Vine and Fountain 39 Coburn and Campbell 41 Wposteravand Locust 12 Pearl, near Cistern 43 S Main and Falor 43. College aid Mill 46 Arlington and Hazel 47 Howe and Bowerv . 4S West South 49 Merrill pottery, State t 51 Howard and Cherry 52 No. 4 Engine house, Main & Fair 53 Center st. railroad crossing 54 Buchtel av. and Union 56 Akron Stoneware Co.,Sisth waul 57 Lod and Turner 58 Perkin? and Adolph ave 5!i Main, near Odd Fellows Temple ill Case ave nnd Kent 62 Sieherling Mill, Sixth ward 63 Johnston and Champlain . 64 Akron Sewer Pipe Co.,"Black mill 65 Hill Sower Pipe Co. E. Market 67 Carroll ami E. Market 6S Second ave and Valley ratlnrnd 69 Johnson and Wilson 71 Grantand Cross 72 North and Maple 73 Werner Printing Co 74 North Union, iiearBIuir 75 Robinson Bros, N Forge st 76. Tho Wliitmore, Robinson Co SI Western Linoleum Co 82 Summit Sewer Pipe Co S Allyn a,nd Cross 84 Thornton and Harvard So Tho. J C McNeal Boiler Works 91 Cereal Mills, S Howard st 1)2 Selmmaeher Cooper Shop, North Broadway 121 General Alarm 123 Silver and Hickory 125 W Market nnd Bhode av 232 Reniier'sBrewery.NTorgest :mi bhennaunnd. voris 251 Cellar and Wabash av 253 W Exchange, near Willow 312 Cascade Mills, N Howard 314 Firo Chief's Residence 321 Adams and Upson 341 Balch and Market 342 Maple, opposito Balch 315 Blttman and Crosby 851 Exchange nnd Spicer 412 Wooster and St Glair 413 St Clair and Bartges 115 Water Works, Wooster av 131 i:vartTiloWorks rEHN Ait fiv H' r ff 4w 1A 'inww.naa?: