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Hi-he:t of all in Leavening Power.-- L t:st U. S. Gov't Report. BSOU1E~ PUer ABSOU.I'TELLY PURE HOW D.MACED CURIhENCY IS RE DEEMED BY THE GOVERNh;MNT. Wonder. Worked by Mrs. Itr.an,. the Tralsury Ep.rti in lWaselin rt.u.-.t F'w Cases in Which l Ili11. I ere ApLp.aren\ll Hopelessly iestroyel. The redemption division of the tre:as. ary department is one of the most inlt."r eating of its branches. It is here that mutilated money comes for identitica= tion, and the form in which it colus tells to the chief of the division mau;y a romance and many a tale of woe. There is much that is huntl onrus and mu'ch that is pathetic in Mrs. Brown's public experience. That exlerience rangels oer nearly eighten years now, and in that time millions of dollars have pusss s,1 through her hands,. msnt of it in stnul condition as to i.e Iryond ideltidi.a:ti,,li by ordinary mean There is hardly sny way yorn can think of in which cnat, y is tot mutilated or partly destrl,. M.Int li-:ht their ci gaps with it wh. a the-y ar- dronk: rats gnaw it it.o 'alters, and tire. crisIs it into brown as es. Whenever there is a sudden/ cold -nap at the beginning of winter the r ,enmption division has a perfect harv, -t of mutilated money. ilne of ie favor ,,. hiding Ilaces which won, i. en have fot their savings Ls the ,vetn. When a c ,l.l day clc.s tllhe woman probabl ,y . r,-ts ill abo,nut the money, builds a fire in the stove and cooks the bills to wlhat is known in the cookbook as a "rich brown." An interesting case is that of a woman living near Hamilton. 0., who was burned to death. She hatd a pockethSooS with uer containing sercenty dollars. Her children sent the pocketbohok with its charred contents to the treasury de p-irtmenet, and Mrs. Brown picked out the seventy dollars a:d ilentified it. A gr'-at deal of the moIey rthat comes in is partly burned. Wherever a part of the burned money can 1e i lentifi.e and a satisfactory affidavit is furnished as to the facts the govenmenPllt restores the amount to tile owner. But if a note is entirely destroyed the governlr.nt is just 6o much ahead. Much of the money which comles in for redemption has been damaged in rail road wrecks. When a car is burned in c railroad wreck no attempt is made by the express comlpany to remove the money from the wafe. The safe is sent direct to the treasury delpartmennt and opened there. The nnl ney is usually in a pretty badly charred condition. It is taken out, and the treasury experts go over it and identify as nuchi of it as can be recognized. Two years ago a Ino.k age containing $r2,(1W) was taken frioml ia wreck near St. Lonis, and all of the money was identified and restored to its owners. A favorite hiding place for money with men who have no faith in banks is in their cellars. A Philadelphia man sent 2S0 which he had buried in a tin box under his cellar floor. When he took up the box he found the money mildewed and rotten. The package as it came into Mrs. Brown'a hands looked like a bunch of tobacco leaves. It was almant impossible to dlistinguish the character of the notes with the naked eye. Mrs. Brown was picking apart the pieces bit by bit and arranging theml on sliie of brown paper cut to the size of a dollar bill. She said that she expected to iden tify the whole of it. One man sept in some time ago forty two dollars which had been taken from the stomach of a goat. The goat was not worth forty-two dollars, so he was sacri load. The Idantication of this money was not a very nice task, but it was com f an msy one. When Mrs. dropped the sticky masm into a basin of water the bills came apart and were very easily identiled. This is not the only goat case which has come to the redemption division, and it has happened that even cows sad pigs have been sacri oead to recover money which they had swallowed. There is one case on record whae a baby swallowed some bank saoe, and an amedo saved the money ilW posibly the baby. Babes do not satn swallow an entire bill, but many a'davite are received acoompaaing por tions ot bills which my that the missing portims were swallowed by babies and a" sosre wholly destroyed." Us~lly when mutilated money is set is for redemption the owner has a close i ast perfect idea of the amount which Is sprsemted, but one old German in th west set in some years ago what he dsaime to be the remain. at OO,0, and aesr a lona, ong investigation Mrs Dasow fully ideatlsd $7,100 In the peenge. A secret srvlee saem was ns eat ea ihenvestigate the m.m but he sem w soor aUo sss wesn throw a t hpen a ystery, asdes the mis. re am div isio receives very dgateer mn from ubills, so seslies s by a Ins mIasg that the s ri s e ir ses has beaen dmiustroy ýam beassant maten m lettyr bm m ands ae c mer sue Jlmhin mr Ne ber has idoar la 1m ale ad as . summm P. ,mýj a!!!.a mm ni~ely I i.::t t w:lrt tlltarv eve w'ouhl no1 detect ti. freld. This tol.'.tteit note was sent in ny a hank clerk in New York. The l riasurvy exlprts detected the frt:ud int,.odiately. "utd of course the log.us it tuo :hu nt r" l'si.ned.-Waslh iugton CLr. New York Prtess. Little Eeronompl At , recent gathering half ai doize people who spendl their tens .f!' thlsanlwnd every year ac.ktnwlee,\l il a relnetani'c to light fresh candlles. and one laiy who is noted for her magnificent toilets con feued to being very angry with her maid it she bought English pins instead of American-which piece of economy at. mid a saving of five cents on every paspr. -New York Tribmne. New Zealand statfos. The sheep fanner, it seems. finds that he can deliver his sheep. with a fair profit. for L. I1-lce a jlaund at the nearest port or freezing point. The killing and freezing process is undertaken chiefly by companites which lIveestablished freez ing stations at variouu convenient points along the ctost. and whiich ship the car casses, consigned to agentsi in London or elsewhere One of the sights of the day at the Albert docks is tile arrival of one of the New Zealand Shipping comipany's fine steamers. perhaIp the Tongariro or the Rinmutaka, or someie other of the fleet with the sonorous Aluori namies, and to see the subsequenlt di.scharge of sonmi 27.000 carcatses. each neatly wrapped in its winding sheet tf white calico. The whole year's exportation now fig ires to about 2I.(M0.0(.M t frozen carcasses and is rapidly increasing. Yet with all this depletion the numlllIl'er of sheep in the colony is rapidly increasing. The flocks have largely increased in number, and the export of wool has risen front about 64,000.000 pounds in 188L2 to 108.000,000 in Itil.-All the Year Round. i.ueky Strikes. Stories of unexpected fortunes are as commnon as blackberries. Somebody is always umaking or finding or inheriting a heap of money which seems to himself almost to have come from the clouds. Worthless shares itcome valuable, as 2apptened to more than one lmatl ill the eistoryif Lkevo great consols. A work ingman discovers ia rich tine. as Mr. Graham did in South Australia: or a rela tive front wholu nothing was expected suddenly heaps everything on the kins man who bored hil least, as occurred last year within our otwn knowledge inc southern country. (thly last week a panu per in a lrtorhoule was declared heir to L300I.0i0. a aunt which he probably could not have punt itdown accurately on a slate, but which had been earned in Australia by a relative who died intestate.-Lon don Spectator. abe Could Net Apprerlite It. In the drawing room of one of Califor nia's bonanza men, now living in New York, there Iangs a painting of a very common country scene-a girl feeding a flock of turkeys. The money king's daughter says that her father cares mor for this picture than for any of the other furnishings of his palatial home and often stands before it for long moments at a time. His boyhood was spent in a tiny hamlet tucked away in the Cats kills, and when the pretty girl says, pet tishly, "I don't see what you find in that tea chromto thing to admire," he sighs and answers. "No, for you never had sach a home."-New York Times. asr Outdeme by Wamaes. "You may talk all you like about women being the weaker sex," said Mrs. Siipps, "but the women of this country did something last year that men could Sever do." "And that was' inquired Mr. uipps. "Lost 80,00.,000 hairpins and wrete wnge of s,000,000 birds on their at." Budfa E8 ress. 1r. .seseelts Tells a 5eem or Two Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is a practical politician and has some good stories to tell of his experiences while in the lg !atore. In his address before the Liberal club on Thursday evening he told some of them One was of a legislator who used to ask him to support ncostitutial bills "But. my dear riend," Mr. Roosevelt would say. "it's umconstitutioml." ,"I . allow the ooastittion to ome be -. riends." was the reply, and then becoming very indignant the man would add. "Mr. Roosevelt, the constitution doesn't treat little things like that." Another man objected to his quoting Latin. "What do you mesa by quoting Ltin on the door of this house" thbm deredtheobjector,"when you don't knowr whsla ormaatof the languagel" A !taw's Serves. M. Blaks--Oool Doesn't it make Snarvrseto bae the wind blow so thin time of ad igr Mr. Blano-Why? "Just bear the windowsi They rattle like omerjthing." "Us., it would make me nervous to t--- the windows rattle if the wind wasn't blowing.--ew York Weekly Am.e.ese esw Cedas. or some unknown reason the ced of sehsm has sevr baee a faetite b Amermsc. planters, althogh It le -o in theinsttee of New Terk. 1a da f apcimmes here which hise a. -em be age t so yes sed r -- anwle beos,-- amt Ik T1I E lVAT'S (\\N FAL LTL' IF HE HAD KEPI HIS HEAD tI WOULDN'T HAVE LEE.: KILLED. Thn P'r,,fty Girl 11,,t00 No! iShats P':,,:i Fri.giit n.lll . t. .L.r '1"1, r ..r " .1 ::.I Still no . " :il,0 le t , u ; |l t e mu ll!i.t ' WR 'onlll I l. T ::,.+,ld 1,." l .of- of iuin. The bry ":,t on! t:. I i4 t,. k.:. stumlpy i6 y. wi:! .' ,...tl:, , freckletbit 1h1 i r : I stood ,m tht ·ilwak in f' 't of ti. Walton In il ii: . iii Feark s v , n" wh.er the ..;.:h :IV nutle c("':th at " r,, +rosl. . U ti,.' ri l. Jhit tl- i'.i. - '. , "a .... l-an, gray ' ii :Li-., e'd ram I'ld tia u'l, temporary qnl..t r-. The rat w. in b.,.I lic In the firsl place at sntei:y I,.;inb . d,: , +r. oo pty ast tI tail, a mon:;rel of tilte kind tI ru-niI "yal ler." was Ilntm.inig ahbut. nuIing in the gutter and yearnii.g for anlt olpp rtun:ity to dislplay the deviltry cnttunon to hi, kind. Behindl the rat's refu-,e in a door way a pretty young woman was talking: to a much infatuated "'George." An eld erly and important looking personage. wearing gold mounted eyeglasses and carrying a gold headed cane, had just made an imlpoing descent from the ele. vated station and was promenading lei surely toward the box. A cart horse at tached to a truck stood in front of a sa loon near by waiting for the driver to come out. All was calm and peaceful. Then the rat came on the scene. The first to see him was the boy. He jumpel off the box, and the rat started out toward the station witl- the buy in hot chase. This aroused the dog. who. with a howl of anticipatedl sport, joinled in the pursuit The fugitive made straight for the elderly pI-rs.onage. The boy was a fairly good second and the dog a cloha third. The personage, be coming aware that usorrething was com ing his way. glanced over the top of the gold mountil eyeglasses. "Hi. there!" yelled the boy. "He's comin your way. lIead 'im off. Swath er 'im one with th' stick." The old gentleman "swathered." He missed the rat and hit the boy on the shins. The boy gave a shrill whoop, lay down on the walk and wept. "Did it hurt you?" inquired the owner of the cane. That made the boy so angry that he stopped crying. "Did it hurt me?" Ihe howled in right eous wrath. "Did it hurt me? You ol' gold headed snooper. How'd you like it of I clubbed yer bhloomin ol' shins with a waggin spoke? What'd you say ea fat headed cove-- Hi! Here he conies back! Grab 'im! Turn 'im back! Hit 'im when lie goes by!" The rat had doubled on his track and was flyinag up the street again with the dog several paces behind. In between the feet (.f the personage dodlged the rat. The dog essayed to follow by the same route and got tangled up with the feet. Down came the personage, his gold headed cane flying in one direction and his gold riurmed spectacles in another. Then and there he offered a few remarks that wrung from the boy an admirin5 tribute. "Gosh," said he. "you can cuss. In the meantime the rat was on hi way up the street, and the pretty young woman who with her "George" had emerged from the doorway, was walking down the street engaged in conversation. "Yes, he was just as nice about it as he could be; said it wasn't any trouble at all. He said- Oh! O-w-w-w-w! George! E-e-e-e-e-e-e! It's a rat! Help! It's coming this way. E-e-e-ee-e! Help me up on this box. Yes, rm all right now, but- Oh. George, do you suppose he can climb up here? E-e-e-e-e-e! Don't let him climb up here or I shall d-d-d. die!" George let out a terrific kick that landed in the stomach of the pursuing dog. By way of retaliation the dog took off part of one leg from George's trousers, and fled across the street howl ing dismally until it came to the cart horse. Apparently connecting that ani mal with his misfortunes, the dog nib. bled at its hind leg. The horse morted and ran down the street with the truack clattering after. The rat, instead of tak teg this chance of escape, rushed fran tieally across the street and back again, with the boy, who had come uap, followed by the personage, hot on the traiL The persmonage was regarding with tnib. -al admiration the pretty girl wh with g ents gathered and held wap lghtly in one hand, was standing on tiptoe on the box viewingt the chase. George was looking at his trousers. The owner of the truck came out of the saloon in time to see his property rattling down the street. As he started after it, leaving a trail of profanity be. hind him, a gaunt cat sauntered out of the saloon. Beftere the teamster had caught his hore the eat had pounced on the rat and put anend to hm. Then the dog avenged his woes by catching her by the back of the aeek and shaking the life out of her. The boy hit the dog with a brick on general principles. Then he returned to the personage, the box, George, and the pretty young woman. The latter was saying: '"Oh, dear! I was so scared. I hope -- Oh, George, did I hold my dress up so very high? Please say I didn't! That horrid old man with the eyeglasesr" "Why, of course you dida't," said George promptly. The girl descended sa.d walked away with him, her feas al lsated.-New York Sun. sBaesmess s wseMta 1mese. Experiments have remntly been made to determive the Iegth of time through which a carrier pigeon will preserve the "hesaheg" isact-4het i to say, how long a bird muset be hpt away froenta eiginal or hose loft before it will lose iu instinct to return. eoestiy aesrmy tsw pigass in e aeGasse s sry ice wen* tah eam daw paeace t wck, a distanse 61 o1 aims, ad baps to .,hai- a san. Them tiurcaw. buheinte.-aa II ts in1 li'ri i i,,itiignu en. Larhit ing II ti ntnil lnw It is trl;. iii t - .I It:i clish lt 'e cnlt f v::t t"t :t I . r , l ; and the a.. pis field h i 3 4 ' t V. ha t l,' ,sllu '.: tiih t ri " _ . " t. totii . to , nto'r , .e : n ',r:. of cotil. riu - ,,artI t tr i r Ir r t at tai. , -. 1 T 'hi '1 t. .l t i,i t ti,, ! c ,!. nu', i - inh .'. ,li t-:,. d l, k: ti ndt r I· to: 1 , 1ill 1 i' I trl tu { .)li try r· t1 ,--, unli:lhlt. ily ~-' th - lný'.i-huna:.t' nit' i rv alt 'Ii ia n r hol1w, wihi' hin: h" r iot so ,,lni" ,'tinins of ithi u,t ig i I, t Irtl i r . rIf yhet but t.r. ti ho r ,t i r - i% w li t iln ii it ntl .to. ;in'ritarti At ir ulth r tcte streigib t <lt irt hi(rta it i t .ht u tlhaii 't j i. Tlilli4it 're with him is r .oth hianoltr aid i if .ind exciting. It i. fruitful in un1- eta? n t :.a tion and rust a., well as in ht,,dilyhealth. In s.art, ..ut, ricaans lack tie strength that .aes throutgh moiduerati in and re ip)-', through wholesomtiluess of mind and body. We have yet to learn that the work of life is too serions for us to act our hearti and stake our health on the pastimes of idle hours: that our years are too few to be shortened by devoting workdays and playdays alike to the wasting passion of achievemnent.-John Corbin in Outing. Living With a Broken Heart. A remarkable case of survival for a week with rupture of the heart is re ported. The mlan, who was 52 years old, short and plethoric. was playing football. when hIe suddenly fell down in a sort of faint, iut recovered in a few momelnts and continued his play. So&onu after the gamti wits over, however, he had anlother and iorue severe attack. a- companied by lain in the cardiac re gion, and a few minutes later lie was in a state of partial collaps,', with shallow breathing, altniost inlpericeptille pulse, and very severe pain over tilhe heart. lie gradually improved and was able to tit up, hit seven days later lihe had another fainting tit and died. At the autopsy the heart was found to be fatty. degenerated anild very friale,l. and in the wall of the left ventricle wias a break or rupture half an inch in diam eter. It se'emenl mlost probable that the rupture was at first very linute or par tial, not allowing the escape of blood in to the perit'ardinnm, and that a week later some extra exertion caiused a completion or enlargement of the rupture, resulting in the es'ape of blood and death.-Lon don Lancet. Untianely (rltellr . t'ntimely criticismn is a barrier, shut ting out affection from us and spon taneity. "*Don't wriggle your feet so. my son," says the critical father to a boy vibrant with enthusiasni. The cur rection could lvoe waited, and the boy, with dampenedl ardor, tunis away. tll ing his next story elsewhere, while the father sane day wonders why boys are sealed books to their elders. "'Where did you buy that dreadful cravat"' Mary says to John in the midst of his cheerful salutation, when he is just about to tell her of a bit of gotl fortune. "Buch sil ly sentimentality"' says John, with a shrug of indifference, to Mary at some new thought springing out of her heart, dewy in freshness as a newly plucked ruse. And John and Mary each grow to mourn the fact that the best of the other sheds its fragrance elsewhere. There are a hundred other barriers-the dwelling on material cares, the wanton disregard of sa'ial amenities, the sensi tiveness to lerstnal peculiarities.--Har per's Bazar. mahd to Be Better Thea Merphier. Mention is made of codeine sulphate as an extremely prompt sedative in at. fections of the respiratory tract, pus sessng an advantage over morphine in that it does not check the secretions, nor does it lead to a habit, nor has it dis agreeable after effects, and it will allevi ate pain. The doss varies from one eighth to one-half, and. exceptionally, one grain, given in pill or in solution, frequently in sirup of wild cherry. The cicinal alkalid is rarely used, the sulphate being preferred for the par pose. If administsred in water, an in soluble residue is sometimes found, which, oan examinatio, proves to be the alkaloid codeine, fomnd in codahis sal pbate from the eaosave beat employed in consaetration of h solut ion r fory. tallisation.-New York Tribuwe. A Doges WDss Mam.. The late Sir Richard Owen, the emi nent anatomist, oftes had his ckill . identifying bones tested Oan oe oms sian his friend and asighbor. Lard John Russel, seat him a · speces for this purpose, and the pdrgeor quickly o oenoad it the thigh bome of a pig. Th explanation of the query was sabs u rently o 'red by Lard John: "Phad. et cBuhaan had t from America to the English statesmas the pressnt of 'a choice bear's ham,' and tiefamily had breakfasted off it seeral times with much enjoyment. mehow or other, however, sujpicion was aroused, and the bone was sent to their sdalto asnigh bar, with the result stated."-Oor. Pall Mall Gasette. Ameslet PVrmss etE la A-usrlsau Austral seems to have been a place of rftge for many eaient forms o life, sad every now and the some supposed to have become extint art. found still eisting there. Thelatest in this respect is a disovery by a Mr. Ogilby. a nto relist, in certain rivers of New South Walq of fresh water hberringr, identical o every way to those before not found later thea tIhe latte pars of the creas aessd early part ofthe ttertar period. Takes at use we4d. 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