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d, ; a yntowt atere,
" ark A dooe ;r e•-etnon
p d eul ate vent dead
iDt 'ley er tplte, coontaetehe
k, e dro pel o ,
Sver wel er
8 methho e'2
,p LIeI scowling all roundt e
,illeO der would radder see one
l Sahf s dozen -frowns upon your
| dot your se ha droubles. I
`'" d in devi'e va y dthere lasnt aI
: l tohdt toRheat.
. (' M a idmes vey" he llnks herr
ka Is drolt
"t.H i hot.i otn she ace find t
...e. wy verys encouraged
i sr ofretting. g rueing. India
e, Te br.eraddok, s e ' vee
to ; hea vy I. thaemd be more or
ha b capunivre left whero tr
p a bow ev tm. hn he doro
S P1I, u fJ a tshe etvN York puewnd "
... THE . E OO J.6 Ik
, yeong her plate drscnso"
"and I abominate amb chops! e t
one isn't even cooked through." W
oy this one," said her father ,i
a yet} like the butter-beans?" a
S rad iloci t rd
xh osre properly cooked," ii
a . sly.t "There isnxt a '
t niraddock sighed. "I rc
doer very well. You e s
has >e in this country a
or t ji an ad she Is only a n
older ban you are. She has at
'- our ways very quickly." W0
eelia4.n continued to grumble
. ir the nd of the really ex- at
Sgmeal The brear', she averred.
'too heavy the byttermballs were ro
Z·mi: 1bge a'ihSe pudding too sweet. dr
~,a in house was her part- bu
d~kl. :''1 shalll have decent things no
gr
-eie' vao utterly unreasonable." b
t k a when oke door Stl
W evra ugetter. "'lhe We
it ih Jargely meir th.,
wbayd encouraged ed
et opinion freely."
s Nbad Mr. Braddock, "we've V O
ack sahd allauded when we lac
have punished her. Mother
says she it'about a hbadly spoiled as ha
Srall al tie ryoung it rlan be." un
"Who bromh ii., I should , it tof
Don't ias 1nd ra . rdo 't, drrl Mor
5* boog k botl every tive she 'e a
oe' it and dldY foshe let her pound bow
-h oibrry. tbhe wth the hammert the i
bea nothing else would setie y her baI
d4fnasbroting grndmotherst-"
DI know. kndow" "raid Mr. Brad- ile
dck hastily. "But Lnden Isn't ahree
or*0 nty longere . Why don't you let go
hir tr 4er hand at-the cooking for a till
S"Wellt said Mrs atisied wIth the
ol aroangme.t? P erhap s sheya
l's ister tro omasbetter i, she pre- ,
:r won then be the elightet." l
Uty. said a ad Ideath" returne roe
'rs.DIsddock. "I've promiased Hannah tal
a 'in'k' vacation verly soon. While tht
sout brngip I shall give Lnden a ew i
or father, f never received the lea- W
ba j ' had been gone less I
seQ. rlmbt a iever mind the wr:
ar6881r t',
·~a4~~n1~
mr.~ti, k~dl-4
aptd* and started to inspect her
math. ,
There was. eat in the ice-boa. LiUr
C33s den eyed it at first with satisfactlon,
but the feeling gradually gave gSJ4
sere to doubt. 4
'It'a either mutton, we1, beef or
>me pork, but there doesn't seem to bq any
distinguishlag fsature. In en
ead touchla it glyge w a r
resgcctl ons lot g" !9 % '.a
I wg whate oer that ptest- ov h
I they set th in a.cloth..'ut
in the ~tith'--Oh, that's for
olo pig. PVhaw!, This cook.
a-n'tn good! I'll just cook the
- hng-whateeer it fi-lam oven thb
way tlannah does."
So Linden slid "the thing" hbhleh
er happened to be a leg of mutton, from
its plate into a roasting pan, and car
rfed it to the oven.
"WI t" exclaimed, the astonished
t e ere isn't any fire in the stove. I
It's . good thing 'htre's plenty of
i it .was a good thing, too, that theu'e
was plenty of kindling, or the fireh
maight never have started. Some un
e w~shed sweet and rwhite potatoes fol
les lowed the meat into the oven.
"L ashould have something cooking
as o ' t xp of the stove," said Linden, look
lig f'ound with a pexplexed air.
er "i`fanah always does. Oh, coffee, df
course! I~hnink I'll make jelly of
ids these cranbriets." C
"TheJ" she sdad, some time later.
is "Who says I can't cook? Now I'll
set the tQble."
hd Linden lingered lovingly over the l
task of setting the table. It really
re looked so well that no one-least of
all Linden-would have suspected that
reo the salt, tablespoons, carving-knife
and napkins were missing. When she h
rs returned to the kitchen she found that
the fire had taken advantage of her
. |fire had again gone out. a
Linden rebuilt it cheerfully, adding p
a solitary stick of hardwood to the tl
kindling. Then she went to the gar- a
den, where she gathered some flowers i8
for the table and a bunch of parsley. h,
When she returned to the kitchen the c,
Id fire had again gone out.
;. The cook gave a gasp of astonish- r(
s! ment, not unmixed with dismay. Then, m
." with an anxious glance at the clock, aI
er she rekindled the fire. ki
"A whole hour!" said Linden. with d
?. a sigh of relief. "Surely that will be Is
time enough. I never could see how
"I Ilannah could keel) so busy with so ,
1 little to do. She gets herself so un
necessarily mussy, too."
Linden glanced complacently at her
yI reflection in the little mirror over the si
, sink, and was surprised to discover TI
*y a black streak down one side of her m
a nose. She washed her face and hands, th
s and then turned to inspect the fire. It ca
was out. th
le "This," said Linden, "is an abomin- Ti
K. able stove!" w]
She devoted fifteen minutes to the wI
rolling of a single butter-ball. She
dropped it four times and the grooved in
t. butter-boards became sticky and would th
not work. The completed ball was
grimy in appearance and anything
but round. Linden consigned it to the of
r stove and decided that plain butter
was good enough for the Braddocks. fir
. Ivcn the cutting of the bread present- th
tI ed hitherto unsuspected difficulties. or
"Hello, the cook!" cried a hearty fir
a voice from the hallway, nearly at, hour
later. "Hlow's the dinner." r
r "Almost ready," said Linden, who
s had just emptied her first decidedly ed
unsuccessful attempt at gravy over the he
Sback fence.
"What's happened here?" asked
Max,- coming in at the back door. "It e
' looks aq if you had murdered some
1 body 5I the kitchen, dragged the body (io
r through the shed and buried it in the n
7 back 'yrd." a
"That's cranperry jelly," explained r
L- inden, crawling behind the stove to
a rescue a fugitive potato. "I wish you'd Pa
t go out of the kitchen, and stay out, M
a till dinner's ready. I can't cook with at
boys around." in
SAt last the dinner was on the table. a
The roast garnished with parsley, Its
looked very much like one of Hanna's
Sroasts, for the parsley concealed cer- thu
tain scarlet rivulets that trickled over Bu
the platter. The potatoes looked-well,
teeo. The cook did not suspect that hi
they were of adamantine hardness. bri
What.was left of the jelly, by the time
i indbn had succeeded mn transferring na
it from the saucepan to a glass dish, thi
looked positively teuqpting. in
Max took a mouthful and made a i
wry face. Mr. Braddock caught his an
son's eye, and shook his head.
"Dear me!" thought Linden. swal
lowing a tart mouthful. "I measured
that sugar and then forgot to put it an
in."'
During the meal Linden made trip
after trip to the sideboard, the china
closet had the pantry for missing arti- ths
cles. Mr. Brfddock sliced a few mor
sels from t b outside of the underdone he
mutton, an ate as much as he dared
af tte t raw potatoes. The co
was dy and dontained frag- of
of e extraneous matter.
sJdden e~ the cover of the
eeffeet to a ig the steam to ea
cApe, she was ,' ified to discover a
poached egg 1, ing serenely on a
drhcown he had dropped an
atb;er en egg the boiling coffee,
a the)t was, hoked! a
.Mr. Be'a ock bread and butter, W
and chatted with h somewhat crest- '
"llea daughter.
.rThere's chivalry fOl'ou!" thought his
Max. "Or can it be !9l father is
setting Lndena a shining mpler'
Pat in gpite . her fhler'sct, Ln- too
4 Iot surngLli dia . Sh. br
It wUSMn ei proll m q. ItL
m thath;ade ever - n
ikr~ ~"~C
iJ~c~nA 31 5.
(b "I'm glad you II a't," aidt M
a solemn countes~ape. .
Aia Linden never forgo tihe week that
ao, followed. She astg.re4d ode diflculty .
ee only .to' fall. into,,qater. Her pie
crust was like ltdthker and her mum"y
or were like latU, iPrdhtblng.went -tP
my the table qlither tirned to a e'lsp
en, else raw in he inlddle, There was no
per. limit to her- mbltfon;. but ste` grew
514 bfmble at lost. $he earned to boil
gus potatoes, to make -t~ia-nd to scramible b
di.g buatk b'er. teunce would not ,
Sp~ralt h~t b setfe this trustworthy it
-mbl aafIou oftener than oe eeeh a
Braddock and Mar fortified.
theaiselves each noon .wlth) a geed e
ph, meaL.at-the restaurantr, otherwle it 1s
rut doubtful if they could have survived R
for the week. Linden a5t bread and milk,
ak. and the-fruit her fatheqswas Careful T
;he to bring her. She could not touch her ,
:hb own cooking. She felt that she never
wanted to see another scrlmbled egg. u
Wh But the longest week d es not last i
, forever. UPI her retu r, ah was
s - imased at -Jfe warmth of Llnren's
greeting. #t Sthe condition of
ed kitcen foit, and at the size ofat
,re girl's appetite. a
f "How nice those lamb chops are~
said the deposed cook at dinner that
e night. "Arid, oh, aren't these the
re nicest mashted potatoes? I think Han- ei
in-. nah is the cleverest person ifaow. I
ok. have the prqfoundest.rqspect for any- o
body that can cook five or six things tr
ag at once, and get them all done at pre- fe
ik- cisely the same moment, instead of
ir. having the soup come lagging along
f about an hour behind time. I think I
of shall drop everything else and take
cooking lessons this winter." di
1 "I'll pay for them," said Mr. Brad
'l dock, pr nptly.- fe
"I won't promise to eat the results," th
to said Max, "but I'll do the best I can."' tip
ly -Youth's Companion.
of se
at WORDS AND THEIR ORIGIN. th
fe cli
he Much to Be Le e' rom Study of re
at th ni
'r In an impor diction- m;
ary is the sum tilman ex
ig perience. In analysis gi
1e the unit of literl k'e FWord and pr
r- a collection of all the rds of a l7
" language is a record .f all that men fit
Y- have taught, $, experien- so
Le ced. A word Linto com- cry
mon usage unrecognized ge
- relic of a g , istoric event: it
may tell us o larities of char- m:
* acter or oddities of ,habit now un
known save to him wono studies the wi
h dicilonary, for in the words of a ev
e language is often trystalized no tle
w small share of the past of the people
0 who use them. The arts, the sci- tei
ences, the religions, th-, superstitions, pr'
even the rogueries and deceits of the no
r past, are embodied in our words. A so]
e sincere man is a man without deceit. be
r The word was once applied in com- Inj
r mendation of well-made furniture. In bif
s the good old days we read about het
t cabinetmakers who manufactured he
their wares of honest, flawlers wood. Is
Then came rogues in the business, str
who filled up knot-holes and cracks dog
a with wax. Sine cera, which means for
e without wax, was soon contracted sta
into sincere and sincere furniture for
therefore meent the best that could be thr
B made.
The dictionary tells us of the origin boa
of things familiar, and in its pages sad
r we may learn that the bayonet was hi
first made at Bayonne. in France; the
that damask and the damsoh came in
originally from Damascus: that coffee thi
first came to Europetrom Kaffa, and cot
r copper took its name from Cypress; the
that candy was first exported from to
Candia, and that tobacco was so call- his
ed from the Island of Tobacco, the me
home of Defoe's imaginary hero; that Eti
gin was either invented at Geneva. or od3
early in its history became an im- th
portant factor in the commerch of that in
city; that the tarantula was once a th
notorious pest in the region about Tar- dr
Santa; that\the magnetic proprty was se
first noticed in iron ore dug in the
I neighborhood of Magnesia; that "B
parchment was first m 'le at Per·ra- pr
mus, cambric at 4'aml. ,, nm'wlin at
Mousseline, calico at Calicut. gauze st
at Gaz., dimity at Damietta; that mil- wo
liners first plied their trade at Milan tab
and that mantuas were invented in the co
Italian city of the same name. do
If the dictionary told us no more the
than this it would be worth seading. ing
But it does more. It is more than a co
history of usage; it is more than a sy
history of language. It contains, in le
brief and with many gaps, some of o
which cannot now be filled, all the an- the
nals of the human race. It exhibits so
the beggings, borrowings and steal- ous
ings of our language from others; it
is a record of the commercial spirit con
and indefatigable business energy of nin
the Anglo-Saxon race. There is not the
a commercial nation on the earth of
which has not been forced to stand Pe
and deliver to the English languagl
such words as the English-speaKinS :cm
peoples needed in their business. Nor pre
is that all, for it bears testimony to ab
the fact that when we need a word the
and cannot find one to suit we do not sta
hesitate to make one. Verily, he who Lat
buys a dictionary buys the sum total T
of what the English language has to the
offer in history, in art, in science, ad
poetry and philosophy, for all are
concentrated In this one book. wr
Did "He" Do it?
Late one dfternoon a woman of ties
rough appearance entered the office of con
a rising young dentist in Northwest 9
Washington, st4alng that she wished
ti ask him a qestilon.
"Very well," asked the dentist, in
his mot-' professional tone, "what
"Can' have a cap put on this a
tooth?" exhibiting as she spoke a atte!
breken latalincisor. "And, doctor, bad
it.ia gling m so much trouble-I am tte
r Iif.na go trs." *rant
he4~- +after scrutnzlaing fte m
ehi nwith his proofesalonal
he, tasked.
,~a94fr * Ii--7$i
SO DRUG HABIT.
hat
lty PRA TIC,` z9Q HICH ENGO
pie- L NO t t iLLLM4G.
* y ie' U ' EvilsE of
fslee ; reparlron.-Co
no caine d Ethel-Tales That
rew Make VY Mair Stand on End.
o11 If the raljks our anglish novelists
ble and .playwrigh utainesd a single
not Aalist of close ob r'vntion and genu
thy ine strength, he d do his country
a great service by showing. in play
or lnovel, how Eng shmen fnd wo
mlen are ruining their health . nd dis
counting that of the nerati ns to
is come by the reckless pe 'stenc with
ved which they indulge in a l se ts of
ilk, promiscuous drugs and clkne-ups.
ful The prevalence of the habi is not de
flr nied tby those, who havea t~ even
ver the most casuel qbservation ; for an
gg* understandlng of its perml is and
t Ineyi je results little more bought
ras is needed. Walking do'l FTeet
n street in the company qf a who
seemed in complete ,eal was
startled by his remp'k, ad vwe ased
a chemist's shop; "That's my chem
"Do you keep a tane.echenist to 'i
supply you with perennial corn; piat
sn- ers andt tooth brushes?" I asked4, '
"Of course not," he said, petulantly, 1
yas one'whose serious malady is: being
Ags treated flippantly; "I always ge there
re- for my pick-me-up in the morning."
of "And why la you want pick-me
ng ps every meriting?" I demanded.
"There's nothing wrong with you ex t
ke cept that you smoke too much and
drink more than you need."
"It Isn't that," he said, "tlut one t
feels so beastly limp, you know, and
* this chap understands my &onstitu- t
tion so well."
A little inquiry among other friends
served to convince me that most of t
them, too, had their own particular Il
chemists, on whom they relied to cor
of rect the indiscretions of the previous
night and to restore to them their
,n. matutinal glory.
x- "i believe that of all the distin
is guished men you could name in any
Id profession," said one man who plain
a ly spoke of what he knew, "more than
mn fifty per cent are addicted to drugs of tl
n. some kind. No, you needn't look in
n. credulous; I'm talking of facts, not
td generalizing hastily.
it "I could tell you tales that would
r. make your hair stand on end. b
n. "A man was in here an hour ago,
le whose name you know, who comes in
a every fortnight or so, and buys a bot- ýI
to tle of cocaine solution as big as this" ti
le -he touched a huge cut glass decan
i_ ter of perfume. lie has his doctor's
s, prescription all right, so we can do
1e nothing. Another comes in at all
A sorts of times, and asks leave to come
t. behind the counter for a moment to
i. nject cocaine into his leg. A third, a
n big west end doctor, is always rushing
it here, 6r to whatever chemist's shop
d he finds himself nearest to when he
1. is tired, and gets some one to inject
strychnin Into his arm. Another--a
:s doctor, to who depends on cocaine
, for all hi ergy, is a source of con- la
d stant amusement to us by his excuses in
.e for the amount of cocaine he gets
e through.
"An hour or two after he has
n bought one bottle he comes back and
Ssays he must have pulled it out with
, his handkerchief and dropped it, or
that he has had two or three cases
cc
e in succession that needed it, or some
eca
e thing equally futile. They all be
d come liars, these cocaine takers, for
these drugs all seem 'o go straight
to a man's moral center and destroy
his sense of truth and honor. Wo- H
e men? Oh, yes, hundreds of them.
t Ether, eau de cologne, cocaine, chloro
r odyne. What can you expect from
the rate at which a woman has to live Cl
t in society? If you knew how often be
a the silver-topped bottles in ladies' fu
dressing bags hold ether instead of in
scent you'd be a little astonished." of
"That sounds pretty bad," I said, mi
t "But do you seriously say that the by
practice is much on the increase?" a
t "Certainly it is. It is growing Fr
steadly, and things have got much "d
- worse since the introduction of these dr
tabloid medicines, though this, of wl
course, applies more to indiscriminate th
dosing than to the practice of taking
Sthe few powerful drugs I was speak- lot
ing of. People dose themselves ac- qu
cording to the one or two obvious qu
Ssymptoms, which are generally mis- in
Sleading, and off they rush to buy a da
bottle of tabloids, and probably do un
themselves a good deal of injury. But otl
some of the tabloids are really danger. fin
ous when taken indiscriminately. kn
t "These things, for instance, that dl(
t contain strychnine and iron and qul- ti
nine-I always make purchasers sign ti
tthe poison book for them, but plenty of
of chemists are not so scr'-pulous.
SPeople buy and take them by the en
dozen, with the result that their sys- wa
:ems get full of strychnine, the arterial thE
pressure is increased, with a prob- due
able resultant danger of aneurism, and wa
they keep themselves in a constant chi
state of mental excitement and Irri- ev
tation." kel
The same doctor spoke bitterly of str
the evils of the tabloid drugs. "A enE
bad business for the doctors," he said, at
frankly, "but it's a thousand times dat
worse for the public. People get a an
half dozen sorts of tabloids and take cia
them on the least provocation, and all
without at all knowing their proper- the
ties. You can imagine how soon one's I
constitution may be ruined like that." the
-London Mail. the
A Unique Restaurant on
There is a restaurant in Philadel- up
phia that is unique. In &ddition to am
catering to hungry man it aims to pro- goc
vide a club for servant girls on their this
afternoons out. The proprietress has thi
had a lot of handbills printed calling and
attention to the fact that her restaou- led
rant "is for a good purpose and Is pre
much needed, for it is grand of its-self, the
for our yo l dies and geontlemo " dre
a etrrct fom thiS drlar thbat is hI
ethy' atof Cesu t as a iterary idl
iimet bp asecapneaserwie A
Swise can hae the U an radi
themselves, while kthe
,iN Music will be heard dur&ua sr '
No Charge to ait and0.
until you aqeay tp.
propbr hoiitb y oeiW p..ou.. L
-Co
RAIN THAT BRNLS
lists The Thirsty Land Aeawnd ttaly'p Fa
agle mous Crater Where Caiustic Show'
enu- era Fair.
ntry A singular phenomenon has o -cp!a
play red this year and has caused
wo siderable damage in the villages
dis- around Vesuvius, says Mr. Consul
to Neville Rolfe in his report od the
with trade of South Italy for 1901. The
of volcano is constantly poering out a
nps- large cloud of steam from its ulmlit.
de- This steam is highly charged with' hy
ven drochloric acid, and a shower of raig
an faling through it becomes impreganat
and ed with this acid, and falling on the
#fht growing crops burns all the young
reet shoots. No doubt some special at
mho mospheric or other conditions must
was have been present, because the mona
sed tain has poured out its steam, and
em- the rain must have fallen through
it for centuries witirut the same
to 'result occuring, and in fact the phen
5t- omenon only lasted for about a month
la the spring. During this month,
tly, however, the sprouting vines sufened
ing severely, both leaves and buds being
e shrivelled up, and having the appetr
ance of having been burnt and Ipathe
me- case of the village nearest to the
ed. mountain, the cereals growing below
ex' the vines were seriously damaged,
Ld and in some cases destroyed.
Fortunately the vines which were
)me the most forward suffered the. least,
Lnd but the damage was so widespread
tu- that it reachdd Palma, near Nola,
where the produce con.ists of hazle
ids nuts, which are indigenous to the dis
of trict, and are grown for export in
lar large quantities. These have been
or- practically ruined, all the young
)us shots being destroyed. It is hoped
eir that the mischief will not extend it
self to the plants themselves, and
in- that only this year's crop will be lost.
ny Under a law still in force the Gov
in- ernment is liable to indemnify suf- 1
ferers from volcanoes by remission of
the whole or part of the land tax.
In- This has been done in many cases
in the present Instance, and has ap
ild parently worked well, but th law
under which it was grant ewill soon
be obsolete, and a new Il of 1886
will come into force, whereby all per
ot sons living in the neighborhood of
volcanos will flhve an annual reduc
tion of their land tax and stand by
their own accidents.
r A similar phenomenon arising from
all quite another cause occurred just be- .
fore Easter. A heavy sand-storm
to from the Sahara passed all over South
Italy and lasted several hours. Dur
ia ng the course of it heavy rain fell,
and precipitated the fine sand in the
atmosphere, the rain falling blood
et red on the ground and on the houses.
In the case of white houses the red
-a
marks are still distinctly visible. Con
ne siderable alarm was felt by the popu
lace, as there was no way of account
es ing for so unusual an occurrence. On
analysis of the dust it was found to
have Come from Egypt and to contain
ad a good proportion of phosphates, so
th that agriculture experts declared that
a layer of valuable manure had been
automatically spread over the whole d
country, and might be expected to a
confer considerable benefit upon it b
-London Globe.
or
NEMESIS ILLUSTRATED,
How a Thief Was Discovered in -
French Dame School. b
0
m Professor Richard G. Moulton, of a
re Chicago, editor of literary editions of o
n books of the Old Testament, has a fi
s' fund of interesting material concern- p
of ing conceptions, ancient and modern, p
of the word "nemesis." The English a
d, meaning of the term he illustrates p
ie by an experience of his mother when ci
a child attending a "dsme school" in ci
ig France. Dr. Moulton defining a
b "dame school" as; place "whe~-e chil- It
e dren were sent to an elderly woman be
>f who had nothing else to do to, keep ti
te them from doing anything else." it
g Repeated thefts of small articles be- U
k- longing to the school resulted in in- al
e- quiries as to the offender, but the in- ui
is quiries were unsuccessful and resulted P
s- in nothing whatever. At length the a
a dame announced that as she had been ye
o unable to discover the thief-in any m
at other way the "dOck" would have to ei
r- find out for her. Now the children
knew the little lame duck that wad-lb
dt died about the school yard, but how ci
i- that duck was to find cut who it was fo
n that had done the stealing the oldet N
y of tthm could not guess. bi
. One of the, smaller rooms was d ] aw
e ened, and through this the pupils ce
1- walk in turn and, as they did so. pass t1
ii their left hands along the back of the
- duck. By its quackini, she said she fe
d was able to know the thief. The i
t children were more in the dark than as
- ever, for the ill temp,;red little fowl ot
kept up a querelous complaint at the wl
f strange procedure an I small differ- ici
L ence could they tell in its quacking co
I, at one or another of them. But the wl
a dame did, or at least, she appeared to, th
a and when they were gathered in the mi
e class room again she puzzled them wl
I all the more by telling them to lift up on
their left hands. co
a Up went the hands and what was dii
the children's surprise to find that ev
the podgy palm of every one of them th
blackened. But no, not quite every es
one. One miseseble. little chap ilfted W
Sup a clean hand- as jsa hands go
Samong school childre$. Ulim the
Sgood dame sthaightway -fabred the
r thief. She had covered the back of in
Sthat duck with a layer of lamp-blaek, i
Sand fear of the tell-tale quacklta bad o
Sled the guilty youngstel- to merely os
a pretend to touch the dug, back a
the others did. It ua e lg a
d wsd ofr 4 on thae east*d tso
· him. "V@iat e TI D. Muultoa, '%rie
Sideal.retril, , ems - ls"ou
A aqeer coun i la st btf*
- ~E :ra~bu
·~Lt c,.ah '-I
or HOW S1I. MACHiNE :, o I
GT MrD OF THE O
Wagon IS .tU Wiebmims. U
Are Woi0heM an Spedbal l 6 '51.
a- A ton of pennies piled high in one
wagon-load is a unique, but not sa
copmon, sight on lower Brodtawy.
,t To an unenlightened observer the
)wAgon and its burdes present ao ac
es usual appeoarnce. The pennles are in
ml twenty .yellltd' cesavr sacks. The
he vehicle trundis'aloka s at Jauntil as'
he it loaded with salt or nions., or any
a other coeotmercial commodity.
it. Back of the bulky accumulatioa of
Ly. copper.Colns is the curiosity ,of the
& American public. Trlyag tributes
pt- to ibe napiber of 13,600 drpaped * 500
be slots go to aike up thsead, hich,
ag after all, Is somewhat of anoerbharsas
t- ment pl 1iches, "
at - Penniep sa '~ great quantit7 bve
i- but one eatlet the United States Sub
id Treasury.:" Unisa they have bben
;h previously coonted and- wrapped iit
eo paper, banks refuse their admittance.
-. Obviously, with so grqt'an iictm la
th tion of coin this .is linpossible It
h, would necessitate, the empipest of
gd too large a force of fuerienced
ig clerks. Whatever profits might ac
. crue fror .he, machines would be seri,
Se ously curtailed.
ie ior a pn :time this counting of I
w pennies was'a serious problem for the
d, various penny-In-the-slot machine <
manufacturers. At last jtwas solved
re by the construction of s"ecal scales I
which weigh the small copper pieces, '
not in poins and ounces, but in dol-1
lars and cenats Of course the ac- a
e- curacy of the process depends en- r
8. tirely upon the weights. Six months f
n of careful experimenting was done be- c
,n fore satisfactory results were attained. 1b
The smallest measured weight is fifty '1
d cents; the largest $4. In appearance
t- the scales are not unlike those 'seen e
d on any ordinary grocery counter. to
t. A copper penny is seemingly a piece b
Swithin the limits of even the hum- r
. blest purse. Yet the tricks people v
resort to in order to delude the In
genuous machines are unbelieveable. a
An odd thing about it is that, their P
efforts are usually barren of results. 01
The wheels obstinately refuse to go
n round unless they are fed with a genu- b
6 Ine penny or a counterfeit of the same ti
size and weight. V1
o A &rerthe accumulated mass has be
lac sollected from the machines, and a
tqfore it is weighed, all apparent re-f
'fuse matter is carefully sorted out. '*
Because of the extremely dirty condi- a
tions of the stuff, as well as to escapa f
infection from germs, the boys who db tr
h the sorting wear antiseptic gloves. at
The refuse itself is valueless, except be
asanexampleof the small meannesses is
(or weaknesses) inherent in human go
nature. When the real, natural-born p
cheat desires to swindle any person tl
or ipstitution, Instinctively he uq* li
as a first means an article closely re- al
sembling the genuine. Barring the b
fact that some may be dropped in the ti
slot through ignorance, this peculiar- el
ity accounts for the hundreds of Ger- tb
man pennies found in t:,e machines. ai
Only carelessness can account for the to
t valuable objects, such as small gold ol
pieces, antique silver coins, and bits c(
of Jewelery which are now and then of
9 dropped into the slots. Bangles, gold ti
and silver, of all sizes, nearly always gi
Sbedring tender inscriptions, such as dt
"Darling" or "Dearest," are often ai
sorted out of the original mass. sl
The percentage of hiss from waste
mattel Is small as compared aith
that resulting from the immense num
ber of counterfeit pennies in existence Fi
1 whose genuineness can be established
Sonly by the Treabury experts. Manu
I facturing "queer" cent 'pieces is a ar
- profitable industry. A pound of cop- cc
per costs sixteen cents. Its value as
Smade into pennies is $1.47. The th
I probable cost of making is forty-seven in
Scents, a clear profit of eighty-four th
cents. - su
Detection of these co.s Is difficult.
It is only by the exteri ; finish it can ry
be done at all. The c'pper used in an
their manufacture is identical in qual- sh
ity and gauge with that used at the me
United Sttee mints, io chemical an- no
alysls it tno value. Sven the Treas- th
ury men ~em selves are often mixed. ea
Persons in a position to know say that ril
a goodly amount of honest coin is each tit
year chopped, acidized, or otherwise of
mutilated in their zealous .fforts to
establish its genuineness. on
Be that as tt may, the fact remains foi
that one per cent. of the pennies in cir- It
culation are spurious. The Bowery, an
for example, far outclasses all other dii
New York districts in this ,respect, cal
being only excelled by osey Is.lad the
when the season is on, where the per- thu
centage of spurious pennies is often
two per cent. of the gross. thu
What is probably the fifrest counter- er
felt cent ever made is very much in me
circulation at the present time. It is wh
an excellent imitation in all respects ine
othorwise than the nose f the Indian, wo
which is decidedly aqline and typ- tur
ical, while the redskin on the genuine wli
coin is almost Greek in profile-a fact Th
which argues that the artist who drew ani
the counterfeit presentment knew sig
more of Poor Lo than did the man
who designed the original. It is curl- oni
ous to think what will happen f any wil
counterfeiter ever exactly imitates the eni
dies used ia the mints. Should this ani
ever occur, it seems more thn likely is
the government ontpat of these small
est of coins must cease.-Harper's
Weekly. .
Interesting Mexlqn Petrificlations,
A cturious sale has jaust been made S
in this capital Uy ItMb family of thel wh
late spirdIon Gallnde of Jalioco, the hu
objects oapag'from s mal mesammes T
o,the deceseed.
Some faortees year s ere o g*s
a lood Isane e as es bytb4is von'I
- C I e .e dWi
- h tona
fmloranor
e ance4
mtles the route of
Slies acressa s ert; then
,s law of thel µ euatg o
te seemns t a elf felt to
oanc the taeij and
ch. due to the lOt that loa tunetotM
as- nqt have to bet ti th -ghet ; l
mC oitaltIs the engine4dt
v ,frouted by ,le totaw ab.
ab- esseatial elements at co
en logM s woof tine and 'reler. 1,-k
t bhe eto beintaverted alo gaw _.o
h. laimd H se itstrdtes its : w
"ao. aergq the -deert. li-d a'; ii
t Oaspian raiway now the
of, Cbntrl Asian Railway, ' tt
ed under these conditions. ThOL a las
rie of logs of timber weie needed`
va. the region traversed casnot ,oast
a single tree for more ta 70 ml
of This timber was requaired b
he the longm 4dge, two mil 1t len
ed This bridge was the
es point in t$$
s. way, and it,
ol l by a stone u
. and Charjil
n- rimed over antse
bs feet deep. rg
a. carried out ia
4. become a little '~
ty They are coovet· f
ee wagons, which
a commodation, butch MI.
teens and forges. a.
,e berlan railway grew ti
n. resolved by the author rw
le workmen should have i # t
n "church car'- A wadiQ IAs ftted a
e. accordingly as a churyh ; a toe
it peal of bells in the lilcove above the
s. entrance.
;o' The romance of thountain railway
u- by no means ends vh their codbtrue
ie tion, and traveling upon '`iate eaa#
very high altitude is r a !
as be desired. The Peruvian ikne a
4 ant from Callao to Oroya has a two. I
. c laim to distinetion; it is built
tit rtbly the greatest altitude of
any ati ating railway, namely, 15,906
feet above sea level, and it affords
b travelers certainly the most unplea
ant "experience de voyage" that cat
t be imagined. t the result of travel
a lag at such an altitude, the passe i
n gers begin by feeling the greht o- i
n pressies, accompanied by palss Is
a the bead and limbs; these. are
Sly fol l by bleeding from the Daose
e and th and then by meeaeIat
to blindndbas. It is gratilying to lnow
e that there i~ a certain variety. J the
r- efects produced upon passenger- at
r- this 'lmat. Thus, while some persons
are seied with. giddinecs, others en.
e tertala strange hallucinations, and
d others faint away; the last class be
s come so weak that any undue exertlon
n on their part often proves fatal But
d this is not all that one has to'under
s go on the Callao and Oroya lIne. In
* due course the skin becomes Irritable
n and sores break out, while the lips
swell and then crack.
e
h NATURE'S ICE 1HOUt)$
e Food For Birds That Is Preservedf in
a The number of birds that go to the
a arctic regions to breed tis vast beyolnd
, conception. They go hot by thouc
e ands, but by tens and hundreds of
e thousands, and because nowhere else
b in the world does nature provide at
r the same time and in the samue place
such a lavish apro'~lgal ty of food.
The vegetation cons-' ts of cranber
Sry,.cloudberry and crowberry bushes,
and these forced by the perpetual sun
- shine of the arctie summer, bear enor
amous crops of fruit. Put the crop ai
Snot ripe until the middle and end of
- the arctic suma~er, ani if the frluit
eating birds had to wlait until it was
ripe they would starve in the mean
Stime, so they arrive ou the very day
Sof the melting of the Eaow.
SBut each year the snow descends
on an immense crop of ripe fruit be
Sfore the birds have time to gather it.
It is thus preserved perfectly freash
and ptfre, and the meltnl ofthe h0s
discloses t.e , with the -
caolpme4d irs Ta op hanging on
thdhi or lylig ready to be eaten, on
the ground.
The frozen meal stretches across
the breadth of northern Asia. It nev
et decays and is accessible the mo
ment the snow melts. The same heat
which thaws the fruit , rings into be
ing the most prolific innect life in the
world--the mosquito .warms on the
tundra. No European can 'live there
without a veil after the snow melts.
The gun be arels are black with them
and clouds of them often obscure the
sight
Thus the insect eating birds have
only to open their mou hs to fill them
with mosquitoes, and thus the pres
ence of mrms of cliff chaffs, pipe
and the wagtails in this arctic region
is accounted for. f
The Gaing-tsThesa-tr Fse.
Will some e one please eplala
-toh heatre bre" oa the av
while the tsS are
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