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The Weekly Expositor. J. A. Mkszieu, Editor nud Proprietor. YALE, MICH CiiAuxftcr M. Depew's annual ln come Is said to reach tho sum of $l2o, 00?. The largest private library In Wash ington is that of Goorgo Bancroft tho historian. It contains 12,000 voiumos. Mme. Dejerine Klumtke, an Amer ican wife of a Frenchman, has won tho degree of "doctoresse" from the Paris Faculty of Medicine with high honors. Fkaxk Jones, tho big: alo-brower of Portsmouth, N. II., and tho richest man in tho state, is largely Interested In the suit to annul tho Hell telephone patent He represented his dlitrict In congress from 1877 to 1879, and was mentioned as Cleveland's possible sec retary of tho navy. The late Mr. Thaw of Pittsburgh, Ta., had $1,000,000 Invested In tho In xnan 6teamshlp line, $3,600,000 in a 10,000-acro farm, any $1,000,000 in Pennsylvania railroad stock. Ho also had a largo amount of money invested In other securities. It is said of him that ho spont $200,000 a year in charity. Wakken Hi'Mks, tho oldest guide and the most experienced hunter In tho Adirondacks, makes an estimate that will be interesting to sportsmen. Ho claims that there are today no less than 60,000 deer and 5, 00 J bears in thoso regions. Mr. Humes has hunted there for tho last forty-five years, and during that time has killed over 4.00D doer and moro than 200 bears. Sin Mohell Mackenzie has docidod to sot apart a portion of hU autumn holiday for tho preparation of a work to bo entitled "Six Months' Residence at tho Court of tho Crown Princo and the Germ m Emperor." Tho work will be complete, as Sir Moroll took notes of every conversation In which ho took part or at which ho was present, but it will not bo published during tho life time of the Empress Frederick. Elmika has a peculiar case of love and marriage between a school princi pal and ono of her former pupils. Miss Hannah Rhodes was 4.3 years old when sho approached tho matrimo nial altar. She had been a teacher In tho public schools of that city beforo hr husband, Thomas F. Connolly, waJ born. Ho is about 22 years old, and when a youngstor he not unfre quently felt the effects of vigorous punishment at tho hands of his pres ent spouse. The Archduke Albrecht, commindcr-In-chief of tho Austrian army, is tho wealthiest man in Austria-Hungary. The other day, while, on a tour of in spection in Hungary, ho spent forty eight hours in a small provincial town. The bill prosented to him amounted to 153 12s. It was paid without a murmur, but tho next day tho officers of the garrison receive 1 strict orders not to set foot in tho hotel in qmstlon, and for tho next twelve months no military band will bo allowed to play in tho town. That will probably make tho innkeeper's oxtortion tho dearest transaction ho ever attempted. Die Buo wn-Sequakd Is an American. Ills father, Capt. Edward Brown of tho American navy, was a Fhiladel phian, and married on tho island of Mauritius a French woman named Scquard. Ho and his decendants took the name of Brown-Soquad. The dis tinguished scientist, whoso elixir of outh is making a sensation, was their eldest child. Ho was educated in France, but was afterward a p"ofessor at Harvard, and practiced medicino in Now York city for somo years subse quent to 1873. Ho marriod twice, hU first wife being Miss Fletcher of Boston, a relative of Daniel Webster. The betrothal Is announced at Ber lin of tho duko of Nassau to Prlncoss Margaret, youngest sister of Emperor William of Germany. William Alex ander, duko of Nassau, Is a son of William August Charles Frederick by his second marriago (to tho Duchess Adelaide Mario, daughter of Freder ick, princo of Anhalt) and is heir to the duchy of Luxemburg. Ho was born April 22, 1852, and Is colonel of a regiment of Austrian dragoons tho Emperor Francis Joseph No. 1 regi ment. Princess Margaret Bcatrlco Foodora Is tho fifth daughter of tho lato emperor of Germany, Frederick III. Sho was born at Potsdam the 22d of April, 1872. Loud Tenxyso.v was ono evening dining at court with a little grandchild. It so happened that near tho end of the meal thero was a plato ne ir tho queen with a slnglo plcco of bread up on it, which her majesty reached over and helped herself to, whon tho child pointed her fingor at her and to tho horror of all present, who expected nothing less than instant decapitation for tho daring infant, said: "Piggy piggy pig!" Tho queen with groat dignity and tact said: "Quito right, my child; nobody except a queen should ever tako tho last piece of broad on tho plate." Telling tho anecdote to a witty Irish woman sho hotly replied: "Why didn't sho say nobody but jueea or a pig?" SPORTS OF STATESMEN. Mow the People's Lawmakers Be guile their Leisure Hours. SUPREME COURT WHIST CLUB. The Senato Pokor Team Pry e Without Eait Tho Triangle, Kenna, Edmunds and Hampton Garland Makes a Cartridge Bck and Palmer. Special Correspondence. Washington'. Work consumes most of the statesman's time and he has con sequently few recreations and no sports properly so called. He Is too busy to play. To men who have had to attain and hold their places, life is a dread fully earnest thing and tho hard work which each day entails fills it full. Neither President Harrison nor Sec retary Blaine nor Secretary Windom, I believe, indulge habitually In any sport. Tho samo Is true of Senators Hlscock, Hawley, Chandler, Hoar, Sherman and Ingalls, with, tho excep tion that Senator Iliwloy plays bil liards worse than ho sings. Whenever Mr. Ingalls has an hour ho can devoto to amusements, and It is seldom, ho possesses himself of ono of tho raro books of the world which ho never found time to read and plunges into it Probably a majority of our lawmak ers and law-interpreters play cards, but few of thorn are expert or devoted to any game. The supremo court has a select whist club to which seven members belong and which meets "around," tho house oftenest choen being that of Mr. Jus tice Blatchford near Franklin square. The club knows all about Hoyle and Pole and the other high muckamueks of pasteboard and inclines to htld to 'the rigors of tho game," like Thack eray's horoino, but it possesses a back Bet in Mr. Justico Lamar, who being a brilliant raconteur and having had ex ceptionally Interesting personal experi ence, is often drawn out in conversa tion by the rear couple in such a way as to carry consternation into tho ranks of the enemy. The senato poker quartette are un derstood to bo hard men to tacklo Don Cameron, Hale, Butler and Far well. They are said to enjoy them selves and to make about as mucu as they lose in the course of a winter. . . SENATOR FRYE l03INtt A LUMBERMAN. The senator who kills tho most fish and small came durinc a voar is. I sup pose, Fry of Maine. Ho has a cabin in the woods on tho Ilangely llilla of Aroostook, and ho generally goes thero every vear as soon as ho can get away from Washington and stays till the tocsin sounds again. While ho is thero Mrs. Prye is thero roughing it and doing tho cooking. In speaking of this outing once, the senator said to me: 4 'When I cet up there where it is cool, with plenty of hunting and plenty of finding, too, by tho way, with every thing of tho freshest and the cooking done to a dot, it comes about as near heaven as I over expect to see." Senator Fryo tells somo good stories about officiating as doctor up there. Being distant from ti settlement he carries drugs with him, and occasion ally a lumberman will como twenty or thirty miles to get 'fixed up." Fryo Is distinguished for being the only man in the United States senato who nover takes any bait when ho goes fishing. I do not, of course, mean that he carries no bait for tho fish, but only that ho consumes nono himself. To boo him sit motionless by tho hour, with no bottlo to raiso to his parched lips has often caused amazement and anxious solicitude to his companions, Senators Kenna, Edmunds and Wade Hampton. 4 'Do you suppose ho is still alive?" they inquire of each other as tho hot sun declines. JOHN E. KENNA, THE BOSS FISHERMAN OF THE SENATE. By the wny, thoso last three form a noted piscatorial triangle. At least once during every session of congress they creep off up to Point of Hocks to fish and shoot ducks. 4,No talking" la the rulo which governs these occasions. Sometimes Frye goes along, and some times Senator Gorman of Maryland, who claims tho privileges of a host. WW! .i. asked Gen. Hampton last winter about his fishing comrades. "I suppose tho be-t all-round fish erman in tfc senato is Mr. Kenna of West Virginia," ho said. "Thero Is no nonsense about him. He is not a dude. He goes iii to catch fish. Dress ed in rough jean trousers, a ilannel shirt, a slouch hat and high boots, well greased, ho rows his own boat and at tends to his own bait. With his tall, robust figure and young handsome face, ho looks tho rustle Apollo. And Konna Is probably tho best rifle shot in the senato. Ho is a great man after deer and boar, and for years has kept a pack of boagles with which ho n nually scours tho fl.inks of tho Allegha-nies." if fey ite THC "WAY SENATOR CAMDEN JERKS III3 FISH. 4,Kenna fishes to get fish. His fav orite allurement Is tho ph uitora min now. Every time ho goes out home ho comes hero and buys tun or a dozen for tho boys." Last summer, I find, ho bought several hundred, and I have often wondered whether they bad any influence on effecting the wiso decision to which the legislature ut 1 st arriv ed. Senator Beck is fond of hunting and bags a good deal of gamo in tho course of a year. Senator Piatt Is fond of trout and salmon fishing and pursues tho sport with eager enthusiasm. Ho has a cabin up in tho Adirondaeks where ho and Mrs. Piatt enjoy a good do il of every summer. Throe years ago when ho heard that Cleveland was going thero ho said: "Well, there! Now I'll pull up and go to Canada." Piatt has also a passion for botany and studies tho secrets of the flowers wherever he wanders. Senator Blackburn is tho crack shot of the western statesman, and ho has a mild liking for hunting and likes to go fishing occasionally, but ho has been grossly lied about and misrepresented by tho newspaper man who sot him up us a terror to tho wild game of Ken tucky. It Is understood that tho gamo does not regard him in that light. Senator Gorman is known in the senato as tho lono fisherman, being given to solitary hunts. M. A. Tappan, our chief sporting tacklo merchant, tells mo: "Garland is an artistic sportsman. Ho knows just what he wants. I have to load all his cartridges for him according to model. Each must contain twelvo buckshot No. .'1 with ono 6inglo B shot In the center of each layer to m ike It solid. Ho goes on a deer drive as often as ho can get away. Edmunds has a fine billiard tabl in tho basement with tho closet adjoin ing, for balls, cues, etc. He Is thought to resemble St Jerome. Evarts has fun farming, owing 800 acres among tho Green mountains and ! 300 on the Potomac just below Wash ington. Goruv.n has a passion for base ball, and onco played second on tho Nation als hero. Mills hns tho same frenzy. Don Cameror. and Sheridan scoured tho battle-fields of Virginia on horse back, and Spooncr enjoys tho samo recreation, generally accompanied by Mrs. Spooner and his .second son. Palmer Is fond of fishing, story tell ing, singing, entertaining and rustic roughing it; and ho is passionately fond of bonfires and generally manages to have one of Parnassus every night when he has his friends around him in his favorite log cabin. Manderson's chief recreation is din ing out. Ho likes folks better than ho does anything el-e in tho world, and ho is tremendously social iind genial. Ono meets him everywhere in 'tho season." Beck likes everything that yields a new and agreeable sonsation, and he gen erally manages to get it. Sherman's chief gamo Is backgam mon, In which ho is an expert. Ho al so enjoys playing "Muggings" with his daughter, who, It Is understood. Is now nearly twenty games ahead. Quay Is a great off-shore fisherman and Is therefore tho pride and envy of the senato. Ho has caught not only strugeon und cod, but. shark and sword fish tho captains of tho sea. Tho best baso ball player in either house is Ben Buttorworth of Ohio, who can pick the leathern sphere out of the air with great dexterity. Ho is often in tho gamo at Le Droit park, where he lives. About twenty members of congress aro always found on tho stand when a league game is played hero. W. A. Croffut. Kinm'i Kin?. Slam, ft littlo sparsely populated country in tho distant south, long re fused allegiance to our great land, like a praying mantis pushing back nn ad van cing chariot with his littlo claws. But now for 200 years sho hns been submissive to tho behests of him who sits on tho dragon Throno. In tho eighth moon of this year a new ruler will bo crowned as King and tako to consort a Queen, with dazzling pomp. A merchant of Ch'no-chow Fu, Kuangtung. long a resident in Slam and loaded with favors by tho King, was lately commissioned to proceed to Canton to buy rosewood cabinets, silk embroideries, etc., to tho valuo of 10, 000 taels. This Chineo merchant has presented tho King with a couple of boards, containing each fourteen char acters beautifully carved, praising tlx King as ono of thoso virtuous prince whom tho Son of Heaven views Ttith special favor. Hu Pao. f ARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Ilitrrowlng AVlimt, A good many farmers have lot tho nerve to harrow their wheat in the spring any moro than th ey have to run a harrow broadcast over tho corn-lield after tho crop is up. Next spring is a good time for thoso who aro timid on this point to gain somo wisdom by personal experience. If you have never tried harrowing your wheat, try somo of It next spring and insti tute a comparison by comparing re sults of ono kind of treatment with tho oth er. With hardly an exception in the whole lino of agricultural products.uni versal experience has proven that cul tivation Is essential to tho best possible results. General analogy would bo sufficient of itself to suggest the bene ficial results of tillage applied to wheat, but tho matter has not been loft to analogical inference. Many ex periments have been made by thor oughly cultivating tho crop, when so planted, as to make it possible and with wonderful results ns to increaso of product; but in addition to that, the practice of giving wheat a thor ough harrowing in tho spring has como to bo quito general in many localities. The best harrowing for tho purpose will probably be a "smoothing" one, but any harrow not having too large teeth will answer. Of course a few plants will be jerked out by the roots, but tho sm ill ness of the number of such will bo re markable. The loss by this will not begin to ofTset the cain mado by loosen ing tho noil, so as to givo the roots a chance io penetrate tho greatest possi ble distance. Then, too, the benefit from preserving moisture in the soil, by this loosening of tho surface, may be great in ease of drouth about the time tho grain begins to fill. Tho packing process by tho continual fall of rains for seven months makes tho wheat field a pretty nolid surface by tho time tho plant begins fairly to grow in tlie- spring. In addition to the good it does the wheat, this har rowing also very greatly uids In get ting a good cati h of clover or grass heed. Where tho fields aro heeded down harrowing for this purpose alono more than pays for the trouble. It Is always best, if possiblo to tircio tho har rowing just before a rain, and the ground should bo just right when It is done. Improving; t!ie Farm. The best and bhortest way to im prove a farm is to reduce the stock, plow your fallows in winter so that the oil will be warm and dry and tho subsoil decomposed early in the spring. Harrow well .nd then sow ten or twelvo quarts of grass seed to the aero when you put in your o its. If all take, your chancj is good for obtaining from live to t-n acres of oats and a field seeded down to grass. Then prepare as many acres for rye sowing, provided your liud is not good enough for wheat and tho two crops will give you all tho straw you need and the corn-lield, with usual good luck, will produce enough to fat stock. At tho end of the season you will have tho produce from fifteen or twenty acres of land, represented in oats, corn and potatoes and as many aeres sown with ryo and wheat. Keep just 6tock enough to eat up the produce in grain and hay, and after gathering your n.cxt year's crops of hay and grain, covering say fifty acres of your farm of 100 jicres, you may think of adding as many head of cattle as your farm will sustain without pur chasing very heavily of foreign tup plies. By tho end of tho fjurth year you rro ready to put in a crop of wheat and save plowing up your bot tom meadow, you have re-seeded the whole farm and aro now ready to en large your dairy and at tho expira tion of ten years your land ought to be in a condition to doublo your crops nnd the number of your cattle. This is rotation. Pnirtical Farmer. 1'nrm Noten. j Ko tucculent food is moro greedily ' eaten by pigs at any age than beets. They may be fed any time from tho ; liret thinnings during tho growing ( season to tho fully grown roots In winter. They aro especially valuable as a part of tho winter food for breed ing bows, nnd some beet should always j bo saved for that purpose. A Kcytho will pull tho buckwheat to- ; gcther in bundles that will need no j binding except a slight twist of straw around tho heal, setting each bundle by itself on its butt. When dried by cold weather, tho flail on a smooth . floor will tako out tho grain better, cheaper nnd nearly as quickly , as it can bo dono by thrashing machines. This is tho old-fashioned way, and it is ns good as any. i Wo do not understand whychoeso Is not moro generally usod as food by all j classes. In England it largely takes j tho place of meat, which it supercedes, I not only becauso of Its cheapness, but ! its superiority. I he poor quality or much checso offered In market is pr)b ably the reason for the popular preju dice against It Wo cat moro meet In j this country than any people in Europe, and chceso ought largely to tako its place. Sometimes when a very heavy grain crop has been grown the field is moro easily prepared for wheat seeding by burning over tho stubbie. A few fur rows should bo plowed next the fences, to prevent tho fire spreading where not wanted. Oat stubble, however large, does not burn as easily as that of wheat. Its stalk is not bo firm. In burning wheat stubblo many Hassian files will usually bo destroyed, thus making it 6afer to sow wheat after wheat Sometimes after threshing cows turnod into tho barnyard nt night, with access to a fresh straw stack, will pick at tho chaff and eat enough to di minish their milk flow. It is this of ten, rather than tho dinainishod past ure, that lessons tho milk yield at this season. We havo known farmers to put a fenco around tho stack, so as to keep their cows from Injuring thom solves at it, us a simple minded person is said onco to have put a fence around a very poor lot to keep his stock from grazing on it. American Cultivator. Tlin lloiitehol I. Traveling Lunch. Chop tolher sardines, ham and a few pLklos; mix with mustard, pepper, catsup, Halt and vinegar: spread betweon buttered bread. This is to bo cut crosswise, like jelly cake. Tomato Salad. Tako nearly rlpo tomatoes, slico In a dish and net on Ice to get hard and firm, then just before using chop a largo onion fine, and sprinkle over them, and add salt, viuo gar an d pepper to taste. Bread for Soup. Cut siloes of stale bread In small squares, throw them In boiling lard and fry till brown. Skim out, drain nnd put In a soup turren be foro serving tho soup. For oyster soup, crackers crisped in tho oven are nico. Cheese Scallop. Soak ono cup of dry breadcrumbs in fresh milk; beat Into it three eggs, and add ono table spoon of butter and a half-pound of gratod cheese; strew upon tho top sift ed breadcrumbs, and bake in tho oven a delicato brown. Corn Pudding. Two cups of corn boiled and cut from tho ear, one pint of milk, two eggs, bait to taste. Beat tho eggs until very light; add tho other ingredients; put tho mixture in a but tered pudding dish and bako about forty minutes. Apple Tapioca Pudding. Soak over night ono cup of tapioca in six cup3 of water. Next morning add ono cup of sugar, ono egg nnd beat well to gether. Then pare, core and chop line six or moro apples, and ftir with the tapioca In a pudding dish, aud bako slowly. A Noly Man. Althou?h.a ncisy man may bo A nuisance worth abusing I rather line the fellow. Ho Is. Bomhow, so amusing. It's fun to hear tho end esj flow Of RcnHoi4 Bound he's dropping And think that h is wound to o forever withojt stopping. While others writhe In pain because lie's making tliom t tired 1 wnth the motion of his jaws And wonder if tlioy re wired. Thou-'h he Is called a "win ly bag" And oth.-r nams us tunny Its worth, 1 th nk, to hoar til tn braj About oao con- of ui'jikv. While nenplMiato his vain conceit And ttiink he isn t witty And sadly Miub nim oa tho street I f)cl for him a p.t.y. Dim wphout brnitis ho cannot sco Himself us ot tiers 8f;e him; Besides ho s very roo.l -to bo A freuk in sojio inu-sce nm. Because I pity Mm, In such A pre per il ice I l sliovrt Mm For, while I ilka him rattier much I cannot say 1 love him. Still, iho ph hVs s-ich a nulsanco cool That, Udly, w.j'd destroy him, Iled.ie-ui t mean to be Tho loot Imau'iiies we enjoy him. -II. C Dod.'o. Meet He Car lira!,?. Tho expression, electric brake, is now often heard, and requires a word of explanation. There aro various forms of so called electric brakes which aro practicable, and even ellicient working devices. In nono of them, however, does electricity' furnish tho power by which tho brakes aro applied; It merely puts in operation somj other power. In one typo of electric brako the active braking force is taken from an axle of each car. A sm ill friction drum is made fast to tho axlo. An other friction drum hung from tho body of tho car swings near tho axle. If, when the car is in motion, theso drums aro brought in contact, that ono which hangs from the car tak?s motion from tho other, and may bo m ido to wind a chain on its shaft. Winding in this chain pulls on tho brake levers pre cisely as If It had been wound on tho shaft of the hind brake. Tho solo function of electricity in this form of brako is to bring tho friction drums together. In a French brako which has been used experimentally for somo years with much success an electric current, controlled by the engine driver, energizes an electric magnet which forms part of tho swinging frame, in which tho loose friction pulley is carried. This electro magnet being vitalized, is attracted toward tho axle, thus bringing tho friction drums in contact. In an American brake lately exhibited on a long freight train a smaller electro magnet is used, but tho same end is accomplished by multiply ing tho power by tho intervention of a lover and wheel. Tho other typo of so called electric brako Is that In which tho motive power is compressed air, and tho function of the electric device is simply to manipulate the valves under each ear, by which tho air is let into tho brako cylinder or allowed to escape thus putting on or releasing tho brakes. All of tbeso devices havo this advantage, that, whatever tho length of tho train, tho application of tho brakes Is simultaneous on all tho wheels, and stops can bo made from high speed with littlo shock. II. G. Prout In Scrlbner's Magazine. Animal Mt lu the iulf Strfim. Tho surface waters in tho Gulf Stream teem with minute llfo of all kinds. There tho young of larger an imals exist, microscopic in sizo, and ndult Jinlmals which never grow largo enough to bo plainly visible to tho naked eyo oocur in immense quantities. By dragging a fine 6ilk net behind tho vessel, thoso minute forms nro easily taken, nnd when placed in glass dishes millions uncounted are seen swimming backward and forward. When looked at through a microscope wo soo young jelly fishes, tho young of barnaclos, crabs and shrimps, besido tho adult microscopic species, which aro very abundant. Tho toothless whale finds in theso his only food. Bushing through the water, with month wido open, by means of his whalebono strainers tho minute forms aro sepa rated from tho water. Swallowing thoso obtained aftar a short period of straining, ho repeats the operation. The abundance of this kind of life can bo judged from tho fact that nearly all kinds of whales exist exclusively upon theso animals, most of th3m so small that they nro not noticed on tho sur face. Hal ph S. Tarr, in Popular Sci ence Monthly. KICKED INTO FORTUNE. How a Thrifty Mechanic Out witted a Biff Capitalist. "Speaking of cables," said a man on the ferryboat In tho hearing of a San Francisco Examiner reporter, re minds mo of a good one I heard the other day on tho lato Charlos Crocker. You know ho was at tho head of the great Market Street c iblo system and was a close flgurer in financial mat ters. Well, when the Market Stroei cables were put down the contractors employod Henry root to superintend tho construction. Thero was lots to learn about cable roads in those day9, and even aftor the contractors had turned tho road over to Crocker and his associates every day's run sug gested something in tho way of im provement Without any particular understanding Boot was kept along to look after things generally, and espec ially to secure patent's on the dozen and one devices which tho construction nnd operation of tho road had suggested. Ho -was p aid a small salary, only about $100 a month, but 6o loyal was ho to tho company that when an olfer came to him from Denver urging him to tako charge of the city's now cable road at a fat salary ho refused it, and went on until ho had about perfected his patents. 4Whoa ho had been thus employed some menths Mr. Crocker came back from the East and at onco began look ing over the expenso account and pay roll of the cable company, with a view to retrenchment and a moro rigid economy. After a timo ho came to Hoot's name. 44 'See here,' said he to hia manager, what's tkls man Hoot doing oa our pay roll?' 44 'Oh, wo'vo kept him along looking after various things and arranging about patents. 44 'Well, ho has no business here at all,' said Crocker, sh irply. 'He was employed by tho contractors, and when they turnod ovor the road to us his em loyment ceased. Now, I want you to tell Mr. Hoot that not only will wo no longer pay him anything, but that L shall expect him to return to us all tho salary he has received sinco we as sumeu control of the road.' 'Perhaps you don't think Hoot was astonished. There ho hjd refused a permanent position at a exd salary just boeauso he felt it his duty to stay by tho Market Street company, and of course he had spont the $700 which ho had received from the company in tho way of compensation for seven months' work. It was a big wad of money to tho Hoot of those days, too. aad ho had a heap of trouble to raise it. But he stood up all his friends, mortgaged a lot, and finally manael to square hlmsjlf with Cro :ker, taking a receipt from that gentleman showing oa its face that he was not in tho cable com pany's employ for the seven months, nnd th"t tho money had been wrong fully paid to him. 'Then ho went on and took out his patents in tho name of Henry Hoot. "By and by Crocker, Hallidio and tho rest of tho cablo men began the or ganization of their big pool. When they got well along with it Hallidio said ono day: 'See here, ('rocker, where aro your patents on all these improvements wltieh you people oper ate? I don't see your showing. ' 'Oh, wo'vo got 'em somewhere,' re plied Crocker, confidentially, but when lie came to look into tho matter ho found ho didn't h ive 'cm by a long shot. Ho found the patent for somo of the moat important devices in use on his system were in tho name of Hoot, 'He sent for Hoot "When that thrifty mechanic appear ed beforo tho mngnato the latter said: 4Hoot thero are a lot of devices which we use and which I see aro patented in your name. I wls'.i you'd just make them over to tho company., Why?' asked Hoot simply. ' 4You worked thorn out and patent ed them when in our employ, and of course you know that tho laws of the 6tite provido that when an arLlsan takes the tlmo for which an employer pays him to work out a p itent the pat ent belongs to the employer.' 44 'Certainly: I know that's the law,' replied Hoot, in his most respectful tone, 'but here's j-our receipt, Mr. Crocker, which shows tint during tho timo I was at work on theso patents I was not in your employ. Now, my dear Mr. Crocker, you can have 'those patents for just $2 j,000.' 4'Crocker paid. "From Hoot's connection with tho road ho learned of the projected exten sion out Halght Street, put his $.o.000 into lands along that highway, realized on them when the boom came, made enough to keep the wolf from hi door, thus found time to perfect acablt system of his own. forced them to take him into tho pool and is enjoying a rajah's income from it now. "There's a man absolutely kicked into a fortune." llarhclor Buttons Before you lay tno button on the cloth, put tho thread through so that tho knot will bo on tho right side. m. .i i i. j juat lujivcs id unuer uei ii.un, uuu prevents it from being worn or ironed nwaj and thus b eginning tho loosen- t IrifT rfrrMd Tlinn. Afu!0 VOU be?ln v sowing, liy a largo pin across the but- t ton so that all your threads will go over the pin. After you have finished filling tho holes with thread draw out tho pin , . .1 I 1 1 ana Wina your mre;iu rwuuu unu ruuuu beneath tho button. That makes a compact stem, to sustain the possible Fulling and wear of tho buttonhole, t is no exaggeration to say that my buttons never como olT. and I'm sure yours won't if you use my method of sowing. Yo u th' s Co ra pa n io n . Smokflo rowilrr. The trial of smokeless powder by tho field artillery of tho Twelfth Saxon corps recently in its maneuvers before tho klag of Saxony at Zelthaln-Ilodcrau was perhaps tho nrsst conclusive yet attempted. After sovcral hours ol cannonading tho nir over tho battle ground was perfectly clear. Not even a puff of smoke showed itself. The Berliner . Volksz'oltung, by tho way, says that tho new powder requires bronze cannon r.nd that all tho steel guns will havo to go