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THE GOLDEN RULE.
VOL- H
THE earth and man.
, cm a little raUt,
1,le „ tind blowing fr>m the *c*t,
within the mountain’s
the earth we tread,
with love and life her
roar, have dawned and
f etill her mafiic Is the same.
IK*
ft je love, a little trust,
tf t impulse, a sudden dream,
I i;fo as dry ns desert dust
fresher than a mountain stream.
le is the heart of man,
'7 tn( iy for new hope aud Joy,
. thm ,sand years since It began
■ ‘ left it younger than a boy,
-Philadelphia Record.
I Western Girl’s Story.
\fraifir* cried out I with a laugh.
•,‘v on earth should I be afraid?"
i suppose my face must have
port'd forth the careless indepen*
i!e of my spirit, for ray brother’s
,peJ countenance brightened up as
jHike.
V.; lived alone upon a solitary road,
les away from any human dwelling*
i n one of those antique, gable*
j e( J farm-houses which look so pic*
esque to an artist's eye in the sum*
r time ami so indescribably deso*
o when November gales are howl*
; around the chimney tops or win*
’ scows are heaping up their feath*
y I earl upon the door-stone. We—
jt is, the old bed ridden aunty, ray
other Kobert and myself. As for
M .rv.at:t girl, dear me, when I become
(lunatic.or lost the use of my limbs
might need one, not before.
■Well mind you don’t let anyone in,
dess it is a neighbor," said Bob, but*
niug up his shaggy overcoat and
aering Ills voice so that Aunt .Tend*
a should not hear his words, for
ent Jemima was apt to be seized
ith fits of nervous aprehension at the
ost inconvenient times. “Because,
m know, there are only two women
rou, and—"
“do along with yourself. Bob. and
n't talk nonsense," said I, with an
rof dignity. "As if I wasn't quite
lie to take care of myself without
mr advice. Nobody lias been here in
week, and I don’t think the rush is
sing to begin to-night."
’The loaded revolver is on the top
self next to the hag of hops and the
suer of dried catnip," added Bob,
and the big stick ”
‘Til take the big stick to you, if
on don’t clear out," cried I, merrily—
nd so Bob mounted old Nanuy and
rotted away.
VT had just received a hundred dol
tre from the railroad i>eoplc for the
ear’s wood which Bob bad cut
ml hauled to the junction— a hundred
Mars, all in nice, clean, crackling
f K-and Bob and I and Aunt Jemima
ill agreed—for once entirely unnni
notis—that so much money ought not
» remain over night In the house.
“Suppose there should be a fire?"
aid I.
Suppose a gang of masked burglars
liould break ini" suggested Aunt
'tnuna, who had been reading the pa
ws.
"Suppose the rats and mice should
Paw their way into the old hair
lr uuk’.’’ said P,oh.
Bob was taking the hundred dol
®rs to the Ottarsfield Bank, twenty
P!cs away, over a rough and uneven
'"•iHe road! And 1 and Aunt Jemima
*** left all alone.
Bear me," said Aunt Jemima,
:; its twice my needle’s dropped, and
I'Uck iu th e floor. We’re going to
tav e company;”
1 hope not,” said I. “with nothing
1 die house but corn-bread and pork,
J: ‘dried apple-sauce."
there's a winding sheet in the
uar.dlo l , gloomily added Aunt Jemima,
'' /i was addicted to harmless little
Volitions. “Somebody's going to
lilO,
* t-nnk it's extremely likely," I ob
"Bb philosophy.
u had a creepy feeling down my
l . f a ‘l l,a y." said Aunt Jemima, “just
-- on > e one was measuring me for
_• shroud! Are you sure the doors
all bolted Gertrude?”
, te certain, aunt. I bolted them
c Jself.
y r *d nails over all windows?”
s °ne of them. Come now,
,v! t i ' '° ar ‘ 1110 hx your hot drink,
'a!- I .!° ° n ; OUI o'ghtcap nicely. We’re
as There was a hollow
soldiery all around us.”
, ‘t in spite of my reassurance, Aunt
„ ‘‘‘ a Persisted in going to sleep
Lfi \ 11 ' ll iron !in d two pokers under
1 Pillow.
J tiH»n. mercy on me, how she did
t! f e. to he sure.
e'clo l ' < tore t ' lc Tire until past nine
ltc ‘V."’ ll,ils hiug a pair o. gray mixed
that I was knitting for Bob.
tut l f Ul ’ I;sinK with a yawn, I looked
and ° 150 " in<^°'vs - IT was raining,
* ertifu l heaven! I started back with
•Therefore, Whatsoever Ye Would That Meri Should Do to Yoij,'Do Ye Even 9o to Them.”
a low ery, fts t kaW a white, Wild fflc6
pressed suddenly Against the outef
side Ot the pane—A face blade paler
still by the contrast of A heavy blafck
mustache, and hair the most raveh jet
I ever saw.
My first impulse was to run and hide,
my second to face the matter out.
"What do you Want?” I osbed, open
ing the window A little way. MVhd
are you?”
"I am a belated traveler. I Meed
food—rest—rags to bind up my hurt
foot. Seel” And then I saw that one
of his feet was bleeding.
I hesitated an instant tte perceived
my doubt. v>r
"You are afraid to let the Vagrant
in,” he 6aid, bitterly. "Well, I don’t
wonder much. But there’s no danger.
Let me In, ns you have a dear father
or brother of your otvh; Give me but
a crust of bread, A drink of tnilk. 1
will go on my way with the earliest
dawn of morning.”
My decision was taken at once. His
pale face, Ills blood-stained foot, his
piteous Voice, so Uhlike the profes
sional whine of the regular mendicant,
all appealed to my womanly pity, t
remembered my brother’s caution, but
I also remembered that there was an
unused ove-story Wing, on the north
end of the house, fitted up ih A rude
sort of way for the occasional sleep
ing place of the additional farm hands
that wo needed in the height of the
season of harvest.
"Go around to the father door,” said
I. "I will let you In.”
I admitted him accordingly. Gaunt,
pale and limping, he came in.
"There is a bed,” said I. “And here
Is food. While you cat t will get salve
and a bandage for your foot.”
When 1 returned he was eating as
greedily as If he had not tasted food
for a week, and drinking long draughts
of coffee.
"You are hungry,” said I, kneeling
tn my task.
"I hope s’ott never may be as near
starvation as I have been this day,” he
responded, In a low, thrilling voice.
"Thank you, young woman—the foot
feels easier now.”
So I left him.
I had meant to slip across the bolt
on the outside of the door that led to
the other portion of the house; but 1
now perceived, for the first time, that
llie bolt was not there. Bob must have
taken it out, to use In the stables.
A thrill, half of apprehension, passed
through me at this unwelcome discov
ery.
“No matter,” said I, valiantly, to my
self, "I must risk it. I dare say we
are all as safe as if there were a score
of bolts on the door. Only I'm glad
Aunt Jemima sleeps so soundly."
So I went to bed and fell fast asleep
in less that fifteen minutes.
The sound of the old Avooden clock
striking three—or something else
roused me, and, opening my eyes, I
saw the shrouded light of a dark lan
tern in the room, and by its glimmer
three mep were searching the contents
of the old hair trunk that stood under
neath the window.
I started up with a scream—probably
the most imprudent tiling I could have
done—but I did not stop at that instant
of terror to measure consequences.
"Stop that gal's squeaeliing pipe,"
muttered a low, threatening tone, and
the next instant an iron nand was up
on my throat; my eyeballs seemed
starting from their sockets, and a hor
rible death by suffocation seemed clos
ing around me.
In the salf-same second, however, I
saw the deadly white face of the man
I had so recently succored ami fed, in
the doorway; I heard the click of a
pistol being cocked. My first impres
sion was that he belonged to the gang
—that he had made an entrance Into
the house through my weak pity, and
afterward admitted his comrades; but
oil! how unjustly I judged him.
"Let go that girl's throat, or I’ll
send a brace of bullets through your
brain!” he shouted; and instantaneous
ly I was free. "Now, then, get out of
this! Drop everything. Quick! I>o
you see this pistol? It carries charges
enough to send everyone of you to
Kingdom Come quicker than light
ning.”
llis eloquence was of a most persua
sive nature. One of the men dropped
a red leather pocketbook of papers that
I recognized as Bob’s; another let fall
a calico bag containing Aunt Jemima s
six silver teaspoons and all three
tumbled out of the door in hot haste.
My unknown friend calmly examined
the fastenings.
"The bolt has been pried back,” said
he, "but I can fix it in a minute. And
even if I did not I hardly think they
will be likely to come again after the
lesson I have read them.”
"How can I ever thank you!” I cried,
almost hysterically, in my mingled ter
ror and gratitude.
"1 was thinking to-night as I watched
you bind up my foot that I would like
to do something for you," he said in
a low tone, "and 1 have done it. Good
night.”
Early the next morning I carried a
tray of breakfast in to him. but he
was gone. From that time to this I
have never seen nor heard of hint, ex
cept that, once in an illustrated news
paper, I saw his portrait, as the de
tected murderer of half a dozen travel
ers on the Omaha plains-an accom
plished villian—a cold-blooded wretch.
(In Afro-Awenc(tji Newspapers
1898-1001,
VICKSBURG, MISS., JANUARY 27, 1900
who thought no more of extinguishing
the stirtfk of human life than others
do of killing a read his bio
graphy—and I shuddered to recollect
how titteriy we pOof Women Were flt
his mercy on that DecCihbe? tlighh and
of how he spared and shielded us!
Bob never know of that night’s ad
venture. Aunt Jemima never knew.
It is A secret that I keep to myself.
ihOWINQ UP A LAWYER,
Tb Talesman Proved that He Was Not ad
E cyclopedic
*The lawyer Was just starting homo
after a hard day’s work ill the eoiift
room. A seuate-looking man iipitforicli--
ed him and said:
“I don’t know whether you remem
ber ihe or not. I am one of the tales
men Whom foii interrogated yester
day. 0
“Ah?"
“There are one or two small matters
that I wanted to ask you about, lou
seem to be a tiersott of very superior
Intelligence, and 1 hopd yotl will gi'O
me a few minutes. I’ll walk along with
you to your ear so as not to waste any
time. What I wanted to ask you is
this: If I were to say to you that ‘the
three faces which include a triedral
angle of a prism are equal in all their
parts to the three faces which iftclmle
a triedral angle of a second prism, each
to each, and are like placed, the two
prisms are equal in all their parts,’
what W'ould yotl understand by It?”
“Why, sir—really—” *
“You don’t mean to tell me you are
stumped by a little one like that ! ’
“You see, the question is a little sud
den, find in order to grasp its full sig
nificance-*
“Never mind. Here’s an easier one.
nearer the beginning of the book. If I
were to suggest to you, that a certain
object Is a polyedron, in which two of
the faces are polygons, equal in all
their parts, and having their homolo
gous sides parallel, w hat would l>e the
impression conveyed to your mind.'
“To he candid, I never looked into
the subject very deeply.”
aou don’t menu to own tip that you
wouldn’t know' it was a plain, every
day prism:
“I hadn’t thought of It in that light.”
“That’s all. My boy, who isn’t
through high school, could have ans
-1 wered those questions without stop
ping to think. 1 feel better. Y'ou were
! putting on a lot of airs yesterday, but
j you ain’t any encyclopaedia. I don’t
believe you are even a handy compen
dium of useful knowledge. After this
display of lamentable ignorance on
your part, I want to make just one sug
i gestion. If you ever get me into court
i again, don’t you swing at me with any
more big words and try to act haughty.
- I’ve got your measure, and I’m liable
[ to be just as supercilious as you are.”
Wars In Victoria's Relga.
Certainly, the Boer war is rather a
bigger business than any we have had
to settle lately. But it’s not quite the
first Queen Victoria’s troops have had
to tackle. Here is a list or them:
Afghan war, 1838-40; first China war,
1841; Sikh war, 1846-40; Kaffir war,
184 G; seeond war with China, second
Afghan war, 1849; second Sikh war.
1848-49; Burmese war, 1850; second
Kaffir war, 1851-52; second Burmese
war, 1852-53; Crimea, 1854; third war
with China, 1856-58; Indian mutiny,
1857; Maori war, 1800-01; more wars
with China, ISGO-62; second Maori war,
1863-66; Ashantee war, 1864; war in
Bliootan, 1864; Abyssinian war, 1867-
68; war with the Bazotees, 1868; third
Maori war, 1868 69; war with Looshale,
1871; second Ashantee war, 1873-74;
third Kaffir war, 1877; Zulu war, 1878-
79; third Afghan war, 1878-80; war in
Basutoland, 1879-81; Transvaal war,
1879-81; Egyptian war, 1882; Soudan,
1884-85-89; third Burma war, 1885-92;
Zanzibar, 1S90; India, 1890; Matabeie
wars, 1894-96; Cldtral campaign, 189 o;
third Ashantee campaign, 1596; second
Soudan campaign, 1896; Indian cam
paign of 1897, and third Soudan war,
ending with fall of Khartoum, 1898.-
Auswers.
Money Orders That Fail to Reach.
In the course of the year nearly 50,-
000 money orders failed to reach the
payees The number of such cases in
creases from year to year, correspond
ing with the aggregate business. In
many cases remitters hold the orders
a S receipts; in other cases failure to
deliver Is diie to defective address; but
the bulk of the loss occurs through the
stealing of letters by persons in the
employ of the payees or remitters.
Whenever loss is reported, whether ac
tual or alleged, a duplicate is drawn
promptly, the issue of which makes
the original void. In the year the
number of duplicates issued was
46.263, being an increase over the pre
ceding rear of 1,008.
A Rea! Sportemaa
\ Columbia gunner went to the farm
or Aaron Herr, ac Cordelia 1» few .lavs
ago, trad tore down a pile of -.«*» rails
hf search of a rabbit. He did not get
the rabbit, neither did he place tli
rails as he found them. Aaron says i
the fellow returns and piles the ra. s
he will treat him to a good country
me* I.— Columbia (Penn.) News.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
While the cotton mills of the South
•re prospering, those of the North
•re doing equally well
A freact geninfl has invented a
,‘ontrivance for Steering airships Hie
great-grandchildren may become rich
from it. The airship itself should be
here by that time.
Goternor Stone of Pennsylvania is
of the opinion* and expresses it frank
ly and openly, that eVery husband
should deed to his wife the home
stead, she being qneen of the homO
and entitled to it.
Philadelphia doctors have given
their services fred itt inspecting
school-children until the valtie of tbs
work can be demonstrated and an ap
propriation be secured for its con
tinuance
Aguinaldo’s mother says he is not
fit to govern the Philippines, A
fellow can’t amount to much whose
mother doesn’t believe he could do
wonders if he only had a chance.
Requirements for pubhc-Hchool
teachers in A abaina are very simple.
Applicants for third-grade certificates,
wiiicli allow the holder to teach for
two Jrvars, arc obliged to be examined
in arithmetic on’y through fractions,
and in geography only through the
primary grade.
The Shamrock cost between four
and five hundred thousand dollars to
build nml the London Yachtsman
now suggests, on the score of tCouomy
that the next challenger le shortened
twenty feet and tho cost reduced to
$50,000.
M ro than 25,000 persons were
killed by wild animals and snakes ill
India during 1808. Nearly a thou
sand dt aths were ascribed to tigtrs,
and a large number to man-eating
wolves. Lord Curzon has directed
that special measures be ta eu to ex
terminate these particular pests.
The Board of Ordnance and Forti
fication of tho War Department has
decided that the utmost care shall be
exercised in having tests carried on
at the proving grounds so that the
character of the projectiles, explo
sives and guns experimented with,
and the results of the tests, will not
be made public.
British cirategy has consisted main
ly in coming on just a 3 their oppo
nents desired. The succession of
disasters, with the heavy losses even
when an advantage has been gained,
will not make the war, or the govern
ment responsible lor bringing it on,
highly popular in England. But, of
course, there can be no question of
the British determination to see the
thing through at any cost.
One great reason for the popularity
of the automobile is that it can be
more readily managed by women than
horse-drawn vehicles. Many women
object to driving horses on account
of their liability to shy or bolt. The
automobile offers marked advantages
in this respect, but no lady should
try running an automobile until she
thoroughly understands the mechau
ism.
There can be even too great gravity
in contemplating entrance to the
marriage state, as illustrated in the
case of that citizen of St. Louis who
the other day became so severely im
pressed with its possibilities that be
fore the arrival of what should have
been the blissful hour he blew the
top of his head off. His act is not
justifiable by any train of philosophic
or economic reasoning, although, in
the words of an esteemed contemp
orary, “marriage undoubtedly is a
problem of gigantic dimensions, and
it is sometimes entered upon without
due reflection.”
Kommerzienrath Loewe, a Berlin
manufacturer', who recently returned
home from attending tbe Commercial
Congress held in connection with the
National Export Exposition in Phil
adelphia, has expressed himself as
greatly surprised at the development
of electrical machinery in the United
States. He says Americans are far
in advance of the Germans in the em
ployment of electricity as a power,
and believes that the increased em
ployment of electricity in industrial
enterprises is an absolute necessity
if Germans are to hold their own in
the world’s markets.
The Italian army is now studying
the advisability of introducing the
automobile. It is considered that it
could be used both for transporting
ammunition from the rear to the fir
ing line and for carrying the wounded
to the nearest hospital. W ith com
paratively free roads a higher velocity
can be maintained with a motor car
riage than with a horse. The roads
in Italy are so perfect that experi
ments in this line should be very in
teresting.
The circulating-library scheme in
connection with the public schools,
which has beeu tried successfully in
several cities, is about to be intro
duced in Pittsburgh. Its aim is to
supplement the school work by di
recting the reading of the children
along the lines of the studies in hand.
Books suitable for each grade are
chosen by a committee of the teachers,
and from the selected list the books
are sent from the public library to
tho school ordering them under the
same conditions that are in force for
general patrons. A valuable feature
of the scheme is that it gives the
teachers some supervision of the read
ing of the children, a matter too often
neglected by parents, and will tend
to cultivate in the children a love of
good literature, while saving for them
the time otherwise wasted in reading
trash.
A remarkable town in many respects
Is Pelzer, in South Carolina. It is a 1
profit-sharing community of about
7.000 inhabitants, built up around
four cotton mills, which employ 3,000
persons. The corporation owning
the mills owns the town also, and will ]
sell no part of the land, leasing it to
preferred persons for limited periods.
Captain John Smith is the head of
the corporation, find consequently
the presiding genius in tbe town.
The town has no mayor, no council,
no police, no courts, and no lawyers.
Captain Smith is all that is necessary.
Liquor may i.otjie sold in the town,
and there is no’ drntJketinese. No
newspaper is published. No one can
be domiciled in the place until hi»
record has been proved satisfactory.
Children are employed in the mills,
but at definite periods they are re
quired to leave their work and attend
school. Pupils that show special
ability are given more extended op
portunities for education, but in no
case do they fail to learn their trade.
Dull indeed is that observ«r of him
self or fellows who has not discovered |
the nv ntal stimulant that comes front j
good, appetl/ing food well served. If
the idea 1 could Obce be driven into
the heart of every home-uh.ksf among
wage earners, we should make long
strides' upward in our civilization.
The dullness, the apathy, the indiff r
enco that is the worst enemy to be
fought in a poor man’s home,. will be
routed wherever the meal-time fo uses
the attention of the housekeeper, and
how aud what is served becomes im
portant to ber. Indifference to food
has a tendency to disintegrate the
social life In the home. Fortunately
it is no longer considered an unusual
thing for aw. man to express a pref
-1 e euce for foods, nor to enjoy good
living, and be able to discriminate as
! to kinds and qualities, nor to be rea
sonably exacting in its service.
In modern times it is tho fl iftces
which give most encouragement to
athletics that are the most aggressive I
and progressive in the struggle for
political and commercial supremacy.
Tho character aud disposition of the
whole Teutonic race is influenced by
the tnrnvereius and the lox’e of gym
nastics which those institutions in
culcate for physical development.
The Anglo-Saxon owes as much of his
success to the upbuilding of the body
in the cricket field, on the yachting
courses, on the grouse moors, the
golf links, the football gridiron and
the tennis lawn as he does to any
, mental training which the best col
leges of his country have given him,
I These outdoor pastimes strengthen
the muscle, expand the lungs, quicken
the sight and develop one s courage.
So satisfactory has been the test
in a portion of Carroll County, Md«,
of the “post-office on wheels” that
the department has decided to ex
tend the system over the whole of
the county. As has been told, the
idea is that of Edwin Sliriver of
Westminster, Md., it being an appli
cation of the railroad post-office sys
tem. One wagon has been running
for some months, and three more
are to be added scon. At certain
points these delivery wagons will be
met by smaller conveyances, which
witl cover the country between the
most divergent points of the four
great arteries of the system. 'Vdhin
the next few weeks sixty-three fourth
class post-offices in the county will
be closed, and twenty-five star-ronte
contracts will be abrogated. Ihe
compensation of these post-masters
amounts to $5,200 per year, and the
star-route contractors received IUU.
Against this aggregate of »10,dUU
saved, the new system, as now organ
ized, will cost $14,500, so that until
more post-offices are abolished and
star-routes wiped out, the service will
cost the government's4,2l’o more than
it is now paying these postmasters
and star-route contractors. But tuere
will be more post-offices closed. J-h®
new service will before the end tbe
1 vear cost far less than is now paid to
postmasters and contractors.
m 2ul<Ja‘t Distarb Them,
To mamma's caution that Bennie
shouldn't beat his new drum while the
I folks were asleep, the little fellow re-
I pHed, “It won't wake them up, main
-1 ma; I’ll do it on tiptoe. "—Judge.
Only fom independent States remain
in Africa. They are Abyssinia, Mo
> rocco. Liberia, ami the Orange Free
■jfttate, _
A flobeazollera Superstition.
Apropos of the superstitions of tha
Hohenzoilerns —supersitions, by the
way, found in all ancient royal fam
ilies, Including our own —the rulers of
that house possess a talisman brought
into it by a good spirit said to guard
its destinies. This is the curious
“black stone,” to which is attached the
following quaint tradition:
Since the time of the Elector John
Cicero, who flourished toward the end
of the fifteenth century, each ruler has
been wont, before his death, to hand
to his successor a sealed packet. This
contains a ring, in which is set a black
stone said to have been dropped by a
huge toad on the coverlet of a prin
cess of the family just as she had
given birth to a son. Frederick the
Great found the ring in a cover, which
also inclosed a memorandum, written
by Frederick I. stating its value and
its mode of transmission. Schneider,
the librarian of William I, declares
that he saw the packet handed by
Ceiling, the treasurer, to his royal mas
ter on his accession, and further as
serts that he read his account of the
talisman to the emperor, who fully
confirmed it.
The present emperor never fails to
wear on all great occasions this queer
old ring, and has. like every Hohen
zollern, the deepest respect for the
quaint little jewel. Frederick the
Great's father had the black stone
mounted on a ring and bequeathed it
to his son, who believed firmly in its
value ns a talisman, and many of the
documents of that time deposited in
the archives at Berlin made allusion to
tt.—Chambers’ Journal.
A Squaw’s Fondness for Petticoats
A few days ago two Portland wo
men at the beach made up a large col
lection of their cast-off apparel and
went to the Indian camp intending to
trade for a lot of baskets. 'lheii
shrewd aboriginal sisters, seeing the
large amount of clothing brought, de
cided that the market w as overstocked
and refused to exchange except on the
most extortionate terms, demanding a
wardrobe for a whole family in ex
change for a very common basket. Con
sequently there was no rush of busi
ness, and the vlstors strolled about. - j
One of them in crossing a wet place
held up her dress, displaying a portion
of a petticoat brilliant with stripes of
scarlet and green. One of the oldest
and ugliest squaws catching a glimpse
of this gorgeous gonfalon at once fell
in love with it and offered to exchange
baskets for it. From the very liberal
offer made.the owner of the petticoat
at once saw that the ancient dame
w’as infatuated with it, and, being
somewhat of a trader herself, refused
to part with the garment till a w’liole
collection of baskets was offered for
it Then she closed the bargain, and,
stepping behind a clump of bushes,
touched tne button and her petticoat
lay on the ground looking like a heap
of rainbows. The women returned to
their cottage well pleased writh their
trade.—Portland Oregonian.
A New Kind of Wafer Marla
Two Englishmen who have recently
secured a method of procuring water
marks by means of electrolysis thus
describe the process:
“In producing a disappearing and
repeatedly revlvable translucent water
mark in or on manufactured paper, we
proceed as follows: Upon a platinum
sheet or plate forming the positive
conducting surface we place a layer of
absorbent material, such as blotting
paper, previously moistened with wa
ter. On this material we place the pa
per having been previously moistened
through with water. We then press,
face downward, on the paper a plati
num design of the water mark, and
this design forms the negative elec
trode. We keep this negative electrode
in contact with the paper for from
five to ten seconds, according to the
nature of the paper and the amount
of electric current used. The result
on removal of the electrode is a dis
tinct and translucent image of the de
sign, which gradually fades as the pa
per dries, and finally becomes invisi
ble. The mark, however, can be re
vived and made visible as often as the
paper is immersed in water or moist
ened in any other way.’’-Paper Mill.
Diving for Firewood.
Boys whose most distasteful task is
to keep the wood box filled, or who are
expected to split the kindling wood
every uigtlt, would undoubtedly enjoy
living at Hawaii. Firewood there is
not only very scarce, but they get it
out of the water, another feature of
the matter which should probably ap
peal to such of the boys as delight in
“goin’ swimmin’.”
Upon the shores of Hawaii firewood
is a scarce and precious commodity.
The present forests do not grow near
the sea, and the labor of bringing wood
from the distant timber is great, es
pecially as roads are few. Practically
all the firewood of tae natives, and
much that is used by the Europeans,
in the towns, is drift that is brought
down periodically from the uplands
by freshets that folow heavy raius.—
Youth’s Companion.
Tight clothes and indigestion cause
rrd noses.
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