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VOL. IX,. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1899. NO. 27. * .......m n ..I .... i . I LOVes' WAY. not o Where Love builds his nest, deer. had i Wherr-hls steps incline, Now 3tosy east or west, dear, frien That sweet way be thine. drea That sweet way, fIoti Where dwells the May- ,d t That sweet way be thine. sP Where Love reaps the blooms, dear Where his bright stars shine, C Sheltered from the glooms there, and That sweet way be thine. but That sweet way, Until God's day- That sweet way be thine. a m And still for thee, the light, dear, ing I Though never light be mine; whic And thank God for the night, deag If morning's rose be thine. And Love's der way, a Until God's ay- he a Ant Love's dsr way be thino. -Prank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constituto. cilia MY OWN DECEASE, it' 01 LTHOUGH nndoubt- may edly I had been very -iorn ill, I am by no means in i certain of my fact. at And about this-time; so had whethet I was the entil ,Jfritim of a lively im- too I agination, or of a Ti hypnotic trance, I legs really cannot say. Bnt Any way, one morning I I seemed to be oon- mad i scions that I was talk- bod, ing with a demon, at o who sat by my bedside. He was a very codi pleasant sort of fellow and not bad time looking, bat somehow I knew he was a was demon. that "Would you like to hear what they dem are saying about you and go to your idio own'funeral?" he asked pleasantly. rout "People generally do attend that he ceremony perasnally," I suggested; moe then after a moment's relection, I was asked, "Am I dead, then?" tare "Of eours, Did you not know it?" M "If I did it must have escaped my amit memory," I replied imperturably. oire "Well, you are dead, but I will give this you the remarkable power of going Bioi among your family, in the spirit and my invisible to them." "That's very kind of you, but I've lool heard yoq people seldom perform ser- "wl vices for nothing. What recompense " do you require?" rem "None. The penalty you will pay this will be aui lent reward to me." his "What penalty?" con "To se yourself as others see you, shi hear *hat they say of you." "wl SMy friend then dematerialized him- a oi self into thin sir, and the next mo- bro meat I was gliding noiselessly down her, the stairs. spo I should explain to you that I am C an orphan, without parents, but a con member of a large family; sisters, too brothers, - 1t all-Th rest of st it. to have more money At] --.__- he iy of the others, snd have do; hitherto been much sought after on and aecoaut of many excellent personal mu / qulties. I am not married. Well, I the ot is, I am of a rather retiring Mir daition, and not having yet come tar eer n agir who would help me out hen with the preliminaries, I had not ant Ioma corage to take the fatal plunge. cam jEoeldest sister, Priscilla, had there- so for been keeptng house for me. pat easufy passed through the closed me patte door without opening it, which wh was ey eenvenient, and found my- it eelf, ; nseta by them, in the midst of ter seltives from different parts of the eel uaMtry. They were waiting break that for some important person who ni led not yet made his appearance. I gil was tooifiB noubi t-it might ey be ys.leand sitdown to my ,p at the foot of the table; ro m. of coarse, no ohs saw me. I had be * gtte for th moment that I wasa wc demaislied spiriL Soon, how- on ever, the door opened, and the im- wl portant individual entered the art- pa - eat. It was my eldest brother Tom. wa Now I began to understand. He wsas my exeautor and residuary legatee. as He represented me, the late Orawley gi Blowqutoksr, Esq., deoeased, hence all the ooart and deference paid to se him. Thus was absurd, you know, for Sc a blger fool never lived. Well, he -made straight for my ie sbir, end sat down where I w-a sit* tiagi This was stepping into my oi sbcs with a vengeanee-actually 1 a ing the same place occupied by A smy ambodied spirit. Tom was sa Sbulkyt fellow, rand I felt the affron. a Besides, wishbing better to watch the f1 edooedinage, I got up quiekly and satb Tw things epeoialy attracted my v tnon, sad soaewhat shocked mse a In the Brat place, Priscilla's presiding I seemed mues more lviseh than uander I my regime, sad in the second I was strok by the happines and gsyety of ' the whole company. This was eloo.a lat to skO my fatity down a few "pegs; for I had fondly imagined that I my death would plunge my entire 5 family in the uttermost depths of de- I sair. Bat it hadn't I "Iq never lke going into blsak," Priseillht was aying in her even tones i to Aunt Gwen; "it's so very n- I Sdon't mind the change at all," I - m&d Aunt Gwen; "the color jast suits me, Pu know. But I really Oa't tell whaet orders to give, not knowing bow I am provided for." "That's as good as asking," uMid Tom, with one of his horrible Ilaghs, which I used to ooesider o hearty. "A l'od'sp good s a wink to a blind horse I the reguar thing in - to reed the wii laterh fat ; but as it's all aeois oaUelveeit does not shatter, sad I'lt read itto all diretly after breakfast." Then they started talking about their late relation, Orawleyslowquick" er, and the things I heard about my esif positively astonished me. They were all sadly defoient in the ampn of zeverence, and I feoand that not one of them entertained that re- began spect and affection for me of which I Glade had imagined they were all possessed. that Now I fully realized the truth of my my w friend, the demon's, words. It was a "G dreadful penalty to pay, a sad morti. dead, floction to hear what they said of me, the ic ,mad to see myself as others saw me. red h "Well, of course," my cousin Ver- The non said, responding to some remark I lool in a virtuously deprecatory tone. "Of ered i course, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, "E and all that sort of thing, you know, A fi but I can't help saying that Crawley upon was always mean-horribly mean!", and Confound the fellowl Andthis was I a a man to whom I had left £500, forgiv- met 1 ing him all the money he owed me, asked which was as good as doubling the leg- now, soy I him "No, no ; not mean," Tom answered, him a and I blessed him for those words, but my w he spoiled it all by adding, "A bit away careful, you know." little "Ab, I should think so," sayr Pris- remo cilla. "You will hardly believe it, but oh! a it's a fact he never allowed me money her t enough to keep house decently." all a Of course, this was not true, as you I b may imagine. She was always wanting verac more money, and yet never succeeded wont in purchasing anything remarkable. expel And this was my sister Pris, whom I age t had always thought so affectionate, so Spari entirely devoted to me. Oh, it was too horrible. These three were my principal go legatees. If I lhad only known sooner are i But how was that possible? onitu I knew what I would do. I had such made up my mind-and having no "vela body, I was all mind now-I would go "gra at once to my solicitor's, and have a recol codicil drawn up while there was yet thele time. But stay, there was no time; it that was too late. I had quite forgotten apar, that I was onlyy poor ghost, a best dematerialised spidt, and that old idiot, Sharpitlaw, was so wedded to pays routine and old-fashioned custom that bleat he would certainly regard a posthu- look mous testament as informal, and as I of lii was invisible he would treat my signa- juri ture as null anrd decidedly void. strei When next I turned toward my pieos amiable and disinterested family on circle, I perceived that the breakfast inde things had been removed, and Tom neve Siowquioker sat in the armchair with sand my will spread out before him. then "There's someone missing," he said, Ti looking around him magisterially; boat "who is it?" scul "Only my sister Minnie," Venon bow remarked easually. "I went to her it at this morning, but she's so upset about is r his death that she feels quite ill, and whii could not come down to breakfast." a g "Don't be absurd," said Priscilla; ao "why she never gave him so much as sin a civil word." Then, sotto vooe to her wisi brother: "And that's what has upset a a her, I expect. She is afraid she has Med spoiled her chances of a legacy." usni Oh, that spiteful Priscilla! If I nak a could only alter my will I But it was T too late, for here was my executor wat. f standing, or rather sitting in my place. from SAt least thLre was one thing I could the e do; I would find my friend the demon, a and see if arrangements could not be ,I made for haunting them I I, But these precious words about A g Minnie had sent balm into my tor- Oise e tared spirit, so that my incorporate tha ,t heart throbbed, shaking the venetians, eli rt and Tom asked where the draught strn . came from. I would go to her at once, '1 . so I traversed the closed door again, reg passing them all as the sigh of a sum- cul d mer breeze, which is we know not fine h what, or whence it comes, or whither bee F- it goes-a breath from-well, no mat- sta f tar where; I don't exactly know my- dad e self. ant .- Thus I went upstairs and into Min- ext 1o nie's room, where I found the poor no, I girl still in bed, her cheeks pale, her at eyes red with weeping, all the signs vit g pon her of a sleepless uight of sor- bic e; row, and pressed close to her soft sm d bosom she held a likeness of my un- fox i worthy self, which I had given her Ba r- once long ago. And this was the girl g' D- who never spoke save to ridicule ad ea t- poke fun at me, whose dislike for me an a. was almost proverbial in the family; the s and yet the girl whose love-with fe e. ausual human perversity--I wouldhave as y given all the world to win. of e Ah, this knowledge of her heart's mi to secret was sweet to me l It gave me h or courage. I would comfort her. I fe would pour forth my love. I would ha ny tell her-stay ! what could I tell her? th it. Was I not forgetting again that I was my only a poor ghost-merely the shadow hr lly of a shade? Was I not unseen by her? at by And even were it possible for me to as a make myself risible for a few mo-lh at ments, I should only succeed in terri- It he fying my poor love out of her enses. m t Alas! was this the realisation of a gi hereafter? the punishment of early my vanifles and sins? To see things 3ust e. as they are, and yet to be so miserably ug impotent to alter them; to see, too, b dhr what might have been, and to beat out ras my weareyspirit on into eternity in l of vain longing for a fruition that ean ea. never come. h w My funeral was appointed to take pat place the next day. It was a very grand O tire afaI r altogether, and eake and tea had de- been laid in the parlor to entertain the guests upon this festive oooasion. k," As I accoompanied the mourners nes down the steps, I suddenly perceived un- my triend the demon by my side. Vainly I sought a ooach, but could 11," nd no room, I turned to him some its what angri'y and remarked : t tell"I say, you promised I should go to bow my own fateral, but 1 don't seem to ave been considered in the arrange id meant at all" gb "You forget that" eorporeally you t. old the place of honor at the head of had the proeasson but in the spirit you g is ea get in here. 'heres only the a u doctor sad the elergyman." I not "Bretween the doctor and the par lty soln R eslly my dear demon, you are resmarkable for a most sardqpie Well, he men of medicine pd re mg 1 talked polities all the wa.wiab I theight inappropriate but asthey the were both cosrvatitus they did not tha.s lCsgqp rs al flrmya s began vociferonusly expounding Mr. T Gladstone's policy, quite oblivious that my gesticulations were unseen, TSB my words unheard by them. "Good job for yourself you are dead," said the demon. "You're just the sort to get into a jolly ,row with Desi red hot politicians I" The cemetery was soan reached, and I looked down and saw my coffin low ered into the open grave. "Earth to earth-" A few lumps were thrown, and fell upon the lid with a grewsome rattle, Or. and-" bear I awoke with a start, and my eyes get. met those of my brother Tom, who T. asked cheerily, "Well, how do you do Rive now, old fellow ?" But I turned from big him-for I could not help thinking of poit him as I had seen him last, reading timl my will down in the parlor-turned derj away and encounteoed my darling utat little Minnie, who sat unobserved in a that remote corner of the room, and I felt, for. oh! so grateful and happy at seeing It her there. I felt then that it was not enoi all a dream. ter I have used feigned names in this the; veracious tale, because I think she deer would not like to know the strange witl experience which led me to take coar- dee age to woo, and by and by, wed her.- som Spare Moments. slai can Facts About Sponges. thri Some of the finest kinds of sponges Hol are found in Florida waters, and the casi cunitarist would find profit in raising stit such species as the "sheep wool," the and "velvet," the "hard head" and the siot "grass" sponge. Some of the kinds wer recognized as quite distinct are,neover- pat theless, so much alike in appearance bal that only an expert can tell them die apart. The sheep's wool sponges are bee best of all for the bath. I It is a fact werth knowing that it the pays very much better to buy un- one bleaohed sponges. The bleached ones rig look much prettier, but the chloride rib of lime employed in the process in- tra juries the skeleton, and lessens its sai strength so that it soon comes to ten pieces. When you find sand in a wit sponge, you may know that you are eve indebted to trade- dishonesty. Sponges Bo never grow on a sandy bottom. The wh sand is added in the bales to make em them weigh more. The sponges are gathered by small the boats. In each boat are two men; one co, sculls, while the other leans over the me bow. When he seesa sponge, he spears tlu it and drags it aboard. If the water fez is rough, he uses a "water glass," any whieh is simply an ordinary pail with thi a glass bottom. The pail is hung Sh around the neck of the fisherman, who aw sinks it below the surface when he rip wishes to see. In this way he can get he a perfect view of the bottom. In the He sMediterranean sponges are collected ril usually by dredges, but sometimes by br naked divers. hii The sponges of commaerce are warm br rwater animals. They come chiefly til from the Mediterranean, .the Red Se, ur the Bahamas, and Florida. sit e The Stair Care low. in t A new form of regular daily exer- bl cise that is being prescribed by more in e than one London physician. is stair th 1, climbing. It is recommended for H t strengthening the heart. b This can only be done by taking , regular, systematic and sufficient mus c- ular exercise. Let a person who t finds his pulse increased fifty to sixty c ,r beats in a minute after mounting a t! t- staircase, climb a hundred staircases F. day after day for a month or more, and, it is said, he will And that the a. exertion does not add ten beats to the r normal number of his heart throbs. er The exercise has acted upon this as vital organ just as it does on the r- biceps of a prisefighter or a black it smith, and strength and the capacity n- for endurance have been the result. er But this is not all the good to be 4 gained by climbing a hundred stair ad oases a day, say fifty in the morning ne and fity in the afternoon. Doubtless ; the person with a weak heart has suf th fered more or less from what is called e nervous dyspepsia. His food, instead of being properly digested, has been 's mainly fermented in his stomaoh, and I e has caused him various uncomfortable I feelings, which he has been in the Id habit of attributing to everything but r? their proper cause. as It is claimed that not only have the w hundred minutes so spent in climbing 1 r? staircases put strength into bis legs, to expanded his sheet, and saved his o- heart from fatty degeneration, but ri- that they have given tone to his abdo s. minal muscles and to his digestive or a ga-s.-New York Journal. Ty I ust Freaks for the Paris Nxposition. bly The treak exhibitors are just now 0, besieging the managers of the coming Paris Exposition for space to exhibit in their wonders. One man has a pair can of hairless horses, eacoh of which has a horn in its forehead and skin of the ae color of a ripe banana. Another wants d to exhibit a woman.who has two faoes and three tongues, but who is per he feotly dumb. Another writes for space in which to exhibit a winged is sheep, which only has two legs, and a Shorse which has eight perfect hoo! ide. in his four legs. An Austrian want uld to send a hen that always walks back me- ward, and an Italian banker thinks that he onght to have room enough in to which to exhibit a pure white Shet land pony eighteen inches high and ge- '"shod all around with gold."--t. ou Louis BRepublio. " o A Balmele Semambalht. the "La onnambula" up to date was seen at Bath Beach, N. Y., Sunday par- morning, when a young lady, beauti are fnlm, of couarse, was daicovered riding a Iie bleyeole, and yet sound asleep. This particular younag lady was rudely Sr- awakened by her bike striking a stone. [When .she realized her situation she they showed herself a perfect lady by im I nt mediately fainting .away.--o ton ansda Eremipt ITHE FIELD OF ADVENTURE' h THEILLING INCIDENTS AND DA*- slip, ING DEEDS ON LAND AND 82A. alte fros Desperate Battle Between Hanters dow and Bears-immersed in a Sea of a to Fire-A Frightful Slide. una RANK AND ENOS CLARK, edgK of Olympia, Wash., their the cousin, Henry Walker, and $no Elsen Hoffman, of Astoria, he Or., had a fight with two large brown rool bears which they are not likely to for- de get. They went down the Columbia coU River and put in a few days shooting deal big game. For miles back of Oak Vile Point the country is pretty densely *' timbered with a somewhat heavy un- one dergrowth. That section has the rep- BAT" utation of abounding with deer, and reti that is all the sportsmen were looking eno for. the In the forenoon they were fortunate Orn enough to bring a buck to grass. Af. ons ter cleaning and skinning the game wot they left and went in pursuit of more ney deer. After hunting a couple of hours A without getting another glimpse of a Dr. deer, Henry Walker remarked that an i some one had better look after the sbo slain animal to guard against its being wit carried off by a bear, as brain also the thrives down there. Enos Clark and w' Hoffman volunteered to see to the car- and case, but it had disappeared. They in- mis stitnted a search in the underbrush inie and found their venison in the posses- rea sion of two cinnamon cubs, which nt were feasting upon 'it. Clark dis- hat patched one of the cubs with a rifle W bail in its head. The report had not Pm died away when two hage cinnamon sin bears rushed upon them. wa Hoffman, whose back was, turned to Ont I the brutes, was knocked down with one stroke of a paw, landing on his right side and fracturing four of his ribs. The brute turned from the pros- the trate man, who was rendered uncon- tio scions, and the two bears centered at- Ste tention upon Claik, who, being armed vii with a magazine rifle, shot the animals Sn every time he had a chance to shoot. dit Both were wounded in several places rit when Mr. Clark's magazine gun was Ms empty. Sn Young Clark's rapid firinaattracted mi i the attention of his brother and his cousin. They reached Enos not a mo- fo ment too soon. At the same instant iii s that Frank and Henry appeared the pr r female bear had caught up with Enos fo' and, rising upon her haunches, she tel h threw her whole weight upon him. hi g She was on the fallen man, chewing sti o away on the clothing covering his es e right shoulder. While Frank was be .t keeping the huge male bear at bay m e Henry, in rapid succession, sent two d rifle balls through the head of the bi y brute covering his cousin, thus saving ti his life. Enor, however, suffered a lo m broken collar bone and tha loss of the m ly tip of his nose, which greatly disfig- c , ures him. Meanwhile Frank also had the left tl side of his face crushed and his right nt arm broken by a stroke of the remain- v: ing bear's paw and his fall from the e r- blow. At this stage of the proceed- d re ing bruin was frightened away from i ir the scene by the two volleys from e or Henry's rifle and disappeared in the a brush.--San Francisco Chronicle. ig -e La- Immersed in a Sea of Fire. t it One of the strangest accidents that t t could happen a gasoline launch caused f the wreck of the launch Henrietta at c e an Francisco. I e Her owners, Frank Darling, Charlet c he Darling and John Durney, had just t secured a contract with a grocery firm land a laundry company to do their shipping, and Frank Darling rowed f n out to the launch where she lay off 'k- 'ong Brdge to see that she was in S!good order. He made fast his boat .and stepped below, but as he opened be the cabin door there came an explo sion that blew him backward into the Swwater and wrecked the launch. as Darling, though badly .shaken up le by the explosion, rose to the surface ad almost immediately, only to find that :the suenrface of the water had been cor ered with burning gasoline, and that i he was swimming about in the midst ble of it. He dove at once and swam an h der water for some distance, but he at had to come to the surface twie be tfore he got oatside the cirole of flarm the ing oil. Then a boat, whtch attracted ig by the explosion had put off from Sshore, picked him up. h bI In the meantime the launch had bdt been burning merrily and to save her the resoning boat came alongside and or- knocked a hole in her. t The explosion without doubt was caused by the gasoline tank. It was situated in the bow of the boat and icy had been filled only the day before. It ing is supposed that some leek allowed the ibit oil to escape, and this, generating gas pair in the cabin, caused an explosion as a when the door was opened. Or it may the be, the sun shining through the cabin nts windows had heated the pgas, generat aes ed to such a degree that it was explod Pr. edi just in timeto eatch the boatman as for he opened the door. ged The cabin was blown to atoms and ad a the lannch was set on Ar. The oil .oo from the tank had beqn scattered an' through a radias of twenty feet and ack- being slowly borne by the tide toward inks some valuable yachts lying near by, h in the little patches of greasy fluaid blas het- ing merrily as they danced along. The and yachts were quickly moved out of -St. harm's way, however, and the famingn oil baurned harmlessly antil it went A Boy's Frightful Slide. Ir Orum, a Western boy, has just da had a terrible experience that nearly nt resulted in his death. With a party Tis of men and women, the boy was climb T ing Mount Lsusen, a steep ad dan. dly gerous mountain in Oalifornia. They ,she had got to the top in safety when a rim- memuer of the party lost his hat, the it.nd carrying it aloga on the snow to ji the edge the muntna'I. Young Ift thought he could get the hat, sad started out. The snow on such a high monatain is deep and very a slippery, and Ira had searcely started after the hat before his feet slipped sam from under him, and away he sent It down the mountain with the speed of to re a toboggap slide. Op he went, quite selve unable to stop himself, to the very K edge of a deep preeoipie, when he had lects the good fortune to get struck in the pers snow. Had he gone six feet further it he would have fallen 2000 teet on the Ties rooks below, to meet with a terrible clih death. His friends on top of the mountain could see him clinging to the snow for ignc dear life. His two sisters, Alice and talk Vila Cram, were in the party and were w terribly frightened. His friends at that once began thinking of some way to it is save him. At first they thought of N returning to camp for a rope long wit] enough to reach down from the top of han the mountan, but it was feared that bitt Orum could not hold on in his peril- A ous position for the length of time it will would take to make such a long jour- fort ney.At last E. B. Collins, of Chico, and Dr. DeBaven, of Red Bluff, conceived who an idea. This was to take a couple of of short sticks, and by starting on a level sele with the clinging boy, dig a trail along the banks .if the preciplce to where he was. This was an exceedingly slow im1 and dangerous undertaking, as one we misstep would have hurled them to bei instant death. When the rescuers reached Cram they found him nearly the unconscious from the cold and his nea hands and feet were nearly frozen. Ira an was finally released from his perilous rT position, but Collins and the doctor tri almost had to carry him out, so badly ap was he used up by his rough experi once. A Fight With a Fish. The 110-pound blue channel catfish oc that has been one of the many attrao- sta Lions in the fisheries building of the Un State fair was removed against his vigorous protest to the hatcheries a Sunday afternoon, and John Mere- em dith, of the hatchery, has three broken St ribs, State Fish Commissioner Lew of May carries several bruises, and sic Superintendent O'Brien a study in Ole moonlight coloring under his left eye. no The ponderous fish has been con- io fined in a narrow tank at the exhibit. fo He is a wicked fellow, and this is fop pretty well known, so a cloth was pe folded about his head before an at- ea terdpt was made to remove him from en his tank. In lifting him out he to struggled loose, and then began as e exciting a three-round fight as has of s been seen hereabouts for many ao months. fo The fisheries men labored with the in Sbig fish and the big fish labored with Sthe fisheries men, and for a while it p looked so though the reserves of the bE e metropolitan police would have to be m called out to quell the disturbance. w, The men and the fish rolled over on ti t the floor, and every now and then the 14 It monster would swing his tail with the be t- viciousness of Corbett's right. When- 11 i ever he "landed" one of the men went w I. down. He used his month, too, and eI n Mr. May says that it looked like the 1I a entrance to the Sub-Treasury vaults, i ie so large was it. P Meredith, during the melee, was b struck by the tail and crushed against p the side of the building, breaking e t three ribs, and was removed to town C id for medical attention. O'Brien got' t at corner of the tail in the face that gave 4 him a souvenir decoration, while the others were more or lees bruised in b at the struggle. a The fish was finally conquered and ,r rolled into his tank and sent to the Ad fisheries. The blue in the building )g caused by the exolamations of the in gentlemen will have faded into the at world in the course of a couple of 1 ad days. This is the first time that the -. fish has ever given any serious trouble, 'J ahe lthough he is always more or less c difficult to handle.--O.aba World- I Herald. - st Two Brothers Uniled. 1 8. J. Elsey, a veteran of the Moexian at and Civil Ware, who for the past de* lt cads has lived at the Soldiers' Home n. in Leavenworth, Kan., and for the he best part of a lifetime has believed e- himself alone in the world, was re - oiced the other day when a brother ed who be thought had been killed in m the war found him and offered him a home. He and his father and two ad brothershad entered the Mexican War. terHe had helped to bury the father and ad one brother after a battle and he had beoard that the other brother also was ,, killed. After the Civil War he lived ns only for himself and brought up at the ld ~oldiers' Home; but the brother, who It had not been killed, married, toiled, he and prospered at Billiard Station; as Ohio, and at last came to Leaven ion worth.-New York Sun. rat- A dog who has eaten up a farm and od- a set of buildings has been found in as Eastern Maine. This dog killed a neighbor's sheep. The neighbor of nd fered to call it square if the dog was oil klled. The dog's master refused to red agree to this, and a lawsuit came next. ad To pay the costs and damages assessed ard by the Oourt the owner of the dog had by, to mortgage his farm for $100. The aa- mortgage had a bigger appetite than The the dog, and soon his farm was gone of and the owner had to move away. The lng dog is now dead. ine Wire. The finaest wire in the country is made at Tanton, Ma. This metal out obweb of minaute diameter is exactly rly 1-5000 part of an inch in thickness- rty much finer than human hair.. Ordi mb- nary wire, even though of smtall di. Ian. ameter, is .drawn through bolesia hey steel plates, but on secoant of the a n awear such plates eaneso e uned in the making the hair wire. ThePTsanton w to faetory oses drilled diam adB fm the dye platee.-Indtrial Weald. wai won%4 FLi Our friends may overlook our faults, but they see them just the H mama - It adds greatly to our comfort not to reve ahat has ' we make of our- o selves. Keep your eye on the. man who se lects his friends before he forms their personal acquaintance. It is when a man has plenty of wor Ties of his own that he is most in clined to borrow trouble. The last infirmity of noble minds is the ignorance of the difference between mile talking much and saying much. ten When a woman becomes so sick Fre that she doesn't care how she looks, It it is high time to sendifor a doctor. depi We are all likely to have sympathy orig with the under dog, but we keep our hist hands in our pockets so they won't be fal bitten. in t Amateur theatrical performanoes As I will never be popular so long as per-. U. formers insist upon having audienoes was attend them. pall There are lots of people even now, 'dc who would not object to the burning e of witches if they were allowed to taih select the witches. goo Very often when we think we are tnta impressing people with our smartness, kin we are only making a reputation for e being disagreeable. a9 The needle is true to the pole; but and that is only natural. That which has getl never been reached is always apt to be the an object of desire. tha The reputation of many men for the truthfulness is due to their lack of inr Mes a3ination.--Truth. Bar tisi Hazardous Employment. up A general impression prevails that sit mining is the most hazardous of all trio occunpations, but an examination of of i statistics relating to the matter in tle tw United States shows that railroading in is in reality three times as dangerousm as coal mining. The number of people employed by railroads in the United use States in 1895, aooording to the report a 1 of the Interstate Commerce Commis- th sion, was 785,083, including otBcials, clerks, telegraph operators. Of this number 1811 were killed and 25,696 me injured during the year. It, therefore, l follows that one employs was killed for each 488 employed, and one em ploye injured for overy thirty-one fr .employed. If only the men aetually bis employed on the trains be considered, known as the train hands, including engineers. conductors brakemen and on others, which are comparable with the actual miner, one employe was killed ag for each 165 in the servioe, and one injured for each eleven in the service. For purposes of comparison the Pennsylvania anthraoite -regions may be taken, as they are admittedly the Ni ) most dangerous mining districts in the world., The mine sinspectors' statisa tics of Pennsylvania for 1895 report a 148,610 employes. The fatalities num Sbeored 422, and the number injured 1120. These figures show that there was one person killed for every 840 employed, and one injured for every e 128 employee. In the bituminous e " fields of this State there were 8!,904 persons employed. The fatalities num s ber 155 and the injured 419, or one person killed for each 548 employee, g and one injured for each 208 employee. n Combining these figureset will be aen a that one miner lost his life for ash e 410 employed, and one person was in 0 jured for each 148. These ratios, as n before stated, show that railroadngis almost three times e dangetous as coal mining.--The Colliary4; to ILePockets That Leck. a e A Ohioago firm of wholesale eloth- n of ers has invented a looked pooket, to o se be put in trousers, costs and vests. 5, The fad has captured male weern of b as oclothes and bids fair to beuae l' b ii lar. It is an attahonret b7 whisk t lpokets oan be looked, ad any at tempt to go through them wilt be foredoomed to failure. The moa fae- as on turers say that they will prevent i pocket picking, sad that their waiver s sal use will force every oriminal who 4 be prractices the art to turn his attention ed to some other line of business. s e- There are no looks on the looke 1 er pooket, or, at all events, What aaght in be called a look is keyless. They wtrk I a with a spring by a combination which I so is secret to all but the wearer 11 I r. looks with keys are desired they ean adbe employed, but the danger in snoh ad an event woeld be that the key as might be looked in the pokett a ad I ed man would have to go to a leehamitb he if he wanted ar fare.-O-hicagoTimea - ho erald. Cool Water. n- The Mezieans do not use hee, but, nevertheless, there no other eonutry in the world Mhan Melo.o wheresamn can get a sweet sad at the sasme time od oool glamss of water. The water jrs in are made of porous pottery, whisfh a allows the water to ooe through the of- material of the tanks, and the evaper ra ation keeps it always eold. to It is not cold le isd water, bot it zt. is all the better on that aeoost, sea ed man aosn drink twie as msh sand sa never feel in the leat injured, no mat lha ter how large his draughts an Australian rneohmen frequently pat ne water into skin bottle, whieh they he suspend from the wranda, and the air swayinag the skips bukwalr d r ward cools the water and red s it more palatable.--New York J~oarna 7s I Iem eeamete. y The ratesble vilue of Loado , ha inerssead daing the lt Lve yeS I di- two and three-quarte milMie4 dL. ing a total of nearly P80, sa While the rate remains theo ~a t the London County Couneo ll WI.+ , Sin 900 more than last year, e e - .o SOhEool Bor $00,000, the ps Sqa tSOO,000 and the water .omoeahas FLEET-WINGED CARRIERS. PIGEONS THAT ARE TRAINED TO CARRY WAR DISPATCHES. How the Birds Are Taught-M-lystery of Their Unerring llight-A Quick Trip From Chicago to New York. XPERIMENTS were tried by a signal corps at the recent State encampment in Michi gan bysending carrier pigeons to Detroit with dispatches. In she four or five trials the birds brought the messages a distance of forty-two miles in the average of an hour and ten minutes, according to the Detroit Free Press. It might seem to some to be a new departure in military work, but its origin is buried beyond the records of history. For centuries back the peace ful dove has played an important part in the wars and politics of the world. As long ago as the reign of Rameses III., King of Egypt, the carrier pigeon was used in conveying important dis. patches from one point to another. It is even thought by some that Noah's "dove," which flew all day over the cheerless waters, was a carrier. Cer tain it is that the Egyptians made good use of this method of conveying intelligence from remote parts of the kingdom. Frequent allusions to the carrier are made by the classio writers of Greece and Rome. A Roman of means, in gbing to the market place, took one of these birds with him in a basket, so that he might send home the names of the guests whom he invited to dinner. Messages were sent'in this way to the Saracens in their wars with the Chris tians. Communication was thus kept up between the people in besieged eities and allies without. In China, Turkey, and, in fact, al-.Eastern coun tries, the use of the carrier is still one of the customs. During the ware be tween France and Germany this was, in many cases, the only means of com munication. In the siege of Paris, it is said that 25,000 of the birds were used. The Germans employed hawks, as the Saracens had falcons, to destroy them. Now, however, it is more for amuse ment than as a means of useful com munication that the carrier pigeon is cultivated. In Belgium, pigeon flying is one of the greatest of the National amusements. Races are held, at whichs from ten to twenty thousand of the birds are liberated, and great crowds of people assemble to see them start on their journey. The course is from fifty to 500 miles, acording to the age of the bird the distanee is sometimes cove! o remarkably fast time. Very few peosons know that there is, in this country, a National associa y tion, or league, of homing clubs. Nearly overy large city, from New York to San Franeisno,hasone or more elubs that have for their object the raising ard msthang of fast birds. It is a wondertul power that the car .rier has, of finding its home, though separated frotit by hundreds of miles of saukowa country, Some have. ealed it instinct, sad others may that it is -a matter of sight and memory. It aseemas to be both. ertain it is, at Sspy rate, that the carrier is very in teliant, and bas a goodd memory and s rtpughab aower of sight On the on: o head, it san We, ~t the amS . distadce of seventy-flvs mries if ts Sexalted peeiti midair, while 200 as miles ef eou herto umseen by the bird, is o given toat for a coarse. W The edueation of the earrier is be gun when it is four months old. It is frst taken u'st outside the loft and allowed to make its way back to its h. nest. It is then taken a distance of to one or two blooas away and.again lib s, erated. It often happens that the of bird will take a long time to fnd its a. home on this trial, but on the next at h the same distanse it will nrise a little 4. way in the air and then dart straight be for ths net. The distanoe is gradu o. aIly inereased until the bird can find mt itp way home from two or three miles er- away. Then begins a regular scale of ho Lights until 500 miles is reaohed. o The carrier's light is very swift,the average being over forty miles an re boar. Several birds in this city have h flown 300 miles at the rate of over rk sixty mile an boar, and there are ieh wll-authenticated oeases in which a I1 speed of ninety miles an hour hasbeen ea attained. This, however, is with the ob help of a good breese. As night comes y on the pigeon resrts on some tree or in a some plowed furrow, bat at the 4awm ith it is away again on its swift career. as. It sometimes happens that a pigeon misses the right direetion in its flighi. When it finads this to be the ese in atead of fying around until it sees at, something familiar, the carrier goes Sdirectly back o the starting point a d tries again. me The carrier is not food of tlying asn over water, perhaps because the are 1 no guide marbks and no resting pltses. SA large number of New York homing Spigeons were liberated at the World's pair. All but one soared around for s it awhilo and then started down Lake a Michigan, following the shore, The Sone exception flew to the top of oneol Sthe high buildings, where it sat for fully ten minutes and then shot oil eastward, directly across the lake, This bird made the fight to New York air athirty-six honrs. Very often the Spipos lose their way and aver reach The faeiers are deairqs of r gettin rid of these buadr, elite their Sight is not strong or their in agst weak. Only the swift, irens Pld s J, An g the ates eare s tad b ei deein, them. Teelols," sIa the school g ~lgl, "you have a p es of in yur dask. BrinS it s saage, aa' this I tgfarae.''.m.-Mlrsr's Betsr.