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I SAVED BY A BOY. t S T sunset on Hue spring even- tug, there was great stir and ' bustle la a quiet little upland vil la go of the Tyrol, the south western most province of Austria. War bad broken out between Austria sud Frauee, ud the French were ad vancing with a large army toward the Austrian border; o that the Tyrolese hill, which lay nearest to them would be likely to feel the that aweep of their fury. Great was the excitement, and varied were the reports that Bow about. Some said the Invaders were comlug from the south, on the aide of Italy; other were equally aure that they were coming from the north, on the side of Germany, But, anyhow, It was certain that they were coming and that whea they came they would burn every house and kill very wan that fell In their way. But the brave Uermau mountaineers were not the men to be seared by any daugor, however sudden aud terrible. The head man or the village, liana Godrel, was himself an old aoldler, aud needed no one to teach htm what to do wheu an enemy was coming. He at ouce aet ever,vldy to work, building barricades of relied trees, lay ing huge stones along the hillside to roll down upou the assailants, aud posting his best marksmen tu the thicket on either aide of the road by which the French must come; and be was especially care ful to stock with fresh wood the beacon on the hilltop that overhung the vil lage, aud to station a trusty man beside It, with orders to light the stgualtlre the moment he caught sight of the ad vancing enemy. This was a fine time for the village boys, and, above all, for little Gott fried Godrel. Han's son, who now saw for the first time (he stir and excite- "OSS VOHS BTtTRDV BLOW AND TflB BBOKBX axiom rsu viiusosatsa and osasuis IT TUB AST." mcnt of war, which he bad hitherto known only from his father's stories. AH duy long he aud his comrades paraded the little village with toy Hags fastened to sticks, or went Into the piue woods to play at fighting the French, lying in wa.t behind the trees like rifle meu. and then suddeuly bursting forth upon their Imaginable enemies with a tremendous "Uelsa!" (hurrah). But as day passed after day, and nothing was seen or heard of the Freuch, the mountain men began to relax their watchfulness, and to grum ble at having to ataud on guard all day, looking out for an euemy that never :auie. when they wanted to be going n with their work aud earning money. Due man wished to attend to his goats, mother to cut his wood, a third to get ready bis butter and cheese for the oext market. Poor Hans Godrel had bard work to xeep his recruits together, and, In fact, But for the fear of being laughed at ind called cowards, they would prob ibiy have all gone off In a body. The worst grumbler of all was a big, ony. Ill-looking wood-cutter called Franz Llstlg, and when the men were xiustered one morning for their usual luty. and Franz was missing, every ne toon it lor grauieu inai ue uau goi J i ed of the service and bad gone home in disgust. But presently a hunter ome in from the higher ridges, who bad found Llstlg's cap and hatchet on the edge of a precipice, along which there were marks of sliding feet In the mow, as if someone had slipped and fallen over the brink, "Bee now, my sons." shouted Godrel's Jeep, strong voice, amid the general al ienee of horror, "what happens to ikulkers and deserters. He who turns Dig back on the flag of the Fatherland san nerer come to a good end." The old soldier's fiery words sank Seep Into every heart, and there was ao more grumbling for the next day or two. On the third evening after Llstlg's flisappearance a great cloud of smoke was seen to go up suddenly from the hilltop above the village. The signal-Are was kindled! "The French are coming!" ran from mouth to mouth. Every man cocked his gun and stood ready at his post, while the boys, with little Gottfried at their head, rushed at a breakneck pace up the steep side or Beacon Hill to catch their first glimpse of the advauclng enemy. All along the great plain below a roll ing dust cloud was rising like a mist, and through It appeared long lines of blue-coated grenadiers with glittering bayonets, and trains of horses dragging cannon, and masses of helmeted dragoons, and hussars all ablaze with gold lace, flourishing their shining sa bres. But the dauntless mountain lads looked down upon the terrible magnifi cence of the spectacle as coolly as If It were only a circus. "If there are not guns enough for ns, we can roll down stones on the French men!" cried Gottfried, manfully. "They won't get up here quite so easily as they think." But It soon appeared that they were not thinking of "getting up" at all, for, Instead of turning off toward the hills, they kept straight on across the plain, and vanished at length Into the gather ing darkness of night. Evidently they meant to attack soma other point, and the lung-expected assautt was not com tng, after all! The Uodrel's band broke up at ouce, with a good deal of mingled growling aud laughing. Some of the men were rather sulky at having taken so much trouble for nothing, but others made fun of the "chicken hearted Frenchmen," for whom oue look at the Tyrolese hills bad been enough, aud one or two who had not looked very happy when the first alarm was given, uov began to hold their heads high and to talk big of what they would have done It the Freuch had come on In earnest The next day everybody waa at work again aa usual, llatis Uodrel himself did not think It worth while to keep watch, now that the French had gone past, and even the mat) who tended the beaconflre came and weut to hta hut. But there was one person In the rll lag who was not quite so confident as the rest, aud that was little Gottfried Godrel. He remembered atl that his rather had told him of the devices used In war to deceive the enemy aud throw him off his guard. ' True, It was not easy to see what trick there could be here, but Oottfr'ed felt uneasy, nevertheless; aud the re sult was that without saying a word to any one, he piled fresh wood on to the beacon, aud watched beside It for three nights running. On the fourth morning, just about daybreak, the boy awoke with a start, and a strange feeling of there being something wrong. There was already tight enough to see alt around from the great height at which he stood, aud bis first glance showed him something that made his bold heart stand still. Along the snowy slope of the Budela berg a lung, dark blue Hue, crested with HB LOOSIBED TUB LOO MOM ITS FLACK ASO DOW TUB BBS. KBIT I. DxCK!tr 1.1 B AS AHHOW." bright points, was creeping onward like some huge caterpillar, slow ly but stead lly, nearer and nearer every moment. The French Were coming at Inst -ami coming, too. not by the road, but by an old, disused gout path w hich some or the Tyorlese themselves could not have followed without a guide. How had these strangers learned the secret of It? There must be treachery somewhere! Quick as llghtulng the boy fired the pile, and the resinous pine wood crackled Into a broad, red blase. But Just then a terrible thought struck him. The villager, on seeing the signal, would of course expect the enemy by the high road they would never think of the goat-track, by which the French could come right up behind the village, and thus, so to speak, turn all the German defenses Inside out. There was only ono thing to be done he must go down with the news him self. But before be could reach the village by the long, dllllcult, winding foot-path, the French would havo got paat the narrowest part of the goat track, aud It would be too late to stop them. At that moment his eye fell upon the "log-slide," which went straight as a plumb-line down the steep mountain side to the village. Just at the top lay a huge tree-trunk, lopped, barked aud all ready for shoot ing down. Could he bestride that trunk, plunge down this terrible short-cut, aud reach the foot alive? I'erhaps and even If it coat him his life, he was de termined to try. Between the stumps of the two great brauctcs that forked off from the main trunk there was a narrow hollow, Into which the daring boy wedged himself firmly. Then, with a violent push or bis right foot be loosened the log from Its place and shot down the fearrul descent like an arrow. Everything seemed to spin round him as he flew hills, woods, rocks, streams, all dancing In the air together, while the boom of the falling log sounded in bis ears like ono continuous peal of thunder. If It should turn over, or oven swerve to ono side, bo would be crushed to death on the spot; but ho cared not for that. Down, down, down he flew, diz zy and breathless, till suddenly there came a violent shock, and the flying log stood still, and he saw, dimly as If In a dream, the outermost huts of the village before him, while beside him stood two men, staring at him as If they had seen a ghost. "The French-the Hudelsberg goat track!" was all he could say; but It was quite enough. "Karl," cried the younger of the two to bis comrade, "off with you, and tell the lads to got their guns, and run for their lives to the Hudelsberg. I'll go on before and hew down the brldgo." And away flew Kaspar the wood cut ter, axe In hand, while Karl darted off In the opposite direction. The bridge of which Kaspar spoke was ,a rude plank framework which spanned a deep black chasm worn by a torrent In the side of the Rudelsberg. just at the narrowest and most danger ous point of the goat-path along which the enemy - were advancing. This bridge once broken, the march of the French would be effectually stopped; but could he get there In time? Kaspar was famous for his swiftness of foot; but nerer-not even whea be won a race agalust all the best runnon of the district'-had he made such speed as now. The suow w as more than ankle-deep, but h dashed through It tiks a mountain goat, and at length, spent and gasping fur breath, came out upon the narrow ledge-path, aud saw that he was the ouly living thing upon It. 80 far, so good; but at any in 0 meu I the foremost Frenchman might come round the corner ou the other side of the bridge, aud there was no time to lie tost. To work weut the trusty ax, and the white spltuters aud chips of wood flew up lu the air like a shower of spray. One plank was cut through, a second, a third, aud now the trembling midge hung by a single support over (lie black abyss below, when suddeuly, not fifty yards from the brink of chasm, there Issued from behind a projecting crag the tall figure and dark, sallow face of a French grenadier! And beside bliu stood the missing woodmen, Frana I.lstlg, who had betrayed the path tu his country's enemies. Hut Just at that moment Kaspar'a quick ear caught the trample of hurry ing feet behind him, aud knew that his comrades were coming up to Hie res cue. 'Let them kilt me now, If they like!" he muttered through his clenched teeth. "There are enough of our tad behind to ston thorn, aud my work la done!" One more sturdy blow aud the broken brldgo fell thundering and crashing Into the abyss. But mingling with the crush came a sharp report and stilled cry. The buttled assailants had vented their rage on poor Kaspar with a volley of musketry, and the gallant fellow lay bleeding tu the snow, But ho did not fall unavenged. The coueusaloti of the air, caused by the firing, tooscned the great mass of suow that huug threatening overhead, aud down It ome with a rush aud a roar like the bursting of a mighty wave, burling headlong luto the fearful gulf below the throw foremost Frenchmen aud their traitor guide, Frana I.lstlg. The rest turned and fled, and the vil lage was saved-saved by one daring child! As for poor Kaspar, he was hit In no less than three places, and bis com rades shook their heads and ex changed gloomy looks as they raised him ami bore him slowly homeward. But he recovered In the end, and lived to tell for many a year afterward how hundreds of armed men had been oaf fled by the courage-ami cleverness of a single boy. WHAT THE BARBER DID. An I Alt lire sum Ha Was Told to Cut Itfkort. When the horny-handed son of toll came luto the backroom of the labor ers' Best with bis hair cut so short that a pair of tweeters could not help It bf was greeted by a great chorus of de risive remarks, "Cut It short; cut It short," be fairly shuuted through the din. "That's what's the matter with It," answered the crowd, and they guyed htm till he ordered the drinks aud re stored the place to quiet. "limine tell you," he said In explana tion as oue after another of the crowd rubbed his hands over bis head, "you see, I goes Into the barber shop around the comer, and the scissors snipper there puts me lu a chair aud begins chluuiu about the Chinese war. 'Cut It short,' says I, 'I'm In a hurry.' And he shuts up and goes sulppln' away, and purty soou he begins again about the way the Itepubllcans had done for Bryan, aud I puts In and says: 'Cut It short, parduer; cut It short,' and he abuts up and goes snlpplu' away, aud f rests back In the chair fvclln' as com fortable as a millionaire, and he gets another start and wags his jaw onto the President's message and I says, says I; 'Cut It short; cut It short,' and he closea his talker and snips aloiig and I has my eyes shut restlu' as peace ful a a baby thtuklu' about "iioibtu" ami purty soon he begins agalu on the mean way they treated old man Kruger over there amoug the crowued heads of Kuropc, and ho wakes me up, and I says, says 1; "Will you cut It short? and be begs my pardon and goes snlp plu' aloiig as easy as a nure at a sick bed, and 1 suooxes and dreams, and purty soon he gits golii' agalu about the I'hlllplulnoes, aud I says: 'Fer the last time, will you cut It short T and then I sets up lu the chair and gits a look at my top eud lu the Bh,, Bj this Is what I see, What I says to the barber won't do to speak or amongst gents, but he stands there so meek like and Innocent sayin' all the time that I told him to cut It short, that 1 gits out or the chair arter a bit, and give him a dime and tells him ir the foul-killer had been In that afternoon, there would be two funerals to-morrow, and then I goes out and the birber stands by the wludow watehla' 1110 till I uu around the corner and lookln' purled clean through, as If It wasn't his fault, and anyhow whoso was It?" HANDY MARKING STAMP, It la Attached to a Hnbber Hlceva Which Pita the F In iter. The rubber stamp has proved Itself so great a convenience that It Is to be found on nearly every business man's desk, and as au Improvement on this handy article Charles W. T. Dnvies, of San Francisco, Cal., has bethought himself of tho device shown In the ac- riNGEll STAMP FOB OI.EBKS. comtianvlmi cut. which Is nothlmr less than a number of stamps attached to the exterior of a rubber sleeve to fit ou ' the finger. Where a clerk Is compelled to work at one class of business for some time, making ttso of the same stamp, this Idea will be found especial ly convenient, as It Is generally neces sary to use both hands In the work, and time would be lost If the clerk stopped to pick up tho stamp each time and ad just It right-side up. With this finger xtninp It Is only necessary to touch the mi and then the work with the end or ;lde of the finger. The sleeve Is flex ible and Is provided with air openings at the tip, the lettering being either molded on when the sleeve Is made or attached as ordered by the buyer. A woman who will not lie about any thing else will lie to her dressmaker about needing her new dress a day or two before she really needs It r .... ..,,........r fjps&cience Iff V. H Two of the If -gest Uuhmkorff colls ever made Lave beeu ordered In this country for a foreign government, and will give an electric spark forty -five Inches In length, expending energy amounting to three or four horse pow er, and having a potential of half a mil lion volts. Japan and South America have been shaken so ofteu ami bo violently that an earthquake there la hardly worth notice, lu 1N4 a wave traversed the I'nclltc from Japan aud broke ou the Amorlcau const. (tailors say a wave over fifty feet high ! an Impossibility, but a wave ninety feet high destroyed Cnllao, Peru, lu 1380, Mexico, the F.uat Indies, China, Argentina, Haw all, the riilllppiuea, California -these places have been the scenes of fearful disasters from earthquakes aud vol canoes. The question as to whether birds In herit their ability to build nests re sembling one In which they were hatched was discussed. Wallace's theory that a bird learua to make Its IMH-uIlnr kind of a neat by remember lug the appearance of the nest In which It was reared and by Imitation was re jected, and au Instance cited of a pair of English chaffinches which, reared apart from Individuals of their species, and afterward released In an Inclosure, proceeded to build "a characteristic chattlnch nest, s In describing the career of the Col orado potato tieeile, Professor Tower relates that during thu rush of gold seekers to California In 1HS0 and lNs the emigrants lost and threw away potatoes which took root, until there was a more or less continuous line of potato plants from Council Muff along the 1'latto Itlver to the canons of the Colorado region. The beetles, which had been confined to the potato patches of the canons, took advantage of the situation, and along the highway of In vasion thus opened for them begun their triumphant and destructive march eastward. The soieiiee of clouds lias attracted many devotees within the past few years, and photography has greatly as sisted tu advancing It Clouds, like stars, become far more Interesting to the non-scientific observer of nature wheu he knows the tiames attached to them. While the grandest and most Imposing form of cloud Is the domed and pinnacled cumulus which fre quently accompanies thunderstorm, the moat lieautlful Is the feathery cir rus. Cirrus clouds sometimes exist at enormous elevations. While their mean height Is about 2,S) fect-the height of Mount Kvereat-they have been measured at au elevation of 4i, ou feet, or more than nine miles. They move with great velocity, about ninety mites an hour on the average, and lu winter sometimes uiorw that) SOO miles an hour. Home of the astronomical photo graphs made at the Harvard Observ atory reveal the fact that In April, IHtKi, a new star appeared In the con stellatlon AquIIa, At first Its spectrum resembled the spectra of other new stars, but In October a photograph showed that the character of the light had changed, and now Ita spectrum was that of a gaseous nebula, twist summer a telescopic observation of this curious object was wade by Pro fessor Wendell at Cambridge, and he confirmed the evidence) of the photo graph showing that It had Ins-time a nebula, Such occurrences are rare, and one explanatlou of them Is Hint they are the result of collisions In space, the heat dovelrNMl being suftt clent to turn solid matter luto gas aud vajKir. HER CARQOVeTrOUBLE. Tank Liquid Asphalt on Hoard Wklrh SitlldlUa l In Transit. When the llrltlsh steamship Tur quoise, from Trinidad, arrived at the Hanover street wharf Captain Thomas, with a worried expression on his hrouxed face, hurried to the nearest slitpplug olllec. "I want a gang of miners lo unload my ship," ho announced. "Stevedores, you mean. All right, sir," said one or the clerks. "No, I don't mean stevedores; I mean miners," replied Hie captain, with reel lug. "I want 'em to blast out my car go." "Why, what " "Which consists or oue asphalt mine," the mariner added. "How'd I get the mine aboard ship? Well, I didn't know I had it till we got Into port. It just grew there on the way up," and then he spun a sad, sad yarn. It developed that at Trinidad tho Turquoise took ou 2,040 tons of as phalt for this city. The stuff was load ed lu chunks through the hntches, and according to the usual process would have been taken out In the same form. rufortunately the ship, on Its pas sage north ran Into the torrid wave. Anyone who haa walked around tho city hull ou a hot day knows what heat docs to asphalt. Captain Thomas knew, but ho had hoped that It might be different at sea and he gave no more thought to the matter until one day when he hoard sonic or tho men talking about getting up a roller-skating con test on tho cargo. Then he Investiga ted. Ho round that as an effect or tho heat the chunks or asphalt had solidi fied Into 0110 firm mass, stretching the entire length or the held. Exactly what he said Is not a matter or record, lint It Is understood that after shivering his timbers once or twice lie remarked that he didn't know he was carrying "a blasted old boulevard" up to tho State. "Now you know why I want a gang or minors," ho said to the clerk at tho flnlnh or his narrative. lie was referred to the proper persons and a little while later a shaft was sunk In the cargo, electric lamps were burning below decks, a force or men with picks and shovels was laboring and the frequent swinging or huge chunks of asphalt through tho hutches Indlcnted that the miners were progressing. Philadelphia North American. , Told by tho (Jrooer. "I'll tell you how I lost a good custo mer the other day," said the grocery ninu. "I have one customer who Is ex tremely deaf, and to make her hoar I have to Just yell at her. It takes about half an hour to get her order, and by ihat time my voice Is pitched so high 1 hat I can't get It down to earth again. "Yesterday It happened that after the left in came Mr, Oldboy, who is a per feet crank. Was In the army once and a great stickler for bowing and scrap lug and all that sort of thing; want! a fellow be trades with to salute and pre sent arms and do all kinds of things," quotes the lndiannpolls dentinal. , "He came In and said: 'Good-morning.. I wish you bad beard me yell at him, My votes mads the windows rattls. lis looked surprised, but weut ou talking to me, and I kept up answering bliu In voles that could be beard a block away. Us got madder and madder, but t never knew what was tip until Dually he got red to the'rac aud said: 'Mr, Black, sir, 1 am not deaf, sir, and. I re sent yuir yelling at jiis as If I couldu't hear a cauuon fired lu uiy ear.' With that out he weut. "You see, I had been tnlktng to the deaf lady and couldu't get my voles duwn agalu. You try It some time and see If you don't yell at every one yon meet. Funny, too, but I always yell at blind people and foreigners, aud 1 al ways whisper when 1 go lu where any one's sick." WANTED - SOME PARENT!. abort Harmon on the Proper Tralslag of Children, Soma parcuts, remeiuberl, Not all pareuls. Various recent occurrences so shocking as to aroiiso universal repul sion aud horror, sectu to Indicate that there Is a screw loose somewhere else than lu the laws of the country or In the moral constitution of society, Kucli things don't happen all at once. They come from gradual causes ami from au Increasing carelessness lu the ordinary safeguards la decent living, If morality Is the product of evolu tion, as the scleuttsts say, we swun yet to be a long way from the perfect prod uct. Possibly, If we were to try the evolutionary theory of extinction or the uuftt, we might find a considerable weeding out of pareuls to be a help In the solution. The Greeks had their convenient way of dlpo4ng of useless people, but tho Greek way seems to us like the worst sort of savagery. It had an element of modern force, however, How would It do to try state manage ment for the families of tho parents who catiuot manage to keep their chil dren at home nlgbtsHir, keeping them there, cannot manage to make them happy there? How about the parents who don't even try and who have no more Idea of systematic training In morality than they have of tho world wide economic value of tho "ounce of prevention?" The modern method of bringing up children (s getting to lie Increasingly ou the theory Jhat "knowledge Is pow er;" that the more children can gather of the life or the streets and the life of the world the better. In fact, the belief in knowledge alone Is the bane of the day. We have manual training and physical training and athletic training, but the finest training of a!l the training of the home-Is slighted. To give bojs and girls sound, whole some bodies Is a fine thing; perhaps It is even finer than lo give them well trained brains, but finest of all Is It to make them of puro heart and clean sech, To Implant In a child that In stinctive dislike of coarseness and grossness which shall be like the spear of Ithuriel to detect the weakness and falaltjr of evil suggestions, even though masked under the hood of truth this Is a fuuetion which belongs first of all to the parent No other human being ta:i do It, The school can give ns many things. It can give us boys and girls of lutein gence and physical soundness. It can Instruct, our children In their duCes as cltlsens. It can even give them the surface seeming of ethical Instruction, but the parent and the home alone gire tbem character. The fluest department of ethics that a boy can graduate from Is that which opens when his own door Is reached. If tie doesn't find ethics there and find them In his early days he Is pretty apt never to get the genu ine tiling. And soutn fine morning his parents wake up to see their sou's name figuring In some such tragedies as have come to shock public Knowl edge lately- and will keep on coming, doubtless, until the world realises more forcibly what a tremendous need there Is of fathers and mothers nowadays, Minneapolis Times. HAPPY BONNE TERRE. I.araa loiutnutiltr Without a Munici pal Government. To Bonne Terre, n Missouri settle ment of S.issl persons, there belongs a distinction of which those 5.("s per sons are proud. It probably la tho largest place lu the I'nlted Htntes with no form or municipal govern mcnt, nnd this lack or officials seems not to bo lu any way uimatlsraclory or detrimental to tho place, Constables nnd Justices of tho pence are tho only class or olllcluls with whom the residents or Bonne Terre are acquainted. There are scores or pret ty dwellings, and In stores, schools nnd other buildings the place resembles a doxen western cities which for years have had muyor, common councils and city tux rates, The Idea of Incorporii rating tho place has been dlacussed many times by the people living there, but It always ends In (he snmo way. A lead company owns neiirly nil of the place, and tho company Is opposed to incorporation. No one else carea enough about It one way or tho other to start a movement for Incorporation, even as a village, As matters stand, Honne Tcrro Is merely a part or tho township of Per ry, In Ht. Francois County. The olllcluls of that town look after tho welfare or the residents In the other, and sco that order Is maintained there, The explanation or this odd stuto of affairs Is simple. Bonne Terro up to thirty years ago was only a mining camp, to which straggling miners en mo and setlted down. Tho posalbll Itles of tho territory were not known. Mining' companies sent In prospectors soon after tho civil war and found lead In such quantities that largo sums were Invested In the vicinity of tho village. Miners thou went to the. odd Mlasourl settlement and took their families nlong. Tho companies erected build ings for the miners to live in nnd stores for tho iiiercliiintu who went there. Andrew Limit's Versatility, No ono knows how Andrew Lnng gets through such a stupendous amount of wortc. He never works In the morn ing, generally takes a stroll In tho af ternoon and dines Into, Tho reason Is that be can write anywhere on any thing. A story Is told that ho onco borrowed a farmer's hat lu the train, wrote an article on the crown of It, aud at tho samo tlino conducted an elabor ate argument on tho subject of ghosts. Neutralizing Danger from Dump, Houses which are damp because of proximity to undralncd land may be rendered more habitable by planting the laurel and tho sunflower near them. Cincinnati Htreet-Car Lines, Cincinnati Is enjoying a street-ear-line fctrom. Eight lines are to bo extended. "Every day of my life," snld a pale. dyspeptic-looking man to-day, "1 eat ebeose." Yes aiia tliat what a the matter with him, , No man ever had a tooth pulled with out thinking that the dentist seemed to take particular delight In hurting hlui, HT took more than ten years of hard and bitter fighting lu Congress to fix tho location of the national cap ital at Washington, the centennial of Which action was recently celebrated, Several times during that -rlmI of struggle It seemed certain that the "Federal City" would be located else where. Ome such action was pre vented only by the casting vote of Vice President John Adams tn the t'nlted Kliiles Keimto after tho House bad passed a bill fixing the location of the CAI ITOI. ni'it.otso in 1MO0. capital on tho "cast bank of the Ulver Susquehanna," and the Senate had taken a fie vot on the same proposi tion, (lit another occasion a bill amend ed by the ttenuto so that tho sent of lui tlonal government was fixed at Ger maiitowu. Pa., was pussiKl by the House unit finally failed of adoption In cause of au amendment made by the House that tint HI me or Pennsylvania should have control over (lie national territory until Congress should pasa suitable laws for Ita government. This Biiieiidiueiit required further action by the Ken ale, but lu (tie meiiiitlme the Keimie liiul adjourned and the amend ed bill w as never heard of again, By such apparent accidents and by such smalt chances was the choice of a site for the Federal Government guided. The II mi I selection or "tho banks of the Potomac" was the result of a com promise, In which Jefferson played thu most Important part The story of Washington's foiiudlug and growth Is most Interesting. In the year I78S all there w as to show of the Fedora! capital of the young republic was a provision of the Constitution for the establishment or such a city upon territory outside the limits or all the constituent States, lu that year the legislature of Maryland passed an act "to ciito to Congress a district ten miles square In this State for the scat of the Government or tho I'nlted Ktatea." About a year later an act or similar Import was passed by the Leg Ishiture of Virginia. Meanwhile, the Federal legislature, sitting In New York, carried on a heated nnd acri monious wrangle over the question of a pcruiiitietit sent for Itself and Its suc cessors. Eventually It was decided to accept the offer of Maryland and Vir ginia, despite the most violent opposi tion In some quarters, and tho Senate hill lu favor of the proffered site wns signed by George Washington, July 10, IT'.mi. The rtennto act left a great deal to the President's discretion, Tho area of his choice extended 105 miles along the seriHMittne course of the Potomac, from WilllnniHMirt to Hagerstowti, and It la certain that the lliiul deternilmt tlou was largely duo to Washington's own preference. It also rested with lilm alone to appoint throe commission era provided for by Congress to survey and plot tho Federal District, to ac quire land by purchase or the accept ance ir girts, and to provide "suitable buildings for the accommodation of Congress and for the pubic otlieos of the Government prior to tho first Mon day or December, 181)0." I I ill i- u H I ea 1C ttvn 11 n t e rd. Everything went smoothly for a tlmo. The hinds accepted by the nation from Maryland and Virginia were laid out and sites were chosen ror the public buildings, but then trouble arose, Con siderable difficulty, was encountered g;fsi'iWsss . . BIIIS US TUS NATION!. t'AI'lTOt, ACTKH IT A HCHNKII ST THE HIOTIHII. when an effort was made to acquire freehold titles to tho land required for tho public buildings, but patient per suasion overcame nil obstacles, and March 30, 1701, nineteen proprietors of tho soil signed an agreement conveying their property In trust to the chief executive to bo laid off as a Federal city. Four days earlier than this date Major Peter Charles L'Knfant, one of the soldiers who accompanied Lafay ette to the United States and who was named ns tho engineer to draw tho plans, had presented his report to tho President. L'Enfn'nt's Idea or what the Federal capital should bo was much more like what It has now be come than tho monotonous rectangular block arrangement which socined good to Tliouuis Jefferson and other Americans of that day. Some of his opinions were objected to, but ho re fused to change them, so he was called upon to resign his position, nnd ho was succeeded by Andrew Ellicott, of Penn sylvania. The cornerstone of the Federal Dis trict was laid, nt Hunter's Point on April 15, 17IH, and a site was choscu for tho Capitol of the United States on Corn Ably Manor, tho lord of which was Daniel Carroll. To obtnlu tho best design for the building Itself a prize of a city lot and $500 was offered for open competition. The plant was to be scut lu before July 15, 1702. The prize wns so small that but little effort among competent architects was excited and WASHINGTON IN JT8 EAHLY PAYS. r ' ' A'. but seventeen sketches were offered. ttiy complexion was a fast color or The pluns of William Thornton, a pby M wnt,n tn twl bobbed for ap. slclan of English parentage, were nc vUm , 1)lc) (ogt Hdleulously undlgnl cepled, and the corner stone of tbs (a9Mmi WM obliged o abstain Capitol Building was laid with great tuf vaT vt mnergUg manf shades pomp and full Musonlc ritual JM-pt. 1 vMtet tlmn wne I went lu. '"W. I "Also, though my face became very The Ramoval from 1'blladalpbia. I warn, from dancing, I did not dars (1.1 tho first Monday of December, handkerchief over It, lest the 18tsi, the Federal Government, Uglsltt. mmnt,Um$ Uwu &Moru the rich, warm Hire, Judiciary and executive, removed U(W(, m mnlM blushing cheeks, from Philadelphia, where It bad Imwii , WM nevcf m Btlff 0,mfort. seateu since J iw, 10 its new noun-, s Federal archives and a large tiumlier of clerks and sulmrdlnote officials were , 1., 1 , 1 . ui.,. 1., ,.,..,dt. orouum roumi ? urn lug sloop and set down at what, wltb few executions, thev retarded as s hideous and unwholesome swamp Iw yond the confines of civilization. Every-, tHMly, from the Treasury clerk and their families, up to Mrs, Adams, the President's wife, grumbled aud repined at tho change. The Capitol wus mi finished and made, as they universally complained, a very unfit shelter for tb( nation s legislators, ui me nmer, wh Congress assembled, only a few mm find board and lodging within the lim its or the Federal city Itseir, At that time the capital was the butt of much foreign ridlciilo, Evcrythlug alMiiit It was Inn promtsary and bused on Iiom, and tho streets without end, and almost without houses, suggested to the foreign minister the mocking sobrlqiu-t which by the present gener ation Is held In such high favor, "the City of Magnificent instances." Nevertheless, In spite or ridicule from without and discontent within, the !.et.lmmiit ff tlu, I'tllfml Hllltf.tt ,.,li,.,.l n Vnyl,hu.l,,n until, tiflcr the battle of Uladeusburg, In 18H. the city ; w as entered by the British army under General Ibis. But the British occupa tion r the city was not for long, and Congress held Its sittings In the Su preme Court building until a new Capi tol should be ready for It. Its Hrmarkabte Growth. This, the present magnificent struc ture, w as begun In 1MH and finished sufficiently forteiiiMrary purposes ntm years luter. The cornerstone of the ex tensions was laid lu IH51. After the Civil War began tho most glorious period of the Federal city's material prosperity. At that time Washington was by no means a convenient ot healthy ptaco to live lu, the drainage, TKMIHIKABY t'AI'lTOt. IX 1H14. paving aud lighting all being discredit able. But In 1871 Congress annulled me municipal cnaner iy wmcu me city was governed and placed the District on tho footing of a Territory or the United States. Then w as Inaug urated an era for tho bettor lu alt the outward aspects of Washington, and since then the thoroughfares, the parka, the public buildings, both Fed eral and municipal, have Increased In dlgulty and beauty, until to-day It Is dltlh ult to realise a condition of affairs nt the capital of the United States which would have given subjects of of tho older nations occasion for Jeer lug at Its squalor and Insignificance The Territorial form of government has since been almudoned, and the gov ernment or tho whole district placed In the hands of commissioners. In the Washington or to-day are to bo seeu some of tho most magnificent of public buildings. The Capitol Is fnr faiuod for Its beauty of architectural design and flnlKh, nnd tho Treasury, he White Houhu, Library and Patent Olllce ore all magnificent examples of architecture. There are a host of fine 1 private buildings, palatial residences, offices, churches, and four great unlvcr sides, nnd their value all told Is not less than $250,(K10,000. Bight In the city there aro 4,08!) acres of parks, and three grand wooded districts, with the magnificent buildings, combine to make Washington-ono of tho finest, If not tho finest, city In tho world, and marvelous when compared with the prospects entertained for It by those whom It was laid out a century ago. Casio Among Turkish Women. It is not generally known that there exists among Turkish ladles of high class a klud of caste feeling similar to that prevailing among Hindoos. It takes tho form of a rear of coiitamlua-' tlou from tho outer world and la only observed by those who cannot afford to keep servants lu sufficient numbers. Before 'meals ladles always wash their hands nt a tap from which tho water runs Into a marble basin. 'Thev will urn on tho tap when they aro Just go- mortgages will be subject to formal ln to wash, but when they have fin- BUthorIxatlon. Tract. Industry and nav iNhed they let the water run till some- ffntlnn am free, and everv eh!ftol i. body shuts It off, as to do it themselves iiouiii mime iiiein uiieienn, iiiey can not open or shut a door, as the handle would be unclean, so n slave Is gener ally kent handy for the nurnnse. Tho Difference. Tomwy Paw, what Is tho difference between a bird and a fowl? Mr. Flgg-In thinking of one you get sentimental and In thinking of (hp oth er you get hungry .-ludlaunpolls Press. Some inon spend the last half of their lives discovering mistakes they'nnde lu tho first half. . WAYS THAT ARE DARK, sw of Theos Kiposef la a Coa Tar sal Inn la a Car. "She told us 1 looked pale,'" said the , serious faced girt on the car, "and so she took us upstairs and put sous rouge on my cheeks and sent roe off to tbs party reeling like an Easter egg. "Mhe ssld 1 was lovely, however, and 1 adult that I thought the embellish ment rather becoming when I gsxed la tbs uilrrr at my pinky reflection. But I had a miserable time at Mary's. 1 Imit foruolten to ask my hostess w lieth- , mf fo , mnt me en. deavorlng to catch surreptitious .,nM . .v.,ir i ,i ,,, mirrors ,. ..v- - tmt ,dorned tll Wfllls. I WBS self- conscious and absorbed, and I've no doubt every man there considered me, a brainless Idiot. "When I got home 1 found my com plexion was Intact, It hadn't rubbed off In spots or done any or the horrible things I expected It lo, but It looked to me dreadrully as If It had come out of a battle. "This was my first experience with -, 'boiighlen' beauty, and It's going to ! my last," said the serious-raced girl, emphatically, "Up to this time I have pinched my cheeks when I wanted them flushed, but I can't recommend this method, either, It gives one such a spotted look, quite as If spinal men ingitis were alwmt to supervene." "I bathe mine In scalding water when I want a good color." said the girl next her. "A cloth dipped In the boiling liquid and then held to each cheek until It Is scarlet Is the prescription. Then dash on au de cologne, and by the time one Is ready to go out oue's skin la UellgllUUIiy pillK. , inai Biases wniium, said tbs third young woman of the trio, "Mullein leaves are good enough for me. Get your country friends to send you a box of tbem. They're fuzzy things, and one will act as cosmetic hair a dozen time. " 'Course there's tt color to come off they're green. It's the ruzz that makes one's cheeks red. Grandmother told me about them. She used to use them when she was a girl. Every one did then, she says. I think It's vul gar to 'spread the bright vermilion oa the tenderloin,' as uiy brother says." And theii the shopping district was reached and the young women filed out soberly, leaving a couple or highly edi fied men lu the sent lu front of them. Baltimore News. Iron Diaaulvetl by Wat r. Borne Interesting experiments and re searches Into the ability of wa er to exercise a destructive Influence ou Iron pipe, which bavo bct-u recently made la Europe, have yielded rtsulis not gen erally expected. It has been ascer tained that waters containing a lllt'a lime, but an appreciable quaut.ty of dissolved carbonic acid, were observed to exercise a solvent actlou on the Iron, and the course of the action waa traced. A known quantity of Iron filings was placed In each of three vessels, which were respectively filled with ordluary river water, and the same water after carbonic acid had passed through It for a few minutes, aud arter the ad lltlon or sufficient lime to Just neutralise the carbonic acid. The vessels were eealed by mercury from contact by the air, and, after the lapse or a certain tune, the Iron dissolved In each case was de termined. In the first case the water had dissolved about 3-1000 per cent. In the second 2-1000 per cent, while in the third only traces of Iron could be d.s cerued. The water In the second case was clear, but on standing exposed to the air ferric oxide separated. It was, therefore, luferred that water contain ing carbonic acid and very little lime dissolved Iron as ferrous carbonate. The latter Is then decomposed by the oxygen or the air and ferric acid Is de posited and carbonic acid formed. The latter en 11 again attack tho iron, and ! t) us water containing little caibonlc acid may have a powerful action upon Iron pipes. Philadelphia Record. Founds aa f Adopted, The following anecdote is related of Lord Bosebery: He had appointed to meet a friend at a small country sta tion, as they iuteuded to travel lu the same direction. The train arrived, but not his friend. Away In the d siauce bis carriage w as seen driving along at a gallop, It would take about five "min utes to get to the statlou. The Karl entreated the station-master to stop the train, but the latter refused, as thctraln was already late. An altercation en sued, aud the Earl at Inst passionately exclaimed: "We wilt .see about that!" Sitting down between the rallB In front of the engine, he would not budge un til his friend hud got safely luto the train. In Ills Mouth for a Year. "Sol" Wafsou, a colored resident of Atlantic City, N. J., on a wager, per- fornlw! ,he nov.e fent of kecP,n a sl1 vcr quarter In his mouth for an entire year, and when the contract expired, wns paid flO by J. H. Stavcon, the stakeholder. The loser was William Nagle, of Harrlsbtirg. Watson ate, drank and slept with the piece of silver In his mouth. Hundreds of people knew of the wager nnd would ueutly demand to ace the coin. No person caught Watson without the cola lu his mouth. The quarter has been worn smooth, the milling having entirely disappeared and the stimip nearly so. Laws Ibr the Soudm. Benign paternal government Is to be the general uote of Soudan administra tis In tlia pnrller singes nf Its mnMini. ,,,,, . mt ... i... Here are a few of the chief heads of the new code Just promulgated: The lmportaflon.'manufacture or sale of al coholic liquor Is prohibited. No person will be allowed to sell his land or to make loans at usurious rates, Even a magistrate In his own district Something to Be Dreaded. Among the latest wonderful contriv ances Is ono that has been Invented by an electrician 01 uiuusenuurg, Austria, It Is described a,s on electrical appar- ntus which enables a person to sit In a dark room and behold a scene In nn- other part of the town, or In a distant town, regardless of Intervening obsta cles. He nsesrts that his Instrument transmits light wnves, Just as sound waves are transmitted by a telephone. You can't get bread from stone, but yyu can gut money from a gold brick, .