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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-
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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
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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
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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, .