I IIERR STEINHARDTS NEMESIS BY ?. MACLAREN COBBAN. r. CHAPTER I-Continned. "Ah," h said to me, "so you've come to try and enlighten our Hotten tots about a thing or two in this world and the next. Well, von ran only do your best, you know; we'll try to make you comfortable and back you up. Come all the way from London today, I suppose; have you got yourself fixed up yet in the village? what some author chap Matthew or Mark Sum mat or other calls a 'Lancashire Hell-hole.' Well, we're not quite so bad as that yet here, but we're petting to it. But it can't be helped, you know; we ha' gone forrard and we own go forrarder, as the rabbit said when he let th' weasel get him into a hole. Yea, 'Hell-hole;' but it ahould be a useful change for you ; it may give you an idea when you . want to describe to your congregation the real" "Jim, lad," interrupted his sister, "you're forgetting yourself?" "Eh? Oh? ah, well I can reniem- her, you know, when all round about here was as sweet and pretty a place I waa born back o th White Moss" (in dicating that locality over his shoul der), "Xoppleton way." Thus the full, quaint and careless stream of his talk flowed on. meander ing about one person and another, this subject and that. He seemed a well of curious and fearsome Lancashire lore lore of the days when spinning and weaving were done in the cottage homee of remote hamlets and homesteads, when Lancashire energy applied itself to useful work and not to useless toil, when its fabrics were made to be worn and not merely to be sold the days when the steam engine was not yet with its all -devouring, all-enslaving ma chinerv. We had talked thns for ate it an hour or, rather, listened to Mr. Birley talk when he paused and looked round (he had been fidgeting in his chair for some time.) "What's got "Manule?" he said, ad dressing his sister. "Is he stuck till midnight in his laboratory again? Doesn't seem as if that smoke was to come off tocight. In Paul's house now it used to be 'Smoke where you please' drawing room or anywhere. Poor Paul!" I was astonished and alarmed to see Miss Laaoix rise hurriedly, and glide Without a word from the room. Mrs. Steinhardt made as if she would follow her, bat she did not. She sank back in her chair with a sigh. "Jim! rim!" she exclaimed, re proachfully. "Why will yoi say things, when yon know the poor girl cannot bear allusions to it?" . "Ah," said Birley, humbly. "Poor lass! Her father," he explained, turn ing to me, "has never come back from London. Poor Paul!" He was visibly anected. He bad to go to the law courts there," said Mrs. Steinhardt, "more than a year ago, about some dreadful business of the chemical works he was xny husband's partner." "Hildersheimer Lacroix and Stein narat" (irons turned on the music stool to correct his uncle's pronuncia tion.) "Well," said he, "that's all right; anyway that was the rase. aiay ue turning again to me you rememuer 11 in ice papers. It was about the infringement of a chemical patent 'Manuel had put them up to in his eternal laboratory." "Nay, uncle," interrupted Frank, Boshing up. "It wasnt father's fault more than anyone else's." "Ay, lad," said Birley, "of course you know all about it. But you're right to Btand up for your father. How ever, Paul, as the chief of the firm, went up to London to right the case; he fought and lost to the tune of 20,000 pounds damages which, I suppose, drove Jiiin mad, poor fellow, for he's never come back made away with himself, very likely, or, somehow, got made awsy with." "But, surely," interrupted Frank again, "it could hardly be the damages did it, uncle? You remember he went to Paris after the trial about some pat tern business for the print works, and then got back to London again." "Ay, lad out 20,000 pounds dam ages can make a man feel very queer all the way to Paris and back. At any rate, poor Paul's gone lost in the great London wilderness." "It is a very extraordinary affair," said I. "But I dont' remember seeing anything of it in the papers." "It got into the papers, though," said Birley, "to some extent not much. We didn't want a noise about private, painful thing like that,." "But." said I, wondering, "I sup pose inquiries were made?" "They made inquiries high and low," said Birley; "they laid detectives on, and everything, but nothing came of it. Did there, Frank?" "No," said Frank "nothing at all." "Did vou try to trace him out of Lon don?" I asked. "I suppose they did," said Birley. "Tes oh yes," said Frank. I wondered that Birley should keep using the word "they." Had he borne no share in the investigation himself? I had my thought answered at once. "I wasn't able to go to London my self," said Birley; "I was laid up with a broken leg; and, when I got better, I didn't think it was any use my going. There was an end of Paul that was certain ; for he wasn't the man to knock under like, and get lost just." In a little while Miss Lacroix re turned, with apology for her with drawal. "I had a littleof headache," said she. I now saw more clearly the encroach ments which grief, and what I cannot describe by other words than "anxious waiting," had made on a young life which would, unoppressed, I was sure, have been so full of spirit and mirth. I longed there and then with an earnest desire that I might do something to brighten her life, to remove the weight of uncertainty and grief which burdened it, and preyed upon it. But I had little further opportunity for talk with ber that night. In a few minutes Mr. Steinhardt returned. We heard then what were the causalties re totting from the falling of the bell t: tower. A horse had been killed, as, also, had been a sow with her litter and two pigs had been so injured that the butcher had to be summoned. We were now invited into the smoking room; tit Mr. Birley rose, and said he must be going; he would smoke his pipe on the way home "wi' th' parson." 'Tarson smokes, I suppose?'' said he, laying his hand on my shoulder. So he and I departed together. The valley was asleep under a white pall of fog; but the weird tongues of flame still flickered on the slope and ridge oehiud and beyond us (from coke ovens, my companion explained), and the tall chimneys dreamily and intermittentlv smoked. The great eh i miter of the ! chemical works, however, emitted not j so much smoke as a thin pinkish vapor, wnicn stole away imperceptibly over ine neighborhood to poison all ereen things, and to filter through the cracks and crevice of doors and windows, to trouble sleepers with lethargy and head ache. "By George!" exclaimed my compan ion. "He'll get fined again some dav. Paul used to be always at him about it. Poor Paul!" So ended my first evening in Timper ley a memorable eveuing for me. I had made the acquaintance of one whom I have reason now to call as dear a friend as I have ever known, and as good a man as fortune has ever ne glected, and of another who is now the dearest of all earth's creatures to me. CHAPTER II. I frequently looked in upon the ladies at Timperley Hall, ami took a four-o'clock cup of tea with them (not, however, to the neglect of other, if lees pleasant, parochial visitations). Dur ing these visits we talked without that constraint which somehow Mr. Steiu bardt's presence imposed upon us. Miss Lacroix and I agreed in our opin ions concerning the ruthlessnese with which Lancashire pushed on its indus trial way: we often astonished poor Mrs. Steinhardt (sometimes even our selves) by the warmth with which we would discuss the outrage done to man and nature. One afternoon we talked thus. It was well on in springtime; the stream was running full and all nature, in spite of drawbacks, was striving to look green. I told them bow that morning I had stood by the little plank bridge jusi oeiow umperiey Hall, lookW across at the dreadfully lumbered little peninsula on which the ruined spinning mill stood, when thete turned up at my elbow an old man whom I knew by signi as an ex-hand loom weaver. A fine brook, that, parson," he said. lea, said I, suiting my reply to what I thought his persiflage; "what a pity no trout seem to know of it!" "Ah, but," said he, sadly, "there were trout in it wonst; though there's been none for mony a day. Trout! Aw defy onything to live in that, bout gettin' cured first, like a red herrin' or a sallymander! There was a lad drowned like as It might be this spring, and he were never found till like as it might be next back end, down tbeer in that mud; be were not gone at all, but he were cured tbro' and thro; black, mon black!" This I told ; and then I continued: "Drowning, they say, is an easy death; but to drown in such a stream as that seems horribly repulsive. I fancy no one would eare to commit suicide in it." I perceived my stupid blunder as soon as I had spoken; I had not thought that what I said could be taken as "allusive" to the disappearance of Mr. Lacroix. "Excuse me," said Miss Lacroix, ris ing hurriedly, "I do not feel very well. Do not come, Mrs. Steinhardt; I shall get better by myself." I of course made apology to Mrs. Steinhardt for my stupidity. "Yes," said she; "you see she can't bear any kind of allusion to her father's end. She told me soon after she came here (she couldn't, vou know. go on living in that big bouse up there all by herself) she told me a strange dream she had once or twice when her father was missing the strangest thins. but I scolded her so, she has never said another word to me about it. Still fancy she thinks great deal about her father, though she does not say mnch ; mey were rare and fond o' one another. lhat very evening I unexpectedly learned from Miss Lacroix herself what that strange dream was. I was return- : U 1 , . r . i . "g "y uiuuuugui irom me nouse oi a parishioner along that same road which brst brought me upon the valley. Pass lng me pond on my right (which I be fore mentioned as reflecting the lighted windows of the many storeved mill). I observed a figure, cloaked and hooded. sianaing on me margin of the pond unuur uiie ui mo trees. 1 paused a minute, while my heart beat with ap- prenension, and then l passed through a gap in the fence and aoDroached. The figure turned quickly, as if impa tient at the intrusion, and in the pale moonngni i recognized the face of Miss Lacroix. Miss Lacroix!" I exclaimed. "Yon here!" Oh, Mr. Unwin." she beean. in evident tension of feeling-, "I could not rest indoors, and so I came down to see Uncle Jaques; I could not remain with him, and so I came out here to look at this, which al 'Look!" I stood by her side and looked: this is what I saw: An inverted reflection of the tall chimney of the chemical works which was emitting, as it often did late in the evening, its strange pinkish vapor; this vapor in the reflec tion looked as if it were slowly rising iruui me uouom oi me pond, and, as its color blended with the tints the water somehow took as the breeze ruf fled it this way or that, produced the impression of a slowlv eimmeri no ran I. dron of red. ereen. and mnir.hrn.. flame. This was so wonderfullv w),H a fancy that I confess I felt my skin creep. I turned my eyes away, and then looked again, and again, but the. impression was ever the same, "It's indeed very strange!" I said. "Is it not?" said she. "You se it also? Mr. Pn win," h went on. turn ing suddenly to me, and speaking with a vehemence which Increased aa th words came, "I have wished to tell you. Vou are a clergyman, and must hear m niak my confession; and you will keep it secret to yourself. You have heatd, perhaps, that my futher my dear father: is thought to lie dead now just a year ago?" "I have," said I. "He went to Ixwdon and to Taris on buainesa, and he never came back. It happened while he was away that I lived ail by myself at home.' I slept mind that night without dreaming. wnen suddenly l bad a dream. I saw vapor or flam slowly rising just like that I saw a man plunge into it, and I knew the man was my father I felt he was. I awoke at once all trembling and did not go to sleep again. That was all my dream." "Are you sure," I said, "that you had not beaid some one Mrs. Stein hardt, for instance suggest that he had been drowned, and then you went and dreamt of the peculiar appearance of thia pond?" "Xo, no, no!" she protested with rapid vehemence. "Did I not say that I dreamed it the very night on whioii all trace of him was lost from his hotel in london? Nobody thought then that he was not coming home soon. And I do not think I had noticed this pond then. I have dreamed the same dream several times since, but that mar be nothing at all. I shall very likely dream it tonight." I turned away from the poud and she followed me. We walked along in silence for some distance. "Oh!" she exclaimed, at length. "I do long so very much to know what has really happened to my dear father hit poor father!" "I wish I could help you to find out," I said ; "indeed I do. You may be sure I ahall think of all you have told me, and shall try to discover anything more. I have friends in London who may he of ose, if I mav mention it to them." "Oh, certainly, "sli answered. "You are very aind. Bacon's Hotel, Great Queen Street, is where he was last heard of. At a certain corner where the lane to Timperley Hall diverged from the way through the village, she insisted on parting from me. I let her go with lit tle hesitation, for I knew there was no fear of her being molested. It may be presumed that while I smoked my post-coenal pipe I thought over the strange scene at the pond, and all that Miss Lacriox had said. It was certainly very mysterious, but all the conclusion I could reach concerning it that night was a resolve to go and look at the pond by day. To b eoatinued) A Dooblt Turn. A man who was bicvcliim in South. ern France was pushing his machine up a steep hill when he overtook a peasant wiu a donxey cart. The patient beast was making but little progress, al though it was doing its best. Th benevolent cyclist, putting his left hand against the back of the curt and guiding bis machine with the other hand, pushed so hard that the donkey, taking fresh courage, pulled his load successfully up to the top. When the summit was reached th peasant burst into thanks to his bene-! factor. "It was good of you, indeed, mon sieur!" be protested. "I should never in the world have got up tho hill with only one donkey." Whsrs the Hour Acted Htily. Th house does funny things some times. It passed a bill the other dar establishing a lighthouse on tho coast of North Carolina. The second section of the bill provided that the "act ap proved March 3, 1901. bo, and the same is hereby repealed." The act thns wiped off the statute books at one fell swoop wag the sundry civil appro priation bill, which appropriated mill ions and millions of dollars for the ex penses of the government. In the sen ste the bill was amended so as to be less sweeping in its effect. Washing ton Post. Industrial Consumption of Gold. The industrial consumption of gold in the United States in the calendar year is estimated to have been flo, 667,500, and in the world approxim lately $75,000,000. Although the United States led the world last year in the prodction of gold, our imports of the metal exceeded our exports by the sum of $12,866,101. The stock of gold coin in the country, including bullion in the mints, at the close of the fhcal year was estimated at $1,124,652,818, and the stock of silver coin at $010, 477,025. Khaki Color Doomed. The British war office has decided that after the Boer war is over kbaki will not be used, but a working dress will be made of a peculiar drab mix ture, which is said to be of a more neutral color than khaki rerge, so that the present campaign will doubtless he handed down to posterity as the khaki war. This material, it is complained, has not enhanced the appearance of English soldiers, and the authorities are by no means sstitfled that it has added to their safety. Worth of a Complrmmt. Most compliments sound something like this: "They say he is a thief, but , no never stole anything from me It may be because I have watched him closely, but so far I have nev r missed anything." When you feel that your friend deserves praise, why pay tribute to his enemies in praising him? So Stupid, "Who wss that you just spoke to?" asked the first Chicago woman; "his face was rather familiar to me." "I believe," said the other, "his name is Jenks Henry Jenks." "Oh! to be sure. How stupid of me! He was my first husband." Philadelphia Record. Disgusted. Manager What's this item in vour expense account for "hardware, $50"? Salesman Hardware? Oh. vet that's for poker. I thought it would look better put in that way. Would Ut Boys Fight Dr. Temple, the archbishon of Can. tarbury. declares that it is not a bad thing for boys to fight occasionally, pro viaea mor is no leeilng oi malice. ATTACKS SOCIETY WOMEN. Eaiila Zola, the Fataoae Frenchman Hakes Never Charge. Emlle Zola has created a aeusatlon In Paris by bis criticism of society women. He wa Invited to lecture be fore an aristocratic woman's literary and political club and he shocked his hearers at the outset by telling them j that they were not what they pretend-I ed to be. "You pretend to be Interested In these questions," Zola said, ' but really ! you are not Your days ar solely d-1 voted to foolish amusement and useless actions, Interminable tollet-maklng te am' with dressmakers, luncheons. dinners, pink teas, so-called literary lectures, receptions, balls and theater. You spend your time In gossip which is stupid when It Is not wicked. You shirk motherhood, and when you have children they are mostly in trusted to mercenary hands. You grovel with astonishing alacrity to gain admittance Into social circles above your own. and cannot conceal your asinine contempt for people sup posedly below yourselves. You reduce your reluctant duty of charity to paltry offerings for a few famous Institutions. This is the sort of life a society woman leads. What right have you to meddle In philosophy, literature and polltlca? It Is a mere accident of birth that you are not factory girls or dry goods saleswomen. And, were you such, cau you feel certain that you would have the courage to prefer honest, laborious misery to blameworthy ease?" DESTROYS MOTHS AT NIGHT. In sections of the country where to bacco la grown one of the chief trou bles to contend with la the tobacco moth, and the apparatus shown In the cut has been designed especially to combat thla pest, as well as to destroy other Insects which mors about at nl"ht It well known that moths anJ other Insects are attracted by a DESIONED TO KILL IXSECTS. light shining out or the darkness, and It Is this fact that William Hill Morgan of Kentucky, makes use of In his trap, which consists of a light Inclosed In a metallic hood and provided with a re flector and glass face, the latter being set In a slantlug position. The lamp is attached to ono edge of the' tray con taining a mixture of kerosene oil and water, and the angle of the glass In front of the light causes the Insects to fall Into the liquid when they strike against the smooth surface. With a number of these traps set at the sides of a field a short distance above the planta the Inventor claims that the Injurious moths and other Insects will exterminate themselves without the trouble of searching for them. Age of Olant Tree. An age a great as five thousand years has sometimes been ascribed to the giant trees of California. Prof. Charles E. Bessey of the University of Nebraska regards this estimate as very much exaggerated. He says that he once counted with great care the rings of growth of a tree felled lu 1853, and which was fully twenty-four to twenty-five feet In diameter, so that Its stump served as the floor of a danc ing pavilion. The rings numbered 1,147, and that number would repre sent the age of the tree In years. Prof. Bessey adds that he gravely doubts whether any of the existing trees ap proach the age of two thousand years. Darwin's Idleness, When Darwin In bis old age was bringing out his book on the habits of plants his health was poor, and an old ; . t r ' . . ; family seryant-a woman-overhearlug his daughter express some anxletr ! but her father's condition, sought to j reassure her by saylue: "HI believe master's be ball right, madam, hlf 'e only 'ad something to occupy Ms mind. Sometimes 'e stands bin the conserva tory from mornln' till night Just a looking hat the flowers. Hlf 'e only 'ad something to do, 'ed be bovver so much better, hl'm sure." No one, ft Is declared, enjoyed the Joke more than the great naturalist himself. Not a Realist. "Do you approve of realism in the drama?" "Certainly not," answered Miss Cay enne. "If people on the stage talked and behaved as stupidly as tbey do In real life there would be no excuse for going to the theater."-WashlDgton Star. . Products of the Paper. Out of every 100 pounds of paper manufactured In the world only six pounds are made Into books. Many a woman has said she would die for a man who had no notion of doing It W 4 ERA OF BIG SALARIES MEN WHOSE ABILITY COMMANDS GREAT PAY. Head of Lara- Corporattoa Wkt Draw Annually la th NlBhborhoo4 of AO,lXH) for Tholr arvlr-lloa Coalcou KiaatpUa, The present seems to be th era of high salaries. When Lyman J. Gag left hi $8,000 cabinet place In Wash tngton to becoiu Prealdeut of th I'nlted Stat Trust Company, at a salary said to be $30,000 per year, certain business uien In Chicago x pressed a doubt of his ability to earn that enormous amount. That any man should render a. m. urxAiiKi.o. actual services couuueusurat with a salary of $30,000 a year Is really beyond th understand' lug of the average toller who stipend Is $U or $3 a day. Nevertheless, In this matter-of fact age there ar prob ably very few persous receiving pro digious pay who do not earn every do! lar of It. Some months ago Secretary Gag told an assemblage of bank clerks In Denver that h could plac at least 20 young tueu. If they bad the ability, lu financial Institutions of th country at a salary of $23,000 a year ' each. Ills remark doubtless was In 1 teuded to lay stress upon th fact that j a score of young men worth $'.'3,000 each could not easily be found. Boat HIah-Balerlcd Mau Some months ago, wbeu Charles Counsetuiau waa elected President of the American Fisheries Couipsuy, a coueern that has control of many of the ranulug factories In the State of Washington and along the shores of Alaska, It was anuouueed that his sal 'ry " ,0 ,U ' "r' j f0"0' ,u,n " ' CM "J I "u " ,u" "uu "' j " , !,.," . V "., - builder of skyscrapers, a dealer In real estate and a man of large business In terests generally. II began with lit tie or no'.bing, and such education aa be possesses he acquired In tho school of experience. lie Is to-day a man of large fortune and great commercial ac tivity, still In the prime of life. There Is another Chicago man who Is said to be receiving a yearly salary so big thnt many would consider It a fair fortune after a life time of Industrious effort. This Is Con rod II. Matthteaon, President of the Chicago Sugar Ite Culug Company, some times called th Glucose Trust, lie Is now about S3, and his annual salary has been va riously stated aa $05,000 and $73,000. . oaby. At any rate, it Is big enough to be high ly exceptional It is but fifteen years since he left college, and at first he worked ten hours a day, carried bis lunch with htin, and earned $12 a week. Step by step he mastered every de tail of the business aud rose to be manager. Then a crisis arose, calling for the highest executive ability, and be was equal to the emergency. Uls company was In a rate-cutting pool and Its profits bad disappeared. Upon his aggressive Initiative It withdrew from the pool, Inaugurated a fight of Its own and wltblu two years was paying 30 per cent dividends. This triumph Inspired In Mr. Mattbleson an ambition to control the entire field, and this was accomplished under his direction. Most of the concerns absorbed by his com pany were losing money, but under the combine which be organised their stocks were transmuted Into gold. This young man earns bis princely salary by successfully handling $40,000,000 of combined capital and conducting the glucose business, comprising some 20 departments, In such a systematic and prosperous way that the shareholders are well satisfied. He says that bard work Is a tonic to him and be keeps at it early and late, never asking a subor dinate to do more than he does him self. He knows no other secret of suc cess. Bank President' 940,000 Balary. When Illchard Delafleld, President of the National Park Bank of New York, had bis salary raised from $29,000 to $40,000, early last year. It was aald that no other bank President In the United States re ceived such big pay for bis serv ices, Th reason given for this In crease was that the bank's business had expanded so much i c. m. Schwab. and the responsi bilities of Its executive head bad be come so great that be well deserved a alarv on,y mm leM tl)ln th.t h .1... .... come so great that he well deserved natlon. As the custodian of $70,000,000. to be successfully handled In such financial operations as are open to na tional banks, his responsibilities are tremendous. Mr. Delafleld begin bis business career as clerk In a mercan tile bouse on a salary of $5 a week. There bas been much talk about the salary of Charles M. Schwab, President of the United States Steel Corporation. It Is pretty well settled now that be re ceives $100,000 as annual salary, and an additional $25,000 as a contingent fee. A little more than two years ago, Elbert II. Gary, wbo at that time re sided at Wbeaton, 111., a suburb of Chicago, was elected President of the Federal Steel Company, which Is now an Integral part of the steel combina tion, and his salary was fixed at $00, 000 a year. Having previously been at torney for the Illinois Steel Company, be bad mastered the legal side of the great Industry before be was able to command sucb blgb wages, He spe cialized bis knowledge, and thus was able to attract the attention of the cap italist In control of the vast enter prises. As clinlrmaii of th Eiecuttv Commute of the great steel trust, h probably receive fully a much a h drew when President. Th two highest paid men In th American pulpit are Itisliop Potter, of New York, and Itahtil Kmll (l. Illmch, of Chicago, each of whom draws $IV 000 annually. PECULIAR DREAM STORY. Ladj Rao VUluas of tloaa aad ! Hr atf racatamil af Uhoat (Waa Thor. Itorar O. Uutchluson. who has been discoursing on "Dreams" In Lougmau'a Magaslne, (Ives th following peculiar tnstanc: A certain lady dreamed frequently of a certain nous until It bad becoiu exceedingly familiar to her; ah kuew all Its rooms. Its furniture; It was as well known to her aa that In which sh lived her waklug life, and. Ilk a good wife who bas no secrets from ber hus band, so often talked over all th de tails with him a very pleasant fancy. On day they husband aud wlfwut Into th country to vlow a house that they thought of taking for th summer months. Tbey bad not seen It, but the account In th boiw agent's list had attracted tbeiu. When they arrived before It they gars a slmultaueau ex clamation of surprise. "Why," aald the husbaud, "It la your dream house!" It was. Th colucldence attracted them. They took the house. In th course of their occupancy they learned that th house had the reputa tion of being baunted; that several peo ple before tbeui bad taken It for short terms, but bad seen -or fancied they bad seen-"soluetblng.', and had left before their term of tenancy expired. Had these new tenants not brought their own old servauts with them. It la likely that they would hav bad some difficulty In whipping up a domestic staff, so uncanny wss the reputation of their apparently reputable house. Th new tenants dwelt In the house with all satisfaction and peac through th summer months until their term of tenancy cam to an end. On leaving, husband and wlf expressed their satisfaction tu th local agent. "Thsonly thing." said th wlf. "that w wr disappointed In I that ws nev er saw th ghost." "Ob, no!" said th agent "W knew you would not se the ghost" "Wbst do you mean?" asked th wife, rather nettled, "Oh," th agent repeated, "w knew you would not seo th ghost! You are th ghost that people hav always soon ber." lie I lea of Manila. On th mantel In Assistant Secretary of Stat Crldler's office at the Stat Department ar several Interesting rel ics of th famous battle of Mnull In the hap of fragments of a shell from on of Admiral Dawey's six-Inch guns and several large shells raptured at Cavlt arsenal after the defeat of Moii tejo. These relic were preaented to Secretary Crldler by Consul Wlldman. ana tneir history is Inscribed upou them. The fragment of the six Inch shell, which Is rusty from exposure to rain, smashed the Spanish command ant's house at Cavlto, destroyed $10,- 000 worth of property and killed five Spaniards. The shells, from which the charges bar been removed, arc unlike any that are In use In the service or this government. They are about eight Inches long, one Inch lu diameter, an I the bullet Is mado of steel Instead of lead. Around the bullet la a band of brass, which shows beyond question that the Spaniards were using aiiimu nltion which la proscribed by civilised nations, Although Secretary Crldler receives relics from consuls In all narts or the world, be prlxea none so highly as he does the piece of projectile which did such effective execution In the first foreign war In which this country has been involved since the war with Mex ico, and which was the means of rsls lug American gunners In the eyes of all the nations of the world.-Washlng ton correspondence St. IauIs Gloho- Democrat Same Old Trouble. It was a frequent custom with Lin coln, that of carrying bis children on bis shoulders, says th Literary Di gest, lie rarely went dowustreot that he did not bar on of his younger boys mounted on bis shoulder, while another bung to the tall of his long coat. The antics of the boys with their father, and the species of tyranny they exercised over blm, are still subjects of talk In Spring-Held. Mr. ltoland Dlller, who was a neighbor of Mr. Lin coln, tell one of the best of the storlos, II was called to the door one day by bearing a great noise of children, and there was Mr, Lincoln striding by with the boys, both of whom were walling aloud. "Why, Mr. Lincoln, what's the matter with the boys?" he asked. "Just what's the matter with the whole world," Lincoln replied. "I've got three walnuts, and each wants two." Chinese Nervelesane. A North China paper I rcsuonslbls for the statement that the mmiir nf nervelessness distinguishes the China man from the European, The China man can write all day, work all dnv stand In one position all day, weave, beat gold, carve Ivory, do Infinitely te dious Jobs for ever and ever, ami 1i. cover no more weariness and Irrltatlou than If he were a machine. This qual ity appears In early life. The China man can do without exercise also. Sport and play seem to blm so much waste labor. He can sleen anvwimm amid rattling machinery and deafening uproar. He can sleep on the ground, on the floor, on a chair, or In any po sition. New York Ledger, A Hag-Tim Comment. "The refrain," we said to our neigh bor at the vaudeville performance, while the popular ballad was being ren dered, "Is prettier than the verses." "Yes," he agreed. "I wish he would refrain altogether." Baltimore Ameri can. Berlin' Criminal Ilook. Berlin's Black Book, the criminal roc. ord kept by the police, now consists of thirty-seven volumes, containing 21,000 photographs of criminals of all classes. Mnnv a irlrl'a Hlutniit ., m " ' ' MIDIIUCI IIJIIJT be traced to the fact that she bad on ions for dinner. k little guying Judiciously adminis tered often make a weak man strong, "I wonder why tbey haven't started any yellow Journals In Cuba yet?" "I don't belter tber ar euougb Ameri can ther to support on." I.lf. Not Much Hurt. Kltber: "Y, a sign blew down aud hit hint, and h got fifteen hundred dollar damages." "Quit a wludfall, wasn't ttr-Ki. Th principal Ingredient In all the patent medicine I th Mine." "It must b a powerful drug. What Is III" "Printer's lnk."-Towo and Country. Ksther Now, rememlK. I bsv for bidden you to go out with young Tomp kins; don't let tti cstch you together again. "No, ppa-w'll try not to." Llf. In Pursuit of It: Bmltho-HelM Flu day! Ar you out walking for your health? Smyth-Yes; I am go ing to th doctor'.-ImllausiHill News. AU's Fair to lllm: Street car Con ductorHow old la that boy, lliadaiu? l-ady Why do you ask? Conductor Uecsus It's & tin question. Chicago Nws. Sympathetic: Daggs-I'd hav you know, sir, that my ancestor were blu blooded. Dlggs-Too bad; why didn't they tak something for It? Ohio Stat Journal. When a worklngman baa a Job, th presumption I that h I an honest man. When a politician bas one. th presumption Is th other way. Phila delphia Ilger. Photographer Now, I . want you to look a If you wer not having your plctur taken. Customer Then you'd better glr m back th deposit I mad In advance. Llf. lutereatlng and Eicltlng: "I no ticed a larg crowd gathered In front of your bou this umrulng. Worrit; what was lbs matter?" "I was dis charging th cook." Ex. Mrs. U'llourk (to rharltabl old Mr. Hartwell, wbo Is giving away poultry to th nedy-Long llf tu yer honor; stir, I'll nlvvr see a goo agtn, but I'll thluk of yes!-Harlein Llf. A Sinecure: Mrs. Plyun-An' phwal's yer son Molk dolu' now, Mr. Casey? Mr. Cssey-Shur, Molk ain't doln' annytblug, Mrs, Klynn. II' got a government Job, Islle's Weekly. "Say, my unci dat's visiting u has got a woolen leg," "I'gh! dat's nuth In'. When I waa down ter Nw York I aaw a man dat was all wood In froul of a cigar stor."-Leslie's Weekly. j Reduced to a Good Hauls: "Well, bow doe It seem to I engaged to such ! wAnltttv irlrlV "fc'tiln! l--r flm I kiss ber I feet aa If I wer taking th coupon off a government bond."-Llf. A Fight Jury: Western Judge Ha the Jury com to an agreement? For man (with a oroken not and black eye) I don't know, yrr honor. Moat of them are unable to speak at present -Smart Bet Candidly Avowed: "What do you In tend to do when you ar out of pub lic lifer asked the friend. And with out a moment's hesitation Senator Sorghum auswered: "Get In agaln." Waahlngton Star. Wife I am going down town this morulng to try snd match a pier of silk. Husband -Very well, my dear; I'll tell th cook to save som dinner for you, and I'll put th children tu bed myself.-Tlt-Hlts. Ills Wsy: ftabhatu School Teacher When very angry, what should you do? Johnny Thlcknerk-Knock th other fellur down, sit on his bead, and then count one hundred that's th only saf way, ma'am. Judge. Go-as you pleas Punishment: "Did pater familias shoot th burglar h found lu th bouse?" "No! Much worse than that 11 mtd the man walk up and down with th baby till the break of dawnP' Judg. "Why ar you crying, little boy?" "One of them artist paid me a dim to sit on tbs fence while be sketched me." "Well, Is there any bartn In that?" "Yes, sir; It was a barb-wlr fence." Philadelphia Record. Mrs. Jenkyus I see Mrs. Hoetong I going to bave "King Lear" at ber next prlvato theatricals. Mrs. Newrlcb (fu rious with envy) Is she? The affected thing. Do you know, I don't bollov he's a real king at all.-Tlt-Rlts. Apt Comparison: "When I see what Barlow accomplishes I am forced to admiration," said Bunting; "he has great physical endurance." "Sure," re plied Gargoyle; "that man has the con stitution of a debutante."-Rasar. Where Tbey Flourish: Crawford-It you're not going out to buy a new hat, but merely to look at them, whnt do you want with a dollar? Mrs. Craw fordWhy, you can't get a decent seat at the matinee for less than a dollar, Ex. The Boston Variation: Bacon They Dover say In Boston that a child Is born with a silver spoon In Its mouth. Egbert What do they say, then? Ita con That It came Into the world with gold-rlmmad eye-glasses. Yonkers Statesman. Reminiscences: lie Ab, those days of our young lovel You remember that afternoon you promised to meot mo. and didn't come? How I ravedl Sh -Just like a man! And there I was suffering agonies trying on that dress you liked so much. Life. - Japan's One Orphanage. Japan bas only one orphanage, ret In no other land are fntlierless children better cared for. Every family cares for the sick, destitute or orphans near est to It There Is a superstition that a childless bouse Is accursed. Realty Hales In England. Realty sales In the Cltv of London during 1001 were 5,553,008. compared with 4,034,700 In 1000 and 8,200 314 In 1800. After having reached tbe aero mark a society girl's age resembles lb loco- motion f a crab It goes backward. t -r rf-