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-jJpHTHA LAUNCHES. dE REMARKABLE RAPID GROWTH T OF THI3 NOVEL CRAFT. gotta" Poeelbllltlee-Th Cunning " u r I' u"l Chiefly Aaxlllarle 0, 111' Taehte Tb Coat of an OrilaMT Twntj-n-Footr Por Hoar. Kipbtha launches appear to be estab- tJLd far " tb9 PurP3e ,ur tdcb np to the present they have been Jlnied are contyrned. Few inven Tl! have been wet with deep?r preju j'Tikniust tlww and" wttb quicker ac- Mace at the same time. At first ryboJy was afraid that they would loJe. tor naphtha In its various uses k!i been on record as a terrible destroyer i tnUinnlication or iinnroD.T A TORPEDO SHOOTER'S 8T0RY. rho Thing, n. Thongbt of During i night Through the Air. J.ot every day does one meet with a man who has been M feet through the air and lived to tell of it i but such a man is Juhn McCleary, who lives in a comfortable home in Green point with bis wife and two children, nd drives custom house truck down town for a living. He was at lunch : tear by when one of the steam-heating i explosions at the corner of Broadway u uiiaju mo piace, and so was a reporter. The atmosphere was con. iucive to explosive story telling, and McCleary told of his experience to an interested group, and produced a number of newspaper clipping to veiify the ex traordinary occurrence. One of them was from the Eldred (Penn.) Eagle, and it called McCleary the hero of the nitro glycerine explosion at Haymaker, Pa., In 1UQI 1 ...II il.i . ... m IT Drecludes any possibility of explo ' 1? "al ""T jtcn or Wat least, is what the in-: b.fld B tody thm manufacturers sav. end d.unn L s fll8ht of "venty-five feet enter " - ; ' - . inrongn the air. (nce i-jS-SK McCleary explained that he wa, what gBtement That tlie yacutinx public , h k j the explosion took place I was probably twenty feet from the stuff. I saw a PETROLEUM'S RISE. ilTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND GROWTH OF THE OIL FIELDS. The method, however, by as a v;-). nanhtha is made to serve blinding flash as if the world had sud denly taken fire. I knew that I made an , attempt to run from the derrick. I felt ' that I had maybe a minute to live, and I remember resolving to occupy that minute in running. All at once it seemed to me as though in the attempt I had taken a fearful leap, and that I was going down down as one in a dream. I knew intuitively that the explosion had taken place, but I had not heard the report, strange to say. Everything looked blue, and I began to wonder if the explosion had killed me and if I was dead. I cal culated how many others were dead. 1 could hear their widows crying and I witnessed their funerals. I suppose it took me ten seconds to bo thrown to where I was found, but it seoniod to be tun years, and I had time to think of a thousand different things. 'Finally I lost consciousness, and that was when I struck the ground, I sup pose. 1 was badly broken up, ana iinuuy gave np 'shooting wells for good anil came to New York. No, now that 1 realize the great risk, the hazardous life, the abnost daily danger of death, I would not go back to it again for a farm." New York Times. No Evidence to the Contrary. A young Catholic priest, shortly after beginning his labors in his first parish, received a visit from one of the older fathers. Anxious to show the progress he had mado he called up a class in cate chism for questioning. "Biddy Moloney," he began, "stand nn." A slip of a girl, with blue eyes and brown freckles, arose in her place. "What, Biddy," said tho young father, "is meant by the howly Btate of matri-monyT "Shure," began Biddy glibly, ' 'tis a sayson of tormiut upon which the soul inters to fit it fer the blissid state to come." "Oehr cried the questioner, angry and mortified: "to the foot of the class wid ye. Biddy Maloney. It's the m'auing of nnroratorv ve're afther trivin'. But here the old priest interposed with a quizzical smile. "Not too fast, me young brother," he said restrainingly "not too fast. Fer uught you and I know to the conthrary the gurrul may be perfectly right" Harper s Magazine, llv has accepted tins is evidenced i ... , ,1 fl h fact that nearly 600 naphtha , ,.hp are now in use, and that man- Jfjctnrers are crowded with ordora months in advance The inventor of the naphtha motor is Ur August W. Ofeldt Tho launches Lje under his Invention, wherein naphtha is the exclusive motive ma terial, are not now in his control, for he .J hjj inventor's interest in the patent Mr. Ofeldt was born in Sweden about jfty years ago. and he gained his scien tific and mechunical education thi;re. He came to this country twenty years m It was while he was working with inline that the idea of utilizing naphtha is motive agent occurred to him. That was ten years ago, and for five years he itudied and experimented before he con itrncted an engine that satisfied him. Xlmt engine ia still in use in New York raters, and generally appears at events here naphtha launches are likely to be. It is set up in a small black boat that looks as if it might once have been a lowboat, and its name, painted in con Icuous white letters, is "The Original iio. 1 " When J. A. Bostwick, Clement Gould, John J. Amory. Edward V. Cary, and others with capital took up the invention, they began making boats specially de nied tor the naphtha engine, and even hTllv thev acquired Mr. Ofeldfs interest. The inventor says that there is still room for improvement in the engine, and that he proposes some day to bring out one that will open a new era in pleasure navi gation, and possibly lead the way to the BSS Of napnina in uirgur uiwuracuwr nriutfL At present naphtha launches are used Jmost exclusively as yachts, though tln-rn are ferries here and there over which nassemrers are carried on them. and some of the larger steam yachts have abandoned steam launches for naphtha boat as tenders. People who not familiar with them are often as tonished to see a trim little boat, with a bright brass funnel in the extreme stern, icooting speedily about, emitting a rapid, pattering cough, but showing no sign whatever of smoue or cinders, i uu i uu nel is apparently all there is to the en gine. boiler or coal bin, if the term may be used. If one could look down at the bottom of the boat, beside the base of the fun nel, one would see several small wheels in a complex arrangemeut. a gauge, tramD handle, and on a bar runnin: across the boat four cocks. That is all one could make out of it unless one were an expert mechanic, and all one would nl to know about it in order to run the boat, except that the supply tank of naphtha is under the forward decs, con nected by pipes with the gauge, pump and cocks. The celebrated inducement set forth by another concern might be modified by the naphtha launch manu facturers into "You turn the kuob and we do the rest" The amateur needs only to know what will be the effect of turning each cock and when to pump in order to be captain, crew, stoker, en gineer and pilot of his launch, for steer ing also may be done at the engine, so simple is the task of looking after it It takes five minutes to get up ' 'steam," to use another misnomer, on a naphtha launch. Then all that is necessary is to work the pnmp a stroke or two, apply a match to an opuning in the surface of the funnel, turn a cock, and let her go. From that time the launch will go con tinuously for fifty hours. Then the sup ply will be exhausted, and the forward tank will have to be replenished. The engine may be stopped at any instant by shutting off the supply of naphtha, which is equivalent to turning out a gas jet, and the engineer may go home at once, with no cleaning up to do and no fires to rake down. These launches are from eighteen to fifty-three feet long. The draught varies from eighteen to thirty-eight inches. Six to ten persons may be carried safely in the smallest boats. The most popular style of launch is the twenty-five-footer, in which there is room for twenty passen gers. It costs fifteen cento an hour for the power necessary to run a boat of this size. A curious use to which naphtha en gines have been put recently is as auxil iaries to sailboats. There are five or six yachts on the sound, yawl rigged, that have naphtha engines and screw wheels. They are so constructed that the wheel does not impede the progress of the boat, ftnri tho nnuo nnvha tllTTIpd On. WneO once started, at an instant's notice. The utility of this device is apparent in case of calms, when the engine will send the boat along at six miles an hour. Tne engine is also used in putting about, tnis maneuver being accomplished with re markable celerity when the power is ap plied. The speed of ordinary naphtha UnnrVioa im nhniit vn miles an hOUT with ft fnnr.Vw.ru nnwer enirine. Some launches with six-horse power engines have made a recorded speed of ten .stat er mi la. . hnnv TVi anned miXbt M increased by putting in engines of greater horse power, but this would add so con siderably to the expense that the manu facturers have not as yet deemed It ad visable to construct such boats. Xw lork Sun. At the Paris exposition a medal was awarded The Teacher, a Journal first is sued three years ago by Miss .Jiary i. tlargrove. a teacher in the puDuc and then 23 years of age. This young publisher has not only ceased to teacn, but has transferred the business of her oagazine to other bands, having her toe whcEy employed in editorial duties. Kind Treatment. "How did the wind treat your asked a Cower of the field as a leaf fluttered to round. "Oh, very well Just blew me o an swered the loot-Sew fork BmoH. Feminine Qualltle In Great Hen. Furthermore, I believe that in the highest minds a certain intermixture of this feminine element of intuition with tho masculine element of pure reason is always present. Great wits j uuip; thai is to say, they are essentially luiuiuvr. They see at a glance what plodders take years and years to arrive at. There U in aU genius, however virile, a certain un dercurrent of the best feminine charac teristics. I am thinking now not merely of the Raphaels, tho Shelleys and the Mendelssohns, but also even or me new tons, the Gladstones and the Edison. They have in them something of the womanly, though not oi we wumuuwu. In one word, the man of genius ia com prehensively human. As he always re sults from a convergence of many fine stocks upon a single point, so aiso, u seems to me. he often results from a union or convergence of male and female qualities. Grant Allen in Forum. Heart Failure. So Called. TTnrt failure" is interpreted at the health office as meaning heart disease. Dr. McShaue, assistant neaitn coiuiuur- i a.1..... V.,.ltl ifimml'wfllflTI. sioner, wno is acting u"" v er in the absence of Dr. Rohe. says that heart failure lr no disease itseit. uui a result of a disease, and simply meana ,.a;a n-ftiit nf breath." Heart dis ease itself, the doctor says, is an indefi nite term as well as heart iwiiirc, there are many kinds of disease of the heart There are no meuicai which give heart failure as the cause of death, as the term simpiy meu - - nreof the vital powers irum may be the cause. The term heart fail ure is used of late years because the doc tors have nothing else to say, and in many instances it is assigned as a cause when a physician has not made a proper diagnosis of a case.-Baltimore Sun. rtHmm of Row. throughout the immense empire of Russia, wi h i total population of 108.787.235. only thirty-six taininir more than 60.000 in- than 100.000. The Utter in deeding order, were: St Petersburg 861,803), 7M.4091. Warsaw (4M.29S). Odessa "(2 0.000). Kiza (176.332), Khar vwn! 420). Kiev (lCi.561). Kazan (iSl tratoT (122.829). Tashkand 21 410 Kichenev (120.074). Lods d", 413) and VUna (102.643).-Exchange. As a result of experiment and re .earch, Mr. William Marriott of the ESS, Meterological society clam at tiunderstoros are not of an erraticnatur. as generally pred. He describee them as consisting of SmoSheric whirls" following law, i those of other cyclowc turbancea-ru'mv " BftbTae Umf R. fW- Babiesdont cry for the sake of Jvimr or to make others oncomfort So ?ney know no such thing M Son, wd hence cannot cry &, ar A baby cannot ear X)ld, To Land on Which the rtnl Well Was Found Waa Traded for n Cow Man Men Were Bulned Uefore Fortune Were Mado Xante of tome Early Welle. Very few people are cognizant even In western Pennsylvania of the rapidity of development in the petroleum busi ness from tho time, thirty-seven years ago, when it was known as Soueca oil. Active operations begun in ISoS, when CoL Drake, of New liuveu, was em ployed to sink au artesian well for Bis sell & Eveleth, who hud leased the Titus ville oil springs in 18.t from Brewer, Watson & Co., paying them $3,000 for a ninety-nine year lease. A few years before the land had been traded to a man named Cha.se for a cow. At first DUsoll & Eveh-th bad trenches I dug. which tilled with water and oil, and this was pumped into vats. The well drilled by Drake struck oil at a depth of O'Ji fait It September it pumped forty barrels a day, which sold at SO cents a gallon. It began to hurt the coal oil distilleries which made oil from shale and cunnel coal. Operations spread down Oil creek, and in December, 18o0, a well was struck at the Buclmnan farm, near Rouseville, but it was a small one. Mr. Harper states that the first crude oil delivered in Pitts burg was from the Albion well, on the Allegheny river, owned by Phillips, Frew & Co, This well made fifty barrels a day. The oil sold at 30 cents a gallon, with the provision that the barrels be returned. The machinery, supplies and men necessary to drill the well were shipped in the old canal packet Crystal Palace. WIIES WELLS irCLTlPHED, In 1800 the petroleum trade began to be recogulzed as a business worth some thing more than curious mention, but its mugnitude had not imprexsed itself, fur the people riKed production of crude in gallons and not in barrels. There were no oil exchanges to rouse public at tention. Some big wells made their ap pearance, but nut many. The Hamil- ton-McClintock. two miles above Oil City, started off at sixty gallons a rain ute, and was worth 23 cents gallon at the wells. The Economitos began to rake in shekels at Tidioute, and refineries began to spring up in various places. Crude sold in this city at 00 cento a gal Ion. Royalty to land owners, now ranging from one-eighth to one-fourth delivered in pipe lines, then ranged from one fourth to three-fourths, and the oil was furnished to the land owner in iron hooped barrels, which rauged in price from K.50 to fa.2.1 each, this arrange ment bankrupted some operators in 1803, when the price of crude dropped to 10 cents a barrel, and they allowed many thousands of barrels to flow into Oil nwk and down the Allegheny river. As Senator Inimlls might say. their irides cent dreams of wealth were speedily dissipated. In September three-quarters of the oil in barrels furnished by the operators was paid for the lease of a lot 1 . ..... nv. ill- seveutv-nve leet trout ut ihusvuio. In 1801 the greatest wells ever struck were brought in on Oil creek. One in Butler countv. on the Marshall farm, some years ago mado a larger flow at the outset, but it did not hold out long. The breaking out of the rebellion and conse- onent Danio nrostruted petroleum misi ness in the early part of the year, but a revival of the industry took place dur ing the summer as the prospect began to grow for Increased uses tor ou. m Auirnst there were 800 wells between Oil City and Titusville. lu Soptember the Philliia No. 3, on the rarr larm, was atruck. Its first day s production was i.000 barrels. The Empire was also flow ing 2.500 a day. The oil was so plenty that wells were plugged, when thoy could be thus restrained, but many thousands of barrels were allowed to run into the creek, and the Allegheny river was covered with oil for many miles be low Franklin. GROWTH W 1803. Tr. Woodford well on the Tarr farm was struck in December and made 8,000 Anv. This well ruined the Wlivi" - "J Phillira No. 2. and in turn was ruinea. The water was not cased on m tuose il whn the tubing was drawn J ... . ,. 1 1 Int OtCUUUtTfc URtS. 4 TTrll Knni Woman Condemn It la rr I'nlntrd Leu.'ilUB. It i a f.K-t. f;!o it anyhow as we mav. that d vent women have never dre-ed w indeceiitly iu our country and mir century as they do in fiisliionable life tivl.'iy. Would tlint some enterpri- iug journal oiiijht take the iuur.il ceusns of this sub-ji-ct as a sulMitute for prize baby com Ietitio!i. We hhould like to throw down the gauntlet to the women of America: "Defend these immoralities! Speak np for yourselves if you can!" 1 do not believe that two rt-putable women in the land would d:re publicly W de fend the styles of undress which now disgrace our sex. The time has more than come for such a protest against this abomination as will smite women to the dust for shame. What is to be said? Enter anv fashionable drawing room and look for yourselves. What is said? Think of it, you ki'h born ladies tliiuk of it! In the most decorous city in our coun try a lady representing what may ie dum-vedlv called one of the "best" families in the state, Uorseii a middle , aged, queenly, home loving matron, the wife of bii affectionate Husband, tne mother of grown sons and daughters, wears ner dress out my jr-h uinuu from writing what this high bred lady does. This case, which represents scores of others, is of importance, because the , offender herself is so unconscious of her , offense, ami so far in other respects above it There is no life of concealed dishonor, no intriguo, no shoddy birth right, no fast and loose views of duty. The woman is otherwise immaculate. How explain this ethical enigma? Are mir ladies morally insane, or mentally? Do they know what they are doing? And if not, why not? How shall we charac terize the too low corsage with some nothing for a sleeve? The lower bodice with no sleeve at all? Nudity covered by transparency? And what is known as the V-back? Thev aro Mow exeme, as they are beyond explanation. What moral mania blunts the sensibilities that ought to fix the standards of a nation? What dementia deters the "ever womanly" fruin "leading ns on," at least so far that the simplest instinct of feminine modesty that which covers nakedness may keep stroke with the moral development of the age? Let it be said that gay women always have dressed Improperly. What of it? Is that any reason why they always should?-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Forum. PITILESS PARENTS. Children maltreated by cruel mothers and fathers." leeae Berrlble lutlrnnenl of Torture. Caeetof startling Nature Wrought to Light by the Peunnylraula Society for the rrotertloai of Children. . h. Pliillita the Woodford began flow' tag b. a The same trouble oeveiopea at that time on the upper end of the Blood arm It is said the boring or Uie w oo tA itpII wa Instigated by pure hog- with intent to ruin tne runups at .1 No 2. The attempt was succcssrui, uui it AiAn't tin the owners of the wood tnrA The Coauette was aieo one ui iuo old time spouters of great renown, bhe was owned by Ur. jsgoen, wno now uu hn.n,ui s.t Q(l Fourth avenne, tnis cut. ti, nar 1802 was more memorable for trade agitation regarding oil than for large wells. The market in this country broke down this year, though a .linn f refined cost in this city as much as a barrel of crude does today. The cost of hauling was immense, and pipe line projects began to taKe snap. The teamsters and their friends in the oil country were a powerful party, and i,onnnoed the nine line proposition, and some lines were destroyed in places and there were riots. Congress proposed to lay a tax of five cento a gallon on crude, more than twice what it sells for ftiul ten cents a canon on reuuw. and meetings of producers were held to protest Titusville was then the center for the producers. The cost of sending . ki f oil to New York was $7.43, and steamboato charged f3 a barrel for v. i it fmra Oil City to Pittsburg. Crude ranged in price this year from 10 Mnto in January to J.S per oarra December at wells. Some people were ruined and others made colossal fortunes .vv,. t,n th Standard hadn't been born, and the surplus was only 100,000 barrels In October. rittsourg tnut One of few. oi-TVi vnn aee that man asross Ujwu"- . ... tfie street? I tell you D ia a puooo unr factor. T l rm tlnw mnf Bjones-He keep, atill when ha haan't anything to lay.-aomcmwi' Explained. "I ffave McWatty notice to vacate my four month ago, sod he basn t . .rrlftimed so an KIT landlord. "It's no wonder be require so long to h ,h-i r.ular: "he's a chess piU'Oe k"' pUyer.' Harper's Baiar. A roof Xaa. "What doe your husband do nowf t Women' tVara. Women have their own ways of keep ing their consciences clear and tneir minds freed from all iincharitableness. One woman when sho encounters a dis agreeable jKirson goes off Into a corner and counts off on her fingers the agree able peoi,le he knows. This she doe nnt in effect, but literally as sue diik tell her beads, and sho keeps on doing it until the image of the disagreeable one is effaced. Another woman in the presence of an nnusimUv annoving circumstance waa niunrvxii fn niihook and rehook her trnvnx. The rehookiniT miscarried sev eral times to her great impatience. She was asked why then had she unhooKed it Her answer was that hooks and eyes wero the most disagreeable things ever invented. One always began to noog them in the middlo, and the chancel were ten to ono that you linked tne But this you did not know nutil you were half through and one side came out ahead. So with that, and the strain upon your Angers, you imturullv exasperated, and as they were only hooks and eyes it didn't much matter what yon said. With tho chance to free your mind other disagreeable tiiinmi sunned almost pleasant It will bo observed mat it occurrwt w n.,iti.nr f tlinsfl women, who were bow roioriniw. to fall on their knoes and asa in tho old fashioned way to be delivered from anger and ill feeling. This was not because they distrusted the efficacy of this method, but simply because they hadn't at the moment, and seldom nau, tho fiinn nr tikce. Also, both being scl T.MW " I " . entific minded tho one knew mat in thought as in physics two beings cannot occupy the same space at me same now, nnrl sn nried out one thought with an other; while the other, by simply trans miitintr lmr unirrv force from an incor- ,m ..a - . , i.-.l tvim.il offonse to hooks ana eyes, mw the relief of its expenditure without its sin. New York Evening bun. MX . , 1 , i I .U. r.mu-.n i. .MTir mi uinuHwiiw.- j m . l - v kw.,mi mnre. DOUt or . , . -v Arrr "Well," antnrerra me ; bg some one-a eara, kicking tha cjog , dlflemit paper and ul . . . i-on.i ftntica wnicn ' . . i n ii mHii ean indulging w 1lMm. m. ' inch flomautle Affair. Rim nu a convalescent from la grippe, and as she loaned back in the depth ol her easy chair she played with the roses In W bin. which had been brought hot by the first caller she had been able to receive, and smiiod over some awn ii waa tellinir her of a summer at well, wo'll onlv sav at a certain fashionable wntiirinir rdace on Narragansott bay, "One of the beauties whom 1 used to see at the casino," said he, "was a young tnnrriwl bnlle about twenty-three four, 1 should think, and her husband was about sixty, and It waa great tun wfttliinir them. There was such a good tnr hfm. Hde truth it was, too, about y . j . t.. fhnir ATitrairpment. lie caueu uv uh flveninir and offered his heart, hand and fortune In correct style. Xfl Rud said she 'must ass mnmmA. and covly tripped np stairs mamma, who told ber that every girl did not get such a chance as tuat, ana ha was to accept him. "Down she went, picturing the ardent lover awaiting her return with anxious, throbbing heart and found tne oia gen' tlpman comfortably asleep in the big gest armchair, while an occasional snore attested to the depth of his slumbers." "I hope she didn't wake the poor oiu thing np," said the convalescent, when she got her breath again after her laugh. "Oh. yes she did. Catcn ner losing mat chance! She woke him up and told mm it was all right and she'd have him. Boston Saturday Gazette. French Fanelaa, Thev reeosrnize American celebritiea In Paris after a truly French fashion. They invent sometlunjr at which noth ing imaginable could persuade the ce lebnty to loolt twice, ana men iuc call it by his name and are happy For instance, the liuffalo necklet ana bracelet named for Hon. William F. Codv. are narrow bands of gold, whence depena inngc oi crjiuu. vaguely and sweetly called "Mexican stones'' by the Parisians. Then there) is the Edison truuk, a fat little box with a carved cover strapped down with ribbons, and with big rosettes set on wheresoever ruocw wui and filled with sugar plum, about as saggestive of Edison a a palm tree WOUid Da. Boston immor It hardly seems possible that a man with tho figure of an athlete and the strength of a Samson would deliberately strike a child of six years full iu the face with all the force of his brawny fist, and, as if to make it further deplorable, the poor, defeueltM little creature, his own offspring. But such brutes exist, and this cae is considered a mild one in the annals of pitiless deeds that come under the notice of the Pennsylvania Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty. At the society's new home Mr. Crew, the enthusiastic secretary and prime mover in ull the good work done, in a conversation yesterday unfolded exieri- I euces such as would appear to belong to the times when torture was a recognised mode of punishment for old and young. Some of the cases would put to blush even the most cruel practices of those olden days, and yet they are occurring daily here iu Philadelphia, and the victims ono nnd all are children. To the parents who regard the treasure in their homes as tho most priceless boon that heaven ever bestowed, and whota every thought is for the care and com fort of their little ones, this society pecu liarly appeal. How a mother's heart will bleed if through accident or disease a littlo sou or daughter must endure the pangs of suffering, and if punishment must be in flicted it falls more heavily on the nareuts than on the little offenders. Yet there are mothers, and fathers, too, who somehow seem to have beeu given the children, but the love that comes with the first weak cry has never found a place in their hearU. To them they are a burden, a constaut source of annoy ance, and only fit to slave and toll, aud as their reward receive culls aud kicks. scar aud bruises. A CHAMDKR Or 1IORRORH. In their new building the society has secured a long felt want Supplied with every convenience and many comrorta it must apear a veritable haven of refuge to the little waifs that are rescued rrora the streets or out of the clutches of the inhuman monsters thoy call father and mother. In a room set apart for the purpose is collection of straiis, whiiie, bludgeons. knives and chains, au asortment worthy of a chamber of horrors, yet each one has been taken from the bauds of some fiend in human form, and bears a history that seems almost improbable in this city of homes. A heavy chain, thirty inches long and weighing trom tour to six pounds, with links strong enongh to soeure some wild beast, was taken from around the neck of a frail little boy, whose case had been reporUHl to the society by outsiders, who heard the child's crie at the torture inflictod. His little sister, frightened at the ter rible punishment, attempted to escape by crawling under tho tame, ine in human father ceased from beating the boy and turned his attention to the little girL He dragged her out by the arm, then holding her by the ankles he thumped her head np and down on the floor until the child became unconscious. When the officers of the society arrived at the house it was discovered that the child's wrists and ankles were broken and she had to be at once removed to the hospital. AN INHUMAN MOTH ICR. Another case in which a woman and mothor flmires Is one of the most heartless instanoos on rocord. Along, cruel knife elicited the history, and for cool, hard hearted indifference it has no eaual. A woman with her three chll dren, living tu one of the worst sections down town, reveled in all sorts of vice and wickedness and regarded her little one as obstacle standing iu her way, Of a very oxcitable and ungovernable disposition at all times, she was, when under the influence oi unua, a veniauw fnry, and had frequently beaten them with heavy clubs, uiuugoous oi woou with Drotrudinir nails, and, in fact, any thing she could lay her hands on, until their bodies and faces were in the most fnarful condition. Not content with this, she turned them out in the streets one bitter win ter's day insufficiently clad, and too ter ror stricken to attempt to return. Neigh bors saw them. aud warned ner that unless she speedily gave them shelter complaint would be tnade against ner, Uwimr to this threat she took them in, but only to vent redoubled rury on tne ftlreadv half dead children. That night one little chap, worn out with the trials of his lot and exhausted by lack or rood nd ill treatment, fell into a sleep only to be rudely awakened by heavy blows because be breathed too loud. The final out which brought her before the magis trate was that of stabbing her little gtn because she asked for a piece of sugar. On beinif bronuht up for examination she expressed no regret for what she had done, but said she hoped the child wmdl die. as it would only take fifteen dollars to bnry her, and she would be through with "the brat" rmiaaeipni; Time. A CITY IN MINIATURE. The Curlou and Itewarkahly Perfeel Maiiufni'ture of a llellrr.l .Merchant. Alois Peteler. of New Durp, a I., a former resident of the city of Heidel berg, Oertuany, ha built a erfect 'pocket edition" of theold German liera, in which he was liorn and raised. With numerous photographs, drawing and plaus of Heidelberg, aided by a thorough knowledge of his subject, Mr. Peteler began the foundation of hi littlo city, and now, sitting on his front porch, he can overlook the roof of thi town of Lllliput. and into the courtyard of the great castle, so rich in romance, tradition and folklore. Every detail of the original city is reproduced with the fidelity of tho photographer. From the balcony it is easy to Imagino that it is the real city, only dwarfed by a distance of a few miles. Looking over the battlements of the miniature houses one can see the turbu lent water of the Neckar hurrying past to join the Khine. The little city is made to endure. There are no make shifts, uo glue, pastelxmrd or carjiet tacks everything Is stone, cement, gravel, bras and iron. Tho buildings are ujnm a plateau of stonework, elevat ed from tho ground four or five feet The house vary from one to five and a lialf fn-t in height, tho tall towers run uiug up from seven to ten feet Mr. Peteler has reproduced with the greatest fidelity over KH) bust of the electoral governors, which aro used in decorating the fronts of the palaces. Even the coata-of-arms and nnitrterinirs over the entrances are plainly cut. The old man take pleasure in showing visitors a fac-simile of tho famous Heidelberg tun. It is really 00 feet long and 23 high. The little model is 13 inches in length and alaiut 8 inches high. Iu another part of the grounds the sea water is let in by pipes, and forms an artificial lake in which the title risi-a and falls. Upon a promontory which juts into tho lake stands a model of the lieautiful castle of Hohen-Sch wungen. Its towers are nearly 10 feet hlirh. and with its cluster of bulldiiiirs i picturesque and beautiful. Mr. Peteler is a retired confectioner, with millions of dollars, thousands of widt h he has put luto his miniature Heidelberg. St Louis Republic It Larked Llio. Almost every littlo community contains at lwutt ono iHnwn, usually a woman, wno biuhmuti to man morbid pleasure in attending f uno- rala. She coon whether or not Bhe waa Intiuinto or even nonuiuntotl with tho decemtol person. It is enough for her thnt thoro ia to be a funeral Snob a woman lives In a littlo Con necticut town. She is known to all her neighbors na Aunt Hotty. In most mqHct8 sho is liko a good many other hnnuloss ami well meaning oeotilo. but those- who know her well any thnt bIio counts thnt week as lost in whitii there lins teen no tunerai to attend. Sho hntl just returned from one the other iluy looking rather downcast, hen a neighbor mot ner, "Been to tho funeral, Auntllettyr "Yes. I went, "She wasn't a particular friend of Tours, was she? "Oh, no ; l never spoke to ner in my Ufo." I thought sho might be a friend, tou looked so sail over it" "Well, truth is, i couiun i seem to eniov it somehow. 1 don't know just what the trouble was, out mere didn't seem to bo no life to it Youth's Companion. NEAR AND PAR. AS the Little End of Nowhere 11 red a i little mem ' He bad nobody fur company but littlo blaok and tan; 1 Tbere wa not much to do there, a porbap rou will (uppiwe, lot a be had no neighbor, ft bad rtattaer friend, nor lure. j And an he fell to wondering, and wondered nliihl and du i 1 wutider why the people lire to very far a arl They uiu.t find II Inoonrenlent, 1 iboald think 4'itrenicly tol for when thry com here, thry will bar to very far in go! , At uvt he took high rranlre; hsealdi "IU ga and mo Wby tlie luhgulded people llv to far away from ni'l Prrbmn It Ii thrlr Ignoraore, and leas art tui'tn etralKht ' llefore they gruw eo very old that It will be too lam: So be walked and walked and walked and walked until he found a city. And to the people be etpreued bl wonder mi'iit ami I'lly. lie waarnmplrul)' tbumleratruck wbe aome one chaiirnl to utt'. TU you, my worthy little friend, wbo Ur as far au ay!" fie went home pondering deeply; he aaldt "It cannot M That irron l Intaue-'tl they that Ur to fur from nw Out I'll he pntlrnt with them, and perhaps they'll Itiirn. Mime day. That tuelt a ilhtauee from my bom moat mil lie far awny! -Margaret Vaudrgrlfl In St. Nicholas. Kol tb Spelling. A anlld ronna fellow who had been writ. Ing a letter with a pencil got up from hi teat In tbe Erie aepoi ior a irou aruuuu, livlnir hi unfinished letteron the tat A man cams In, took the scat to wait for bis train and loan alwcnt way picked up tbe missive. He beld It in his bsnds when the young man returned and said: "That s my letter, mister. "Well, you can have it," ws the reply, T)lrl rnn lead It?" "va That U. I alaneed over a few lines of it, and noticed that hardly a word wa spelled correctly." "It Is a letter to my girt" "Yes." "Girl I'm going to marry." v "And I don't care a cocked hat aboot th spelling. What I want to Impress on thst girl Is luv, l-u-v, snd lot of It, fortbero s iixty acres of land snd a sawmill behind ber." New York Bun. Style In Wooden tege. Tho ileiiiiind for willow wood for artificial legs hu grown immensely in nx-ent yours. The funny men on tho stage talk glibly or cork legs, out light willow limbs nro more popular. English milkers clnun that the best willow iu the world in to lw found aloiifr tho bunks of the small streams in their southern counties, and there swum sotuo ground for their conten tion, although nn immenso quantity of gixsl willow wood is cut every year in this country. Stitistieiuna say that over 1,01)0,000 English speak ing men wear or wuik ouwooaon leirs. and tins ueeouuU for the enor mous truth) in limbs of this kind. The old fashioned stump with an iron tip on it is seldom seen now. It was a great Bumtss in its duy, and with mtsonublo enro and luck lasted clone on to a lifetime; but it was toe awkward nnd conspicuous, not to say noisy, to bo popular. Tho modorn wooden leg is more costly, but it is much more comfortable, and many a man who is compelled to walk by the aid of ono can give pointers In grace and deportment to others more blessed by fortune. St Louis Globe- Democrat Entertainment by Telephone. In this country the Long Distance Telephone compuny makes a special foature of giving concerts anu enter tainments by telephone to largo gntn erinirs in towns where tho long dis tance service is tntroauceu ior uie first tiino. These entertainments are gonerally couductod from the head office In New York, from which office some of the numliers in the pro gramme will bo provided, rerlinps in the New York ofllcethorewill be a itring band, a quartet, a oornot soloist and an elocutionist. The artistic en deavors of theso performers will be varied by switching on a lino to a the atiir where some popular comic opera is belnu performed, or to the house or gome favorite singer who has prom ised to sing a song at a certain hour, in this manner a largo audience at some town 200 or 300 miles from Now York is treated to a fin Ue sieclo variety en tcrtaininent that only eloctricity can provide. Electricity. or Mr. Clbbt' Annual Charily. Mrs. T. B. Oibbs, a resident of New port and a lover of little people, gives a July fete every year to which every small boy and girl in tbe city Is wel come. At the Ut fete the poor little ones were entertained in a pink and white tent big enough to cover a circus, at which many society ladies assisted. There were music, recitations and games, and each youngster received a small flaf, a W seed cake, a box of Ice cream mi twi ff ctnslt Fit" t-" Ante Like Ifumaa Being. It has been ascertained beyond doubt that In Toxasand South Amer ica, as well as in southern Europe, India and Africa, there are ante which not only have a military or ganization and wage systematic war-, fore, but also keep slaves and carry on acricultural pursuits. Ninotoen wii of ants with these habits - - , . have been already aiscovereu anu their modes of life more or less fully described. Indeed, noarly all the In- Ututions and gradations of culture and civilization which the human race has passed through, and of which wa find survivals among the different tribes of men. exist also among ants. Atlantic Monthly. Tb Want Color of a Pipe. Colonel WaCTtaff. of New York dty, has a valuable pipe on whose bowl is carved the head of an Ara bian. The colonel has used Uie ut most care In coloring the pipe, and stormed smoking it as soon as it had aYinirod the beautiful chestnut brown so highly prized by the gmokor. Curiously enough the color is a very natural one so far as an Arab ia concerned. Colonel Wax-staff is a well known collector of pipes, of which he has about fifty. -Collector. An Invocation. Jack-May I ak you to smile open tb Jockey with the red epr .ll-Whrl Tirniiu that amlle of roars la tb most winning thing I know of, and I v big money on that nor. miaou. m bul letin. . I A good book and a food woman are txcellent things ror tnose wno mow to appreciate their vain-. Th iar. men, however, waojuu- w " IfctjrfUietoecvjiriM. . ..J She Wore a Liberty flew. Among the young girls who gathered about Celia Thaxter, the authoress, at the seashore was one who wore the most extraordinary gowns. Thoy were from the famous shop In London kept by Lib erty, and were of the soft India silk, of subdued, neutral tint, so much affected by high art damoisels of the lily and the asphodel typo. The clinging uiapnonous drapery was also a concoction of Liberty, who not only imports the silks, but has them made up into sncb frocks as tne "Aiaia of Astotal," or, further back, a Greek Hobe might have worn. One of the sea shore habitues returned from the Isle of Bhoals and was catechized regarding ths high art girl. I think hor dresses are noma," one chanced to comment now can you think sor queried ths stay at home. "Why, they are Liberty gowns," "Well." retorted tho gin, "ir was is Liborty' give me death." Exchange. A rhllanthropl Duehoe. The most conspicuous toilet at the lost stato ball at Buckingham palace was worn by the duchess of Loinster. It was tier night to wear diamonds, and she fairly glittered In them. She wore dia mond epaulets, a diamond corsolet, coila of lightly mounted diamonds among the laces of her wondrous gown, a diamond tiara, diamond bracelets, a diamond necklace and more diamond brooches and buckles than the dazzled beholder could count. And yet this woman does not live for dress alone. It Is related to her credit that at Maynooth, Ireland, she ha established an industrial school for women and girls, where the pupils . . t ia..i rru- are taught various muuai.noo. m duchess herself at time teaches a class in the Institution, and the verdict la that she ought to cover herself with diamonds if she wants to. Exchange. A Sort of Digital Depreaaloa. Did you ever notice when a man smites his thumb with a hummer while putting down a carpet under wifely supervision and criticism how quickly be thrusts tue bruuteu anu tnrooomg member into bis ready mouth? People think it is because the application is soothing. But not it is ap involuntary movement, same as winking, i ne man cannot bel it Nature knows what the man would be opt to say under the cir cumstances, and so she has provided bun with a stopper and has oruainea that whenever be bite his thumb hard enough to hurt and It doesn't take very much to nearly kill a man wuen ne is doing something he doesn't want to by a sort of interlocking syBtein the thumb flies into his mouth and stops him np, so that he can't say anything, borne men whom you and I know should be pro vided with an extra thumb which they might carry about In their hand all ths time it wann't in active use. It would be a great thing, wouldn't Itl Boben J. Burdette in Ladies Home journal. Aa Aneedote of Washington. It was while plunging through ths "leaden rain and iron hail," at tbe battle of Monmouth that Washington's horse was shot under him. The chief coolly stepped from the prostrate charger, and having received from the hands of aa attendant orderly a fresh hor, ready caparisoned, he turned to the sable body servant who followed him close through all dangers, and without the presence of whose ebon visage a picture of Wash ington and his family would not be complete, and quietly said- "Here, Billy, take the saddle front that dead horse and look out for it" And then he dashed away to direct the planting of Oswald's battery. "Golly!" exclaimed old Billy, as he related the incident to one of the family on tu return home, "who ebber did see such a man a Mas'r Washington? Who'd ebber 'a thought ob dat saddle but him? 1 tell ye, mas'r remembers eberyt'ing eb'ryt'ing down to d bery littlest" Kew York lieagw.