-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.