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tioQ ""I-tu. of "In., "a it ill "1 'Hard lie clft "IB ,, Lt it n, 'lied itttm dud Dl'tU nijj'a- rig Uui si IN: tali il r. ell rom t. fin: mini t t: i ? ulttL) PfK. ski nT VnTTOHT iTP MAY win riches at last YOU WORK HARD. IF Mit't !! Acumulld Rip. 1"" i,. " ' I . L- - a Hnnnil Mil V i . l' l.ilmi.. H ! jt f .,lHXI W'-l ' " ! f ii Sage i" "" 'l'8 ery few ra ' . t ll.A 1,1.1 ..n J!nssi'ii Lr rn in " i - - A-urn ........ . '(IpOI W.TO TCI on 111" PUIIUT S1IIU Ol Tim nm.v "triing... statement, it 'in truo one, aiiu, renieinixring itv. no one has euuso to feel din cami kl j. tildes; Lrap-tl i lii" n'K after wealth, pvpd eha ii.ks.-cil tln40 year limit ami is JajuKir umn. ltiHtruotli.it there obi'lieuiilix Kom.'t liiiiK or other h:w a jivuiiiuhitrd before the 40 year it U reacne.i, oni mat miiiii'tiini l-J tint uiH'i'swinly w money. Hie irrtul inai imioiii which in iir.jiiiroii I . . ...! ..! I ; I. ; . . r tv oxpt rieiiee are of teu of ureal. ue than mero ilollarH, pvcu in the niit of wealth, but in order to make I ptf use of w hat yon have learned no loiriu ncliei ulter 4() you must also i,e f'miiil out liovv to eontinuo, and hi must have eonserved your ihysicii ,1 niiutal jHiwers by riht living. It ii.ffiriilt thins ali.l requires tho excr k, uf every ability, this getting more Ln an ordinary Nharo of this world i in the face of the fierce eouieti a of today ihfreare four other fortune beside v' tiiat itaiul out pre-emineut iu licnca tsvautio ol tneir size und t tie t that each was made great almost ml the jKissibility of dissipation by i efforts of one man. 1 hese, fortunes 1 uiii.l.i by Jay t-Joul.l. Commodore Lrlfrbilt, John Jacob Astor and John I Rockefeller. Only tho last mimed ol (until is now alive. He. was well fc-tM by 40, but lie was not rii h lie ind peradventure, tiince, although his Kitiuu lief ire that tune had been on liT,w scale, lio was yet lialilo to miss aim ko to the bottom of the financial i ut any timo previonN to his fortieth irihiliv. Hm position, moreover, was it of a man who. in order to win t have faith in himself and his fmion. In faith he was not found Vauting. Ho believed that tho supply ! petroleum wus practically inexhaust itml lie went ahead on that basin, Sis mmpuiiioiis in busiuess sometimea 4'ere.l with him; but, encouraged by I- exiini)le, they all continued, and the tint has been tho upbuilding of a re iurkalile group of Standard Oil for ifiHS, of which John D. liockefellor'H is f t greatest, and some Hav the greatest the whole world. Jay Oould got rich afore 40, but tho founders of both the underbill and Astor fortunes were learcr 50 than 40 before they had got f"Ugli together to Ik. able to eousider I niseives really rich, anil the same iy be said of many lesser financial JJrhtK, les.. than those above mentioned, i yet sufficiently well to do to bo ken of us wealthy by all the rest u.t ainiiel J. Tildeu had niado some- iiignf a name for himself liefore lie s 40 and had become known to some tt iu politics, but ho did not begin lit devotion to the letral ur.ifpKsi.ui liihwcm for him great wealth till t'TWanl. lleiirv illurd. who has tieou Tiiml rich and xxr and rich again, 41 Vtlli'l). in 1S74. bn fua-m bis rations in Oregon railroads, but nine luter ho counted 000,000 us his f u. His subsequent financial fall is f !' rtiiiPintiered, un.l so is his rise to millioimiredom ufter he was Webster Wagner, whose uleeping J'l draw ing r.Kim cars go wherever go J Vanderbilt lines of rail, was a sta Ja apent t n small place on the New IT I 'ti...l ........ 1 . - 'iiimi niivu ins loriieiii oirui .rKuue. in isr.7 mi l iu art rAiii'iinnn JAMES G.II1DON BF.XXKTT. T Tears lonm-r. Hut after he bad "M to tfpt his cb('ioo for the POlil- travelers intnuluivd ho t-hortly oe a very rich man. 41ugh Levi P. Morton had mado '"une before he w as 40, ho was lie 'igover ugain at the fourth decade ' 'ir lie tad failed in his niercantilc after moving finm Boston to lork. and the aecoint fight waa ! f m hard as the first Juhn H. Star f ' steamboats are known to all J dwell i. ... v. v,.rl- hml his wealth to win ot 40. He "brtl It, a l;l.. ... 1.a l..Apilr if . " Alliit: IW U 111 iiirr mi' ' "'estate, where he carried on a small lusineM. ad kept the post. 'IbVe. A I rf iwlininistration Mariu vot.-.! ! 'v,"'tt, but Taylor was elected ie f.'1 u'n of the office, and he aotne r finnd it hard to make payments I" ther ram tn Pin.llv hA ik. . Kht himself of the value of adver- 'ltlB II.. i- y to some extent and later weut I;. . . m ITS HI ' i tW i T ,m "".murix- transportation u a ani in this 1 me. but 1, I till 1 111. . l. vm iiM rich. Hi wealth ra,Iie ,, Churle A. Danu. the ri. Ii and bril liuut hI i Mr of the New Y, tjull Wai a puor limn at 40. After hiscllege dav j be won uu enthusiastic social reformer' who would think it how to read The Sun? and its uh lv alue one of those 1 who tewunt.il tho fatiKitm Br.x.k Furm. ! Thru ho w:is a writer for the managing 1 editor of the Now Vork Tribune. uil..r I "'"l u ureeicy, at tle moderate wages of 20 , awevK. vii. u mo civil war came. Mr. imnm waa made asutstant aecretarr of war by Stanton and detailed to anty much of the time iu the field. After the war he thought himself well qualified to conduct a newspajKr and rli.we Chi ongo for its location, but the venture wa o flat a failure, that some men would have been clean discourage.L Dana was not. He went to New York und bought The Sun without money of his ow n. Ho was snro his plans, revised after his exjs rie s in the west, where ho had published an "organ," were good, and he succeeded in making a few capitalists see the matter as he miw it. The result was as he exerted. j James tJordou licnnett, the founder of tho New Vork Herald, was between 80 and 40 when he started his pajs r, bnt it was years after that when he lie- J came rich. His life dow n to the day the first number of his little penny sheet was issu.il had been a succession of re- : verses. Ho hml worked with a fierceness that knew no discouragement for wages a third chiss clerk of t.slay would turn tip his nose at, and he hail saved every j rent he p.sibly could. In Ih'M he left the New York Inquirer, on which he had be. u employed for a ime time, and, full of hope, started the New York (Hobe, but this venture failed, and for the same reason that l).ma's Chicago paper failed, some thirty mid yeaia late. 1 A T. STKWAtiT. It was an "organ," and lienuett was no mora fitted to edit au orgau than was Dana. By 1835, however, Mr. Bennett had revised his notions of tho sort of pajx-r ho was fitte.1 to mu, and one morning ho got out the first issue of the paper that was to win so much for him. His office was iu a eellur in Ann street. The counter over which the pafxTS were sold to newsboys and individual purchasers was a board resting on the heads of two barrels, and the seller of the papers was Bennett himself, seated behind tho board in a splint bottomed chair. The paper made a sensation even on the first day. Bennett bud written most of its contents himself and had slashed right and left None was too high, none t.x) low, for him to attack. Tho small edi tion was exhausted Ix fore nixm. Next day tho edition was larger. The growth continued, too, but it is doubtful if it would have succeeded ufter all had lint a pilliuaker, then well known to all the world, offered to insert a large standing advertisement in the paper un.l to advance tho payment money for the first quarter. The pilliuaker con fidence in Bennett and his Herald was justified. Tho advertising brought enor mous sales of pills, and also it tided the paper over its most critieul period. In fact, both men got rich through that ad vertisoment. Adolph t-'utro, now mayor of Pan Francisco, who well nigh immortalized himself and won great w ealth by boring a tunnel larger than any constructed be fore or since for tho drainage of mines was 4. liefore he even began to gain his fortune. Tho Into A. T. Stewart is not often mentioned nowadays, bo quickly do men forget tho very rich man who fails to found a family, but it is not inuny years since his name was a synonym of bound less wealth, and ho has left striking inomnnents in the metropolis iu the buildings where he carried on his bnsi uess and bin palatial Fifth avenue resi deuce, now used for a clubhouse. Yet Stewart did not becomo rich before 40, Jin was a merchant lx'fore that time, to be sure, und wag ooniited a successful one, but he was not yet certain that he niiuht not find, after all. that his bust uess plans were inadequate, and that he might yet have to give up tlie race lor wealth. The list of men who huve liecomerich puomrli ufter reaching middle life to make them f.mous might be extended far bevond the limits. if this article, but need not pursue the subject further. have written eiionuh. I am sure, to prove the truth both of tho old saying that "while there's life there's hojie. and Dana s pet warcry, "we may tsj hr.ppy yet, you bet 1" JU. 1. Dr.XTKK. A Bnbatitat For Oolil. A French technical paix-r, The Jour nal de l'Horlogerie, dec hi re that a new inalgam has been discovered which if wonderful substitute for gold, it con sists of 04 t.arts of copper to six parts of antimony. Tho copjx r is melted and the antimony is then added. Once the twe metals ure sufficiently fused together a little magnesium and curlxmute of linif are added to increase the density ol tin material. The pr.xluct can le drUvn, wrought and soldered just like gold, which it almost exactly resembles mi I ing polished. Even w hen exisw-d to tin action of ammouiucul salts of nitron vapors it preserves its color. Thecost ol making it is about a shilling a pound avoir.lup.iis. F.nglUh Olro. Tlie oleomargarine factory of the Ear! of Jcrsev. near Loudou. turns out 8.00' pounds of "In' margarine every week. I' was the Loudon Saturday RvieW wluol once callM oleomargarine "thut Ameri can mine ugaiust humanity and th. cw." but it would probably regan "Jersey" olei 'margar i no as the propel thing. New York Tribune. ... 7 " VV-.I LEAVES FROM HIS NOTEBOOK ON SIGN PICTURES OF BURGLARS. U'l,.i ri.iL u..t. ... .. ... ...,.. rrou, ninop ol events. ;.i. l., !,. , . l,:iI,.,rt,.ddiM,iM.s. such os smallpox. They M.r iu. ..ui, ih. tN-r.wi. of mi., havo 1 . ii singularly f.a'ul among the clilrroua Hum Which MrSU No.hlua. I Indians. The amateur Sherlm k Holmes has As a general thing the hands and feet idd.-d uuother chapter to his little note. Indian men are small und Well pro. h.k which recoi.U tho significance of I"ir",,,,"'l- trithn that aie imiNirtant clews to the Nearly all the Indian tribe had a doings of the ciiuiiiial chissis. Spots of nnle sy.tcinof hiemglyphics, that of tlie ink, cigar ashes, marks on the finger and M'emm s, in Novn SH-otia. U'lng ein tho particles of dust in the fulds of an ployed by the whites iu communicating Uiulirella ureallrloqufut to this olwrv ant seeker after truth us revealing tune, pl.u es unit uvuneti.-es in w hich jxoplo may have U-on engaged. There is a whole literature on tho niii.U of New York and vicinity, their color and con Hlsteucy and the various degree of at mospheric moisture under which they w ill bo reduced to a fluid mate, while toothpicks mid matches as characteristic of various restaurant and localities are fall of meaning. Now it aps arn, by what the amateur Mm r lock Holmes has been revealing in a in 'lit of coufideii.-e, that the dead Walls of New York, stoops of houses, basement entrances und area gateways arethesigniMists of the criminal classes, and that what look like the rude scrawl- lugs of Imivs are in reality tho secret symbols by which burglars communicate w ith each other. Chalk marks under tho edge of one of yonr front stepa may mean that your liou.-e, has been spotted and w ill be bro ken into on a certain data A rii.lt draw ing on the areu railings may to tho en-1 lightened eye of the initiated menu:' "This man has a burglar alarm on his second story windows and keewa revolv er under his pillow, but the silver is in the butler's pantry on the first floor, and tho house may be entered through the sixund basement window, where the latch is broken." I The fraternity which has developed this sign language to such a high degree I of pcrf.vtion shows considerable ingeuu-1 ity in its design, but no attempt is made at accuracy of drawing, as that would attract arteiitiou. The sign pictuiTs of I the burglars uro made to look as much like tho rui'io scraw Is of schoolings us possibly. Three figures were found scraw led on the gatew ay of one house. Tho informa tion thus pictorially conveyed was to the eiTivt tii.it the lions., was tenanted by a lady, one woman servant and a boy page. That ho wus it Isiy page was indicated by buttons on his coat, and tho servant was indicated by a short skirt, dotted to resemble a print dress. I 'Another picture iu tlie notebook of' ii,- o...,t,,..b II., i . I ,! ....II,. ,., L-l. .n K I1..UIIII1 nun 1II1IIU easily deciphered, as it showed merely a fierce bulldog guarding the house, a warning to all iiieinlx'rs of the frater nity. The next sign, taken from a house iu tho suburbs, was more mysterious and complicated, but ufxm a study it finally resolved itself into the announcement that the man who lived thero went out to business ut 9 iu the morning and re turned at II iu the evening. Another picture gathered by tho ama teur Sherlock Holmes during his pains taking investigation of this subject showed accurate information, us was subsequently discovered, upon the part of tho sign writer us to tlie interior of the house. It indicated that there were thrco electric lie lis on the windows, and that ono woman servant was employed. A crmlo draw ing taken from under the edge of a stoop indicated that the serv ant there had Ish-ii "squared," and this house presumably was just ready to bo burglarized. Some of the Ixxity expected to be secured, together with warnings as to possible difficulties to be met with wero indicated by sign picture of silver Mxxins. coiu un.l plate, together with the statement that tho place wus "Al, but there wero significant sketches of dog, a revolver and electric bells to put the thieves uixjn their guard as to what to expect Frequently the burglar, says the amateur Sherl.x'k Holmes, put these sigu pictures on houses remote from those to which they refer, and iu this cuso tho identity of the latter is revealed bv mysterious symbols. This was the case with a rudo drawing of a houso dis covered dm a street corner. It represent ed a tall houso with a lino barbed with an arrowhead leading to tho roof from the street und indicating that the Ivst method of ingress was through the roof. Tho street und uiiiiiImt of this house wore also shown by a su.i-essiou of uu mcruls which ouly tho iuitiuted could understand. Don't get frightened when you see chalk marks on your front stoop or area iratewav. Tho probabilities are that they aro merely tho idiotic scrawls of boys. At tho same time examine tliem closely, and if they seem to point to bur glarious intent or design it might not Iw a bad idea to report the matter to me police. The hitter w ill probably laugh ot yon among themselves, having not yet developed many Sherlock Holmes Dropeiisities. tint tlie Met time tno signs have been noticed will, in some iiiys- terious way, sxjii be knowu to tlie crim- inuls. und those outurprixnig gentry may be frighteued off. New York World. II Wiin'l th Flnt They were ngagcsL That was appar ent from their iwlions. They were to gether all tho time, and be tried to an ticipate her every wish, i Hoy wandered on the beach together, ami tliey sat out on the porch iu the mrxmlight, earnestly talking alxmt nothing. Moreover, he could play the flute, and they would .Kvusioniilly steal away from tho crowd around the hotel, and ho wonld entertain her with solos. But she was more worldly than she looked, and one night some of tho other guests overheard a conversation thut was unique, but not intended for their ears. 'Shall I get my flute;" ho a keL 'Oh, yes, do," she rcpli.il. Do yon like to hear it?" he in quired, fishing for a compliment "Indeed I no. "What shall I play this time?" "Anything yon wish. " "We'll," after a few minutes spent In thonght, "don't you think the 'first Kiss' walti would Is- v" appropriate Tin wished to In very complimentary. but somehow he N-enied to have mode a mistake. "No, I don't," she rvphed ahortly. "Why not?" " Y ou're alxmt three year too late. " Pitubor Dispatch. THE AMERICAN INDIAN. Ill Riail th. r are said to lie SQo l.ui-guagi-s uuil dml.vt -pokcu by tho Indi The picture writing of the McxVans Was it verv eitlnlili'li .rr.iii uf r.hvilii..t ' a with them. Most of the Indian trilns had some form of belief in a future existence, mid nearly all indicated this Ix-licf by plac ing food on the graves of the dead or providing implements and arms for use ill another world. There is no similarity of language lie tweeu the Indian dialects ami any Asiat ic tongue. The only bond of union be tween them ami the earlier Asiatio trilx's is found in tho mode of life, im plements and the like. Fort Hill, on the bank of the Little Miami, iu Ohio, has a line of earth works nearly four miles in length sur rounding it, and at various points tho wall must huve lsvn over !!U f.t't high. There aro many antiquities in Amer- ica which wero such at the coming of i too whites the monoliths of Copan and i uienq.ie. ine monuments on iiko Iiti- cacu. in Bolivia, and tluv-eof Maiisiche, iu Peru, wero all old at tho timo of the conquest. In almost all Indian Linguug.4 the word meaning "men" or "bravo men" was used us a tribal name. This is tho o'gninVanco of Onkwe Onwo, used by the Iroquois; of I nni, llhniwek and other names of Algonquin t Hives, and also of Apache. St. Louis (ilolm Dem ocrat THE FASHION PLATE. One of tho special features of the lat est Paris gowns is the Mario Antoinette fichu. Lawn collars traced with jet und steel are w..ru on simple gown if cloth or crvpo,,. Embroidered yellow pique is another novelty used for collars aud revere in blue serge gowns. Dresden and chine ribbons ure used for belts, with four straight out loops ut the back and no ends. Wuistsof white uud gray dotted mull, solid colors, with white linen collars und cuffs, are also eh gant novelties. t.1.. . .I.......1 i a e u,n .. .. a " -'"I"'" iu vniio miiKo very near anil pretty utility costumes with sailor hat on suite. Few summer dresses look cxiler or prettier than natural linen colored lawns made up simply and trimmed with insertions of white lace. A blouse waist of accordion plaited black chiffon over pale yellow satin has l.wes made iu four puffs, tho upper one being very flat, to give the effect of cape. Among the laces that uro in greatest favor this season are tx.iiite do venise, inoresqiie, chantilly, pointo do milaii, ' br.xlerio nugluiso, vulfiicicnues, points d'lrhui.les. For c.xil days nt tho seaside and in the mountains pretty bodices of challie and fine Frcuch flannel for young girls uud misses uro provided to replace starched shirtwaists. Chicago Record. TURF TOPICS. Prima Donna, 2:011 '4, pacing, ia bo lug converted to tho trot An offer of floO.OOO has already been made and refused for William J'etiu. Be careful not to feed to horses green hay that has been "heated" iu curing. (irecnlaiidcr, 2 :12, will ut any time bo matched for $5,000 iu a five mile dash. J Tlie officials of the Detroit Driving club have figured out thut its inaugural running meeting netted about 2o,UU0. R. H. Fry, the king of the English' ring, und the biggest bookmaker iu the world, never even saw a horse race un til he w us over JJ0 years of age. The dam of Five Ply, tho sensational gelding who made a record of 2 :2 1 '4' ut Lima, ()., is understood, from the reply of tho driver, to Is) "Dumtiiio. " I Governor McKinley of Ohio exhibits incipient traits of humor. Ho informs u New York editor that apparently tho horse business isiu u more stable condi tion than politic. Jockey Siinms has instituted a libel suit against Jerome K. Jerome for the slander in regard to driving u horse t.i deuth June 17, from Newmarket to Cambridge, uud hack. The Beiinings truck, near Washington, has been leased by August Belmont ou behalf of a syndicate which is said to compriso many prominent New Y'ork turfmen. Horseman. Illi lliwnci Aeomatcd Fur. "I've caught yon at lust!" cried the enraged fanner, us he stumbled over tha old darky who wu eiijoying himself lu the green middle of tlie wutermelou patch. "I've caught you ut last yon old thief, yon !" "Boss, " said tho culprit, a be gulped down the red heurt of a fat Kolb Oein, lxs, for do Lawd bit wur. all a axcer- dent how I come heah. I wuz walkin 'long do railroad de e hone' ez could be, when 'long come a freight train, en fo' I could cl'ar de track de engine hit Bio en th'owed mo clean over de fence whar I ia now, en when I full I land ker-blumiu ! on deso heah melons, en bust.il 'em all ter pieces; en when I tome to I wu. so hongry flat I des pitch in en eut op what I doue busted." At lanta Constitution. A "lllrycl Fa." POE KNEW ARGON. Th Vumt Wrol .if Ih Third CoBatltarat of Hi Aliuwphrr. Will Lord Rayleigh and Prof, ssor Ramsay have to sharu the honor of "sisiltiiig" the third constituent of the utinos-ph.ro w ith Kdgar Allan Poo? It coitaiiily looks like it. if we consider (lie evideni-e nddm-cd br u nirrestsindeiit uf a French journal, who has Isen dip- ping into the "Tales uf Mystery und Imagination." The p;iaiigo lipon which this gentleman rests IWs claims is contuiiicd iu "The I'liiiarallcled Adven- tine of One Hans lfaalL " It is worth while qnotit'g it in full : "I then took opportunities uf convey- i ing by night touretiic.l situation east of Rotterdam five iron bound casks, to ' contain ulKiut fiO gallmis eiM'h, un.l one uf u larger size: six tin tulies 3 inches ' ill diameter, properly shaixil and 10 f.vt in lenglh; a quantity of a particu lar metallic substaiict. or semiuietal, which 1 shall not name, and a dozen , demijohns of a very common acid. The , gas to lx formed from these latter ma- terials is a gas never yet generated by , liny other xtsoii than myself or at least applied to any similar purpose, I can only venture to say here that it is a constituent of azote (nitrogen), so long, considered irreducible, and that its density is a! unit U7.4 times less than of hydrogen. It is tasteless, but not odor-, less; burns, when pure, with a greenish flame mid is instantaneously fatal to animal life. Its full sivrct I would; J Uakn no liftleiilty in disclosing, but that it. of riidit liclotii-t to citw,.n ,.f Nantes, iu Franco, bv whom it was cm- ! ditioimlly commiinicatv.l to mvsclf. " I It must lxconfess.-l that the mysteri-! mlll j;,!,, evolved by tho forco of ' Poo' imagination has not it little iu common with the argon, whose acquaintance wo ure now privileged to make some fiO . years later. The "particular metallic, substance or semiuietal. " tis.il by Hans ' I'faall, has ils fellow in clevite, from ' w hich wo have been led to understand argon has been extract. .l when treated with un acid, after the manner of tho veracious Dutch ballixuiist If the new gas is not precisely regarded as "a con stituent of nitrogen, it has at least , been declared by sumo to beau ullotrop- I in Inixlificiifiiiii of it Vfi.l.utli. II.., i.lii-a. .....i ,, , , Allan P.k.'s gas are n.-t cxiu tly th.,e of urKim ,.,,,. in;l(1,d, for example, of Ixdng 1)7 tunes lighter than hydrogen, argon, we understand, is very i much heavier. It iiuihI be remembered, however, that Hans I'faall hml to make journey to the iikxhi. Had his gas been heavier, how could he havo dropped a couplo of ballast bagjsj on the head of Mynheer SiiixtIiiis Van Un.lerduk, and havo lis.qH'arcd alxtvo tho clouds al most iH'foro the worthy burgi sinister had recovered himself? Tho romancer, even when ho is a man of Ncicnce, must sure ly bo allowed a little latitude with hit chemistry. WcstmiuMtcr Gazette. THE ORGAN. Its Peculiar Fltnru For th Form of Coin liiultlnn K mi wd a th Fuaa. The organ us it existed in Bach'a day, and as iu most essentials it exists now, I is an instrument pc-uliai ly suggestive in rcrunl to the rculixi.tion nf tli.i tlnnst. ami ,niwt complete effect of harmony, I 0f i,Mlulati.in and of that simultaneous progression of moliMlics iu polyphonic combination which ia most completely illur.tratcd in the form of coitixisition I known us the fugue. It is so for two or . three reasons. In the first place it is the ' only instrument iu which the sounds are sustained with tho same intensity for any required length of time ufter they uro first emitted. However long a noto ' may havo to be sustained, it full value i there till the moment tho finger quits I the key, a quality which is invaluublo when wo lire dealing with long sns)en sioii andchaiiisof sound. Secondly, tho opfxirtunity of playing the bass with the j feet oil tho jxiluls, leaving the left hand ' free for the inner part, puts within tho grasp of a single plnyer a full and ex- j I tended harmony and it freedom in muiiip I illation such as no other instrument af-' onl. Ihlrdlv, and iii the cuso esixviul-' , - , ' ... .11 ly of fugue couiiKisiti. ns, the immense , 1.1 , 11 . 1 voluiuo and tioWer of tho pedal notes im- 1 power of tho pedal part it grandeur to the entry of tho buss pin t iu the conqxisit ion such us 110 other medium for producing music can give us. In the timo of llncli this splendid source of musical effect wu confined to the great organs of (icrmaiiy. The English organ of tho day had in general no pedal board, and it is prob ably owing to this fact more than to any thing elso that Handel's published organ music is so light, ami even ephemeral in stylo as compared with Bach's; thut he treiit.il tho organ, lis Spitta truly ob serve, meroly like a larger and more powerful hai'iisichor.t Without the aid of tho H'dal it would Is. rather difficult to do otherwise, und tho English organ of tho day wus iu every resxi't a much lighter und thinner uffuir than the "huge, house of the sounds, " tho thun der of which was stored in the organ gallery of many a Lutheran church. Fortnightly Review. II Waa I'arllrular. Iu a hotel not over 1,000 mile from Indianapolis thero i a clerk who ia very strict with the employee who come under his order and rules the bellboy and porter with uu iron hand. Tho employees have come to understand his ways, and it I iniilles to remark thut his orders aro timially obeyed with alacrity. A largo stove heats the office during the winter. The clerk had a hub it of dispatching u Isiy after a bucket of coal and saying in 11 jsTemptory man ner, "Jimmy, go out and (jet a bucket of coul; bring it in and w-t it down." One cold day last winter he culled one of the Ixiys up to his desk and said, "Charley, go and get a bucket of coal." In a few minutes the boy cumo lugging it in. He walked up to the stove und St. sxl there without placing the scuttle on the fl'xir. The clerk looked ut him fiercely mid exclaim!: "Well, what's the matter with you?" The boy I1esitut.1l, tbeii looking at the clerk appeuhugly, paid, "Please, ir, shall I I set it down?" Indianapolis Sentinel. Flaaa (4? Farta Kihlbltlua. The Paris exhibition of 1000 Is to , cost more ami to coiituin a laruer area 'of buildings than the Chicago World's ' fair. Purt of the scheme for laying out i tho grmiieU consist in the demolition .if the Palais de I'liuiustrie nnd tbeooii i version of a purt of it toexhibitlon pur- now. An avenue will be built to oon I u-t the Chum Klysee with the Es- lilauuds de Invalidua. THE WAR AND THE MISSIONS. Whrr Tlifjr An l.rlrt ami h IWIbl INtngrr Iu Thr.u. Every one interested in niissiou work iu eastern Asi.i will w atch with concern the war w hich has just broken out, anxious lost any personal friends tie in iiuuger ami mission enterprises ut sen uu"'y hampered. The fu.'t that all Hire i wmf ies iuvolved uro mission fields d that the proiiiinent cities of all are ''l'upicd with a greater or less forco of 'missionaries makes it necessary to look 1 ttt situation fairly and candidly. In Korea the Presbyterian board oc cupies Seoul, Fusail uud Oclisau on tho east const and lVcng-Y'ang in the in terior. Of these Ptisan und (leusaii are the only place liable to injury from the Japanese fleet But the work in both phuvs is comparatively reeeut and not so well established as at Seoul. Tho Meth.xlist Isiard has little established work outside of Seoul and ha with draw 11 all its missionaries from the in terior stations to that city. The Six'icty For tho lropngution of the Gospel, Church of Englund, ha some missionaries at Seoul ami Che niuljio. hi S.1111I the missionaries aro practically safe, Mug under the rare of the I'uited State legation and tho protection of Tinted State soldier from the ship-of-war at Chemulpo, tho port of Seoul. So far as Korea is con cerned, thcrcfoie, ther.) need bo nogrcut anxiety. J lu Japan the principal jxirt that may fear attack from the Chinese fleet i Nagusuki, occupied by the Reformed ; (Dutch) church, tho Meth.xlist Episco pal church und the Church Missionary society of England. It is probable, how ever, according to the latest reports, that the foreign fleet will protect this city, und thus the missionim. thero need fear no attack. The same may bo said uf Yokohama and Tokyo, where al most all of the missionary boards aro iprcscutcd. Attention will bo csixela!ly attract.nl to China, for there, aside from the dan ger of injury from tho Jupaiieso fleets, there i the still greater danger of inju ry from tho hostility of tho people. Tho action of the foreign government in enforcing the neutrality of the port of Atnoy, Canton, Ningpo, Chiii-Kiung, Kucha 11, Shanghai, Hankow uud Tien tsin, all of which are mission statious, relieves tho situation very much, a there aro Very few other cities along tho coast that might suffer from un attack, almost the only one of importance be ing Chefu, where tho Presbyterlun church and the China Inland mission huve a large, force of lalxirer and con siderable property. The greatest danger, however, to the missionaries, as we havo said, is not from the Japanese fleets, but from the hostility of the Chinese to all foreigner without drawing distinction Mwecu Europeans aud Americans on the one bund and tho buted Japanese. Inde pendent A MYSTERIOUS PROJECTILE. At a Itsrrut Tc.t In liUMla II Induced Amasi'iiiriit Among th Klurrta. Tho so culled magnet io shell, which has been 11s.1l ut tho trial of English armor plates at Okhtit, near St Peters burg, has made an extraordinary record Tho shell was fired at soft St diamond plate at right uugles, and the x'Uetratln was 10 g inches. Another shell penetrat ed 10 inches. One shell was discharg.xl at a tl inch Ilarvoylzud plato at au an gle of 20 degree. Tho proj.Mjtllo passed through the plato and bucking and fell about 400 yards beyond, a ixTformance which filled the scientific expert pres ent with amazement. Further trluls will bo made, but for the present 110 plate of tho requisite strength aro forthcoming, thoso already used, which Were manufactured apociul ly for the purpose of the trial, being no shuttered a to be useless for future tests. Tho general Impression among military oxport is that tho tuaguetio shell is not a new shell at all, but sim ply a new invention adaptable to any mixleru projectile. Ono of tho shell that had undergone tho secret process wus exhibited. Al ,. . , , ', ... , , .. though it had passed through 0110 of the . , . , , armor plates, It was. in au undamaged . ... , , . . " condition, and a it showed no traces of fastening whereby tho new invention 1 could bo attached to it the spectator concluded that the improvement must be a cap of softer metal held on to tho I top of tho shell by magnetism. This 1 nurses tho hard xilnt of tho shell at . tho impact and so help it to peiietrato j tho surface of tho plate until it reaches the softer metal behind. This, at all events, is one of tho guesses at the prin ciple of tho novel projectile. Pittsburg Dispute u. NEARLY A PANIC. Actors Hrlirarln a Hay Caua Klclt nrol lu a Chicago llulol. Thero camo near being a puuio lu the reading room of the Great Northern the other day. Archie Boyd, the actor who used to play Den 1 homixson s purt in "Tho Old Houiest.md" and who starred last season in a new play of hi own called "The Country 'Squire," wa here some weeks ago to consult Con T. Mur phy, the playwright, us to alteration in tliis play. He wanted a new second act, and after tulking matter over with Murphy he left the latter hard at work on hi manuscript at hi Lake Bluff homo. One day lost woek he wired Murphy thut ho would meet him at the Orcut Northern at a certain time and read over the altered play with him. The author wus on hand at the oppolnt.il time, and ao wa the star. Together they repaired to the reading room and set about their task. Mr. Murphy read quietly until hi enthusiasm overcame him. Then ho throw caution to the winds and exclaimed: "My O.xl, you have stolen my child!" A guest from Oregon, 111., looked up from a letter ho wus writing to the folks, and then ho wlg.xl uneasily to ward the end of tha table, " 'Ti false, " rour.il Boyd "I am no klduuper. " "Yon liel" exclaimed Murphy in loud tone, throwing the manuscript aside, aud tho man from Oregon started for the door, whilo a commercial man from Toledo leaned lack iu bi chair to see it out I The author and star had shifted to a qniet love scene, when Landlord Eden i man to see what the trouble wa. Wheu he told tho lutter what wu up, be axjl ' ogiz.il profusely and wanted to buy pop for the party. Wheu Boyd plays in , Oregon, tho stranger will be in the au- diuucc Chicago Time. MURDERED 0Y MISTAKE. 4a l.itrannlluarr Htnrr nt m Fathr Vkt Klllnl III. sua For Aaolhrr. All extra ir.Iinary story i reported from Tarn-,;il, in (iuli.'iu, A fx-usant nas.i. d A'l.i.a (luwrydo, wluwo property is in a sin.ii) villa;;,! near Zburaa, iu Gal eiii, cut Lis oui. soli's throat with kitchen knife by mistake. Some weeks ago a -Hebiew merchant, Solomon Barb, bought old Gawrydo' st.x k of honey . 11 I paid .Ml florins In ndvanco to make 1 ' I irt.'aiu valid. When the timo fur 1 eli v. ring the honey came, tho pcasunt il.-, I.ni' l that he could not k.i'p III word and was prepared to p .y any damagi to the merchiUit that tho rabbi might decide. They both went to tho rabbi, who aid the 1 itsaiit must p ay the merchant 10 florins tlamag. s. This he did must willingly, and tth went away together, (hi tho way home they stopix-d at a way kide inn uud did not leave it till night. It U'g.iii to rain, un.l the fx-a-wot -kel tho merchant to pass the night iu hi house. Tho merchant accepted, und they went home together. The K'usaut prepared a Ml of straw in tho barn, and wheu the men haul had laid dow n went to his ow n room after carefully lin king (ho burn door. This frightened the merchant so much that ho got up, felt hi way uls'iit until he found a sec ond d.xir, which was bolted from th Inside, li ft the barn and started to wail back to the inn. In the meantime the son of the peas ant returned home half drunk, and find ing the bum dixir x 11 walked iu and dropX'.l 011 the bed of straw prepared for the stranger. He wax wxni fust asleep. The merchant mi hi way to the inn met a gcu.lariue, who ask.il him where he wus going so late. Barb told him ult thut had happened, nnd the, gen darme, thinking ho had a dangerous man before him w ho w as lying to avoid suspicion, asked him to go with him to the pcaxuut'a house. There they found Gawrydo iu the act of washing hi bands, which were staiii.il with blood. Wheu he saw them ho exclaimed, "Sure ly 1 killed yon un instant ago!" The gendarme searched the houso and in the barn found the ion of the peasant dead, with his throat cut Tho peasant wu Immediately arrested Vicuna Cor. London New. STUDYING HUMAN NATURE. Mural and Val.iahl Hrirnllfl Work Now Ifc-luf Carrlrdoa la Washington. A Hew kind of scientific, work i be ing carried on In Washington, iu which the testing of 25,000 schoolchildren mentally, morally uud physically is the preliminary step. Dr. Arthur McDouatd Is conducting the work under tho aus pices of the United State bureau of ed ncutlon, and the result wheu arranged aud tabulated aro expected to throw valuable light upon a number of mooted questions concerning the ra.xv, For example, it is desired to know whether Ixiy of tho laboring olas are less bright than the sons of the well to do. Aro they a well uoiirisli.il? Iu Loudon not long ago iuvestigatiou proved thut tho children of lalxirlng ptuplo in thut metropolis were better uourish.il that is to say, wuigh.it mora at tho same age than those belonging to higher x'ial strata, the latter Ixdng fed on too much candy aud cake. Tho work here being unfinished, con clusions cannot bo stuted To begin with, tho height and sitting height of t'ucli child wero tukeu. Long Ixxlied races, generally sxukiug, aro inferior. It i desired to know if long bodied Individuals are less clever or less strong than tho short lxxli.il of tho same race. Aro long bodied boys and girls apt to be stupid? Long headed children are usu ally tulL Tall pcoplo are most often long headed. Tall ra.i ure superior. Tho question naturally follows. Are long headed children nqx rior mentally? When it is said that a man lias a lung bead, I thero not significance iu the re mark? Are tall children, then, superior? No body know as yet These aro among tho thing which Dr. McDonald 1 trying to find out lu tho classification tho 8,000 negro children iu Witshingtou school huve been kept separate, sou to compare them with white children. How do they compare iu nwxct to brightness, weight, physical measure men is, etc.? The colored child surpass.- the white child up to C years ot ago iu mental development, then the white child g.xi uheud. Comparisons of girl with boy naturally follow. At the ago of entering womanhood girl weigh more than boy. Thut age with city girl arrive a year earlier thun with country girl. Boston Transcript Tha Nam Aroused Ilr. Mr. Rudolf Lelimunii declare that he once found political animosity of grout servico to him lu painting a portrait Hi sitter was a Loudou lady who be longed to a family renowned for its stanch political opinion. It wa the height of summer and very hot The lady wa inclined to bo stout, and under the Influence of tho heat she now and then fell Into nap, to the serious an noyance of the painter. Her buHlmnd, who knew her weakliest in this regard, asked Mr. Lelimnnu iu the lady' absence if ho bud exfierienced any trouble of this kind Mr. Lchmunn could not deny it "Very well," said the has bund, "the next time it occur vou just mention Mr. Gladstone, aud you will huve no further difficulty." The artist txik tho hint, with imme diate effect Henceforth the lady wa al most too wide awuke. Youth's Com panion. Ray aud Ooulil Ar Out, Russell Sago and G.xirge Gould are said to huve disagreed of lute, and their relation iu a business way ore so aevc re ly strained that there may be an open rupture at any moment Tho Gould and Sage interests have alway been closely united. George Oould's wife and bis (ister Helen, aocotided by the family physician, havo, so run the story, induced him to give up working as hard as ho has boon doing and to take life easier. The purchase of the Vigilant wa iu furtherance of this plan. Huge, whoso whole being U wrap ped np iu money making, ha no sym pathy with this programme and ia much displeased at young Oould's long ab sence lu the present critical condition of business affair. Washington Post Hot Sharp Eaoagh. , "Why, Mudgo, that was a splendid chance to cot him. " "I kuow It but I was too dull to take advantage of it "Detroit Tribune.