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Eugene City Guard. L L. CAMPBELL. PrrUtar. EUGENE CITY ORKOON Your overage self made man la usual lj made In I lie oral place by bla counly Vlr. If It la money (Jen. Funaton la after be will apurn all political honors aud atar Id a tank drama. Rome of the Inrgcr Journala are dla- euRslna- drain fag. Moat of them are reticent on brain fog. If RltsTla la to be dlpened with aa an exile center, hereafter In enumerat Intc the world' crueltlea that country luuat be left out In the cold. That a eomiany ha lieen formed to manufacture airships would ahow theae varloua fallurea have not taken the wind out of their aalla. A perfumery truat with a cnpltaltxa tlon of 20,(J00I0 la being formed In New York. What a lot of watering MM of this atock will aland! Mra. O'Leary' cow waa responsible for the Chicago lire, and a drunken woman upset a lamp and aet fire to Dawson City. The gentler aei lan't al waya to bo commended. In-wcy anya the only trouble with BoteM la that he tnkea life too MTtOM Iy. lie lakea kissing llglilly enough. JiihI the name, the country will take all the llobaooa It can get and take 'em gladly. The Plttaburg Telegraph la allocked la-cause Mattle llughea Cannon, fourth w ife of AngUH M Cnnnon. refers com placenlly to "our huaband." The Tele graph should Interview a woninii who can ajN-ak calmly of "my hiiabund" anil comre eharaclcrlatlca. The Filipino company admitted to tbla country under the Immigration lawa I restricted lo nctlng. Huch n re atrlctlon placed upon mime of the Aincr lean companlea louring the country would force them out of bualneaH. It would lie beyond their ability lo live up to the requirement. The practlenl Joker who said Km peror William would be assassinated ,r lie went to Kgypt hua boon acute need to aeven yearn' ImprlaoiiinoBt tier many tuny Im behind Hie tlmea In a great many things, but alio can give the world aevernl polnlera on what to do with practical Jokera. Why ahould not the M-ualty for kid naplng be made Imprisonment for life? la there a more detent able crime In the calendar? For nearly every other crime. Including murder, It la pOMlbll lo conceive of Nome action on Hie vie tlm'a part which while not eicualng might mlllgale the nffoiiao. Hut nut M In kidnaping. The child la Incapable of having done an Injury to hla kid naper. Mark Twain baa announced hla Intcn tlou of leaving u hook of peraoual rec ollectloua behind him which la liot lo tie publlahed until one hundred yearn after bin death. I'crhatM he can iniike thin arrangement aecuro and blmllng on posterity; aud then, again, perhnpn the curiosity amused by Hie Hlnteuieiit will no enhance the price of the ImukH that hla helm may protlt largely by the premature IIshiuI of It. The Intensity of feeling mnnlfcHtcd In every iuarter over the nteatlug of a I! year old lathy In New York allowed bow atrong In the reprobation of thin particularly heliioun crime. No pun lahmeiit neemn tmi aevere for the bruten Who will thus cxisisc a father nnd mother to needleaa suffering, and th very rarity of the crime and the tie termination wllb which Hie offender Is always pursued go to prove lis belli ouaneaa. A glaring defect of our language In the une of words which sound alike hut have totally different meanings. Tor finmplc, lake through and threw; wrlght, right, rile; eye, 1, aye; MM MM, knows, llow a foreigner man agea to learn a language full of words sounding alike but having no other re latlnushlp Is one of the Incoinprcheii alhle things, aud It Is creditable lo the Intelligence and ptilrlollnin of liniiil grant Ihnt most of them gel a speak Ing nciualiilnnce with English In a few years, many of them In a few months Uldnnper Harrow, or whatever bis name may In', scents to be a genial nort of a fellow, with an eye to business thai contemplates With the wholesale and retail deparlinenta of his profession We read thai II a," one of his cherish ml acholics lo iiImIiicI a child ami then In the event of a refusal to furnish ran soiii IDOtKy i "to until a portion of an ear or ihe Join) of a linger, with a column lllcatloii something like this: 'We will continue lo return him lo veil In small tiuantlllca. If you so denlre, but should you desire to secure him by TThflltsHh we will In" ready to negotiate a trade for $lli,iMi.'" We learn, furthermore that al one time Mr. Harrow laid Indd plans for Hie alNluctloti of (.rover Clevcluud, and we have found our selves pleasantly speculating on Hie nr iHWM and length of the task In voiced In supplying Mr. Cleveland to bin bereaved family aud friends In sec tions. However, this contingency Is Ml sinvesafiilly evaded and Mr. liar row la where his studies In dissection will Is- suspended. It la to lie hoped thai the amiable gentleman will Ik forcibly Impressed with the terrors of the law. This Is one of the tlmea when the kind of Justice popular In the South could bo resorted to without any over flow of public tears. Home NHMMtlMJ atatlatlca have Just la-en received from the Province of Quels o concerning the birth rate among the French Canadians who In bablt that rt of the dominion. In France great alarm baa for several years exlntetl, ow ing to the rapidly tie creasing birth rate, and It baa hoeu predicted that It la only a question of I when the republic will he depopu latcd If (he present atate of affairs con tinue. Hul the French people In Que bee arv not likely to let their race die out In hurry. The birth rate In that province laat year waa 'SH 'il tier thou sand, aa against i!U 2 In France and -' .'J In Ontario. The cause of this large crop of liable la easily discovered. There Is au old law In QMbM Wb h provldea that every man who la-come the father of twelve children shall re celve I'"1 acres of land. Last year 101 French-Canadian ahowml that they each had become resnilinllile for the necessary dozen and accordingly got their farms. Since lHtS) no h-ss than a,.';i2 aueh granla have hceu given, and one Industrious old fellow has gOM 10 far aa to become tbe father of thirty alx children In order to obtain ' acre In addition to the parcel of land which be received when his twelfth child was tarn. It la thought that this inan'a ex ploit will encourage many others to al least try for the second 1UI acres thai would bf due at the birth of n claim aiit'a twenty fourth child. Tbla aya tem of rewards undoubtedly has ad vantage that might well In- adopted In some parln of the Fulled State. Wllb such a praiseworthy ncheine In vogue we might all of us live to see fair nnin hers of bfjbf carriage pushed to and fro along the Imulevards where Co cry of a local Infant la now seldom heard. A European ambassador waa ankiV to give Hie secret of success In a diplo matic career. He replied lustnritly, "A handsome and iigrccaMe wife." IU was himself a successful diplomatist, and hla wife was a great favorite at court and In society. The social side of dlplouiallc life la more Important In England than In any continental coun try. This In bOCSDSS the leading men, renponslhlo for Hie government of the empire, are conntantly visiting at coun try houses. An ambassador Is expect od to meet them on their own ground, and to adapt himself to their social re quirements. He should be a Welcome guest al Hie country houses where they are entertained. The ambassador's wife DMOMM an Important ally when she la a favorite In social circle. She all at a alale dlnniT between two cubl net ministers or foreign ambassadors and MfOTO Hie Indies leave their place comments have been made or facta ntaii 'I In her hearing or In reply to her own thoughtful nuggentlonn, that may prove oi inimical value. ir alio In a winsome, attractive llgure In Hie draw ing room, and Is a favorite with the country house guests, her prestige ami popularity Increase her hushand's facll lllen for serving the Interests of hl own government. , court r ptlOM and balls, where all Hie state dlgnlla rles and diplomats are present, Ibe wives or Hie ainliasnadorn are on even terms; but there are few of these cer monloiin functions. In a capital like Loudon there Is gnyety In Hie lowu houses during a short season, ami Hie country houses are social centers for nine month. It I In Hose splendid mansions of the dukes ami the earla Hint frlemlnhlpa are made, and where the men who are governing Fnghiud are closely approached. Here the M mating woman eiiarmlng In pernoii and nun r, somen hat familiar with statecraft, and adroit In hiIIHciiI eon Iroversy Is virtually tbe peer of the ex perlems'd and dexterous diplomat MAY YOME'S DIG BLUE DIAMOND 'lo Will Wsir the Orrut Hope (lent Worth llBOtOOQ May Vohe, of Chicago burlesque fame, now Hie wife of Lord Hope, will wear the famous Hope diamond In a tiara. It la a blue stone, the only one A MO VI ill IK DIAMOND. of large iIm In the world, and In know n lo all collectors and Jeweler. It weighs folly four and three quartern carats. Is absolutely blue, and la valued at 1100,000, Lord Hope, who Is finan cially embarrassed, wauled lo sell Hie stone, but was enjoined by the oilier heirs. The Hope dlatnoml has hllherto been kept In a nafe at Parr's bank, London, Lord Hope not caring (o take the risk of loss by theft. It In a family pOMM slon and asset. Hie incinlsT tiho beam the title of Lord Hope belli.' only a custodian of Hie gem. Now that the heirs have MOD lit to enjoin Us sale. Lord and Lady Hope have determined lo utilize Ibe big stone an an ornament. ami let tl I ejectors run the chance of Its being stolen. ( in said that the blue diamond was, nice a pail of the French crown diamonds It was stolen from Its valuable companions and recti t. The Hop family Imught lite prise from Da vld BUMOO for $IS,mi, early In the present century. Ellason was a noted diamond dealer of London. mwmAtnvnmvsm I Not While He Lived. ! ! t.. - .."- .... .. .. around to 0 o'clock without au cxplo. WDltKEI wllb a gang In tbe Nine Pits colliery about fifteen yearn back, and there waa one man there who hulled from South Wale a I got pretty friendly with. I've called him a "man," but I don't know If tbe title comes right. He wan more like a stunted boy than a man. and more like aome aort of queer unl Dial than either. He had a monstrous large head and shoulders, and a pair of little, bowed, twlsly leg, no bigger than a child' of U year old. I've said We were pretty friendly, but I don't know aa I wa anything more than civil to Mm. He wan clever and could speak Eng llsh aa well as any of ua. He had MM two years ami more at the Nine Pita, and he brought some money with him when he came, for he had a collage of hi own and a tidy piece of garden, which wa above what the rest of u had. There wasn't a man of 0 feet among 0 stronger than be was. To have seen t j 1 in swing hla pick would have made you bold your breath. He could walk, you ace, dow n some of the narrow, low gulli-rlos, where cbapa like me would have to crawl. 1 lived along with my father and (la ter then. We WON precious poor, and father used to any he hoped Hetty f tit iv . -x!m.t' . i ''WHAT M IIRUK 1 KOIl Tor." CHECK FOR THE SHIRT BOSOM. ThU Device ruirect un, Smoothes II tint. The iMfftDad shirt bOMU so general ly nffivled by the m;ile opulatlon has a dlsagrtvtthle habit of humping Itself sometimes, as If niak lug au effort to crowd Ita bread Hi turn Ml the collar of the wear er' vest. This In not only uncomfortable, but Imparts a decided apih-arance of careless utns to what would N otherw ise a verv order- MOUM OH MM. lyarraugeuieiitef wear Ing MfKNl A lmple mean of hold ing the bosom In check ha MM thought out by Kobarl Cluett. of Troy, N. Y., and he has MM fMMtlf award ed a jiateiit M the same. It MMtMl of a intlr of tab (MMMd lo each aide of the Wom, which are dolgned to rlt liHisely around the suspender, is-'ng held either by a button or collar hut ton. A there I a plurality of button hole the tal.s can Ik readily adjustisj to suit any flgnnr. Till tab arrange ment ue,t'sfully performs the mission of the single lab sometime put ou the bottom of the Imnom, which latter however, was alwa regarded the peraoulfc at'ou of usclcssuesa, would marry some olie able to keep her, and so give us a lift that way. tine day a new hunil came to Hie pit, Jim Millwood by name. See blm on Sunday, going to chapel, clean and mart, as siralght as a pole, with his blue eyes looking so frank and smiling, ami you'd nay he looked a picture. He struck up n mighty affection for me before he had been a mouth In Hie gang. He told me all about his friend and such like, moat confidential, and I found out he hnd to keep hi mother, Md hadn't a sixpence he could call hla own Wt II, one day I remember It na clear as yesterday It waa between the lights on a September evening, I was auiokliig my pipe In our back room father was out of the hOBM WhOO I heard voice In the other room across the passage. It was Matty and my ala ter talking together. Malty waa the tlwnrf. lie had n long Welsh name, but we called him "Matty" In the general way. bMMM of hi rough hllr, and be didn't acem to mind the Joke. "I love you:" he nya to Hefty. "I've loved Jim ever since I've seen you. Won't you marry uieT I'd bo n good bitsbaml to you." She went Into n light, kind of KOCH fill laugh. "Mn try yon?" she ay. "Why, Mat ty, you must be dreaming! Of course 1 won't." lie wan silent for n minute, then he any: "I'm stunted and crooked. 1 know, but I love you better than any other man will ever love you, and I've a comfortable home to offer you." "If you had twenty homes 1 wouldn't have ion," she answer quick. "So do say no more ibOUl It." I think h I moved round the room af ter that, for hi voice MQDdtd nearer to inc. He spoke short and savage like "Jim Mnrwood'n the man that stands between yon and mo. Do you think I've been bllmlT Jim Marwood has gut ymtr heart, and do you think you w 111 ever marry him while I'm ullvc?" Hetty never was the girl to b cw ed, and nhe flashed round ou him the in vl moment like gunpowder: "It Is Jim Marwood that has got my Mlrt, and 1 have bis, and I'm not ashamed to say It before you or any Bit, 1 know you've got your cottage and root garden that you are so mortal proud of, and 1 know Jim Is poor, aud we shall have to wait for years, hut you needn't think you'll frighten me out of marrying Mm, for yon won't; and If I didn't marry blm I'd never marry such a miserable, wicked, ugly Utile wretch a you! So don't tlallcr yourself 1 would." 1 saw Mm M more that night, and I didn't let ou lo Hetty that I had over heard Iheiu. thl next day we were all under ground aa usual. Somehow or other Malty and Marwood and me found ourselves always pretty close together. He seemed to me to be hanging on to Jim In a way I didn't like, hearing what I had heard, ami I kept as dor lo both as I well could. 1 noticed the dwarf MM took hi rye off Jim. except at II o'clock, when we stopped for our bit of food, and then he sat In a corner by himself un der a truck and scribbled on a scrap of paper, w Kb a queer sort of smile ou hi tut. lu the afternoon we got down to a lower level. It waa a dangerous part of the mine, a we all knew, and we kept our davy lamp pretty tight. 1 cau tell you. " I here's firedamp about here," aald one of the men. "And a sfvark would settle the lot of na. wouldn't It r aald the dwarf. "Ah, that It would!" Jim auiwcred. Nothing more wa aald about fire damp, however, aud that day, the long Ion. The cage were ready for na to get up to the top of tbe shaft, and most of the men had gone. "Vou go now," says I to Ou dwarf. "No," be amwer; "I'm going to stay a little overtime to-night. Vou all go on ami send the cage down again for me. And look here, give this to your slslei Hetty- will you? oud till her to open It." He put a bundle Into my hand tied up In a handkerchief. I took It gingerly enough, for with such su-plelous In my mind I half ex peeled It might go off In my face somehow. "What ure you afraid of?" he ask, sharp. "Nothing," I says as sharp. And we touched the signal rope, and up went Jim iiiul uie, and the dwarf stood underneath nnd turned his face up, watching us out of sight. Well, 1 felt more comfortable when we put our feet on firm ground on top of the shaft, and had sent the cage down again for him. "Wonder what' In that bundle?" say Jin, "Maybe Hetty will tell you om time," 1 replied, little thinking how It concerned him. I took It home and called Hetty to open It. Our cottage wasn't far from the pits, and It couldn't have been above ten minutes since the dwarf had put It Into my hand. She undid the knot, nnd there If you would bellOTO il were the title dtodl of hi cottage ami Ji'.u tied up In a bit of canvas and the scrap of paper I had seen him scribble under the truck. There were these word on It: "What Is here Is for you. 'F'gly and in1-, table' I nm. 'wicked' I am not. I said you shouldn't marry blm while I was alive, aud I shall keep my word. Think kindly of a dwarf If you can. Hod made me as well as him." We hadn't got to the end of the poor, dirty Mile letter when we heard a sound that made our hearts stand still a long, dull roaring, Blinking the floor we stood on, us If It was thunder uudel our feet. "An explosion In the mine!" ayi Hetty, with a face as white as chalk. It was uo use trying to dig him out. He knew when he opened his davy lamp and he must have opened It that human help could never reach him there. She cried about It for a week, nnd said she should never be happy ugaln. Hut I think Khc Is happy now, for she minted come the Faster after. They live lu Matty' collage still, mid the garden In nil abloom with flowers. London Brtnlng Wt a s. A SECRET LANGUAGE. TheJursnn tht thl dreii Make Up t Convey Ibelr Secrets. The secret language period I n thing of child iiu lure. There aie tin U tluct period lu language learning by the child. Tho hrst I the acquiring Of the mother-tongue. The second ie rlod come shortly after the time ol Inglnnlng to Mn the mother-tongue, and Is a language made up by children who, perhaps, find themselves nimble to master the mother tongue. Very few children have a complete language of this kind, but all children have a few word of such. Then comes the societ-longange no rlod. Although lu n very few canes the learning of aecret language begun nlsitit (be Mlxth year, ami in some In stances Hie period ran till nftcr th. eighteenth year, yet the vast majority of cases are covered by the period be tvveen the eighth and the llfteenlh year, while the greatest use Is M1W0M t)M ti mil nnd Hie thirteenth year. There are ninny reason why children learn and use these Inuguages. One lady confesses that she orlgluntinl a tangling -, and Introduced It Into a mys terlou set of ten. lu order to write notes In school, mid she truly adds that had lln lr teachers discovered tlm key they would have learned many truths It can in ver be know u w hether these languages originated lu the llrnt case with children. The names would In many Instances Imply that children had to do wlih them, na (hey show things familiar to the child and loved by him. So In the secret languages we find mil mnla playing an Important part In the miming The hog. dog. goose, pigeon, pig, fly, cat and other animals are at tached to these language. The child lu the old fashioned school, where nil sat together, hearing Hie (to him) senseless and unknown Latin, would naturally attach the iinine to Ills language, and thus give birth to Hog Latin, (loose Latin, etc. Seeing or hearing n language, one letter mny strike the child's fancy, ns In one Hie letter h l"h ish, "an I so Hnsh language U the result. In another "bub" ib) flndn the funny sm In child nature, ami so Hub talk comes forth. The child In former days, so frequently hearing of the a-b-c's, would upon the construc tion of an alphabet language nt once recur to such, mid so uiiino this the A-Hub Gin-Dad language. - Century. a Novel (explanation, A Qoofgta revenue man had a novel experience recently w ith a moonshiner In a iisMctod district Forty one morning he discovered an old man standing near a grave lu the mountain region. Hut the trouble about this grave was that the revenue in in bad ObOOrTOd mokfl Issuing from tbe place where the headstone should have been, lie inrprlMd tho old man, who im mediately feigned great sorrow, ex plaining his presence there by the statement Hint his brother wan burled there. At the mention of hln brother he feigned great grief, a n.l said . noroi would get over It It wux nlch a hard dispensation of Providence." "Hut Isn't It peculiar," said the reve nue num. "Hint 1 see a stovepipe at the head of his grave, aud smoke Issu ing therefrom V" "Stranger." Nplled the weeping moonshiner, "he died In his sins, an' hit' my opinion they're a roMttn1 of Mm down bnlowl" BllndnotH In Spain. The large proportion of blind people III Spain has attracted attention aiim the beginning ofTSe present century. The subject la again brought up by nn article by Privy Councilor lllrschberg. in the Qernuui Medical Weekly, itvuuj tho results of hla recent observation In Spain, when ha attended the Hygienic Congress. He says the streets of Ma drid swarm with blind beggars; Hie further south he went the more bliml he met The proportion In Spain as given in the celisu of 1800 Is U to 10,000, against S to B lu Cermanr. France and Fnghtnd. but that llgure I considered undoubtedly false by continental autaorltlaa, More recent agar give 1 1 s. The chief causes of blindness in Spain are Inflammation of the eyes of Infant, granulation and smallpox. The wide-spread fatalistic aiiiiuiie oi iae sick. Hie luck of gov ernmcntai ov. rsight, and the small nt tentlon isild to disease of the eye oper ate to increase tne number of blind in Spain. There is not a single public eye hospital In Spain, according to l'r. Hlrechberg, only wards In general hos pitals and private Institutions, The Carrying or Money. To the Initiated, a man's nationality I Is'trayed by the way he carries Ids money. The Englishman curries lib loose In his right hand trousers' pocket gold, silver and copper all mixed Uj together. He pulls a handful of tht mixture out of his pocket In n large opulent way, mid selects the coins lit has need of. The Anierlcun curries his wnd of bills In a peculiar long, narrow pocket In which the greenbaclu lie tint; the Frenchman makes use of a leather purse with no distinguishing characteristics; while the Herman uses one gayly embroidered In silks by the fair hands of some Lottchen or Minn The half -Civilised capitalist from some torrid South American city curries his dollars lu n belt with cunningly devised pocketa to battle the gentlemen with the light lingers. Some of these belts are very expensive. The Italian of the poorer classes ties up his little for tune In gayly colored handkerchief socuml with many knots, w hich he se cretes in some mysterious manner almut his clothes. A similar course has charms for the Spaniard, while the lower class RtMSUUI exhibits n prefer ence for his tssits or the lining of his clothes ns n hiding place for his sav ings. Old Orobarda. The value of an old orchard must de pend upon the character of the trees as much as uiniii their Cultivation and production, There are many old or chards planted With varieties of fruits that have long ceased to have any market value, nnd the sooner audi trees are replaced by new ones the larger the prollts will be. Successful grafting Of new varieties on old trees may pay where the stock Is not too old or shows signs of unusual vitality. Hut old trees that are beginning to display signs of decrepitude are lit only for the wood pile. They begin to decay In nu merous places lu n short time, nnd they harbor Insects and vermin, besides spreading fungous diseases around lu the orchard. KEEP TAB ON THE OAS INSPECTOR. io r sV j Not According to Agreement, An Irish principal In a recent Im promptu mill, nulizlng (bat be was being badly worst, ,1, vigorously pro tested to the by s andcrs agalnat the methods of his adversary. 'Shure. an' wasn't It to be n fair stand up tight V he excitedly ex claimed. 'It certainly was." returned nn on looker, vv ho had been a witness Of these arrangements. "An' how, thin," retorted the defeat ed candidate, "enn he lie expcclln' me lo shtniul up and folght 'lin fairly If he M be knockln' ma down all the tolmef Answer. Booeairto TtdkseL Owing to tM ctToela of hore-llne and other Inane MM which are more or less obscure, It 1 very dltflcult to ac count for the ivcullarltlea exhlblnnl by tidal waves In various part of the world. Interfering waves cause once a day tides at Tahiti, and lu ome oth er place, while on the other hand. In the uarUr back of the lle of Wight, nnd lu the Tay In Scotland, there are three tides a day. The latter have re ceutly MM ascribed lo "overtlde," prvnlueed by the niodltleatlon of tidal wave running ashore and reaembllug the "overtone" of musical sound. A Hornet Colony. At least Ilfty years ago, according to Or. L. O. Howard, a colony of Fur,, penn hornet settled near New York City. They have nourished since their Introduction to a new country, but have hown a singular Indisposition to Hirend far from the original point of lettlemeiit. The greatest distance to which they have MM known to mi grate .luring Hie half century of their May does not exceed Cm mill , . , ueir ncestors In hurope are Inhabitants of outhouses, but In American the Insects have chosen hollow tr.es for their hollies. Making; Oyster Shells Green Occasionally fresh oysters ahow tin pea In the shells Many persons think ibe color 1 caused by contamination from OOppat or MOM other metal sub itunee. and (hat the oyster jiro not iv hoi, some. The national MB eommla lion has recently made au examination f green oysters, and announces that the color Is cause,! by vegetable matter which serve a food for (he oyster, and that It does not In any manner detract from the healthfulue or flavor of tbe Wvalve. est day I had ever kttowu, came ; string. It 1 not creditable for any girl to have MYOtal xouiut meu "on the lM Cheerful Idlov "Hy the way." asked the cheerful allot, "doe the phrase "u marriageable tlrl' meau a girl who Is able to get uarncti. in.cauapolls Journal. The amaller the town, the si hi. lu pwple lake to frills la a ringer. 5 tij - M 1 A. r v -V 3IIIH Is the way to compute the amount of ga used In your house lru. month, says the San Krnnciaco Exmlner. The meter tells th,. Uj ,, ',!' 0 method is simple. On each meter are four dials. The dial on the left k ! i i i 1....1 ftoiisiinied : the one in the center tl,.. ... . """i atyw in iiiimiri-us u. -- -" - v iaoaSBoai it, .o.j . . . - .i I, 'I'!,,. ,llii Mfinve fhf ihreA ilnna n.. ' m mini, iae leun oi mwiimi - . . , ssnreem Ion , Is mrnl for lesiinL' the meter. Every lime Ihe hand In the tlrst dial ,.... ' number V feet have I n consumed. When the hand reaches Hi 1,000 r,, . M been consumed; then the hutnl In Ibe center dial move one number. 'h,.n . hand In the center dial icetn around to 10 the hand In the third move one mnnlJv Tin- gas compaur never given a meter to It conumcr on which the h.u, nf dial point to nothing COMOmed. The handn are always well along in the annbN Thl I done to coufuse, but the compulation of tbe gaa coniuuied I none th,. simple. In (he accompanying Illustration the band on the third dial point between 3 ... 4. This meaas that over 80,000 feet of gas passed through the meter. ik. center dill the hand points between 4 nd 0, ludlcating that more than 4 Ixaj of gas hnn been registered hy that dial, un me ami nun trie hand I on the tiitiir.i' l reel. i n n won .1 l. . . .. -- number of feet registered hy the meter i showing (hat the dial registers just 000 feet. Thl would mike altogether atunber of feet registered hy tue meier .m.-jou. new mat is tne condltlnn of , meter when It la placed in your house. y 0B April L Following the .lotted llJ. which represent (he hands of tbe dial you will find on the third dial the l,,,nj between the figures 3 and 4. the hand at the center dial between Ihe figure, g , " the hand of the Hrst dial on (he figure 8. This gives you SK.NOU feet consumed y started with your meter with a4.000 feet consumed. The difference. 4,200 titj. you the number of feet tnat has pased through your meter from April 1 i0 April 27 CHURCH 200 YEARS OLD. Antlquuted Monument of Protestant l'.pUcnpnl FaltS In America. niffht In tho midst of the busiest part of Wilmington, DeL, ntnnds the grim, tlme-tttalned old gray church, the old est living monument of Protestant t-'olneniuil faith In America to-duy. It Is the Holy Trinity Church, colloquially called Old SwciIcb', built 200 years ago by the band of Swedish Immigrant who settled on the Delaware. The erec tion of the building was commenced lfifld. and the edifice was formally dedi cated on Trlnltv Sunday. 1000, Tho sire of the church Inside of the walls was 00 feet In length, 30 feet In ot. i swKnKs cnt'iicn. breadth, the walls being of hard gray gtone. There were four doors, two win dows on the north ami two ou tho south. The roof wua arched with logs nnd plastered and covered with cedar shingles. The pews lu the church were made of llr. Tho alale was seven feet In depth from the chancel to the door. Tho city has gradually grown around tho old church, until to-duy the Quick nnd tho Head are In tho same spot. Amidst the burly burly of life stands this venerable old church with solemn aspects silently hearing testimony to tho existence nnd piety of a generation that has passed away forever. Much time and labor have been spent on tho old church In an effort to restoro It to Its former conditions. The wooden floor has been taken up nnd the original brick floor, where trod the zealous set tlors, 200 years ngo, restored to Its original appearance. The pulpit has been put back to Its old place ou tho side. GIRL FOUGHT WITH FIREBUGS. Nebraska Teacher Who Saved a Uni versity Itulldlnsr. All Nebraska has united In pnylng tribute to the Use quality of courage exhibited by Miss Lether E. Watson, art teacher nt the Cotner University, who defented the plans of two deter mined Incendiaries who attempted to destroy all the a e ml nary bulld- TxXpfc U'K- Tl, fncul,y f 'I AfWfJ voted the young woman a haud- MISSWATSOS. Rome medal. nn. propria toly Inscribed, recouutlng her courageous action; the citizens of the village, In mass mectlm?. miss...! r,i Hons complimenting Miss Wntson, sua i.overuor royntcr has written her a letter lu acknowledgment of the services rendered the State, and thank ing her lu the name of the people, Miss Watson was In her class-room on the fifth floor of the university building, late In the afternoon, when she heard voices In the hall nnd dls- covered two men preparing t0 bum tb place, rhey were discussing the pUd and suddenly discovered the Kr had a penknife In her hand, and 'si tempted to escape, at the same tin,, allocking tbe men with her dellosi. wenpon. They caught her, tboagll M cut them Imth a number of times ,f ter binding her. they attempted " mnke her take an oath not to try to leave tho building for several hourt nnd to reveal nothing she hsd betrl This ihe refused to do, and wns tu thnt ahe would then lie left to per In the flames. Both men were maki and at once disappeared. It win thret hours liefore the girl was discovered by passing atudents and released. Evidence of the efforts of the Brebogi were numerous around the elevator shaft of the building, but the Arc hud been smothered. PIANO WAS CYCLONE PROOF. Instrument Ooe Thrnush Kirksvillt Tornado Unharmed. A curiosity In the way of a cyolojf. proof piano Is on exhibition lu oar the ahow windows of a Chicago pi firm. It la a piano that hat Urj through a tlrst-cluss cyclone and com out of the experience practically unin jured so far aa Its musical uicchaolim Is concerned, although the building in which It WSJ when the cyclone came was leveled with the ground u wns also all the other buildings around It Tho cyclone wus tbe one which devii tuted Klrksvllle, Mo aud the country around It. The destructive character of the cyclone Is well shown In the Il lustration, nnd yet In the case of thli PIANO IX THK DMBta. plnno. tho only damage sustained wai tho breaking of one pedal and a paiie! lu the frame. Not a single hammer was broken, nor n string snapped, and the Instrument can now hp played on as well ns If It bad never been throufh a cyclone, with the exception of the one pedal mentioned. The photograph from which tbe Illustration was taken wns made on the morning after tbe cyclone. The bouse lu which the plnno stood wns In tbe central path of tho cyclone, where the most damage waa done, every building around It belni entirely demolished, with no semblance left whatever of their original condition. Making Their Mouth Wstrfi The method employed by Hutch uih ermen to ensure "astonishing catcnet'' Is thus described by the Golden IW; The fisherman puts n number of U" worms nnd Insects In n Isittle partially filled with water, and then corks It k curely. The bottle Is dropped Into the water, the fisherman sinking his line alongside. It appears that the sight of the writ gllng contents of the bottle so excites the appetite of the tinny tribe that thr fall ensy victims to the baited hooks. Aa n roln flo, n-nmnn who L.1S tl.ld ns many ns three husbumls has hnd one good one. NEW OUTDOOR MODES.