Engineer Jnktna? lreriMiziiit. ...
Charley Jenkins was an engineer pti
the Baltimore and Ohio for many years,
and he had many hairbreadth escapes.
Ilia run was between Garrett, lad., and
Chicago Junction, O.; and nearly every
body along the route came to know him
personally. His friends could tell his
engine every time by the peculiar "toot,"
and whenever the engine was in sight
there would be a wave of the hand as a
recognition of friendship. His engine,
. . the 7:20, was the best on the division, und
if a fiist run was to be made Jenkins and
the 720 were sure to be on the call board
for it.
One day the old engineer was taken
ill, and for weeks he lingered on his bed,
when it seemed that only a thread held
him on to life. : He was sadly missed
along the' route, and the peculiar "toot"
of the whistle was heard no more, for,
although old 720 was kept running, there
were other hands at the throttle.
The crisis of his illness came. The
family surrounded the bed and watched
with breathless eagerness for any sign of
a change.
The stillness of the room was oppress
ive. Nothing could be heard save the
regular, heavy breathing of the sick en
gineer. Suddenly he arose on his elbow. He
stared wildly around, and his eyes looked
like a madman's. Then he sat up in bed,
clutched an imaginary sheet of paper,
and gasped:
"Tiffin; train five; engine seven-twenty;
prepare to meet thy God."
He sank back exhausted and fell into
a quiet, easy sleep. When he awoke he
was on a fair way to recovery, but by
that time the news had reached the place
that a terrible accident had happened;
that No. 5 had collided with a freight;
that engine 720 was a wreck, and that
the engineer and fireman were dead.
Charley Jenkins insists that he had a
presentiment from heaven. Cleveland
World.
Where an Englishman Is llouoretl.
Speaking of Englishmen in New York
suggests the recent plaint of a very well
to do Britisher of the female sex now in
this city. "You know there are now no
distinctive resorts for English people
abroad," said she. "We used to go to
Scotland, but the rich Americans over
ran $he country and gobbled up every
available estate. Then we tried Brigh
ton.; but, bless you, the hotel people
there now won't look at an Englishman
where he conflicts with an American.
They nest drove us out of every fashion
able resort on the continent, lastly the
Riviera, our especial stronghold. We
have no longer the exclusive social 6way
anywhere outside of England.
"It used to be that the Swiss and Ger
man watering place hotels were run
chiefly n the interests of the English
traveler. Now the American has it all
his own way. There are now more
Americans living in villas about Flor
. ence, Como, iioine, Dresden, Lucerne
and the German spas than Englishmen.
Even Paris is getting to be dominated
by your countrymen.. Now, I put it to
von, what are we going to do?'
"Come to America," said I.
' "Here, at least, the American is 'small
potatoes and few in a hill.' Here An
glomania rages worse than the pleuro
- pneumonia. Come to. America, unhap
py, outlawed, dethroned people of an
effete civilization, and come with confi
dence ami cash especially cash. . Here
youll find a newer growth in New York
te fail down and worship you". New
York Herald.
How Jogs Are Stolen in Paris.
Dog stealers iu Paris have two prin
cipal means of getting hold of the ani
mal they. want. First of all they find
out the dog's habits, the liberty he is al
lowed, the hours that he takes an airing
-either alone or with a servant, and make
their arrangements accordingly. They
sometimes prowl around a house for a
week before obtaining all the informa
tion they need. When they learn where
they can meet the animal, they attract
him by some sort of bait, or make him
fallow a bitch, which they lead with a
" string.
In a narrow street it is easy to approach
Hie dog and pat him. If he is not very
Mvage, the offer of something to eat ren
4Uxs him confiding; the thief, who has a
' alipnoose ready, : passes it around .: the
log's neck, and the game is bagged. On
the boulevards and in the public parks,
where dogs usually follow their masters
w mistresses : without being beld by a
word, the- thieves always use a second
animal, and as soon as the dog comes
ear enough to the decoy brute the lasso
is thrown and the gallant captured.
Oar. New York Epoch.
"o4 Afraid to Umpire.
;, "They tell me, .parson, , that you'vei
consented to umpire the ball game this
Afternoon between the Squash Hollow
Baptists and the Zioa Brotherhood. Is
. that so?"
. - "Dat s de Gospel trufa, sahr
"It strikes me that's rather a precari-
oaa position for one. -of. your, calling,
im'tit?" - - ; ; - v - .,
"Sow, looker yer, Mister Man ! I
hain't no prize fighter, ter be ho needer
IAiailit BUTVer wtikked in na.aaa.rrv an'
.jjpo mix, op wid a Was"; bat a genter
; man. er my perf ession dat's rumpired f o'
taea chu'oh 'lections. . what 4 ,ar was
mn una uu vnu raxtm uw ue ve y WTMU
kUrfaabs taf ..de: ei half ant dft mnrtf .
bagutte- tell jo!- da .Moo ct chap hain't
. gwtae trembia "boot rumpirin' ober desa j
yer eWyday.ibsobaU erfa'rs, .'deed he!
fetoft. sahr Boston Courier.
v. v.Hasr lain; t is frpan JTnjia- '. ,
-- - - ' . i T . . . f
wuuuiDv )n iumoii otycpaa- ecuosa
great many of the-, trifling- affairs of life
by tossing op a cent, received a rather
harp rebuke Sunday morning. The day
VM inrJmnrtnf.. and hia wffa mi. vnnm
daughter of th tender age of eight were
undecided on the matter of chucchgoiur.
"Oh." said. Mlaa Edith, after the dtsens
ion had, lasted two or . thres minutes
'wlttxrat definite ooacluaion,' ;ieta do
as papa does, 81p copper and It,
toads n go, tafia w daot, aod cay ao
How to Believe J-ry or Other Vine Poi
soning. Apply soft soap freely, without remov
ing it with water. With sojne people a
weak tincture of belladonna relieves the
poisoning quickly. ,
How to Pack a Trunk.
To pack a trunk properly requires a
plan. . If one is going on a trip and' pro
poses to live in the trunk, so to speak,
then the plan should be made with refer
ence to easily getting at those things
most frequently in demand. If, how
ever, the trunk is packed merely to move
clothing from one place to another,
where the trunk will be unpacked, then
the plan should call for a. folding of all
garments in as large folds as the size of
the "trunk admits of. As each layer is
made all the spaces at the sides and ends
and in the corners should be filled with
small articles. It is a bad plan to put in
a lot of garments one on top of the other
and then when the pile has reached the
top of the trunk try to fill in these va
cant places. Besides mussing things tip
you will lose valuable space by such a
method. The proper way is to build
layer on top of layer, making each one
complete as you go along. The result
will be that you can get a great deal
more in a trunk, and the compactness of
packiDg prevents the clothing from get
ting creased and mussed. It is said that
no woman ever thoroughly mastered the
art of trunk packing.
How to Cool Inflamed or Heated Eyes.
A little contrivance called an eyecup
can be bought for fifteen or twenty cents
at drug stores, of which few people
. know of. It is like a tiny goblet of thick
glass, whose bowl is slightly elliptical in
shape, and whose top edge is curved
downward, so it will fit closely over the
hollow in. which the eye is set. This
filled with cold water, with a few grains
of salt, is held to the eye bent over to
meet it. When the head is lifted the
eye can be open and shut many times in
the liquid, of which not a drop need es
cape. Any eye wash or cooling lotion
can be applied by this means.
How to Address letters.
If you are addressing a business letter,
send it to Mr. John Smith
John Smith & Co. If the letter be a so
cial communication, address it to John
Smith, Esq. The English rule is to ad
dress tradesmen as "mister" and gentle
men and professional men as "esquire."
But this rule won't work for obvious rea
sons in" America. Address a letter to
''General Smith" or to "Dr. Smith, but
never under any circumstances to "Mrs.
General Smith" or "Mrs. Dr. Smith." If
such an identification be essential to a
correct delivery, use an extra line and
address to "Mrs. Smith, in- the care of
General Smith." If the letter be to a
widow and her identity be obscure with
out the title of her. husband, then the
obsolete form might be used of "Mrs.
Mary . Smith, widow of General John
Smith. " .But Buch is not an imaginable
case. There is no use of putting "for"
or,"to" before the name of a person ad
dressed. In addressing a note to un
married sisters the grammatical rule is
to write, when the given names are not
mentioned, "The Miss Smiths," and
when, the names are mentioned "The
Misses Mary and Sarah Smith." But
"The Misses Smith" has been adopted by
general consent and will do. To a man
to whom the title of honorable is due the
article should be used and he should be
addressed as "The Hon. John Smith."
But no man in America except the lieu
tenant governor of Massachusetts is en
titled by law to such a mark of distinc
tion. We accord it, however.'very liber
ally, and maybe we are right. "His
Excellency" is only given by law to the
'governor of - Massachusetts. The presi
dent of the United States should be ad
dressed in so many words, and the begin
ning of a letter to him should be simply
"Mr. President," or "To the President of
the United States, Sir."
How tu Mk Iclim Tli.t Will ,3fo
. ' Harden Soon.
Stir the sugar into the unbeaten white
of the., egg. . This : will keep soft some
times a week or inure.
How to See Under Water.
If there is good ice, cut a hole just
large enough for the face, get down to it
and cover, the head and hole with a
blanket so as to exclude the sunlight. If
there is no ice, a raft with a hole in the
center will answer the same nnrDoee.
By excluding the light thoroughly you
win De awe to see with surprising clear
ness to the bottom of water several feet
deep. Lost articles of any marked color
can beeen on the bottom almost as easily
as if there were no water.
How to. Suspend , One's Skirt ' In Wet
V. ' ' ; v WeatUer.
Make a belt-large enough to button
around the waist . outside of . dress. To
this fasten .at regular, intervals four
tapes, perhaps eight or ten inches long,
and on the end of each tape place a large
safety pin. The contrivance may be car
ried always in a waterproof or .mackin
tosh pocket, and with its aid a dress can
easily be lifted and as high as desired.
If black tapes and belt are used they will
not look bad even if no waterproof is
worn. v , .
How to Make a. Chicken Coop.
Fit a window sasb closely into a large
dry goods box or board frame made for
the purpose, .leaving a 6paoa of. four or
six inches above the sash for a ventilator'.
Have a slope of five or six inches to the
roof. In the rear end partition off a foot
or more space in which to feed. Place
tha entrance .at th aide and keep the
coopooal andcteaQ.' i:WU the sash is
no longer needed, it can be removed and
stats pot ia its poaec
Tha WayH Blew on the Xalu.
...... A party of yachtsmen were becalmed
oat on Lake Ontario Sunday afternoon,
and while waiting for u breeze the time
was occupied in spinning yarns.' , There
were two or . three old salts on board,
and they dr.d all the spinning, while the
younger and less experienced tars sat
and smoked and listened. Finally one
of the old salts tcok his pipe from be
tween his teeth long enough to draw
breath, and said:
"You fellows give me a pain talking
about big storms. Why, I was out in a
storm in the summer of 'C9 that was so
much bigger than , any that you have
ever .seen that they are like cat's paws
compared to it"
Then he stopped and began industri
ously to draw upon his pipe again.
', "Tell us about it," said the young fel
lows in chorus. "."'
"It was in the month Of July in the
year 18GD, and I was out on the lake in n
yacht of mine," he said, after pausing
long enough to fill his pipe afresh and
light it, "and the wind began to' get
pretty fresh. I paid but littie attention
to it, but it kept blowing fresher and
fresher, and one of my crew asked if we
had not better shorten sail. I thought
that there was no danger and said, that
there was time enough. All of a sudden
the wind began to blow harder than 1
ever saw it in this latitude, an we all
began to get badly scared. .? -
"I gave orders to take in sail, but be
fore, the men could lay hands on a rope,
a big puff came and away went the sails
into ribbons. There we were out in the
middle of the lake with no sails, and the
situation began to look desperate. - How
we were going to get in I did not know,
but the very storm itself furnished us a
way and we rode safely to shore."
Here he stopped and began to smoke.
"How did you get in?" asked the
youngest sailor of the lot. '
"Why," said the old salt, "the. wind
blew so hard that it blew the ropes out
flat and they served for sails. " Rochester
Democrat.
A Memorable Christmas Dinner.
The misery endured during those four
months at Donner lake in pur little dark
cabins under the snow would fill pages
and make the' coldest heart ache. Christ
mas was near, but to the starving its
memory gave no comfort. It came and
passed without observance, but my
mother had determined weeks before
that her children should have a treat on
this one. day. She had laid away a few
dried apples, some beans, a bit of tripe,
and a -small piece of bacon. '-
When this hoarded store was brought
out the delight of the little ones knew
no bounds. The cooking was watched
carefully, and when we sat down, to our
Christmas dinner mother said, "Chil
dren, eat slowly, for this one day you
can have all you wish." So bitter was
the misery relieved by that one bright
day, that 1 have never since sat down to
a Christmas dinner without my thoughts
going back to Donner lake. -'
The storms often would last ten days
at a time, and we would have to cut
chips from the logs inside which formed
our cabin in order to start a fire. , We
could scarcely walk, and the men :, had
hardly strength to procure wood. : : We
would drag ourselves through the snow
from one cabin to another, and some
mornings snow would have to.be shov
eled out of the fireplace before a fire
could be made. Poor little children were
crying with hunger, and mothers were
crying because they had so little to give
their children. ' We seldom thought of
bread, we had been without it so long.
Four months of such suffering Would fill
the bravest hearts with despair. Cor.
Century.
"A Victim of Science.
The frog has been called "the victim
of science" because he is always being
dissected for the purpose of seeing how
be can get along without his most essen
tial organs, how his blood circulates and
how his nervous system acts. - He is se
lected for such ends not. as is commonly
imagined, liecanse his structure is at all
humanlike, but for the reason that he
will endure being chopped up to such a
remarkable extent and still retain life.
You can remove his brain and. he will
get along fairly well without it. swallow
ing whatever is put into his mouth, and
otherwise behaving as usual, though in
an automatic fashion. In fact the ani
mal will . live . indefinitely under, such
conditions, as experiment has ' shown.
If you cut out his lungs he will ' hot die
for a long time, because he can. breathe
very well through his skin. .. Human
beings breathe through the skin all over
the body iu a small degree, the blood in
the superficial vessel taking up a certain
amount of oxygen, but the function is
exercised more satisfactorily by the frog.
Besides, his nervous system affords an
interesting study under ingenious torture
by the anatomist, and. the corpuscles in
his blood being remarkably large, that
fluid serves admirably for the instruction
of the seeker after medical knowledge.
Interview in Washington Star '
The Wheel Is Thousands of Years Old.
The earliest mention of wheels in the
Bible is in Exodus xiv, 25, when the
chariot wheels of ,the Egyptians were
taken off. by the Lord; but chariots, are
mentioned in Genesis xii, 43,: But there
were older nations than the Egyptians.
The Chaldeans used chariots; the Greeks
Homer's poems date from.' about 900
B. C had chariots at the ' siege of
Troy, 1,500 B. C. Probably in reality
the wheel is about as early a ; piece of
.machinery as . any ' now existing. j Of
course it has been : developed, but the
bicycle . wheel of , today is .a .lineal,, de
scendant of the w-rtion of a lo& of wood
used by the agricultural -olen thou
sands of rar ago. -rXew York Sun. .
" .' Kt, Clew' CosUy; Bathroom. :
Henry Clews, of New York, devotes
a great deal of time and money to beau
tifying his' house.; ' He is particularly
well pleased with any .one who xpresss
a desire1 to go through it. and "one of the
first ronina he will take' a ' visitor Into
is hi bathroom.5 ; He t said io bare x
pBoded $40,600 na thin rouu The walla,
daw, hath, ia act. vry part e? tb
mcs, oyx.- fjpboatwpar.
'" He Knows Kow.
Mr. and Mrs. Wings were reading the
evening paper. , V :'.;
"Peculiar ways the Japanese have,"
said Mrs. Wings casually; "they read
up instead of down, and from right to
left. What do you suppose they do that
for, Mr. Wings?"
"How should I know, Mrs. "Wings?
What questions you women do askt"'
Then there was silence, until suddenly
Wings threw down the paper with a re
mark and began poking the fire viciouslv.
"What is the matter, Mr. Wings?"
asked his wife.
"Matter? Oh, nothing nothing at
all. I only read a half column of thrill
ing narrative before I found that it
wound up with a patent medicine ad."
Again there was silence. Then Mrs.
Wings, who had beeii pondering some
thing deeply, said, "I know now why the
Japanese read up' instead of down." :
; "Oh, you do,: eh? Well, why?" :
' "So as to see the patent medicine ad.
before reading the article." London Tit
Bits. When Men Wore Earrings. -
Among civilized nations the wearing
of earrings by men has been by no means
uncommon, as it has been shown that in
early English days some of the most dis
tinguished courtiers bedecked their ears
with very costly specimens. The im
mortal Shakespeare is said to have worn
them, and Charles I is reputed to have
been the owner of a magnificent pair of
pearl earrings, which he bequeathed to
his daughter the day before he was exe
cuted. '- ' :-'
"' In the South Sea islands the females
and males alike adopt this style 6f per
sonal adornment, and even in the wilds
of Africa they are worn by the untutored
savages of both sexes. ' ' ' ; -
At the present day the only civilized
persons of the male sex who ornament
their ears in this manner are the gypsies,
the Italians, the French, a few sailors of
other foreign nations, and occasionally
a German, but as a master of course
precious few females the world over will
be found without them. Detroit Free
Press.
Bronze and Other Turkeys.
The bronze turkey is truly a grand
bird but has one serious fault, ' namely,
its inclination to roam far and wide.
They get lost, run wild and are shot by
pot hunters. . One farmer oiice raised
120 and eighty-twer of them roamed
clean out of the neighborhood. Others
had the same trouble and all gave them
up. The little old barnyard turkey is
good enough. The White Holland is
the best of all turkeys and very nearly
as large as the . bronze. Bronze toms
have been known to weigh 52 pounds
live weight. The largest. wild gobler
heard of weighed 34 pounds.
i'ln just $, hours J. y. B. relieves constipation
.and! sick, headaches,' After it gets thp Jiitcm
under control an occasional dose prevents return,
.we refer by penniwion to W. It M arahsil,.Urun
wick House; S. F.; Geo. A. Werner, ia California
St, 8. T.i Sirs. C Melvin, 136 Kearny St, S. F.,
and many others -who have found relief 'from
constipation and sick headaches.' G.W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrence Court, 8. F. writes : ' "1 am 60 years
of age and hare been troubled witii constipation
for 25 years. 1 was recently hidnccd to trjr Joy's
Vegetable. Sarsaparilla. ' I recognized In' it at
once an herb that the . Mexicans used to give us
in the early BO's for bowel troubles. ' (I come to
California in 1833,) and I knew it would help ma
and it has. For the first time in years I can klocp
well and my system is regular and. in splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs ia this remedy
are a certain cure in constipation and bowel
trpubes. Ask for - ; '
Vegetable
For Sale by SNIPES St. KINERSL.Y.
A Revelation.
"Tew peopla know that tba
brieht bluiah-neen color of
,tha ordinary teas exposed in
the windows is not the nat
"nral color. 'UnDteasantaa tba
' .'fact may be it is nevertheless
araaciaJ;, , , mineral coloring
matter being used for this
"pBrpose.-,'The effect' li two-
iFfllil ' 'Tfc Tirtf nnlv m1rAa V.
tea a bright shiny green, bat also permits tha
was of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under tho'green cloak, are. readily
worked off as a good quality of .tea.
. ''An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject; ."The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them aflner appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
g taxing or facing with Prussian bine, to merie,
gypsum, and indigo.'. This method it to gen
eral that very Mule genuine uheokirai green tea
i offered for tote." ' ' : '
It was the'.kubwledge of this condition of
fairs that prompted lha placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. , It is absolutely gnra
, nd withoat color. Did' you ever soe any
genuine uneoiored Japan tea ? i.k yoar ,
grocer to open a package ot Beeeh's, and yoa :
will sea it, ahdprobably for the very first
ttmei It will ba found in color to be just bo-;
. tween tha artificial green tea that you hava j
' been accustomed' to and the black teas. ' .
It draws a delightfnl canary color, and Is so
fragrant that It will ba a revelation to tea- -drinkers.
Its purity'-makes it also mora
economical than too artificial, teas, for lew .
ot it 1 required per cup. . Bold pnlyin pound ;
package bearing this trade-mark : ?f ..
BEES
M yoacgioeee decs not hava it. ha will get
P poena. For ntaal
,Ioalio rdxx-tlor'jE,
iTust
til
Dies
is here and has come to stay. It hopes
td win its way to public favor by ener
gy, industry and merit; and to this end
we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
support.
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