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boldly up tl-« ,‘rcnt steps and was ring
Ing the b 'i win ii a man at work in tin
next yurd looked over the low fence.
"There Is no one at home, sir," he
•aid.
"Where .■ e the people who be-long
here?" I asked.
"They ar.- spending the winter iu
koutbern t’a’ii -.’nla aud have been
away since lust September.” was hie
reply.
On returning to my office 1 found a
telegram from my sister, who lived in
an adjoining state. In response to It
I started at once, and on arriving at
brought liouie unconscious, with a cruel
wound iu his head, ltobbery was ev!
deutly tlie motive of tlie assailant, for
tlie diamonds were gone; also tlie mon
ey and watch of the victim. The ; ■ r
man did not regain eon wiousm-ss, but
died in a few hours. Comparison of
the dates showed that tills occurred at
the very time I had been called to Mill
ville.
Inquiry proved also that the grand
mother laid been In her own home, ill
in lied with au attack of rheumatism,
on that night.
Before going back to my practice I
went with Marguerite to her old home.
On arriving there I told her of my mys
terious visit and of the key which had
been held out to me. I produced the
one 1 had had made and asked If she
lmd seen one like it, but she never bad.
When we entered tlie dining room, it
was a bright sunny day. I looked
around the room, nml as my glance
rested on the massive oak sideboard
tlmt was built Into one corner of the
room I saw that along the top were
carved grape leaves aud bunches of
grapes. Suddenly there flashed into
my mind the words, "The second bunch
of grapes," and, mounting a chair, I
managed to reach it. After a few at
tempts I found I could move It a little,
and finally I succeeded In pushing to
one side the entire cluster, leaving ex
posed a keyhole iu a little door of Iron
four or five Inches square. Producing
tuy mysterious key, I at once unlocked
tlie door and found that the aperture
contained a small iron box, In which
we found the missing diamonds.
We soon weut to the house of Mar
guerite's grandmother, where we have
lived for the past eight years, during
which time I have only once met with
another ghostly visitor. “But that is
another story.”
UNCLE SA U S MONEY.
THE
SAFEGUARDS THAT
HEDGE
ABOUT ITS MANUFACTURE.
Car« With Which Firn (hr ShnvlBff«
of (hr I'rciiliHr Paper I «rd Are
Haudlrd—Couiitlna aud Hrroandng
the Trratnrrd Sheet«.
T«*mp(t*d l>> IliirtMrd Hook Plate«,
t>«.c.or Tururd Tliief.
How lie. <--i -er Hoy« In- t l.llaed «•
it••(•:.•
-* In Xrw tori..
At I o'cl-- ■ I tie other morning a well
dressed mail si rolled into one of the
uptown in- - senger offices. He find been
dlmng out and < vidently. from the rak
ish tilt to ids opera bat. the dinner had
been a success.
"1 want a messenger boy to come and
waken me in the morning.”
"What hour?” The clerk was all
business, for the request was not un
usual.
"Seven o'clock. I've got to catch a
train," he explained.
“All right, sir; 7 o'clock,” assured the
clerk.
The man turned as he was going out
of the door. "Have the boy hammer
the door hard.” lie cautioned. "I'm a
‘dead one' when I get to sleep, mid I've
got to catch tliat train.” Theu he went
home and went to sleep with absolute
confidence.
The whistles were blowing 7 o'clock.
A small boy in uniform hammered
with n cluli, his "wakener,” on the
door of tlie man wlio had dined the
night before. "Get up in there!” he
cried. “Get up, you old sleepyhead!”
"You go away from my door,” comes
In sleepy tones from the room. “It's a
mistake. I don't want to get up.”
"Oh, yes, you do, my dodo bird,” Is
the fresh reply. And the tattoo on tlie
door goes on with redoubled strength.
"All right, boy; I'm awake now!”
howls tlie man who lias been sleeping.
“You can go away now.”
"Not till you’ve signed this receipt,”
tlie boy insists.
Tlie man lias to craw) out of bed and
come to tin- door. Tlie boy has a paper
ready, and as he is a careful man he
reads before signing. It certifies that
he has been thoroughly wakened by
Messenger No. 432 and that be is not
going back to bed again that day.
“Is tills a Joke?" lie asks the boy.
"Naw. 'taln't no Joke,” replied ths
messenger through his teeth. "If we'se
didn’t make you'se do this, you'd be
down to de office nliout noon n-howlin’
dat we didn't wake you'se. Now, it
you'se goes back to your bag of feath
ers, we'se got you'll in black an’ white,
an' no mistake."—New York Tribune.
Uncle Sam's paper money has its
birth in the bureau of engraving and
printing in Washington. Here a corps
WAS a young man of 27 and had
of engravers cut Its lines into plates
Just lmng out my sign in a little
of steel. Five hundred men and wom
manufacturing village of about
en are in one room. It is the largest
2,000 inhabitants. There were at
pt inting office In the world. Here are
this time three other physicians
struck from these plates the notes
in the town, and during my four weeks’
which we give the butcher and the
stay I had been favored with but few
baker. Each steel plate when not in
patients. I boarded with an elderly
actual use Is stored away in a great
lady whose grandson cared for the gar
den aud stable. My boarding mistress
burglar proof vault to which only the
was precise and methodical in every
highest officials know the combination.
thing and was a model of punctuality,
At the side of encli printing preSB is a
so I one day Ret my watch and the
little indicator like a bicycle cyclome
clock In my little otflce ten minutes
ter, whicli keeps tally of every piece of
fast In order to be prompt at meals
paper money printed. Thus Is Uncle
when at home. On the evening of that
Sam kept informed as to the exact
day. Just before the clock struck 10, my
number of paper notea of all denomi
telephone bell rang, i had only the day
nations whicli leave his presses daily.
previous liad tlie Instrument put in and
if there is any secret which Uncle
hastened to answer my first call. “Come
Sam Jealously guards, it is the process
immediately to Millville, No. 20 High
of manufacturing tlie fiber paper upon
street. Take the 10 o’clock train.”
which wl’s money notes are printed,
“It is too late for me to catch that
lie pays ii Massachusetts firm a big
train, but I will drive over with my
price for it. and this firm does its work
team, if that will do. What is the
under the surveillance of a govern
case?” I asked.
•
ment agent. The paper is manufac
No reply. "Hello!” I called again,
tured of the finest rags, cleaned, boiled
but all was still. Then I rang up the
and mashed into pulp. As it is rolled
central office.
Into thin sheets silk threads are Intro
her borne tlie following morning I
“Please connect again with the par learned that an elderly physician, a
duced Into it by a secret process.
ties who called for I)r. Wildes,” I said. friend ol
These are tlie distinguishing marks
r husband, was about to
“No one lias called for Dr. Wildes,” give up active practice. Arrangements
making imitation of the paper well
answered the voice of the operator In were speedily made, and 1 moved to
nigh impossible.
the central office.
The sheets of paper, already counted
my new location.
Fa«« For All Time«.
“You must be mistaken, for I have
twice and priced in uniform packages
During the spring and summer 1 was
Ladles
of
every
clime
and
complex
Just been miking with some one kept busy and lmd but little time to
at the papeffTuill, are stored in a treas
through tlie telephone wlio wants me.” myself, yet often I pondered over my ion from remote ages have possessed ury vault and Issued to tlie bureau of
these mischief making weapons of co
was my reply.
engraving and printing as wanted. Be
midnight visit to Millville, trying to
“The wires must be crossed some- persuade myself that it might be only quetry. Fans were part of the bridal fore leaving tlie treasury they are
outfit
of
tlie
maidens
of
ancient
Rome.
where. 1 will see if I can find out a delusion of uiy brain while in some
counted three times more, and the re
The proml stepping dames of Spain
where the trouble is, sir,” came in a stage of somnambulism.
ceiving official at the bureau must re
have rejoiced In tlie havoc wrought by
sleepy voice from the central.
One night at about half past 12 1 had these airy trifles. Copper colored In ceipt for them. Then the bundles are
I put on my hat and started toward returned from a professional call aud
unwrapped, and tin1 sheets are counted
the stable, meeting Jimmie, witli lan was about to retire when 1 picked up dians waved funs of turkey plumes. twenty-eiglit times by n corps of wo
Tlie
clever
Japanese
turned
tlie
instru
tern in hand.
tlie evening paper, which my thought ment to uses undreamed of by I ohs in men. This is to insure that each print
er gets the recorded number—no more,
“I was just coming after you, doc ful sister always left on my table. The
genious nations. It was In Japan that no less. Before any employee of tlie
tor.” he said. “Your liorse seems to be first item 1 read was a notice in the so
the folding fan had its origin and was division in which tills paper is kept can COOKING FISH IN ENGLAND.
dreadfully lame, and I can’t find out ciety column. "Miss Marguerite Law
imported thence to China. It is a com
wlmt ails her foot.”
ton of Millville is visiting her grand- pliment In China to invite a friend or leave for home each night he must ex The Method I «rd There Render« the
hibit to a watchman at the door a pass
1 scut the boy to a livery stable near mother, Mrs. Stephen Powers Lawton,
Flenh Flaky nnd Jnley.
distinguished guest to write some sen certifying tliat every fragment of every
by to procure a team for me aud was on College avenue."
John Bull certainly knows how to
timent on your fan as a memento of sheet passing through bls lingers lias
battling and bandaging my own liorse
cook fish, to prove which fact one has
Tiie name of tlie town brought to my any special occasion.
been n counted for.
when 1 lieaid tlie whistle of tlie 10 mind the mysterious call I had once
only
to notice tlie Juiciness and good
The fans used in France and England
If one sheet of this precious paper be
o’clock train. Then, remembering that answered. 1 placed the paper on the
before the French revolution were of lost, tlie entire force of men and wo flavor of the first bit of fish, served
my watch had been too fast. 1 mutter table at m.v elbow. As I did so 1 be
the most extraordinary richness. These men having access to the room where perhaps at a little out of the way inn,
ed a very unorthodox expression as 1 came aware of a feeling ns it some one
expensive personal luxuries were set tl.e misplacement lias occurred are tliat one tastes in England. We Amer
thought of the It! mile drive I must was in the room, dancing hastily
icans have at command many tine va
with precious stones and made of laces
take in the cold March night.
around. 1 saw that 1 was alone, but as of fabulous beauty. Artists devoted kept in, like so many school children, rieties ol' fish, but too often find it sent
to
find
It.
Each
sheet
Is
issued
from
I hat! hastened indoors aud put on a m.v gaze again fell on the table I saw
tlieuiselves to the painting of fans, the vault for tlie printing of a definite to table in a "woolly,” tasteless condi
bea’vy ulster when 1 heard tlie boy moving toward me the figure of a
Watteau faitly fanning himself to amount of money upon it. If tlie lost tion.
drive up to my door with the team. mini's hand, holding in its grasp tlie
An American cousin visiting iu au
fame.
»heet were intended to ultimately rep English family made bold to ask wliat
Again I went to the telephone, and, same peculiarly shaped key. The hand
Ladies of rank rivaled each other in resent $I. ihio worth of notes, tlie group
ringing up aentral, I inquired if lie lmd moved over the table until it rested on
method of cooking “sea food” was
ascertained wlio bad called for Dr. th? paragraph 1 lmd just read, and the the costliness of their toys. Some car of employees to whom tlie responsibil prevalent In England and found that
ried fans with the portraits of impor ity of Its misplacement has been traced
Wildes.
there tin* importance of the thorough
key tapped otwe or twice on the name tant personages and political scenes of
must make good that amount if they cooking of fish as a safeguard against
“I cannot find tliat any one lias called "Ma rguerlte.”
significance painted upon their sur cannot locate it within a reasonable
for you tills evening,” came the reply
ptomaines Is as much regarded as with
The band began to fade. Already I face. Some cynic has said that women
time.
us. Our old country friends, however,
over the wi.e.
could see to read the letters that were endured the fatigue of churehgoing by
Twenty-four times more are tlie assure us that there is not the slight
Suspeetii. that somebody might lie under it, and as the shape of tlie key
making it an occasion to display tine sheets containing the printed money
trying to p' ty a joke on me, I stepped liegan to grow Indistinct 1 seized n
est occasion to render fish dry and
fans, white hands and brilliant Jewelry. counted after leaving the presses. Then
to the door and had tlie team returned pencil and made a sketch of it on tlie
tasteless in order to Insure thorough
they are sealed in packages of 1,060, cooking if proper attention is given to
to the livery stable.
margin of the paper opposite til,' para
Speaking German.
placed
on
racks
In
a
drying
room
of
I seated myself in an easy chair by graph.
After u woman hud devoted several 180 degrees temperature, unpacked, basting One cannot well imagine any
thing hotter thau boiling fat, and lav
the fire, aud after reading a short time
Tlie key had barely faded from my years and some money to the task of
I fell asleep. I awoke just ns my clock view when m.v bell rang. A man stood learning the German language thor thoroughly examined, smoothed in ing plentifully with this is to make use
powerful hydraulic presses aud packed of the surest ammunition possible for
was striking 12, and as the last stroke in the door. "Come at once to Mrs.
oughly she felt herself more accom in wooden cases. These cases are haul
ceased my telephone again rang.
tlie routing of deadly bacteria.
Lawton's, College avenue.”
plished than some of her friends und ed to tlie treasury in an ironclad wag
Instead of warning amateurs against
I hastened to reply and received the
in response to my inquiries he re took pleasure in the pride tliat this
on. Six guards, heavily armed, accom underdone fish, let copious basting with
call, “Come to Millville on the midnight plied: "She is unconscious. It Is prob
knowledge gave her. One day she was pany this wagon whenever it makes a
train to No. 20 High street.
sweet boiling fat be insisted on, and in
ably a stroke of paralysis.”
in a street car wbeu a man entered trip.
“Wlio wants me?” I asked, as I knew
place of a woolly, flavorless result
In a few minutes we entered the and vainly tried to tell the conductor
No
attempt
to
steal
Uncle
Saiu's
mon
not a soul in Millville.
there will be the opposite-flakiness
room where a slight girlish figure, clad where he wanted to go. He spoke only
ey wlille undergoing any of these stages and juiciness. Overboiling will pro
I received no reply, although 1 rang nil in black, was kneeling by the side
German, the conductor understood not of manufacture has yet beeu detected.
several times, and, putting on my over of a bed whereon lay au old lady. She
duce woolliness as surely as overfrylug
a word, and the passenger In despair As a matter of fact, tlie money would
coat aud cap, 1 seized my medicine case was quite dead, ami but one glance
or baking. To insure tender, solid
turned to the others In the cur.
be practically useless, for Its printing flakes in, tor Instance, boiled cod or
and hurried to the railroad station, a was needed to show me that she was
"Does uuybody here speak Gel is not completed until after It makes
few rods away, where tlie night train the mysterious one who .lmd opened
halibut and to avoid dissipating the
man?” he asked.
this guarded Journey to the treasury. flavor make sure the water bolls when
stopped on being signaled. Before 1 the door for uieat tlie Millville house.
This, thought the learned young There tlie finishing touch Is added In
o’clock I had reached Millville and
"Here is the doctor. Miss Margue woman, wus uu opportunity for her to the printing of the colored seal upon tlie tisli is put in; keep at a gentle
found tlie place to which I had been rite," said the man.
boil; allow only ten minutes to the
make practical use of her really thor the Ittu- of each note. With the six
summoned.
Tlie young girl rose and with a sti ough knowledge of the language. She sealing presses the same precautions pound and tie carefully In cheesecloth
tlmt has been washed and boiled be
It was au old fashioned house, wlileli lled sob held out her band to me. “My was preparing to volunteer her serv
had been modernized by tlie addition dearest friend, my only friend on ices as interpreter when the others nre taken as with tlie two hundred and fore using. Cod well basted wittr hot
fifty big money presses In tlie other olive oil or any good fat will be almost
.of bay windows iu tlie front, from one earth, is gone!” she cried.
who bad beard the request also offer building. Eacli sheet coming from the
of which slmne«a faint light. I has
A few days later m.v sister ami 1 ed their ahi. In all there were among former has a row of notes printed upon gamy in flavor, as will cod stenks
cooked in deep fat.—Washington Star.
tened up the steps, but before my hand called to see Miss Lawton. who I ad
the passengers on the car eleven men It. The sheets are put through small
could touch the door It was opened decided to close her grandmother's
and two women wlio spoke German. machines, operated by girls, who cut
from the inside, and 1 passed in. A bouse and go away.
I'npoetlcal
While she still prizes her accomplish out the individual notes. Even the
very old lady, witli pale face ami snowy
I’oets are not always poetical. A tale
"Tlie only relative 1 have now Is my ment, this studious young woman does small strips, falling like shavings from
hair, silently pointed to tlie next ro< m. mother's half brother in California. lit
is told in a contemporary of Aubrey de
uot think her knowledge so unusual as their machines, must be carefully col
1 entered and found I was in a good 1ms telegraphed for me to come to him
Vere growing ecstatic before Newman
she once did.—New York Suu.
lected, sent to the bureau of engraving over the "sweet pealing of the Oxford
sized apartment that seemed to be half Poor papa and I were so happy there
and prluting and there boiled into pulp. chimes” and asked why they rang with
parlor and half library. A leather cov until ids sudden death last spring.”
An employee found with even one of so inviting an Insistence. “Only young
Mixing ills Metaphor«.
ered lounge wr.i drawn up before an Then she added. “I will show you his
To Lord Rosebery’s famous "spade these ribbons of waste paper Is liable men keeping themselves warm,” re
open fire, and upon it lay a man of picture,” and. taking a photograph
perhaps 60 years. An ugly gash was from a case on the table, she handed and wind" metaphor may be added two to Imprisonment for fifteen years and plied Newman.
in the right side of his head, which, me tlie exact likeness of the man whom or three lapses, not all of which are a fine of $5.« *00.
Tennyson gave sev.eral unexpected
Between these different processes the answers of tlie same character. He
witli the partially dried blood upon Ids I lmd found upon the lounge with tin mixed metaphors, perpetuated by Lord
paper
money
has
been
counted
and
re
face, formed a picture nt which I shud ugly gasli on his head. I did not q«es Londonderry.
asked a young indy who bad shown
In 18'. h ; Lord Londonderry threw the counted six additional times. Finally
dered.
tioti her al that time, although m.v curl bouse of lords into roars of laughter the single notes are placed in Btacks of herself more enthusiastic than Intelli
gent over the beauties of "Maud” wliat
I bent over him and felt for his pulse osity was difficult to control, as 1 saw
100, with all of the blue numbers print birds she supposed they were which
His hand was cold, but in his grasf that she was deeply agitated, aud I during tlie debate on the second read
ed
on
their
faces
in
sequence.
They
called "Maud, Maud, Maud!” "Night
he held a peculiar shaped key, which I felt that she must be kept as calm as ing of the Irish land bill by gravely de
claring that "this Is the reason why are then wrapped in paper, labeled, ingales,” said the enthusiast. “No;
saw plainly In the light of tlie fire. His possible.
you have failed to settle the Irish land sealed with red wax and stored in the rooks you ---- .” But the exact vocative
lips moved, and without opening 1 is
Destiny, fate or what compelled mt
great treasury vaults. Thus each piece is still a matter of discussion.—London
eyes he said. "The second bunch of to follow Marguerite to California? 1 question in tlie future ns you have done
of paper mi icy now In circulation has Globe.
In the past.”
grapes, the second bunch of grapes.”
was not wholly impelled by the desire
In the course of the same speech he been officially counted sixty-tbree
“The man is delirious," 1 thought, as to obtain a solution of my mystery, of
How They Differed.
concluded
a period with, “This is the times.
I stepped into the hallway.
During tlie last term of the late Zeb
which I felt that somehow I held the keystone of the bill, are you golDg to
In our mints the system of account
“Madam,” I called ns I peered around key. having been to a locksmith and
ing for the blank metal out of which Vance in tlie United States senate his
In the darkness, "please bring me n bad a key made from the drawing on kill it?’
Better still was a sentence which he the finished coins are stamped, of keep brother, Robert Vance, wns elected to
basin of warm water at once.” I heard tlie newspaper margin. In the lattei
ing tally on tlie coining machines’ work, represent the Asheville (N. C.) district
no sound except my own voice. I con d part of January I placed my practice uttered in 1897 when speaking once
of counting tlie finished product, of in the lower branch of congress. One
more
on
the
Irish
land
question,
“
That
faintly sec by the light of the fire that
in the hands of one of my medical
packing It. of sealing it in cloth bags, Sunday morning soon after Robert
shone from the library that there were friends who was not quite ready to set your lordship will see,” referring to a
quotation he had just made, “indorses of transporting It under guard, of made his appearance in Washington n
three or four other doors leading from
tie down and started out for a str up to tlie hilt what I have said.”—Tat counting it tunny times again and final friend disked tlie senator If he and Rob
the hall. One after another 1 tried to
weeks’ vacation.
ly of storing It away is practically tlie ert agreed on the subject of religion as
tler. •
open them, but they were all locked
well as they did on politics.
Marguerite and my sister had kept
same.
fast. I ran back into the room from
"No,” replied the senator; "Bob is a
There is not a day in the year when
Courtship In China.
which I bad Just come. Tlie leather up a correspondence, so I bad npj^lffl
A curious custom prevails nt Huay- any one of the seven great treasury Methodist ami believes in falling from
covered lounge was still drawn up in culty In finding the object of my soarab
vaults does not contain in coin, bullion, grace, but never falls, while I am a
front of the fire, but the man was gone. and in less than five weeks was op my nlng-hslen. in Kwangs). On the fif
notes, certificates or bonds sufficient to Presbyterian und don’t believe in fall
teenth
day
of
the
first
month
in
each
I looked wildly around tlie room, but way east witli my bride.
make you or me one of the richest of ing from grace, but am all tlie time
no sign of n.m could be seen. I drew
Before leaving California I bad learn year all tlie young ladles and gentle
the
world’s multimillionaires. The most falling!”—New York Times.
my hand over the louuge and found my ed the particulars of Mrs. Lawton’s men take a walk to the Yenyen moun
capacious of these strong boxes are In
Obliterating Smallpox Plttin*«.
Marguerite’s grand tain. Each damsel carries a little box,
finger allowed plainly on the dusty cov sudden death.
the basement of tlie treasury. A large
Scientific treatment and much skill are
ering. The fire was burning low, and I mother, who had been a lender in socl which she deposits nt the foot of the
guard of men—mostly old soldiers, required to remove smallpox pittings
seized my medicine case from the chair ety until tier husband's death, was the hill. Any young gentleman desirous of
commanded by a captain and lieutenant successfully. Tills treatment Is given
where I had placed it, stepped Into the possessor of some valuable diamonds, entering the bonds of matrimony may
—watches them day and night. These by a masseuse, but massage is not
ball and lit stily opened the front door. which a few years previous she bad select one of the boxes and take it
guardians nre heavily armed, nnd they used, as it would never remove the
away
with
him,
whereupon
the
fair
Once outsl. e the house my courage re plneed iu her son's linnds for safe keep
patrol their beats every quarter hour pittings. The process requires a care
owner
of
the
box
makes
lierself
known,
turned, and. looking bnck, I shouted. ing until Marguerite should be of an
throughout the night.—Saturday Even ful removing, little by little, of old cu
“Where ate you. sir?” but no answer nge to wear them. He very seldom and an acquaintanceship Is thus form
ing Post.
ticle. The new, which tnkes tlie place,
came. Then I grasped the doorbell and mentioned tlie Jewels to Ills daughter, ed. Ill assorted matches are not likely
to
occur,
us
tills
custom
is
observed
Is smoother than Its predecessor and
rang peal after peal, but all I heart and It was supposed flint he carried
Method« of Genina.
requires about ten dnys for treatment.
wore the echoes dying away in flu them around on his person. One dny In only among tlie well to do classes of
“Dr. Johnson could remember every Thus, after n couple or more treat
empty house. I may as well confess early March he was returning from a society.
thing he wrote." said the literary man. ments nnd In a comparatively short
drive
wheu
lie
saw
a
man
skulking
that I ran to the railroad station. When
Slow Pro*r?««.
“That Is the difference between Dr. time, the deepest scars are replaced by
I asked the night watchman who lived around tlie street corner who looked
“We don't nppenr to be making much Johnson nnd myself.” answered the a perfectly smooth skin.
at No. 20 High street, he replied. “1 strangely familiar to him. He finally
progress,” said one member of tlie composer of music. “I write every
cannot tell you, sir. as I am but little snid to Marguerite: "It has Just occur
Re«lKn«tlon.
north pole exploring expedition to an thing I can remember.”—Washington
red
to
me
that
tlie
stranger
is
Davison,
acquainted in the place." Still puzzling
other.
Poet No. 1 —Wliat did the publisher
Star.
wlio
used
to
lit
1
employed
by
your
nty brain over the mystery, I remain
"No,” replied the other; “our lender
offer for your poem?
ed witli him until 5 the next morning grandmother. She wrote me some lit
laeonalatency In Clock«.
No. 2—Three dollars.
tle time ago tliat she had discharged la an awful slow writer and thinks he
when the first train took me home.
must stop tlie whole expedition eneb
No. 1—Tliat was an Insult! What
Wlgg
—
It's
queer
how
time
flies.
him
because
she
found
him
one
day
The next afternoon, my courage linv
morning while he commits to m-mory
did
you do?
Wagg
Yes;
you
would
think
that
trying
to
unlock
her
desk
where
her
Ing returm <1. I drove over to Millville
the parts of his lecture that b<t wrote clocks ought to have wings Instead of
No. 2—Put It In tny pocket—New
and went strslght to the house which 1 private papers were kept."
■
York Times
hands nnd feet.—Philadelphia Record.
The following dav Mr. Lawton was the day before "
ha<l visited the previous night. 1 went
I
FAD BECAME A MANIA.
HUMAN ALARM CLOCKS.
m
BLAKE,
MOFFITT
& TOWNE
lotporiers sud De;ilrr«|la
Book, Now«,
Writing and
Wrapping...
OARD «TOOK
STRAW ANU BINDERS’ BOARD
;t woul-l seem from the experience
of tlie Harvard college library that
sa-at-aa-or Ft mt st.
bool, plate collecting may sometimes
t « l . Maia 1««.
is SAN FRANCISCO.
develop into u dangerous and expen
sive manin A few years ago the Har
vard library found that the engraved
labels which it pastes on the Inside of
the covers of Its books as marks of its
ownership were disappearing from
some of tlie less used volumes. The
older book plates. It appears, are high
Bright's Discaac and Diabete«
ly prized by collectors, and some of
Are Positively Curable.
them nre particularly valuable fortheir
artistic merit as well as for interesting
associations with early book collect
ing in this country. These were uatu-
Judge Henry S. Foote, a former member oi
rally the special prey of the tliief.
our State Supreme Court Commission, »mt on«
Detectives took the matter in hand, of the best known Jurist« on tho Coast, mwkei
and the offender was discovered with the following certificate:
full evidence of Ills guilt uism him.
** i am u.ks.l io uertlfy the following facta. A
He confessed to stealing tlie library’s well-known pnyah-tau In a, the pi-actlo« put twe
property nnd to having It in Ills pos case» of Bright'•> lllaes»e aud one of plnls-tea on the
Fulton Compound». lie la a lllliig the results should
session By the time the matter reach M known, hut for professional reu-ous without tile
ed tlie courts the greater part of tlie name. As the res tits are so squan-ly opposed by at
book plates had been restored, the thief medical works. I was asked to Investigate and re
having settled satisfactorily with the port the facia, which 1 did. aud 1 And and certify ai
persons to whom lie had sold or given follows :
*'An old school phyColan f un.,‘>e»tfoned stand
them. and. ns the prisoner had repaid Ing und ability hue J,,-t u-i.-d the Fulton Com
III three eases a Uh these results
the expense to which tlie library had pounds
< Kso Xo 1 Mi- I'.. clironin Bright s plsease: usua
been put, tlie college consented to leave wlbuiiieuurla dropsy etc.; Iliiilw swolleu almost tr
bursting. I so a treatment without result. Undei
the matter of sentence with tin1 court, the i oinpound the drop-y dl.app. -• i .-■| In thirty days
last of the albumen In 9o I nred
which Imposed n tine of $150 on one and
ruse So.'.’ Mr II chronic Bright’s I »sense of t
count and put tlie other count on tile, years’ standing: albumen large, dropsy, etc. In I
n-'.-ks allnimen reduced a hair, aud a few week!
to be brought up again later if it should later albumen down to a trace and dropsy entirely
gone
Patient Insisted ,e we. aril and left tor an
be desirable, meanwhile placing the extended
trip. (Too early. It la lelleved. for per
offender under $1.000 bonds for Ills fu mam-iioi. 1
< as,. So. S—.Mrs 1 . « hronlc dlals-tes; physician
ture appearance If he should be want stales - typical ease, worst I t-or saw ' First lea
days pain diaapie-are.l and sugar decreasing. Sec
ed.
oud report: ’ --ugar reduced half: Improiemeut
A striking point in the ease is that wonderful; sugar g ttlng less every test.”
Asked wliat is-t-eentage are euralde by these
the guilty man is in no way a common Com ounds. the plll-'eiau replied
1 don l know
but It must Is, lar.e nearly a hundred. If my owe
criminal. Ills education (he has a de cum
- h are any cnlterlou ’
■ Attest: II i s tty H I- ooTg
gree of doetoi l ami Ills taste seem only
■ t’JH Mon’goniery st.. San Franclaoo.’’
to have made his thefts more intelli
Asked a hat lie Individ ally 1 bought of It, Judgs
Foote replied: ”1 am satlalied the cure bus tayen
gent and discriminating, however, lie found."
knew tlie value of his peculiar booty,
Medical works agree that Bright'» Disease
and he knew how to dispose of it. ills and
blalmtea are incurable, but H7 per cent tyre
very personality being a protection to pnsltlvelv reoiiverlng umler tin- Fulton Com
pounds. (Common forms or kidney complalot
him in tlmt part of his misdemeanor. and rheumatism offe but short re-lstnnee )
Apparently tlie fail developed to a ma l'rlc” ft for tin- He-ght’a Dls.-use nml f I .'SI for
tile l>lalw*tle i omimutid
John J Full di Co,
ilia nnd that to kleptomania in his !9t Montg. tm-.y st .San l*'ram-iHco. sole coni
pounders. Fn-e '< -- s mtuli f r pullout»
Do
mind.
■crlptlvo pumpldet m.cled free
A number of tlie stolen plates have
not yet been traced at all, nnd collect
ors have been warned against accept
fin I ,«<-’■ Way,
ing Harvard plates of the older en
J ii I ch Naiiileuti relntPH tliat one time
graved varieties unless there is unmis while living in Paris Balzac locked
takable evidence tliat they came hon himself up in Ills room for twenty-two
estly into tjic possession of the person days and twenty-two nights, refusing
who offers I hem.
to see any one and keeping the cur
A Physician's Tests.
LAW POINTS.
A druggist may lie convicted of main
taining a liquor nuisance, though hav
ing a permit to sell liquor, holds the
supreme court of Kansas.
The giving of a new note for an ex
isting indebtedness will not of itself
release collateral security held for pay
ment of such indebtedness, holds the
supreme court of Nebraska.
A child ot divorced parents Is a ward
of the court and must not lie removed
from the state by the parent to whom
the court Ims awarded tlie custody,
holds tlie appellate court of Illinois.
A reservation of title In a condition-
al sah- of goods Is valid as lietween the
parties and those succeeding to their
rights, witli knowledge of such reser
vation, either personally or from the
records.
A decree or order for alimony in a
divorce proceeding Is not a debt within
tlie meaning of tliat term as used In
the constitution prohibit Ing imprison
ment for debt, holds tlie supreme court
of Washington.
A lieiiuest in a will for tin- purchase
of books on spiritualism, to be free to
nil, is liehl by the court of chancery of
New Jersey in tlie ease of Jones versus
Watford (50 Atl. Rep., ISO) to be i
charitable gift which a court of e-tu >
will enforce.
Anlnxsa lut«lllKe«<-e.
Elephants .-ire among the most se
verely drill -d of animals. Tlielr intcll!
gence dm not have tree play In con
setpiem e. But all English train-1 -
agree that pore is a great difference t:
cap.oily lietween I hem mid tlmt some
will learn and remember a lesson fur
more quickly than others.
Cats have very "level" brains nnd
an- too self centered nnd self contaitu-d
ns n rule to show tlie distinctions
whicli exist iii’twcen them. Their
strongest itwllnct is toward a kind of
domestic comfort not exactly shared
with human lieings, but enjoyed In
tla-ir company, to which tlie cat per
feclly adapts itself, let there are mis
mitlnoplc cats w hicli make no secret of
their dislike and contempt for mankind
In general, only conn- Into tlie house
umler protest and would prefer to sleep
In a eonl cellar to taking their nap in
gt o.l society. These are the exceptions
in tin- ent worltl, but «-very one lias met
witli them.
Birds are usually regarded as pos-
si ssing I,rains In "«-lasses,” not ns indi
viduals, tin- origin of tlie belief being
probably tin- fact Hint birds of one
species usually build exactly the same
kind of nest. Th«- generalization is not
correct. Tlie same species may havt
brains of nil eap.icitics London Spec-
tutor.
Lnrii'e I'ninlly.
l’atsy Doolev was n very poor arith
metician ami was puzzled by a great
many questions of numbers which did
not enter other people's heads.
tine day a new ncquulntanc«* remark
ed in Ills presence:
"1 have eight brothers.”
“Ye have eight brothers?” said Pat
sy. “Then I suppose ivery wan o'
thim lias eight brothers too?"
"Certainly.”
"Arrtili, thin,” said Patsy, “how
many mothers laid tlie sixty-foor o’
ye?”
tains closed ami tlie lights continually
burning even In broad daylight. The
only human being he saw during this
time was his servant, whom he rang
for when In- felt the need of food und
which he washed down with numerous
«■tips of coffee. He would throw him
self on Ids bed only when entirely ex
liiiusted from lack of sleep, and he re
tmtined In complete Ignorance of w liat
wns transpiring outside, tlie state of
tlie weather ami even of the time and
day of tin- week. Hi- only fre«-d him
self from tliis voluntary captivity when
in- had written tlie word "Eml” on the
last page of tin- manuserlpt he began
when In’ entered ills prison.
Prive ni Blackwell*« Inland.
The priii- of Blackwell's Island when
It was purchased by New York city
was not seven pieces of wampum, 120
pounds of tobacco or two stacks of fire
arms. tlie price of Manhattan Island,
but $50.000. paid to Robert Blackwell,
the owner, wlio had maiTl«*d the daugh
ter of tlie English captain Manning,
who In Hi73 surrendered New York
city to the Dutch. W hen the English
resumed control. Manning retireil to
Blackwell's Island, then known as Ilog
island, and after his death It became
tlie propel ty of his danglitis’ and son-
in-law. 11 wo s Id in 1838 to New
York cltj nml -.me« bs» been in use for
various corn--1 onul ami charitable In
stitutions
Storing Oxygen In the Hlvod.
Professional divers, w itq remain un
der water from two to five minutes nt
a time, are ueeustoi-.nu before sub
merging themselves to take deep inspi
rations for tel minutes
Tin- object
is said to in- to store up oxygen, not
In the lung cells, but in th«* blood
corpuscles. This renders u temporary
suspension of the breathing possible
by supplying the corpuscles with au
extra quantity of oxygen, to be ex
changed chemically with the carbonic
acid, produced by vital processes, in
the blood.
The Fnnllah I.anxDX«e.
I like to be beholden to the groat
metrop«ditan English speech, the sea
which receives tributaries from every
region under lieaven. I should as soon
tlilnk of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston as
of reading ail my books in originals
when 1 have them rendered for me in
m.v English tongue.—Ralph Waldo
Emerson. -■■■■.........
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I
The (nlncky Thirteen.
“I hate to have to pack up again,"
protested the wife. "This will be the
thirteenth time we have moved since
we came to town, and that's bad luck.”
"But we’re owin’ $13 rent on this
house. Marg.” he said, "and it'll be a
heap worse luck to stay here and have
to pay it.”—Chicago Tribune.
In Stripe«.
“Will you kindly show me what you
have here?” asked the visitor to the
penitentiary.
"With pleasure,” replied the warden,
who had once worked in a dry goods
store. "We have a few tilings in stripes
that I think will interest you.”—Ohio
State Journal.
• — —
.X1
Art.
"Are you fond of pictures?" asked
the man who Is interested in art.
"I should say so!" answered Broncho
The Rennon.
Bob. "Give me jncks, queens or kings
“There Is a very Intimate nervous
every time. I always did hate to fool
conm-etion between tin* brain and the
with tenspots or less.”—Washington
stomach." snid tin- scientific man.
Star._________________
"That explains It," answered tlie
Mrs. Innocent—What did you enjoy
humble person wlio is willing to learn
most about your fishing trip, dear?
“Wliat?”
Mr. Innocent—I got most excited
“Tlie reason why nearly every polltl
cat alliance or financial deal lias to be when I was reeling in, my love.
Mrs. Innocent (bursting into tears»—
discussed nt n banquet."—Washington
And to—to—think you promised me
Star.
you wouldn't drink a drop!—Harlem
Life.
__________________
She Knew It.
He—Do you know, dearest, that I
The Apaches have three different
think you nre tit«- sweetest girl In nil kinds of violins, each having but one
the world.
string and played with a small bow.
She Why not? All the other gentle
men wlio have lmd tin* opportunity
All fortunes have their foundation«
have told me so. Boston Transcript.
lakl in economy -J. G. Holland.