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MOTHER IN THE WgDDINQ QOYYNr Here's a picture of 017 mother In her wedr ding sown. Ah, me, I wonder if there ever was a fairer bride than she. Not a wrinkle on her forehead, not a line denoting care Can be traced upon her features; what a wealth of wary hair Fell away from her fair temples! And the smile she wore that day ' Was the smile of one whose sorrows still were lurking far away. I can fancy that my father, as he gazed upon her then, Mast hare held his head np proudly, favored o'er all other men; And, beholding the sweet beauty of the face depicted here, " I imagine I can see him, young and ar dent, standing near , I hare loved and I can see him as he caught her to his breast. When the strength of youth was in him and his lips on hers were pressed. The picture of my mother, taken on her wedding day, Shows the face of one whose sorrows were all lurking far away, ' And a fairer bride than she has never charmed . a man, I trow Yet there's one whose smile is sweeter than her smile was long ago. One whose brows have many furrows proudly looks sometimes on me, And I see the fondest, gladdest smile man may hope to see. Cincinnati Enquirer. IIEY were sensible, hard-working "1 girls, were the Thurlows, and ev ery one liked and admired them. The two elder ones made quite a nice little sum of pocket money by their poultry and vegetables, which they took into the market themselves, and old right well, for their things were al ways of the best and found a ready sale. It was a brilliant Jane morning and the pony was waiting with, the little cart at the door, stamping bis little feet with impatience, for It was Monday, and "Jan" was fresh from bis stable. "Angela," cried a fresh young voice, "hurry up. Jan is at the door and the baskets are In. Do make haste: we shall be dreadfully late." "I'm coming. Oh, wait a moment, Rita; I must take some of those pink roses, from the south wall. I'm sure they'd sell." It was Just eight o'clock and a lovely day. Overhead hung a cloudless blue sky, but It was no bluer than the azure depths of Angela's eyes, and the sun light was scarce brighter than her glo rious hair, which colled round her head In masses of warm color. She was known as the "best of the lot," and she certainly deserved that position in the family looks on this glorious morning, as she came round breathlessly from the south wall, where she bad been gathering a large handful of delicious pink roses, all wet with dew. "Now, then, my good Rita, as hard as you and Jan like!" said Angela gaily, as she got into the cart And, with a flick of the whip across his shaggy shoulders, away went Jan down the narrow avenue, out into the lane which led into the highroad to the town, four miles distant Pats of yellow butter set out on a neighboring table, which was presided over by a fat farmer's wife, made a de licious contrast to the piles of vege tables, baskets of brown eggs and the loose bunch of pink roses which the girls speedily set out In their turn; and there was no lack of customers as the morning went on. Strangers glanced curiously at the lovely face of the girl In the blue cotton gown and the sun bonnet which half concealed her love liness; and presently a carriage which was passing stopped and two people a man and a lady got out and came slowly Into the market They were strangers to the Thurlows. Possibly they were staying In the neighborhood, which was famous for Its scenery and Its natural sporting ad vantages. But they had no time to waste In staring idly at passers-by, for they were besieged by customers, and soon their pile of produce bad nearly vanished all but the pink roses and a few eggs. "Mis Rita, my dear," whispered the fat woman at the next stall, hurriedly, "will you look after my things while I run out to speak to my daughter for a minute? She passed by, and I must see her at once." "Of course, Mrs. Radley," said An gela; "and I'll have sold all you've got by the time you come back!" "Thank you kindly, Miss Angela, dearr And Mrs. Radley hurried ofT, while Angela took the vacant seat at the stall. It was getting hot and she leant back against the wall with a feeling of drowsiness, when she was roused by a voice, saying: "By Jove! there's a pretty girl! I say, Maude She glanced In the direction of the voice, and saw the two strangers she had noticed getting out of the carriage. They were coming toward her, and her eyes met those of the man, who was looking at her with frank admiration In his handsome face. "My dear Geoff, do be careful!" said the lady, with a laugh; and then she advanced to the stall where, as a rule, the worthy Mrs. Radley presided over the destinies of her butter and chick ens. "Is this Mrs. Radley' s stall?" she asked, with a surprised glance at the girl, who rose from her seat "Yes, ma'am," said Angela, with the demurest air. "She has just gone out of the market for a moment but I am looking after the things for her. What can I serve you with, ma'am?" The man was still looking at her, but Angela took not the faintest notice of him. "A dozen eggs, please," said the lady, getting out her purse, and looking about her; "and 'Oh, what lovely roses there are on the next stall! Are those yours?" "Yes, ma'am," said Angela with alacrity. "Will you take some? They are quite fresh this morning." "Give me half the bunch, will you. olease? How much? That Is right. I think. Perhaps you could bring them out to the carriage for me?" - 1 pt j t - 1 1 v- ir The ordinary blue print or print on ferro-prussiate paper, which Is without exception, the most easy of manipula tion and quickest made, can be toned to a very rich brown color If as soon as washed the paper is Immersed in a solution made up of 5 ounces of water In which has been dissolved a small piece of caustic coda, about-the size of a pea. The print upon immersion in this solution will assume a yellow col or, after which it should be thoroughly washed and again immersed In a bath made up of 8 ounces of water In which has been dissolved a heaping teaspoon ful of tannic acid. The print In this bath will assume a brown color, which can be carried to almost "any tone. Af ter having reached the proper tone It should be thoroughly -washed and dried. - An amateur sometimes keeps very poor negatives, because they are of subjects he cannot easily . duplicate. Such negatives may be much improved. and, if not too po.or, converted into fair ly good negatives by developing them in old hydrochinon. Make a 10 per cent solution of citric acid and one of red potassium prussiate. Make up a solution of two and three-quarter ounces of used hydrochino developer, one ounce of the citric acid solution. one ounce of the red prussiate of pot ash solution and two and one-half ounces of water. The ingredients should be mixed in the order given. Place the negative, without washing. In this so lution, and develop for from three to ten minutes, keeping the tray in mo tion, as during development Handle the plate with rubber finger tips or "Let me take them, Maude," said the man stepping forward. "There is no need to trouble any one to Scarry your parcels when I am here. Is that all?" "Yes. You look rather absurd witn that basket of eggs and the roses, Geoff; but have your own way. Good morning." The man cast a glance at Angela and lifted his hat, as he followed the lady from the stall; and Angela withdrew to her seat with a mischievous smile curving her red lips. - Of course, he thought she was a farm er's daughter, or something of that sort, and she laughed to herself at the rec ollection. He was such a nice-looking, soldierly man, too; and she wondered who he was, and where he came from, with that frank interest in the doings of the world In general which was part and parcel of her quiet home life. "Rita," she said, "I wonder who those people were. Didn't I play my part well? It was quite amusing, and "I should like the rest of those roses you .have. If they are not sold," said a voice; and Angela turned swiftly, to find the good-looking man beside her. He was looking at her with a queer smile, and she reflected that he might have heard her remark. "Certainly, sir," she said, remember ing her role. "Thanks very much. Good-morning "Why, he has given me too much. This Is half a sovereign!" cried Angela In dismay, as the man disapepared. "Look, Rita! What shall I do?" "My dear, what can you do, unless Mrs. Radley can tell you who the peo ple are? The carriage has gone." It was late In September when Tom Thurlow, the eldest son, who' was just home from the war, arrived home on leave. He had announced in his letter that he was bringing with him one of his friends, a man who had done awful ly well at Ladysmith, and who was, ac-. cording to Tom, no end of a good fel low. This caused quite a flutter of in terest In the Thurlow establishment and great were the preparations made for the reception of Tom and his friend. a certain Captain Lawler. It was late when they arrived, and Angela was out feeding her poultry. "Where's Angela?" asked Tom, when all the first greetings were over, and Captain Lawler had been introduced to his friend's good-looking family. "Grub bing In that blessed garden, I suppose? The girl is gardening and poultry rearing mad! By the way, Lawler tells me he has been in these parts before said he saw the prettiest girl he had ever met in the market Funny place to come across her, eh?" Rita almost Jumped from her seat. She had thought there was something familiar about the stranger's face, and now It suddenly flashed across her. He was the man to whom Angela had sold her pink roses for half a sovereign! THE ZEBRA MULE l j Some efforts have recently been m.-ide to cross the zebra on the mare aad thus produce an animal of the mule type, having some of the attractive charac teristics of the sesra. The efforts have not met with encouraging success. In the flrst place the zebra is wild, vicious and apparently not disposed to intimate association with horses. Nevertheless some of the efforts have been successful. The illustrations show tamed sebra tli-.t is the sire and one ft the xebre-14 colts. It will be seen that the greatest attraction, the beautiful marking of the sebra, are lost in the cross. This practically determines the cross as of ne value. The small size of the zebra will always make impossible any great size in his colts, and size is absolutely necessary in a mule. mmeur hofoqraphi) with a plate lifter. When the negative is redeveloped enough, fix for three minutes in a weak hypo bath one ounce hypo to ten of water and wash for half an hour In running water. The operation may be repeated if the nega tive is not yet satisfactory. . This for mula may also be used for intensifying weak negatives. . - The ambitious beginner, starting out with his first camera. Is Very apt to make the mistake of fancying that the more comprehensive the view .he can get upon hla plate, the better will be bis picture. A few trials, however, serve to show him that the camera a not adapted to this kind of work,, and that the view which embraces' "all out doors" Is flat and uninteresting from the fact that all details are so minute as to require a good deal of study, to Identify them.- The camera worker of experience seeks rather to obtain small bits of scenery which repay him much better. Within the next few weeks ex cellent opportunities will present them selves for the photographing, of reflec tions, which In quiet pools or deep and slow running rivers often make very charming subjects for the photograph er. It is a good plan in photographing these reflections to break the surface of the water In the immediate fore ground by throwing a stone or stick into it just before the exposure Is made, thus giving variety to what would oth erwise be a perfectly unbroken expanse of water. Exposure in such cases should be full, and development direct ed to the bringing out of all details, care, being taken, however, not to de velop so far as to produce an over dense negative. At that moment the door opened and Angela came In. Tom always declares that both she and Geoffrey Lawler looked as If they had been suddenly struck motionless images, but that may be taken as a slight exaggeration of the affair. "Well, I'm blessed!" said Tom. "You two don't need an Introduction, evi dently; and, since you both seem to have so much to say, you'd better get it over. I shall be in the stables when you want me. Come on, Rita." And as the others vanished, and Geoffrey Lawler found himself alone with the "best of the lot" bis tongue was suddenly unloosed, and he spoke. They were still talking an hour later; and Tom Thurlow was very eloquent on the subject when he came back from a wrathful tour of the stables, and'f ound the two of them still talking, as he expressed It . Geoffrey Lawler and Angela are like ly to talk for ever and a day, for he declared that Fate had brought them together In such a wonderful manner that It would be ungrateful, to say the least of It to allow themselves to part again. And Angela quite agrees with him. She always does. New York News. " POET, LINGUIST, MUSICIAN. Now the Head of the General Feder ation of Women's Clubs. One of the most popular and promi nent club women of America Is Mrs. Dimies T. S. Denison of New York, who was elected presi dent of the Gen eral Federation of Women's Clubs at the recent conven tion in Los Ange les, Cal. Mrs. Den ison possesses all the qualifications needed in such an office. She is an excellent public mm. cejsison. speaker and has a charming and magnetic manner. She once served as president of - Sorosls, being elected by unanimous vote. As a member of the Patrice Club of New York, and of the New York State Fed eration of Women's Clubs, she has done much active and effective. work In fem inine clubdom. She is an accomplished linguist and a practiced musician. She also possesses the poetic fire and many of her poems are charming and inspir ing. In New York society she is very popular. "I'm supporting him," a father said t his wife, concerning their worthless son, "and you can afford to be patient v ith him." Unless a man is satisfied with him self he is not In the self-made class. NOT A SUCCESS. .HEAT PROM THS EARTH. Scientist Telia How. He Thinks. StM , . May Be Obtained UndtrKroiad. Certain scientific men now believe that the enormous Internal heat of the earth may be utilized for some-practical purpose. Prof. William Hallock ef Columbia University expresses, in the World's Work, the opmion that the plan is feasible.'' He says: 1 ''"---: "It is not merely a question of getting steam; it is a question of the quantity of steam that can be had. Near Boise, Idaho, hot water is now drawn from 1 well, and used to heat a dwelling. The Pittsburg and Wheeling wells are capa ble of heating the water left in them overnight; but even if their depth were sufficient to turn the water to steam. It would require so many hours waiting as to rob the process of all commercial value. In other words, there would not be the slightest difficulty in obtaining steam from the Interior of the earth, because that Involves only a little ex tra labor in boring into the hot area, and It is almost as easy to bore tea thousand feet as six thousand; but in order to give the steam commercial value, a method must be provided for dropping the water to the hot area, al lowing it time to heat and yet having it returned to the surface as steam, without interrupting the flow. "Two holes might be bored into the earth, twelve thousand feet deep and perhaps fifty feet apart' There would be a temperature far above the boiling point of water. Then, if jrery heavy charges of dynamite or some other ex plosive were lowered to the bottom of each hole, and exploded simultaneous ly, a sufficient connection might be es tablished between the two holes. The rock would be cracked and fissured in all directions, and scattering It thus around the base of the holes would turn the surrounding area into an Immense water-heater. The water poured Into one hole would be beated and turned Into steam, which would pass through the' second hole to the earth's surface. The pressure of such a column of steam would be enormous; for aside from Its Initial velocity, the descending column, of cold water would exert a pressure of at least five thousand pounds to the square inch, which would drive every thing movable through the second hole. The problem Is therefore a mechanical one, concerned chiefly with connecting the two holes. This accomplished, the water-heater would operate Itself, and establish a source of power that would surpass anything now in use.- LOUISIANA LEVEES. Thirty Millions Spent on Them by the State Since the War. If you picture In your mind an enor mous sickle, having a' handle also at the hooked end, you will have the Mis sissippi river as It flows In yellow swiftness past the city of New Orleans. A hundred miles to the southward it pours through its many mouths into the broad blue gulf. In the crescent of the sickle, which gives to the city its name, lies New Orleans, and no sharp blade In the hand of the husbandman thrust into the ripening grain was ever surer of its destructiveuess than would be this ""vast crescent of the . Mississippi when once it shouldtoe given sway. Sometimes when the river is at flood its surface will rise twenty feet above the level of the city's streets. . In the center of the stream it will be nearly 200 feet deep, with a powerful cur rent, which, we;e it not for the pro tecting levee about "the city, must sweep everything before it This giant river, which has made this city possi ble, drains an enormous basin, its wat ershed being greater in area than that of any other river on the globe. The volume of water which flows past the city is equal to 150,000,000 cubic yards. There are now nearly 1,500 miles of levees on the lower Mississippi,- and Louisiana alone has spent since the Civil War nearly $30,000,000 on the river, while it costs' the State $1,000, 000 annually to maintain its levees. Strange as it may seem, the deadliest enemies of these great earthen em bankments are the .insignificant craw fish and the muskrat; for, once the slightest hole is made in the levee by either . of -them, the relentless river finds its way through and vast loss en sues. Ainslee's Magazine. The Accordion. Emile Gautier has written a plea for the despised accordion. He calls it the poor 'man's piano forte, and wonders why it should be so overlooked outside of Russia, where It is the national in strument There all the regiments have their acordlon players, whose lively notes relieve the monotony of long marches. - t The instrument is in every sense an artistic one, because it embodies the required qualities; It gives accurate and melodious'' sounds in conformity with the rules of music. The keyboard Is etxenslve enough to bring forth the most delicate shades of tone. It gives even an orchestral richness, in small volume. Under the measured action of the bellows, which plays the part of the bow, it affords allthe inflections and modulations of the violin in its upper register. In the lower register It resem bles -the violoncello. Of course the warmth of praise be longs to the instruments of the best French make, not to those which are hastily put together for an indiscrimin ating market Seventy-three years ago the accordion was invented in Vienna by a man named Damian. 'The invention em bodied a wonderful knowledge -' of music, together with an astonishing cal culation and skill When the instrument came out It was a triumph, but the pub lic soon regarded It with Indifference. Appropriate Text. "Hit surtingly do fill dis ole heart ob mine wif joy." began the Bev. Flat foot as the last wail from the wheezy organ escaped through an open win dow, "ter see so menny strangers pres ent dis galorious sabbath mawnin'. De good book hit say: 'He war er stran ger an' Ah took' him in.' De deacons will now perceed ter take up de collec shlon." Her Own Hair-Dresser. Mrs. Swellef Do you employ a pri vate chauffeur? "Mrs. Gotrichtkwick No, I always do up my hair myself. Ohio State Jour One man and a deadly torpedo float ing about beneath the surface of the water. The torpedo charged so that it will blow a great warship to destruc tion; the man provided with means by which to .; discharge his dangerous weapon Tn a way to do the most harm. Such Is the latest of all torpedo boats a one-man affair, not larger than a large fish, andyet as effective In its purposes, If. the theory of Its inventor Is correct as one of the Holland sub marine boats. - The man who has perfected this of fensive and invisible destroyer is Thomas J. Moriarity, for many years the mechanical expert "in the employ of the United States Government at the torpedo station at Newport Mr. Moriarity was long ago impress ed with the idea that the only way by which to make the action of the tor pedo actually certain was to put an ex perienced operator inside It; for, while Its automatic machinery operates with almost human intelligence, there is no certainty that it will on long ranges do exactly- what Is required of It. From the idea of putting a man Inside it to that of placing a man outside it the transition was easy; and it then be came a problem to give him a safe shelter, means of locomotion, of sub merging and of discharging the projec tile. - , To accomplish these essentials he has devised a cigar-shaped boat of bronze plates, about ten feet long, three feet deep and five fet wide. Beneath this is suspended the Whitehead torpedo in a frame,' and It Is propelled by com pressed air when the operator has ap proached near the mark. - WONDERFUL IRON ELEPHANT. Designed for Great Bx position by a Chicago Man. Mr. Joseph Husak, of Chicago, is pre pared to out-Ferris Ferris at the St Louis exposition, or at any other expo sition which may come along and make room for his "iron elephant," 300 feet long and 250 feet In height or for his "Jonah's whale," 50 feet long and big in girth in proportion. The "iron elephant" is the chief fea ture and creation of Mr. Husak's in ventive faculty, and he purposes to adapt the metal beast to more uses than the Indian beast is capable of in the flesh. The body of the animal is to be four stories in height, the floors to be reached by elevators running In the legs of the creature. The flrst floor is to be used and rented for small show rooms; the second floor for a cafe and restaurant and furnish entrance to the MB. HUSAK'S IBON ELEPHANT. elephant's trunk, which is to be con structed to pull the ears up and down and at the same time swing. The third floor will be used for att sorts of amusements, and Berve as an entrance to the "chute of chutes" and to the small Ferris wheels In each car of the elephant The fourth floor can be used ' for a theater or music ball, placing the stage in the head of the beast On top of the creature will be a roof garden ! or an observatory. The eyes will be 1 two gigantic searchlights, and the tail I mfcht he nsed bv some Inventor to show a new fire escape. All signals may be trumpeted from this structure, and electric power will be used to run the different devices. Mr. Husak's whalewlll be in. propor tions to simulate the real thing. Even the Interior of the animal will be con sturcted according to economy of na ture, only that entrance to the. Inside ;thrugh the mouth will be through an uplifted jaw. Windows will be pro vided, and the whale, swimming In a circular tank, will be operated by elec tricity, rising and sinking at the slight est wish of the operator. TABITHA SANBORN'S RIDE. She Really Couldn't Bear to .Waste Time from Her Work. Some of the feats which- our fore mothers performed quite as a matter of course when domestic emergencies occurred were such as would tax the endurance and courage of the hardiest athletic maidens of our own day. Han j nah Sanborn Philbrook, In a recent article on old-time Sanbornton. relates j how an ancestress of hers supplied a ' deficiency In her weaving apparatus. She found unexpectedly that her work required the use of a certain reed and harness which could be obtained only at a place five miles distant reached by a road leading, over a num ber of steep and dangerous hills. She was alone in the house with her baby and another young child, whom she could not leave to go on an er rand. Nevertheless, she could not en dure the idea of wasting time in wait jbdoooooooo yMyJ? J HO O B O Op 81311 0 I When in the boat the operator lies on a cradle astride of Its support Pad ded prongs on the cradle curve over his shoulders and hold him in place, provid ing also a purchase for his arms when operating the lever In front of him. He wears a waistcoat made of two thicknesses of air-tight material, to which is attached a small mouth tube by which It is inflated. It serves as a padding for the body while the oper ator's in the boat and also as a life preserver In an emergency. Air is admitted through the rear mast and circulates throughout the boat This air tube is, however, automatical ly closed when the boat Is beneath the surface of the water, and the conning tower is completely covered by means of a hydrostatic piston, open to the water at the bottom of the boat the pressure" of the water at the increased depth forcing up the piston, "which ac tuates a lever to force a valve over the air-tube opening, thus preventing the entry of water through It The same motion of the piston oper ates levers connected to a valve in the compressed air tank in the bottom of the boat opening It and thus allowing a fine stream of air to issue therefrom into the boat and supplying the oper ator with fresh air. As the boat again reaches the surface the pressure on the hydrostatic piston is released because there Is less depth of water and the air tube is again opened and the air tank valve closed. The torpedo Is fired by compressed air, but on leaving its casing the pro pelling mechanism of the projectile is set in motion, and It starts off under its own power for the mark. ing for that reed and harness when If she only had them she could make such good progress with her web. Her hus band owned the "smartest 4-year-old colt in town," and this lively animal, nothing daunted, she mounted with her baby in her arms, taking the other child on a pillion behind her. "Soon after her arrival," writes her great-granddaughter, "there were signs of a coming tempest and she had to hasten. The reed and harness, at least four feet long, were bound to the colt and she turned toward home. "My Great-great-uncle Cate said that when she passed his house she was go ing like the wind, the sky was black with the coming storm, and the thun der and lightning were terrible. As soon as It cleared off he saddled his horse and followed, 'expecting,' he said, 'to find Tabitha and the children dead in the road. But I went clean over all the way, and there she was, getting supper and singing, as lively as a cricket!'" She was not even wet; for the smart 4-year-old, urged to the utmost, had succeeded, In spite of his queer and cumbrous load, In racing the shower and beating It. Supper over, Mrs. San born, with a tranquil mind and the proper implements, was able to resume her uninterrupted weaving. Men Stenographers Scarce. "There is one feature of the govern ment service that puzzles me," said a chief of division in the Treasury De partment "and that Is the lack of men stenographers. I don't see why men who have ambitions to enter govern ment work don't equip themselves along this line. I do not mean to dis pargae the efficiency of women type writers, for they do all that is expect ed of them, and more, too. But there is a limitation to their usefulness, no matter how expert they may be. There are certain confidential relations which a superior must always have with his assistant which cannot be shared with a woman. Oftentimes we have to rely on the Judgment of an inferior, and are not always willing, and, in fact would be afraid, to trust to the discretion of a woman. "To my mind the scarcity of mea typewriters Is largely due to the fact that women have bluffed their mascu line rivals or would-be rivals from the field. The latter evidently think that the craft has been monopolized by tha women. To tell the truth, there is no field so much open to men, as far as Uncle Sam Is concerned, as that of the typewriter, and in few is there held out such prospect of advancement. For In stance, Secretary Cortelyou is an ex stenographer, and not so much of an "ex" at that for he was, and always will be, a skillful hand, at the type writer. But he Is a Cabinet possibility, and he rose from the opportunities held out by his calling." Washington Post - No Fitting Time. There are many poor correspondents who would doubtless like to make the excuse given by a boy who was spend ing his flrst year at a boarding school. The flrst letter, anxiously awaited by his parents, was not received for more than a week, and then it was short and to the point "Dear people," wrote the boy, "I don't believe I shall be able to send you many letters while I'm here. You see when things are happening I haven't time, and when they aren't happening I haven't anything to write. You'll understand how it Is, won't you, father? And, mother, you just ask father to explain to. you how it is. So now I will say good-by, with love to alL In haste, George." The world Is Improving. There are more sudden deaths every year, and fewer cases of long suffering. Everyone has a kin problem he can't solve. A HEROIC CHINAMAN. Hla Bra-vary Attracted the Attention of Congress. - Charley Tong Sing, whose home is in Los Angeles. CaL. is the only Chinaman who ever received a medal from Con gress for bravery. He Is a naturalized citizen o f the United States, and as thoroughly Americanized a a his thirty years' residence ber- oan p;ike him. Charley was a member of the Greely relief expedition of 18S4, tong sxxo. - commanded by Captain (now Rear Admiral) Schley, but he has a greater distinction than having been a member of this expedi tion. He is one of the three survivors of the Jeannette expedition. He was steward of that ill-fated vessel when. In 1S79, she sailed on a voyage of ex ploration In the Arctic seas. His splen did physique and natural hardness were all that brought him safely through the hardships, exposures and horrors of that terrible experience. I Charley joined the Jeannette expedi tion at San Fraiclsco. He was then aa experienced sailor, having served aboard American merchant ships in various capacities. He acted the part of a hero during this trip, and whrn, he returned the Navy Department in recognition of his services, presented , Charley with a handsome medal. Upon It Is inscribed: "Charley Tong Sing, (Arctic Steamer Jeannette; Fidelity, Zeal, Obedience." On the reverse side Is a'plcture of the old frigate Constitu- .tion, and the words, -"United States I Navy." By special act; of Congress, September 30, 1890. another medal w.-.s j-presented. It betrs the date upon which tie act was approved by the President, and around it the words, "Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1882." On the i reverse side is presented the Jeannette '. in the ice, with the crew waving her a farewell. The medal depends from Xlasp held In the beak of a silver eagle. It was not a great while after the Jeannette adventure when Charley Tong Sing started with Capt Schley on the Greely relief expedition. After his return from that voyage he served in the navy on the Tennessee, aud then he decided to abandon the life of a sailor. AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE. Ascertained Facts by Sherlock Holmes' System of Deduction. Sherlock Holmes has a promising ri val in a barber known to the Philadel phia Record. He astonished one of bis customers the other day by asking him if he were not left-handed. The man admitted that be was, and suggested that the barber had probably seen him hang up his hat "No," said the barber; "I have other ways of finding out such things. I see, to, that you are a bookkeeper." "Yes," admitted the customer, "your guesses are correct How do you know?" "It's easy," said the barber. "In shampooing your head I noticed ink on your hair at the left temple. This iuk, I concluded, must have got there from a Den resting on vour left ear. which in dicated that you were a person who used a pen a great deal, as only such persons use their ears as pen-racks. "That didn't convince me that you were a bookkeeper, however, because a literary man might stick his pen behind his ear for convenience. I learned of your profession when I applied the lather. This made the Ink on your hair wash out, and I discovered two shades of Ink red and black. Nobody but a bookkeeper uses red and black ink. so it was easy to class you as a bookkeep er. "I knew you .were left-handed be cause the ink was on the left side the side that a left-handed writer would in voluntarily use when sticking his pen back of his ear." "Wonderful, wonderful;" said the customer. "Now, suppose you stop talking for a while, and finish shaving me." Died of Improvements. An uptown physician tells of a Ger man friend, a poor journeyman baker, who sent his wife to a local hospital when she fell 111. The physician al ways asked with interest after the con dition of the sick woman when he met the German, and was told in reply: "Well, doctor, they say at the hospital there's Improvement." This reply did not vary from day to day for a month or more, and was always spoken by the German very stolidly, as though he really did not see in the report any grounds for hope. Then one morning, meeting the physician and being asked the usual question, be said: "O, she's dead, doctor." "Dead?" repeated the physician. "What do they say she died of?" "They didn't say they didn't have to," answered the German. "I knew. She died of too many improvements." Philadelphia Times. The European Plan. Some queer customers are seen at New York hotels. An old farmer from the country tells how he got ahead of one of the clerks: "I walked in." he says, "asked the young man at the desk: 'What are your prices?' 'Amer ican or European?' he asked me. Now j 1 wasn't going to tell where I was from until I had seen the lay of the laud. 'What difference does that make?' says I. 'If American,' he answered, "it's $4 per day; if European. $1.50.' I thought a moment and then an idea struck ine how to get ahead of him. I walked up boldly and registered from London, England. Infrequent Birthdays. The members of the Berlin Society of In Year Children to which none ' are admissible unless born on Feb. 29 I will keep their common birthday in great style In 1904. They have had no opportunity for eight years, and in 1900 ! the extra February day, according io the rules of the reformed calendar, was omitted. Herr Monteur, the president of the society. Is to-day a seotuazenar. j lan, but in the seventy years of his life he has only had seventeen birthdays. He hopes to celebrate his eighteenth birthday and seventy-second year of his life in the midst of his colleagues on Feb. 29. 1904. No difference how well you play the game of life, you are sure to lose.