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The said Con pan y Is prepared to take charge of all patent business entrusted to it for rea sonable fees, and prepare and proseoute applications generally, including me obanioal inventions, design patents, trade-marks, labels, copyrights, interfer ences, infringements, validity reports, and gives especial atteniou to rejected cases. It is hIbo prepared to enter into competition with any firm in securing foreign patents. Write for instructions and advice. John Wbddrhbukn. H18 F Htreet, P. 0. Box 385. Washington, D. C. STOCK BRANDS. Wliilo yon kfwp your snbaoription paid up you can keep your I) mud in Free or oharKfl, Allyn, T. J., lwin, Or. HornfiB id on left nhouUlfir: OHtila m on loft hip. nnriW hit, on right our, iind upper bit on the loft; ruugo, Mor row comity. AmrntronK, J. (',, Alpine, Or, T with bur mi nor it on loft fihonmer uf horses; cattle mine vn loft hip. Alllnou, O. T., Kitcht Mile. Or.rttIe brand, O I) on loft hip mid horwm name brum! on right shoiildnr. lUngn, Kiht Mile. Adkinn, J. J., Heppner, Or. Horses, J A twm n u tod on Inft think; cattle, (mine on left hiu. HitrtholfmiHw, A. ii., Alpine. Or. Hoi-hoa branded 7 ft on uilhnr ehonhlor. liaune in Mor row OOHIllV Hletiknian. (ioo., Hiinlman, Or. HortwR, a Hag on ien iioiu(inr; uuwie nauie on nam Hiiotuiier. imnninter, J. W., Hunlmau, Or. Cattle brand ed II on left hip and thigh; split in each ear. Mrenner, I'etor. lioimeherry Oregon ilnrsna branded l'H on loft shoulder. CaUle sntue on right mdo, hnrko. M Ht (), I iima Creek, Or On cattle, MAY onnnuoted on left, hip, mop oil left ear, tin. der half troi oil right. Hornet, same hnmd on let ft shoulder. Uaiigo in Umiit and Morrow flonnty. HroHinan, Jerry, ljena, Or. Homes branded 7 on right shotildor; cattle H ou the left side. Jjeft ear half orop nd right ear upper slope. Harton, Win., Heppner, Or. -llorses, J H on right thigh; cattle name on right hip; split in each ear. Hrown. I Ha, Lexington, Or. Horses III on the right. Blitie; cattle wimeon right hip; range, Mor row eon nty. Hrown, J. ('., Heppner. Or. Horsott, oirole (3 with dot in ooi tor on left hip; cattle, same. Brown, W, J., lma, OrK. Horses W. bar over It, ou the luft sbouldor. Cattlu samo ou left hi n. Iloyer, W. G., Heppner, Or. Horses, box brand on riglu hip uattle, same, with split in eaoh oar. Bora, P.O., Heppner, Or. Horses, V B on left shoulder: cattle, same on left hip, llrownlee, W. J., Fox,Or ('tittle, JH oonneetod on left aide; crop mi loft ear and two spittitund middle piece out out on right ear; on horses same brand on the left thigh; J lunge in Fox valley, Hraut county, Csrsuer Warren. Wagner, Or. Hornea brand ed O on right stine ; rattle (throe liars) on right ribs, crop mid split in eaeh ear. liange in I. J rant and Morrow cimnties. t'ain.E., ('aleb.Or. Y I on horaea ou left stille U with (itutrter circle over it, on left shoulder and on left title on all colls under A years; on left shoulder only on allhorsesover 6yeurs. All range in tlrant comity. Uark, Win. II., Lena. Or. -Horses WHO con netted, on left shoulder: cattle same on right hip. Hange Morrow and Umatilla uoiiutien. Cte, Chan. It,, Vinaon or ljena, Or. Horses H C on right shouhler; cattle same on Hunt hip. limine Morrow and Umatilla counties. toil, Win., Douglas, Or.; horses JO on lnf shoulder; cattle same on left hip, waddles ou each Jaw snd two bite in the right ear. Curl, T. U.. John lay, Or. Double orosa ou each hip on cnt tie, swallow fork and under bit in right ear, split in left ear, Hange in limit county. On sheep, inverted Aftd spear point ou (moulder. Kar niarkoii ewes, crop on left ear pnuched upper bit in right. Wethers, crop in right and under half crop iu left ear. All rauga in Urant count v. Cook, A. J. ,leuR,Or.- Horses, HO on right shtml trer, CsttU, same on riiftit hip: ear mark sguare crop otl luft and split in right. Curhn. li. i., Cuiriiisville, Or. -Horses, on left Li tie. Cox Kd. 8., Hardtnan, Or. Cattle, C with K in center; horwm. CK on left iip. Cochran, It. b!., Monnmeut, (Jrnnt Co, Or. Hornet biandtni circle with lr benefit li, on left shoulder; cattle Name brand on both hips, mark under slope both et.ru and dewlap, Chapiu, 11.. Hantman, Or. Hones branded Hon right hip. Cattle hrauded the same. Ainu brands CI on hnreee right thigh; CH'tle misne brand on right shoubbr, and cut ott end of riuht ear. liickfiis, Kbb - Hornes brandol with three lined fork on left stitle. Cattle na'ue on left mdc. Dougtans. W. M ., Galloway, Or. 'attle, it I'on nght Hide.swailow-fork iu each ear; horses. It 1) on left hip. Itouglait. O. T., Ibmglae, Or Horww TD on tlie right stitle; cattle tutme on right hip. lily, J. H. Jt Sims, Douglaa, Or. Horstw brand el f;l,Y on left s html der, cattle same ou left hip. hole in right ear. Elliott. Wash., Heppner, Or. Diamond on right Hhoulder. fernery, C. M., flanlman, Or. Horses branded lreverttid C with Uil on left shoulder; cat tlcKameou right hip. Hange in Morrow county. Fleek. Jackdon, Heppner, Or.-Humes, 7F eon netted oti right shoulder; cattle same on rifht hip, tar mark, hide in right aud crop on left. Florence, Ii, A., Heppner, Or.-Cattle. ,K on nght hip; noraee, F with bar under on nht shoulder, Florence. B. I'. Ilttponer. Or -Horses, F on right ehoulder; cattle. F on right hip or thigh. French, tnorg, Heppner, Or. Chttle brnmleil W F, with bar tvnr it, on left side; orop ott ieft ear. iorn, same brand on left hip. Hay. Usury, lleppuer, Or.-tiAlf on left shoulder. Oilman-French. Iand and LiveHtoek Co., Fos sil. Or. HoriteH. auohor Hon left shoulder; vent, same ou left nil Be. ( ttttle, wuue ou botb hli nr marks, cix.i. ufl right ear and iiuderl.h in left , lUtiige iu UlliiMiU, tiruit, LWk aud Muin.w couuUos Owtirry, tUiiW, tobu. Or.-tbi bcend! H. p wltn a uuartr inrcU over it, uu Mi stint. ttsi.gt.in M.inuw and L'tuKtilUiKHiutttM. Hayes, Geo., loua, Or, Brand J It connected with quarter oircl ovr it, oo left Bhouider. Hiatt A. B. Bid. Or, t'awla, round-top 4 with quarter oirole unrW H oa tha right kip. Hamce in Morrow and Umatilla counties, Hm ton A.lenks, llHtniltou.Or OtUte.twobsis on either hip; crop in right ear and Hplit iu left. Horses, J ou right thigh. Itnnge in Oraiit county Hiiuthes, Hn-nnol. Wagner, Or JT (V F L eomioctedlon right shoulder on hoi boh; on cattle, ob rifht hip and on left aide, swallow fork io (Ukt sar aud uht Ui Uft. lUr.g la Hay scak distrtot. Morrow eoonty, J!ala, MilUi, ffsauar, ()f.-H;ptst brasdi -O- (oirole with nnrallel tails) on left shonlHer ( -attle same on left hip also large circle on left siae. Hall. Kdwin, John Day. Or. Cattle E Hon right hip; horses same on right shoulder, bangein urani county. Howard, J L, balloway. Or. Horses, -j- (cross with bar above it) on right shoulder: cattle same on lettsiue. Jiange in Morrow aud Uma tilla counties. Hughes. Mat, Heppner, Or. Horsoe, Bhaded heart on the ieft shoulder. Jiang" Morrow Co. Hunsaker, B A, Waaner. Or. Horses, 9 on left nouiuer; oame. v on ien nip. Hard Is tv. Albert. Nse. Oreaon Horaen.A H connected, on left shoulder; t attle on the left nip, crop on left ear. Humphreys, J M. Haidman, Or. Horses. H oi left nank Hayes, J. M., Hepptior. Or. Horses, wineglast on ien snouioer cattle, same on nght htp. Huston, Anther, Kight Mile. Or. Horw H on the left shoulder and heart on the left stifle Cat tie same on loft hip. Hange in Morrow county. Ivy. Alfred. Lonff Creek. Or Cartln I Jinn right hip, crop off left ear and bit in right. Horses same nrunu on left shoulder it&nge n Urant county Jones, Harry, Heppner, Or Horses branded n j on tlie lert shoulder: cattle baaudd J on right elnu under bit iu left tar. llango m Morrow cennty. Jnnkiu.b. M., Heppner, Or. Horses, hurse sh'ie J on left shoulder. Cattle, the sums Banve on Fiirht Mile. Johnf on, Fniix, Lna, Or. Horses, cirrleT or left Btitio; cattle, BHme on right hip, under half crop in right and split in left ear Jenkins, D W,,Mt. Vernon,Or.J on horses m left shonlder; on cattle, J on left hip and two smooth crops on both ears. IlanRein Fox and Bear vaHejR Kenny, Mike, Hopnner, Or. Horses bran Jed KNV on left hip. oattle same and orop off left ear; under slope on the right Kirk, J. T., heppner. Or. Horses (J9 on left shonlder; ran le, tiW on left hip. Kirk. J f Ilepiner, Or. Horses. 17 on eithei flank-ca tie 17 on right side. Kirk, Jesse, Heppner, Or.; horse U on left shonlder; cattle Bame on right side, undorbit on right ear. KnmberHnd.W.f.. Mount Vernon. Or. I L on cattle on ruht and left sides, ewaliow fork in l ft ear ana unoor oiop in right ear. H trses sam brand on left shoulder. Hange in Grant county Wten, Htephen, Fox. Or. H b on ieft hip on cattle, crop and split on right oar. Horses Bamt brand on left shoulder. Hange Urant Lieuillen, John W., ljO-ri-T-- Or. Horne braudml half-circle JL connected on left shoul der. Cattle, same on left bio. Range, near Lex ington Leahcy, J. W. Heppner Or. Homes brandnd L and A on left shoulder; cettle same on loft hip, wattle over right eye, three slits in right ear. Lord, Ooorge, Heppner. Or. Horses branded double H coi.nectt" Sometimes oalled a swing H, on left shoulder. Markham.A. M., Heppner, Or. Cattle large M on left side brth ears cropped, and split in both. Horses M on left bin. Hange, Clark's canyon. Minor, Oscar, iieppnor, nr. Cattlo, M D on right hip; horse. Mon left shoulder, Morgan, H. N., Heppner, Or. Hrtrses, M ) on loft shonldii cattle same on left hip. MoOnmljart Jas A, Kcho, Or. Horses, M with bar over on nht shonldor. Morgan. Thus., Heppner, Or. Hordes, c'rclf T on left shoulder and left thigh; cattle, Z or right thigh, Mitchell. Oscar, lone, Or. Horses, 77 on riglr hip; cattle, 77 on right side. MoCtaren, I). (i Brownsville. Or,-Horsos, Figure ft on each shoulder; cattle. Ma on hip MoCarty. David H. Kcho Or. Horses branded DM connected, on the left shoulder; oattle san e on hip and side. M(!iirr, Frank, For Valley, Or. Mule shoe with toe-cork on oattle on ribs and nnder in each ear; horses same brand on left stifle. MoHaley , . ., namiiTon, Or. on Moree. M wiui nair circle under on left shoulder; on tJattle. four bars connected on top on the right aide Hange in Grant County. Neal. Andrew. Lone Hock, Or. Horses A N con. anted on left shonlder: cattle eame on both h't-e Nordyke, E., Hiivortou. Or. Horses, circle 7 on left, thigh: cattle, same on loft hip. Oliver, Joseph, Canyon City, Or. A 3 ou eat,t on left hip; on horses, same ou left thigh, ltange in Grant county. Oiler, i'orry, Lexington, Or. V O on left shou.der. Olp, Herman, Prairie City, Or, On cattle, O LP connected ou left hip; horses on left stifle and wartlo on hohs, Han go in Giant county. Pearson, Olave, Kight Mile. Or. Horsen, quar ter circle shield on left slum Id er and 21 on left hip. Cattlo, fork iu left ear, right cropped, 'it on loft hip. Hange on Might Mile. Parker A Gloaaun, Hurdman.Or, Horses IP on left shftulder. Piper, l;rnet, Lexington. Or. Hordes brand e ,K (L IC connected) on left shoulder ; cuttle s moon right hip. ltange, Morrow county. Piper, J. II., Lexington, Or. Horses, JK oo;i. nected on left shoulder; oattle, eame on loft hip. under bit in each ear. Pottys, A. C, lone, Or,; horses diamond P on shoulder; tattle, J li J connected, on the left hip, upper slope iu left ear and sliu in the right. Powell, John T., Dayvillo, Or -ITorses, JP cou. mo edou ft shoulder. Cattle OK connected oO left hip, two uudor half crops, oue ou each ear, wattle under throat. Kai gein Grantoouuty. ItiMid. Andrew, Hardman. Or. Horned, square orosi- with quarter-circle over it. on loft stine. Itoninger, Chris, iieppnor, Or. Horaes, (J it on ten snoiiider Itico. Ian, Hardtnan, Or.; horses, three p ineJ worm renco on iclc s ioilliler: ohMIh. DAN i.n right shoulder. Ituuge near Hardumu. ltovse, Aaron, Heppner. Or Horses, nlain V on loft shoulder; cattle, same brand reverseil ou rigid, hip and crop otl right ear. Hange in Mor row county. Kush Bros., Heppner, Or. Horses branded X en the right, shoulder; catt le, I X. ou the loft hip nmp oft left ear and dewlap on nock, itnnge u Morrow nml adjoining counties. HuHt, William, Hidge, Or. Horses it or left shoulder; cattle, H on loft hip, crop ofl right ear, underbit on left ear. Hheep, it on weathers, rtmnd onip off righ ear. Hange Lma til la and Morrow o 'unities. Heaney, Andrew, Ijextngtou, Or. HorHm branded A It on right shoulder, vent quart oi circle over brand; cattle same on right hip. Hange Morrow county. Hoyse, Win. H, Dniryville, Or H It cnnnoct(K with quarter circle over top on oattle on rigid hip and crop off right ear and split in left. Hum w same brand on left shou lier. Hange iu Morrow (Jrnnt and Gilliam counties. Hector. J. W., Heppner, Or. Horses, JO i luft shoulder. Cattle, ()ou right hip. i. Hpicknall, J. W., Gooseberry, Or. Horsi branded ai on left shuuldor; lango iu Mor"' county. Hailing, CO Heppner, Or Homes branded ou left shoulder; cuttle same on left hip. Hwaggart, H. F., Lexington, Or. Horses with dash under it on left stille; cattle 11 with dan! i under it on right hip, crop oil right eir ami waddled on right hind leg. Hange in Morrow. G I Ilium aud Umatilla counties. ttwaggart, A. L., Athena. Or. Horses hrande1 i on left shoulder: nettle same ou loft hip. Crot on ear, wattle ou left hind leg. Htraight W. E., Heppner, Or. Horsos shaded J H ou lefi stifle; cattle J H on loft hip, swallow fork iu right ear. underbit in left. happ, Thos.j Heppuer, Or, Horses, H A P or left liip; oatUe same on loft hip. Hhrier.John, Fox, Or. NO connected op horses on right hip; cattle, same on right hp orop otf right ear aud under bit in left ear. ii;m & in urant county. Smith Hros., Husanville, Or. Hordes, brands! H. Z. on shoulder; cattle, ame on lef t should -r Wquiros, Jainee. Arlington, Or,; horses brand d Jtiouleft shoulder; cattle the same, alho m-ne waddle. Hange in Mornand GiUiamconnti.H Mtephens, V. A., Hnrdman, Or-; horses H8on rigid stifle; rattle hohcoutal L on the right side Stevenson, Mrs A. J., Heppner, Or. Cattle, V on right tin ; swallow-fork in left ear. Mwaggart. G. V.. Heppner, Or. Horses, U or left shoulde : cattle, 44 ou left hip. Nperry, F. (i., Heppner, Or. Cuttle W C or left hip, omp off right and underhit iu left year, dewlap; horses W Con left shonlder. Thompson, J. A., Heppner, Or. Homed, z r left shoulder; cattle, 2 on left shoulder. Tippets. B.T.,Fuierprise.Or. Horees, C-on lefi shoulder. Turner It. W., Heppner, (. Small capital 7 left shoulder, horses; cattle same on left hi with split in both car. Thornton, H, M.. bum. Or. Homes branded HT contiooted on left stifle; sheep same hrnnd. Vanderpool, II, T.. Iiena. Or? Homes HV oon nootod ou right slioulder;cattJo, Bame ou ng!.T bin Walbridgc, Win.. Heppner, Or. Homes, U. L. on the left shoulder; cattle seme on tight hip. orep ufl left ear and right ear lopped. Wilson, John L),, Salem or Heppner, Or. Horsoa brandiMl Jy on the left shoulder. Kangf Morrw county. Warreu V H. Caleb, Or Cattla W with quart w cinle over it, ou loft side, split iu t'uht ear. Homes same brand pu left Hhoulder. Itaugtu' Gnou county Wright, HiIhs A. Heppner, t)r. Cattle branded B W on the right hip. square orp otl rigid on? and split iu left, Wade, Henry, Heppuer, Or. Horses branded ace of spades on leit shoulder and left hip Caitle braiided same on left side and left hip. Wells, A. 8., Heppner, Or. Hurses, ou lef shoulder' oatt'w tame Wolflnger, John, John Day City. Or On hornet three parallel tiars on left shoulder; 7 on stieep, bit in both ears. Hange in Grant and RUlhuer oountiiw. WiMalwartl, John, Heppner, Or. Hortos, I'l 0omiett4Ht on left shoulder. Watkint, Lishe, Heppuer, Or. Horde branded TJK oouueotetUm left stitle. Wallace, (Carles Portland. Or.-VMe, W oo right tliusfi. hok Iu left ean ti. ttiouliWr ouie sauieou let huiildor. Whtitier it. nuntunpm, Bak.r Co. t( -IlortM biaudud W fl coonUKi an luft ht'UUItu' WUHu:9, Vweo, namiitim, dr. 0urt-r rtr eU over three bars on left hip, both cutUe and horses, liange Grant oouuty. Williams, J O. Long Creek. Or Horres, qmr ter oirole over three hern on left hip: cattle sax "d slit in each ear. IUne in Grant eontny Wren, A. A., Heppner, Or.- Home ruunii A ou thouldor: Cattle, same n npht hi. Walker Fhxalteth X Sons. Hardmiin tlr Cattle bmrnhvl W conmrtiM) KW on le' 'de. homes same on right shoulder, J. W Walker' oattle, aamooa left Mt nortec earn on left shoulder Ail rsn Morrow esnecy timu. J. H-, Ooivperry. Or Horn hrvA TB,h U, rVtaj-wii ."For Years," Fays Caebie E. Stockwell, of Cliester ficld, N. H., "I was afflicted with an extremely severe pain In the lower part of the chest The feeling was a) if a ton weight was laid on a spot the size of my hand. Dur ing the attacks, the perspiration would stand In drops ou my face, and it was agony for lne to 'make sufficient effuiievento whis per. They came suddenly, nt any hour of the day or night, lasting from thirty minutes to half a day, leaving as suddenly; but, for several days after, f was quite pros trated and sore. Sometimes the attacks were almost daily, then less frequent. 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A Nw l)ath T.Nt. Xervous mortals who imagine that they could taud dying all right uooa'h vni it not for tbdtsarof bjlr burled iUife may be interested in a reoent an nouncement made by a French scien tist, lie says that an unfailing tost of death may bo madu by producing It blister on the hand or foot of the corpse, using ncnndle for that purpose. If the blister, upon being opened with a pin or other instrument, Is found to contotn fluid of any kind there, is still life In the-. suppexusd oorp& On the other hand. h.mld It 'contain tvm only, reM assured tlul of W MUEFREE'S HEROISM. "There is not a particle of heroism about you, Ulysses," said Mrs. Murree as she brushed out her back hair in front of the dresser glass preparatory to retir ing for the night "Not a particle," she emphatically repeated. "What on earth your mother was thinking about when she named you I can't imagine. I am sure that I never saw a man more un like bis namesake. I have known you to be positively cowardly at times." Jlr. Murfree looked up 111 a weary way from the corner where he sat. "I'm sure, my dear," he began. "No, you're not," snapped his better half, giving the pincushion a whack with the hairbrush .to emphasize her words; "yon are not sure; you are never sure of anything you only think. Bah! I hate a man who 'only thinks.' " And she Jerked the tangles out of a refractory auburn lock with additional force. "When Mrs. Jenks was telling tonight about that paragon of a husband of ners I was simply consumed with envy. It shows how much to believe in names. Look at you two men; look, I say!" "Yes, my dear," responded Mr. Mur free, pulling off his boots in a resigned way, "I'm looking." "Bah f" retorted his wife, "I mean your names Ulysses Murfree, Feter Jenks just think of the difference, and yet Pe ter Jenks knocked a burglar down stairs this week with one fist; one, I assure you; and you you are afraid to go call ing on the Simsongibbers after dark be cause they keep a dog." "Well, my dear," feebly expostulated Mr. Murfree, "it is a very large dog and I" Here Mrs. Murfree suddenly turned around, and through lips containing sun dry hairpins, combs and such trifling ar ticles hissed, "Don't talk to me!" in uch an impressive and disgusted man ner that Mr. Murfree subsided at once and proceeded to finish pulling off his socks. Ho was not disturbed again until the moment came for retiring, when, con trary to their usual custom, Mrs. Mur free turned the gas entirely out, leaving the room in darkness, save where a streak of moonlight fell through the window, open for ventilation. Now, if there was anything that Mr. Murfree hated it was to have the bed room gas turned off at night, but know ing the defiant state of mind which prompted his wife to extinguish it, and fearing to provoke another outburst he climbed sadly into bed, aud lay cogitat ing a plan whereby he should be able to shoot a burglar in the dark should one chance to visit his abode that night. "I don't see how I could do it," he sighed, turning uneasily. "Are you ever going to lie still and let a person sleep?" snapped the partner of his joys and sorrows as she flounced over, dragging half of the comfortable with her, aud thereby causing small chills to chase one another down her hus band's vertebras. Mr. Murfree laid still. He held his breath, figuratively, until the deep, not to say sonorous, breathing of lus amiable companion told that peace and quietude had folded their downy wings upon the bosom of Mrs. Murfree. Then he sighed again. "I do hope no one will come tonight," he murmured sleepily. "Dear me if I" And here his thoughts floated vaguely off and he realized no moto. Quiet fell on the room for a time, broken only by the musical sounds from the alcove, where slept the pair, and an occasional snap as the willow rocker, objecting to the strain of the day, tried to contract to its former shape. Just as the city clock was striking 1 Mr. Murfree awoke with a start and looked in a dazed way up into the dark ness. "What's the matter with me?" he mut tered, a sensation of uneasiness creeping over him. "I think ha! Wrfat's that?" And, broad awake now, with the cold perspiration starting from every pore, ha became conscious of a faint rustle in the room, the cause of which the heavy por tieres draping the alcove prevented him ascertaining. Cautiously he reached under the mat tress for his revolver, and to his horror found that, after cleaning it on the pre vious day, he had carelessly forgotten to replace it in its wonted spot. "Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord!" he chattered to himself, trying to keep cool. "No re volver, no nothing, and a burglar, sure as fate. Samantha was right; I am a cow ard. Wbat on earth shall I dof If 1 wake Samantha i will never hear the last of it; she will nag worse than ever; be sides, she is sure to yell, and then we will all be murdered." And the poor man shook so that the springs creaked and sent him into a fresh fit of trembling. Rustle, rustle, it came again, and then a soft thump and a clink. "He's got my pants," ejaculated Mr. Murfree to himself as he cautiously sat up in bed and tried to calm himself. Thump. "I can't stand this any longer," said Mr. Murfree in a whisper, beginning to get huffy. "I'm a fool. No wonder Samantha said so. I will certainly find out what is outside of those curtains, and this time Samantha shan't have a chance to brag over me. Perhaps I shall be able to do something for once." Keeping well away from the separa tion between the portieres he carefully let one foot out of bed. As it touched the floor the rustle sounded again, and so near that Mr. Murfree nearly lost his balance with fright, and found himself on his feet the next moment shaking with alarm lest he had provoked the marauder's atten tion to the alcove or awakened the sleep ing Samantha. But, no; all was quiet, and as soon as he plucked up a sufficient amount of courage he peered cautiously through the curtains. With difficulty he repressed ap excla mation of horror. The moon's rays fell across the dresser, bringing out each article on it with a weird distinctness, and ihst in the thaitow before the cheval gbiss ns u.e stooping figure of a man. He was evidently searching tie upper drawer, and Mr. Murfree gaspM for joy as he distinirullhed on the top of the cab tnat A the right of the gihws the uiiaaing revolver. "If I C!Ui ucly reach hn" said Ir, Murfree to hiia6elf, "jump on bim as he U bending over, and secure the revolves befoio he recovers hjmself It's a good plan and the only oue. Tra getting kind of riled; I don't believe I'm such a cow ard after all." With a mighty effort he bojeeJ him self and advanced cautiously, keeping p.i eye on tbe bent figure. In the uncertain Mint the pisa looked onnatnraliy targe ana neavy, ana seemea each second to be on the point of rising. Indeed, as Mr. Murfree reached the cen ter table he thought all was over, and shrank down behind it despairingly. But fortune was kind; the burglarstill searched bnsily, and Mr. Murfree, gath ering himself for a grand effort and nerved to the point of desperation, made flying leap, and landing with terrific force upon the burghir's shoulders grabbed the revolver, yelling, "Police! thieves! oh" Over he went, bumpety bump, and as he found himself prostrate on the floor, with a chair and something soft and thick over him, he finished his exclamation with " it!" "Oh, Ulysses! Ulysses!" screamed Mrs. Murfree, tangling herself up in the bed clothes in her efforts to rise. "Help! Where are you?" Mr. Murfree was on his feet in a flash, holding in his arms the harmless cause of his fright and disturbance, Mrs. Mur free's fur cape, which she had hung over the chair back, in front of the dresser, and which, with its high shoulders and collar, had looked in the dim light like a stooping figure. Men think quickly sometimes, and Mr. Murfree realized the situation with re markable speed, and being on his met tle determined not to be made a fool of. Knocking Mrs. Murfree's jewel case from the dresser as he fled he rushed out of the room pellmell, stepping on the cat, the author of the mysterious noises that had first awakened him. With a savage kick he sent her ahead of him, as he flew down the front stairs, and banged the front door open and shut. Then he panted breathlessly up again, sinking on the top stair, sore, bruised and mad, just as his wife succeeded in lighting the gas. "Burglar," he gasped. "Where, oh, where?" she screamed ex citedly, half helping, half dragging him into the room. "Gone," he managed to say; "knocked him over got away front door see there?" pointing to the jewelry strewn around the floor. Mrs. Murfree gave oue look, and then, with that faithful sense of obligation to the tradition of her sex which the aver age woman seems to possess in an emer gency, she proceeded to faint away. Mr. Murfree dumped her into a chair. He was too weak to hold her, and besides he felt a fiendish exultation in glorying in his superior strength of mind, bo when she recovered he was picking up the cleverly scattered trinkets with as bored an air as he could assume. "What are you scared of?" he said scornfully. "Man's gone; I'm here; 1 rather think I have protected you even if I am a coward. Perhaps you will kindly leave the light burning after this so that I shall not be obliged to struggle for my life in the dark," and he wiped from his forehead a few drops of blood trickling from a scratch he received in his encounter with the large pin on his cape burglar, making his face as gory as possible with the small amount of mate rial. Veritably the tables were turned. Mrs. Murfree looked at him a moment In a hysterical way, and then falling on his neck alternately implored forgive ness and wept over her former severity, calling him her hero and all the de lightful names which Mr. Murfree's soul was thirsting for. "I'll never say such mean tilings again," she sobbed, "never, never." "There, there," said her spouse, straightening up and putting on a pa tronizing air to conceal the; nervous shaking of his muscles scaroe over their recent shock. "You sit down and I will search the house, so that we can feel easy during the remainder of the night." So that while Mrs. Murfreahid behind the bed curtains for fear of another visit or, her Ulysses went out into the hall and stayed five minutes in adark corner, returning with a serious air and the as surance that all was well. Locking their door, the couple once more sought repose, but both were too excited for sleep. "Won't I just gloat over Mrs. Jenks," exclaimed Mrs. Murfree as she convul sively patted the pillow into a more, ac commodating shape. "Oh, Ulysses. I'll tell every woman in the block." Just then the ludicrous side of the thing struck Mr. Murfree, and he stuffed the corner of the sheet in kis mouth and shook convulsively. "What's the matter, dear?" cried his wife. "What's the matter, Uly?" As soon as he conld speak he mut tered, "Only a chill don't bother about it guess I took cold." "Shan't I get you something hot'r" asked his spouse anxiously. "Nonsense," he replied, contrculine himself with difficulty; "just go to sleep. I'm tired." "All right, dear," responded- she; "I do hope you won't be sick. It's very funny, Ulysses, that the policeman 0:1 our beat didn't hear anything or come running up to the house when thai dreadful man made such a noise at the door. Dear me, if I didn't know yon had a chill I should think you were laughing." And Mr. Murfree was. Carolyn Wade In Buffalo News. An Industrious Woman. Mr. Honeymoon Did you sew that button on that coat, darling? Mrs. Honeymoon No, sweetheart; 1 couldn't find the button, but I sewed np the buttonhole. Is that all right? Texas biftings. A Vetural Supposition. I A woman planning to remain very lnte in her country home found difficulty in persuading her city servant to consent 1 to remain. She thereupon tried to pro cure some native assistance and found it necessary to begin with a maid of the Tillage who was willing to see what she could do in the waitress line. : The methods of the work were care- j fully explained to her, and she seemed , to understand its requirements. ! How hopeless the situation really was ' showed to the amused employer when : the girl finally said, "I suppose after I've set the dishes on the table you can do your own reaching, can't yon?" Bhe was not engaged. New York Time. CUrlwl Criticism of Uladstone. A reverend personage named Porter, preaching the other day at St. hernias', Nottingham, actually announced from the pnlpit that h "abhorred" Mr. Glad stone and went on to compare the pre mier to Judas Iscariot in this strain, "Jndaa," he said,. "sold his Master for 80 pieces of silver, but Mr. Gladstone sold his mother, the church, for 80 Welsh votes." It is only fair to say that the gentleman who informs me of this sally . vows himself an anti-Gladstoiuin, but ha say that he draw the line souie wUare. ge, however, it pot a "pnwtw of relifjoa. London Truth. ' T5T5NSTER POPULATION OF ANTS Th.f Tssch Lesson. In Indaatry and Perfent Uovemmeut. There are more ants to the square mile in Florida than in any other country in the world, says a writer in the Savannah News. There are ants which will measure more than half an inch in length, aud then there are ants so small that they can scarcely be seen to move with the unaided eye. Tbere are red ants and black ants and troublesome ants. But, as bad as they are, I have never heard of them eating out the seat of a man's trousers, as a missionary, Rev. Mr. Wilson, once told the writer he saw the army ants do in India while the man was sitting on the earth for a few minutes beside him. But the Florida ants will take out the lettuce and other minute seeds from the soil in which they are plant ed, and actually destroy the bed. They will suck the life out of acres of young cucumbers and melon plants, uproot strawberry plants or cover the buds with earth to such an extent as to kill them. They will get into pie, pickle, sauce, sirup, sugar, on meat, in hash, will riddle a cake or till a loaf of brker's bread till it is worthless. All remedies failing, I took to bait ing them near their nests with slices of meat, bones, apple and pear par ings, and when I had from fifty thou sand to one hundred thousand out turned a kettle of boiling water on them. I have killed during the last week over one million in the space of a quarter-acre lot, and I have almost whipped them out. I had to do this to secure any lettuce plants, and many observant farmers complain of seeds men when they should attribute their troubles to insects. It is very curious and instructive to see how promptly the ants which es cape the scalding go to work taking out the dead, and, after pulling them outside first, then go to excavating again and rebuilding their cells and runways. This being done very quick ly the next work on hand is the laying in of a supply of food by hauling the dea4 bodies of the hot-water victims into their storehouses. You may see a small black ant haul ing and tugging at the carcass of a red ant twenty times its own weight, and he always succeeds in the end in haul ing it in the warehouse of the colony. Next you may see a sort of ambulance corps searching for the disabled. These are taken to the underground house, where the surgeons and nurses are in waiting. Then, too, you may see the timekeepers and bosses direct ing this one or turning another back on some errand or to some other duty. There is not a moment's delay, no halting feet, no idle hands, but all move as if it was their last clay on earth and this was the only hour left in which to redeem o misspent life. For lessons in industry and perfect government go to the ants. PLAIN SPOKEN. Tbe Oood-Natureil Crltlilxiii or a Well Meaning; XHlghtmr. The amount of plain speaking that rM-."l ..-ill hpr from o-a if n-iinr-p good will they are assureu is sometimes a surprise to others. ' In "Recollec tions of My Mother." Susan Lesley says that her mother had the greatest affection for both David l.ee Child and his wife, the gifted Lydia Maria, but was often much tried with the amount of time, hard labor and money which Mr. Child expended on scheme after scheme, none of which ever suc ceeded. One afternoon Mrs. Child came in to spend a quiet afternoou with my mother. They sat with their sewing and knitting at the west window, while I sat with one or two friends in the hall near the open door. There had been a lung silence, when we heard my mother say: "Mrs. Child, can you tell me what is the last thing that your husband is en gaged in?" An amused smile played over Mrs. Child's face. "Y'es, Mrs. Lyman; he is carting stone for the new railroad." "O-o-h!" said my mother. Another pause; then: "Mrs. Child, how much do you suppose your husband loses on every load of stone he carts to the rail road?" Another amused look on the dear Lydia Maria's face, and she answered cheerily: "Well, Mrs. Lyman, as near as I can compute it, he must lose about ten cents on every load." "Oh well now Mrs. Child," said my mother, in the bravest and most cheerful tone, "if your husband has got hold of any innocentoccupation by which he only loses ten cents on a load, for heaven's sake encourage him in it." She had little patience with people who backed down in emergencies, and considered it her duty to stiffen them up a little. ' She never had to go far to find an illustration "to point her moral and adorn her tale." Some good neigh bor's example would instantly come to mind. "Look over the way at my neighbor Hunt's front yard," she would say; "see that splendid hydrangea, that ele gant smoke bush," that buckthorn hedge, all in the most perfect order, and all kept so by her own hands. Al ways she has sickness, sorrow, death; at every turn something sad and unex pected. But who ever dreamed of Mrs. Hunt's abdicating? She couldn't doit." ELECTRICAL FLASHES. Is 1600 Gilbert recorded that other bodies besides amber had electric prop erties. Tksla, the electrician, thinks he has solved the problem of transmitting electricity to a distance with little loss of power. T'HEdestmctivenessof anew Uatling gun may be imagined when it is stated that it fires 8,12 shots a minute. When operated by an electric motor, it fires 5.000 shots in a minute. Savi-ei, I.kffeks, an aged resident of Moraine. X. I., who has been a great sufferer from rheumatism for over twenty years, has been entirely and, it is thought, permanently cured by a slight stroke of lightning. Mb. Edisos is now engaged in the construction of a magnetic ore concen trator which he expects will work a revolution in the iron business so that northern furnaces can once more suc cessfully compete with the south. TiXEPHosEirETKB is the new word naming an Instrument to register the time of each .-ouvrrsauon at the tele phone from the time of ringing up the exchunge to the ringicg-off signal. Such a system would reduce rentals of telephones to a scale according to the service, Instead of a fixed charge to a business firm or occasional user alike. Scientific American. Boast BEEr Sandwiches. Chop rare roast bef very fins. Season it with pepper and salt, a very little mustard, and d4h of WorcrsrtsH'sntre wwco. AYER'S SARSAPARILLA HAS CURED (TO WILL CM YOU -f A Bright Lad, Ten years of age, but who declines to give Mis name to tbe public, makes this authorized, . confidential statement to us: ' When I was one year old, my mamma died ' of consumption. The doctor said that I, too, would soon die, and all our neighbor thought that even if I did not die. I would ' never be able to walk, because I was so weak and puny. A gathering formed and ; broke under my arm. 1 hurt my Outer and it gathered and threw nut pieces of bone. If 1 hurt myself so as to break the skin. it. was sure to become a running sore. I liauj to take lots of medicine, but nothing hii done me so much good as Ayer's Sarsapa rilla. It has made me well and strong." X. I. M., Noreatur, Kans. AYER'S Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J. 0. Ayer fcCo., Lowell, Maes Cures others, will cure you- LONGEST OF SWING SPANS. That Now Being- Coo.trncUd at Omaha Will Measure JSSO Feet. A bridge is now in course of erec tion across the Missouri river, between East Omaha and Council Bluffs, which will be remarkable when completed as possessing the longest swing span in the world five hundred and twenty feet being fifteen feet longer than the swing span of the bridge over the Thames river, in Connecticut. The structure has been designed by Prof. J. A. I. Waddell, of Kansas City. The construction of the pier of this swing span was completed a few months ago and presented many features of inter est to engineers. From a long article in Engineering News it appears that the work was begun by sinking a steel caisson for a foundation, much as A. V. Boiler started work on the swing span of the large bridge in New York city a year ago. The outer shell of the caisson is forty feet in diameter and the inner twenty feet, the latter spreading out ut the base to join the former ami thus give a cutting edge. Uoth shells are made of half-inch steel, reenforced at the lower edge, where theymeot, by two bunds of inch steel, one inside and thu other outside. Ther! two shells were kept in their proper relative positions by braces running between them, of which there were twenty in all, made of half inch plates. The caisson proper is six teen feet high. Above this the two steel cylinders extend to a height of one hundred feet, making a total of one hundred and sixteen feet from the cut ting edge to the top of the cylinder. Above the caisson the plates are re duced in thickness to three-eighths of an inch and are brafled by bars and rods, rather than the heavier and more costly plates required in the lower part. The friction of the earth against such a long cylinder is very great, and to reduce it a number of pipe: run down the whole length of the cais.;on and shell. These open at the bottom of the caisson and at iulcrvitij of ten feet above, so that, by forcing water threngh them it was possible to di minsh the hold of the surrounding earth on the steel. The space between the two shells was filled with rabble concrete. The sinking progressed with no more than the usual delays; as the shells went down under the weight of the concrete placed between them, aided by the removal of the earth within by means of bucket dredges, plates were added to the top until the whole was at the required depth. The masonry pier built on top of this cylinder is of limestone backed by concrete. It is thirty-eight feet in diameter and eighteen and one-half feet high. . FAME OF FRENCH ARTISTS. . It I. Increased by the Reproduction of Their I'alnttnirs. The proportion of artists in France of wide fame, whose work is frequent ly seen in print, is undoubtedly greater than in any other country; and one of many good reasons for this is certainly fhn ore'ritionft! O-lll and experience of the r rench in their use 01 reproductive processes, aad especially those which not only translate the f erra of the orig inal, but the color aa well, says Scrib ner's Magazine. These color reproduc tions, printed from metal relief plates and not from lithographic stones the method usually resorted to by tbe rest of the world are unique. The secret of securing, with but few impressions, the marvelous combinations of color, the effects of washes, tones and lines, combined with a verve and character quite indescribable, is one of which on ly the French printer artist is complete master. Just across the border the German printer has developed litho graphy with something of the same en thusiasm which the Frenchman has de voted to the relief plate, each practi cally making few excursions into the other's methods of accomplishing the same thing. A still further reason for this great superiority is the innate artistia sense of the French printer, or, more prop erly, the pressman. In other countries, where engraver and printer are looked upon by the illustrator as his natural enemies, into whose hands a drawing is given grudgingly, the statement, which is not infrequently made by the French artist, thet the reproduction or translation of the original into printed form la as effective in its way as the drawing itself, calculated to excite de rision. Worked Half a Day. The people of Manitou were enter tained the other day, says 'a corre spondent of the Denver Bepublican. by the spectacle of a man carrving a stoue aifnind a triangular track, letting it drop ami shouldering it again at every turn. The performer was a man who has a reputation for a disinclina tion to labor, and the incident was the outcome of a wail he was making about the hard times and his inability to ge work. A citizen told him he would not work if he got a chance, and offered him fifty cents an hour as long Ua wniA testy the at-ittft. la lb uf all U aoepptchi iiifi u& Wi4 beU out fur five Uou. A Ure crowd (rhiUerrd to watWi the prrM-w- jl. wv"i a.-1