Heppner Weekly Gazette
Published Every Thursday.
HEPPNER..
...OREGON.
Israel Zacgwlll s.iy he doesn't ap
prove republics. Now what Is to be
done?
period of 1S91-93 the Increase was onlj
1,000,000 tons; and In the calendar year
of 1807 the production was more than
five million tons less than that of lS'Xi.
The extent of the hay Industry Indi
cates the seriousness of electricity's In
Jury. Last year the production from
42,420,770 acres was G0,GC4,S7G tons,
valued at $401,390,728.
THE CIGARS OF MANILA.
Now Mncb Better than Those Ameri
cans I'scd to Mnnke.
Cigars and cigarettes are remarkably
;hcap, even In the face of the economic
conditions that exist in the East. The
cheapest cigars are sold for $10 per
HE LIKED THEM.
A Mountaineer's Admiration for
Women Wan Kver Increasing. j
I wag riding along the road leading
across Hurricane Gap, In the Tine
mountain range, thinking of the pecu
liar people who lived In these fastness- j
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It will be remembered, however, that
the Maria Teresa always was subject to
those severe sinking spells.
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his annual report announces what may , e! rette8 are even ch xhe cheap,
practically be called a new system of . fo and 2 cenU
telegraphy Whose commercial utility of twent four
1,000, and the most expensive for $100 1 es, when I was startled by a voice up!
per 1,000. Reduce that to a gold basis, I the hillside calling to me to come up 1
and give somebody a lift. I had no
Idea who owned the voice, but who
ever It was was in trouble, and I re
sponded and found a man of CO or more
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It used to be said the longest pole got
the most persimmons, but It also holds
good that the biggest poll gets the most
plums.
This case of the Maria Teresa again
emphasizes the remark of the Ameri
can enptalu who said: "Don't give up
the ship."
One good way to double up one's
money when about to bet on the result
of an election Is to fold It In two and
put It In the pocket.
"Dewey's cotollon" Is the latest fash
ionable dance In New York. If It isn't
misnamed it probably Is too lively to bo
danced with comfort.
The owner of the $1,700 found In a
sleeping car recently has not appeared
to claim his property. He probably
Imagines that he tipped the porter.
Spain has issued a mourning stamp.
It must be affixed to all mail matter in
addition to the regular postage. This
regulation is what causes the mourning.
new and scientific method of tele
graphy was discussed in last year's
report under the title of "Synchrono
graph" and was the subject of experi
ments at Fort Monroe, Va. Since then
Prof. Allcrt C. Crehore and Lleut.
Col. George O. Sq tiler have pursued
their investigations, under the direc
tion of the chief signal officer of the
army, with gratifying results. The
officers named visited England for the
purpose of testing the hew method of
sign-wave telegraphy by the use of the
alternate current. In England they
were given every facility for experi
ment work over the government tele
graph lines, and demonstrated that by
the new method words can be sent at
the rate of over 3,000 a minute over a
line 1,100 miles long. By constructing
transmitters for commercial purposes
it is expected that much greater speed
can be secured In cable service, a mat
ter of great value to the commercial
world.
I
Tesla has Invented a boat which re
quires no crew. The turning of a crank
on the shore directs the boat. Tesla
will probably act in the capacity of the
crank.
The fact that the sale of tandem bi
cycles fell off 50 per cent last year Is
another Indication of the tendency to
go It alone which is characteristic of
our people.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who has failed for
$04,000, with $200 assets, may or may
not be elevating the stage, but she cer
tainly has elevated finance to the level
of the One arts.
Supposing It's true this country
drinks 1,000,000,000 gallons of beer an
nually, It seems to support the argu
ment that excessive use of this bever
age tends to produce large figures.
A rule has been adopted in New York
for bidding the employment of married
women as teachers In tho public
schools. The married women may be
able to stand such a discrimination, but
the blow will fall heavily upon somo of
the married men.
All the girls In Edwin Gould's New
Jersey match factory struck for higher
wages. "We don't propose to mako
matches for nothing," explained their
leader. And she whs right, too. If the
girls want to make matches the boys
should do the proposing.
The postoffice department Is arrang
ing for a considerable extension of
rural free delivery. The enlarged
appropriation for this purpose voted
at the last session of Congress
enables It to do so. Many com
munities which are anxious to share
the benefits of this service have
made known their wish to the depart
ment. The selection among them Is
made with a view to benefiting the
largest number possible with the avail
able money. A law which went Into
effect on the first of July last permits
the use of private mailing cards. Here
tofore the postal card by the Govern
ment was the only one allowed. Now
any one may put the address and a
one-cent stamp on any card of about
the same size, form and weight as the
postal card, and write a message on the
other side of the card. The Govern
ment will profit by the use of these
cards, for It will save the cost of their
manufacture, while the senders will be
permitted to print on the message side
any business devices, or views of scen
ery, such as travelers abroad like to
mall to their friends. A reform which
Is to be hoped for Is the Introduction of
stout, llneu-llned stamped envelopes In
which to send registered mail. Such
envelopes are In common use in Eu
rope, and are found to be a great con
venience and much safer than our sys
tern of putting the stamp of registra
tlon on an ordinary envelope.
A "gory toddy" drawn from tho veins
of a horse which has been kept In a
slate of beastly Intoxication for a
month and hypodennlcally Injected
Into the anatomy of the victim of alco
holism Is the latest cure announced for
the drink appetite. If this new serum
works as well as described, we shall
soon see rum routed.
The recent fire at the capltol In Wash
ington may ultimately be found to have
wrought more benefit than damage If
the object lessons which It has taught
will be learned by Congress. Tho most
Important of these Is that the Govern
ment should erect without further delay
a tin 11 of records for the safe keeping of
the great volume of precious documents
Mich as those stored In the basement of
the Supreme Court quarters and seri
ously menaced by the tlames and water.
Men now living can remember when
Itowhiml Hill effiftcd the adoption of
the "penny mpsI" in England, and the
vast progress It marked In human In
tercourse and Information. Today
we stand upon the threshold of a penny
post era, not only throughout the Brlt
Ish empire, but In all the English speak
ing world. It will he a time of mighty
forward movement toward that Inti
mate Intercourse ami sympathetic mu
tual knowledge that are the essential
prelude to the brotherhood of man.
The political boss may well say, with
Lord ('live, "Considering my opportu
nity, 1 am nmxed at my own modera
tion." ('live himself, walking through
the treasury of the nabob of lletigal,
with gold and silver and rubles and
pearls plied on each side of him; with
no power on earth to limit or question
lllm, never enjoyed opportunities equal
to those of a boss In a great city. That
his Very lind Is Olympian Is Well ex
pressed by u recent speaker: "if any
body refuses to give Mill the position to
Which he thinks he Is entitled, that per
ton Is likely to find nn engine house
reeled In his back yard."
Tho language of diplomacy is always
restrained, but wtitle tlio words are
carefully chosen so as to avoid unneces
sary offense, every phrase has a definite
meaning. When Lord Uosebery was
prime minister In England there were
signs that France had set her eyes upon
the equatorial provinces In Africa from
which the Egyptian garrisons had been
withdrawn during the Soudan rebellion.
He authorized Sir Edward Grey to de
clare, in 1H05, that a French advance to
the waters of the Nile would bo regard
ed by the Itrltlsh Government as "an
unfriendly act." In ordinary conver
sation these three words would not be
emphasized by any stress of voice, nor
would they ordinarily bo accepted as a
warning. The man who protests In ad
vance against an Invasion of his rights
generally uses a stronger word than
"unfriendly." He refers to It as a "wan
ton outrage," or as a "high-handed act
of hostility." What diplomacy means
by "an unfriendly act" Is an offense
committed by one Government against
another, which Involves Immediate
rinks of war. When Hit Edward Grey's
warning was unheeded, and the French
flag was raised on the I'pper Nile at
Fashodu three years afterward, there
was a grave situation. France had com
milted an offense against England, ami
was confronted by tt demand that Mar
chand should retire from Fashoda. The
terms of the demand Implied forcible
action ir it was not complied witn. rres-
Ident Monroe, who was a diplomatist
like his Secretary of State, Johu Qulncy
Adams, used the same word "unfriend
ly" In proclaiming tho famous doctrine
which bears his name. He declared that
any attempt on the part of European
powers to Interfere with or oppress the
Independent republics of the American
continent, or to control their destiny,
could not lo viewed "In any other light
than as a manifestation of an unfriend
ly disposition toward the I'nlted States."
The phrase seems mild nnd lacking In
emphasis. As diplomatists have under
stood the words, It has been strong nnd
definite. The Monroe doctrine, with the
warning Implied by tho single word
"unfriendly," has sufficed for seventy
five years to protect tho Western Heiul
sphere against European Intrigue.
and thirty cigarettes, and the grades in
most common use sell at the factory for
$20 Mexican, or $9.50 gold, per 1,000
packages of twenty-four and thirty
cigarettes each. The best cigars can
be bought at retail at the cigar stands
for 5 and 10 cents Mexican, and It Is
recorded that In the days of the mouop
sly a very fair cigar, as Manila cigars
go, could be bought for 1 and 2 cents
Mexican. The genuine Manila cigar of
to-day Is not known In the United
States, and If ever It finds its way there
It will at once spring Into Immense pop
ularity. The old Manila cigar, short
nnd stubby, or cone-shaped, Is rapidly
passing, and In Its place modern cigars
are being made. All of the modern
shapes in vogue In Europe and America
have been Introduced since the monop
oly ceased to exist, and anything that
pleases the fancy may be had at the
kiosks of Manila. The modern cigar,
made of the best Cagayan or Isabel to
bacco, Is not as good as the Cuban pro
duct, but it will bear fair comparison
with It, and is certainly the superior of
scores of the domestic brands sold in
the United States. The tobacco is mild
er, and there Is no flavoring introduced
Into it nor any chemical process resort
ed to In treating It.
There are 15,000 Americans in Manila
now, and they take very kindly to the
better grades of Manila cigars. The
cigarettes are also made of pure to
bacco. The entire Industry has suf
fered on account of the Inferior grades
that are shipped from here, and Manila
cigars have been unfairly condemned,
The average small native planter
grows no more tobacco and does no
more work than is absolutely necessary
to earn a living. He plants in Novem
ber and garners in March, and in the
Interim raises what maize he needs for
his house and farm. He has no other
cares, and borrows none. He pockets
the market price when the buyer ar
rives, and It keeps him until he comes
again. He has to sort his leaves Into
five sizes and bundle them into manos,
each of which contains 100 leaves, and
there end his troubles. There are eight
large and between fifty and one hun
dred small factories in Manila, and the
former employ from 400 to 2,000 opera
tives each. In the manufacture of the
better grades of cigars men and boys
are employed almost exclusively, while
on the cheaper cigars and cigarettes
women are more generally employed.
The former are, as a rule, paid on the
piece system, while the latter are often
contracted for in gangs, and answer to
their employers only through the sub
contractor. Wages vary, not only as
to tho grade of the cigars made, but as
to the skill of the operatives, and there
Is a wide range in pay. Expert cigar-
makers in the large factories can earn
$1 Mexican, or 45 cents on the gold
basis, but the average is nearer to 75
cents Mexican, nnd among the children
and less expert operatives wages range
down to 20 and 80 cents Mexican per
day. Manila Correspondence Chicago
Inter Ocean.
caught by the foot under a fallen tree
and unable to get away. He wasn't
hurt, and I soon had him on his feet,
and he Insisted on my stopping further
down the mountain and taking dinner
with him. He lived In a well-kept cabin ;
with his daughter, and after dinner we I
sat in the shade of a tree in the yard
and he told me about himself.
"Air you married?" he asked, after
he told me he was a widower.
"No, but I hope to be some day," I an
swered, quite sincerely.
"You ought to be; every man ought
to be; a man that ain't showin' a right
feelin' to'rds what the Lord's done fer
him; thar ain't nothin' on the face uv
God's green earth that is a patchin' to
a woman, I don't keer what kind she
Is."
"You're hale and hearty yet," I said,
"and I don't see why you don't take
some of your own advice."
"Don't crowd the mourners, mister,"
he said, waving his hand as If warding
off my attack. "Don't you crowd the
mourners. I'm flggerln'.on sever'l this
very minute, and I ain't quite shore ylt
which one to pick. I've been married
four times, and every time my notions
uv women has got so much higher that
I'll be derned eff I don't kinder look
forrerd to losln' a wife just fer the sat
isfaction uv gettin' another one."
The idea was so entirely new that I
was overcome by it. Washington Star
REMEMBER that multitudes of
birds were singing, buttercups and
daisies were In bloom, and the
misty globes of dandelions had gone to
seed for I picked some to blow away
at one breath for luck. So It must have
been on a June morning, In the year
185, that I went over to play with
the Sherman boys, and thereby met
with a memorable adventure.
Finding the boys at le'sure. a gam? of
"I-spy" or as we had it, perhaps by
inheritance from our English ances
tors, "hl-spy" was presently arranged.
We were "counted out" by our favorite
formula, "Wire, brier. Umber lock, six
geese in a flock," and it fell to Tom's
lot to blind.
Before bisloud announcement of the
first ten of the hundred which he was
so rapidly counting that there was but
a continuous mumble between the tens
-Jim, Billy and 1 scattered in search
of hiding-places. I was at no loss to
find one, for I knew every nook and
corner of the premises; and as neither
of the others went that way, I tiptoed
up the stairs that led to the hayloft
over the stable. This place afforded a
good outlook to the "gool," as well as a
good hiding-place.
As I waded through the hay to the
. darkest corner, the figure of a man
started up before me, nearly taking the
breath out of me, so sudden and unex
pected was the apparition. He seemed
no less startled than I, and when, in
the dim light, I made him out to be a
negro, I guessed that he was a fugitive
slave before his dialect made it appar
ent, as he whispered, anxiously, "Say,
chile, is dis yere Mars' Abum Thome's
place?"
That was tho name of my father,
who was a zealous abolitionist, and
whose house was well known by
friends of the "cause," and suspected
by enemies, to be a station of the Un
derground Railroad, concerning whose
dusky passengers, often seen by us be
tween their mysterious coming and go-
inz. mv sister and I early learned to
keep our own counsel.
It struck me at once that this fugitive
could scarcely have made a greater mis
take than In coming to the Sherman
barn. Only a little while before I had
heard neighbor Sherman declare to my
father that it was as clearly his duty
to give up a runaway slave as to deliver
a stray horse to Its owner.
So I answered my Interlocutor In a
tone as cautious and more alarmed
than his own, "No, nol It's the next
But thee can't go there now!
being
once
He Laughed Last.
A story Illustrating red tape was told
me the other day by an engineer officer,
writes Arnold White In Harper's Week
ly. In the course of his duties, which
Involved traveling over the country, he
sent in a bill which contained a charge,
"porter, Od." The word porter Is one of
those dubious terms In the English lan
guage which are capable of two Inter
pretations. One signifies the man who
carries one's baggage at a railway sta
tion; the other Is the form of black beer
which Is known under the name of
"porter." When my informant, there
fore, claimed a return of the sixpence
be had expended he was told by the
War Office authorities that alcoholic
drinks were not to be included in the
traveling allowance of officers. He re
joined that he was not claiming for al
coholic drink, but for the hire of a man
to transport his baggage at a station.
Upon which the sapient official repoln-, house,
ed that In future he should not claim Sherman's folks'll see thee! Thee must
for porter, but porterage. On the next lie down an' let me cover thee up with
occasion on which this officer, who was hay, an' don't stir till I come for thee
a wag, was traveling on behalf of his 1 after dark. I'm Abraham Thome's
country he sent In a bill which inciud- boy," I said, seeing that he Hesitated a
ed the item, "cabbage 2s." The bill was , little.
to neighbor Sherman's, and all
nulet about the premises. I at
made my way to the loft, where I fouud
my man Just on the point of setting
forth alone, so Impatient was he of a
longer stay in the dangerous precincts.
We had crept cautiously downstairs
and around the barn, not drawing a
free breath till we got it between us
and the house, when we heard a team
driven rapidly to the door, and voices
in low, earnest conversation. Then
some one ran rapidly up the stairs to
the loft, and presently returned; where
upon the team was driven away In
greater haste than It had come.
1 did not understand It at all, and
only felt sure that we had started none
too soon. It was bright starlight, so
we skulked along fences, which led us
roundabout way, till we came near
our house, waiting among me pear
trees of the garden.
The kitchen door was o;:en, my father
standiug In It, In silhouette against the
candle-light, speaking In an earnest
tone to two men who stood a little out
side the threshold. Other figures stood
at intervals around the house, very
steadfast and alert, except one who
seemed to be looking In our direction.
"I tell you there's no one but my own
family in my house," I heard my father
say.
One of the men replied, "That's all
very well. Mr. Thorne, but I can't take
your word for It, when there's a nigger
In the case. We shall have to search
the house."
Then, with a terror that seemed to
melt my leg-bones and take my heart
ofmy body, I realized that our house
was beleaguered by slave-hunters. The
two men at the door pushed in past my
father, while the others stood more
lint heard that he reaction Canada with
out further adventure.
A few days later I happened to hear
my father thanking neighbor Sherman
very warmly for what he had done.
and the response of the latter was:
Sho! Abr'am, don't never say a
word about It. I wouldn t for all the
world have It get out at I harbored a
runaway nigger. Why, they wouldn't
never call on me agin to help ketch
em." Youth's Companion.
GUN COTTON.
Details of the Manufacture of a Vio
lent Explosive.
The use of gun cotton In the charging
of torpedoes and for other purposes has
become so enormous that some account
of Its modern manufacture Is of Inter
est. Pure raw cotton or ordinary cotton
waste, which Is commonly seen In all
places where machinery Is used, is
steeped In a solution of one part of
nitric and three parts of sulphuric add.
It Is the former that renders the sub
stance explosive, the latter being used
only to absorb the water, thus permit
ting the nitric acid to combine more
readily with the cellulose of the cotton.
After being soaked several hours In
the acids the cotton Is removed and
passed between rollers to expel from It
the non-absorbed acid. The cotton Is
then thoroughly washed to remove any
acid still remaining which would de
compose the cotton If permitted to re
main In It. This washing process Is a
long one, requiring machinery which
reduces the cotton to much the same
condition to which rags are reduced In
a paper mill a sort of pulp.
If it Is to be used In the manufacture
of powder the cotton Is still further pul
verized and is then thoroughly dried.
If it Is for use In torpedoes It Is com
pressed Into shapes that make it easy
to pack into torpedo heads. The form
varies greatly, sometimes being disk-.
shaped, sometimes cylindrical; again it
Is In flat Squares and again in cubes.
The gun cotton when not compressed
Is light, about the weight of an equal
bulk of common batting. Terrible as it
Is as an explosive, a brick of It when
wet may be placed upon hot coals, and
as the moisture dries off the cotton
flakes and burns quietly. When dry,
however, it will explode with great vio
lence If exposed to a temperature of
about 320 degrees.
It Is usually fired by detonation, or an
Intense shock, which produces a more
powerful effect than heat. In the tor
pedo the wet cotton is detonated by the
explosion of dry cotton In a . tube, which
Is fired by a cap of fulminate of mer
cury, which is, in turn, fired by the Im
pact of the torpedo against the hull of
the vessel toward which It Is discharg
ed. Chicago Record.
promptly returned by the War Oflico
authorities, with the statement that
green vegetables were not. to be Inciud- j
ed in the traveling allowance of offi
cers. The officer replied that be did not
mean to imply that he bad bought
Thereupon he lay down, saying as he
did so, "I'se wlllin' 'hough to rest, but
I'se powerful hougry, chile."
I carefully covered him with hay,
hoping there was a good chance of h's
being safe from further discovery, for
green vegetables, but that he had taken the horses were turned out to grass,
a cab, and that, as when he had asked and no one was likely to visit the loft
for the hire of a porter he was Instruct- for hay.
ed to call It porterage, he could only j i had barely time to smooth off the
presume that he was carrying out their covering before Tom Sherman sang
lordships' wishes In claiming for tho 0ut, "One hun-derd!" and the warning.
return of the sum he had laid down on "One, two, three, look out for me!"
One of the results of the late war bo-
(ween the l ulled Slates and Spain will
must likely be the abolition of that
form of naval piracy which finds lt
jiisililcntloii In prize courts. In the
military service of the civilized world
Hie principle of looting conquered terri
tory has Ions since bt en abandoned.
Yet, through that strange contradiction
which has not reformed the navy In
the same riill.i In which the army tins
been lu-might under civilizing Influ-
cures, not only did the merchant Vo
el carrying contraband goods fall it
prey, but valuation on the warships
destroyed Is bmiiid to go to officers nnd
sailors of I lie ships engaged In Hie fight.
Saturday Evening Post: Tho Intro
duction of electricity In the street
railroad service bin seriously In
jured two great American Industrie.
Isitli closely related - the bristling of
draft horses ami the growing of liny.
It la computed that the trolley nnd on
Me cars have displaced '.".hi.ismi horse
lu the cities of Philadelphia, I'hli'iiiio,
Now York, Baltimore, St. !,ou!, Cln
cl n tint I, Richmond and Toledo alone.
Thl mean dii'trnsi In the consump
tion of buy of more than thirteen hun
dred Ion per da. Other cities would
lienrly treble these figures. In tho de
cade of 1HH.I IMKi the hay crop of tho
lulled Blulcs nearly doubled; la tho
Charley Noble,
Mythical personage are quite com
moil ut sea, from Davy Jones to Mother
Carey, Perhaps they are necessary to
vary the inontotiy of an ocean life. The
Sun say that Charley Noble I the gen
tleman on board a mail of war who I
supposed to commit suicide whenever
nuy one fires a pistol shot Into a gulley
stovepipe to clean It from soot. Thl
Imaginary Individual ha been for
year a stumbling block to Inexperienc
ed paymaster' clerk, ami sometime
ho comes near to being a source of ex
pell so.
"We took a new clerk down lo the
West In. He with us several mouth
ago," said a paymaster, "and otio day
a shot was fired up tho galley stove
pipe. 1 rushed Into my office lu great
excitement, nnd my clerk asked what
was tho matter.
" 'Charley Noble hn Cotntiiltteed sul
cldo, poor fellow!' suld I, 'ntld you luust
tuitke up hi account at once.'
"Thru 1 went on deek. and look rare
lo stand nenr several other officer. Ill
a few iiiluutet up came my clerk. IU
was very much agitated, and hi roles
could be heard all over tho deck.
" 'There lis boon a mistake lu my ac
count. alrT ho cried. '1 have looked all
through the list, and 1 csii't find Char
ley Noble's mime anywhere!
"Everybody roared, nnd the clerk
topped to think the matter or or."
Blight Skirmish.
The war with Spain has served to
popularize In common language many
terms usually employed only lu a mili
tary sense, and has frequently furnish
ed tho smart men of the press with a
new figure of speech.
I shall have to ask you, Mr. Fad-
dem," said a city editor, looking over a
largo bundle of manuscript which a
new reporter had turned In as a de
scription of a trivial occurrence, "to de
ploy that stuff."
To deploy It?" said the new reporter.
"I don't understand."
"Turn that column Into a line, re
joined the editor.
rittful rovcrly In Ilueala.
Statistics Just published show that In
Russia only 847.20N families out of a
population of about 130,ooo,ooo souls
have an Income of over $500 a year, or
that practically more than 01) per cent.
of the whole population are constantly
lu a state of abject poverty and pauper
ism lu their various degrees. The fig
ures become appalling when one con
siders the case of the peasantry, which
forms tho overwhelming mnjorlty of
the population. The average yearly In
come of a peasant family consisting of
six members range from $iK) to $75 a
year, out of which between $25 and $.13
ha to 1 paid to the government In di
rect taxes.
W hat Hhe Was.
In a New England graveyard there
hn lately been discovered an epltnph
which leave a wider scope for the
Imagination of the render than almost
any other w hich could be composed,
A person traylng through the little
graveyard stopped to rend the word on
an old slate stone slab; two winged
head were carved above the epitaph:
"Here He tho remain of Mary Ann
Pratt;
Word are wanting to say what.
Think what a good woman should be
She-wn that."
the transport of his person and goods
from the station under the head of
"cabbage." j
I stowed myself where he would be
sure to find me before he could stumble
on the hiding-place of the negro. Tom
spied the other boys,, and 1 got a safe
run to the "gool," so that he had no oc-
A Tiny Elcctrlo Motor,
A Western watchmaker has built the
smallest electric motor In the world. It
Is so small that It does not cover a sli
ver dime. The armature Is about the for means t0 relieve his hunger, and
size of a small slate pencil. The front grew g0 abstracted over the problem
of tho motor is or goiu, uigmy ponsneu, tbat j attracted the attention of my
and the commutator segments are also companiong.
of the same metal, so that viewed from . . . d . .
DON TOU TEI.L ME NUFFIN .
alert. The man who was looking our
way moved toward us as directly as if
he saw us, though the negro and I, by a
common Impulse, crawled quickly be
hind the trunks of two pear-trees a few
feet apart,
On he came unerringly, until he was
right between us, and I made out dis
tinctly the tall, muscular form and red
bearded face of our neighbor Sherman.
I expected to see him pounce upon the
crouching figure of my companion like
a tiger on bis prey, and wondered If a
sudden attack In the rear by a 12-year-
old boy could be of anyavail.
lie turned neither to the right nor to
the left as he passed between us, nor
paused as he whispered with sharp dis
tinctness, "Go back to my barn and lay
low till I tell ye!"
A few paces beyond us he turned
about and passed between us again, re
peating the whispered Injunction, and
caslon to search the loft. Hence I felt ging b.ick to the house.-iook post there,
easy concerning the man for the pies- loudly enjoining vigilance upon the
ent. except that I was at my wit's end others.
Net r Hattkfleil.
Resident of Pouce are changing the
pronunciation of the tin mo of tho town
to one syllable, "Ponce," because that's
United States, and they want to be like
n. At tho same time people of tho
United State are changing their pro
nunclatlon to "Poll tha," because that'
Spanish, and they want to appear well
educated.
little distance the scarf pin has tho
appearance of a very valuable and
rather curiously designed pin. The first
thing to attract the attention is tho
buzzing of the machine, which, by
means of a current obtained from a
small chloride of silver battery carried
lu the vest pocket, Is kept lu operation
at a high rate of speed, and with a
noise like a small nest of horuets. The
field magnets of the little motor are
made of two thicknesses of No. 22
sheet Iron scraped dowu nnd polished.
These are held together with gold
screws nnd wound with No. 20 silk
covered wire. The armature Is of the
four pole type and Is wound with No.
80 wire. The little brushes are or mnr-
velous thinness, having been construct
ed of copper, hammered down with
much patience and care. There Is a;
small gold switch on a black rubber
base, made with a pin. to lie worn on
the In nol of the vest. The owner of
mouth, Tommy?" Bill Shermnn asked.
"Oh, nothin'," I answered, evasively;
and then a happy thought struck me.
"Only I'm so hungry, I b'lieve I've got
to go home and get something to eat.
I guess I didn't eat' as much breakfast
as I'd ought to this morning."
The explanation might pass with
those who had not witnessed my per
formance, but It was not needed by my
playmates, for at the suggestion of
hunger, each became aware of his own
pangs It being now near 10 o'clock.
"Hurrah for something feat!" cried,
Tom. "Come on!" and he led the way i
to the kitchen door, where an appeal
for relief was promptly responded to
by good, motherly Mrs. Sherman, with
a double slice of bread and butter and
a doughnut for each of us.
I made a pretense of eating, not with-.
out an effort refraining from the ieal-
Ity, till Jim Sherman began to count
and the rest of us to scatter to cover.
this novel scarf pin has been asked to Then I crept noiselessly up the stairs
exhibit It in puuue, out is cuuivui nu
the homage paid to his talents lu bli
native town, and refuses to show It
publicly elsewhere.
Work of Hi ts.
Hats are playing havoc with the un
derground telephone and telegraph ca
bles lu St. Louis. They have discover
ed that the w Ire are covered with par
affined paper, and they like the taste.
To satisfy their appetite they must
gnaw through the lead casting around ,..,,.,,.. ..fmm de folu, ,,. .J bad
...I-... It l.tia ItrttilU'tu.il In H mini. - ...... .. i
uie wiivb. - - - - wi,ere I wn tnyin yist day, (lis yeie
ber of cnos that tho rat. In gnawing .M d(, )lncPi nIgh , , coul(, make oul
through the lead cable to get at the n (,0 tm Q. de ula,vta'(ji ,,.re wiU
greased paper have bared the cop;K-r de .,nce
. tl... l.tti.i! oiiitrt itflinl at till " . ....
wires so wmi.urj . we ca n't heln t now. Al the
can do I to keep still till night."
Then Jim shouted warning, and I
beard blm coming cautiously up the
and gave all my lunch to the negro. It
made me hungry to see hi in eat, and I
felt that I was making n great sacrifice
for the "cause" In which my father was
o earnestly engaged.
"I wish thee'd come to our house In
stead of here," I whispered to the ne
gro, as be snt up under the tent of hay,
ravenously bolting the bread and but
ter. "Tell ye what, honey," he answered.
after a struggle to swallow a large
cross lu iuch a manner a to make It
Impossible to establish commuulcatloD
over them.
The negro crawled away in range of
his tree, on bis .hands and knees, as
stealthily as a cat, and I followed as
nearly as I could In like manner, till we
gained the cover of a fence, looking
back from which we saw the light shin
Ing from successive windows as the
searching party moved from room to
room, while the figures of the besiegers
were dissolved and blotted out lu the
gloom.
We made our way back to the Sher
mnn plnce with cautious haste, now
startled by a ground nesting bird burst
ing up from the grass before us, now
making wide detours to avoid some dim
object, which proved to be a harmless
cow or stump, till at last we reached
the left and lay down upon the hay,
with a welcome sense of security In
the place which 1 bad lately deemed so
dangerous.
Then as we rested and by degrees re
covered natural breathing, my com
panion explained In whispers the mys
tery of neighbor Sherman's ln-havlor.
I "'Long In the artcrnoon 1 wns layln'
klvered In de fodder a-wlshin' mighty
hard for night an suffln for to eat
an' 1 heard somebody come a-trom-pllng
up de stairs, an' be begin pokln'
de fodder, an' me do nat'aly shakln'
I wld fear, outwel fust I knowed he hove
' de fodder clean off'n me. A mon'ou
big, ferce-lookln man he was, wld a
red balrd same man he was that came
to we-un ober yander, an' ha boiler at
me. 'What you doln here? You's a
runaway nigger, dat's what you Isf
"When I try for to speak, he say,
'Don' you tell me nu III u'. 1 don' wan'
to hear a word out 'n yo' bead. Yon
nythlng to eat since you inn
yore? an I lol' blm how you done fotca
me a little speck. In de mawnlu", an' he
wont an' fotch me a heap o' whittles,
an' bo tol' me lo Iny still under de fod
der ontwel de dark come on' an' den go
to de ncx' bouse an' not come ba
yere no mo', 'cause be ain't gwlne for
to hare no runaway niggers roun' bl
Spanish Wooden Bullet.
It Is well known that Spanish soldiers
in Cuba were poor marksmen, but
great surprise has been expressed, says
the Scientific American, at the remark
able lack of execution which character
ized their fire at Guantanamo and San
tiago, and an officer of the United
States gunboat Montgomery has been
able to throw some light on the matter.
He visited the Maria Teresa after tha
destruction of Cervera's fleet in search
of souvenirs. He found a large num
ber of Mauser cartridges In groups of
five ready to go Into the magazines of
the guns, and If the entire Spanish
army and navy were equipped with
that kind of ammunition both Cervera
and Toral were amply Justified In sur
rendering when they did. The car
tridges consisted of a metal shell load
ed with hair and a sprinkling of pow
der. The bullet was of neither brass
nor lead, but of wood. Some army con
tractor had Imposed on the ordnance
bureau of the Spanish navy, but to
what extent the wooden Mauser bullets
were used will probably never be
known.
Old Age Pensions In New Zealand.
New Zealand, which has prided her
self for a good many years on "ad
vanced" legislation, and which Is often
held up as one of the most progressive
countries In the world (though a Brit
ish colony), Is about to Inaugurate
what may be called an old age pension
regime.
The Legislature of the far-off colony
recently passed an elaborate bill, mak
ing provision for pensions to persons
In straitened circumstances who are
over 05 years old. The pension
amounts to but $00 a year, or about
$1.75 a week, and no one who has an
Income of over $5 a week or property
worth more thnn $2,700 will be en
titled to It. Twenty years' residence
In the colony and ten years' exem
plary conduct are requisite In order to
secure this state gift, which Is sig
nificant, not so much for the amount
as for the precedent which It em
bodies. Boston Globe.
The Largest leaves of Broad.
The largest lonves of bread baked
In the world are those of France and
Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy Is
baked In loaves two or three feet long,
while In France the loaves are made
In the shape of very long rolls four or
five feet In length, and In many casee
even six feet The bread of Paris Is
distributed almost exclusively by wo
men, who go to the various bakehouses
at 530 a. m. and spend about an hour
polishing up the loaves. After the
loave are thoroughly cleaned of dust
and grit, the "bread porter" proceeds
on the round of her customers. Those
who live In apartments or flats find
their loaves leaning against the door.
I I i llulld Nest.
There I a tub found lu Hudson Bay
which absolutely builds a nest. Thl
It doe by picking up pebble In Its
mouth and placing them lu a regular
way on selected spot on the bottom of
the bay. where the water la not very
deep
lorborg.
The Icoln-rg of the two UomUpherea
are outlroly different In shape. The arc
tic borg are Irregular lu form, with
lofty pinnacle and filtering domes.
while tho antarctic lcrg are fiat top-
I JhmJ and solid looking.
Only Indian Twins Alive.
Iu Oklahoma Territory the other day
twin wore Itorn to White Dove of lbs
Usage. It ha been the custom of lu
dlun lo strangle tho weaker of twin
shortly after their brlth. White Dora
refused lo follow the custom of her
people, and now I cut In tho best In
dian circles. Sho tied with ber liable
to the agent at Ponca and so saved
them bothj
l lusbrlh's l'i nan.
The late Empress Elizabeth left a
vast fortune. Sho had a much target
civil list than she over spent, and bet
surplus Income win Judiciously laid out
In purchasing property arouud Vienna,
which was bought tory cheap, but li
row covered with bulld'ti.-t and rnor
tnously valuable.
stair before my man waa down and , place. Deon lie kiver me in fle r.HMer,
covered up again. But covered be was, an' un ae "' ' w'n h,m ontwll be
before Jim found me. and wt rushed emtio on wo-uns oler yander. Oh. be's
pell moll for the "gool."
When the game waa ended I went
homo, hungry enough, but quite un
able to enjoy my dinner, for fear of the
discovery of the runaway. I told my
father of him at the first opportunity,
and be was a anxious a I, at b.s
a n "igbty curious man, dnt he Is."
I quite agreed In bis opinion of neigh
bor SI orman, since he wns acting lo ao
unexpected a manner.
We lay quietly for an bour before we
hoard a cautious stop a-ondlng tie
stairs, and then neighbor Sherman'
countenance showed. guarded voice, "If there a anyboly
i wouldn't have neighbor Phertn n hero, lin y can go over to Thome's now
And him for anything, but thee did the, Tho coast I clear."
best that could be done, my son. anil With thai he wrnt downstairs, an
there's nothing for It but lo wait till we presently followed, and wont ovr
dark." to our house, whore all was quiet aftv
The commendation comforted mo. the futile search
and I proved myself
erntao at supper,
a valuable trench-
Oo the following night my father car
ried the fugitive lo tha next stat'on
After nightfall t stole across tha field . northward, and we saw no more of a m.
ipecino for Hraalokneaa.
Bright red pecUclet accompanied by
Internal doses of calomel form a new
German specific Against seasickness. It
Is deduced from Eptoln's Investiga
tions on the Influence of color on the
blood resell In the brain. Seasickness
la due to lack of blood In the brain,
w hile red send blood lo the brain with
a rush. By looking at one point for
some time through the red glassee tbt
patient ia cured radically.
Before expressing your bon.-st con
victions these days, yoo must lock
yourself lu a room and plug up the
key bole.
I'p to date, the women members of a
certain church have tried every known
means lo raise the church debt except
by putting air bag under lu
Confidence often begets confldonce
men.
Potters are not the only peopl who
uake family Jars.