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ALASKAN GOLD. A mlTI-oTi years in the smelting poti Of 'hl -Treat earth's furnace core, j. ,..! I J 1 boiled the old gods Mien Bcfuri- it wai time to pour. niilli"" year in the giant molds ilf pr.niite and iiiica-sobist jt moled and layin the self-same way That into their hearts it hissed. A million years, and the clouds of steam Were rivers and lakes and seas; And the mastodon to his grave had gone In the coal that once was trees. When the Master Mulder raised his hand, He shattered the gray rock mold And sprinkled its core from shore to shore, Ami the dust that fell wag gold. Yontu's Companion. fllK soft lights or the quiet res tuiinint brought rest to Boyn tou's tired nerves; he picked up the nieiiii with a High of content. "This Isn't lut IT bad." he mused, run ning his eyes down the curd, "though It savors uncommonly of poolroom bulletins: 'combination one; combina tion two' well," with u smile at the conceit, "reckon I'll play combination seven 'lamb chop, griddle cuke, ly oiitials potatoes' a hungry fellow can't low much on that for sure. Hollo:" his glance falling suddenly on a large Japanese screen, partially hiding oue corner of the room, "there's an or chestra, too; hope they are on a pur with the rest of the appointments. By Jove! they're girls." lu the mirror by the end of the screen a face hud arisen, a laughing girlish face, and Its owner, tucking a fat brown violin under her arm, and blissfully unconscious of Boynton's eager scrutiny, proceeded with much graceful posing and sundry deft and skillful jabs of a long, blackheuded pin to adjust a huge picture hut upon her small and shapely head. Evidently she of the merry counte nance was trying it on, for she turned presently ns If Inviting an opinion from some unseen companion and at that moment she caught the reflection of Boyton's admiring eyes staring at her In the mirror. The smile vanished, giving place to surprise, annoyance and swiftly grow ing resentment; but the look of utter chagrin that flashed over Boynton's face us lie realized that he hud been guilty of a rudeness was clearly too much for the young lady's sense of humor, for after a brief struggle, the stern lines at the corner of her lips melted Into the suspicion of a smile; with n quick glance hnlf fun, half delinuce she suddenly thrust out her tongue, and with a saucy courtesy at the reflection of the discomfited Boyn lon she disappeared. "Well if she isn't a peach." thought Mark, gazing ruefully at the empty mirror, while a curious thrill tingled along his utrves. "What stunuiug liair she has. I wish 1 knew who she was; somehow she seems different from any girl I ever " He dropped his knife and fork in astonishment, doubling his ears. From behind the screen came the rollicking notes of a familiar rag-time air, "Why don't you get a lady of your own?" remarked the violin, sarcastic ally. Murk grinned in spite of him self. "I'll get even for that, young lady," lie remarked, "or my name isu't Mark Hoyntou I am going to find out who you are." During the remainder of his lunch Mark racked his brain to little pur pose, but ns he stopped up to pay his check nu inspiration cume to him "Kiireka! he ejuculated. "Beg pardon sir," said the cashier, politely. "Why, certainly," she said presently. In answer to Boynton's in quiry, "the violin player's name Is Miss Sturm of course you enu engage la-r; she will be much pleased; a whist Party nt your sister's you say please write her address. I assure you .Miss Htunn will be on hand." Mark departed, chuckling. "Wonder what she'll say to-ivorrow night," he bought. "I'll ask terV to play 'Why nun t t you get a lnd',;,ns I'm a sin- Her. "Awfully obliged for the orchestra, Mark," said Miss Boyo.on to her broth er tne following evening "I never dreamed of having anythl ig so swell a that for my whist; don', you think 't a nice idea putting them behind the rubber plants?" "Great. Sis," replied Mark, "believe I'll go and nsk them to piny something for me. "Here's where I take a trick," lie muttered, threading his way care fully between the little tables "Will you kindly play, 'Why don't' I though Miss Sturm was to be here?" wound up Mark, leaning against the piano In surprise. "But I vhns Miss Sturm," replied the stolid looking, round-face violinist, gnzing at dumfounded Mark In mild wonder. "Hut I thought that Is where Is the young htdy who plays at the restuur- stammojd Mark. "I vhas her' said the German girl. Impassively, "the cashier, she half glf "e the Herr Boynton's card, and I hnf come to" but Mark, with an Incoher ent apology, retreated. "Trumped." he thoucht miserably "What In the world can It mean? That Dutch girl Is as utterly unlike her us darkness from light." It came over Mark all at once, in a great wove of disappointment, bow much he had ,-v-,- If possible URe only filtered rnin water In making a solution and von will he surprised at the much better results you win obtain. Try rubbing around the edee of the plate, say one-sixteenth of nn Inch deep, with a pice of wax candle to pre vent rniiing. Those who find difficulty In usinir n brush for spotting pinholes In negatives or prints, should try an ordinary wood en toothpick shurpened to a needle point. To dry plates 1 n a hurrv after fiilm and wusliing, lay the nlate I n alcohol and let It remain two minutes. Best plate on one corner when taking It out. It will dry In a few moments. Be sure, however, thut It Is thoroughly washed before putting In the alcohol. An English amateur, who stands among the recognized leaders, has this to say on hand camera nlctures that Is interesting: " 'Under-exposed and over developed;' this is the true verdict which should be pronounced on perhaps three out of every four hand camera negatives. The error of over-develop ment is to a large extent due to the widespread but very misleading notion. viz., thut prolonged development will bring out the detuils. To put this fine, crusted, old delusion In other words. It is equivalent to saying that nroloneed development compensates for, or Is equivalent to, exposure. The huniriv school boy Is sometimes told that the tuicKness or the bread compensates for the thinness of the butter, a maxim which sounds all right, but is not easy to swallow." All amateurs ought te do their own developing. It is really the most inter esting feature of picture taking. Any one with intelligence enoucrh to en In when It rains can snap a Bhutter and then take the plates or film to a pro fessional to develop. That is not learn ing anything, and moreover it is expen sive. Do your own work. Get intimate been looklug forward to seeing the merry face that had haunted him all day. "I will find out who she Is." he told himself, with vehement determi nation, "if I have to search all over Bost Great Scott! am 1 awake?" At a table In the far corner, unoccu pied, save for her dainty self, her hands toylug Idly with the score curd, wns sitting the girl of the mirror. It seemed nu hour to Murk before he reached bis sister's side. "Maud," he said eugerly. "who is that girl over there? 1 I'd like to meet her?" Miss Boyntou swept the room with a deliberate glance. "That girl with the auburn hair?" she said presently, "that's Edith Sinclair; haven't you met her yet? She's a Conservatory pupil." "My brother, Mark," said Miss Boyn ton. "Miss Sinclair." A tide of red surged over Miss Sin clair's perfect face as her eye met Mark's. "You!" she exclaimed, with a horrified little grasp, "the man who" "Exactly," responded Mark, "the man who thought he had hired you to play here to-night and hadn't evidently." Miss Sinclair laughed. "You took me for Barbara Sturm, didn't you?" she said. "I guessed us much when she told me a gentleman hud euguged her that evening. Miss Sturm had au engagement and couldn't tiud a sub stitute, so for a lark I got leave from the 'Con' and took her place-but aren't you going to play whist 7 drop ping her eyes from Mark's lntc.lt gaze. "1 don't know." said Mark, iu mock despair, "I haven't any partner I nev er had a 'Lady of my own,' you know." audaciously. The red flashed back Into Miss Sin clair's cheek, but she looked straight into Mark's earnest eyes. "Wouldn't I do." she answered, saucily, "for a partner?" Indianapolis Sun. GO WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN." Origin of Slung Phrase that la aa Pop ular a a Popular Bon it. The popular phrase. "Go 'way buck and sit down." has been credited to many sources, said a New York music publisher, "but the true story has never been .riuted. "One night about a year ago several colored sports gathered in a saloon in the Tenderloin owned by a negro and patronized chiefly by men of his race. In the party were Smithy, the tenor, and Bully, the tout. Smithy came from the West and dressed in the height of fashion, while Bully's home was lu the South. "Bully had had quite a turu of 111 luck and bis attire suffered In consequence. Smithy began 'kidding' him about It. Finally Bully got angry. He sized Smithy up from head to foot for a few seconds and then sailed In: " 'Yo am er dude, yo' am,' he began, contemptuously. 'Yo' done come 'round here an' try f lit he folkes know dat yo' am livln' on Easy street. 'Don't yo' flng, man, dat dem horses am o-gwlne t' run fo' yo' In de snow matfur Mb with "the way to do It all yourself." A better acquaintance will come with the camera, and there will be a deeper Interest In Its capabilities where one does the developing and attends to the details. Often it is said: "Oh. 1 haven't patience!" That's nousense. Practice patience. You have no Idea of what can be done with very limited conveni ences, and well done, too. If you are really Interested and try. The bottom shelf In a pantry, or one put In the end of a chest, a pail of water, a couple of puns, small red light, developer and hypo. 'and there you are. There is a wide field from which the amateur anxious to do something can choose. Portraiture, perhaps. Is at the top of the list; but undoubtedly most difficult of all. Genre, hardly less exact ing and more generally interesting as active human nature always is; laud scape with figures and figures with landscape, each different from the oth er, and both requiring much careful study and thought, especially as to the suitability and placing of the figures. Street scenes as pictures of everyday life; marine subjects, with the ocean or the lake in all their moods, and the happy combinations of the always In teresting fisher folks, and the. to some at least, equally Interesting yachts and yacht racing. Architecture also offers great opportunities, although in this country not so great as in some others; and last, although perhaps not least, flowers and flora generally, although generally classed as the lowest phase of art, have brought fame to some and may do so again to those who really love and know how to arrange and pho tograph them. Whatever phase may be selected It should be stuck to, and stud ied In all Its bearings. Especially should the artist make himself acquainted with all that he possibly can of what has been done before in that line; exam ining and analyzing the work that pleases in our picture galleries and In the higher class magazines, not with a view to copy It, but to become so sat urated with It as to form a style of his own by which his work shall be recog nized as unmistakably his. dis winter. Yo' ain't no steel rod. Yo' kin git broke. " 'Say. nigger, do yo' see dat chair yonder by dut stove? Take my advise an' go 'way back nn' sit down, an' w'en yo' git dere stay dare au' don't come back uo more t'uigbt. Understand, honey?' "Smithy did go 'way back and sit down und was not heard of the rest of the night. Al Johns, u colored musi cian, who was present, thought the phrase was unique, and the next day he told Elmer Bowman, a negro song writer, about it. "Johns thought It would make a good title for n song, so Bowman wrote some verses which Jolinsou put to music. In the story of the song Bowmau stuck to the incidents thut took place in the saloon that night, and when the song was published It at once became popu lar. "The phrase was used a good deal by the opposite political parties in the lust cauipalgu " A Cripple Creek Incident. He wus just in from the East, and the pattern of his trousers were such that even the dogs regarded him with suspicion. He wns walking ahead of a fair girl, his Cripple Creek cousin, and as they climbed the hill he caught his breath and held It with an effort. The beautiful girl behind bim was the first to speak. She hud been debating whether to call him down for walking In front of her or heave a bowlder against his shoulder blade. Finally she took another course and got him. "This light air don't agree with you," she observed, sweetly." "Perfectly," he gasped, using all the atmosphere he had on his person. "Is that so?" she gurgled, sarcasti cally. "Why. your pants are so loud I can hear them clear down here." The man started slightly. Intending to freeze her with a glance, until it oc curred to him that such a course might require air, and, so thinking, hedragged his leaden limbs skyward. Denver Times. A Nice Game. "I came mighty near being cheated out of that election." said Seuator Sor ghum: "mighty neur. It mude me think of a poker game I was once In." "What kind of a game was that?" asked the attache who has had his sul ary raised several times for laughing In the right plnce. "Well, all I can say about it Is that If the other fellows hadn't been too busy stacking the cards and dealing off the bottom to take any notice of me I never would have gotten a chance to ring In a cold deck on them." Washington Star. Dried Peat for Fuel. The Vislund Bolmen Hallway, n Sweden, has made a satisfactory test of dried peat as fuel for locomotives without changing the fire bed. The wife who talks the least has the best control over ber husband. WHEN WILD ANIMALS SLEEP. HcBTy, Peaceful Slumber of Lion, Tig-era and Bear. There Is nothing odd or peculiar about the sleep of the lions and tigers. In captivity they show the same In difference to danger that they mani fest in the jungle, and by day or night will slumber through an unusual tu mult, unmindful or unconscious of the noise. Their sleep is commonly heavy nd peaceful. Bears are also heavy sleepers, but less disposed than lions and tigers to slumber in the daytime. Grizzly bears usually curl up under the rocks, but sometimes they crawl up to the very top of the rocks, and with frout paws spread around the Iron cage bars go to sleep In what seems an uncom fortable position; but bears never re lease their muscular grasp of any ob ject when asleep. The black bears will curl up among the branches of a tree when they have the opportunity and go to sleep In this peculiar position. The polar bears show a peculiarity in the selection of their sleeping places. They choose one particular corner of the cage for Hie purpose, and Invariably seek Oils out for the night's rest. The high-strung, nervous animals are the most Interesting to watch at night. They usually belong to the hunted tribes, whose lives are iu constant danger In the forest, and they possess such a highly developed nervous sys tem thut they really sleep with one eye open. The slightest noise will In stantlv awaken them. The praMe wolves merely seem to close their eyes for at) instant and then open them again to see If oil Is quiet. Many vain attempts have been made to photograph these animals by flash light, and without exception the cam era has revealed the fact thnt one eye at least was partly o n. The any sleepers In the menageries are for sonic reason the heaviest slum borers of all, and when they close their eyes In early moruiug they seem al most ns stupid as if drugged. This Is In marked coin rust to the light night sleepe-s. who. on the approach of dan ger, ate instantly awake and on the alert. Penny Pictorial Magazine. CASIMIR'S CHEF D'OEUVRE. The Great Inventor of "Potajje Ger rainy" la to Ketire. Some tears are reported to have been shed by the gourmets of the Paris boulevards on account of the In tended retirement of a modern Vatel, who for nearly half a century has pre sided over the culllnary department of the liaison Doree. This famous cook, familiarly known as Caslmir, has been so devoted to his business that he has never seen Eiffel's tower. Casl mir laments the decadence of dlulug In Paris of recent years. Formerly, as ancient Caslmir points out. the crea tion of a new soup or sauce or dish was au event of equal importance with the production of a new play. The grandest day iu Cusiuilr's life, ssys the New York Commercial Ad vertiser, was thut on which he Invent ed or discovered potuge germluy, a soup mode with the yolk of two eggs, creum and sorrel. The pot age was prepared for a dinner given by the Marquis de St. George, author of the Mousquetaires de la Heine. Caslmir was as nervous over the reception of his soup as a dramatic author or a composer on a first uight. He had his reward when the marquis sent for bim, and before the assembled guests pressed bim to his bosom and ex claimed: "Caslmir, It Is not a soup; It is a great work, a masterpiece." Getting Even with Joe Jefferson. On oue occasion, just previous to opening iu one of the large Eastern cit ies, Joseph Jefferson discharged bis property msu, Bugley, for humiliating him before a number of friends by fa miliarly addressing him as "Joey." Bugley got drunk right awuy and that night puld his wuy to the gallery to see Mr. Jefferson present "Uip Van Win kle." The angry frau hud Just driven poor, destitute Hip from the cottage when Kip turued and, with a world of puthos. asked: "Deu haf I no Interest in dis house?" The house was deathly still, the audience half in teara when Bugley's cracked voice responded: "Only 80 per cent, Joey only 80 per cent" Sunshine a Soporific. No syrup of poppies, no tincture of opium, no powders of morphine, says oue of the medical journals, can com pare In sleep-producing power with sunshine. The worst soporific Is lauda num and the best is sunshine. There fore It is easily understood that poor sleepers should puss as many hours In the sunshine as possible. Many women are martyrs and do not know It They shut the sunshine out of their bouses, they wear veils, they carry sunshades, they do all that Is possible to keep off the subtlest and yet most potent Influ ence which Is Intended to give tbetn strength and beuuty and cheerfulness. A Judge. Mrs. Noobride Mr. Wblteoak had some of my pie at the church fair lust night and he said it was very good. Mr. Noobride Well, now, that opin ion, coming from bim, Is worth some thing; expert testimony. In fact. He's In the leather business, you know." Philadelphia Press. Not Knough Good Ones. "Why do some people think It's wicked to go to the theater?" "Well, 1 suppose It's because people who make a practice of going so often go to the bad."-Pblludelpblu Bulletin. If love would only make a man's In come go round be wouldn't care any thing about the gyration of the world. PENALTY SOON PAID. RED-HANDED MURDERER SHOT WITHOUT CEREMONY. Swift Retribution Overtook a Had Mexican in the AY i I.I West-Harm-lea-Looking- Red-Headed Man Acted Quickly When Kiuht Time Came. "I don't l.ke to see one man kill an other lu cold blood and then walk off without au attempt being made ou the part of witnesses to the crime to catch the killer." remarked Peter Gallagher, while the subject of homicides was uu der discussion at Butte recently. "1 once knew a man, 'Mexican I.ou' he wns called, whose nmbltiou was to kill some one. He was au expert driv er of oxen and followed his occupation betweeu old Fort Pierre, ou the Mis souri river, aud head wood, S. D., be fore the advent of the railroad Into that country. '1a)u was a wicked looklug Mexican, and was Just us wicked as his appear ance Indicated. He took special delight in cracking his oxeu with the tweuty-five-foot whip he carried when there was no need of It aud committing oth er offenses lu which the very essence of cruelty wns discernible. 'But I.ou finally reached the end of his string. One time he went to a place called Woodvllle, a station on the lit tle narrow-gauge railroad built by the Homestake Mining Company for the purpose of securing wood for use In Its mills, and took command of the town. He seemed to have a grudge against every one und guve It out cold that he Intended to start a graveyard for the new town. "There wus a little store at Wood vllle where timbermen bought their supplies. About two weeks after Lou arrived in the place lie decided that the time for locating the cemetery site was ripe. Shoving a large knife up the right sleeve of his coat, he entered the store and endeavored to pick a quarrel with a woodchoppcr who wus uu entire stranger to bim aud with whom lie hud never before had a word. "The woodchopper wns not a fighter and avoided the Mexican as much as possible. The keeper of the store no ticed his endeavor to keep out of trou ble with the Mexican, and advised him to watch the latter aud not allow him to get too close, as he had a knife and Aas bent on murder. "There were several persons In the store at the time, among them a little man with reddish hair. The woodchop per was purchasing goods, but when told to look out for the Mexican's knife be grabbed a pick handle with which to defemt himself lu case of attack. "The greaser saw the move, aud kept bis distunce for the time being, but iu a few minutes he suw an opening and rushed at the woodchopper with his knife drawu. "With the look of a demon on his face he plunged the blade of the weup on Into the woodchopper's body, then withdrew It und run out of the store. The woodchopper fell dead. "After getting outside, the Mexican started to run across au open apace, his Intention being to reach the timber at the opposite side,, but he never reached It. "Behind the counter of the store wns a Springfield rifle, loaded and ready for business. The little red-haired man bud seen the fatal blow struck and without waiting for further ceremony he promptly seized the guii, walked to the door, dropped to a stooping posi tion, took deliberate aim at the fleeing greaser, and tirel. "The bullet struck the greaser square ly In the center of the back and pass ed through his body, killing bim In stantly. "The red-haired man was at the In quest, which wns held In Lead, a few miles away," said Gallagher, in conclu sion, according to the Butte (Mont.) Inter-Mouiiia'.n, "but when the Jury returned a verdict to the effect that the Mexican had come to his death at his bands he coolly walked away without molestation from the officers present. "They did not want him." PASSING OF LEGERDEMAIN. Sleiklit of Hand Performer Turn to Mechunical Trick. One of a group of three men who were seated ut the Pulmer House cafe last Friday night was amusing the otb er two with some clever sleight of hand tricks performed with a silver dollar thut appeared and disappeared lu a quite mysterious manner. "Where did you learn that clever ness?" asked oue of the spectators. "In Philadelphia, forty years ago," he answered, "during the days of Slg nor Blitz, who was my teacher. I was a very young man tiien aud lived next door to Blitz He took a fancy to me and taught me many sleight of hand tricks that I have not forgotten. "Blitz was one of the men who helped to bring juggling to its perfection, and paved the way for the great prestidigi tators who followed him. "Now the profession Is In Its deca dence. It has pussed Its zenith and Its I performances full to excite to wonder. ' It still survives as an adjunct to other performances, particularly for the amusement, of children, and that Is about all. I "Blitz gave a performance, entirely lu legerdemain, six nights in the week and two matinees. That cannot be done In Philadelphia now, or at any pluce else, and druw paying houses. You remember the wonderful perform ances of Houdin, the Frenchman, and bow be startled the world with bis wonders and dumfounded bis specta tors with his astounding second sight Then came Anderson, 'the Wizard of the North,' who drew full bouses all over the country. Herrmann the Great.' one of the most clever of theiu all In simple sleight of hand tricks, was with us only a few years ago. and his successor is uow performing. Then we yet linve Kelbir. who has carried mechanical tricks and deceptlou by the use of mirrors to perfection. "But the fact Is that these clever men full to excite more than a very little Interest, because their tricks and their ways aud their methods are all to well known. Their performances have been exploited to the utmost detail, and our children now know how tricks that were once considered absolutely as tounding are performed, and many of them sre clever enough to repeat them In our parlors. "We know all nltout the deception of mirrors, the iosslbllltles of electricity and lights, what mechanics can accom plish und the cleverness of the human mind lu performing; apparent wonders. All of this means that the profession of the prestidigitator Is passing aud that be la only surviving as an adjunct to other attractions." Chicago Kecord- I era Id. YOUNG RULERS OF THE WORLD. President Koovrvrlt Not the Yniitige Man at Head of a Great Nation. President Uoosevelt Is our youngest President, and there Is much talk of tils being the embodiment of the young blood which Is to put America above all other nations. But President Uoose velt Is not the only young ruler In the. world. Iu fact, he Is older than nt least nineteen rulers of the great nations of to-day. William of Germany Is three mouths younger; Nicholas of Itusslu Is only 3t years of age; and the Emperor of China Is ten years younger still. Possibly he might not be counted ns a ruler by some people, but still his numo Is recognized, no matter who pulls the strings In the Chinese tjourt. Victor Emmanuel of Italy Is 'JS and Wllbel inlnn of Holland only Alphonso of Spain Is probably the youngest ruler of all, us he Is not yet HI. Charles I. of Portugal Is under 40, and Ferdinand of Bulgaria is not yet 41. Abbas II., Khedive of Egypt, Is not more thun L'7; Alexander of Servlu, but 2."; Thnnk-Tiil. King of Slum, 'J'J, and Prince George of Greece, Governor of Crete, 3'J. Among the rulers of the little German States. Ernest Louis of Hesse Is Ii3; Frederic of Wnldeck 3tl and Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg. but 17. Several rulers lu India are under 30, and In the western hemisphere, It Iuglesals, President of Costa Idea, Is less than 40. These young men of to-day munt be older for their years than were their predecessors of years ago, or else the world Is easier to rule than then. Cer tainly the government of the world rep resented by these "young" men. Is wiser, broader and more enlightened than ever before. Minneapolis Journal. DiMcoverera of Ceylon. The Portuguese, who In the days of their commercial greatness had a won derful keen eye for anything like gold that comes from successful commercial pursuits, were the llrst Europeans to discover Ceylon and to make use of the Island. They occupied the desir able ports from early In the sixteenth century to the middle of the seven teenth. Then the Dutch cume along and ousted them. This was In HJotl. And for 140 years the Dutch adminis tered the maritime provinces. In 17!Mj the English took from them this last remaining stronghold. It wus not un til 1N15 thut the British hold on the. Island was clinched by the departure of the King of Kundy. I'p to that time, despite the Impress that they hud made ou the coast, the Europeuns hud becji entirely unable to get Into the In terior, aud the kings of Kandy bnd reigned over several mlllon people who paid tribute to them. Great kings they must have been, some of them, for there are many evidences to show that the civilization of those days was something worth while. In urea tho Island Is about the same size ns Hol land or Belgium. It Is '.'71 miles long und 137 miles across at extreme breadth. Its urea Is ''."i,3 15 square miles. In Slngalese tb island Is Lanka. Its later names were Serendlb und Tapro banu. The Amateur Detective. The wisest person may sometimes make a serious mistake by Judging en tirely from appearances. Forward gives a cuse lu point In which the enor mlly of the mistake contributes largely to the humor. A careless young woman. In starting to leave a car, dropped her purse. A young inun, who evidently Intended to leave the car at the same time, saw her drop the purse, picked It up aud put It Into his iocket. But his action had not been on no ticed. Just as he stepped from the car au elderly man gripped him by the arm and whispered, "If you don't give that purse to the young lady this lusUnt I'll expose you." "Yes, certainly!" gasped the astonish ed young man. Then, with a grin. "I beg pardon, Elizabeth; you dropped your purse." "Oh, thank you, Jim." she replied, as she took It. "I hope you are satisfied," said Jim, turning to the elderly mun. "The lady Is my sister." A Question in Astronomy. "Do you believe In the nebular hy pothesis, Brother Dickey?" "No. suh," wus the reply after a mo ment's thought "I nebber wus posi tive 'bout anything 'cept hellflre fer sinners!" A tlunta Constitution. Bath Tubs of Glass. Buth tubs of glass are uow being made very cheaply In Germany by the use of compressed air. When you meet a man with a scheme, proceed to get In a hurry.