GATLINGS üNT GUARD
tones OF
THE TIMES.
It Is sometimes easier to meet a
bill than to dodge It.
'
As a rule popular subscriptions are
in the unpopular class.
This world Is but a fleeting show—
and all the best seats are taken.
I. its of ptople would rather die a nat
ural death than send for a doctor.
Never judge an actress by the dia
monds she thinks you think »he wwir».
It takes more money to be a mil
llonalre now than It did fifty years
ugo.
_______
It has been said that a numl>er of
society men never pay anything but
compliments.
The cheatfest Individual Is often the
one with the least excuse for dorsal
expansion.
In the demand for an open door
China will kindly understand that It
Is a seller door that Is desired.
French asBasalna are uow close rivals
of French duelists In bloodthirstiness.
Thee
llrectly
-pie on
r along
new
crula-
lp her
open.
lother
enter-
.
o the
law ou « j ever nail fits
through i-atlng.orange peel, or secured
curly hair through eating the crusts.
A Berlin professor has discovered
that seven out of ten girls who take
piano lessons are attacked by nervous
affections. It was long ago discov
ered that people who have to listen to
them fall a prey to nervous prostra-
tlon.
It has been suggest cd that the full
tire of tbe college athletes to make
good In the Kansas harvest Held was
due to the disregard of foot lui. I rules.
The farmers Insisted on making the
"halves'' of rather over thirty minutes'
duration euch.
A gentleman is being sued for di
vorce on tlie ground that he never
speaks to his w
orti win
ift utlenu
the score are projected or building.
Originally electric roads built up cit
ies. They brought suburbs near to
centers. They solved the problem of
home owning for people of moderate
means. They made It possible for a
man to live where there was room to
breathe, have a lawn and a garden,
enjoy the comfort» of country life,
and »till reach hl» work for 5 cents.
Tbe benefit they conferred on human
ity canuot be measured In money.
Then came the suburban lines, and
there cannot be too many of them.
Town and city all over the land are,
or will tie, in touch. The visit to a
metropolis is no longer an event In
tbe country village. There Is a car
every hour, the fare is moderate and
the Journey pleasant. The suburl-an
electric railway ha» removed much of
the monotony from rural life. The
farmer can see a good play in a mod
ern theater if he wishes. He can go
to an occasional professional ball
game. He Is Independent of the rall-
I
way accommodation train that rau
once a day each way. and charged him
smartly for a clndery seat In tbe
smoking car. Strangest of all Is the
fact that the steam railroads have i not
lieen seriously Injured. In a few In-
stan<*rs passenger trains have been
taken off. but the traffic that was lost
was never a large Item In profits, and
longdistance travel has Increased
since people got the riding habit. In
the old day» you could find hundreds
of country dwellers who never left the
confines of their township home» from
January to December. Now there 1»
the suburlmn car, with plush seats and
nickel trimmings, air brakes and plate
glass windows. It whisks you along
country roads and through shady
lanes, lands you In tbe heart of a
great city and gets you home In time
to do the chores. Who wouldn't ride
once in a while? There Is »2.308.000,-
000 capital represented In electric rail
ways. In 1902 they carried 4,809.554,-
438 person». And the business is only
an infant. Watch It grow and trans
form America.
UNIQUE FOLSOM PENITENTIARY
HAS NO WALuS
California Priaon the Only One of Ite
Kind in the World Memorial of the
Ibvantfni Pays M hen Charlea Aull
M ae W ardeu.
WHY THE MEN DON’T PROPOSE.
fly Belen OMne/a.
There Is no denying the fact that men, even
more than women, are less inclined to marriage
than formerly. Prudence enters more and more
Young people
into matrimonial calculations
where their fathers and mothers
wish to begin
_
left off. and when It Is out of ths question that
they should do so, hesitate to begin at all. Tbe
laboring classes may be ready and willing to we<!
as soon a» the man has accumulated the 89<i for
which department stores advertise to furnish a four room
fiat, but Edwin and Angelina rarely reach the pitch of de
votion which impels them to withdraw from the "swim"
and seek happiness In and for each other only, "the world
forgetting, by the world forgot.”
"Certainly, I want to get married." said a society belle.
“I am 27. which I think Is old enough for a young matron;
and a married woman has so many more privileges than a
girl. I would like to help and to share In my busband’s sue
cesses; besides, I positively adore children. But It Is so
difficult to find the right sort of man to marry. In the
first place, be must have at least »5,000 a year. If 1 were
really In love, I would I ms willing to risk marrying on that,
but on less, never! And so few marriageable men have
even so much. 1 wonder why It is that all the nice men are
poor! Where did you meet your husband?”
Even though a man be possessed of what old fashioned
folk were wont to count a fair competence, he is apt to
think many times before he asks a woman who has been
brought up In luxury to share It with him; to Hve. perhaps.
In a flat and manage with one maid of all work. Usually
he does not ask. and by the time bls fortune is made, he Is
wedded to club life and bachelorhood, and has lost all
Inclination for matrimony.
Kometfmes Edwin forgets himself, and Angelina finds
that she shares hla passion. Then cornea the struggle be- EXTENSION OF THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE.
tween love and worldly wisdom. Perhaps they turn their
Hr J. Frantlla Hort, Jutttct ot Supreme Court of Seo Jerter.
backs upon the leeks and fl«u>bpots of society, and go out
Up ‘to this time, so far as I know, no State
Into the wilderness of poverty. Then comes the test of
has applied the Indeterminate sentence to persons
character, as well as of affection, and. while some fall by
confined In all of its penal Institutions. Given
the wayside, there tie other» who attain the promised Land,
the right conditions and an Impartial, non-parti
which Is far better than that which they left, and live to
san tribunal to control discharges, I would favor
enjoy the n-sults of their courage, meanwhile proving that a
Its application to all offenders. 1 would go still a
dinner of herbs, and love therewith. Is better than roast
step farther. 1 would have neither the minimum
CARDINAL
VAUGHAN’S SUCCESSOR, meats flavored with discontentment.
nor the maximum term fixed by statute, and,
possibly, not by the sentencing court. The proper
Bishop Bourne, wlio will probably
way to cure those who are really criminals is as you cure
succeed Cardinal Vaughan as Arch WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.
other diseased persons- namely: keep them under treatment
By Dr. HerOlnunU Broun, Vnlrersltr ot Strossburg.
bishop of Westminster. Ixindon. Is tha
Wireless telegraphy Is most easily understood until they are cured, or so nearly that they may be dis
youngest retnlier of tbe English hier-
by following Its historical development. Mar- charged.
arcliy, being 42.
coni'* first attempts In 1896-97, resulting In the
The state has as much right to protect Itself from the
He was born In London and edu-
sending of ni« usages seven miles. Involved no ah- criminal as from the dangerous insane. A confirmed crim
rated at the historlcal Catholic
solutely new principle, but were only a practical inal should not be permitted to perpetuate his species, to
schools of I'sliaw. Ware. St. Sulplce,
appliestIon of Hertz’s discoveries, made several contaminate hfs fellows, or to go abroad while his moral
Faria and the Catholic University, of
years before. Hertz first produced rapid electri nature, Irresistibly or pervertedly, leads to depredations
Ixiuraln. Ordained in 1884, his first
cal
oscillation*, anil showed that they traveled upon society. Such a one should be confined until cured,
appointment was na rector of South-
through space with the speed of light, according or apparently cured, and then only discharged, under
i to Maxwell's theory, and reappeare«! as electrical oscilla parole, with power to retake him upon a relapse Into crime.
tions and sparks In suitably arrange») conductors at a dts-
A board of managers of a penal Institution Is not al
| tance. He also proved that the eh*ctrb-al ether waves, like ways the safest body with which to leave the liberty of the
light waves, could be reflected and focused by concave prisoner. I would require all applications for release, be
metal mirrors. Starting with waves twenty feet long (In fore expiration of term, to come through them, but If they
air) and os<-lllatlng fifty million times a «econd, he worked refused to permit an application for parole after a reason
down to waves one-tenth as long and ten times as rapid. able term of service that the court might consider It, I
I Next Professor Right, of Bologna, by mean» of his "oscllln would give the prisoner the right of review and of a hear
tor,” produced waves »«> short that be could repeat Hertz’s ing before the discharge court. This court could be com
experiments on a lecture table. The oscillator consists of posed of a Judge, designated by the Governor, and of the
two metal balls placed between the terminals of an Induc several wardens of the penal Institutions of the State or a
tion coll. When the coll la worked sparks pass between majority of them. The Judge should be president of the
the balla and au electrical oscillation Is set up within them court, and no prisoner, once discharged, should be re
which produces ether waves whose letigtn Is nenrly proper manded, except upon the order of the president of the di»-
tlonal to the size of tihe balls.
.
charge court, ma«te upon vertne«! facts duly presented, and
Of the present stat«* of wireless telegraphy, omitting filed as a matter of public record.
uro
wtm. when adversity Carne upon * beili.
threw off their < oats and prhle and are
working at Jobs they used to g.ve AS
favole to oUlt-i uiru.
attempts to bridge the ocean, ft may be said that t
po
.Ibis by comparatively simple means to »end tuessages n o
than a hundred miles, and that communication 1» eaaier
over water than over laud.
Recently wireless messages have been sent to an
moving trains on the Berlin I»-«) military road It to not
probable that perfect secrecy ever will be attain -
message Is, so to speak, trumpeted out to the world, an
who have ears may hear It. And these ears-the rec*lv*^'
If not already In tune may be attuned without
culty. 1 Indeed,
------- - by the uso of a sensitive microphone con
■
The waves
tact, any message may be read without tuning,
may perhaps be confine«! to a definite direction by m tror,
and lenses, but It will be long liefere
before they can thus be
kept together as well a. the beam of a flashlight, an.l even
that seattera widely. Dr. Zenneck has proved that a sec
ond vertical wire a. long as the sending wire, erected near
It and connected to earth. Intercepts tbe waves and bene«
prevent« them from reaching distant stations In that dlree
tlon, and I have found that two receiving wires receive
signal» only when their plane nearly coincides with the
direction of the incoming waves. In this way the bearing
of the sending station can be determined to within ten
glegrees -a result of special Importance for nautical and
military purposes.
An International congress for the regulation and unlfi
cation of wireless telegraphy Is soon to be held. Among
the subjects which should be considered. In my opinion,
are the compulsory exchange and forwarding of messages
by stations and ships having apparatus, the feasibility ot
regulating tbe wave lengths used, and the prohibition of
powerful stations covering great distance« spanned by
ordinary telegraph, except where they do not Interfere with
the proper and peculiar use of wlreleaa telegraphy In Its
legitimate field.
-loceaan Seminary, and for his
«*• here was mimed domestic
. .tie to Leo MIL In 1HW5. In l.KMJ
I he was created Titular Bishop of Epl-
plianln and Coadjutor Bishop of
Southwark, succeeding Bishop Brett
In tlie following year.
Hr. Bourne Is neither a great preach
er nor u great scholar, but ns an Or
ganiser lie Ims no equal among the
English Catholic Bishops, lie Is an
authority on educational questions.and
Ills great tact and skillful handling of
questions of tlie hour have gained
well earned popularity both with
gliah Catholics and at Rome.
Consumption I» hs unmvesnary a.
smallpox. We live In a vitiated a r at
home. We breathe fi ul, dirty, ¡ mi I soiks I
air abroad and the laaelilu» attacks us
in our weakened stale We crii pre-
vent any disease almoat, tbough there
are few that we can coinph’tely cure
We have leurix-«! tu avold thè »aniiary
• Ins of our anceators, bui we bave
other sbortcomlngs Just ns bad. We
ha ve Hot jet correcled thè hahlt of
dying frolli «list a-e. aeeldetit ani «ite. - ex|H‘rlence which tbe New
work.
describes. Tbe man trietl
the links curly. when no one
It takes a man with wonderful self- to wltm-HS hie lin k of skill,
control to look sad In a poker game followed him to the tee, mid offered
when he knows he can't possibly lose. to go round with him for fifty cents.
Bacteria are no respecter» of places
“Never mind, son. I’ll get along.”
or persona; they go wherever they find
With that ho made a magnificent
a thoroughfare and a waiting vehicle.
• wing at the ball and missed it by a
One of uature’s unending tasks, at
foot.
which she Is busy every minute in
"Ray. mister." said the caddie. "I'll
the year. Is the filtering of water for
go round with you for a quarter.”
human use. When she has enough of
Tbe player declined and tried to look
tbe right sort of sandy soil and time
self posseaseil. II«* made another swing
enough she makes a thoiough Job of
at the ball and missed It again.
It. When she hasn't, the fever gerfiis
"Say. mister." said th«* ls>y, "I’ll go
lurk In the old oaken bucket and lie
with
you for fifteen cents."
in wait behind the faucet.
By that time the man was "rattled,"
ami struck at the ball three times.
The ministry seams to be losing Its The l-oy, who had retreated seflne dis
attractions for young men. The ¡-ay
tance, call«*d:
of clergymen Is lietter than It once
•’Won’t you take me for nothing?
was, though In many Instances it la
I'll go round for th«» fun of It."
very small yet. The churches are
finer, but coni|»aratlvely fewer people
Green Turtles of Florida.
atteud them. The simple days of old-
The green turtles of southern Florida
fashioned faith and primitive Ideas live in deep water and feed on sea
have passed. The puritan period lias plants, mostly the kind called "turtle
vanished. Whether it lie science or grass," which they cut off near the
commercialism or liberalism or educa roots, eating the lower parta and leav
tion or the freer exercise of thought, Ing the tops floating so tliat It collecta
any of these or all of these that have In great fields and marks the apota
Influenced religious thought and con where the animals are to be hunted
duct, there has been a change within for by the fishermen. After browsing
the church and without.
on such ocean pastures the green tur
tles go to tlie mouths of rivers for
R«*turnlng to this country on an En bathe of fresh water, which they seem
gllsli ship, an American traveler was to need from time to time The Flor
mortified by the lack of familiarity Ida fishermen nay the reptiles eater
with the won!» of "America" which tbe creeks and roll together In inaaaee
his countrymen showed. The captain of graaa. cementing them Into balla
rea<1 service on Sunday, and at th» with clay. When tbe turn of the tide
close announced "America" as the takes the balls out to sea they follow
hymn to l>e sung
Tbe first stanxa them. The flshen.ien watch for such
was sung with fFrror. Weaker In vol Italia floating down the creeks. and
nme was the second, and the third when they see them they stretch neta
stanza Is-gsn with the supjsirt of two across the mouths of the streams and
or three vol« rs, and at the end the always catch tbe turtlea.
organ alone was doing Its duty, 'on
A <'<>n«l«!crate Ho«t»an<t.
the oihtw hand, “God Sate the King"
"Do you really think I have appen
was reiKlere«! with contldent power by
a handfnl of Englishmen, wlw knew dicitis?' »aid Mr. Meekton.
"I must confess that I bare fears in
their national anthem perfectly.
that direction.'’
"Well, there's one comfort, anyhow.
Rome figures hare just l-eeti Is. urti
entering tbe growth of electric rail It'll be something for my wife to brag
road« In the I'ulte«! States. They are about to the nelghtior»." Washington
»■toundlug. Tbe Increase In twelve mar
years lias lieen 1771*4 per cent. In
Women do not wear corset* because
IM»' there were 8.128 miles of single the men oppose them, but because of
tra k In the various system*. Now tlie enloymcnt they ex¡«crieuce every
tlx Unsi i. "VAîr tuiles, «nd roads by ii glit In taking them off.
PINLESS CLOTHESLINE.
Wire Snp piled with Clasping
lllneks
at Keaular Intervals.
A new clothespin has been Invented.
It consist» of two strands of stout
wire twisted together ami supplied at
regular intervals with wooden pieces
so shaped as to facilitate the thrusting
between them of portions of the piece
of clothing which it is desired to ex-
HOW IT WORKS.
pose to the action of the sun nnd air.
Tbe manner of placing these clasping
blocks Is shown In the smaller one of
the cuts and It will lie readily seen
that there Is a constant tension which
la entirely sufficient to hold the ma
terlal or garment Hfter It has been
properly placed between the two parts.
In order to further Increase thia ten
sion ft la contemplated that a strong
spring shall be Inserted along the line,
preferably near one of the posts sup
porting It. The blocks being of wood
and the material being held from the
wire by the number of these blocks
scattered along Its length. It will be
seen that there Is no danger of
clothing being stained or soiled
contact with the metal.
liar and almost fatal accident which
occurred In New York City, In which
a man was nearly suffocated In a
sound-proof telephone booth, requiring
fifteen minutes of hard work on ths
part of the physician« to restore hint
to consciousness. All because the lock
would not respond when the man at
tempted to open the door after using
the telephone. Thus one of the con
veniences installed by the telephone
company to Insure privacy of conversa
tion for its patrons nearly killed the
man taking advantage of it. No bet
ter argument than the alsive incident
Is needed to aid in the Introduction of
the Invention shown In the picture,
which Is Intended to fulfill exactly the
same purpose as the more expensive
telephone booth. This attachment for
the phone Is practically of the same
»hnpe as the mouthpiece itself, but is
of sufficient size to Inclose the Litter
and fasten on the metallic plate at the
rear. Between the plate anil the .«».«-e
guard a sound muffling ring Is Inter
posed. which effectually prevents any
escape of the voice nt the rear, while
the aperture In front Is of such shape
that it fits snugly against the face of
the person using the Instrument. Thus
the voice Is Inclosed In the sound-proof
tube. *nnd only the central nffi-e or per-
NOTED SOUTHERN ENTERTAINER
Mrs.
Falrfsv, Member of a Famona
Ante* Helltim Family.
The moat noted entertainer In the
South la Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fair
fax. whoae parties at her home. Green
way Court, Va.,
are ths delight not
only of •»«'let;
there but also of
the select circles
of
Washington
Mrs Fairfax comes
of one of the most
prominent ants
l-ellum
families.
Her granduncle
was Gen. Jubal
Anderson Early, of
the Confederate
army The Early family Is descende«!
from the tamoua English families of
Sir Nichol*» Salter and Sir Humphry
W red, who was l ord Mayor of London
In 1-»» Her great grandfather. John
Clayton, who emigrated and estab
lished the family In America, was At
torney General of Virginia from 1706
to 1737 Her hueband la a mem tier of
tbe well known Scotch Fairfax family
of Virginia, and la third In line of Bue
evasion t» the title. Ixvrd Fairfag.
I BI' ACT OF COX'MSATIOH.
•on connected with the phone In quea
tlon can hear the conversation. This
device is simple tn construction and
■■an be easily attached to the lnstm.
meats now tn use
William J Dunlhue. of Jamestown
N. “
T . la the inventor.
the little high chair .
Incident Which Tnnched the Heart of
th« AncllonMr,
There was au auction sale at one of
the downtown auction houses recent
ly
A pale, sad-faced woman, hi a
plain calico gown, stood tn a crowd.
Tbe loud-eok-ed auctioneer Anally
tame to a lot of plain and somewhat
worn furniture. It had belonged to
tbe ¡Mile woman, and waa being »old to
satisfy the mortgage on It. One by
«Hie tbe article« were sold, the old bu
reau to one. the easy rocker to anoth
er. and a bedstead to a third. Finally.
•ays Adelaide Kane tn The Oaks, the
auctioneer hauled out a child's high
chair. It was old and rickety, and a«
Telephnae Voice Gaard.
tbe auctioneer held It up. everybody
leas than two week* ago the news laughed everybody excepting tbe pale-
paper* publlehed the »tory of a peeu faced woman. A tear trickled down
The escape of thirteen desperate con
victs from Folsom peuitentiary. near
Sacramento, Cal., brought that some
what noted Western penal institution
unpleasantly before tbe public. It is
the must remarkable place of its kind
tu the world In that, while confining
hundreds of daring men, there la no
wall around it. in thia respect it 1»
unique among such Institution».
Memories of the eventful days when
Charles Aull was warden of Folsom
prison have been recalled by the re
cent escape of convict« from tbe insti
tution. Aull was one of the most pic
turesque characters developed In the
rough and ready life in California In
tbe years following tbe gold discover
ies. He was the man who plauned
and perfected the unique guarding of
the Folsom prisoners, and It was bls
proud boast that In tbe twenty-five
years be was warden not a man es
caped.
A small graveyard standing outside
the gray sides of the prison gave Aull
his chance to boast like this. No pris
oner ever escaped because Aull’»
guards shot any man who tried to tlee.
Aull was a splendid marksman, and
be demanded of his guards the same
skill with firearms. Every week he
held a shooting contest, and If any
man fell below a percentage of 85
twice In succession be was taken from
the watch towers and put to work as
turnkey until be had risen to the de
sired standard again.
quantity of ammunition, n —«
the lot into a covered w»B ,*
tbe dead of night he left t’e***> *•
came within a few mile»
'.i’ He
on before daybreak and hid in ’
wood during tbe day. u- * IiiP»
night he had hidden the ria* “*
cartridges at the spot In the
**>
he and Sontag had agre«i * ’
N.M .1.,
made. At midday. as f
** »U
were marching past the guilr ,’
ner, they suddenly broke rank?
seized the few guard. marci)1
iride them. In a few
were hidden In the gully out
of the Gatlings, which had
pop the moment they overpower i ”
guard«. Armed with the rifle, J,?
Fredericks the convicts were
Ing to fight their way out of theT^
when a small door openwl In th.V?
of an Ice house at the head „f"?
gully. None of the renvlct, n,x,^
the door until a Gatling gUU be- *
pour lead In a stream out of tbe ”
Ing. The convict, were panl«-.^
en. They threw down their rifle, .T.
knelt on the ground and .honied t
mercy. The Gatling was worked m
thirty seconds.
When the flr1
ceased only a few of the men
left unhurt.
”*
The seven dead men were «tried
to the prison and were laid naked s
a row on a long deal table. One a,»
had been struck by fifteen buiw,
When the light had been subdued u
make the wounds show more Hetrl,
against the white .kin the conn«,
were filed slowly past the table Abou-
1.500 men were In the prisou and tu
procession was kept up until the lut
one had passed the bodies.
Aull had an original method
marking men who ha«l tried and fal|.
ed to escape. He clothed them tn red
shirts, and his guard» were Instructed
to shoot for these shirt. If any effort
was made to brenk away. Not until
every man wearing a red shirt bad
FOL3OM PENITENTIARY, NEAR SACRAMENTO, CAL.
When Aull took charge of Folsom been shot down in a fleeing group
he found a huge pile of buildings were the guards to tire on the other
standing In a rocky amphitheater close convicts.
He made the discipline so exact that
to the American river. The prison
grounds covered 486 acre«, mostly fill It was impossible for a man to et-
ed with quarries of the finest lime cape. In the last few years of bls
service attempts to gain freedom grev
stone.
It had been planned to build walls less and less. Finally the prisoners
around the prison, but Aull advised gave It up as a bad Job. They de
against this. He argued that a wall cided It was better to work out their
would be useless, as the convicts sentences, or to hope for a reprieve
her cheek. The auctioneer saw It and would have to go outside to get to the In tbe case of a life sentence, than to
somehow a lump seemed to come up quarries. The prison was left as it feel the bite of the frowning Gat
In his throat, and his gruff voice grew was built, but Aull took steps to keep lings.
soft. He remembered a little hlgli- the convicts from escaping. He built
And yet, with all the precautions be
chalr at home, and how It had once ten towers at different point« In the took, Ault was liked by the majority
filled his life with sunshine. It was prison grounds and In them placed of his prisoners. He treated them
empty now. The baby laugh, the two Gatling guns. The guns swept every justly, and they recognised thia. He
little hands that were once held out to part of the grounds, and also a quar- was tireless In his efforts to obtain
greet "papa" from that high chair were ter of a mile of territory surroundlng lietter food and better clothing for
tone forever. He saw the pale faced the prison reservation.
the men. He did not work them hard
woman’s piteous looks, and knew what
The towers were built by convict». In the quarries and he gave them fre
It meant, knew that in her eye the lit Aull placed double guards over dif quent relaxation. Tie Interested him
tle rickety high-chalr was more pre ferent bodies of the prisoners while self In them personally, and many ht
cious than If it had been made of gold they luillt the foundations of solid helped after they had gone back Inta
and studded with diamonds. In Imagi stone and the superstructures of wood the world. He raised the standard
nation he could see the little dimpled nnd Iron. He made the convicts raise for prison fare and living In Califor
cherub which It once held, could sec the Gatling guns to their platforms In nia. and the convicts expressed tot
the chubby little list grasping the tin the little galleries of the towers, and row when he gave up the post, du
rattle-box and pounding the chair full every detail of the work of defense, years ago.
of nicks; could see the little feet which or rather offense, he let tbe prisoners
The World's Wealth.
hud rubbed tbe paint off of the legs; become acquainted with. Aull said
A writer In one of the recent nW-
could hear the crowing and laughing there was nothing to conceal. He
In glee- and now. the little hlgh-elialr wanted the men to know that extraor zines gives some Interesting fact, con
was empty. He knew there was a dull dinary precautions had been taken to cerning fhe distribution of the world'«
ache In the pale-faced woman's heart; keep them under control, and he was wealth among the different nattoni.
there was in his own. Somehow the Interested In having the convicts car The total wealth of the world Is rou»l>-
day may come and go. but you never ry the boxes of ammunition from wag ly estimated at <41)0.000.000,«X). Of tk*
sum the larger ¡»art Is owned !>!
get over It. There is no one to dress ons Into the towers.
Americans and Europeans, the Initsd
In the morning, no one to put to bed at
AULL’S CEMETERY.
State«' share being In the ndgblcr
night. "Don’t laugh!" said the auc-
Every prisoner that arrived In Fol
tloneer. softly, ns somebody facetious som got a little lecture by the warden. hood of »100.000,<>00,0)0—about oM*
ly offered ten cents, “many of yon
r“ Aull would meet the new arrlvel with fourth of the whole. Tbe wealth •'
the L’nlted Kingdom, combining
have little empty high chairs at home a hearty handshake and a smile.
shares of England. Scotland and 1*
which money would not tempt you to
"Now, my man,” he would "ay,
pnrt with." Then he handed the clerk "there Is no bread and water hJre. land, Is estimated at £1
a bill out of his own pocket, and re You will get good food and plenty of a little less than »60,000.000,01». nuk
marked: “Sold to the lady over there," it. And If you don’t try to run off and ing Great Britain the richest of Euro
and as the pale-faced woman walked are good-natured, you will get the best pean nations. France come«, n^*
out with the little high chair clasped of treatment, We are easy on the with property amounting to J486’
000.000 In our money. Germany’s por
In her arms, and tears streaming flown boys here as long a« they behave
tion Is al-out »4O.000.000.000 and Bu»
her cheeks the crowd stood back re themselves.
sla’s »32,0(X).000.0(».
spectfully. and there was a suspicious
"Y’ou see we have no walla around
moisture In the eyes of the mail who this prison, but you will also observe
Household Servant« in Fr«»ce-
had bid ten cents.
Even the many privileges exp« *
i those towers. The convicts you will
tnlugle with In the quarries will tell by tbe modern English domestic *r
A Lona-Felt Want.
vant are exceeded by those enjef*4
you what those are for.”
Dr. Holmes had an odd liking for
A» he came near the end of hla lec by th* servants of Fram e, who
Ingenious desk accessories In the way
ture Aull would signal with his hand perhaps on terms of greater fanill!« J
of pencil-sharpeners. ¡>aper welghta.
for the convict to follow him. and, with their employers than are the •*
penholders, etc. The latest contriv-
chatting continually, he would lead rants of any other country u
ances In this fashion — pmbably
him through the graveyard. In an world. What wouhl an English
dropped down to him by the Inventor
apparently casual way Aull would call tress think of being kissed <»n nc*
angling for a nibble of commendation attention to the white boards stand cheeks by her maid on returning -
—were always making one another's ing In close order at tbe tope of grass- a holiday or of a departing ••
acquaintance on bls study table. Hs covered graves. On nearly all of them not only kissing the mistress but > *
once said to me: "I’m waiting for the Inscription was alike, except for Ing to kiss the master? Only recen .
somebody to invent a mucilage brush the name«. Th* general form was:
a magistrate had to decide whether •
that you can’t by any chance put Into
breakage of crock’ery ha«l taken P ’
your Inkstand. It would save me fre
In the course of the bousema d . u».
JOHN BLANK
quent moments of humiliation.’’—Cen
duties, in which case the damsce co«*
t
tury.
not be deducted from her ««gc»
RHOT WHILE TRYING TO t
whether It took place In her
J
ESCAPE ON
New York's Milk Supply.
one of her weekly reception« ef . e
I
A million nnd a half quarts—that is
JULY 30, 1901
th* amouut of milk left daily at back
:
Corn fbr Cob Pipe’
doors, on dumbwaiters. In'tenement
One
of
Missouri's unique : Listi*«
In one corner of the
__ graveyard
halls, milk depots and «*orner grm-erles
Is
the
growing
of a kirni "t
n<**. A
for the Inhabitants of New York Noth Aull would stop and point’to
.J seven cob is specially adapteii f->-
graves.
They
were
dug
after
a
clever
I
1 aUlfJ
Ing tbe city eats or drinks is so <en
group of farmers n Lafaj*’
»A
_____
erely used as milk; nothtng else Is »o attempt to escape about ten years raise it exclusively. One r
dangerous If . arelessly handled fl few ago. Forty men were In the plot, and i ty-five acres produced . 1-'
gallons of b*.l milk can do more harm nearly all of those not killed were . corn worth 833'1. an«l ths
than a regiment of doct.*rs can rep*lr wounded.
| I19K Tbe average per a
While working «Me by side in the
and scatter disease and death en mgb
i Corn cob pipes are supp
the
Fredericks
an«l of alcotlne without lt-J
to put a whole community In mourn quarries. George
ing. Century
George Rontag plotted th. ewTipe smoker. Senator Cockn
They discovers«! that a narrow gully . p'pe Is one of the traditi tis ,f
You offra read of “**
the steel snter- near the quarry was not swept by the campaigns.
Ing her heart." but the only stesi a Gstllngs and that it offered a chance
fit«
woman actually baa trouble with Is In
No man is •• socce*fnl
•r escape. Frederick, was release«!
,s ',lf'
her corset
’tlons with other women
•non after this discovery.
A few flay, after he reached Raeva | imagines.
Rome pe-pie never seek religion na
ii««!
Rome people have «
lung as there la a dollar la sight.
fn>" ,h* pr’'°*'
i'vug.it forty rifle» and a large prld% and nothing back of *