WATÒH YOUR
ELECTRIC ARC M ELTS S T E E L
M «|l M m n H it» Produced by Man
* la Prog• the Carbon Plant#
Tha moot intense b**at produced by
nan la that o f tli* electric are. aad tha
possibilities of its epplkatiua ut ra
rioua branch«# of American loduatry
have only bagno to be rail Iliad Lika
many other useful scientific aetata, the
electric arc baa been adopted by the
burglar. There is ao.eaft known that
will not yield to the electric carbon ap
plied by tbe skUled “*af# cracker."
▲aide from lighting, tha moot useful
pnrpoee to which tbe electric an- baa
beta P «t ie to tbe mending o f broken
or cracked castings and metal parta of
ail kinds. ▲ broken abaft, ftor Instance,
can be resurrected from the Jaak heap
If a skilled workman, with adequate
arc apparatus. Ip gteen a chance at h.
Moreover, a broken metal ptaea repair
ed by tbe electric arc is aa serviceable
aa when new. la fact strain teats
cleaning bad plugging the cut or bolt made apon repaired caattnga often re
will add thoimMNlif or mflas to the Ufa ach lb breakage et a different point
o f tha tint? Tha Inexperienced motor than where tbe repair waa made
ist can fo ltt an conception o f thsnsdL
asm with which mad. sand aad watsr
can enter the slight opening la the afir-
face o f tbe tire and by gradually work
ing its way "under tha akin" wfll toad
to separate tha tread from tim outer
layer o f canvas. •»
In a few hundred or theusaad miles
this tread will be banging In Sapping
shreds, worth no more than aa Brack
old robber, sod la order to be reclaim
ed the tiro most be retreaded or need
EXHAUSTING A SUBJECT.
la connection with one o f tha several
detachable treads oa the market—H.
A Batirlos! Hint to Both Yeung and
W . Slauson. M. E-. In Leslie *
Old Writers.
Writers sboold early toara out to try
to exhaust a subject If there la oae
thing shove another thing tbst s sub
•earn interesting Foots About This
Curious Body a# Water;
For a number o f years many parsons tsnL la every other way aobjecta are
have declared tbe Dead sea. In Pales amiable and tractable. . 4^4
If yon go at a subject in the right
tine. Is dimlnlMhing. bat a recent care
fu l survey by experts baa established spirit you can say nearly anything yon
beyond all doubt that tbe «oa to etaadi wish about It. bat Immediately yon UT
to gat a rope around a subject's neck
aad chase It around-a ring until It to
absolutely used up tha said subject
takes on a dry. dogged, stubborn sp
end refuses to be interesting, and of
coarse s writer who cannot kasp hto
subject ItUeresting to lost.
Think o f the moat uninteresting
books yba over read. They worn writ
ten. by men who quite evidently sat
sin« and marble are found in vaat qnan
titles, and exports are o f the oplaton
there to a great deposit o f petroleum
beneath tbe vast body of water __ .
A man’s body to lighter than tbe
amount e f water it displaces, aad it to
therefore Impoesiblc for a person to
crashing bis band between It and tha
masonry. When, oa a signal batog giv .
en. another diver came down ha fused
bis unfortunate comrade Imprisoned
under water without hope o f aaraps.
After a few moments o f mute despair
and harrowing aacortataty a speech
lees decision was arrived at. aod tbe
newcomer proceeded with chisel aad
When a Deg Cheka*
Dogs frequently choke. A bone, a ,tuunmer to hack off bis unhappy com
nail or a place o f tin gets to tbe throat
aad there to great danger of death be
fore tbe arrival o f tbe surgeon Many
of. them do die. bat there to no reason
for this, for It to easy, without tbe
slightest danger o f getting bitten, to
pat tbe band In thJ mouth o f a dog
aad to draw oat or pash down tbe ob
Disagreeable Persona.
struction that to choking It A bandage
When 1 aae a disagreeable parson
—a handkerchief or towel wfll do—to
approaching I walk away. I don't
paaesd between the teeth aad over tha
trait until he gets started. Tbe must
npper jaw . sod to a similar way anoth
disagreeable people, when they ap
er bandage to pained between the teeth
proach. say a few agreeable things to
and over tbe under jaw One person,
begin with: then is the time for disap
bolding the ends of These two band
pearing- It’s no one to argue with dis
ages. keeps tbe dog's month .wide open.
agreeable people, i f they could help
A second person can than with perfect
It they would. Possibly they regard
asm and safety pot hto Angers dawn
the annoying thing* they aay as criti
tbe animal's throat aad relieve It
cism: every one likes tv think o f him
An OM Bachi
“I ’m going to be manti
“ How old are y o u r
“ Eighteen "
“ Tan’ll surprise people.
M m Qwtaey Adama. Our girth Promt-
. dent» Was One ef Them.
"
There bea been no American byma
writer to com paif with Iaeec Watte or
Charles Wesley, both o f whom i
hundreds o f hymns which bava ha
classic, but several Americans
__ __
self as a critic Tha only complete an
swer to a disagreeable person to flight
or a fight, and no oat cams to be
mussed up constantly by fightings—Bd
H o#a ln Now York Independent
FA TA U TY IN A WORD.
Why Prance Changed the N
-LHs Saving S e lf
A vieid illusu utlon of tbe power of
ure words over human beluga was
!)' e brought to tbe attention of French
w>|ile by Pranctoqne Surrey.
After the wreck of tbe Bourgogne
isuy passengers were found floe ting
ruwued •***» Ufe preservers on. These
ie preservers were fastened upon tbe
xlles.- but round tbe middle instead
' under the arms, and tbe greater
eight o f tbe npper pert of the body
id tipped the bead under water and
the person o f coarse was Inevitably
drowned.
Now it appears that tbe greater num
» f the persons so drowned were
Tbe Longfellow brother*. Henry W
and Stephen, both wrote some good
hymns. Francis Scott Key. author o f
I ^ * * “ ? * term tor Ufe S T
“ "**? * " * *
J
,w° * ceintar*
Ward Beecher, and U n . Van Atotyne
(Fanny Crashyi. who wrote more
hymns than any o f the others above
named.—Philadelphia Press.
EXTRAVAGANT EUGENIE.
ANCIENT POSTAL SERVICE
g ta t ad their grandmother* were able
to be at comparatively small cost
Bat, then, those were the days when
an elaborate ball gown consisted of
yards o f flonneen o f tarlatan or some
other light and uncostly material.
Empress Eugenie It is said, declared
abe never wore the same gown tw ite
She it Waa. by tbe way. who mad#
Worth, thè renowned Paris couturier,
famous. The groat luxury la thorn
days was to wear several ball gowns
daring the course of a single belt
Dressing rooms were provided, and the
ladles retired to reappear resplendent
and aa fresh as at the beginning of
tbe evening. Tbe gbwu* of tbe day.
evening’s wear: befief these wasteful
ways.
Thera to a tale o f tbe lovely Bmptsaa
Elisabeth o f Austria which racotmts
bar appearing at a function in a white
tulle gown, flounced and ample, deco
rated with garlands of real camellias,
and changing both gown and camellias
every now mid then to preserve the
impression o f abeoiote and uncrumpled
Ban ara drying np.
^ *
A survey of tbe wonderful region of
years affo shows islands that ara now
gone It to declared theqe ara covered
Thera W ao much eolia mattar in the
water that It asakas about one-fifth, or
98 por cent, o f tha matter solid. It to
oo intensely salt andbltter that no crea
The Holland Primrose.
There to a plant In Holland known
as the evening primrose, which grows
to a bright o f five or six foot and boars
a profusion o f targe yellow flowers, so
brilltont that they attract Immediate
attention, even at a great distance, but
the chief peculiarity about the plant to
the fact that tbe flowers, which open
just before sunset buret Into bloom so
suddenly that they give one the Im
pression o f some magical agency. A
man who has seen this sadden bio am-
tog says It Is just as If some one had
touched the land with a wand and than
covered It all at once with • a go Idas
AMERICAN HYMN WRITER!
A German scientific joornal publish
ed in 1887 a story to the effect that a
golden eagle shot to that year at Be-
seg. Slavonia, eras found to have a
ring about its neck engraved on which
were tbe hrms o f a Slavonian family
and tbe date 1846
,
la 17B8 the Gentleman’s Magastoe
told abput a hawk, captured when fly-
tog to the vicinity o f tbe Cape o f Good
Hope and taken by aa Indian ship to
England, which wore a gold collar to
scribed:
"This goodlto hawk doth belong to
bis Most Excellent Majesty Jamas.
King o f England. A. D.. 1610.”
I f this bird really escaped from Eng
land In tha reign o f James 188 years
elapsed between Its escape and Its re
capture. and it bad flown a distance of
KfiOO miles away from Its former
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One should boor to mind that the
kitchen la the engine room o f the homo,
and the comfort and happiness of the
family depend upon its running smooth
ly and welL Lack of system. Inade
quate equipment. inconvenient arrange
meat o f furniture and utensils and tha
total absence o f beauty and cheer are
tha things that make drudgery of
housework. Servants are as suscepti
ble to surroundings as their mistresses,
and the little aids to housework, such
as cheerful aspect and pretty furnish-
toga, do much to secure a more loyal
Interest and co-operation. A harmoni
ous environment to a kitchen -will go
a long way toward making N happy
home. — Harriet Sisson Gllleapto In
Mother’s Magastoe.
And Its Cenneetien With the Awslent
Euekerian Language.
Yon all know about tbe Charter oak.
that tree that figured in tbe light for
Independence o f the American colonies,
end • perhaps you bare beard o f other
trees with national significance.
Did yon aver bear of tbe sacred tree
o f Spain and tbe meane by which It to
perpetuated? It stands close to tha
.town o f Guernica, la Biscay, aad nndar
Its spreading foliage tbe general jun
tas are inaugurated. Several centu
ries ago. when Spain waa a loosely
tied bundle o f more or less independent
states, tbe lords o f Biscay took their
oatb under one o f the parents o f this
same tree, where a stone beach was
provided for their use. aa symbolic of
tbe enduring solidity o f their reign
In some respects tbe tree shows a deep
er symbolism than to to be found fa
tbe bench of hewn stone, for both tbe
family dignity and the Euskarian lan
guage ere banded from father to son.
In -that Isolated region a form o f
speech that la utterly different from
both' Freqch and Spanish baa been
maintained since the beginnings o f Ba
rb father
ropean civilisation because
made it hto business to Instill Into bis
eldest eon the Idea that It was hto
duty to perpetuate hto language and
tbe peculiar institutions of bis race.
Tbe tree o f the Basques is one o f the
hardiest o f all tbe hardy things to be
found around tbe bay o f Biscay and
tbe Pyrenees mountain*. The one that
to now standing was taken from the
parent tree in 1780 and bad been grow
ing for thirty years when its 800-year-
old progenitor succumbed to age said a
bard windstorm. Another shoot was
started from this one forty yearn age.
—^t- Louls g lptir. Democrat -----------
The Old Persian end Reman System of
Courtere on Horseback.
CHINESE LETTER CARRIERS.
While the Homan postal service of
ancient days, waa, of coarse, a erode
system, yet tbe malls were forwarded
with considerable speed. The system
How many of our own postmen
of couriers on horseback was borrow would care to transfer their services to
ad from the Persians, who, according the Chinese post office?
to Xenophon, bad established It under
To get into the postal service in Chi
■Cyrus. The Homan adaptation e f this
was the beat system of transmitting
totters among tbe ancient».
All along tbe greet Roman roods sta
dons were erected at distances o f five
or six miles from one another. At
oach o f these stations forty horses
were constantly maintained, and by
le help o f relays it was easy to travel la a trij^ of this
tow. and a very beevy fine to imposed
for any uaneròsaary delay.
Thè would be postman must repeat Labor Conrawa M ................ O. P. (fai
these tripe at night, and tr be listens
to tbe bed spirit, thereby falling to ap
B-A».............
pear at tbe required time h ta specified
tosco be to sure to lose hto chance of
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Private citisene were obliffsd to re
sort to the services of slaves, and It
was not until the end o f the third cen
tury that there was an establishment
o f a postai system for private person*
by the Emperor Diocletian, but how
long this system endured history does
not Inforni us.
The supply o f horses and their main- '
tens nee was compulsory, and only the
emperor could grant exemption from
It.—Washington Star.
Weakness of the Orest.
The two greatest men who appear to
"Julius Caesai " —namely. CaenTh lm
self and Cicero—are allotted but minor
parts in 8 hake« pea re’s play, and to
each with daring originality tbe drama
ttot has attributed a physical defect,
for the existence o f which history rap
piled him with no evidence.' Caesar,
for Instance, confesses to deafness,
bidding Antouy-
"Come on my right hand, for this
ear to deaf. while Brutus "Speaks of
Cicero’s “ ferret and fiery eyes." as If
no one could fall to note them. Respect
for those two Immortals was no doubt
thus diminished, but by showing them
as not above human weaknesses Shake
speare made them more easily realised
—London Opinion.
Smiling at Breakfast.
One should always wear s smile at
breakfast I f you are In a good bnmor
at breakfast you will be merry and
bright all day. Tbe breakfast face Is
tbe most Important face to cultivate
The other faces take care of them
selves, for If tbe face Is pleasant and
easy to look upon In tbe morning It
w ill improve as the day goes on But
i f the breakfast face Is hard, scowl
ing and forbidding it becomes set in
its disagreeable form, and it takes
boon for it to smooth out Into s smile,
aad that smile Is of the sickly, half
hearted nature that only expands the
heart slightly. It Is worth trying.
club.’’
-T ell me about I t "
Net Qeed.Fer the Gander.
"W ell, last night a burglar got into
They Dent Like Baohatere.
The following sign to displayed to a
the house, and my ^ bus band knocked
I
la the Argentine republic If e man him senseless with a poker. I’ve beard cartate bathhouse:
engaged to marry hesitate* beyond a severe) men speak of him as a poker
"This Place la Closed at lqp m. Sun
reasonable time to leading bis fianca« expert Be has evidently been prac day feo Wa Can Go Home and Take Our
to tim s lu r he to heavily finad, and If a ticing at the club for just each an
resident o f the republic should fail to em ergen cy—J udga.
Which la very similar to tbe note a
marry ha la taxed until ha reaches tha
traveling man found on the door o f a
lunchroom to a small town:
age o f eighty.
“Gone Home to Dinner."—Indianspo
ha News.
The Largest Painting.
"Paradise." by Tintoretto, to the
largest painting In tbe world. It to
eighty-four feet wide and thirty-three
and a half feet high. It to now to the
Doge's palace. Venice.1
carefully guarding himself against a
blow from tbe heavy weights.—London
' Ancient Foot ball.
Uwvanily.......
Philip Stubbee wrote In 1683 to hto Agrirokwl Cel
hook on "The Anetomle o f Abuses:"
k i ___ i School.
"For as concerning football I pro- Bt ,
test unto you It may rather be called „
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a freendly kinde of fight than a play
o f recreation: e bloody and mnrthering
practice then a felowly sporte of |*as- j horn*............
tyme. For dooth not every one lye to Patoetiofy.....
weight for his Adveraerie. seeking to j Trawisg School
overthrow him and to picke him on hto SeUfe*’ Hoaw.
node, though it be on herd stones, so I
that by this meane* sometimes their [
backs, sometimes their legs, sometimes
their arms, sometimes one part thrust
out of Joynt, sometimes another; some j
Members of Legislature
times tbe noses gush out with blood, i S e w ............... W. T. Vioioa. McMwovO*
sometimes their eyes start out—fight nooM .,«,«»•.! • Le» ivnc nei Moot. scH w m ite
ing. brawling, contention, quarrel pick
Howe.........................F. P . O U * LaFejraO*
ing. murther. homicide and great effu
sion o f blood, aa experience dayly (
County O fficers
tetcheth."
.
CouUy Judge...... J. B. Dodo* McMwwnBe
Beethoven’s Fits ef R aff*
Beethoven’s behavior was often atro-
clous. In giving lessons to young la-
dies be would sometimes tear the
music to pieces and scatter it about the
floor or even smash tbe furniture.
Once when playing to company there
was some interruption. “ I play no
longer for such bogs?" be cried and
left the piano. He once celled Prince
Lobkowits an aas because a bassoon
player happened to be absent—Dole’s
“ Famous Composers."
Herns e f a Dilemma.
We apply the term “ horns of a di
lemma" to a situation to which a per
son is confronted by two opposite and
conflicting lines of conduct tbe advan
tages or disadvantages of which appear
to balance: hence the analogy to the
“horns” of an animal
Humility Net A ll
Humility is the part of wisdom and
to most becoming in men. But lot no
one discourage self reliance. It to of
aU tbe greatest quality o f "true manll
nee*—Loots Kossuth
.Wilbun Goaeien McMmnHe
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Office phono Black 108
Residence phone Red 79
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