f 1 Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report MM ABSOLUTELY PURE GAVE GRANT HIS START. Bow the Great Commander Went Back Into the Army. The Washington Post is authority for the statement that the late General Thomas' J. Pitcher gave General Grant his real start. They had been classmates t West Point At the opening of the sivil war Pitcher, then a captain, bad been sent to Springfield, Ills., to act as United States mustering officer. A Itranger entered his office one day, and Pitcher relates the following story of the interview : '"Yon don't seem to remember me, Toni, said the visitor. " 'No, I don't,' I said, 'but I've seen fon somewhere I know. ' " 'I'm Sam Grant,' he answered. "His beard bad so changed him that I did not know him, and then, you see, f had not seen him since 1849. - He sat down, and I said: 'Well, Sam, how does it happen that you are here?' "I came here,' he said, 'to get some thing to do. Can't you give me some thing, Tom?' k " 'Yes, I can,' said I. 'You know how to make out muster rolls?' " 'I should think so, ' said Grant, with the first smile seen on his face. " 'Well, I am allowed $100 per month and rations for a clerk. If you like, take that table over there and begin now. ' " ' A month later Pitcher walked into his office and handed his clerk an official envelope directed to "Colonel U. S. Grant" The clerk's face turned red, then pale. ' ' 4 "There's your chance, Sam," said Captain Pitcher. "I'll never forget this, Tom, never I" answered the other as he wiped some thing out of his eyes with his handker chief. Nor did he. Until Grant's death he was Pitcher's faithful friend and helper. It was always "Sam", and "Tom" be tween them. 1 DID HE LOVE BUT ONCEt Oratori Who Deliver Ealoa-tes Should ' Know All the Facta First. There are women in this advanced age of civilization who are ready to hinder the efforts of reformers to abolish the funeral pyre of the Hindoo. A memorial meeting was held a few days ago in honor - of a man who had been prominent in pnblio work. His former colleagues and intimate friends filled the large platform. Among them sat his widow, weeping silently under her crepe veil One after another the orators of the occasion, laid tributes of eloquence at the altar of his memory. One, more inspired and with a longer speech, than the rest, followed the his tory of his life from the time of his birth, "in the troublous days when all Europe was aghast at the sight of Na poleon striding over the ruins of empires to a universal throne. ' . "But the most important event of his life," he continued, "happened at a later date. It was at a fancy ball that he met, as he afterward said, the first and only love of his life". He was there disguised as a highlander. . "What?" he whispered as some one tugged at his coat, but getting no reply, he went on "And the lady of his choice was dressed" here there was an other tug "was dressed as a Turkish cigarette girl. After a short courtship they were married. " He then continued the eulogy of the youthful bride of the deceased in ex travagant terms. -When he sat down a neighbor orator whispered, " Yon forgot his widow. " "Oh, no, I didn't I gave her a good end off." V "Good heavensl" exclaimed the oth er. "This is his third wife!" New York Herald. . Corrosion of Metals by Water. The peculiar statement is made by M. Bauchier in Le Revue Maritime et Coloniale that corrosion of metals by water may be caused by the action of micro-organisms present in particular harbors, but absent in the ocean. It ap pears that the fact, as ascertained, of pure aluminium plates immersed in Norfolk Roads being badly corroded at the end of three months, while in France commercial aluminium subject ed to the same test was practically un touched, and two plates attached to the bottom of ship were uninjured after a voyage around the world1, led him to in vestigate the sea water from different places, with i the following results, as stated: 'introduced into boilers, the Mediterranean water, which contains more salt than the Atlantic water, f causes more damage ; so does the water taken from estuaries and near the shore, which contains a larger proportion of nitrates from fermenting organic mat ter. The destructive power of the shore water is much reduced, however, if it be sterilized by means of boiling. Hi Price. Father (who has given his consent) I hope, young man, that you know the value of the prize you will get in my daughter? Young Man Well er no, sir. I don't know the exact value, but, as near as I can find out, it's in the neighbor hood of 5,000. London Answers. , The hemlock plant grows wild in many countries, but it is strongest and most abundant in the active poisonous principle in Italy and Greece. It is a plant of ex ceedingly unpleasant odor, and all part are ooonidarad palsoneiia. ' Absinth. No intelligent person should have any doubt about absinth being a dangerous, insidious and subtle liquor. Whatever temporary service it may yield.subjoct to medical advice, the moment that neces sity ceases its further use is a cruel viola tiou of the laws of health and is not inapt to lead to the abandonment of common decency in appearance and deportment. The practical and scientific conclusions in regard to the use of absinth are summed up briefly in the statement that "the evil effects of drinking ab sinth are very apparent Frequent in toxication or moderate but steady tip pling utterly deranges the digestive sys tem, weakens the frame, induces horri ble dreams and hallucinations and may end in paralysis or in idiocy. Chambers says: "Absinth is a spirit flavored with the pounded leaves and flowering tops of certain species of ar temisia, chiefly wormwood, together with angelica root, sweet flag root, star anise and other aromatics. The aroroat ics are macerated for about eight days in alcohol and then distilled, the result being a green colored liquor. Adultera tion is largely practiced, usually with the essential oils of others herbs, but even blue vitriol is sometimes found in so called absinth. Its effect upon either man or woman not actively engaged in manual work of some kind must be dan gerous. It makes the brain dull and un reliable. , Under its effects the merest glimpses of mental sunshine are imme diately followed by prolonged periods of dejection. Sensible persons are safest if they never touch absinth." Brooklyn Eagle. ' People Who Look Orer Houses. "My duty is to show intending ten ants over the 'houses to let' which ap pear on our books," said a man employ ed by one of the great firms of land and bouse agents in London. "It might sur prise you to know that some people have a perfect craze for looking over houses, though they are comfortably housed enough already and have no im mediate intention of removing. I have shown the same couple middle aged folks with nothing to do apparently over scores of houses, from cottages to mansions. "And as for 'faddy' people well, I am afraid that the ladies are, in gener al, the hardest to please, but then, yon see, the whole responsibility is mostly left to them. Some of them find that every house they look at has some seri ous drawback, and they will keep me for hours at a time while they peer about As a general principle the ladies want a bigger and finer house than they can afford. Often enough the gentleman who accompanies them never says a word, but lolls about and smokes list lessly." Pearson's Weekly. Ancient Artists. , Is it known generally that works of art were well paid for in ancient times? A German review furnished recently some particulars about that question. Polygnote of Thasos, who lived about 450 B. C, refused, it is true, any pay ment for his works and declared that he was sufficiently rewarded with the title of citizen of Athens, which had been conferred on him. But such disin terestedness was seldom imitated. Thir ty years later the painter Zeuxis of Heraoleum was called to the court of Archelaus I, king of Macedonia. He re ceived for his frescoes in the palace of Pella 400 "mines," about 8,000. Mna son of Elathea paid $20,000 for a "Bat tle With the Persians, " which he had ordered from Aristides, the leader of the Theban sohool. Pamphilus of Syoi one gave a course of lectures on painting ; each pupil paid for attendance one "talent," or $1,200 a year. Apelles re ceived 20 gold ('talents, " about $240, 000, for a portrait of Alexander I, or dered by the city of Ephesus. . Monarchy and Republic " ' If the greatest objection to a monarchy is that a nation may thus run the risk of being ruled by a fool or a scoundrel, the greatest objection to certain forms, of democracy should be that a nation may thus run the' risk of being governed by 600 of such. A great English lord was one day confidentially informed that his steward robbed him. "I know it," be replied, "but my steward sees that no body else robs me. " That English lord was a wise man. And, as for costs, I believe that enough money is spent and enough business is stopped during a presidential campaign in America to keep all the crowned heads of Europe during the four years of the president's time of office. Max O'Bell in North American Beview. A Little Particular. "I had suoh a lovely dream last night," cried Eleanor. "I dreamed that I was married to a man who looked like Lucien, talked like Jack and . had Charlie's good qualities. " "Then at last you were suited? What a pity you couldn't merge the three iDto one in some such fashion. It would set tle your Blind for you. " "Ye-yes, I suppose so," said Eleanor hesitatingly, "only I would like him to be able to sing like Harold too I" Chi cago Times-Herald. , . . " Japan Is an Anglicized corruption of Nifong, the name of the principal island In the Japanese empire. Calioo was first introduced from Cali cut, in India, as stuff for gentlemen' clothes. BICYCLE TALE NO. 1784. The Duchess Is In a Dilemma, but Makes It All Bight With the Duke. The Duchess of Pomposet was writh ing, poor thing, on the horns of a di lemma. Painful position, very. She was the greatest of great ladies, full of fire and fashion, and with a purple blush (she was born that color) flung bongly arms around the neck of her lord and master. The unfortunate man was a hocking sufferer, having a bad unearn ed increment and enduring constant pain on account of bis back being broad er than his views. "Pomposet," she cried. "Duky dar ling!" (When first married she had ventured to apostrophize him as "ducky, " but his grace thought it infra dig. , and they compromised by omitting the vulgar ''a") . "Duky," she said, raising pale, dis tinguished eyes to a Chippendale mir ror, "I have made up my mind. " "Don't I" expostulated the trembling peer. "You are so rash I" "What is more, I have made up yours." "To make up the mind of an English duke," he remarked with dignity, "re quires no ordinary intellect, yet I be lieve with your feminine hydraulics you are capable of anything, Jane. " (That his aristocratic rib should have been named plain Jane was a chronio sorrow. ) ' . ' " ' " Don 't keep me in suspense, ' ' he con tinued. "In fact, to descend to a collo quialism, I insist on your grace letting the cat out of the bag with the least possible delay. " "As you will," she replied. "Yotur blood be on your own coronet. Prepare for a 'revelation. I have fallen I Not once, but many times. " " Wretched woman ! I beg pardon wretched grande dame I Call upon Da brett to cover you !" "I am madly in love with" "By my taffeta and ermine, I swear" V . . "Peace, peace," said Jane. "Com pose yourself, duky that is, Plantage net. Forgive the slip. I am agitated. My mind runs on slips. " The duke groaned. "Horrid, awful slips. " With a countenance of alabaster he tore at his sandy topknot. ' "I have deceived you. I admit it. Stooped to folly." A supercilious cry rent the air as the duke staggered on his patrician limbs. With womanly impulse, flinging caste to the winds, Jane caught the majestic form to her palpitating alpaca and, wa tering his beloved features with duch essy drops, cried in passionate accents : "My king! My sensitive plant ! Heav ensl It's his unlucky back! Becalm, Plantagenet I I have been learning to bike I There ! On the sly !" . The duke flapped a reviving toe-and squeezed the august fingers. "I am madly enamored of my ma chine." The peer smoothed a ruffled topknot with ineffable grace. "Likewise I am determined yon shall take lessons. Now it is no use, duky. I mean to be tender tut firm with you. " The potentate gave a stertorous chor tle, and, stretching out his arms, fell in a strawberry leaf swoon on the par quet floor, his ducal head on the lap of his adored Jane. Punch. Seemed Quite Natural. '.'.' The football player was experiment ing with, a bicycle, and it balked, as bi cyoles sometimes will. He was disen tangling himself from a barbed wire fence when the stranger came along. "Machine gave you a sort of sur prise, didn't it?" asked the stranger. "I should say it did," replied the player. "Didn't exactly know where you were for a minute, I guess, " ventured the stranger. "That's right," returned the player. "For a minute or two I felt sure I was playing in the rush line. "Chicago Post , ' Proof PositlTe. . x Gladys What are you going to do when you leave college? Tom Oh, live on my income, I guess.- -, Gladys A man as clever as you might do something to prove his clever ness. ' Tom Living on my income would prove me one of the cleverest financier! of the age. Life. ' ' ' 1 Romance and Reality. - Hermia Vladimir Eckstein, you have asked for a meet in, an I giv' it ; wot it the result? You say you never loved me ! Wot does all them letters mean, all of them writ in poekry an perfoomed wid wiolets? I throw the base calomel in your teet' (with bitterness); nothink you kin say will vindicate yer condnck to me! Vladimir (gazing at stack of letters) Oh ! wot a ass I've bin ! Truth. TVioneh Vermont has increased in population but 2,000 in 25 years, Mas sachusetts has added nearly 1,000000 to its inhabitants in the same time and Bhode Island and Connecticut also show a Ktaady growth. - LOCKED UP BY WOODPECKERS. The Fate of a Ground Owl That Sad Taken Possession of Their Boms. ' Although the woodpecker is industri ous, provident and peaceful, he is not to be trifled with or tyrannized over with impunity, as the following inci dent will shofo: A companion and I on an August day pitched our camp at a spring on the ta ble lands of the ridge dividing Ojal from Santa Clara valley. About the spring stands a large grove of live oaks. . In one of these not far from the tent door a pair of woodpeckers had for years no doubt made their dwelling place. Some what shy of us at first, the birds in a few days paid little attention to our presence. . It frequently amused us of a sultry afternoon as we lounged up on the buffalo robes laid on the shaded grass to observe the birds with whose labors the warmth appeared to have lit tle to do. We had camped there a week or ten days when before daybreak one morning we heard a commotion about the home of our staid neighbors. Our attention was attracted by their shrill outcries and the whir of their wings among the branches overhead. It had no sooner grown light enough to see than we pushed back the flap of the tent door and peered out to ascertain the cause of disturbance. . It soon became apparent that a little teoolote, or ground owl, at the approach of day had taken lodging in the hollow occupied by the woodpeckers,' to their consternation. But the return of day brought courage to the rightful owners, and they resolutely set about finding means to eject the invader. They tried bluffing awhile about the only aperture to the hollow , tree, but to little purpose, other than to cause the tecolote to peck at them when they appeared to be about to thrust themselves in. At last, finding that neither threats nor entreaties were likely to be effect ive, and resolved that if they were to be deprived of their home it would be the last, of that tyrannical owl, the woodpeckers brought presently from another part of the grove an oak ball of the size of the aperture, and, driving it tightly into the hole, withdrew to an other hollow tree, leaving the bird of prey hermetically sealed up. After several days, when we started to return to San Buenaventura, the ball was still in the hole, and the woodpeck ers, settled in their new home, were go ing about their business as if there had never been a tecolote. Portland Press. THE COLONEL WAS MEAN. For a Big- Man He Played a Small Game With His Car Tickets. Colonel Blank was a' big, pompous man, as it behooves one to be who as pires to a military title without the drawbacks of a military life. . He was always calling people's attention to his marked facial resemblance to James G. Blaine, "the greatest man, sir, this cen tury and this country have produced. " And people ill natured people, that is thought the colonel had a vivid im agination. There was a prodigality about his physique that one somehow expected to see repeated in the colonel's character. And to hear the colonel hold forth , from the end of the boarding house table over which he presided the unsophisticated boarder would never have doubted that such a reasonable ex pectation would be realized on closer acquaintance. What, then, was this unsophisticated one's surprise to hear the doughty colo nel, evidently in a high good humor with himself, say one day: "Well, I earned my fare down town today." .- , , That the colonel would , stoop to earn a nickel was remarkable ; that be should boast of it was incredible. "You see," proceeded the man Of military aspirations, "I went down in the caret ta Getting in at Schiller street, the carette was empty, and I went up to the front and bought six tickets for a quarter. One I dropped in the box. Then as the car filled up I was exceed ingly useful to those who sat farther down, passing their fares up and depos iting them. An exceedingly polite man they all thought me. And so I am, so I am. But instead of dropping their nick els in the box I dropped my tickets in until I had used up my five tickets and confiscated five nickels. I had regained my quarter and paid my fare. After that I was not so polite. I let people drop their nickels into the chute which the company provides for that purpose. Awful nuisance, that chute. But it's not my business to play conductor if the company's too mean to hire any. " And the colonel called for another oup of tea, and the unsophisticated one gasped to think of the smallness of which such greatness was capable. Chicago Tribune. A Poor Spirit. .Medium (in a tone with ice down its back) Madam, the spirit of your dead husband wishes to converse with you. The Widow Hennypeck Huh ! If he hasn't any more spirit now than he had when he was alive, it isn't worth pay ing attention to. London Tit-Bits. A SINGULAR FORM OF MONOMANIA. There la a class of people, rational euougn ta other respects, who are certainly monomaniaos in dosing themselves. They are constantly try ing experiments upon tneir stomachs, their bowels, their livers and their kidneys with trashy nostrums. 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