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TOO LATE# »II#* RO ttUt the livelong daf, Iw ddthmot insve or rpMk; • 1 (H» to** iwfiMta <ii«i «m/ Upon her dainty co«ek. * £} H «J»fike her hftvuhlv ye8ten»oil&-r^ i •',>>&»« agonized *wpil-«j£ * P, hminu me for my f " ' 11» lovollght in her ejNsil s And now each bitter word I satfe'S ;.f Acw!itn»t«« ray pnln-- jBj* /' * ®a<-h taunt I lev "lei at the<toaj|L,;; , W Has burnr into my brain. Ji %Tio is the wiser? I. whow feet *4 were set. The strange frigate was now distant about 2,000 yards and flying American colors. Capt Gar­ den thought he recognized the United States but was not sure. Both ves­ sels were gradually closing, both wary. On the Macedonian the Cap- . Must ireaa an em my neuv •/. . ^Or Rbn who hear* that welcome v*fti ,"•* "B^r spirit, all is well? ' :;tj *¥ 4' though God forgive mo in His tttPPfc,, . Ji ' When I have "crossed the bat,*• ^fc'heti I f-ball meet her fate to fjfl Beyond the moramg star. •r , I date not tta'nk that even. ther%", it* ' Withiu tfee gates of gaid. " , . My >oul will show to her a* fair \it As iu the days of o d. Hie dear dea<t davs t*t imtgaga, . ;; • Whone tale was told al*»»e. „• <„.;f f, ,%•••£; • When in our hearts we t It The rosy <lawn of love! ,ym0KijUo<ipiiiioa. •. NOTED FUi has used It with the bravery a&J courage you have displayed. I £e- dine to take it." There are a nhnjber of descendant# of Capt. John Cardcu in the British Navy to-dav. The name is one that has long be?n associated with the tain and executive officer had just < British colors, and to the writer's own made A tour along the decks, with ; knowledge etery man or them bears pleasant words right and left to the j in mind the magnanimity once shown men. It is known that the British | a member of the familv by an Amer- Captain felt at this moment the lack j ican naval officer. of training in target work which his! Capt. John Garden regained at hurried and early forced departure ] New London, Ct., under parole un- ^rom Portsmouth had brought about, j til exchanged. Up to his death be but. nevertheless felt a certain reli-1 cherished the warmest affection lor • iimi--"wa GOULD CHANGED ' HIS M1NQ. Hie tight between the United States frigate United States and the British frigate Macedonia is looked upon in the American Navy as one of the greatest gunnery feats in the history of the service. The engagement took place October 25, 1812. and. th umb an affair of many years past, the rec­ ords on the American sideare well preserved at the Navy Department. They are, in tact, much fuller than in the case of most reports. Decatur taking the pains to hand down for future use all the benefits of the ex­ perience he gained that day. From the British side of the flght the rec­ ords are more or less incomplete, though much that was valuable has been learned in later years through the private letters written by the British Captain subsequent to the af­ fray. The flght between the United States and the Macedonian occurred at a point some 200 miles to the southward and westward of the Azores Islands. The Macedonian, Capt. John Carden, Royal Navy.com- luanding, was on an outward-bound cruise to the-West Indies. His ship was a brand-new frigate, fresh from Portsmouth dockyard. This yard the Macedonian had left not more than two weeks previously. On the morn­ ing of October 25 the British frigate had about 300 men aboard. Her bat­ tery consisted of thirtv-oight carron- ades,""With a rfvot gun on the fore- « small boat sun on the Because of this she s; earned the title given her in America <* of being a forty-gun ship. The crew of the Macedonina, were, for the moat part, trained men-of- war's men. There were some twenty impressed men aboard who had never seen service on a war ship, but, aside from this numbej, ail hands had done ^ duty three years and more under the British rfag. Capt. Carden always had the greatest admiration for the Macedonian's crew, and it was this very reliance in the personnel under him that caused that maneuver in the tight which lost him his ship Good men as the blue jackets of the Mac­ edonian were, they were still some­ what green in working together when thev met the United States. The Macedonian had been hurried off from the Portsmouth ya d, and now, not more than a couple of weeks out, without any opportunity for target practice and with only the training which came from the daily cjercise at quarters, the Macedonian's men weut into the flght without a mur­ mur against the seasoned, well- shaken-down crew commanded by Decatur. The morning of October 25, 1812, was logged aboard the Macedonian as opening up clear and cold, with a heavy swell running, the frigatestand- ing along under topsails, topgallant sails, and courses. It was proposed to give the day to the men in the enjoy-! cattle atKi quarter-deck.7 a nee in the training the majority of the men had had before coming faboard. At a distance of 1,500 yards from the American the officer in charge of the pivot gun forward received per­ mission to open up with a shot or two. fPhe fight was short, and Capt* Car- tlen ordered the tiring ceased. The Macedonian now edged in a little jclos:»r and opened up with three guns Of the port battery. The tire was short. Again Carden edged in, the United States also closing in. When at a distance of 1,000 yards the Amer­ ican opened flre from his gun-deck battery. His tire was directed at the sails, and the sound of his shots was not unlike the s'.?ish rip of canvas rending. The Macedonian was now tiring from every gun that could be brought to bear, but without apparent effect Carden ordered the tiring ceased and the vessel run closer in. At 500 yards she again opened with every gun. Ten minutes later and the mizzen- topmast went by the board. The enemy's fire now appeared to be directed at the mainmast, for the slaughter among the mariucs drawn up In the waist was beginning.^ be something frightful. Carden oiuered the marines shifted forward and then dispersed as charpshqoters. The maintopmast now went by the board, and wreck clearers were called away. The lighting at this point was some­ thing terrible. The American lire from being directed at the mainmast, was now playing along the gun deck. Its effect was not unlike the crash and booming of a thunder-storm. The whole heaven was obscured by smoke, and from the American ship tue con­ stant stream of flre made that vessel look as if on fire. On the gun ueck of the Macedonian the slaughter was awful. One shot nad killed outright and wounded seven men. A sponger in handing his rammer to his opposite was cut in two. Two powder monkeys rushing to the ammunition batch together were bodily lifted by a shot and their mangled and lifeless bodies dashed against the carlins overhead. One bluejacket stooped over a group ot seven dead men in his search for a mate, and after turning each body found the object of his hunt at the bottom of the heapi He gave one cry of "Oh, Tom!" when his division officer ordered him back to his gun with the shout to avenge his mate's death. On the main #deck some thirtv marines lay dead or writhing in their wounds about the mainmast, while down in the cockpit the wounded lay in heaps about the door, their yells and cries reaching clear to the quarter-deck, despite the terrible roar of the gang. •Throughout it all the British Captain stood his post on the quarter-deck giving orders. He felt that the only hope for the Macedonian wa« close action. The guns of the enemy were too heavy for him and her crew too well practiced in their service to ad­ mit of long-range work. With this belief in miwd the Macedonian's Captain kept constantly closing in, with the American keeping well off. The sea and wind were in the Mac­ edonian's favor, and Decatur, fearing that the latter might get too close aboard of him, shot out of the smoke ahead at a time when the Macedonian was distant not inoje than a pistol Every sail on the British ship Decatur. The two men, in fact, were much alike in spirit. Decatur al ways allowed in argument that his battery was heavier, and, thbtigh he contended that the action of the British Captain in seeking close ac tion was more courageous thau pru dent, he himself admitted that he 8aw no other course for a man ot honor and high mind to follow if he proposed tight!ug. Capt. John Car- den died at about seventy years of age. Despite his loss of the Macedo- man the British Admiral showed him marked consideration, it being deemed that the tight he made atoned for the loss of the frigate During the civil war, 1861 to 1865, a descendant of Capt. John Carden, and the only one ever to become an American citizen, served throughout the war as ad officer in the union army.--New York Times. • * <*' jr EDISON'S BOYHOOD." 'ftfis rnent of whatever sports they chose and, and to make the time fly merrily, Capt. Carden instructed the executive officer to see to a little extra allow­ ance of grog being issued. At 8:45 o'clock in the morning Capt Carden was seated in his oaWit engaged in reading when he distinctly heard the call of the lookout at the foretopmast head ca|l out: "Sail hoi" Without waiting to hear the coanter-hail of the officer of the deck, Capt. Carden sprang to his cabin companlonway and himself hailed the lookout: 'Can you make her outV" "Can't make her out. sir!" was the reply. Capt. Carden took twu or three, turns along the deck and a minute later sang out: "Jilasthead, there!" - «Qjr." came the reply. "Can you make out that- sail?" "She's a square-rigged vessel, sir!" v "Here, Mr. ," said Captain Carden to the "-send a lookout and an otfeer into the top and keep j ports to put them out of misery! "in was completely gone except the fore­ sail, and Decatur, with the view of destroying this canvas, ordered sec­ tions of chains and bags of bolts flred through it. This was done by some of the forward guns of the United States, with the result that the fore­ sail was rompletely blown to pieces Having'the Macedonian.thus crippled Decatur luffed up into the wind and shot under the stern of his adversary He raked the Macedonian ju»t once, and being now in a position to do the greatest destruction, the Macedonian's flac was hauled df>wn. When Lieut Allen of the United States, boarded the Macedonian he found the decks o"' that vessel fairly running with blood, and on the gun deck there was to be heard a constant drip. driD of the blood from the slain overnead. At=J«*ast twenty bodies had been thrown overboard by the British sailors early in the flght to give more room about decks, and of officer beside him. ) this number there is a certainty that to each masthead! some were only pushed through the Ot Ileal tie* Which Beset His Firs* H« «hink'*l Experiment*. A writer for Kate Field's Washing­ ton was talking a few days since with a friend who lived at Fort Gratiot, Mich., at the time when Thomas Edison spent his boyhood there, and learned uiany interesting things of the great inventor. That the bent of the boy's inclination was always toward mechanical appliances and the latest inventions of which he could hear, is too well known to need reit­ eration. H[is special fondness, how­ ever, was for constructing crude tele­ graph instruments with which to keep up a constant communication with his chum who lived in tfcc im­ mediate vicinity. After an enormous amount of work the little fellow suc­ ceeded in making two instruments, which were carefully placed in their respective bedrooms,s.'o that early and late, uuknown to the rest of the household, they could communicate that flow of thought always on tap between two youthful friefnds. The intervening wires were, arranged to escape the entangling influences of shrubbery and fences by means of tall poles. For a while everything went on smoothly. The thrilling experi­ ences of fishing trips were eujoyed in retrospect over the wires, similar ex­ citing plans were evolved for future use, and the barnyard statistics were transmitted with unwavering exact­ ness. One morning, however, the boys awakened to flnd all this changed, and where order had pre­ vailed was only chaos. During the night a cow had strayed into the in- closure, and after knocking down the pedes succeeding in so entangling the wires about her legs that her as­ tonishment a'nd'distress were ' voiced to the neighborhood in, ipournful bellows whifch made the nifcrhtf hide­ ous. The greatest damage, how­ ever, was to the delicately adjusted instruments, which had been so in­ jured by the. cow's novel wire-pulling as to be utterly spoiled for future usefulness. Thomas Edison, who during his boyhood was always called ••Al," was also very fond of pigeons, which he raised in great numbers and taught to come at his call, flutter­ ing about on bis head, shoulders and arms while he fed them. a close eye on that fellow,-' and then a minute later came the cry from the mainmast head: "The stranger's frigate, sir, and bearing down this way." "Can you make out his rig?" "He looks like a Yankee, sir." This last hail was sufficient. Cap­ tain Carden was now surrounded by his executive and navigator, and by two .or three of the older officers, while on the lee side of the deck a knot of junior officers was assembled, all of thesn having tumbled up from below on hearing the Captain's voice. Turning to his executive Captain Carden said very quietly: "Clear ship for action, sir, and get the peo­ ple to the guns'." In an instant the boatswain s pipes were ringing out their calls and 300 blueiacketft were knocking down bulkheads, reeving oil preventer braces, swiftening down trigging, se­ curing boats, rigging boarding net­ tings, unshipping ladders, pilling hammocks here and there as breast­ works, and all the details which enter into preparing a ship for battle. The Macedonian's men, though for the most part strange to one an­ other, were too old to man-of-war duty not to work at such times ouickiy. The Macedonian was ready fo.' the tight in three minutes. Iler people then went to the guns to the long roll of the drums. Th$ frigate was now under foresail, fore, main, and mizzen-top sails, main clew garnets hauled up, royal yards in the rigging and topgallant sails furled. Her )ib, toretopgallant staysail and spanker the cockpit the two British surgeons were still working with a zeal that knew no rest. The frightfully man­ gled limbs were amputated in a quic k, merciless fashion. There was a slash­ ing of the knife, a sawing of the bone, a turning back of the flap, and then the application of hot pitch or tar to sear all. No wonder Lieut Allen called thc^ Macedonian a slaugh­ ter pen. Out of 300 men the British ship had lost 112. The mizzenmast and maintopmast had been carried away, and over 100 solid shot had pierced the hull. It took Decatur's men two days to rig the Macedonian up as a t-ark. Under this rig Lieut Allen carried the vessel into port, both ships going to New London. When Cant. Carden boarded the United States he was 6hown every deference and respect by the gallant Decatur. Both men had met each other prior to the war and had learned to respect one another mutually. It was, con­ sequently, with no little feeling that Decatur advanced, his both hands outstretched, to meet Carden. In stature both men were much alike, powerfully built, yet wiry and active. The British Captain,the tears almost rolling down his face from the sad sight of his men lying torn and mangled aboard the Macedonian, ad­ vanced toward Decatur and mutely held out his sword. The warm­ hearted Decatur was just the man to do at such a time a noble act. "Capt Carden." he said, vl could never fprg.ve myself if I took the sword from the hands of a man who Rope-MakiDg-. Thomas Carly!e once said that scarcely any book iss6 poor t hat some­ thing cannot te learned from it. With equal truth it may be said that no industry is too humhle to be interest­ ing. There is nothing, for example, more prosaic than a rope, or that en­ ters into a greater number of homely occupations, and yet in the march ot labor-saving invention, a rope-making machine is one of the last cn the list. So long, indeed, did rope-making re­ main one of the manual arts that the name of the place where the work was done has become ingrained in popular speech; and the rope factory, though in no way meriting the ap­ pellation, is still called the "rope- walk " Formerly it was considered a fact worthy of note that the governm'eht rope-walk at Boston could turn out a roue 1,020 feet long. A young workman in the rope-walk saw that the twist should lie applied to the rope instead of th'> strands, if machinery was to take the place of the hand in rope-making: and he real­ ized fame and fortune from the con­ ception. His opportunity came with the proposition to grapple for the broken ends of the Atlantic sub- luartr.r* cable in the sixties. A rop«, ,'nlly twelve thousand feet long was required for the grappling, but the task of making one of this unheard of length could not be un­ dertaken seriously by any rope maker then in the business. At this juncture tht ^oung man, John Good by name, cauic forward with the proposition to build tnachin- ery from his own designs, and make a rope in one piecc as long as was wanted. The offer seemed a bold one, but it was accepted, the machinery built, the rope uiad£, the break in the cable fout.d and repaired, and telegraphic communication established between the Old World and the New. On Sec9p«l Thought lie Didn't Ride fut on m Texas Road, t,', Jay Gould once made a trip, to Mexico to Inspect the International and Great Northern Railway, says the San Francisco Chronicle. 'It. was in the autumn of 187?, and. as usual, the millionaire was in ahurrv. Meet­ ing the gentleman who had the sale of the road in hand, he said: "I'm a busy man, and I want to be back in New York uoxt week. 4B)ish me through." ! A special train was made up and put in charge of .lake Liuser* one of the pioneers in Mexican engineering. "Rush him," was the order, and Mr. Lauer did some hard thinking. He knew that the roadbed was in a terrible condition, and that to run over twenty miles was taking desper­ ate chances. Lauer had lots of nerve, but he felt the responsibility imposed on him by the officials in placing Gould in his hands. He concluded finally to use his own judgment, take no chances and stick closely to £he schedule time. « Between Marshall and Galveston the schedule called for 325 miles to be made between dark and daylight. Jay Gould did not retire early, and on that night seemed par­ ticularly w'ide awake. He sat read- a newspaper by a dim light, and every once in a while glanced out the window impatiently. It was evident that the great man was becoming an­ gry. Finally the storm burst Turn­ ing to one of the officials accompany­ ing him, he remarked testily: "If this were a funeral train ifc couldn't possibly travel in a more de­ corous manner. Steam up and let us go along." - The gentleman spoken to was aware that the night ride had been especially arranged in order that the condition of the road oed could be concealed from Gould, but thus forced he had nothing to do but to order an increase of 3peed. The grder was given, but the train movea along at the same speed. "Send the engineer to me," said Gouid. "I'll talk to him." At the next stopping place Lauer was summoned and given to under­ stand that he was not capable of driving a car horse much less running an engine. '•Get along! Push her! LeVs see what the machine- can do,", urged Gould. Lauer demurred, and the _ fallroad magnate concluded that he was afraid. He's a coward," he finally said; "put another man in charge." Lauer overheard the remark and flushed up. "All right," he said, "we'll open her up." In a few moments the little special was speeding through the night at the rate of forty-five miles and hour. It was a ride to be remembered. The cars rocked from side to side, creak­ ing in every joint, and now and then lifting as if about to leave the track. Everybody clung to some support, those who knew the condition of the, roadbed expecting to be BuWc^ Ihpo eternity every minute.- ' ? i ; Lauer sat at the throttle, watching the rails as they gleamed like silver threads. He was as pale as those in the train behind, but, as h'e'remarked in telling the story: "I'd have gone "up with pleasure before I Would have given that little cuss the chance td say I was a sqiealer;" i Once he looted back at the sway­ ing train and laid; "He woo't stancu it long." ? The engineer was right. At a particularly bad place the cord was jerked and the train brought to a standstill. Jay Goujd was picked from under a seat, whelre he had been thrown, and angrily faced the engi­ neer, who had come back to the car. "What in the name of all that is good and holy, do vou mean?" he de­ manded. "Do you want to kill ns all?" ^ 'You said you wanted me to poll her open," replied Lauer, quietly. Gould glared at the man for a mo­ ment and his manner changed. "My man," he said, "you go back there and use you own judgment the rest of the trip. I know how to manipulate a railroad, but I guess you know more than I do about run­ ning an engine." Then he was as­ sisted to bis berth. scrap* Much HOW GENIUS DIED. and wisdom "at the "comic book" in every school-room. of the viciousness, so styledL would vanish if the teacher could laugh as easily as she can scold. Inability to detect the comic is a serious defect in a teacher. It would be well for the normal and training schools to have a few lessons on "the usefulness of the comic in school and out"--Amer­ ican Teacher. Too Witty, - ;- It fs not profitable for a merchant to be too witty: at any rate, he snould not try to be too witty on every oc­ casion. Not long ago, in a country tow.n where there are two groceries m the same street, a very green, tow- headed, timid-looking young country­ man came into one of them one after­ noon, at a time when half a dozen villagers were grouped around the stove. The storekeeper was waiting upon some one, and paid no attention to the new comer. Presently the timid young man said, in a faltering half frightened voice: ' 4 'Do--you--keep--sweet p'tetters?" "No," said the storekeeper; "we don't keep 'em. We sell 'em jest as fast as we can!" Then he winked at the company arouncl the stove, who snickered ap­ preciatively. The green young man isaid, "Oh!" and went up to the stove ;and spread out the palms of his hands. :The storekeeper went on waiting on his other customer, and used up fif­ teen minutes in doing so. Then he stepped toward the greej young man, who was still warmin& his hands at the stove, aud, sai brusquely: "Did you say you wanted to buy some sweet potatoes?" The young man turned slowly about and answered, "I--didn't--say--\ wanted--to buy--none; I jest--ast-- ye--if ye kep' 'em " He then warmed his hands a few minutes longer. Then he walked slowly out of the store, remarking he went: "I -- guess-- I'll-- go-- daown the street--an'--buy--me-- some --sweet p'tetters!" The laugh around the stove was „ . . . , , . . not at the expense of the greenfaarn a11 8orts of "onderfui things thin time--Youth's Companion. ° and had sbe 1 A Backward Lover's Proposal. He was in love with the girl she was not unwilling, but she given no sign. He was so diffiderft that really had had no opportunity. One evening they sat alone in a lit­ tle bower of roses. "I dreamed of you last night," he said, tentatively. "How nice," she responded, In that exasperating way which is so inex­ pressive. "Yes?" he faltered, question!ngly. "Tell rae what you dreamed," she prettily commanded. "I thought we were sitting to­ gether on the banks of a beautiful stream," he said, low and murmur- ously, "as the sun was sinking away to rest in the purpling stars, and we talked 'ot birds, of music, of flowers, and of love. Your face glowed as if a great light shown in it, but when I spoke of love you grew cold and dis- tant. and I could feel the chill ail touching my heart and see the buds of hope wither in the frost of your disapproval. I knew then how use­ less was all I could do; how futile was effort, but urged on by that mys­ terious power no man can explain and none resists, I cast the fatal die and asked you to be mine." He stopped a moment, trembling. "And what did I say?" she asked. "No," and his voice grew husky and his lips quivered. She put out her hand to him softly. ••Dreams go by contraries, dear," she murmured.--Detroit Free Press. . IHsease In Paper Money. The bill introduced by Congress­ man Outhwaite, providing for the "frequent redemption of all United States paper currency and national bank notes" that have become soiled and unclean in the course ot uso, again directs attention to the urgency of employing the utmost precaution Patent* of Monopoly. Long before the days of the Stuarts, monopolies were quite common in England. Elizabeth was a great developer of them. Patents to deal exclusively in particular articles were granted so lavishly to the courtiers that hardly a commodity remained free; even salt leather, and coal were the subjects of patents, the list of which, when read over in Parlia­ ment, was so long that a member asked incredulously, "Is not bread among the number?" The practice was for the favored courtiers, to sell their patents of monopoly to' compan­ ies of merchants--or syndicates, as we should call them nowadays-»-to work them. Rival political parties struggled, not tQ redress the griev­ ance utide^wiiich the people groaned, but to obtain a share of the profits. If Essex had a monopoly of sweet against the irruption of the cholera • wine, Raleigh held one of cards; in ' Clay at Food. Earth, or clay, is an article of diet in various places. The poorer classes of North or South Carolina are said to eat it to such an extent as to givqj their complexion a peculiar greenish hue. Humboldt, during his explora­ tions of the Rio Negro. South Alfred ica, discovered a tribe of Indians whose principal food during the rainy season was a fat, unctuous clay called "bole." There are several Central American tribes that greedily de­ vour the earth of ant hills, and the same may b© said of the negrbes of Sierra Leone. In Germany, durjitg the time of the last famine, an lh- f«sorial earth called ";:iountain meal" was largely used, cither with or wltii- out a mlxcurt aiwftfcat flourS " " scourge next . spring and summer. The hew measure is the result of a careful investigation made by emi­ nent -"bacteriologists. Few people, outside of those whoss business it is to handle great quantities of money, realize the fllthiness which paper cur­ rency often acquires. Not only are bills stowed away in greasy wallets and hidden in noisome corners, hut they are kept and handled by all classes and conditions of men. One of the professional men employed to conduct the inves­ tigation in question reports that a one dollar bill he examined contained three kinds of bacteria, and that the culture made nf.the notes submitted to him showed that there were bacteria colonies on each one of them capable of invading the human system. A London journal, speaking of kindled examinations in England, declares that on two bank notes ex­ amined there 19,000 germs were found. In view of the extreme need of vigilance in guarding against the ap­ pearance of the dread Asiatic visitor during the coming months the pas­ sage of the bill for the trequent re­ demption of oaper money would seem to.b^a uieasuce of, prude acts.--New York Prfess."; i ' deed, it is hard to say how mauv "patents" cither ql them held from first to last. The shameful .manner in which such powers could be, exer­ cised can be well imagined. Heanlllul Snowstorm In a Ballroom. A strange thing happened at^a dance given by a member of the Russian nobility long ago. The night was bitter cold, but the cold bleak winds did not reach the interior of the ballroom. Here there were warmth and comfort, and the gay dancers became overheated and they perspired freely--the air of the room having been dry and like a^ sponge, quickly absorbed the moisture from their persons. A Russian count, be­ ing uncomfortably warm, opened a window, which admitted a'currant of cold air, and the effect was novel and instantaneous. Immediately a part of the moisture was turned into little crystals, shining silver white, that floated in the air, and, to the astonishment of all, there was a min­ iature snowstorm in the midst of the gay throng.--Argonaut. •tttOMth Century Trfatment DT* Creat Inventor. r There lived In Normandy, wherein? was born, in 1570, a man named Solo­ mon C'aus. lie was an engineer and architect, and had held several im­ portant Dositions. He wrote a great many scientific works and papers, of which, however, no one took much notice during his life, ard finally was seized with an idea which made his friends and relatives fear that he was mad. After pestering the King and the Cardinal at Paris, he was ordered to be taken to Bicetre--thfe mad house--and there shut up. This was done. They had just one way with mad people in those days. They shut them in iron cages and fed them through the bars like wild beasts. They did this to Solomon Caus. For a long time he stood behind those bars all day and called to those who would listen, and to them repeated the story he had told the Cardinal. He became the jest of the place. Some of them even gave him writing ma­ terials, and then, amid the the mis­ ery of his surroundings, he wrote down his ideas and am usee; hkt jail­ ers so much the more. However, it could not be long before such a life, suuh surroundings, would shatter any brain. In time Solomon Caus was as mad as every one believed him. It was in 1624 that an English nobleman, Lord Worcester, weut to Paris and visited Bicetre. As he was passing through the great court ac­ companied by the keeper, a hideous face with raatted fceard and hair, appeared at the grating and a voice shrieked wildly: "Stop! stop! I am not mad. I am shut up here most unjustly. I have made an invention Which would enrich a country that adppted it" ••What does he speak of?" ttie Mar* quis asked his guide. "Oh, that is his madness."said the man, laughing. "That is a man called Solomon Caus; he is from Nor­ mandy; he believes that by the use of the steam ot boiling water he can make ships go over the oceau and carriages travel by land; in fact, do He has even written a book about it whicb I can show you." Lord Worcester asked for the book, glanced over it and desired to be conducted to the cell of the writer. When he returned he had been weeping. "The poor man is certainly mad now," he said, "but when you im­ prisoned him he was the greatest genius of the age. He has certainly made a very great discovery." After this Lord Worcester mad6 many efforts to procure the libera­ tion of the man, who doubtless would have been restored to reason by freedom aud ordinary 'surround­ ings, but in vain: the Cardinal was against him, and bis English friends began to fancy that he himself had lost his senses, for one wrote to an­ other: "My lord is remarkable for never being satisfied with any explana­ tions which a'rei given him, but a!« ways wanting to know for himself, although he seemed to pierce to the very center of a speaker's thoughts with his big blue eyes that never leave theirs. At a visit to Bicetre he thought he had discovered a genins in a madman, who declares he would .travel the world over with a kettle of boiling water. He desired to carry him away to London that he might listen to his extravagance from morning till night, and would, I think, if the maniac had not been actually raving and chained to the wall." Thus in Bicetre died the man to whom, after his works were published, many people gave the creditor being the discover of steam power, and it is said that from the manuscript writ­ ten in his prison Lord Worcester gathered the idea of amachine spoken of as a "water-commanding engine," which he afterward invented. His­ torians have denied that Caus died in prison, but there exists a letter written by Marion de Lorme, who was with Lord Worcester at the time of his interview with Caus, which establishes the fact beyond doubt-- Invention. Hit • *., iViVs vj 1i ,k 4: j .:*ii Louis Republic; ,A Co^ipp.Mcrap-llook. Sbttic One Has destHbed tiie4 fehild as a comic scrap-book. This is not so bad if one does not make this the only or the main description. It;} is much better than to think,pl hi^n as j vicious or malicious. One who sees in children only or chiefly the viqious and ttie malicious" lias ud right to deal with them. There is little harm in thinking of the child as "comic," I for such he is. Ail the ready-made I jokes o/fuck apd Judge sink into in­ significance as compared with the'wit! Needle*. Originally, all the needles used in Europe must have come from the East; and it seems passing strange that no record has been kept of the time at which these useful little in­ struments were first manufactured there, but it must have been at a very ehriy 'period. They were made in Nuremberg,in gr(e^t quantities in the fourteenth century. • Their manu­ facture was introduced into England under Queen Elizabeth, and flourished to such an extent that the workmen soon constituted a guild, tor we read that in 1597 the "Pinners and the Needlers" petitioned the Queen not to allow foreign pins and needles to be imported. Beading; Aloud. The possession of the marvelous and intricate faculty of articulate speech seems no more miraculous to the unthinking than do the eternal varieties of eating, drinking, and sleeping. Yet the former is arbitrary and conventional, the invention of man--perhaps not confined to hiru, if Prot. Garner, of monkey-speech fame, is to be believed--while the latter are natural, absolute common, and the sine qua non of existence. The office of speech--the celebrated French diplomat to th'e contrary not­ withstanding--is to convey thought How important, then, that this vehicle of thought transference, this common carrier of ideas, this carriage laden with the most delicate and elusive of burthens, nothing less than the very essence of the soul--perish­ able freight i ndeed, should be carefully watched and developed to its highest aud best capacity. The comparative ease with which the average individual may be taught to express the thoughts of himself or others in an intelligent, intelligible, even pleasing fashing, makes it seem almost criminal to neglect such a vast possible addition t:> the general good. Nevertheless, the wiseacres who preside over the destinies of our common, high, and collegiate schools, will probably continue to decide that cube-root differential calculus and the nomenclature of rivers in Central Africa are more desirable accom­ plishments than the possession of a sweet voice and the intelligence- to use it properly. I do not by any means desire to de­ preciate cultivation of the mind in any direction. In none of the arts, for reading Is not only an. art, but the noblest of them all, does general information, ! ducp flowers that education, and intelligence count for so much.--Godcy's Magazine. cities,temples,etc.,indicate a heathen people of softie culture and industrial skill. Another theory identities tho mines of Mashonaland as the source from which, Solomon got a ^C:, , of his gold. ; ^ Ready With ltUFroverlk, , "She was a bright young Yahkee school mar m." said Thompson .IL Herndon. "She came highly recom­ mended to a prosperous and aris­ tocratic neighborhood not far front Little Rock a few months ago*' and was not long in building up a good., school. Time wore on and her pu-1 p"s advanced wonderfully in tii£«r studies. She conceived the idea a few weeks ago of giving an exhibi­ tion of her most proficient class, and! invited all the neighbors Jt© the lit^: tie school house on .Friday even fug- that they might see her and hear ;ft»r themselves the progress that bad, been made by her teachings • Therej was a good crowd present. She had: all the little girls and the little boys to stand ua She questioned this one about one thing, and another about something elste. "Their answers' were gratifying to the pretty teacher1 a«?d to the parents of the children.- ' " 'Now. ' she said te them t^wantj the close, 'I want each of you to re*t peat sopse ok! proverb,' " L- . "Said Johnnie: 'All • is not goftt that glitters.' i 1 •' 'Very good,' said she, *very good.' "'Be virtuous and .you'll he happy.'said Jimmie. - » " JThat's splendid. Whv, yoa boys remind me so much of a school I once taught in Boston,' responded the fair teacher. - v?.: • '"The germ of ambition W chrysalis of wisdom,'said Willie. "And soon down the class she went until she got to Peck Smith. He wasn't very bright, and she intended to skip him, but he seemed anxious to say something, and she asked him if he knew any old proverb. He did. , ? "A stump-tailed yaller dog is '? best for coons,' was his answer. J ft "Peck's father grabbed him up joy­ fully, and before he left paid a year's tuition for Peck in ' Bis Financial Program. ' J "/' • He was a beggar with the old worn clothes, unwashed face, unkempt hair and unbrushed shoes. He waded up to the counter of the Lindell late last night and told between his sobs, tears, groans, and sighs, how his stomach yearned for a sandwich. Clerk Sumner went to the safe, threw open its massive doors and from its inner receptacles drew forth a new and shining 5-cent piece, which hie, laid kindly and gently into the quiv­ ering and blackened begger's hand.. ; • "Now, my poor friend, what do yon propose to do with that money?" seri­ ously inquired the serious clerk, j The beggar looked down at Ins soiled and tattered garments. He scanned his benefactor curiously for a moment, and then in- & tremulous tone said: V ' "Young man, you see rte as I ath. wearing the habiliments of an out­ cast Yet I am honest, and 1 will give you a truthful answer. I shall first go and buy me a good supper, then I Will take a bath and a cock­ tail, and mayhap after that adorn this handsome form with a new suit of clothes. If there is any of it left after that I shall, upon my word, de­ posit it in the bank. I am exceed­ ingly obliged. Good .day!"--St. JUwuis * Republic. The Tale of the Telephoned The first telephone that was ev«r used was not electrical, nor was itt scientific instrument in any sense of the term. A little more than fifty years ago the employes of a large man ufactor)' beguiled their leisure hours by kite flying. Kites large and small went up daily and the strife was to see who could get the largest The twine which held them was the thread spun and twisted by the la-; dies of the villages. One day to the tail of the largest kite was attached a.kitten, sewed in< a canvas bag, with a netting over the mouth to give it air WhCn the kite was at its greatest height, - some 200 feet or more, the mewin# of the: kitten could be distinctly heard by: those holding the string. To the clearness of the atmosphere was at-. tributed the hearing of the kitten's; voice. This is'the first account wte; remember of speaking along a line.-- Sheffield Telegraph. I V:, i i An InseiUou* .aiUkmaiu ---^ A well-known I'nilk dealer of tfi|s city has contrived quite an ingeniotfs play to hurry up things to enaole him to start out on his morning ride to serve his customers. In order to feed his horse while he lies comfort­ ably in bed he has placed an alarm r clock in the stable, wnich he sets to go off at 4 o'clock in the morning. The clock does not strike an alarm, but is fixed so that it releases a pin and ooens the door of a little box which contains sufficient feed for the horse. The feedruns into the trough in the stall, and by the time the milkman is ready to set out the ani­ mal has had his breaktast and is in good shape to be hitched up and start on his route.--Philadelphia Record. A Conditional Pardon. ' "Mr. Dusenberrv," said the sick man to his neighbor, whom he had called to the side of what he sutK posed was his death-bed, "we have had much difficulty in the past and have not been on speaking terms I believe I am now about to die and I have sent for you that we may settle • our differences and be friehds before I go." "Nothing would give me greater pleasure than a reconciliation," re­ plied Dusen berry, as he took the hand' of the dying man. * "But remember," said the invalift 4 in a gradually sinking voice, "if I get . well the thing goes on just as it di<t be:ore."--Brooklyn Life. , ' Old Gold Mine. Becentiy at Umfuli, Mashonaland,, a very rich gold mine was found un­ der old workings, fronv which the an­ cient miners of this region must, it is thought,have extracted large quanti­ ties of gold. Who were these old workers? One theory is that thev were ^.rabs of a period preceding the birth of Mohammed. The ruined Poisonous Honey 1'ioui i'laitta. There are certain plants which <0 ieg flowers that make not only poii / sonous honey but also poisonous waifc i Cases often occur ol- persons beir^jf-. made ill after eating honey and the. cause is sometimes attributed to iljjf •; digestion, but more freouently tljir- cause is found in the ho'nev itself* the bees having fed upon poisonous, flowers.--Paris American Register. \ ---: : WHE'N a man makes a proposUtot?-| *>" and you accept it promptly, he is uj|^? | • comfortable because of the fear he has not asked enough. ' !> " / ' . & t : '•Mti'M. Ik >•:&'