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THE PLAINDEALER J, VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. itoncftRY. ILLINOIS TKSrFAREWELU _ ilsniiiil ^ What, tomorrow? goodiieHH knows, for how l««t . Jack, twould appear that dry sorrow dtoeeren you, sir, a wrcng. was a rather excited little boy that bade his motner good-bye an hour j previous to "8 a m." on Saturday, j and that hour of waiting until it j should be time to p esent himself j was the longest one in Pennle's his­ tory. He felt rather nervous, also, j as he thought of lacing Mrs. Hark- j ness,whom he had always looked upon i as a very mysterious lady, holdiug, ! No 60 nmlghO be late e*oagh so that the freight couldi make Ftolvilie the meeting point. He transmitted several messages loft by the agent and received several ot the usual style of long, verboose railmsd messages In good shape. Oc­ casionally a freight train would rum­ ble bv, but none stopped, and he was bee I iniing to think the duties ot a Ha, ha> ba, what a joke, air I , , 1*ft Mabel, or .>enuy, or Nell? - ,,, ' VIM ram you ar« wr< ug; hold ni y cloak. «fV" Am 1 sot an old friend ? Come now, tell. ^ttejrfnce of our set broken-hearted! Wbetajnke! Who rejected you? Speak! Ml you look like t.bat, Jack, whra yon partedt Waa that pallor of death on your cheek t 1mm interest me. Tell me about It, id tot your old chum, sir, coutole. Isid bit in the heart, 1 don't doubt it; Ylra w are made for that sort of a role. 'il.0. MA you be nd on your knee like an afctor, Hardly knowing just wi.ere to begin? Waaae&r mamma's consent tho main factor? Wlmv a fool the poor giil must tit'.ve beeal waa she? What!--1--You were jealous? U,J«rk, who'd have thongbt such a thing? •uNe been certa nly not o\er /onlous; Bat. kiss roe. and where is the ring¥ Sartford Chat. HOW BEN SAVED NO. 60 WAHTED--Bright boy to deliver messages am) take i are of oflice; miall wages, but privi- kgeeJ li oming telegr iihv is desired. Applv t* jsctbob t.f:er S a. m. o'a Saturday to Mrs. HarkH83*, Manager W. I". Tel. Co., Kennels- mBa. Surh was the advertisement which appeared in the local columns of the Kennelsvillc Weekly Intelligence , and greeted the quick eye of Bennie tirant as he read his piother's copy of MAC paDcr on his way home from tho jostonice. '•1 don't know whether I'm a bright boy or not," he said to him- •elf. *but it strikes me that I can de­ liver messages in Kennelsville for •mall wages pretty nearly as well as anyone " He thought the matter over very carefully. Vacation bad just begun, •Bd the idea had just begun to dawn »pon him that it was high time he hegan to do something to aid his motner in her brave struggle to pro­ vide lor her little family. Bennie was only 14, but there were two sisters younger than he, and one sturdy lit­ tle ti-year-old brother. Five years be­ fore, when the sturdy little 6-year-old was but a mite of a baby, Richard Urant, Bennie s father, suddenly dis­ appeared!. There were no suspicions ®f foul ptay, and there was no mys­ tery about it at all. Clever, haid- working, genial "Dick" Grant had fallen into evil ways. From a good husband and father, who provided plentifully for his family, from a man whom every one respccted, he as she seemed to. the lightning in j niuht railroad telegraph operator a her grasp. He walked by the door j "snap," as he expressed it to himself, several times before he mustered up j when he was somewhat startled to courage t > go in, after the hands of receive this order: the town clock pointed to 8:01, an J Dispatcher* OSce. 1:25 A. it i*#*' j.i!i%ij|ii^p!J|t^|'i|iiii.i . Operator Fl Hold No. VU until No. ar­ rives. ISA. It. L. Bennie repea*«d the order to the Idispatcher. prefixed by the numeral **1 •, '* which means, or rather used to luean. "I understand to," whi.h is the response to "13*" "Repeat how you understand.** He had b en noticing by the re- rorts on the wir^ that Na ( 0 had lost time ever since it left Roches- porr, and though 13 was also very j late the dispatcher evidently deennd it possible for the ifreight to make! folville without delaying the limited j a great deal. I "Hun to Folville regardless of No. ' fcO." was the order he heard given to Ka 1.", at a station somedistance up the line. lor the first time the sense of his great responsibility came over him With full force, and the thought of What, might happen if he should be negligent tilled nis mind with terror. The n ght bad come on dark, wet, and dismal A drizzling rain fell drearily and incessantly, and the 6witch lights by the side of the track shone blurred and dimly through the mist, throwing a faint inflection upon the wet rails. It was a sort of night which every old railroad man hates cordiallv. It was before the day of automatic semaphore signals, and Bennie was just getting reauy to start down the track with his red lante n and his torpedoes when a slight noise caused him to turn around suddenly, and he was startled IT WAS EXCITING WOBX. when he did he found six other lads about his own age wa ting to inter­ view the lady manager. One by one they were called into the mysterious o.t ce behind the rail j to discover two men standing quietly and talked to. JRennie's turn came . in the office. Their appearance was '* VsL f: V: w ft MXAD TH* PAPEB OS TH* WAT HOVE. bad sunk, through the influences of wild companions, to the level of the worst ot them. Those were hard times for Mrs. Grapt, but she loved her husband, ajfcl even -when the days •eemed darkest,shfe always had faith that some time he ^ould i e made to see the error of his ways aud be him­ self again. - Then came the burglary of the lo­ cal bank. There was always a doubt whether Richard Grant reallv toot part in the robbery or not, but that he was in some way implicated in-4 it was reasonably certain. Anyway, Ite disappeared, and nothing had since been heard of him. No partic­ ular effort was ever made by the •Dicers to follow him up, as the •tber burglars were captured with •lost of the stolen money, and they denied that Grant was in any way Implicated. When Bennie entered Ura Grant had just finished arrang­ ing the table lur the simple evening neal, with the little high chair do6e beside her own, Jennie's place 4t ".he end and the chairs of the two sibters on the other side of the table. There war. one place, with the arm chair, always left vacant, as Sf the father might come back at any moment. Bennie came into the house rather more silently and slow­ ly than usual. The thought of ac­ tually beginning the struggle of life ha earnest gave nim a pe uliar feel­ ing of dignity. He kissed his •tother, but did not say a word. He Hit the paper down u|.on the table aim silently pointed to the adve - tiwiuent. Mrs. Grant set the plate •f bread down carefully to balance butter plate on the other end of •he table, drew her glasses from above her forehead, and %/ith her arm loudly about her boy read the aotice S6e pressed a kiss on tbe top of the cu.ly Httle head, while a youd look came into her eyes . "Would you like to trv it Bennie , HOT?" she asked. ' "Honestly, mother, I would," he ! applied eagerly. "It's vacation time I B»w, anyway;- and I've always' thongbt that I would like to learn to ' telegraph.. i" might as well be do- iag that and earning something as fttoling tbe whole sum iter away." • *G©d biess you, my little man," aakl the mother, fondly, and so it was settled. T&ere wasn't any particular reason Why Bennie should have risen the aext morning at half-past 4, for the aotice in the paper said distinctly * after « a m." But be did. Per- laps you may have been stimulated •a early rising by some such import- ai* «yeut youtseU som$ Ume. n last or all. Whether Mrs. Harkness was pleased by his manner,or whether it was because he came last and the others had tired her out, Bennie never knew. But after a very few ques- |ijns be was engaged at a weekly salary of $2.50 and the privilege of learning telegraphy during odd mo­ ments. XeVer was a messenger more faithful. Never was there a more marked excepWon to the proverbial slowness of the class, and never was there a student of the art more apt than the youth that this little tale is all about. The "learning telegraphy" part of Mis. Harkness's bargains had been found, by former messengers t:> Le more or less of a delusion and a snare, but for oncc at least she took an ac- | friend?" asked tual interest in a vstudeni." In less j spoken first, than two months, under her careful (ruidzfbee, Bennie bad transmitted his first message, and it wasn't long after that, being left alone for a time in the office, that he answered the re­ peated calls of "Kn," and actually received a message all alone, "break­ ing" only three times. It was exejt- ing work, though. From that tiuic his progress was rapid. Mrs. Hark­ ness found that she was able to go away quite frequently for several hours and leave Bennie in sole charge, and he obtained quite a reputation up and down the line as the youngest operator on the circuit. It is easy to believe that Mrs. Grant was proud ©f her son. But when school opened again in the autun n it took a long time for Bennie to convince her that it was much better for him to keep on contributing to the support of the family (his family he had come to call iu, and (rather his education in actual service, than it was to .waste time over books. He finally did con­ vince her, however, much to the de­ light of Mrs. Harkness. One afternoon while Bennie--they called him "Bn" on the wire--was finishing up \|he regular evening's grist of messages Mrs. Harkness, who was working on another wire, came over to his table and laid this mes­ sage before him: not reassuring. Both wore heavy beards, evidently false, long over­ coats and slouch hats, and they were drench d by tbe rain. For several minutes Bennie could not speak. Then he asked the men In as steady a vo ce a> be could command, what they wanted. "Will you kindly tell hs what or­ ders you have for the 'limited' to- nignt9" queried on of the men. Bennie pointed silently to the or­ der book. ^Both men Lent eagerly forward to read it. "Well, if that ain't great, ex­ claimed one of them, slapping the other on the back. '-Just tbe thing. It'll save us a heap of trouble." "Where is 60 now, my young the man who had Dispatcher's Office. Bochesport. 6 P. M. Mrs. Harknt's-s. Mgr., "Kn." A number of our regular operators are Sick and my regular men are all oti dutv. I need a man .-it Folville to-night. Can >-our "Bn." go? If so wiro me qui k and send him up on train No, li. lliis message will pass him. A. R. LASE. Dispatcher, e. & L. K. R. •'Do you8upuose that I can do it?" queried Bennie, anxiously. "Wby. of course you can, dear," answered Mrs. Harkness, smiling proudiy upon her clever pupil. "But I never was in a railroad tele­ graph o^ice in my life " "No matter. Keep your wits about you and you won't have any trouble. Ko. His due at 8:2o. You have thirty minuted yo i trot home and have your mother put you up a good lunch. Good nignt and good lu k to you,'" and Mrs. Harkness turrg^i to her work again, .^o the dispatcher received a message which relieved I11 ***• vy; si#5' ^en- Supt. R. Forrest, also T. McD. ardsand Burton Wright. The foi­ ling named persons were elected to as judges: H8 A, B«-f Breeds--c. H. Thome p Collieon. ' "At Millport," answered- fiennle. "An:l 13'r" "At Auberly." "That's good, Jith. They'll meet on one of those curves west of the station. 1 guess we're relieved of considerable responsibility. All we A NOISE CAUSED HIM TO^UBH •UDDZXI.T. have wait. lit.'# ' 'That' Fred hi fti^9 gulRj JU]. sag* at tho i friend. "My nighjp map' has been sick a week," he sai(J,, i'.and j»ve wori£cd night and day 'for forty-eight hours now. 1 couldn't l>yep aWake anothor twelve*hours if tratns all had to stop running." '•Can I handle the work all right, do you think?" queried anxious ,'Bn." "Ob, yes, I guess so. It's almost all plain telegraphing. You may have to hold No. 60. If you do, here are the torpedoes and the r d lant­ erns" and with a few simple direc­ tions the weary agent went away to led. In spite of everything, how­ ever, Bennie was loost norribly nerv­ ous and anxioiis. Folville station waii a lonely place. The village was i several miles away, there were no dwellings within a half mile and, al­ together it was anything but a cheer­ ful place in which to spend the night* Bennie tried to interest himself in the time-tables and in listening to the routine wuric on the wire, which was all new and novel to him. No. 60, he lean ed, was the limited ex­ press, which was scheduled to pass at J: iO without stopping. No. 1 , a through freight, was carded to meet No. 60 one station further down the )rf$e. There was the posslb.litj that trace of genuine pity tn his voice; "hon-sstly l am: but don't you see It Isn't your fault JTou won't be blamed at all. We'll take ail qi the blame--won't we, James?" "Well, 1 rather guess so, a$l con­ siderable of something else, too, 'f that express car has got the stuil we're lookin' for in her." "Well said, James, well said. But upon my soul, young man, I'm sorry for y ou." "You'd better be sorry for your­ selves and what you've got to answer for," cried Ben, frantic with the hor­ ror of the moment, "and while you're about it you might be sorry for the husbands and wives and children and mothers yuu're going to murder for a little money--but may be v&a don't call it murder." "Why. no, we don't that's so," said the imperturbable man in the door­ way. "Bless me, ir you didn't look and talk then just about as my wife used to when she was trying to ex­ plain to me how bad I was. It won't be murder, my boy, it won't be mur­ der. Let me see, it will be an acci­ dent caused by the unavoidable negli­ gence of a. telegraph operator, w ho was prevented from performing his duty by an unforseen engagement HELD THE DACOITS AT BAY, THERE WAS JUST TIME ESOUQH. to do is just to sit down and s right. Sit down, young feller." "But I must go and be ready to flag No. 60." "Oh, never mind 60l She'll get along all right. No. 13'1I stop her." "But don't you see I'm responsi­ ble" < ried Bennie, almost frantically, as he tried to push by tbe men and was thrown violently back. "Well, now, I don't know about that," remarked one of tbe men who seemed to be the leader in the doubt­ ful enterprise, as he took a chair and t:p;ed it back directly in the door which led from the oilke into tbe waiting-room. The other nftan stole around and leaned pensivclv against j the door leading into the baggage- room, the only other exit. "I don't ! {L^w about that* Now, if you that ."Id ha: pen to be stricken down Kouirfieart disease, or suddenly fall and E-<>. "t the back of your head severely, a8>. wouldn't feel that you were rtally responsible, would you'/" iennie made no reply. •Of course you wouldn't--ofcoursc wouldn't; and in case vou don't sit right down on that cha r and keep perfectiv still someth ng very much resembling in general effect what I've just hinted at will happen to you." Bennie sank back aghast The whole (Chenie flashed through his mind in a moment. These men had contemplated wrecking the express for plunder; but if the holding order was not carried out the same effect would he secured and he would be re­ sponsible. Not 60 and No. 13 would probably meet just beyond the curve, and the thought of tbe terrible col­ lision which must ensue made him sick with horror. What could he do to save the train? Involuntarily his hand stole towards the telegraph key upon the table. "I would much prefer that von re­ frain from manipulating the instru­ ments," temarked the man in the doorwav in his extremely polite but meaning way. "Else he may get an attack of that 'ere hejrt disease you spoke about-- eh, pard?" added tbe man in the bag­ gage-room door. Poor Ben was almost-wil:\ bat the men in the doorways sat smoking calmly. "I'm sorry for you, young man," •aid the waltlng-roca ma yitb a which it was impossible for him to break--not being strong enough. Don't that draw it milder for you, my son?" To this beartlcssness Ben could not reply. He heard No. 60 reported as leaving the next station below, and No. 12 had left Millport some minutes before. In ten minutes they must certainly come together He must make one more appeal. "Think of how tough it'll be for me," he said with pathetic eager-, ness. "They'll say that 1 was asleep, and that it's all you could expect from a son of Dicic Grant. It'll iust break my mother's heart, that's what it wilL" Bennie buried his head in his arms and fairly writhed in agony, other­ wise he might have seen the sudden start which the robber in the door­ way gave. "I guess, Jim, you'd better be get­ ting up towards the curve I'll take care of this boy. and be with you when it's time," was what the man in the doorway said. Tbe other man hurried away without a word. Hardly had he disappeared inthe darkness when Bennie beheld a strange change in the man who re­ mained. ,4. ' He leaned excitedly forward and gazed long and intently into the lad's face. Then suddenly he cla-.ped him close in his arms for a single moment, and putting his lips clo^e down to Bennie's ear he said huskily: "1'here won't be any murder done to-night, boy. You tell your mother that Dick Grant has been bad, pretty bad, but he's never been quite so touubas that yet and he never will be. And you tell her that sometime when he's made right as jnuch of the wiong he's done as he€^n he'll come back aud help her to be proud of their boy. Now. you get out and flag that train. ¥ou've got just time enough." In another moment h^, too, had disappeared in the darkness. Fossils of Monster Toad. The labyrinthodon. a huge creature resembling a toad or lrog, and which lived in the earlier period of our planet's history, has recently been found in a surprising state of preser­ vation in the marl beds ot liuezel- weitz, Hungary. All species o; this gigantic frog are now extinct, and are known to naturalize only through the investigations of the geologists, who have often found parts of entire fossils or the monster in strata of the triassic portion of the mesozoic period. The specimen unearthed in the Hun­ garian mari beds is entire, with the exception of the left forearm and the lower jaw. The skull measures eighteen inches between the eye- sockets, and weighs, exclusive of the missing jaw, 312 pounds. Tbe bones whiih have been discovered up to date--and the e Is still hone of find­ ing the missiug parts--with the ad­ hering natrix, weigh 1,880 pounds. . A Fly's Foot* "It the foot of a lly is put under the glass of a good microscope," said a scientist lately, "it may be seen bow simple is the contrivance that seems able to defy the laws of gravi­ tation The foot is made of two pads, covered with fine, short hairs, with a pair of curved hooks above them. Behind each pad is a tiny bag filled with clear li uid gum, the hairs also being hollow and tilled with the same sticky fluid. As the fly glides rapidly over a smooth surface every step presses ou£ a supply of gum strong enough to give him a sure footing and to sustain him in safety if he halts. So strong is the cement that that upon one of his six leet is quite sufficient to sustain the weight of his who!« body. If he stands still any length of time the gum is apt to dry up and harden, and so securely fasten the fly's foot as to make a sudden step snap the leg itself." TKt Flackr Act of kn American »rr'« Wife In Barns ah. Among the arrivals at the Occi­ dental the other day says the San Francisco Examiner, was J. E. Case, , a missionary of the American Bap- wor^ a8 arc some of his masses^ - - - - jc £] ie I saltiis, - * • Mozart's '•Requiem," especially the ••pies Irae,** which moves us as few compositions do, and attunes the soul to reverence and worship. Such exceptions may also be found among Schubert's sacred compositions "Mi- raHtti'sSfinti of Victory" is a wonder! tist Board in upi er Burraab, who was accompanied by her two children and Miss Ma Mo Bwln a Burmese girl of about 18 years, and has had many te- markable, as well as very dancerous exieriences. She related some of them, while the native girl, arrayed in the queer costume of the couutry when -e they came, sat near by and gravely accentuated the story by sun­ dry bows. The children meanwhile climbed on her lap and talked in the strange language which they had learned in upper Burmah. "At the time I had my most dan­ gerous expericn e," siid Mrs. Case, '•we were living in the outskirts of Myingan, a town of l ',ouo people, seventy miles bolovv Mandelay, the capital city of King Theebaw. Nu­ merous bands of Dacoits were travel­ ing about committing crimes, rob­ beries, and inu dering the people. The Dacoits are really marauders: that is the meaning of the word ciavoit. The natives are composed of many different \ eople, as fo.- in­ stance, the Karens, the Chins, the Kochins, tho Shans. and the Buir- mese. Tbey are all, however, of Mongolian origin. The people in­ clined to rob would Ret a Bo, or Gen­ eral, and set but. jj^bey then moved about in many bands, especially in the district in which we were situ­ ated, and they robbed and killed people right and left My husband was away, and for several nights I walked the porch we had in front of our house with a revolver in my hand, not knowing what moment tbe Dacoits might come. I had no one witn me but the native girl and'a na­ tive man. All this time the different bands were going about killing, maiming, and robbing. If the vic­ tim resisted he was attacked, and maybe he would be anyway. If they got very angry at those who resisted they would cut their arms off at a blow, or cut them off piece by pie e with their hatchets. Sometimes a j man's arm was cut in half a do: en j or more pieces. There were many i other instances of great crueity. | Luckily for us we were not attacked, j though we hardly know how we es- j caped. King Theebaw, as has since been learned, was cognizant of the ' work of the Dacoits and even en- i louraged them, while he received a Efood share of the profits. But the British Government has taken him in j hand. .He has been deposed and sent j to India, along with his retinues, j wLere he is now receiving several ! thousand dollars a year. Things arc, therefore, changed in upper Burmah. It is peaceable and free from anything of that kind. PEACE OVER THE WORLD The Three Most Itecent Wars Were Civil W ars and Two of Them Were Short- New York Fun: F:om the equator to the pol s the world is in the en­ joyment or peace at this time. The civil war in Salvador, which laste i seve al wearisome weeks, has ended in the overthrow of President E/.eia; the civil war in Guatemala, which lasted for several months, ended in the overthrow of President Barrios; the civ 1 war in Brazil, which lasted tor about a year and a half, ended in the triumph of the government of President Peixoto. Last year tho French were successful in the war in Sia.n and tbe iinglish were success­ ful in the war agaiust Lobengula in Southern Africa, ana the Spaniards bad some lighting with the Riffs of Morocco. But it is many years since there were hostilities upon a large scale in any part of the world, and the people of this generation who can recall the last ruthless war between any two of the great powers, the Frarcj-German war, must have reached at least middle age. All of the war3 fought since 1871 seem i small ai-d inconsequential when com- j pared with the colossal wars which : were waged between the rise of Napoleon I. and the fall of Napoleon \ III. i At nearly all times, however, there j are apprehensions ot the outbreak , of hostilities in some parts of the ! globe, hussia may come into con- ! tlict with England in Asia or there | may be a falling out between France | and Germany,or kngland and France, i or Franco and Italy. The dreaded " Eastern question" may be raised, \ or the Egyptian question, or the Congo question, or any one of a ! do/en other questions pertaiuing to j natk/nal rivalries in Europe, Asia, or Africa. Within a very short period | both Koumania and Moroc o have attracted th.? interest of statesmen | and soldiers. The old saying that "a spark may raiso a conflagration" , is always in the * memory of every i European power. j But many of the incidents which : have been regarded as ominous with- I in lecent years have been closed without any violation of the public peaces and" perhaps some of these i incidents which awake apprehension in these times may also be thus j peacefully closed. At all events, the whole world is now at peace, and that part of it in which peace seems to be the best assured is the great and happy countrv over which waves the Starj Spangled Banner. t :o, he has achieved g eat things, especially the one for female voices in A fiat major, which is celest:al without worldly admix­ tures. It must not be forgotten, too, that the notions as to what if trulv sacred in Aiusic may differ1 somewhat among nations and indi­ viduals, like tho sense of humor.-- The Century. Chased by a Buffalo. Mr. Sclous, the redoubtable hunter of African wild beasts, while out one evening with his gun-carrier, wouuded a buffalo and followed it through the bush, which in some places was rather open, and in others very den-e. Finally they came close upon the buffalo standing in a mass of ever­ green shrubs. At sight of them the infuriated beiast charged with loud grunts. On he came, says Mr. Selous, liter­ ally within ten yards of me. I had no time to raise the rir.e to my shoulder, but swinging it round to my h ps, just pulled the trigger, and at the same time sprang to one side. At the same moment I was cov­ ered with a shower of sand, and some part of the buffalo--nose, horn, or shoulder--touched my thigh with force enough to overturn me, but without hurting me in the least. 1 was on my feet again in a mo­ ment, ready to run for it; but my ad­ versary was already on the ground bellowing, with a hind leg, evidently br ken, dragging |out behind him, and before he recovered himself 1 despatched hiln with a bullet through the lungs My random shot had broken his leg. But for that, as there were no trees about, he would probably have got me. Underground Railroad. The Auglo-Austrain Bank and the firm of Siemens & Hal»ke have sub­ mitted to the Board of Trade a de­ tailed Dlan for a Vienna underground railway. It is intended to be an electric narrow-gauge railway, with douDle rails, and should begin at the Danube canal, pass under the Cen­ tral City to where it touches the western suburbs, continue under tbe Maria Lil.erstrasse to the western terminus, and thence to the out­ skirts of the town to hchonbrunn and Jt^enzing. Between seventeen an 1 eighteen minutes would be the time for getting from one end to the other. The railroad would run directly under the pavement, with­ out touching the foundations of the houses. A single carriage, to be started at short entervals, is meant to convey forty passengers in ordinary times, while in tho morning and evening, and Sundays aud lete days two cars might be added. The bank would begin to build the under­ ground electric railway at seven points at once, and would complete it in a year from the day when the concession is granted. The Viennese, who have no megbs of com­ munication in the central part of the city, wish this undertaking every success.--London Times. A MAN stops hoping to be reward­ ed as be grows older, and prays that he will not be punished. PEOPLE Anally become frightfully tired of accepting the will for the deed. Forms of Religions Music. Besides the opera there is only one department of music in which Schu­ bert has not in some of his efforts reached the highest summit of mu­ sical achievement. His sacred com­ positions, although very beautiful from a purely musical point of view, usually lack the true ecclesiastic at­ mosphere--a remark which may be applied, in a general way, tollayden, and Mozart, too. To my mind, the th ree composers who have been most successful in revealing the inmo9t spirit of religious music are Pales- tina. in which Itoman Catholic mu­ sic attains its climax; Bach, who em­ bodies the Protestant spirit, and Wagner, who nas struck the true ecclesiastic chord in the Pilgrims' Chorus of "Tannehaeuser," and es­ pecially in the first and third acts of "Parsifal." Compared with these three masters, other composers ap­ pear to have made too many conces­ sions to worldly and purely musical factors--of course, not without ex- centiona. Ooe «t these exceptions is MIRACLE IN MISSOURI The Achievements of. Medical Science •ore Wonderful than tho Magic . v<n 'the ^p-v' *'1' r . > . i ' What Becomes of Law Students. The question of what be omes of all the law students who are turned out annually by the various universi­ ties throughout the country, and how they make a living in their chos n profession has long been a source of wonderment It is not generally known that probably less than 10 per cent of all the students to register at the beginning of the (ourse are ever admitted to tbe bar. Said a bright young graduate of the Law Department ot the university of Pennsylvania yestarday, in speak­ ing of this matter: "The class of 't>4, which has just graduated, num­ bered at first over ltiO embryo law» vers. Some merely registered an I never took a lecture. (others hun« on for a while and finally dropped out, and still others staid along ioi a year or two, some with the idea ot learning a little law which might stand them in good stead in mercan­ tile pu.suits. When the class finally graduated it had dwindled d ,wn to less than thirty. Of this numbei probably cot over ten will ever at> tempt to practice law, and of the ten about one-half will give it up at the end of tho first year and drift in­ to something else.--Philadelphia Kccord. Yale No Place for Poor Students. The average expense at Yale is $9(il lor freshman year, $1,099 foi sophomore year, $1,213 for junioi year, and SI,255 for sen or year. The editor of the Yale class book says: "It is arecogni/.ed fact that, slowly but surely, it is getting harder am1 harder for a poor man to get through Yale. And whether this is just sr for Yale alone t.bat she is gradually giving up her name for being the •poor man's college' or whether it is that life is growing more complex and that the price of a'collegiate ed­ ucation has risen proportionately at all other institut ous is a question we are not fully prepared to answer. That Yale is by^degrees giving up pome of he" boasted •democracy* and that it is getting harder for a- poor fellow to 'get his dues' than it once was is certain."--Kate Field's Wash­ ington. ' A Strange Flower. It is said that one of the strangest i botanical cuiiosities in the world is j ! the "Wonder-Wonder'" flower found; j in the Malay Peninsula. It is simply | a blossom, without leaves, vine, or j stem, and grows as a parasite on de-! ca'yed wood. This extraordinary j j flow r is something like a yard in I diameter, and has a globular cup in ! the middle with a capacity of five or six quarts. V'ienna. Vienna is of nearly circular form, beinir twelve miles in circumference. The old city proper, is, however, scarcely three miles round. It waa formerly.,.inclosed by fortiflcatious. Immediately outside of these was a ride isplanade called the Glacis, wliicti has been elegancy built un and is called iiingstra3se. one of most splendid streets in the world. Wlifi Remarkable Experience of t«r Woodson, of Panama, Ha--Fa Tea Years a Cripple--To-day a : Well and Hearty Man. (From the Kansas City Times.) „ , Tho people of Rich Hill, Mo., and vi« cinity have recently been startlea by » ' ' seeming miracle of heali ng. For years i one of the best-known men in .dates ; and \ ernon Counties has been Mark M. Woodson, now postmaster at Pana- L ma, and brother of ex-State Inspector of Mines C. C. Woodson, of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he for­ merly resided, and of his present home remember well the bent form, I, .. misshapen almost from the semblance J • of man, which has painfully bowad its head half to earth and labored snail­ like across the walks season after sea­ son, and when one day last month it straightened to its full height, threw away the heavy butt of cane which for years had been its only support from total helplessness, and walked erect, firmly, unhesitatingly about the two • cities, people looked and wondered. The story of the remarkable case has become the marvel of tho two counties. Exactly as Mr. Woodson told it to a Times reporter, it is here published: "For ten years I have suffered the torments of the damned and have been a useless invalid; to-day I am a well and hearty man, free from almost every = touch of pain. I don't think man ever suffered more acute and constant ajrony than I have siifce 188-1. The rheuma­ tism started then in my right knee, and after weeks of suffering in bed I was at last relieved sufficiently to arise, but it was only to get about on crutches for five years, the ailment having settled in the joint. Despite constant treatment of the most emi­ nent physicians the rheumatism grew worse, and for the last four years I have been compelled to go about bent half toward trie ground. In the winter of 1890-91. after the rheumaticm had ^ settled into its most chronic form, I went to Kansas City upon advice of my brother, and for six weeks I was treat­ ed in one of the largest and beat-known dispensaries of that city, but without toe slightest improvement. Before I came home 1 secured a strong galv&nic battery; this I used for months with the same result. In August, 189/, I went to St. Louis, and there conferred with the widely known Dr. Mudd, of hospital practice fame, and Dr. Kale, of thercit/ hospital. None of them would take my case with any hope of ailording me more than temporary re­ lief. and so I came home, weak, doubled with pain, helpless and despondent. "About this time my attention was called to the account of a remarkable cure of locomotor ataxia, rheuma­ tism and paralysis by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I ordered some of the pills as an experiment. When I began to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a phase of paralysis: my leg, from the thigh down, was cold all the time and could not be kept warm. In a short time the pills were gone, and so was the cane. I was able to attend to the duties of my office, to get about as a well and strong man. I was free from pain and I could enjoy a scund and restful night's slee|>, something I had not known for ten years. To-day am practically and, I firmly believe, per­ manently cured of my terrible and agonizing ailment. No magician of the Far East ever wrought the mira­ cle with his wand that Dr. Williams' Pink Pill-i did for me." To verify the story beyond all ques­ tion of doubt, Mr. Woodson made the following affidavit: STATE OF MISSOURI, { „ COUNTY OF BATES, F I, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn, on my oath state that the following statements are true and correct, as I verily believe. M. M. WOODSON. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ::d day of March, 1894. JOHN D. MOORK, Notary Public. " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale. Peoplo are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Sche­ nectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box, or Bix boxes foi- Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills aro never sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all druggists or di­ rect by mail from Dr. Williams' Medi­ cine Company. New Fad In Dtftt. Vegetarians are outdone by a new diet-reform prophet, who advocates the eating of natural uncooked foods. His name is Macdcnald, and he teems to have gained a sm ill number of ad­ herents in Paris. It is a part of the system he advocates never to eat or drink anything but vegetable foods and natural liquids, precisely in the state in wnich they aro found in na­ ture. Hot drinks of all kinds are spe­ cially condemned, although it is not quite ea y to tee how the use of water from natural hot springs would run countor to tho principle laid down. Carrots and turnips, beans and pota» tees, wo must eat i aw. it seems, if we value our health, and fruit we must eat just as nature gives it to ijs. Whether this means tnat we must net peel an apple is n t stated. Mr. Mac- donald himself eats raw catmeal (not oats), which, as a Scotchman, he thinks not only extremely nourishing, but palatable-as well.--London Daily News. „ A Pr<»il'«r Bride. It is claimed that a recently com­ pleted bridge over the south branch of the Chicago 1 iver is the only one of its kindtiin existenoe, and it is certainly a radical departure from common meth­ ods, tho principle upon which it works being that of raising or lowering a window. C'n either bank rises a tower of lattice-work 191 feet high. The bridge, 89 feet in span and weighing 300^ tons, extends betw een them, its ends fitting into grooves. It is fitted with counterweigh 18, cables, and pul­ leys, all of which are governed by a 70-horse-powor steam engine. When the bridge is to be opened the engineer throws off the balance, and the bridge rise 5 smoothly and horizontally in its grooves, halting at a height of 155 feet. It is probable that so ingenious a structure is by no means the last of its kind, as its advantages in oortain situations are self-evident. Cry from Manitoba. There are 16,000 bachelors in Mani- toba, and they send word through their government that if that number of England's "superfluous" women will emigrate to Manitoba the proceeding may be mutually advantageous to them ana the aforesaid bachelors. HAD friends and counterfeit arc hardest to change, For Paris' Great Fair. It is announced that Paris is to build, for the purpose of handling World's Fair visitor^ in 1903, a tubular railway eight miles long, in which trains will I run on two minutes' headway. Elec- > tricity will he employed twr moving ' the train*.