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Austria's Imperlat Pawnshop. Austria has an. Imperial'pawnshop. It was established In Vienna in 1707, •when there was great distress among the poor in the southern part of the empire* It'was designed as a way to secure to the starving some means of immediate relief, and hy putting the rate of interest as low as possible and the valuations as high as possible, and emixjdykig iu the system every ad­ vantage that •could be given to those who sought to .make loans, it was found to .be so effective that it soon gained the tmpea-.'jd sanction, and it was not loftg _untii its managers were made pulkiic officials under the direction of; the Minister of the Interior, This is •substantially tbe status of the .institu- • itioii at this time. The rates are so low i that the business 'doue on the cheap' ;gopds and chattels of the poor could aiot .possibly make the establishment •self-sustaining; .but people who have •been suddenly wdueod in , circum­ stances or who are temporarilj* embar­ rassed keep the margins on the right «ide :ands-enabVe the institution to keep opoa without the aid of a subsidy. In •the year lS93 .a total of 860,015 articles were pledged, and of these 848,o(»2 Av.-re redeemed, a remarkable redemp­ tion as compared With the proportions, of the average pawnshop. The unre­ deemed pledges were sold at public auction, and whenever they brought more than the face of the pledge the "balance was set to the account jpf the; pledger, to be refunded any time with- in three years.--London Standard. - SHE STOOD IN X RAYS, And Thns Delayed the New Scheme of In»ptttln(f BtKinige. • They had just got the new scheme for inspecting baggage by X rays 4ii operation and the haughty young woman who had just got off the steam­ er was waiting to have hers inspected. Furthermore, she thought there had been more delay than was necessary and she was somewhat provoked. Con­ sequently when one of the officials mo­ tioned her to step a little to oue side she declined to move. There was a short consultation among the officials and one of , them •finally advanced toward her. "If madam would kindly v he be­ gun. "SHr!" she Interrupted, haughtily. "It would lie a great favoi* if y<>® would more a little," he said, rather diffidently. "Why should I?" she demanded. "It it decidedly presumptuous .In you to speak to me at all. I've been waiting here fifteen minutes for my baggage, and during that time you haven't done a thing but stand there and look at me and talk to the other inspectors." "The fact is," .explained the man in the same diffident way, as if something worried him, "that you are in the way." "Of what?" she asked. "It seems .to me that you are the most impudent set of officials that I ever knew. The idea of asking me to move as a mere liiat ter Of- convenience to you.! There's plenty of room to inspect the baggage without annoying me, and you ought to be at work at it now." "But we can't," • protested the man. "'Yon see we don't open the trunks any more. We just put them under the X rays and inspect them that way." 'Well, why don't you do it?" she de­ manded, irritably. . "Because, madam--because--" The inspector fidgeted about ner­ vously. "Because," he continued at last, "you're standing right in the raj's now, where we want to put the trunks." There was a scream and the place was vacant. rACTS"mj,yu !,liliiij«»»ng. Kills 200 People er'nd Deitroye Prop* r «rty W6rth *»,f*00,000 YeWrly. a From a repoi^fisaUedtby iditoeaon of itihe Secretary of AferieUiture" ftiaeems that the average death rate from light­ ning in the' United Sta tes: is a trifle more tbait-ifi^tqifraiofckmlly ail of the fatalities oectir'iH thfe- moffrtlis of April, May, Jiuie/ifuly, August and Septem­ ber. The nSftilAiurti ^dehth rate occurs . in June and Jtflyf T8ier& have been a few people killgd in November and December,-hut the weather Bureau has no record bf a deathsfnMn figlitiling in .Tanuary or February. The finafiolul'-hwlS 'ierbiii Awes caused by ligbtnifl^ !for <e4g4it y^artjsaveraged a trifle more than<$V500i(K)6 ger year. I-Aghtnit&'haS'A prefe¥Ai<*e' for some soils. Thufcl'Hvht^Hhe soil is of a chalky forinati&ii lightning wdll strike but one-seventh as often as where the soil is sand. Clay soil will be struck twenty-twit*'thWfes-ttf >(Mce in t'he Chalky formation ^ The bolt^'ftFsb* luiVe%'^reifeYenee for certahi tr^es.«!- Oaks are struck more freqtiently •th^ah'Afty other trek, and the birch is ra^ly a S'ictim.1 tV does not! seem possifel^ th^'fek' ti^s are struck ! more tbaribSi?ty'» tim& tb oiie '• beech | tree, but tlife #etltber bureau reports! dhow _ sue^tb^'^ie "vhse. Pines are struck abo'&t Soh^-thifrt " Pa s" often as oaks. " 'irtv r" The dan&fe? ftwu ligiitiiiing is much less to the cit^ than in tiie <wimry, the ratio being ahout one to five, in a ret-' ord of eighteen deaths due from Ug.lit- ning one; was-killed inside* £ building, eleven wei^oiitdobrS atid six"were un- der trees. ' ' As a nile lightiiftLg;'ftia»t ^tT'ilkes a tree does ho further damage. In only three cases out df^'e^hhudred dud the bolt, jump from 6W tree7 to ahother. Lightuiing ^does not: always "strike" the earth or; aii* evilly" object. Occa­ sionally the discharge is'from the earth to the cloud and more often the electric current merely passes frdhi one cloud t o a n o t h e r . < * The elephant, in a wild state, ft mi nocturnal animal, tarely. if ever, stir-i ring iu the daylight from his haunts ln[ the shady forest, and, when domefcti-. cated and compelled bto work or travel? in the day time, his enormous size «nd{ dark color cause him to be a great suf­ ferer from heat. To relieve himsetf the? animal has contracted the habit of: withdrawing from his stomach a tlty of water by means of his trunk, which he then squirts over his hack and sides in order, by its evaporation, to. cool his skin. As this process is jre- peated on an average of once in every Ave minutes, and as the. elephant's Ata is not good, his efforts to keep cool cause considerable inconvenience to Ids riders, who are frequently sprinkled by the water, though the fluid is quite clear and has no offensive odor. The habit is acquired in domestication, for tt is not known to be practiced by ele­ phants in the wild state, and Is alto­ gether one of the most singular in nat­ ural history.--St. Louis Globe-Demo­ crat.,' " • Speeches to the Conei essional RecorA Which Were Never Uer.ve>«»d. The grearter part of the contents of the Congressional Record these days,: sfys the Kew York Sun, is composed of belated revisions of remarks made in the HOuse while the Diugley tariff bill -was under discussion, or post­ mortem observation ou the general sub­ ject of the bill, which are printed by authority Of the House contained lu the special order adopted for regulating the consideration of the measure in the Hofi8e. It provided that for twenty days subsequent td the final vote on the passage of the bill members might print in the Record extensions of re­ marks made, in the debate, or, if -they so desired, speeches, no part of which had been delivered. This practice of' granting "leave to print" has come down to the present from the mists of • antiquity, as it were, and no one knows ; its origin. It is and has been grossly, abused, SLIK! at times has been the Occa­ sion of .animated discussions in the , House as to .the right of a member to insert remarks he never made lu the House. Representative Wheeler of Alabama , holds the record for expansion, under , "leave to prlut." Getting the floor for a single minute on one occasion, mem­ bers were astonished to see in the Rec­ ord the next morning that injthat. inin- ute he had delivered himself of about four pages of the Record, a space which ordiuarily covers an hour to an hour and a half of the proceedings. Dr.. Hunter, a member from Illinois, whose speech on the tariff bill appear­ ed recently, seems likely to. give the genial Alabamian a closebrusli for first place. His post-mortem effort Rovers twenty-five pages of the Record, and is believed to be an unequaied perform­ ance iu its line. , , ; The withholding of speech^ for re­ vision, a practice also sanctioned by hoary-headed precedent, is subject to criticism. There is appareutly .no rule regulating the matter, and the conse­ quence is that the Record occasionally fails to fully record the.proeeedings, A member on one occasion made a speech, the newspaper report of which formed the basis of an attack by his opponent in the next campaign. The Congressman denied having uttered the remarks attributed to him, and ap­ pealed to the Record to sustain him. The challenge was eagerly accepted by his rival, who, not being up to all the tricks of Congressmen, was covered with confusion at his failure to find the alleged speech. The member had sim­ ply "withheld ,his, remarks for revi­ sion," and then calmly pocketed them. In the old days of the Congressional Globe the reporters of debates were the victims of this practice. Among the traditions at the Capitol is one iu which the late Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, at one time Speaker, was the chief ac­ tor.. The story goes that at one stage of his career Mr. Banks was a pupil of a teacher of elocution in Washington, and he sought every opportunity on the floor of the House to practice the art. Many of these speeches, evidently, he did not care to embalm fdr posterity in the enduring record of the House proceedings. After having concluded he would ask the reporter to withhold the manuscript from the printer and give it to him for revision. These speeches, it is related, he never return­ ed and subsequently a ehestful or two were found in his room. In those days the Globe reporters were paid $4 a col-, umn for their work as it appeared in print, and it cost them about $1 of this to transcribe their notes. So It may easily be Imagined that that part of the tradition is true which avers that when­ ever Mr. Banks rose to speak a groan traversed the reporters' bench. Dual Southern City. "My residence in Texarkann Is on the Arkansas side of the town," said B. M. Foreman, recently appointed post­ master of that city, in conversation the other day. "The line that separates Texas from Arkansas runs through the middle of the town, and the total population, approximately 15,000, is about evenly divided by the boundary mark. There are two mayors, of course, and two distinct city govern­ ments, but the dual situation works without the least hitch or friction. If a man on the Texas side breaks a State law and crosses over on Arkansas soil, he is arrested by the officers there and held until a requisition can be had from the State authorities, and vice versa.--In the gieut majority of cases the man arrested will go back without troubling the officers to get a requisi­ tion. Our city is In a thriving condi­ tion and does an immense lumber bus­ iness. In Texarkana and its neighbor­ hood are some of the largest sawmills in the country. Th& construction of the Port Arthur road--the line from' Kansas City to the gulf--lias been of immense benefit to us."--Philadelphia Inqufrer. Inferior Sponges in Demand. There is a scarcity in Florida waters of the best sponge, the "sheepwool," and the returns to the sponge fishers have been gradually lessening. A like scarcity in other waters Is indicated by the increased demand for inferior sponges, which have heretofore been >oked upon as comparatively .worth­ less. One of these, the grass sponge, is very abundant in Florida. ' It is of coarse texture and has large interna 1 channels, but has proved to be a fair, substitute for the better sponge. A de­ mand for it, both in this country and in Europe, has resulted in Raising its price to tiie fisher from 28 cents to 05, cents a bunch. Its gathering is profit-, able at 50 cents a bunch, and the de­ mand for It has infused new life into a Florida industry Which has been lan­ guishing for seven years. He Escaped. A bishop of the Methodist Church ?ras preaching a sermon on the vanity <»f dress, and incidentally alluded to people who wore velvet and gold or­ naments. -- ' V After the sermon a distinguished member of his conference approached him and said: "Now, bishop, I know you were striking at me, for I have ri. velvet vest and a heavy watch chain." The bishop smiled, passed his hand over the vest, touchcd the chain, and then said, with a merry twinkle in his eye: "No, really, Brother B., for tiie vest you wear Is only a cotton velvet, and I am half persuaded that your watch chain is brass."--Atlanta Constitution. Most persons think their "trade" is so valuable that merchants would fail should they patronize other stores. MM Of THERM, $75 One Standard One Price Try Allen's Foot,-Ease, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen •and hot. and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet .and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves •eortis and bunions of all pain and^gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by ail druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 6. Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y. /eKBM kr tbc ntfi pattern. y N\ 'JMILVH Tie second eapkarises tiB'mW the (act Uiat m Mean I) ̂ bay aa 1897 CsftaUa By V\ II I cheaper (baa jm. Jul I rememfcer tkese two facta. ILIMJ 1896 Colnmbias, $60, Hartford Bicycles, de except the Coimbia. $50, $45, $40, $30. POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Com. Catalogue free iron any Cofaabia dealer; by salt The attention of AI>VERTISER8, MANU­ FACTURERS and PRINTERS is called to oar superior facilities (or turning out FIRST- CLASS ELECTROTYPIN Q ~ or STEREO­ TYPING. We guarantee satisfactory and prompt service in these lines. ? , flnurDTiQrDQdesirinsaiargeorsmatt nUVLn I luLnd number of Electrotypes of an advertisement should get our prices bo- fore placing their orders. We make a specialty of DESIGNING and ENGRAVING ADVERTISE­ MENTS for all classes of trade. MANUFACTURERS types of Cuts for Catalogue Illustrations will find it to their interest to,communicate with us. DDINTTDQ havins lonS runs of presa* I nlll I LIU) work, which can be lessened by duplicating forms, and thereby save th« wear or type, will make money by having their pages electrotyped or stereotyped. We ca* return forms in six hours after receipt at our office, accompanied by plates of the same. There la a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN^O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without dis­ tress, and but few can tell it from cof­ fee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15c. and 25c. per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-0. Pearl Fishing in LOwer California The value of the pearls found during 1890 on the coast of the gulf of Lower California amounted to $350,000. Be­ sides these,-5,000 tons of mussel shells were exported, the value of which was estimated at a fhrtlier $1,250,000. Pearl- fishing forms the'sole occupation of the natives, and La' Paz, the Capital for this trade in the peninsula, is supported entirely by this industry. - •OUR LINE or- 'TWISTED AROUND THE PISTON, HIS HAND STILL GRASPING THE . ' ' VALVE." Is thp largest tc be found in the West, and wm make a specialty of furnishing Headings for all classesof publications. Specimen books, show­ ing the Targest assortment of Newspaper Head­ ings ever exhibited, will be sent to Printers andi Publishers upon application. Frank King, paid in advance fpr a stay of three mouths, and requested that he be left to his own devices and not ask­ ed to join in any of the convivial af­ fairs for which the Squire's hostelry was deservedly famous. Down in what Is now « tbickly pop­ ulated residence district there Is a spring that furnishes water for half a doaen factories and their employes. At that time it was surrounded by a dense growth of underbrush, and was a fa­ vorite spot for hunters, game of all kinds abounding. To this spring Frank King would go every morning, rarely returning for dinner, and frequently staying there all night. He carried with him nothing except ills cane, which, indeed, was never out of his reach. Squire JDickson spent--many hcurs guessing what might be the busi­ ness of his reticent guest. At last, con­ vinced that It was his duty to investi­ gate; he said one evening: "Mr. King, \ve%want to know what brings you to Dickson and why you go so frequently to McFarland's spring." "Well, sir," replied King, "I'm go­ ing to build the biggest flour mill this side of New York. He said no more, but began writing letters to lumber and machinery houses In the East, the destination of which "Squire Jim" shrewdly guessed at the postoffice. In a few days workmen ap­ peared from Nashville and began the layingoof a foundation that covered half an acre. King directed operations, knew just what, lie wanted and how he wanted it done. Car loads of lumber and machinery began to arrive, and every man and team for miles around was engaged to help build the mam­ moth mill. Even "Squire Jim" left his tavern to the care of,Mrs. Jim and ac­ cepted a situation as boss carpenter on the new mill. It was a big under­ taking, and attracted attention from all the papers of-the State. Men be­ gan flocking to Dickson,, and other smaller industries were commenced. Meanwhile Kin^retnained non-com­ mittal. He had 110 friends, no visitors, told his business to no one and said nothing of his former life. His work­ men were paid weekly, and his supply of money seemed inexhaustible. No one could tell where it came from, and finally it was accepted as a matter of course, though one or two detectives came from the city to take a look at the man whose past was so well con­ cealed. In December, 1867, the mill was completed. By this time Dickson could boast of a population of nearly 300, with a brick church and school, all the result of King's mill. No sooner was the final touch of the painter's brush applied to the huge sign that covered the entire four-story front of the building than King- gave up his room at the Dickson inn and moved nto his big creation. It was not known when the mill would start. Everything was In readiness with the exception of engaging help and obtaining pro- ed to pay taxes until some heir came to claim It. Last week a pale-faced woman, whose every movement spoke of long- endured and great sorrow, registered at the now metropolitan Anderson House, which stands on the same spot once occupied by "Square Jim's" primi­ tive tavern, sjie is perhaps CO years old, though her silvery hair and care­ worn expression gave the impression of 70. On the register she inscribed: "Mrs. Annie Welland, Northampton, Mass." 'While curiously enough the old mill sign Is plain: "Annie Welland Mills." Mrs. Welland tells her story this way: ".Tust after the close of the war, while living in Boston. I met nnrt wn« married to Frank Welland, a Lieuten­ ant in the Federal army. His home was at Northampton, where we at once moved. He had been wounded during the war, and had just recovered after a long attack of brain fever. He was heir to a large fortune, a portion of which he insisted upon making over to me. The rest he converted Into gov­ ernment bonds and carried in a large cane made for that purpose. We had lived together but a few months when Frank was again afflicted with brain trouble. One of his hallucinations was that he had charge of a large mill which he must run without help. One dfy he disappeared, and though I have spent thousands of dollars and travel­ ed all over the country, I could find no trace of him. In June of this year I came to the Tennessee centennial. While in machinery hall one day I heard two men who were looking at the milling machinery exhibits talking of the old Annie Welland mill. I ask­ ed them where the mill was located, and they told me the story of Its build­ ing. I hastened to Dickson, and am now satisfied that my husband and Frank King are one and the same. How he got to Dickson I will, perhaps, never know. "I shall not do anything with the mill.^tle must have named It from the Wstnbry of his love for me, and it shaft &tand as he left It until time or a'fccident has worked Its de­ struction." Mrs. Welland has gone home, after ordering a monument placed at the head of her husband's grave. Mean­ while, the old mill stands bleak and bare, its timbers falling away, itl doors and windows gone, a habitation for rats and mice, bats and owls, a ghost­ ly, weird skeleton, rising high in the midst of progress, Itself an ccho of the mysterious man who builded to his own death, and the life-long heart sick­ ness of a loving woman. 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