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THfc'tttAVELINa MAN. fH»»t»wUap npat ' «|>A WBown MMtOKlckapotk Insvwrv !oni!. . could dampen fcfi blu*- down. bit courage stet* f«d fir. lie journeyed widtir v fftwr traveling maa, ^ llwktiow enrh "IOCRIV cre#Tis'. te»the brandies ran; iMSOiroacterl vith traiu« expects# |vOften as any 0110 can. , «J|r Tha landlord smiled as ho s&tv hi» taejr ;';;- For hp ordered much iwid well, ~.y ww*1* And the fat barkeeper awoke from llttp IS* ^ ' And Ititened for tlio boll; And til* yarns were great which U sat lp lata By tlM'ftn at night to tell. Be got up at the earliest dawn . • To catch the early worm, .t ' .v Of bustle and hustle and perietal rDfltp* - He aeeuied to have the gerrn, . Al>d he won such a name he toon bMlMlt# -fr A member of the firm. . F And soon he bought hia partners out, 80 ricii hud he become. And he hel<l in blocks ot gilt-edged stocka A comfortable sum. • With a house near the Park--I may gegUUX That It cost a pretty plum. r4'; %-r • Asd yet McTockey, merchant piiocti * ^ By R«te BO lichly blest, - * ' - Appeared not pleased, but was ever seized With spirit of unrest ... And he sjioke with praise of his traveling daya When life had such a zest. 60 he telephoned his wife one day _ t •'« X With a cheery hallo, hallo, ^ • , • And a brisk good-by and a ready liayt v "On business 1 must go, . •• And I'll be back, on Tbe Central trsclfe fn almnt si uAAV ill' ilA " • :' a: In about a week or so." And it worked so well. I've heard him tell, Tho habit now he's got, When matt ers drag, and his spirits sag, And he doesn't kuow what is what, • , He seizes his grip and takes a trip To some secluded spot. Ufa friends don't know, and they'll tell you so, Where he in truth resides, He's off to-day for the f-'agiienay. Or where the cowboy 1 iUes ; Sunshine or rain, he takes a train, Whenever his fancy guides. And he's happy now as the day it long, And Care seems under the ban; For he now commutes on a dozen route* 'Twixt here and Michigan. And he never is glum, for he has become Again a traveling man. -- H~Y. Sunday New*. IS?" AN OBLIGING BANKER Billy Haven was no ordinary burg­ lar. His theory was that if a man wished to make a success of his pro- takewhtoh could easily be cleared up. fhe other two alleged police­ men #ould then search the house vm- Her the protection of a bogus search warrant, and quietly secrete all the valuables and money that they could lay tneir hands on. The inspector then intended to tell Mr. Slider that, because of his protest, he would not take him to jail, but he must under­ stand that he was under arrest, and that he might have to report to the head officer when called upon to do so. Billy imagined that the time which must intervene before the news of the unwarranted arrest reached the real police would givo him all the opportunity he wanted to cover his tracks and secrete his spoils. This plan worked admirably up to a certain point, when Billy and is pals were treated to a stupefying surprise. The man at the porter's lodge tremblingly admitted theottlcersof the wlshftjk Tbe sure tljat yon y#r girt of the compact The four men were spetdily inside the room, and their eyes opened as they saw the glitter of the tirold. The inspector briefly detailed to them the point of the bargain, while the banker looked from man to man and listened anxiously. » "You agree to thfs?" said Billy, and each" or the men nodded. "You will have no lurther trouble from us, Mr. Slider," said Billy Haven, politely, "at least for twenty- four Hours." The banker drew a deep breath of relief as each man took some bags of gold and quietly departed. A few days a'ter the papers were filled with the startling an* nouncement that Mr. Slider, the well-known banker, had ab­ sconded, and that an enormous amount of money was missing. Investigation of the books showed law into the grounds. He was then i that he had been preparing for flight rather than his muscle. The conse- ' quence was that Billy, by strict at- ^r" tent ion to business and the endeavor • ' to please customers, soon began to Mx build up for himself an enviable repu- », tation among the police They never - •{ caught sight of Billy or his pals, but J' they always recognized his handiwork , by the neatness and dexterity of it. ^ > They did not even know his name, > . but they called him among them- / selves Billy Haven, out of respect for the memory of a detective of that name, who was especially good at tracking crimes ot a kind whose f origin was obscure and the clue to p : which was not visible. They I said " •; among themselves, when their atr ^ tention was first directed to the kind ^ \ of burglary the new burglar was do- J&fVing, that this was a job Billy Haven • would like the unravelling of if he f : ^ were alive, and so they drifted on, never getting a sight of the burglar, M V until the crimes were called "Billy Haven jobs," and finally the un- t known cracksman came to be called ? Billy Haven. ||x| As a general thing* where Billy in?; Haven was at work" the inmates of .V % the house never knew a robbery had ^ been committed until next morning. Billy and his gang left almost no traces of their visit except the disap­ pearance Of the most valuable things in the residence. At last these neat burglaries ceased, and there were no traces of Billy for years. It is proba­ ble that the authorities would never hare known any particulars about Billy's career if it had not been that a convict dying in one of the prisons told about Billy's last and successful coup, which enabled Haven and his gang to retire into respectable but monotonous private life* Billy, it seems, had long looked with hungering eyes on a large man­ sion that stood in a lonely part of a lonely suburb. It was entirely sur­ rounded by a high brick wall, and Bitly felt that if be and his mates ever got inside that mansion they could work in uninterrupted security. Inquirv showed Billy that it was the residence of Mr. Slider, the well- known banker, a man intimately con­ nected with numerous prosperous companies, and a man of great re­ puted wealth. Billy's investigations led him to the knowledge that Mr. Slider was a most careful man who had arranged every electrical appli­ ance then known for the discovery of a burglar. He appeared to realize that if once a burglar got entrance into the big bouse the family would be, compari- tively speaking, at his mercy, and so It was that every window was pro­ tected by half-a-dozen different de­ vices. The door-mats and passages were so arrange! that after everybody went to bed the lightest footfall oh any of them would ring a large bell in the tower, would telegraph a warning to the nearest police-sf>ation, and would set more gongs ringing all over the place than a burglar who was at all nervous cared to hear. Billy realized then that the ordi­ nary methods of a burglar would have a tendency to fail if applied to tbe big house standing in its own exten­ sive grounds, and so he resolved that when he and his pals entered the house it would be by the door and not by one of the windows, and it would be at a time when the family had not retired to rest. Billy's plans, when matured, were very simple. He obtained the cos­ tume of a police inspector for himself and the clothes of an ordinary police­ man for each of his four pals. He got, likewise, a \^ry good imitation of a warrant for arrest, made out in the name of Mr. Slider, Billy was the man of brains in the gang, and the other four realizing this, did ex if fc .i fkj-: " P*.V". ordered to lock the gates, which be did, and one of the policemen took the key and remained in the porter's lodge with the man and his wife, who were certainly very much fright­ ened. Another policeman was left to guard the entrance of the house, while the bogus inspector and the re­ fraining policemen rang at the front door. The person who admitted them was also terrified at the sight of their uniforms. Billy asked if Mr. Slider was at home, and was in­ formed that he was in the drawing- room. He then asked that he and the officers might be shown there without being announced. Mr. Slider was sitting in an easy- chair surrounded by his family. He turned his head round when the door opened without the customary knock, and when he saw the uniform of the inspector a ghastly pallor came over his face. Before the inspector could speak, he held out his hand and said:-- 'One moment please." Then, turning to his wife, be remarked to her in a low voice: "Take the chil­ dren to your own room and stay there till I come. I have some business with this gentleman. Don't be alarmed. Everything is all right I had an appointment with him, but forgot to mention it to you." The pale woman and her fright­ ened children withdrew, and ^Slider stood alone confronting Billy an<f his two pals. '•I am sorry to say," began Billy, "that 1 have here a warrant fOryour arrest All the entrances areguaided, and, of course, you understand the futility of making any resisance." "Quite so, quite so," said Slider, huskily. "1 appreciate all that" "I have also a search warrant here, and while I stay with you my men must have a look over the premises. Do you wish me to read the warrant to you?" "It is not at all necessary," said Slider, in agitated voice. "I have no doubt but it is quite correct. As for searching, I have no power to pre­ vent that; but before you begin I would like to make a proposal to you, Inspector. You look like a shrewd man. How many policeman have you with you?" "I have four," answered Billy. "There are five of you altogether, then?" "Exactly." "Now, Inspector, i am a man of business, and, as you know, a man of great wealth. I would like to have a few words with you in private. Would you kindly ask these officers to step out of the room a moment?" "That is harldy regular," objected the inspector. "1 know, I know," 'answered the banker, hurriedly, "but I think lean make it worth vour while to do what I ask." "Rogers," said the Inspector to the policeman beside him," you and Beu- ham just step out for a moment into the hall, but come at once if you hear me call." Rogers and Benham saluted and withdrew without a word. When tbe door was closed Billy stood with his back against it and Slider re­ mained standing near the fire. "If I had happened," said Slider, "not to have been at home when you came, what would you have done?" "1 presume," answered the Inspec­ tor, "I would have tried to find out where you were without arousing sus­ picion, and if that could not be done I would have had to come at some other time." "Precisely. Now, what will you take in gold to go back to the station and report that you have not been able to find me?" "That would be a dangerous busi­ ness," said Billy, quite honestly. "I can make it worth your while to run the risK," said Slider. Give me a start of twenty-four hours, and that is all I ask. Now, how much?" Billy hesitated and pondered for a moment. "What do you say," he said at last, "to $25,000 for m and $15,000 apiece for each of the men?" "That, would be $85,000 in all," said tbe banker. "Well," said Billy, "suppose we make it $100,000 as a lump sum! If you say $100,000 in gold, it's a go." "I agree to the $100,000,,rsaid the banker after some parley. • Can you make sure of your men--of their si­ lence?" "Reasonably sure,"answered Billy. •The only question is. can we have the money in gold here and now?" "1 am not sure that lean give you all that amouut in gold, but 1 think lean." He consulted a pocket-book he had with him. and added tome figures. "Yes," he said. "I can do it" "Very well," said Billy, "it's a bargain." Billy called his pals, and together they accompanied the banker to an­ other room that contained a large safe, which Slider opened. He took for over a year, ana rumor has it that he is now living somewhere in South America. But that is use of the things about which nobody knows anything definite.--Frank Harrison's Family Magazine. - Rainfall and Population. The results of the last census hatre shown that the distribution of the population in the United States is regulated by the abundance or scar, city of rain. The largest part of the population is distributed in those regions where the annual rainfall varries from thirty to forty inches. These comprise three-fourths of the people. The density of the population di- minishes very rapidly where the amount of rainfall differs consider* ably in either direction from these figures, which may be taken as of mean value. Greatest density id found where forty to fifty Inches of rain fell yearly, the number of inhabitants in such districts being fifty-nine per square mile. Where the rainfall is thirty to forty inches per annum the mean density of population is 4&1 per square mile. The dry regions of the east, where less than twenty inches fall in a year, which includes two-fifths of the territory, < contain actually less than three-hundredths of the people of the Statea The population has multiplied most rapidiy with a rainfall of twenty or thirty inches, in the great plains extending from Texas to Dakota, where the density has increased from 16 to 18.1 per square mile* These figures show that, as might naturally be expected, in the variety of climatic conditions found in the great expanse of territory constitut­ ing the United States, those most favorable to increase the number of inhabitants are a moderate tempera­ ture and a-moderate-airnvia^ rainfall. Following a National Precedent. A good honest fellow, in his way, was Bill Botts, but he had never had an opportunity to study moral phil­ osophy as i£ is taught in the colleges and universities He came from Btddeford in Devon, and very likely some of his ancestors had helped Drake "wallop" the Spaniards. He had followed in their footsteps by enlisting in the navy to fight for his Queen and country whenever called upon to do so. When he returned from a voyage to China he brought with him a pres­ ent for a gentleman who had been very kind to his old mother during his absence. It was a curious fash­ ioned Chinese garment made of bits of a species of straw strung together. "Plase, sur, you must excoose un being torn," he said bashfully, when he presented it, "the Chinaman wouldn't part with un aisy." He had run across a Chinaman wearing it somewhere in the streets of Hong Kong, and the unfortunate Celestial not understanding his sum­ mary request to "Hand that over here," he had simply yanked it off him. To the suggestion that his conduct had hardly been consistent with strict honesty he replied: "Beggin' your pardon, sur, he wuz only a haythen, an' I never heard that taking things from a haythen counted as stalin." "Well," replied hio friend, "if many illustrious Englishmen had not acted on that assumption I don't know where the British Empire would now be. so I'il keep the heath­ en's garment" THE HEALTHYgDRUMMEft. <It No 'i&ae Whatever for UrdlM^ 'v l*reciMitlon». "How'm I feeling?" echoed the drummer as he hung up his overcoat, changed his hat for a skull-cap and sat down with his traps occupying the other hair oi iuc to state that I haven't reit so wen for three months. I'm just picking up fat at the rate of three pounds a week. Excuse me a minute, please. Ten drops in a little water three times a day." "Is it medicine?" "Well, hardly. Something the doctor fixed up to guard against rheumatism, you know. Some of the boys carry a regular drug store around with 'em and dose from morning till night, but I'm not built that way. Trouble with me is I'm too well. Beg your pardon, gents, but I came near forgetting my capsules. One after each meal and another on going to bed." COAL. FLEET-FOOTED ZEBRAS. bu& as we shall be crossing over liito Canadn and changing climates at about that hour it's well enough to be on the safe side."--Free Press. Yankees Don't, Liike Work. ^Rie Yankee's antipathy to work has never yet been adequately appre­ ciated. He is in a state at rernetnal i insurrection against the primal says a writer in Scribner's Magazine He feels that he was bjrn to sit on the fence and whittle in the sun­ shine, and he is against every appar- Mit necessity that would compel him to forego the serene p'easures of a purely contemplative existence. He recognizes, to be sure, that work has got to be done. No one has a more vivid realization of that But the conciousness of the need of getting things done does not impel him to take his coat off and do them, so much as to contrive some way of ac­ complishing ends without working. The crudest way of doing that is to get rich enough to hire labor. Ac­ cording y, tb.e Yankee does try to get rich, and doe3 not try in vain. It is Medicine?" was asked again. i t ii,ot „ I '*««» <tuu noes nob tr.v IU vaiu. xi/ JS "Oh, no! Ho! JOstallttJewmo- not that he loves money so nrnch and A Do* HAciroa in nnccnaj if «>a thaf VIA Invla thing to prevent flatulency, as lieve the doctors call it. .Keeps up the supply of gastric juice and aids digestion. I've known men in my line who began dosing and doping right after breakfast and kept it up till bed-time, and most of their com­ plaints were imaginary at that I never did believe in making a dump­ ing ground of my stomach. Let's see! Did I leave that box behind? Ah! Here it is! Hold one in tbe mouth and let it dissolve gradually," "No medicine there?" \£Jot an iota. Simply soda-mints to take the wind off the stomach. I didn't want to bring 'em along, but the doctor insisted. Had to laugh over the case of that Boston drum­ mer who got smashed up on this line the other day. He had enough bot­ tles and boxes about him to start a country drug store. That's the way with four-fifths of the crowd. They are not on the road over a year be­ fore they imagine themselves victims of a dozen different disorders an^ be­ gin to doctor accordingly. For in­ stance, I know a feller in the»hftsiery line who . Excuse me one mo­ ment, gentlemen. Eight drops twice a day on a lump of sugar, and I don't want to miss it" "Remedy for anything in particu- lar?-' "Hardly. It's a little something the doctor , fixed up for the liver. Not that I need it ail, but the liver is an organ which is apt to get away with you if not looked after now and then. As I was saying, 1 know a fel­ ler in the hosieiy line who starts out of New York with a regular medicine chest. Cost him $32 to outfit it, and has to refill every two weeks. desires to possess it as that he lovfes labor so little. But to get rich is only an indirect way of beating the tyrant. The Yankee would rather abolish work than elude it. If he can get it done without human in­ tervention at all he likes that best and if he cannot wholly eliminate human intervention he wants to re­ duce it to its lowest possible limit. When he gets matters fixed so that the work is done w.th very little in­ termeddling, he is willing to sit by and supervise the process. He will put a lever and turn a co -k now and then without much complaint, if so be it that he can ruminate and whit­ tle. His name is a synonym for en­ ergy anfr perseverance. But to make things work together for the auto­ matic accomplishment of labor, and to sit by and see that they work right--that is the Yankee idea of tho mission of man. Jtlonkey'c* Dread of Snakes. Of snakes, large or small, Bob has always stood in abject terror. If he is held firmly and the snake is placed near him he, looks piteously in tho face of the keeper, and sometimes, more in sorrow than in anger, he will bite if he is not let go. At one time a snake in a paper bag was shown him. When the pap3r bag was after­ ward left near him he would fur­ tively approach and open it, to peep a moment shiveringiy into its depths and then retreat ignominiously, only to approach for another peep when he had summoned sufficient courage. A live salamander was placed on the table by bis side. This he looked , at with a great deal of interest, La#t | tinally taking it in his hands with actly as he told them. They were in a perfect, state of discipline, and had i out several bags, and, taking down a the utmost confidence in Billy's in-1 pair of scales from the top of the safe, genuity. The plan was this:-- i saidi/- Tbev were to obtain entrance into I "You may weigh tile bouse about » o'clock in the« " ~ evening, in perfect legal form; the i inspector was to arrest Mr. Slider, who Bright, of course, be indignant, but tbe conspirators expected that the respect a banker has for the forms ot law would at least insure the sub­ mission under protest, and while the inspector stood guard over the ar­ rested man, two of the alleged police­ men were to bejposted so that no one could leave the bouse, even if Mr. Slider wanted to send a messenger away, which was not likely, because of kit certainty that this was a mis- this, and you'll find it*correct There are ten bags1 here, and they each contain $10,000, "Open all of the bags," said Billy, cautiously. Tbe banker did so, and Billy ran a handful of gold from each of them through his fingers and found everything correct "How much does a thousand weigh?" he asked the banker, and, on receiving his answer, placed one Of the bags in the scales. "It is a pity to break bulk," said Billy, "£ think we will call it right" "Very well," answered the banker. "Suppose you call your men in. I Rejected Manuscripts. Mr. James Payn has heard that the proprietor of an American magazine, wishing to test the literary taste of his editor, caused to be sent to him a short poem of John Keats', with a note saying that it was the work of a boy of 13. The editor, according to the story, declined the poem. Probable he praised it as showing ' *a promise of better things," but re­ gretted that it was not adapted to the present wants of the magazine. Mr. Payn remarks with justice that the proprietor's trick was a remorse­ less act "What can that editor think of his proprietor?" he asks. But he proceeds to say that there are many things in tbe British classics that have not deserved to be printed once, and much less twice. He remembers an "able editor" who rejected some lines out of Thom­ son's "Seasons" which a young man had sent him as original. The would- be contributor considered it a fine joke upon the editor, and a friend of the young man took up the cudgels in his behalf. "You didn't print the verse J>e- cause, of course, you knew they were Thomson's," he said, "though you didn't think it worth while to say so." "No, sir," answered the editor, blandly,' "they were not rejected on that account I did not know that they were Thomson's, but I did know they were dull." This, as Mr. Payn justly remarks, '"was taking the bull by tbe horns, or rather tbe young ass by the ears." Japan May Now Have Old Maids. It has been the law in Japao that if a woman was not married at a cer­ tain age the authorities picked out a man and compelled him to marry her. The Mikado has just abolished this rule. Henceforth Japanese women may enjoy the privilege ef old maidenhood. Whether they will or not is another question. -- New J tarrh at that hour. York World. time I saw him he had a list of thir­ ty-two ailments and expected two or three more next day. I don't want to misjudge a fellowman, but I'd be willing to bet ten to one that a doc­ tor would pronounce him a perfectly healthy man. And I know a chap in the hardware line who is still more of a crank. He is. Beg pardon, gentlemen. Any of you wish a nib­ ble?" "It looks looks like a root Doctor recotnmend it?" "It is a root--golden seal, they call it No, the doctor didn't ex­ actly recommend it, because I had no ailment to be cured. It's a great stomach tonic, you know, and is a tfood thing to enrich the blood. I chew a bit about six times a day, but I really don't need it, of course. As I was saying about this hardware chap, he is a perfect picture of health, but he imagines he's a physical wreck. I saw him throw a 200-pound (nan over a saloon bar in St Paul one night, and half an hour later he was in his room writing a farewell letter to his wife in Philadelphia. He was dead sur^ he had spinal meningitis and couldn't live the night out Ha! ha! ha! It's enough to make a horse laugh to know what strange fancies get hold of men. What! By George, but what a fool I am! No--here it is. Don't let me interrupt you, gen­ tlemen. I simply happened to no­ tice that it was 10 o'clock. Let's j see? From seven to ton drops in a j little water twice a day, and on going to bed if thought necesssary." : "You are not taking medicine?" i "Bless you no! When anything ails me I'll go to a doctor and be i treated in a regular rational way. ! Our old family physician, who has made Bright's disease a specialty, in­ sisted on my bringing this along, i am taking it simply to? oblige him. Don't suppose any of you ever ran across a fellow in the negligee shirt line we call Drug Store Jim? He j for a couple of travels for a New York house, and ot j scarcely say that all tbe infernal cranks you ever saw he caps the blimax. I rode with him from Detroit to Chicago one day last summer, and during tbe trip he took thirty-eight doses of mediclue, each one lor a different ailment A doctor told him he was . Gentlemen, please excuse me My liver pad has slipped down against my electric belt and sort of grounded the wire, so to speak. There--it's all right now." "Jla^ you any faith in those; things?" ! "Not gjoajcticle, but as tbey were ' presented to me by warm personal! friends in the trade, I feel obliged to I wear 'em. As I was saving, a doctor! told Sim he was dosing himself to • death, but the cuss wouldn't >>e ad- j vised, and was found dead in the! sleeper between Chicago and Mil-j wankec. When tbey came to post | mortem on him they found his blood ! turned to water, his muscles all gone j and his bones as soft as dough. He had doctored himself to death. It's all nonsense this dosing and doing. When a man's perfectly healthy . Excuse me. Oat I was trying to rub the wrinkles out of that porous plaster on the small of my back. When a man's perfectly healthy be wants to let himself alone. Beg oarden, gentlemen, but this head­ ache wafer was handed me this morn­ ing by the inventor, wno wanted me to try it and report. I haven't had a headache in five years, but I always like to oblige my friends. While I'm about it I might as well take one of those powders for insomnia. I sleep like a brick, and it takes two men to wake me up in the morning, but the doctor is a good friend of mine, and I'll try it to oblige him. If I happen to doze off I hope some of you will wake me at 11 o'clock sharp. I've got to take a little something for ca- Havcn't got the many precautions. When he saw how inert it was he laid it down and lost all interest in it. Toward a flat skin of a coyote and one of a wild-cat used as parlor rugs, Bob showed tbe same fear as in the presence of the snake. If one brought them near him he would jump wildly about or cower in terror behind a chair. This instinctive fear is ap­ parently an inheritance from the ex­ perience ot his fathers, whose king­ dom was in the land where tigers and snakes were dominent and dangerous. A similar skin without hair and eyes he cared nothing for. At one time he climbed on the back of a chair to get away from the coy­ ote skin. The chair was overturned j by his efforts. He saw at once that j when the chair fell it would carry i him backward to the coyote, so he I let go of the chair, and, seizing his chain, swung himself out of the reach of the coyote, while the chair was al­ lowed to go over. This was repeated afterward with the same result- Popular Science Monthly. Bismarck in I'aris. I recognized many faces that I had got to know at Versailles during the siege. I saw Meiningens, and Hohen- zollerns, and Altenburgs, and Lippes, and Heuss, and Pless, and Schoen- burgs, Waldecks, Wieds, Hohenlohes, and Mecklenburgs, and other names that are written U rge in the Chroni- he Fatherland. Inomou Production of tfce Mian of United States. A bulletin has been published by the United States geological surrey setting forth the Coal production of the country in the conrse of the year, fvlljCb •"!»?!? f\p- ures. From these it «pmai» tluii, tbe j total production of all kinds of coal in 1892 was 160,115,421 gross tons, or 179,329,071 net tons. This includes the coal used at the mines in the work of operating and ventilating them. It also includes the coal con­ sumed by the employes at the mines. The anthracite coal producing States are Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia. It is unneces­ sary to state that Pennsylvania leads all other sections In its production of anthracite. The other territories mentioned produce so little of this kind of coal that they are h&rdly worth consideration in this respect, though tbe smailness of the yield in some cases is due as much to the lack of enterprise in developing their re­ sources as to any other reason. Of the total productions of anthra­ cite Pennsylvania furnished 46,- 850,450 gross or 52,472,504 net tons, tbe value of which is placed at $82,- 4j2,0:j0. That would represent but a little over $1.50 per ton, the value at the mouth of the mine. By the time it gets to the consumer in Chi­ cago it has increased more iiian four­ fold. Colorado's production of an­ thracite was 02,863 net tons. There is plenty of anthracite in that State, but the attention of those engaged in developing its resources has been so engrossed with silver that they have hardly thought their coal resources deserving ot consideration. New Mexico furnished to consumers but 2,100 net tons during the year. The weather is so warm down there all the year round that coal bills do not cut much figure iu the expenses of t e people. Virginia produced for the year only 057 tons of anthracite, a quantity too small to be noticed in the general supply. The production of Pennsylvania n 1892 increased by 1,013,758 gross tons, or 1.807,Q73 short tons over that of 1891. The in­ crease in value was $8, 497,285. Bituminous products for 1892 amounted to 1.13,20-1,971 gross toi\s, or 126,856,507 net tons, tbe value of which was $125,124,381. This was an increase of 7,996,000 gross tons, or 8,955,529 net tons, as compared with the previous year, the increase in value being $7,035,981. This pro­ duction of coal gave employment to 341.943 persons exclusive of the num­ ber engaged In its distribution. Of this number 129,050 were employed in the anthracite mines and 212,893 in the bituminous mines. The aver­ age number of days the former worked in the year was 198 and the average number of days the latter were em­ ployed was 219. The average work­ ing time of both was 212 daj». ^DR. D. O. FRUTH, ' face except the tip of hisNjBjjfogi j the ends of his mustache. Th?re he ' sat motionless, evidently in deep | thought After I had watched him minutes--I need haviug discovered him, 1 ceased to look at anybody else --he raised his head •slowly and fixed his.eyes on top of the Arch, which was just in fiont of him. some.eighty yards off. In that position he re­ mained, once more motionless, for a while. I did my best--he was only tbe thickness of three horses from me-- to make out the expression of his face, which was then fully exposed to me; but there was no marked ex­ pression on it. At that moment of intense victory, when all was won, inside surrendered Paris, with the whole world thinking of him, he seemed indifferent, fatigued, almost sad. -- Blackwood's Magazine;> • faintest sign of catarrh, you know, . * Noses in liieu of Scalps. ."Lea Mangeurs dez NeV Is the name of a gang,of rurtians of Paris, which has just fallen into the hands of the police authorities there. Not content with garroting and robbing all the unfortunate people whom they could waylay at night in de­ serted streets and dark corners of thft great French metropolis, they also b^t JotT the noses of their victims which they carried off aud attached to their caps in imitation of the red Indian scalpers. Several persons waylaid in the early Hours of the morning in the lonely suburbs are now in the hospitals minus tbei' noses. "Do YOU enjoy holidays?" said Johnny's uncle. "Yes, sir." "What do you enjoy most about them?" "Kein' able to stay home from school without bein; sick." WK have noticed that in every con­ versation there is something about "finding out" people. JIOW GOOD and free feel when some one scolded! from fault we else .,1s being Sudden Recovery^' " Mrs, Lucinda Ems was a good woman, and a ' church member," but not a perfect saint She was quick with her tongue, but in all other respects was commonly a little behindhand. When Mr. Ems' car­ riage was seen starting for church the neighbors knew it was about ten forty-five. Service began at ten- thirty, and tbe Ems' always arrived shortly before i leven. Mr. Ems, it should be said, was by nature quick of movement and given to punctu­ ality. Mrs. Ems was an invalid--"a pro- fessional invalid." old John Han­ son used to say, when her case was mentioned. If nothing else ailed her she was "rather run down." Sometimes she had a cold; at other times her appe­ tite was poor. She was "never very strong, you know," and there was no doubt that Doctor Turnbull esteemed her as one of his most profitable patients. At somewhat regular intervals she took to her bed and made ready to depart There was no uncertainty about it; the end was near. But hitherto she had recovered, and as was perhaps natural, the neighbors d even her husband became used, er a while, to seeing her upon her ithbed. rfhe Is dead indeed now, good wo- n, and her husband, too; but the vnspeople still relate the manner which she was once raised sudden- $rom what she had confidently of as her last illness. She had been in bed for three days, and as she herself said, was "grow­ ing weaker every minute." She called her hustand to her sid& "lam going, Benjamin," she said id a feeble voice. "Don't mourn for me too much. We sha'n't be separ­ ated very long. I shall be waiting for you on the other shore." "Well, dear," said Mr. Ems, who saw nothing so very alarming in Lucinda's symptoms, "well, my dear, I hope you won't get out of patience waiting foi me up yonder; but if the time seems long you can^, remember that in this world I always had to wait for you." The unexpect d retort gave the in­ valid's nervous system just the need­ ed "jog." She sat up in bed the next minute, and in half an hour was in the kitchen. •:±- V ^v./r-v VJ A New insect Kncmjr. We have just received from a fruit grower in the Hawaiian Islands a box containing several specimens of a very destructive leaf-eating beetle. It is a species of the Diplotaxus, and as yet is unknown pn California, Specimens of leaves accompanying the beetles show that they feed upon the peach, orange, grape, in fact any and all kinds of fruit trees. To de­ stroy this beetle nse twenty pounds ot sulphur and live ounces of Paris green, or in like proportion; mix well and dust over the plants or trees, though we would not recommend the use of Paris green on peacb trees. Our quarantine officers should watch importations from these islands and prevent the introduction of tfttt insect pest into the State. We are informed that thta reached the Hawaiian Islands Japan, and it is there known "Japanese bug," or leaf eater.--Cali­ fornia Fruitgrower. A MEDICAL journal tells of a man who lived five years with a ban ia his head. We have known ladles So live twice as long with nothing btri "balls" in their head& llwto llMh of Speed When AlarmMj^! th« Wbb of m Rifle Bali; " 7'- The rapidity with which the differ­ ent zebras have been exterminated, owing to tbe advance of civilization in South Africa, is shown by refer- t-ift-i- iitj sucil wuiisH us lintv *.?i oi« uwrnwaiiis Harris written in i»4y, in which the author tells us that the quagga was at the time found in "in­ terminable herds," bands of many hundreds being frequently seen, while he describes Burchell's zebra as con­ gregating in herds of eighty or 100, and abounding to a great extent; but now, after the expiration of but fifty years, the one species is extinct or practically so, while the other has been driven much farther afield and its numbers are yearly being reduced. This author's description ot the com­ mon zebra is well worth repeating. He says: , Seeking the wildest and most sequestered spots, haughty troops are exceedingly difficult to ap­ proach, as well on account of their extreme agility and -fleetness of foot as from the abrupt and inaccessible nature of their highland abode. Un­ der the special charge of a sentinel, so posted on some ad acent crag as to command a view of every avenue Of apnroach, the checkered herd whom 'painted skins adorn' is to be viewed perambulating some rocky ledge, oil which the rifle ball alone can reaciH them. No sooner has the note of alarm been sounded by the vidette, than, pricking their long ears, the whole flock hurry forward to ascer­ tain the nature of the approaching "'anger, and, having gazed a moment at the advancing hunter, whisking their brindled tails aloft, helter- skelter away they thunder, down craggy precipices and over yawning ravines, where no less agile foot could dare to follow them." Of Burchell's zebra he says: "Fierce, strong, fleet and surpassingly beautiful, there is* perhaps, no quadruped In the crea­ tion, not even excepting the moun­ tain zebra, more splendidly attired or presenting a picture of more singu­ larly attractive beauty." Zebras are by no means atofablo animals, and, though many of the stories tdld of their ferocity are doubtless much ex­ aggerated, they have BO far not proved themselves amenable to <tft mestication. • < „ ; 1 A Very Hot Bath. Prof. Nippold, who was formal yeart at the head ef the law school the Tokio University, says that much of the healthfulness of the Japanese is due to their habitual use of very hot water in bathing, and that, by comparison, nations, outside Japan hardly know what a hot bath means. The Japanese take their morning tufc at a temperature of over 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and immediately after­ wards douch themselves with per­ fectly cold water. Herr Nippold de- Clares that after a bath of this heat Und the subsequent cold douche, he used to feel warm all day in the cold­ est winter weather, while in summer the bath had the exactly contrary effect, and was most cooling and re­ freshing. One of the most remarka­ ble water-cure resorts in - Japan is Kusatsu, where the boiling sulphur springs bubble up out of the earth at a temperature of 158 degrees Fahren­ heit a heat which appalls even thO Japanese, At 5 o'clock in the morn­ ing, all through the bathing season, a great bell announces to all patients who are ordered to take boiling baths that their time of ordeal has con>& In the middle of the bath house is a huge basin, filled .with the sulphur water. The bathers cluster around, throw water over their heads, and screw up their courage. The decisive moment comes when the head bath­ ing official gives the word of com­ mand. ^Chen all who have the nerve, and many have not, to subject them­ selves to the scalding liquid answer in chorus, and begin to get into the bath. This is done as gradually and slowly as possible, because the more the water is moved about the more it scalds, inch by inch the bodies disappear, till at last tbe bathers are up to their necks in water. Then they stand motionless. To keep up tbeir mettle, tbe head batbman, who stands in the middle of the bath, gives uotice every time a minute has passed and the victims respond in chorus, "Two minutes more," or whatever the remaining term of trib­ ulation may be, and when the time is up, they all rush and scramble out of the water at a rat? tnat Is a i cur­ ious contrast to the pace at whic^k they go in. Industry of the Fathers. In view of our present mode life the customs of our immediate progenitors as givten below seem very old-fashioned indeed. Regarding the early manufacture of nails a New England authority says: "The first nails produced In the United States were made by hand, and Fisher Ames of Massachusetts, in a speech made before Congress in 1789, when it was proposed to put a duty of a cent a pound upon all imported spikes, nails, tacks, and brads, in or-, der to foster the home product, said of this industry: "It has become common for the country people in Massachusetts to erect small forges « in tbeir chimney corners, and in winter and on evenings when little other work can be done, great quan- tities of nails can be made, even by 't children. These people take the rod %\ iron of the merchant and return him %% tbe nails; and in consequence of this f<: easy mode of barter, the manufac­ ture is prodigiously great. This S business might be prosecuted in ^ * similar manner in every State exert. ' N M»K«iual industry." & A Long Watt. , '^"[<1 Saint-Foix, the French poet had a large income, but was always ia debt. Much of his time was spent dodging creditors. He sat one day in a barber chair with his face lath* ered and ready to be shaved when one of his largest creditors entered the shop. The man saw Saint-Foix and angrily demanded the monef^r due him. ^ "Won't you wait until 1 get * shave?"' quietly inquired the poet f "Certainly," answered the other, pleased at tbe prospect of getting thin ^ money. The poet made the barber a wit­ ness to the agreement and calmly " wiped the lather from his face. Us wore a beard to bis dying day. mmm lUkiMMaw. IMi