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'% 'Him, T&ipf /fr.~ Mary Thayer, a 1 little fretfully, to herself, "It does seem as If I shall hare to take Henry out of college. If some money would only fail out of the sky!" • ihe sat at her desk by the open win­ dow that overlooked the tiny park across the street. It was early spring, and the trees in their suite of freshest green told once agafn their never old story of life renewed, hope and faith In tbe future. The wholesome lesson was lost fc» Mary this morning. Not since she had been left to battle with life alone had the struggle seemed so hard, the pros­ pect so dark. The property bequeathed by her father viol dot! revenue sufficient for the ordinary needs of the family, which consisted of a brother ami two sisters, all younger than herself, but It leemed impossible, by the best manage­ ment, to provide for the completion of Henry's education.. This, to Mary and Aer sisters, was an all-important pro­ ject, but when the utmost sacrifices had been made/what more could be. done? isn't prepared to. take up pr?- ( That, I* twlef. satisfac- *ART WAS TOO HC&T TO REPLY." 1 : ... 'V l.mi< V'" F~, < f T „ m v ^.^r" fesslonal work yet," Mary continued, "and it doesn't seem right that he should be deprived of his opportunities Just that the rest of us may live along doing nothing." The girls were not "doing nothing" by any means; but in the light of their 1 ambitions for their brother all their f efforts seemed feeble and valueless, ffii present term at college could be finished, for all the bills were paid. It was the next year that was in ques­ tion, and as that was a long way off Mary sensibly decided not to waste any I more energy in worrying about it. fed she opened one of the drawers of - the desk, whieh had been her father's. ; jo get various documents bearing upon I insurance, and other business matters, i Tor the purpose of studying them. As "The drawer came open a piece of folded »aper feU to the floor. Evidently It had jeen caught in the bottom of"the upper ; Irawer and had been dislodged accl- lentally. Mary picked it up and un- tolded It, wondering rather idly what * waS. She could hardly believe her •yes. when she saw that it was a prom­ issory note made to her father for the <um'Of $500 and signed by Jacob A. lent. Several times she read it over >o make sure that she understood it. There could be no mistake. The note wax. in proper form, and though it was out overdue, there was no mark of tnt kind upon it to show that It had >een paid. Mary knew Mr. Bent slightly. He tad had business dealings with her fetjber, and the two were apparently friends. It seemed strange that iir.JBeat should not have called atten­ tat to tbe note at the time of its ma- :urlty, and paid It, for he knew the cir­ cumstances of the family. Perhaps be iad forgotten it; but if he had this veuld be an unmistakable reminder tnd, of course, he would settle at once. Mary's joy was unbounded. This in- leed was "money from the sky," and, >et£^r still, it was amply sufficient tc tolv(* the problem that vexed her most. Too. happy to keep her good fortune to lerself, she laid the note on the desk ind^ran to another room to tell her dster Flora about it. The sister, nat­ urally, could hardly credit the good tews, and after she had exclaimed iver it delightedly she went back with tb feast her own eyes upon the tote that meant so much to them. They found the floor near the desk Ktinewhat littered with papers. Evi- lently a mischievous breeze had been rutting capers during Mary's absence. With no thought of anxiety the girls ricked up the papers, and Mary looked !or the promissory note. She could not Ind it. All other papers that she knew iad been on her desk were there. V The tote alone was missing. V 'Tit. must have T>lown out of the win- tow," said Flora, faintly. Ttieir hearts were heavy with appre- iension now. and they both leaned out »f tile jwindow and craned their necks n Wth directions. There was no sign x the one scrap of paper they want- Id.'. They went out of doors and search- tbe entire neighborhood, rill to no purpose. At length the.v returned to jbe room where the desk was, and sat Tor a time looking at eaeb other in sl- <e»t despair. •!JI wish you hadn't found it, Mary," Jfild Flora. f This remark roused the elder sister. |t®d inspired her with courage. * she exclaimcd. "that isn't the £ray t© look at it. The finding of the tlon Mary, obtained from the call. With a woman's persistence .she lingered even afte* bebdismissal, pleading with Mr. lient to remember, and assuring him of her need of the money. He simulated sympathetic patience at first, but at last offended her deeply by ask­ ing her why she had not made her amount of the lost note $1,000 instead of half as much. . , Mary was too aiuazed.and hurt to re­ ply, and the further she went from Mr. Bent's office the more she suffered. There was npw an added incentive for recovering the note. It seemed to her that the money It called for could not be worth so much to her as the means of satisfying .the /nan of business that she was ntqt. trylqg to impose upon him. To this end she anjl her sisters made another search pf tlje house and neigh­ borhood. They made inquiries of all the people who lived pear, with the re­ sult that ,ash:barrtils weje overturned, scrap heaps scattered and Excursions of smalj. .bpg-s encouraged beneath stoops. H ••all -came to m&thing. The note had odfaappoaced, a ad the girls themselves at *ave up hope of find­ ing it. About ^ we^k had passed. Tbe little park opposite Mary's horaewas ringing with the exelted laughter of children. An employe of the park department was at work/there with"a bug extermi­ nator. It amusefl.tfte children immense­ ly to see him use his big squirtgun on infected foliage wherever, he found any. A g^od-nalured man. with chil­ dren of his ewn, he entered sympathet­ ically intb tliplr enjoyment and made things as merry for them as he could. He had a light ladder that he carried from tree to tree. A "Don't squtrt on t^e ^fr<Ts nest, mis- .ter," called out a youngster in the course of the proceedings. "Where? What rieStV' returned the ; - x> employe. , "Just over 'your' hMttrfto the right," explained fhe'ehifd."* The workman glanced rip carelessly, said "huh"' in a surprised tone, and then mounted, another rung of the lad­ der to inspect fhe nest more elosely. "Well, kids.", said he. "the bird who lives here is quite am aristocrat; and more than that, lie wants us all to un­ derstand it. "Here's a sigp on his house that says it's Worth $500!?' "Go on] you're guving ps," said the biggest tiby. and the ^'6thers, tasking their cue from him, declared that they didn't believe it.. v v "Then 'I'm blind." retorted the bug man, "and I never learned to read, and I can't believe my eyes. One of you can climb up here and see." There was a wild scramble for the ladder, but .the biggest boy won. He edged up beside the workman, and saW that in making his nest the bird had woven In a piece of white paper, and on the exposed surfaee, just as if it were a placard, were the figures "$500." The boy certified the fact to his companions, and they talked about the matter with tbe keenest interest. Returning from a trip/ to market, Mary Thayer overheard a youngster declaring his willingness to bet that there wasn't another bird in the city whose house was worth $500. She had striven to forget the, lost note, but the mentioa.4>f this sum aroused her curi­ osity; ^ppt- that she connected it with tbe not^but ti»at tbe amount exercised! 'A. PIKCK or - PAPKR FKLL FLOOK."' TO TBB PRINCIPAL REASON WHY PR6FEITOED. R*»wb» Offered by Header* I>o Spot Seem to Be the RMI One An Old Oriental Sentiment that Still Sur­ vive* Anion* Modern Parents* We have lately received a number of letters from readers discussing this question which, the intense interest in Dr. Schenk's discovery suggests^-Wlly are boy-babies preferred? The wftefs offer these reasons: 1. That It Is more expensive to bring up a gtH than a boy. 2. That when they are reared boys can earn more, and hence that they sooner become self sppportlng and able to give a helping hand to their parents. 3. That girls, after they reach their, teens, are a greater source of care and anxiety than boys--simply and solely because of their sex. In our judgment, however, none oC these explanations, nor all of them to­ gether, completely accounts for tbe strong desire of the average father and mother to have more male than female children. It is only the mature parent, with the experience gained in raising a family, who is seriously impressed with the fact that daughters are more expensive to bring up than sons. Young marr'ed people are, as a rule, far too sentiment­ al, sanguine and buoyant in their out­ look upon life to figure closely on the comparative Cost of rearing boys and girls. Yet ihe desire to have more boys born to them than girls is manifested, as a rule, more strongly by young parents than by parents of riper years. Why? The true explanation is a sentimental, not a mercenary one. It is the oodern survival of an ancient idea--the Idea so strongly prevalent in the East eten to this day- that a son represents the strength of tbe family, its defense, its protection. Its hope of perpetuation, tbe carrying on of its name and fame to future generations. You will find tbi» idea in all the old Hebrew writing. A traveler in modern Syria relates bow be (alked with the bead of a large family on this subject. "How many children have you?" he was asked. "Three,be replied. "But I see seven standing around you now," said the traveler. "Ah, but four of them are daughters only." The feudal lord was eager for sons- heirs to succeed him, to go to tbe tour­ ney and the wars with him, to bear his name, wear his coat-of-arms, to help him hold his castle and his lamflb*agaln<$t his foes. He-loved, his daughters, but has pride, his glory and bis hopes were in his sons. Unacknowledged;, and unconsciously, the average American man and woman are still thinking this old Oriental and feiB$nl thought, and that Is why, as a rule, they w'ould rather be the parents of four boys and one girl than four girls and one boy --Blow York Evening World. » bruises ivetoolt aoi^e months."--Philadelphia Record. BATTLE FRIGHT IN DREAMS, Kvery One Appears- to Have Ht»> Ons Private Nightmare. have never been able too utHlet'staBd the philosophy of fright in (beams," said a New Orleans lawyer, chatting after office hours. "As a rule it i» in­ spired by something very simple or at least altogether out of proportion to the effect produced. Almost all of us have our own private nightmares, which are usually more grotesque than awful, yet the vision, whatever it happens to be, is certain to plunge one into a paroxysm of mortal terror. My own pet night­ mare is rather curious. At the begin­ ning of the dream I always find myself in a long, gloomy hallway that seems to l>e In some huge, squalid building, like a cheap tenement. The place is ap­ parently deserted* and I walk along, im The Kaffir's Wives. Tbe aborigines of this vast coun­ try (tbe Transvaal) were black njen the Kaffirs. They have lo«t dominion of the country' SDd are but serfs to the burghers or citizens. The Kaffir is a day laborer and reckons his wealth lis the number of heads of: cattle he may be able to acquire. He works fop a couple of years until he can get eleven oxen or cows. Then he hies himself to the Zululand on tbe east or to other countries controlled by black men, and there buys himself a wife. Ten cows is the price of a wife. The eleventh Is killed for the wedding feast. The Kaffir remains a few months with his wife, then off to the mines he goes to earn the price of another. When he possesses half a dozen wives the Kaf­ fir's menial toil is over and he becomes a gentleman. His wives plant the mealy (corn) and look after what cattle their lord and master owns. With a kraal full of daughters the Kaffir must 'be­ come a rich and important person. -The daughter of a chief costs twenty-five cows and the daughter of a king sixty, no matter how old or ugly. The chiefs aire severely strict in their watchfulness over the morals of the Kaffirs. If one is found guilty of dishonesty he is fined so many oxen. The Kaffir is said to be better In his original state then when contaminated with what they call clv- iliaatfionvr-Intervlew ta tbe Columbia State. . • ' One great disadvantage' of smokeless gunpowder, tending to offset its many advantages, is- its- corroding action on the interior of a> gun. Prof. Robei ts- Austin recently made a report on the subject, showing that Age weapon* are liable thus to be quickly rained; A paper recently read before the liin* nean Society In London describes a spe­ cies of 4>eal, attaining enormous dlmen- skms, to which the name of sea elephant haa been given on account of a trunk­ like appendage on the fore part of the head. A specimen killed in the Falk­ land Islands was nearly nineteen feet in length. The trunk is only a foot ldng. These seals are peculiar to the southern hemisphere. An Italian court recently, after a trial, ordered the removal of some wooden yachts, whose bottoms were «heathe<l with copper, from the neighborhood of iron warships anchored in the hArbor of Leghorn. |t was alleged that an elec­ tric connection was established through the ships' cables whereby the copper- bottomed warships were turned into the poles of a galvanic battery, the result being a rapid corrosion of the iron in contact with the sea water. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, inven­ tor of the telephone, is now devoting nearly the whole of his time, according to Electricity, to experiments with fly­ ing machines, and "is confident that he is not only on the right track, but within measurable distance of success. He is developing the kite idea, experimenting with planets of various sizes and: weights. He has discarded the gener­ ally accepted principle that the ma­ chines must,be of extraordinary light- nessgjpnd is calculating'*)!! securing sta­ bility and steadiness from weight." When the eggs on the ostrich farms* of California are at the poin). of hatch­ ing, says Charles F. Holder, a curious tapping of the shells may be lieard( This the keepers call "telephoning."1 The sound is caused by the chicks ins side the eggs endeavoring to break out:. Those which cannot easily emerge arc assisted by the mother bird, which will' MODERN EPXLOSIVE AND ITS DEADLY WORK. ^ Tei'rttrte Power of ihe Sttrff Citl by the Sngllsh Agtifiit the Boer* in South Africa -- Trtfd by Kitchener la the fk>nd*n. * ~ 4 Xi<-- > A« ex-officer of I\meri^il -gtfter and an expert in explosives has this to say regarding lyddite, which did such havoc among the Boers: "Very little is known about lyddite in this country. It is very powerful, but I do uot think any more so than Some grades of dyna­ mite. The English Government has been experimenting with it for several years, and has brought it to a high de­ gree of efficiency. I doubt if the correct formula is known here. The protests of the Boers, implying that it is inhu­ man, Is ridiculous. The Boers use black powder, presumably, and are a littie behind tbe times in the use of high explosives. The.United State® Govern­ ment would! have no scruples ' about using it." ... ' A An official 61T an Eastern powder com­ pany says: "Lyddite is one of the picric compounds- ajid is- supposed to be very similar to' melinite. The French. Gov­ ernment was- very secretive about tbe formula for melinite; but someone- con­ nected with tiie manufacture of It sold the secret. Lyddite !»• an Improvement on it. It has-certainly given great sat­ isfaction to the English- Government. Lyddite produces- greater fragments tion of the sheils- than almost any other explosive known. Guncotton will e*- plode a shell, but next thoroughly. Lyd­ dite, on the contrary, grinds- a> shell. Into exceedingly small ^pieces? and< has- a very large area of destruction in con* sequence. There can be no possible ob­ jection to its use in war. It produces- no gas, and even if it did that would make no difference, for a shell exploded: by lyddite will leave no one within its- area who could be injured by gas." Gen. Kitchener In his campaign in the Soudan demonstrated the tremendous- power of lyddite. In an incredibly short time earthworks-were destroyed,!, leaving breaches - through which : the shrapnel could be#tired and) the work ©f destruction completed1.! A shell iwas- dropiped into a mosque Omdurman, > where 120 Mahdlsts were worshiping^ The mosque and its inmates- were blown in pieces and only twelve wor­ shipers escaped alive. In the Chinese- Japanese war of 1894 • a twelve-inob shell charged with cordite* a . similar, bust inferior, explosive, entered the Jap­ anese flagship Mateusbima, hurled a 4.7-inch gun from its mounting and then exploded, firing 'a heap of ammunition, disabling two more 4.7-inch guns-and killing or wounding ninety officers-and men. Lyddite is simply one of a < class of high, explosives,' others of' whlcb are dynamite, tonite, cordite, melinite;-max- indte, emmensite, ecraslte, forclte, tho­ rite, and perunite. It has - been im­ proved by the British for the use of their gung as others, notably meliiute by France, have been taken advantage of by other nations. Chemically, lyd­ dite is "simply picric acid brought into a dense state by fusion." Picric aeid i» "obtained by the action of nitric aald ott carbolic acid." When lyddite shells - explode- in- >. the midst of an army tbey deal not only- de­ struction, but also terror, foe, like the dynamite shells coughed up by the Ve­ suvius at Santiago, they explode with, a noise that suggests the downfall of the heavens and the upheaval of the earth: Unlike tbe shells that issued from the Vesuvius, they c-an be aimed to & nice­ ty. ' jjelled by an irresistible impulse, yet , feeling that 1 am certajnly approaching sometinies t>reak an egg from which the r. "J* A;** :/V%' a kind of fascination for her. Knowing the children well, she asked them What they were talking about, and when they told her her heart seemed to stand still. She went to tbe workman and begged hfrn to let her look at the nest, a request he granted readily. Mary climbed the short ladder, and was satisfied witij one glance that here was the evidence Mr. Bent demanded. Very carefully, so as not to destroy the new nest, She pulled the paper out. It was crumpled and soiled, and a corner had been torn out by the bird's sharp beak, but all the writing was intact. The young manager had learned a j Bent, and when she went to him with the recovered note she took a friend j along: It is not necessary to narrate j the conversation. Mr. Bent blandly ac- | kpowledged the genuineness of the doc- | ument. and ignoring his former refusal to remember having given such a note. I madr* fjayment 1n full on the spot, j "It's more like money 'from the sky' I than befof'p. Flora," said Mary, on her paper shows that Mr. Bent -owes us j return home with her treasure, "for •that money. As he owes it, of course. • the *t»hrd was keeping'it for us up in he'll pay it. I'll go at once to him and the ii Ir." - veto hi £ £•». tjtfltl him all about it." „ J •«.-'* With in an hour Mary was in Mr. i Vtetim oftiiHOtvvn Medicine. i|8ent's office, telling lier story with ev t a physicipp of Eastbourne. Me., re- confidence that he would need but j gently made up a draught for a patient, something frightful. At the end of the hall 1 go down a steep, dirty flight of stairs, my fears growing and swelling at every step, and pause before a door that opens upon a little, square landing. I know perfectly welL that what I dread is behind that door, but something makes me open it, and I look into a plain; bare room, perfectly common­ place, with a small white kitten lying in the corner. What there is about it to throw me into such a panic I am unable to say, but I rush out filled with blind, inhuman terror, and always wake when I am stumbling up tbe stairs. I think this is a fair sample of the foolish things that are so appalling in dreams. Why is it, I wonder? I have talked with a great many others, and find that their own nightmares are generally of the same inconsequential nature. Of course, the whole subject of dreams Is hopelessly cryptic, but this seems to me its most puzzling and incomprehen­ sible feature."--New Orleans Times- Democrat. Saved by Ammonia. "Pretty fierce brutes, eh V" remarked a soldierly looking man who was one of a little group watching the three big tigers at the zoo restlessly pacing their . reminder of the obligation to meet it forthwith. He listened to her inter- : ;estedly. saying nothing until she 4»ad | finished. Then. "I'm sorry for you. " ; * said he. "but you must learn a lesson I i;rfrom it not to leave papers of value ||fing about." He stood to Indicate ^lliat the interview was at an end. ; ,|t "But. Mr. Beiy." faltered Mary, "you tfmember making the note, do you '. > • "Really, Miss Thayer," was his cool 1 pesponse, "you speak as if you expected jfte to pay you for your carelessness. you have any claim against me, |*riag me the evidence of it soft 1*11 «t- jgwd im it." / ̂ ""v putting in by fpistake strychnine in steafl of chloroform, and when she com­ plained that it made her sick, got angry and to prove that the niediclue was all right, swallowed half the contents of the bottle himself. He immediately rec- ' /MM ognized. the symptoms of • tryebnlne poisoning, used a Stomach pump and other means to destroy the effects, but died soon afteiv We have noticed that me around dry goods stores be tremely critical of women. Success in life Is made np tiresome details,.and people ha' tiresome i d % w> • ^ .-j dens in anticipation of fet ding time. "Yes," agreed the person addressed. "I don't think I'd care about meeting one at large." "No, It wouldn't be a pleas­ ant experience, but yet I've had it, and that I'm able to tell the story Is due to nothing more nor less than a bottle of ammonia. Fact! It happened years ago in India. 1 was attached to a troop of Punjab light horse, on police 'duty about Cbawald, and my little experi­ ence was the result of a day's leave of absence. With several companions I was on my way to visit some native friends in a neighboring village, and as the jungle paths were the shortest route we made the trip in-chairs slung on carriers' shoulders. 1 was about half asleep from the swinging motion, when I was rudely pitched out by the natives dropping the poles and scam­ pering off. That's how I met my tiger. telephoning is heard by pressing, it carefully, and will then aid the chick to get out. At the Pasadena farm* thfc- sight of a boy riding an ostrich as- he would a pony may sometimes-be seem "A method of producing anesthesia by the direct application of an electrical eurrent without the use of drugs was recently described by Dr. E. W. Scrip­ ture, of Yale, before the American As­ sociation for the Advancement of Sci­ ence," says the Scientific American. "An alternating current with equal pos­ itive and negative phases was made to traverse the nerve. At a proper fre­ quency of about 5,000 complete periods in a second, it can be made to cut off all sensatory communication by this nerve. Needles can be run into the part of the body supplied by this nerve withoot guy pain beiug felt." tacle the ear. - A rpBoer cttbe coi _ with an ato| rf*er lwJKting anlc acid, and all that has to be done is for the executioner to press the rubber ball a few times, and the victim passed away, death occurring > from paralysis' of the respiratory functions. - THE JAVELIN OF TEXAS. fin&TMfaot Picture of fSre Famott* Witt Hog; of America, The peccary, wild hog, javelin, or whatever you want, to call him. Is a native of Western Texas alone. These animals were once very numerous, but of lat^ years have become almost ex­ tinct. Accompanying picture is from a snapshot of the javelin, as lie appeared In his native home among the cactus and thorny brusty of Western Texas. THE JAVKT.IW. 'flte writer considers himself fortfinate in baving secured this photograph be­ fore the animal vanished in the under­ brush. Some years ago Gov. Roosevelt of Xfe-w* York came to Uvalde County, Tkxa»r for the sole purpose of hunting tbese animals, they being the only American wild animals be bad not hunt­ ed. He killed several. They are very • ferocious, and many hunters have been "treed" wbile hunting them. There are many mistaken ideas about the javelin, which is the Spanish name and'the one most generally used In Tex­ as* Some of the ideas appear in print. The javelin nevftj- j-oots like a hog, but always scratches with its sharp and pointed, hoofs. It is the mortal enemy of the- rattlesnake, and' when the snake coi]SJ the javelin jumps on it with all four teet dirawn together, cutting the snake to pieces. Against the long bris­ tles and leathery hide of the javelin th». rattler's fangs avail him little. "ENGLISH TOWNf In WWalfcE*eTT Pnblic Utility I* Owned by Her Citizens. The town o£ Uuddersfleid, Yorkshire, England,, stands unique in the world as the only town which absolutely owns itself in- every respect. Beginning life in*a municipal artisans' dwelling, the young man rides to his work on a mu­ nicipal tram. He gets his gas or elec trinity from the city. His wife rents a gas stove from the city, purchases he* produce from a municipal market, and buys meat that has been prepared by a muiiioipai butcher. Both use the public baths, enjoy the city's parks, and send thoir children, to the city's playgrounds. Their house refuse is moved by the city. When ill they go to the elty hospital; or, if unfortunate, to the municipal lodging room. Their letters are collect­ ed by a city postman. And In a thou­ sand other ways their daily life comes in i close contact with the city govern­ ment. At last they are buried in a:city cemetery. This may be Socialism, or it may not be. The citizens are satisfied^ and approve of every municpal: tenter* prise. PAINLESS EXECUTION. M>ij liation of Criminals Tt T*rnrim»di by Hydrocyanic Acid. For years it has been the object of scientists to inflict the death penalty with the mlnlnnum. of pain and disfig­ urement, andr numerous as are the methods In vogue in different countries, none of them prove entirely satisfac­ tory. It is only a fews weeks ago that Prof. Cunningham, of Columbia University, successfully completed a series of ex.- periuie. rs on dogs showing the failure of electricity to kill instantaneously and it is certain that the electric currant, no- matter how strong, or bow skillfully apt- piled, is wantingiin efficacy. Chemistry is, in the future, to be the science that will be called' into requisition to fulfill the death penalty, and to dispatch, the unfortunate ^victim, to a quicks audi pain- Tfir. Deacon's Interruption. "Wen Moses telli de sua ter stan' still " began the old deacon. "Dat warn't Moses," interjected a brother in the amen corner, "dat wus Joshua!" "Ez I said," continued the deacon, "w'en Joshua tell de sun--** "You didn't say dat at all!" said the brother who had corrected him. "Hit waz roe dat said it! Hit way, me dat tuck you up on it!" The deacon's patience was exhausted. He folded his brass-riiumed spectacles, laid them carefully on the table before him,-walked over to tbe amen corner, took the objecting brother by both arms from behind] and with the swish of a cyclone swept him forward to the door lauding him precipitately la outer darkness. "Ez I waz sayin'.jfo' dis little incident occurred," he continued, "w'en Moses tol' Joshua ter tffil de suii- ter stan still " Some of the olSer, learned brethren moved uneaslh/in their seats. Tbey looked like th«y wanted to correct bim, but they did not. They let It go at that! --Atlanta Constitution. Hunltay in Toronto. On Sunday', duriug church hours With a bound he was on ine and lyid ; Toronto street\<-ars must not. run past -\v_ _ o work taken a mouthful of my coat, intend­ ing. no doubt, to carry me into the dense undergrowth. Fortunately for ine, I had a big bottle of ammonia In my coat pocket, carried it for snake bites, you know, and when the brute took the mouthful he broke the bottle. The whiff he got made his whiskers curl and one was enough. He rolled over a couple of times gasping and v iug his paws, and .then made off a* churches at at speed miles per bour.i exceeding four When the in come tired of him good "lett»! other job. There are tw« Hides lo a grocc ton in a dry got; l«\ compel led t tubers of a church be- heir pastor tbey give •s," so he can get an- 1 thousand different ar- y store, and two mill­ 's store, and a woman Water them all. EXECUTING A CtflMIWAI,. less death, and ?*i thfe way Dr. O. B Sttueers has disclosed an entirely ne<w method of execution. Dr. Squeers proposes to use- hydro­ cyanic acid as the active agent for pro­ ducing death. Hydrocyanic aeid ie most deadly poison, as can readily be perceived wben it Is said that It is itself made up of two such powerful agents as ferrocyaaide of potassium and a dis­ tillation of strong sulphmie acid. It is the strongest poison in tbe pharmaco- piae, and even when Inhaled causes death. It is Dr. Squeers' Idea to make use of this powerful poison, as a method of 'execution, by causing the victim to in hale the concentrated «fumes of the acid, and the apparatus that he has devised for the purpose is admirably suited for his object. » * , All that is necessary for the execution to take place Is to seat the victim In a cBOair and to apply the death mask which Dr. Squeers has devised. The death mask is shaped like a eou which, when in position, resits upon the front of the face la such a way thai the aaouth and nostrils are eotlre4 sbut off The Parson's Limit. He'd bees, preaching and exhorting*; Ffor a score of years or so Ihi a portion of the vineyard Where the harvesting was slow.;. Where the temporal inducement < For his ceaseless diligence Wa» a promise of four hundred, i For bis yearly recompense. Unrelenting was the ardor He devoted to the cause, And though slowly came the doli&im^ Still he labored without pause,. Till one day they came and toldihimy. As he kicked against the pricks,-. Tkat they'd raised their offered' stifteao From four hundred up to six» Then the good man sank exhausted: As he feebly made reply: Don't, I pray you, men and:beetbre% Thus my patience overtry, For to glean the four you've promised! Hath so warped my vital store That 'twould kill me if you taxed! me To collect two hundred tawrar'." Boston C'cuirieFi Architectural Jokes.. The builders of tbe old: ohusebes in England: were uot so serious but that they now. audi then perpetrated a joke, even in stone. On more thain one of their creations they carved la relief a scene representing a monk, preaching solemnly, to.a flock of . geese. The same humorous- spirit is sometimes to be detected!in. tbe domestic architecture of early times* Mr. Hfesey gives an in stancc. Just upon tbe boundaries of Bedford­ shire and Hertfordshire formerly stood a rambling old Ta rot house. The llvlng- room -was long anid low, and the oen tre beam that went, across the ceiling, was inscribed this legend: "If icon axe cold*, go to Hert fjords!lire." ' This seemingly inhospitable Invita­ tion was explained by tbe fact that one- half of the room was in one coupty and one-half in tbe other.. The fireplace was in Hertfordshire. if- i,' The Roberts case has worked' oae won­ derful reform. It has made a great num­ ber of Congressmen exceedingly careful as to tbe company they keep. Suck- things- ought not to be, but it is true that about tbe Capitol there may be seen every day • good many women of unknown asm* eiutions and intentions. Their great an*- iety is to become acquainted with mem­ bers of Congress, and in order to achieve- this purpose they send their cards from the ladies' reception room to the part%^ ular members upon whom they have de­ signs more or less innocent. Heretofore* members have amused themselves by re- ' sponding freely to tbese calls, and have at times provided their callers with ca*i»- to the galleries, even going so far nofr and then as to sit down beside them. Now all is changed. Statesmen arevery careful as to how they trot out to the re-"" ception room, and are surprisingly punc­ tilious as to the identityvof persons they sit beside in the public galleries; So the Roberts case* has worked some good, af­ ter all. a Tbe country may bmtb* with a< tain degree of freedom now that It kibi exactly where Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. Miles stand in the social world. Mrs. Miles ranks Mrs. Dewey where tbe army and navy participate as a corps, but^itt' every other respect Mrs. Dewey tares the precedence of Mrs. Miles. Hence at all army and navy functions a conven­ ient headache will save Mrs. Dewey the humiliation of trailing along behind Mrs. Miles, but poor Mrs. Miles will be com­ pelled to plead chronic illness in order to* escape Mrs. Dewey's assumption*of I MEMBKKS -TJLKINO THE OATB& Knew the Minister'* Talent. Willie liadt swallowed t* penny and bis mother was in a state of alarm. "Helen," she culhsl to hor sister in the next room, "send for a djoctor; Willie has swallowed a penny." Tbe terrified and frightened boy looked up implois Ingly. "No, mamma,"' fag Interposed* "send for the minister." "The minis­ ter?" asked bis mother incredulously. "Dldl you say the ministerV" "Yes; be­ cause pap says our minister caa get money out of anybody." , Foundations for Romance. It will be discovered that the only foundation for the usual talk of a "romance" in a'woman's life is that she sits and looks out of the window into the dark night when site should be darning stockings. If a woman doesn"i amount <ro much she lays || on talher or feer fetw b*ak ' " periority in.a eeason's run. These-impor­ tant details should be» carefully commit' ted to the intelligence of every hostess- and every menial, for should a-> waiter carelessly pass tbe batter cakes-to. Mrs. Miles before-Mrs. Dewey and her neces­ sities are served'th$. en tire social system » would be plunged into hopeless disorder. We cannot bertoo careful of otlEietMtueftOv in Washington public life. - ^ •y.i. • The people- of Washington are pleased t that the Republican convention is to. be ­ held in the Easf. They believe that great majority of. the delegates and vis­ itors to the/ convention will visit Washr. ington Either- in going or returning from! it. The last national convention Phila­ delphia had iwas in !872, when President: Grant was-renominated. In 1876 the Ber publicans went to Cincinnati and the Democrats 4:»-St. liouis. In 1880 the Re­ publicans met at-Chicago and the Demo-, crats at Cincinnati. In 1884 both par: ties held their conventions at Chicago.. In.. 1888 the Republicans met at Chicago and: the Democrats at St. Louis. In 1892: the Republicans met at Minneapolis and: the Democrats Chicago. Again in ,188ft. the Republicans went' to St. Louis for the first time and the Democrats to Chi­ cago. Now the Republicans are going^to- the city where they held, their tional nominating contention. 15 ? The, government has decided t*. inr crease, tbe number of depository baaluM and the amount of deposits in, such, banks, with: t&e hopfe of relieving, the- embarrassed! monetary situation. in. New- York. To, tikis end the entire, receipt*- of the. government from internal.revenue- taxation, for the next thirty days will.be- allowed: to go to the depository itvstitnr- tions instead of inta the subtreasury... The amount to be derived by the money market from this step will be. front $3Q*K)Ot0O0 to $40,000,000. Thirty day* will pass, of course before, the full ex- teat of tbe relief aan be rettUeed< SpeaJcer Henderson does not use- tbe rosewood gavel tjat was p^sentedl te him by his friends in Iowa* The confu­ sion, La the lIous» makes it necessary for the Speaker to use a mire substantial weapc®. Speaker Reed usad,a large ivory hammer with a strong handle and pound­ ed so hard thaw the top . of, the'desk was ( reduced to sliyers about, every three ( mc«bths and had to bo replaced by an oaken plank at least twice and seasetime*. tlbree times dString the- sessioia. Congress >*ill probaUlj' revive the grade *f vice-admiral and authorize the appoint- I ment of Wintield Scott Schley and Ad- rmiral--Satq^son to fiH two. positions 1 this rank. President M.cBjttte>y has sugr gested that this woidd: modify the adnisr- ' era of Sohley and appease- tfce friends aft Sampson Llliu»kalani, e* Quee« of the H«vK«jf ian Islands, stitt lives in a modest hpuse in 1.3th street in Washington, bat e*- pects to return to her native country j, very soon. She made no attempt, to break into society. She never enjler* tai&s. and accepts the hospitaifty of a < |e>w intimats, friends only. A „ President McKinley has made iA kaowa tbat he does not favor the idea o1 send­ ing Federal office holders m delegates to the next Republican natieoal cc^veation. I^ast year there reached the dead loi­ ter offeee U.855,988 pieces. Included m this targe uurnber were 23,824 lett***^ whWh were ml^oluUly without an iad } J dress, and of these 12,433 contaasecC ^ money. «[« In the congressional directory Senator Teller describes himself as a "silver li>- publican." Mr. Shafi'oth of Denver sa\N .hat he is. u "silverite." Mr. IVttijjjcw tnd Mr. licit fold of Idaho describe tin m -elves as "I'opulists/' Mr. Kyle of South Dakota puts hiuisef?'dowa as an "i^ne iicndeut," v.hile Mr. Stewart, Mr. Jon-* • nd Mr. Newlands of Nevadh *^at 1 •hoi are "of the sikti: party." ; ' s* v: L'i, W:-^7"k mt>t0