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A man who now stands high in the mercantile community related to me the following little incident of his early life: At the age of 16 X entered the store of Silas Sturdevant aS$a clerk. One day, shortly after my instalment into the office, I was employed m sealing and superscribing a lot of business circulars -r-several hundred of them. That was long before the day of gluten, and I used small red wafers for securing the missives^ While I was thus busy Mr. Sturdevant came into the .counting room, and when I observed that he was watching me I worked the best I could, hoping to get a word of approbatipn. By and by he spoke to me: "Young man, don't you think half a wafer Would secure one of those circu­ lars just as well as a whole one?" I looked up, probably exhibiting as rauch disgust as surprise. "If yousplit your wafers, " he added, "you will accomplish all you desire, and at the same time make a saving of just one-half." He turned away, and while I was thinking what a mean old wafer split­ ter he was, a lady entered who had been appointed one of a committee to obtain subscriptions toward building an orphan asylum. One public spirited man had given the laud, and now they wished to raise $200,000, if possible, for the build* ings and necessary endowments. Mr. Sturdevant said he had already been consulted on the subject. "Yes," thought I, "and-I guess that's all it will amount to!" But he took the paper and wrote his name, and then he said: "I will give $5,000." I could hardly believe my ears. At that moment the merchant arose to a stature of grandeur before me, and in my heart I blessed him; for even then I knew that the lesson of the split wafers, with its sequel, was to be the initial of my future success.--New York Ledger. Congressmen and Bribes. A man who has been defeated for re­ election is not in a fit frame of mind tr legislate for his people. There is a sting in defeat that tends to engender the feeling of resentment which often finds expression in the vote of such members against wholesome legislation. Thai same feeling often produces such a want of interest in proceedings as to cause the member to bo absent nearly all tin second session. Congressmen are not usually men oi means. Their congressional career ha' resulted in the destruction of theii clientage or business. To a defeatec. member who has relied upon his salary for support the future looks dark and gloomy. It is then some are open tc propositions which they would nevei think of entertaining if they were to go before the people for re-election. It is then that the attorneyship of some cor poration is often tendered and a vote is afterward found in the record in favoi of legislation of a general or special character favoring the corporation. II an affirmative vote cannot be had, it is often just as important that the member should be absent. If there is ever a time in the history^of the man when he will directly or indirectly accept a bribe, it is then. There is less chance of detec­ tion. He is no longer a political factor. His political enemies no longer watch his course. The opposition newspapers no longer criticise his conduct---"the 6ecret is his own and it is safe." There are many upright men in con­ gress who would not be influenced by defeat. But in as large a body as the house of representatives there must al­ ways be some who would yield to temp­ tation. It is a fact that ^nearly all, if not all, of the legislation that is claimed to have been passed by corrupt influences was enacted during these second regular sessions of congress.--Hon. J. F. Sliaf- roth in North American Review. Opinions Differ. Critic--That performance, of yours last night was rare. t Manager--I, can't agree with you. I think it was well done.--Detroit Free Press. - ; i r..( i A Bomb Loaded With Men. A new bomb has been invented that is an extremely curious affair. It is called a pioneer bomb and is made to be fired from a cannon like an ordinary cannoif ball. The curious part of it is that instead of carrying lead and explosives it is to have men inside. The idea of the invention, explains The Great Round World, is to fire sol-, -diers into the enemy 'scamp. The bomb opens the moment it touches the ground, the men spring out and begin to fight the enemies within reach. A shower of these bombs would very seriously inconvenience an enemy, it is to be supposed, for they would not quite know what to make of such as­ tounding cannon balls. The bomb is so arranged that there is no sudden jar or shock to the men in­ side. It is covered with a number of rubber tubes filled with air, like the bicycle tires. These rubbers prevent the men from any injury which might be caused by reaching the ground so sud­ denly. The bomb bounds along like a rubber ball once or twice, and the sol­ diers are said to be quite comfortable inside. --Chicago Record. Wolseley's Close Call. On one occasion Lord Wolseley's life was saved by Prince Victor of Hohen- lohe, known as Count ^rleichen. It was in the Crimea, when young Wolseley, badly wounded, was passed by the sur­ geon as dead. Undisturbed by the sur­ geon's remarks, Prince Victor tried to extract a jagged piece of stone which Was sticking in the wound, and the prince succeeded iu restoring Wolseley, for, after a little brandy had been poured down his throat and more as­ severations from the surgeon that he was dead, he sat up and exclaimed, "No more dead than you are, you fool!"-- Liverpool Mercury. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY - J . V A N S L Y K E , - . EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE IN THE NICHOLS BLOCK Two Doors North of Ferry & Owen's Store, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year (in ad vance) >..fl 50 If Not Paid within Three Months... -- 2 00 Subscriptions receiver for three or six months in the same proportion. The Bells. Bells were well known to the Egyp­ tians before the time of the Jewish exo­ dus. Iu the description of Aaron's sa- ctrdotal robe mention is made of the fact that upon the hem of the garment there were bells of gold, alternating with pomegranates of blue, of purple and of .scarlet: "A golden bell and a pome­ granate, a golden bell and a pomegra­ nate, upon the hem of the robe round about. And it shall be upon Aaron to minister, and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not." Hand bells were, in comnion use all over the ancient world. The earliest use of bells in churches wa3 for the purpose of fright­ ening, away the evil spirits which were believed to infest earth and air, and the earliest curfew Was rtyig at night­ fall to rid the neighborhood of the vil lage or town and church of demons. Most old churches of Europe have a small door on the north side, and at certain points in the service this door was opened, and a bell was rung to give notice to the devil, if he chanced to be present, that he might make his exit before the elevatjon. By the command of Pope John IX church bells were rung as a protection against thunder and lightning. The monument of Porsena, the Etrurian king, was decorated with pinnacles, each surmounted with a bell, which tinkled in the breeze. The army of Clothaire raised the siege of Sens on account of a panic occasioned among the men by a sudden chime from the bells of St. Stephen's church. The lar­ gest bell in the world is in the Kremlin at Moscow. Its weight is 250 tons, and the value of the bell metal alone, not counting the gold and silver ornaments which vere thrown into the pots as votive offerings, is estimated at £66, 565, or about $832,825. A Novel Device. "When people are suffering from thirst, they will resort to all kinds of means to get water," remarked a gen­ tleman who was at one time a member of the United States geological and sur­ veying expedition in the Indian Terri­ tory. "For some time we had been without water and were suffering great­ ly. Among our number was an old trap­ per who was as keen on the scent for water as is a hound on the trail of n deer. Finally he paused at a place and stopped. " 'I think there's water here, if we oould dig a well,' he observed. " 'But we can't,' I replied. " 'No, but we can do something else,' he said. "With that he cut a reed, tying some moss on the end of it. Then he dug into the earth, placed his reed in the hole and packed the earth around the reed He waited for a few momenta " 'Do you mean to say you can suck water out of that thing?' I asked. " 'Yes, if, as I think, there's water near the surface.' "He drew strongly at it with much satisfaction. " 'Good,' he remarked. 'Would you like to try it?' "With little confidence in the result. I sucked at the reed with the surprising result of getting plenty of clear, pure water. To my parched tongue it seemed the very nectar of the gods. " 'It's as clear as the water of a spring,' I said. " 'Yes, the moss is our filter,' he re plied. "We pursued our journey much re freshed, and I never forgot the old trap per's advice."--Detroit Free Presa -rfC Volcano of Pinchincha, Two Swiss tourists were recently lost while endeavoring to explore the volca no of Pinchincha, near Quito, which has sometimes been veiled for days it thick darkness by its falling ashes. Humboldt ascended it and describes it as forming a wall more than eight geo­ graphical miles long upheaved over a fissure in the westernmost cordillera nearest to the Pacific ocean. It is sur­ mounted, citstlelike, by three successive summits from southwest to northeast, called Cuntur-Guachana, GuagaPichin- cha and Pichaco de los Ladrillos, the proper volcano being termed "the Fa­ ther" or "Old Man," Rucu Pichincha. This is the only part which enters the region of perpetual snow. Humboldt ascended it in 1802, Sebastian Wisse in 1845, spending several days and nights in a part of its crater, and the English mountaineer Whymper in 1876. Its ac­ tivities are intermittent, occurring in general several times in each century, but it has now for a long time been rea­ sonably quiescent. It is one of the most interesting volcanoes in South America or the world, but, as the fate of the Swiss tourists attests, it discourages familiar approach, and there is a good deal yet to learn about it.--New York Tribune. "Book of Advertisement," The "Book of Advertisement" would, at the present day, mislead most read­ ers by its title. It was prepared at the command of Queen Elizabeth and printed in 1565. The purpose of the book was to define the doctrines, disci­ pline and ritual of the English church, so that uniformity should be secured in Great Britain. This book was the di­ rect origin, of a denominational title in England, for, after its publication, Sampson, deau of Christ church, in Ox­ ford, and Humphrey, professor of divin­ ity at Oxford university, with others, dissented from some of the doctrines it contained; hence they were called non­ conformists. While strolling in the neighborhood of Brunton, England, a short time ago, a tourist noticed suspended on the branches of a tree an old paint can of medium size. On making an examina­ tion he found that the can contained the nest of a house sparrow, with young. Sixty per cent of the buckwheat fields were in New York and Pennsylvania when the last federal census was taken, and they continue to hold the lead. The W»ys of Indian medicine Men. , Major A. E. Woodson, agent of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians of Ok­ lahoma, says that the reign of the med­ icine men is one of the greatest outrages of the present day, and as a direct re­ sult of their pernicious practice one-third of the children born of Indian parents die every year. J Two of Black Coyote's children were taken sick, and, instead of taking them to the government hospital, he sent for the medicine man, who blew a greeu powder into the lungs, ears and the nostrils of one of-the little patienta That medicine failing, the medicine an made an incision with his knife lider the tongue of the child, with the -esult that death soon followed When the green powder failed to restore the child to health, the medicine man de­ clared that" there was a ghost under the child's tongue, and it was to kill the ghost that he made the incision. The medicine man then adopted he­ roic measures in order to save the other child. He took it into a tent, stripFped it naked and laid it on a cot. He then heated a big pile of rocks in the tent and when they were hot he threw water on them, filling the tent with steam and causing the child to sweat copious­ ly. When the child was covered with perspiration, he took it out in the cold air and sent it home without having taken any precaution to keep it from getting cold. Next morning the child was dead. This is only one of the hun­ dreds of such outrages against the health and life of innocent people. The big medicine man of the Cheyennes is Little Man, who lives near Cantonement. He makes his medicines every year and dis­ tributes them to the other medicine men.--Boston Transcript. Abase of the Eyesight. In the waiting room of an uptown physician sat, one morning, a dozen persons trying to read. The windows were draped with heavy lace curtains, the dull yellow shades were drawn down to within about a yard of the bot­ tom of the long windows, and as the day was cloudy the light in the room was a very subdued twilight. Finally a late comer had the courage--it required some, eveiything was so very quiet and irreproachable--to go to the hall and ask the dress suited door opener to come and raise the shadea This he at once did and turned on as well the electric lights in the back part of the room, to the great betterment of the reading light. Which little incident is cited to emphasize what an oculist characterizes as the reckless abuse of the eyesight which in these days has assumed the proportions of an evil. "On street and railway cars,i in libra­ ries, schools, offices, homes, everywhere, eyes are unnecessarily tried," he says, ' 'with the result that half the world is in glasses years before the need should arise. It is so usual a thing now for persons to be afflicted with oculai* head­ aches, that when a physician's advice is sought for a persistent and unexplained headache the patient is first turned over to an oculist. Nine times out of ten defective vision sufficient to produce the disturbance is found, and seven times out of ten the sufferer is the vic­ tim of his own want of care in the use of his eyes. Women are frequent sinners in this respect; they protect their com­ plexions in every possible way, while to thee- delicate organ Of sight they give never a thought till the mischief is done."--New York Post. Didn't Understand English. A Chinaman was once "hauled up" before a magistrate in Sydney, New South Wales, and charged with some offense. In reply to his worship's usual query as to whether he pleaded guilty or not, be would only answer: "Me no sabee! Me no talkee Eng- lishee!" The magistrate, however, who was quite accustomed to the proceeding on the part of many Celestials who came be­ fore him, turned to him and said: "That answer won't do for me. You know English well enough, I'll be bound." "Me no sabee--me no sabee!" were the only words to be drawn from obsti­ nate Chinkey, and, no Chinese interpre­ ter being in court, the magistrate, tak­ ing the matter into his own hands, di­ rected the case to be proceeded with as if the accused had pleaded not guilty. After hearing the evidence of the witnesses the accused was fined $10 and costs. The clerk to the bench, who was a bit of a wag, ealled out to the accused: "John, you are fined $25 and costa " "No, no!" promptly replied the non- English speaking Chinese. "He say me fined only ,,$10 and costa"--Chicago Post. Settling a The quiet of the roam in which the answers to queries editor sat was dis­ turbed by the entruj^ce of two half grown boys. One of them pulled off his hat and addressed him: ' 'Me and this feller have made a bet," he said, "and we've agreed to leave it to you. He bets that if all the turkeys that was ett last Christmas was placed in a line they would reach around the world, and I bet they wouldn't. Who's lost?" " You have, my son," answered the man in the chair. "They might be placed a mile apart and they would still be in a line, you know. " As they turned and went out of the room the boy who had acted as spokes­ man was seen to hand a small coin over to the other with .great reluctance, and distinctly heard to say: " Well, I can„lick you, anyhow." "Bet you a nickel on that, too," re­ plied the other boy.--Chicago Tribune. ; The oldest tree in England is .the yew tree at Braburn, in Kent, which is said' to be. 8,000 years old, while at Fortig- nal, in Perthshire, if one nearly as old. At Ankerwyke House, near Staines, is a yew tree which was famous at the date of the signing of Magna RATES OF ADVERTISING: We announce liberal rates fpr advertising In the PLAINOEALEH; an* endeavor to statt thorn so plainly that they will be readily un derstood. 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