The Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-23, Page 3A Suggestion.
Air.-"SOrnothing That NobOdy Naomi."
,FOr the topical questions one bears every day,
An answer there must be Pm sure;
Or else on the shelf let us put them away,
And no longer the torture endure.
We have heard of the mether-in-law till we're
tired,
The stety-at-the-elub man is dead;
Don't you think they'd eni 0Y At if they could be
trod, •
When our late friend reposer his head?
" Ask McGinty."
Pu t along With the rest the old ice-eream joke
stale,
This weather has melted it quite,
And the baby that makes O. pedestrian pale
And the tack on the door at night
-Chuck in that old stove pipe and poems on
spring,
Al.mg with the " beantiful snow •
And if you should Wish toiled out'anything
AS to bow they are doing below-
,' Ask McGinty."
The festive front gate and tho coal bill ao steep,
The dog and the stern parent's boot,
, Let us gather them in for a long solemn sleep,
And let them all slide down the chute.
. And after this funeral the ourietts man'
That wants to these thingd a reply,
" We'll smile a faint smile that is child -like [and
bland
And to say-" If you want to know why
Ask McGinty,"
MOGINTY,S WIFE.
Buffalo, Jan, 68h, 1890.
The International Band.
Mamma's got a headache pain,
And had to go to bed again;
And Mary's gone after doctor's stuff,
As if poor mamma hadn't enough!
And we must be the best of boys,
And never make a bit of nage ;
And we will be just terrible good,
I promised Mary that we world;
So cora° on boys and lend a hand;
And we will play at Carman Band.
I know 'twont hurt &arm:mime:a head,
'Oe.use you can't bear nuilla' when you're in
bed.
Now, 'Ted, you take the big tin pan,
And bang it hard as ever you can;
And Jack will take the shovel and tongs
And beat the time to all our songs ;
Tbe dinner horn will just suit me,
And how 1'11 blow it you shall sea;
And I will be the leader, too,
Now we are ready to begin,
Ted, here's a spoon to strike the tin,
Now, tootle -too! and a bins, bim, bang!
Anda too -who -who I and a ruin, bum, clang
And a cling -a -ling! and with foot and hand,
Hoorayl for the American gernian baud.
* *
" Why, mamma, we didn't never know
Onr music could have hurt you so!
We fought -you know you said so, Fwed-
. Zat you can't her nuilin' when you're in bed.
And we was bein' the bestes boy -
And nobody calls must° noise!'
—Olive Harper in Sunny /four.
How Women Should Walk.
Have you noticed how few women walk
gracefully nowadays 2 It is unusual to see
- a woman oarry her head and ahoulders well
and step out freely, with a poetical grace of
movement. The majority waddle, strut or
bounce. The school girl trips or hurriee
along head forward. The loitering shopper
goes on her way with a lolling step. The
young woman stiadyiog art, music, or for
the drama lets, her flapping, esthetio cloak
hang loosely open as she saunters among a
, crowd, her step as preoompied as her
'dreamy gaze. The tailor-made girl, severe-
ly buttonedto the ohin, has astride exactly
like her brothers. Observe, if you plettee,
the swaying, side -long iwish•swash of that
overdressed girl wearing's satin gown on a
wet day. Though you cannot'gee her shoes,
you know from the way she rests, first on
one foot and then on the other, that they
are too tight. We meet at every turn the
girl who rune oat her chin, who sways her
-arme and who carries one shoulder
higher than _the other. The undulating
movement which should be natural to
women seems to have disappeared.
Modjeska is one of the few wornen in New
York who walk well. She has the gait of
ea goddess. To see her move is satisfying in
one way and tantalizing in another -yon
wonder so how she does it.
Yon have doubtless watched a panther
pricing backward and forward in his cage.
Efow like velvet is his step I How regular,
how easy, yet full of repressed strength 1
Men wbo have devoted many years to the
study of physical culture say a penther and
woman should get over the ground in the
same easy, dignified way. If you wonlo
walk well, girls, study the panther in
the park, then go and do likewise. A good
way to practice is to start on a fine, bracing
morning for a straight three-mile stretch
,and cover it at an even pace. Wear warm
wraps, but leave your corset at home. Cor.
duroy makes an excellent walking mit. A
few days since I met a party of three girls
in the upper part of Central Park, each one
a symphony in brown corduroy made with
skirts of ankle length and Norfolk jackets.
Fore and aft cepa of shaggy tweed and bear.
skin capes completed the costume, which
seemed by right to belong to the heroine of
. one of Wm. Black's highland tales. -New
York Herald.
Drinking a Matter of Habit.
I will sho w, I think, by a single illustra •
tion, that drinking is a mere meitter of
habit. Without the slightest fear of con-
tradiction, I assert that there are at least
200,000 men in this city who drink every
day in the week spirituous liquors and
never think of touching a drop on Sundays.
"Now run through your own acquaintanoes
and you will without trouble find scores
and scores who never touch a drop of liquor
in their own homes, but who on the floor
of the Exchange, on the street, in the
restaurant, in the cafe, at the stand-up bar
are good fellows along that line of
entertainment, spending their money
freely -not because they or those
whom they entertain care especially
/or the fluid, but that they may have a
.social interchange of courtesy and personal
regard. This is their habit during six
working days of the week. On Sundays
'they rarely leave their homes save to go to
,ohurcia, possibly to take a drive, now and
then for a stroll, but thousands upon
thonsands, and scores of thousands of men
montent themselves on Sunday with their
reading, their writing, playing with the
children, receiving friends, literally resting
rom the labors of the rest of the week.
Sometimes they drink at home, but in a
vast majority of oases not a drop on !Sun-
day. Bemuse it is Sunday Not at all,
but because being out of the ordinary day
routine, ont of the companionships of the
workday week, away from the opportuni-
ties, they never think of it. -Joe Howard in
Chicago News. ,
The French Executioner.
CeiThe profession of executioner seems to
be followed by the same femil ins for genera-
• tions in France. Last month there died
• in Paris at the age of 90, the mother of
• Monsieur de Paris, as the present heads.
man is called. This woman was the
daughter of a provintial headsman.
Moneleur de Paris is himself married to
he daughter of the heademan of Algeria,
• and there is every prospeot that hie place
will in time be filled by his own son.
There aro Peers There.
Oh, there's no country like England,'
.exclainted an enthneiestio Angiomaniao.
" And yet you cannot day that it is a
rootless nation," replied an American.
nearly Escaped4
" I hear you were mooned from the
olutches of a grizzly last summer. Narrow
eaciape, that ?
4, Yes ; it was a pretty tight squeeze."
esammens.
MUST L AUGH HIS LITE AWAY.
Story of a Georgia Man's singular Paralytic
enaction.
joueph Canter johneon wee sent to Hoff
home a few dys ago, and bis °see ja prob.
ably one of the most rentarleable that over
went to that or any other hospital, attys the
'Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: He te a paralytic,
and one eiae is entirely useless. Tbe etroke
came on hint some two monthe ago. He ie
a locomotive engineer, and was able to
make a good living, He had seen a good
deal of the world, and generally saw the
bright Bideof it. It was itt the town of
Clinton, S. C., that the stroke °erne on him
He wan on a run that carried him into that
town. lie was one day doing some work
on his engine and talking to some one
standing near. At the eminent he received
the blow he was in the aot of laughing, and,
strange to say the atueoles and nerves of the
face that are brought most into play in the
aot of laughing are the ones that are most
affected, and over these he has no control
whatever. He feels, of course, like,there is
little left for him to live for, being utterly
helpless, and it is necessarily a sad thought
to hirn. lint he cannot think of it nor tell
his troubles, and the doubte and inane that
torment hirn withont laughing. He
has a wife and five children, and when
this ailliotion oame upon him he
went to his father-in.law, who lived
in Wilmington, N. C., and told him of his
condition and of his inability to oare fur-
ther for his family, and telling bit at the
same time that for hinaself he did not wish
to be a burden upon any one, but would go
somewhere and seek seclusion and calmly
await the closing of what was henceforth
to be a useless life. The recital of his part.
ing with his wife was most pathetio and
heartrending, yet with tears in his eyea
and a heart full of agony he was forced to
laugh as though he was telling the most
ludioro us incident.
He has wandered from one county to
another, and has frequently gone several
days without a morsel to eat. Recently he
spent a night in the wood e in a violent rain
storm. His crippled leg refused to serve
hint longer, and he was compelled, without
shelter, to take the violence of the storm.
His thin clothing was wet to the skin, he
euffered the pangs of hunger, and the
recital of it made him shudder &Weyer, yet
he laughed all the time he was telling it
He was a most pitiful sight. He says he
dare not go to church lest he be accused of
making sport of the services and be re.
quested to leave the church. And as for a
funeral it would be out of the question for
him to attend one.
His case is a most pitiable one, and is
the more so because he is only waiting the
only relief possible for him, and that one
he would hail with pleasure, and almost
prays for.
DRESSES TO DANCE IN.
,
Extreme Low Necks on Young Ladles Are
Not Approved.
The dancing dress of to -day is a thing of
gauze and other sheer materials. Glim-
mer of satin and sheen of silk are for the
.
time veiled by materials like the filmy
gauzes of Indian weave, "floating air
and "woven mist," but niade in the land
of France and called by the lees poetic
name of ohiffognes. A few dresses f or
married ladies are made of brocades n ad
satin, but f or young women the embroid-
dered lisses and tulles, or the spangled
gauze, whioh look as if they might have
belonged to the wardrobe of an Oriental
Princess, are made up into graceful danc-
ing gowns called "Josephine dresses,"
with simple, straight, ball skirts of gauze
over satin and low square-neeked bodices,
which might have been modeled after the
familiar portraits of the beautiful Em-
press.
The severe style of this dress, with its
high sash of soft surah is considered
especially suitable for a debutante, though
in snob a case the square nook is veiled
with lace. There is a deoided objeotion
among mothers to the adoption of the ex-
treme decolette etyles worn by the older
women of society, by girls in their firat or
second season. In many cases the evening
bodice for yonng girls is merely pointed and
filled in with lace, while the sleeve is
entirely omitted or ia an elbow sleeve.
Other dreeses for young ladies are draped
with figured net or gauze and caught up
with rosettes and garlands of ribbons in the
flat effect now universally seen. Dainty
point d'esprit, dotted in the most delicate
manner, embroidered lieses wrought with
tiny rosebuds or some fine blossoms in pale
green, delicate rose or yellow over satin
make beautiful dresses. -New York Tribune.
A Bridge Over the Behring Straits.
In an age whioh has seen a Forth bridge
an accomplished fact, and a bridge from
England to France discussed and designed,
there is Ailing novel or extraordinary in
the projeot which is receiving serious atten-
tion in Russia of bridging over the Behring
atraits. The narrowest part of the gulf
which separates Siberia from Alaska is
only 96 kilometres (little more than 60
miles), and it so happens that there are
islands in a straight line whioh would serve
as points of division in the bridge and
reduce each portion to a length consider-
ably less than that of the proposed channel
bridge. The compensating advantage to be
gained by a work of mile huge expense is
not obvious, though there needs must be
something attractive in a scheme which, if
carried out, world seem to bring nearer
the day when it may be possible to make
the circuit of the globe on foot. But if, as
we are told, the supremacy of the world in
years hereafter is to be divided between
Russia and America, it might be better for
general peace if the sea remains unabridged.
.Tames' Gazette.
Freezing Receptkon.
Freddy (down hearted at the cool recap -
tion) --Really, Miss Snell, I would think
you world go to St. Paul for a while.
Miss Snell -For what reason, sir?
Freddie -They are having some trouble
in freezing the ice palace. You might help
'em out.
sisterly Sweetness.
Minnie -Mr. Binx actually proposed to
me last night. I never wag so surprised in
all my life.
Mamie -Yon needn't hey° been. His
aole ambition is to be thought °acentric.
A Frigid Reply.
Landlady- -Was your room cold last
night?
Boarder -Cold ? I should say it was
Why, I saw the paper frieze on the wall!
-The great question now 10, 44 should
olergymen use tobacco ? " We think not.
The elergy is absolutely overworked testing
and testimonializing patent medioinee We
shouldn't expect too much, even of the
clerga.
The Queen Regent of Spain has calmed
edvertinemente to be published in all the
leading newspapers of her dominions offer-
ing two prizes, $5,790 and e2,895,for the
best two eseays on the life of Chriatopher
Columbus.
-When Money is eight it hag more senate
than a man in the same condition, for it
Waken itself scarce.
WHAT est•
some startilng Yeigiares Concerning the
wubliehing Business.
The cloud of paper flying daily trona the
humening peseta; is amazing to (pentane -
plate, Many Of the Sunday editions of
krone twelve to forty pages would carpet the
cities where they are printed. A short time
ago on a gala occasion the Atlanta Consti-
tution turned out a fifty-six page edition.
The an Francisco E,xaminer, at the chris-
tening of its two monster Hoe perfecting
presses, " Monarch " and 0, Jumbo," threw
out upon a startled community forty pages
of portraits and illustreitiona, and the St.
Paul Pioneer .Press came out with a sixty
page edition describing the largest
newspaper building in the world.
For the 600,000 edition of its pre,
naiuna number The Youth's Companion,
a Boston publication, need 125 tone
of paper, and to illustrate this
startling fact printed a picture of the
Eiffel tower -1,000 feet high, and, by its
side the stack of paper piled ream on ream
3,400 feet -three times and over the height
of the famous column For the white
paper of 4, Harper's Magazine" and "The
Century " it mete at least $600,000 in a
year. Many of the presses of the metro-
politan dailies eat up $1,000 worth of
blank paper in a day. Add to the morn-
ing and evening outpoot of these whirling
monsters the tons upon tons of weeklies,
monthlies and trade publications, and at
from 4 to 10 cents per pound, one gets
financially bewildered over the unprinted
sheet alone, Type setting rims into the
millions • think of the aeld of flying
fingers all skilled and generously paid 1
Then the toll of the telegraph; the
thousands of dollars for messages by
cable , under the sea ; the milliona
Winked through the nervous keys on
land. Nothing in the way of ex-
pense, as every reader knows, stands
between the newspaper and its news.
Last the brain and brawn! An army!
chiefs and subalterns, rank and file, day
and night editors, correspondents and
reporters, experts and specialists, artists
and detectives, prize.fighters and preach-
ers ; everywhere at all times, the pick of
alert intelligence, the essence of quick
thought and instant tuition, giving the beet
fibre of theia lives for all sorts of pay (the
ambitions hope just beyond), from the New
York editor-in.ohief at an honorarium of
e20,000 to the amateur "editor, sole pro-
prietor and publisher" of the Sitka Peanut,
patting in his out-of-sohool time and sur-
plus intellect for real love and glory. Oat
of it all do you realize what your one -cent
paper means and what it represents? Do
you fully appreciate the developing marvel
of your day and generation -the daily
printed budget of a world ?-Current Lit.
erature.
The Utterly Correct Young Woman.
The young woman utterly correct in
winter garb is a strikingly piotureaque
object these days. From crown to toe she
wears only what is chio and what at first
sight carries the evidence of fashion's latest
whim. Beginning witb her hat, it is a
patent leather sailor, trimmed with a plain
band of ribbon, and reflects in its glistening
crown the upper windows of the houses she
paeses. She wears it just back of the
waved fringe on her brow and above the
knot of softly rolled hair. Of course she
wears a coat of Ruesian sable, with a Med-
ic:la collar, into which she will sink her ohin
whenever the weather is cold, but which
during these bright, brisk days falls open,
showing a cream silk kerchief fastened
high at the neck with little silver pins. Her
hands are thrust in a good-sized muff not.
far enough to hide the thick, PON
dogoskin gloves and the edges of
white cuffs held together by silver
links as thick as little ropes. As much
of her gown as shows below her cape
is Scotch tweed, blanket -like in its thick-
ness, but soft and woolly. It falls in un.
trimmed, slightly draped folds, and as she
steps out sans dress supporter, sans steels,
sans bustle, it clings to her limbs and its
edges ripple and sway about her feet in a
delightful way. Her boots have patent.
leather vamps, but tan gaiters leave only a
little of their polish visible. If it is a gray
day with a suggestion of coming rain in the
air she has only one hand thrust in her
aauff, and in the other carries horizontally
a slender, tightly rolled gold -headed
umbrella. Do you see her in your mind's
eye, this bright-eyed, faintly flushed young
woman, making her light, independent way
along with a confortable coneoionsness that
she is the very pink of fashion? And do
you think a prettier specimen of radiant
girlhood could be found among the much -
talked of but flat. chested English women or
the overdressed, tightly -laced Parisiennes 2
-New York Herald.
A Large Bed.
Down in one of the rooms of the Tre•
mont House is a bedstead which strikes
terror to the heart of every man who is
assigned to that room The etrange feature
about it is its immense proportions. It is
a bed fit for, or a bed that world fit,a giant,
and it is a bed with a history. Years ago,
in the old days of the Tremont, "Long
John" Wentworth used to board there, and
this bed was constructed especially for him.
He stopped at this hotel for a long time,
and left there only when colored
help was introduced. Mr. Wentworth
did not like colored men, and he
went over to the Sherman House to board.
There be remained until he died. But col-
ored men did not like Mr. Wentworth, so it
was a sort of stand off. The big bed is still
at the Tremont, however, and it is usually
reserved for extra tall men. Once in a while
a mistake will be made, and a small man
will be assigned to the room. In such
oases a searoh warrant is usually sworn out
to find the man in the morning. This
happened once when Frank Daniels, the
eawed-off comedian, was given the bed, but
he was disoovered before the evening per-
formance. They found him in one of the
side pookete, and the next night they drew
a fourteen-inoh balk line around the bed. -
Chicago Herald.
Grippe of Other Days.
There were altogetber about 300 distinct
epidemics of influenza in Europa between
1510, when the disease wadi first noted at
Malta, and 1850. In 1729 the whole of
Europe snffered severely. According to
Statistics published by the Novoe Vremya
the disease caused 908 dnaths in London in
Otto week, and in Vienna 60,000 pc none
were affected. In 1737 and 1743 there were
farther outbreaks* and the deaths in one
week in London amounted to 1,000. In
1775 domestic animals were filet attacked
by it. In 1782 40,000 persons fell ill of it
in St. Petersburg in 24 hours. In St. Peters.
burg quinine ie now served out daily to the
troope, mixed with vodka.
Major Pond semi Bicherd A. Proctor,
the astronomer, clehred $31,000 in one leo.
tare season in Australia, and John B.
Getigh, Thotnas Nast and others have znade
as high or higher amounts en this country.
The alsjor thinks that Bill Nye is increas-
ing his bank &mutt by &bout el1,C100
week froth his writings arid entertain
inmate.
---,Little dogs bark the mostibecanse that
is all they oan do.
SAVE SOMETHING.
That is Bow Forthnes Are Accumulated --
But Don't bon skinflint.
Some one hes paid with truth: "Ex -
trainee are things of very easy management;
and mediums, white; are generally consigned
to people pf modioority, are, in fact, things
which, to manege properly, require a great
mind." This is very applicable to the use
and obese of money. There are some per-
sons naturally inclined to frugality, who
find it an easy matter to some rather than
to epena. They quite enjoy the procees
and look with delight upon the eicournu.
lated treasure, from the few pence carefully
hoarded in the child's toy bank up to the
stooks, bonds and mortgages of the wealthy
capitalist. Spending and giving seem to
them very mumi like wasting, and each is
rather a pain than a pleasure. Giving this
impulee fell swa3l', they gradually become
hard, sordid and miserly, their sympathies
close up, their affections diminish, their
souls wither. There is nothing lovely,
nothing beautiful, nothing noble about each
RH extreme.
Others there are of an oppouite neture
who find no difficulty whatever in the other
extreme. Whatever be their energy and
seltmontrol in ,earning money, they have
none at all in saving it. Whether their
gaine be little of much, they are
SOON Ara. PARTED WITH.
They either indulge their fancies and live
in as muck luxury as they can oommand,
or, if they are of a generous turn, they un-
thinkingly bestow it upon whoever oan
work upon their sympathies. Never look.
ing toward the future" or preparing for its
possible needs, they do not see the evile
which lie in wait for them. They never
dream that a few short years may see them
penniless and dependent on the charities of
othera; that sickness or accident may de.
prive them of the power of labor, or that a
turn in fortune's wheel may palsy the de.
mand for the special work they mat do, or
that hard times may come and the money
that now comes and goes so freely may no
longer be in circulation. Yet any or all of
these misfortunes may moor, and, if no
provision has been made against them the
oase may be pitable, but not undeserved.
Between these two extremes, each of
which is so easy for people of certain con-
stitutional tendencies to fall into, lies a
middle ground, which is diffioult to tread,
but which offers that only safe, honorable
and independent path. To be neither a
miser nor a spendthrift, to be neither mean
nor prodigal, is no such easy task as it may
seem. Inclinations, circumstances, influ-
ence, habits are all pulling the man in one
direction or the other, and, unless he can
stem the tide, he will surely be swept away.
To do this demands good sense, a clear
head, sound judgment and the power of
self control; and only as these are culti-
vated and exercieed can he save himself
from ruin in one or the other direction.
After the necessaries of life are secured,
what proportion of the surplus shall a man
devote to his own private comfort and that
of his family? What to his mental im-
provement and the education of his
children? What to the aid of others, len
fortunate than himself, or to social and
philanthropic claims ? And
HOW MUCH SHALL HE LAY AWAY
for future necessities and emergenoies
All these are questions which will tax the
thoughts of the wisest, and,when answered,
will claim the continual selt-government
of the most conscientious. It is not to be
euppoeed that mrdineny men and women,
however'veneintentioned, will avoid mis•
-takes of judgment and infirmities of will
in this matter, but it may reasonably be
expeoted that they will give some thought
to it, and make some effort to carry 6 out
their convictions. The rower in a fog may
not easily find his landing place, but as long
as he can ply the oar he will not drift away
with the tide.
It may be said that meny persons oan
barely gain the necessities of life, and
therefore can have no enoh problem to
solve. We are glad to believe that, in this
land of prosperity, these are very ex-
ceptional cases. The large majority of
people can, if they will, spare at least
something to lay away for a rainy day, and
the effort to do so will foster within them
those very
HABITS OF THRIFT AND ECONOMY
which so many people leak, and by which
they are thue kept poor. If the youth,
beginning to earn his living, will acquire
the habit of regularly putting away a small
proportion of his wages each month or year
in some savings bank or safe investment,
he will be laying the foundation of future
independence, and the very oonsciousnees
of doing this will give him a firmer step
and more manly bearing. It will save him
from the humiliation of asking favors, and
it may save him from the temptation of
doing a dishonorable action under some un-
foreseen pressure.
On the other hand, those who have
enough both to spend, to save and to con-
tribute, do not thereby escape the dangers
of these extremes. The narrow selfishness
of the miser and the wild prodigality of the
spendthrift are too often found among those
whose wealth ought to be an unmixed
blessing to themselves, their families and
the community. There is a strong and
righteous feeling prevalent about the great
responsibility connected with the charge of
trust funds. Whatever a man may choose
to do with his own, these at least must be
held sacred to their purposes. Yet in one
way of looking at it,
ALL MONEY IS A TRUST,
and its possessor can never eacape the re.
ponsibility. It opens up opportunities for
happiness, enlightment and welfare, which
he has no moral right to negleot. To board
it, and to squander it are both violations of
this trnet and each bears its own penalty.
Henry Taylor has well said "So me,ni•
fold are the bearinge of money upon the
lives and characters of mankind that an
insight which should search out the life of
a man in his pecuniary relations, would
penetrate into almost every cranny of his
netnre. He who knows, like St. Paul, both
how to spare and how to abound, has great
knowledge, for if we take account of all the
virtues which money is mixed up --honesty,
justice, generosity, charity, frugality, fore.
thought, self-sacrifice, and of their aorrela.
tive vices, it is a knowledge which goes
near td cover the length and breadth of
humanity, and a right measure and malting
in getting, saving* spending, giving, taking,
lending, borrowing and bequeathing world
almost argue a perfect man." -Philadelphia
Ledger.
in the Conservatory.
She (widow and tiole)-What do you
think of My garden?
He (eingle and poor) --Beautiful, and you
the fairest flower 111 itt. • I would I were
yonr gardener.
• She -Why, you'd make a queer gar.
dener. Come, now, I will examine you.
What is the first thing you world do were
you gardener here else
He -I'd ask your permission to remove
your weeds.
But eho married a fellow Hob, as herself,
, and he's in training still.
-It be bettet to have a thrum) nose than
a cabbage head.
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A. errs= LOOK Isang.
4. Wonderful Invention that was net
Understood by Burglars.
When I entered the employ of Aytine
Caret, the jewellere, 1 wee shown their
wonderful strong room. It waa a wonder-
ful piece of mechaniene. Eaoh tray of goods
as it was lifted from the window wes
placed on a tiny tramway, which Wig the
oases into the strong room, a dial register-
ing the number that passed in and out.
At 7 p.m. the door closed automatioally,
and it opened at 9 in the morning, except
on Sundays, Good Fridays and holidays,
by means of the clooklook.
But," I said, " Good Friday and
Easter Monday are net fixed dotes, 00 how
is that done ?'
I was told that the veorke of the ;nook
hed it calendar barrel which arranged all
these dates for a year, and was altered
every let of January by the inventor of tee
apparatus, the foreman, a Swiss, named
Schwarz. The room itself was built of
omit iron brides looked together by spring
dove -tails. It had no windows, but was
ventilated by holo e pierced through in zig-
zag directions, and a lamp lourned there day
and night. The clock whioh opened- and
shut the doors was not visible •' it was built
up in the iron wall and how itwas got at
to wind or alter it was only known to the
inventor and the head of the Arm. It kept
absolute time, and they eaid it could never
stop without warning, even if the znein-
spring snapped, but I sion't know how that
was managed. The door of the safe opened
outward, and during the day was opened
and shut and looked with an ordinary look
like any other door, and daring the night no
force save artillery or a eteam ram could
move it.
AN ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.
My informant then told me ol an attempt
made on the sale: "Our old houeekeeper
went away on Christmas and on December
31 (a Friday) the firm received a letter
(forged) from a well-known customer beg-
ging them to take charge of a safe contain-
ing some jewelry and a quantity of papers.
Some vague excuse was made for not pur-
suing the obvious coarse of sending snob
things to their bankers rather than their
jewelers. A note of acquiesoence was re-
turned, per bearer, and in the evening a
little before oloeing time the safe arrived in
it van. Though large, it was not heavy,
being of wood, not iron, therefore not
worthy of its name. It was duly deposited
in a corner of the strong room and no one
thought any more about it. Now inside
that wooden box were no papers or jewelry,
but only our old hag of & housekeeper.
They would have made her lay hands on
such goods only as would not be likely to
be missed at once, and then, oalling for the
safe the next day, have got clear off with
the plunder and left no clue. But their
plan was too ambitious.
HOW THE PLAN WORKED.
" On Saturday morning Mr. Caret and
Schwarz went into the strong room to alter
the calendar -barrel of the olook, mmording
to annual ouetom. They looked themselves
in -their usual praotioe-but did not sus-
pect that the old woman in the box was
eagerly peeping from her concealment to
see how the olook was opened. I don't envy
her her long confinement in that box,
though of course she was provided with
eatables and drinkables. Anyhow she
stuck to her poet, and when at 5 o'clock -
for that was our Saturday closing hour in
those days -she heard the alarm go off and
the door bang, I warrant she was glad to
come out and stretch her old back. A
little before I on Sunday morning, the time
agreed on for the robbery, she out with her
tools and breaks open the hidden clock
machinery. None of her skeleton keys
would taokle it, but a crowbar managed
the job, for Herr Schwarz didn't expect to
have this point attacked. She then found
some conneotion with three bar -bolts which
shot from the door of the room. She un-
screwed these and removed the bars jest
as her husband, who was impatiently
waiting outside, tapped at the door with
hie knuckles. She opened the door, doubt.
less
WITH A FEELING OF TRIUMPH'
but as she looked up to see what made it
move so stiffly she uttered a yell of fear
and dismay. With a noise which sounded
on the guilty couple's ears like a olap of
thunder, a second beavy door of solid iron,
an armor plate four inches thick, descended
in the groove in the lintel of the other. Be-
fore the husband could move out of the
way he was caught and crushed by the
middle, lying half in and half out of the
room.
"On Monday morning I was the first to
arrive, and found a policeman standing
sentry before the shop. He said the patrol
had reported suspicious characters loiter-
ing around several timea during the night,
and the inspector had posted him there to
look out. I thanked him and he entered
with me. What was our horror at seeing
the legs of it man protruding from under
the door of the safe, on which appeared for
the first time in large letters the words:
'Stop thief?'
THE INVENTOR'S TRAP.
"We sent hastily for Mr. Caret, but he
could do nothing. Schwarz alone could
explain the mystery and release the hap-
less wretch, who was jnet dead. The
touch of a secret button caused the ponder-
ous shield to raise again, and in the room
we found the old woman staring and shiv-
ering and laughing to herself in a corner;
she was quite idiotic with the horror of
those awful hours alone with her crushed
husband, and died of the shook a week
after ward."
The explanation was simple. This
second door, acted on by an eleotro-magnet
and it second set of machinery, was an
extra precaution invented by Schwarz -a
broglar-trap, which should come into
operation only if the safe were opened in
any way after being closed for the night.
He had kept it a secret even from the head
of the firm, and his precaution had been
more snoceasful than he could ever have
anticipated. The burglars who vainly
waited so long outside to receive the ex.
peoted plunder were never oeught, but
Messrs. Aytine dt Claret's safe has never
since bean attempted. -New York Journal.
Equal to the Emergency.
A rich proprietor is scolding his 5-year.old
boy.
"Will you, then, learn nothing 2 "
APnapdawlh'etn you are grown up, what will
yyoounthd2o,” having learned nothing in your
" Ammer nee 1 What will yon do ? "
"Why, paps, I will aign receipts kir
rent."
Sanaa Old Lie.
She -George, you are the first gentleman
that ever kissed me.
He -Melinda, by the same right allow
me to say that you are the first young lady
I enter kissed.
Correct.
What an unmarried woman doesn't know
about bringing up thildren oeuld be written
On the beck of it postage stamp, but it would
ruin the stamp.
TO SERVS N'OBTX ia0"14KBee.
Tto TalleSt Smokestack in America/ an4
HS "erection.
The tallest enstokeetank in the ULtit04
State, and, in faot, the tallest in the
world, deaigned solely for the ptapose of
providing a draught for boilers, is receiv-
ing its nl courses in Fell River, Mass.
It is intended to meet the r quirementeet
the entire steam plene of boo four new
naille of the Fall River Doti Company.
Some idea of it size oan be lied from the
following figures, furnished by the con-
tractor. From the top of the granite
foundation to the cap is 350 feet, the di.
ameter at the base is 30 feet, et the top 21
feet; the flue hi 11 feet throughout, and the
entire struoture rests on a solid granite
fou ad etion 55x30, 16 feet deep.
In its construction there were Me&
1700,000 bricks, 2,000 tons of stone, 2,000
barrels of mortar, 1,000 loads of sand, 1,000
barrulsi of Portland cement, and the esti-
mates( cost is $40,000. It is arranged for
two flute 9 feet 6 inches by 6 feet, con-
necting with forty boilers, which are to be
run in connection with four triplememane
sion engines of 1350 -horse power each. rn
ereoting this immense shaft no outside
etaging has bon used, but as the work proi
greesed arose pieces were set into the inner
wall, and on these a rletform laid for the
time being. All material was carried rip
on an elevator, and self -closing hatches
preoluded the danger of either we -lemon Or
material falling from above. -Boston Globe.
Twins, Triplets and Quadruplets.
Twins do not happen more than 300 time"
a year in a population of 1,000,000, and
seldom bit the same family twice. 'Trip-
lets are rare enough to be curiosities. It fa
estimated that not one woman in 100,000
has given birth to three children at one
time, and, although there is on record in
the old medical works the case of it German
peasant woman who had twelve children at
four births -three each time -and a Mid&
gan woman who is given the credit of hay-
ing produced a dozen children at five
births inside of seven years--quadruplete
once, triplets once, twins twice and it lone
youngster on the last occasion. Such in-
stances of fecundity are rarer than new
planets, and the lady entitled to the cake
for having had four children at a birth ire
not to be found once in a crowd of 300,000
married women. The woman who Ina
given birth to five children at once is alone
among 2,000,000 of her kind. -St. Louie
Republic.
"Like sunshine in a shady place,"'
The poet called a woman's face '
That gladdened all who saw its beanty.
A face, no doubt, that beamed with health,
That blessing which is more than wealth,
And lightens every daily duty.
0 how can woman, whose hard life
With many a wearing pain is riff',
Escape the grasp of such affliction,
And be a power to bless and cheer?
The answer comes both swift and clear -
Take Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the
only medicine for woman's peculiar weak-
nesses and ailments, sold by druggists, under
a positive guarantee from the manufact-
thrers, of satisfaction being given in every
case, or money refunded. See guarantee
printed on bottle -wrapper.
A Strong Man.
Young Hopeful -Say, pa, yon muot boa
pretty strong man.
Father -Tolerably so, my son; tolerably
so. What makes you think so?
Young Hopeful -'Cause Uncle John said
he went out with you the other night and
you could carry the biggest load of any man
he ever saw without showing it.
An English. Medical Authority
Affirms that the best regimen for preserving
health may be summed up in the maxim.
"keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the
bowels active." There is a world of wisdom
in the observation. Obstinate constipation,
or costiveness, is an exciting oanse of other
diseases; and, with many persons of seden-
tary habit, or occupations, this inaction of
the bowels is a source of constant annoy-
ance, producing piles, prolapse of tha
rectum, fistula, and various dyspeptics
symptoms. All these are warded off, and
health is maintained by the nee of Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets.
Wanted to Sell Ont.
44 Yon are the manager of the British
Syndicate ? "
" Yes, sir."
"Well, I represent the Assooisted Tramp'
of New Jersey. What'll you give ns for
our cordwood sawing industry ? "-Neuf
York Sun.
Don't disgust everybody by hawking.
blowing and spitting, bat use Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy and be cured.
How He Got Rid of the Bore.
A very pious olerioal friend, who had.
consumed half an hour of his valuable time
in small talk, said to James Harper, the
publisher, "Brother Harper, I am carious
to know how you four men distribute the
duties of the establishment between you."
"John," said Mr. Herper, good humoredly,
"attends to the finances, Wesley to the
correspondence, Fletcher to the general
bargaining with authors and others, and -
don't you tell anybody," he said, drawing
his chair still closer and lowering the tone
of his voioe -" I entertain the bores" -
Exchange.
The End of It.
Brightfellow-Make any calls New Yearea
Day, old boy?
Stoopid-Yes, called on Miss Goldbug.
.4 Did she say it was a go?"
"No, but her father said I might."
Mrs. Raiford, wife of the Private Secre-
tary to the President, is dangerously
with consumption.
Agreat Welsh Eisteddfodd has been in
session in Chicago. Mme. Patti patron-
ized it a little, ac she lives among the
Weleh at Craig-eanos Peitti nye them ia
nothing so musical as the Welsh 11's, Anne
dad yxsx's when you know how to pronottnoe
thorn. She pronounces the own° leery
sweetly herself. It means beer.
11 19 related of a Traverse City girl that
she has made her beet fellow promise to
come around at noon for an newer to his
proposal of nierririge. The girl eo,yei oho
has seen him several times, but always itt.
the evening, and she will marry no man
unifies she Knows how he leoks by daylight.
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