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vsai t or ostentatiously piaced
,
t 1 all bill before her. -
"One ancl a penny, pleriee, Miss."
„liayniond 1-11.11yard,q)andeottie and
(tistingeished looking • sitting ()lino-
'eite, glanced up with an assumed
lazy indifference and resumed eating.
gle waiter was busy whisking
about his napkin preparatory to be -
ding paid.
"heonie more coffee, .1)1eeee," said
the girl, '1'11 rernaiii a little long -
lreally no , 'occasion to "ply'"611e 8p0BusT AND
imetened to acid.. g
I ilillyard rnade a eareful note of the
The man disappeared, shortly re-
. ,
teaming with the order., ,
She began to Sip her .coffee very
slowly,' Her table, companion had
ample .opportunity of studying Alter
What he saw 'Was
A broad, smooth, forehead, with,
tiark hair 'clustering in rebellions
Curls 'around her temples; • 4 pair. of'
deep -gray .eyes, with long .lashes;' a'
ehoet, straight nose; ae dear little
2 *meth, and ,ft rather ,square jaw,
.ewhieh showed. resolution .andedetere
• enination. The hands, email, well-
, kept, .and shapely, were devoid of
, „rings.
, •
he mused,. "the hat
E°st one • enc.!: sixPenceethree Meths
legs, ie-„isome' ,trininied,- 'Very
esireat, .aridsuis her.e deni blouse- was
.four and 'elee'en. •off.'the .peg; „and. the
„lace' round the cellar could be 'bo'iight
at- •.,any thozto.;n:fli1iner's-.1or severi
'4.three farthings the,dozep.
herbs," he said ,eudclenly to the .nian
•Aeho .hovered round like a Phantom
at.
Ile Vanished, like lightning. A few
,Ininutes „later the proprietor strolled
up' to the table, glanced .suspeetingly
at the ,girl, coughed meg or twice,
iheen
said: -
"We shall be closing very. soon,
Madam, , Are, you 'expecting a
friend?"
"Yes," ,was the'. answer. '!I won't
Wait much longer." '
'The waiter • appeared:aga,in and
added the coffee to the bill. .
"Thank you," said. the girl, "You
eedn't stand here."
The Waiter w ithdiw. fliflyaTd
smiled and began, hie -omelette, which
kad been liienight to him.
' s'ePardon me, but I believe Lam
right In saying that you, haven't got
the money with whielisto pay your
bill," Put in Iiillyard at last, in a
low tone. "The manager, I fear, is
of the same opinion."
, •
For a moment her eyes nasned in
dignantly; the mouth quivered. • .
Ho dare you speak to .rne like
that?' she ,said. "What do you take
zne for?"
"I take you for what' you are—a
lady," he answered 'gently.
This, answer flabbergastedher for a
:moment., , - not meet .his
scrutiuizing gaze.• '
."Pray allow me the favor of add-
ing your bill to Mine," he continued,
"You /mast admit that you
• are in an • awkward corner, and that
your friend is a myth." ••
The waiter, somewhat agitated,
drew near again,
"Curacoa," he ordered ' sharply,
Auld the .gentleman with the napkin
disappeared with remarkable celerity.
`Really,"- stammered tne girl, "I—
I--don't 'know what you mean."
"I mean what I say," he ansWered
•firmly. "I will repeat it again if
you wish. I don't believe you have
tbe money with—"
. em,e)
e motioned him to desist. •
"Hush! hush! You have no right
to say that.. .Don't 'please don't."
• „Iler earliest entreaty compelled him
to stop.., '
"You cannot ,deny that I am
right'?" he demanded. iu a manner
that plainly showed he would have a
direct answer.
Iler -face -went an deep,crinisorsed , •
•,'Yeso"..yozt. are right," -• she 'replied
'at length,' but with a great effort.
•
N\* ' very; , verywrong,.-.1. know,
• but I • was, • seeeeo 'hengrys.'anda-
,
;That • it was PoSsible- yott Would'
met .with a good: Samarlian,". Put
acenfately •divinineher
• thoughts, •"A very risky gaine' to
play. • SupPose you -had. not :met me
-what then?"
She laughed uneasily.
"But you See,',1 did Meet° you."
"Yet you semi, • very reluctant to
Lllow ne to 'add your bill. to mine."
The color flamed her cheeks. again.
''It must, he a 'loan,"' she declared,
Btaphat i eally came in here in
Omer desperation. You- don't know
e
hhyrytit.,,is' to be 00i, and
ob, so
ii,
"Yes, T, do," he answered -quietly.
"Iam so ,sorry," she whispered
.gently:' "1 did, not know. I had no
idea. I ,never thought—'', •
"Pray don't apologize," he inter-
rupted, again assuming' his ,lighter
vein. You are reallY PorrY you
will Pass inc YoUr hilt" ,. •
pelleve me," she replied ,groiteftile.
fliaridingehlin 'the fliihsY Of pee
ane'ti-Uly'graterele:Fortuno
has not. bowl ' too kind , to inc of
- late.", '
'he"Nor ' ,to me,' said- EJillyarci.
v'Deane fortune is a, tickle jade!: and
• hasto be treated' accordingly. ,,,Woo
her ; too. "much,, she ,o,ften .turns;t•and
.1..:•,0..ds you'. Treat her w ith i differ -
ice.' and she will veer round and
tnawa upon you?'
."She has,at any rate, been good
• 10 _Me to -night," said " the girl. "One
moment. I shall .consider thls bill a
debt of, honor. . Where' can I send
you the amount? It—At is net toe
mach, is it?"
Tqo much for you to pay now;
thesigh," he answered laughing,.
Tie p rod oced his card, i ch bore-
's mime and address, She put
co.rafaily, in lier purse.
' 1.':111, send yon the ameunt to-
inorrosV,'', she declared,
lillatd„Smileq, ,
io What,eddres,s n
acknowlecignient?"!• e •
'Oh; Mi'S's..Dellinga'saris':P1 ,M4,1,1eY°41
lihrary,,-Westitiinster Ilrfelge "rdadf!': '
she 'refilled hui 'I'1iere will he,
The eccoulit was eettled. As tlicY 4.T ON TIME THEY WE'
quitteti the shop the raanager bower]. CONST.PERED WASTE,
and emiled in a, niamier that baillee
description.
-
'May' I ,see you to your door?”
asked HIllyaril.
'No, 1 ,would rather you did not,
thank you,"
flien. 1 insisT en seeing, you into
a cab,"
•`.!..No, I really—'' •
se.'Oorne,
And befo.re she could inalce further
remoastrance he had hailed a han-
som. Ile Put her inside and haaded
the man two
"I have paid your fare. Where to?"
1 iviiI tell the cabman, thank
0ertainy '' Pc sald rather coldly.
"lf that le' your wish." He raieed
his hat. "Good night."
-"Thank yeti, oh, eo much for your
goodness, Good night."
, in another moment he had gone.
* * *
mains to be seen.
YElillyard, congratulate me," cried
Fairleigh,, a handsome young fellow,
overflowing -With goon. spirits, hurry -
ham into his iriend's comfortable
Cliarifbers. ,
"1 do congratulate you inost heart-
ily," • returned lli11yard, warnily,
"N‘lio is the unfortunete lady?" he
Miss Ounninghun Wi10111 1 rnet
last, summer at a feiencl's house. The
best girl ill the World,.. I 'assure you."
ai6 'always that,'' answercd
,
I: yard, cline Lly .
„ •,
Oh, you needn't oe soorieastly sar-
castic,'' be=
eaosC you've iiever been in,losie:",.• -
"How' 'do you knew.; 'that?". asked'
11111yard •
"13ecatise you're not a lady's Man
at all." •
•Pei -haps not," saide,II,ill•-
yalied.•s "thi4ing of
Ithe girl 'whom
to an artidle, the Cext ol which is
liad met, et t,he restaurant. Had
he made , such a bad impression on
her? Ile knew she had made a great
linprassion on him. In shert, he had
Now the Supply is .Not Equal to
the Great Dema,nd---Once Loss,
• NowProfit.
ate: 2t.tit916iillassef
. • , •
Despite the wonderful increase in
the power of , production in all
becinclieS of industry M years but re-
cently passed, and which still„ goes
an in a way that causes one to ask,
wonnlers never c,ease? 'the eco-
nomic mind has' ever beein active
to discern small leakages which might
be turned proet in'alr branches
of business, ,The result Is that what
was `formerly itodead loss in many a
basiness is now a eouece of revenue
.r no mean proportion, as well as
Inc medium of employment to thous-
ands of men.
11. Is said. that the Standard Oil
„
Company manes .911 the by-products
of crude peteoleuni more than
enough every year to pay ior tee c,
tire production under ite control.
lAniong timee by-products are easel
'line, paraffin°, axle e-rease- cerotin
wax 'protects and lubricants,' of.
lious kinds. Anotner instariceeof the
!ntilizet!on of what, wes formerly
i,waste 'May .beited in:colton see,d
'and coal .clust-' both :6, AV 11 fell ere
now sources ot -revenue.
'11.I07; SANDS N el ALHY. S InD .
. • Scores- of :other •t'llsgae'
b' •
mentioned to show that hundeeds of
tiumsands of dollars are now annual.=
ly saved to society, by tile ,elimina-
tion.of waste in proauction, but tee
'above wi 1 suilice as an introduction
I 1
rnothing mofe -than sawdust and
,shavings.
I Who 01 mature year's cannot recall
'Wheri S was of Leh burned in the
rick or left to rot where it lay after
lacing robbed of its golden treasiire
by. the thresher? Even the formerly
despised .satedust,, which was a con -
Stant aware° anno,ya.nce .to the
saw -mill men and an expense in !seep-
ing the mill , cleared of-- it, and the
shavings of, the planing mills, known
to have no further use that that of
furnishing a.niusement inittgithative
5-ottngsters who same- in the 'brig
white coils the image of silk ribbons
or the long. -wavy hair of a fairy, are
now marleetable counnodities.
Tole:16, Ohio, beeng Ft large pro-
ducer of shavings and sawdust by
the great lumber ,interests there a
resume of, the extent of the ,business
there ma:ye:not bteeentirely without
interest. InVestigatma snowed that
tens of thousands of wagon loads of
shavings are sold in 'Toledo every
year and that the supply is •far be-
low the demand.
00D- F-IJEL.. • '..
The same is true Of sawdust. Many
Of the wood svorking consume
their Own shavings as feel. for their
boilers. Flues are so constructed
that, the shavings are immediatelY
drawn away by a draft from tne ma-
chinery as rapidly as tney are made.
Through this' channel by devious
ways the shavings are carried into
the furnaces. •.
Those , who deal in -shavings get
their supplies from the large lumber
yards where rough lumber is dressed
or the niailect, and from the mills
where it is- manufactured into the
finished product.
Shavings are used mostly for stable
bedding. They are, bought up by the
livery stable proprietors in large
quantities, and they .would no more
think of neg,lecting the, laying in of
a large. stock oaf shavings at this sea-
son oi the year • than they would
think-. of neglecting •their stock 'of
-
feed, ,
Shavings are sold by the load as a
rule, tlioughsonietiines ticey are pur-
chased in , large. ton orders. .The
price. per ,.•li.`iad is ,e1.2,5 deiive'red.'
liorsemen. prefer sliaVings
to straw 'Or'esaWdust. '13 CI •
because, as they e,laim, they talse up
the moistureel3etter:ttharC straw, are
'cleaner and 'Iatht -
SHAVINGS Sl'OR,ED AWAY.
fallen in love at first' sight. •
"Ilere, let me show you her por-
trait,'1 rattled ,Q1). leairleigh, taking
a small photo from his letter case.
-There, isn't that a sweet face?"
''Very," declared Elillyard, but
with a teach -of bitterness, for he
realized that all the sunshine had
gone out of hie life, for the face he
gazed.' at Was the face of the girl
whom he had .befeiended.
"It le just my ill -luck," he mut-
tered. -
"What's ' that'?" asked rairleigh,
sharply.
"Nothing, nothing. I hopa you
will be very happy."
"Fen sure. we silall. Ta-ta., old
man, I must be off'noW. I'll look
in againesoon." • *
To wonder she gave the name ol
Delling,' "'mused laillyard bitterly.
Ile extracted it postal order from
P15 pocket foroneand TliVe and a
short note; -which_ ran: •-
With Miss Belling's sincere
thanks." •
"Perhaps," he thought, "I ought
to tell young Fairleigh. But no; it
would compromise the young lady.
Better leave it as it is. I may be
wrong." '
Then he sat dewn,to write an arti-
cle, and by the time he had posted it
to his .fypist it was 9 o'clock, fie he
went to the restaurant, where he had
met Miss Delling.
Needless to say, he ate his meal in
isolation. '
• Three months passed away. Hill.
yard was unable to lind any trace of
Miss Telling, though he had visited
Malley's library nmny times. Fair-
leigh had gone to tne country pend-
ing his coming, marriage. • lfillyard
still kept his secret.
It was a strange fate that one day
led him to visit his typist's to call
for a manuscript which he especially
wished for. But when "Miss Doll-
ing" came forward, in answer to his
enquiry Hillyard Was: .completely:
taken alexia
.
• -eYou,haee certainly succeeded -ad-
/nimbly in keeping ,out of my :way,"
he,stammered. me to con-
gratulate you „on your engagethent
to my friend rairleigh, MISS Cull -
The girl was visibly agitated.
"IIow did you find out niy name
was Cunningham, and who told you
I was engaged?"'
"My friend showed me your por-
trait."
''There -is some mistake," she whis-
pered 'hurriedly. 'Years ago my fa-
ther left .America for England, tak-
ing with him my -twin sister, leaving
me with my mother in .America. My
father died, and shortly after, /ley
mother. Id y,• name is Cunningham
and 1 have, been trying for ,months
to find the whereabouts of my sister.
None will ever know wha,t, a struggle'
I have had for es,sdstence. (23131 you
help in° learn whether your friend is,
engaged to my sistm
"Believe me, I will do all I can."
returned mllyard, -Give me three
days. This is Tuesday. ,,, Will you
meet me at the restaurant; on Friday
eveningeat 7?"
She,smiled an assent.
'1lheey dined, toge e Fri day,—a
happy' pair. Fairleigh wee -indeed en -
'gaged to Miss Cunningham's twin'
sister, and all the mystery was clear -
"But•whY did you not g'iVe Inc
your proper nazrie?" asked Ifillyard.
"You—you sec you were (mite a
stranger to, inc. 1 thought it was
better we slibuld not meet', again,"
she answered shyly. .
"Tile Fates have thought other-
wise," he said smiling. "Pate has
brought us together again. • This
time You will have no hesitation hs
adding your bill to Mine'?"
There WaS a pause.
''Bearest,'", he whisporcd, ever so
Softly, "won't—svon't,, you add your
life to mine, for foe lo keep always.
for better or worse,
Their. eyes mot. 11 was enough.
eeeeer tIicC, 3111114011
tiirlsey'e stil_;ject,S
Greeds
SIllt a
eiepg to
Asked le? •an estimate of the
amount, al shavings handled by him
in the course of, a. year, a,prominent
dealer said that duringethenast year
he had handled 10,000 -loads ast,
,
least., "There are all years hi. -shav-
ings as well as in any other busi-
neSs," said he. "
Phis year shavings have been
tolerably- by reason- of the,
fact that the 'lumber business has
been good.. rn ,years like . this we
have to look out for the future ,and
store awn.y shavings. ' We' have now
three' large warehouses/ full,. for we
expect a shavings famine to ,come,cis
in,the past. There are probably one
thousand; tons of shavings, stored
away' in •Toledo at this time, and
CY.nrY,,pptind ofo,it„ wil1 be 'sold here.
wille 'net, spoil`, if there 'iS no Cle-
mend for it next year, and can be
icept indefinitely. That is one of the
advantages ,,of ,handling
there is -no waste, and itis always;
staple." .
The stored material is. of• the baled
variety., 'Loose -shavings.cannot very,
well be stored, as they take up. too
"much "aorage room in bulk .10170.
Tile baling of ,shaseln gs is a compare, -
lively modern idea. The machine
used for this purpose is raueh like.
that used ha baling hay or straw. At
one large planing mill 16 0110 of these
,
balers. This machine has a capacity
•
of 460 bales of shavings a day, each
bale weighing 100 Pounds. The,
power that propels 'the:planers also
propels the baler. , The baled pro-
duct Is a trifle more expensive than
the uribaled, but .11 75 always prefer-
red by th,oee' with whom econoinY of
space is an object.
SAWDUST 'USED FOR PACKING,
'as a ,Matter, ' of course,
of]comee ',.'::•frOl'il, the 5131110 1300000 as' tt.s:
I cousit, 41te • ''shaVingS. ' : While it M.
• used to a considerable extent for
ettebie becidieg, it le not ae popular
for • tide purpoen es the shavings.,
rSaw(11.1St has, 'a, market value of
twerityefive ceuts a ,oarrel, aild, there
be rarely any fluctuation tile price.
11 is used extensively in packing for
shipment anything that is ,shippeci
Lu. '1. -be brew Q1'.ies tiee.it in pack-
,
log bottled bc'en, -Gnu wniao the paper
cuslnori has been. introduced in many
111103 sassqltist„. is' still an 'old favor-
ite, particularly with the breWcOs. , •
ifortherly sawdust, Was much more
extensively , used in 'the pacleifig of
ice tlia;ti at present.' - The•-introdmi-
,
'Lion 01 amtificialoice and antler'
dis-
Soverics for the preservation of the
natural product has disnrimipated
against sawdust ce presoe'sfirig
agent in this partieular, yet there is
310 indication, that t,hereewill ever he.
the want of a market .,,for it. Par-
tictila,rly is this, true,when it is con-
sidered that in manw,saw mills the
saWdust now being coneuined lis
fuel along with the shaving's.
So staple have -these ',two by -pro-
, •
ducts di the luniber become that 'no
,i feed etore is now considered well
stocked unless' it is Prepared to de-
liver on short order a; barrel of saw-
dust or , a bale of shavings as
promptly aseif, the order was for a
'----4.-------
DfrrERENcE IN FOGS.
Sea Mist and I.oxiclon Gloom nave
Nothing in Common.
The' fog of London and the fog of
th e .sea alike 'd is comp o s e trail:lee and
omnibuses .and steamsillps alike haVe
'had 10 l31y. to fer safety.' But while
the;London fog gets intro your in-
t room and, baffles, even .the,
clec-
(rio light (thoughthe' candle ''eoines
oet , ,triurephaet,",curimisln),
densest fog -at sea." does. -not disturb'
the saloon or the staterooni, Why is
that? .
The word "fog" has not been trac-
ed farther -aback than, the sixteenth
century, .but the thing was known in
the early'Years of the fourteenth. The
commons, with the prelates and no-
bles visiting London foe the parlia-
ments and on Other occasions, tiedUed
to petition Edward I. to compel the
burning only of dry. wood and char-.
coal, as the growing use of sea coal
corrupted the air with its stink arid
smoke, to the great prejudice and de-
triment of health. In 1,306 the king
prohibited the use of coal; 'heavy
ransom and fines were inflicted for
disobedience; in .the case of recalci-
trant brewers, dyers and other artia
_ricers the furnaces and kilns were de-
stroyed. But the restriction was
evideutly removed, for in 1308 8250
(probably equal to about 51,000,
now) , was paid from tile exchequer
for wood and coal for the coronation
of Edward II.
THE ONLY WAY.
• ''We have such a rieleerable'cook,?
said Dimpleton, "that I've got so
;that -I hate to go hanie at 'night.
This. servent question , is gradually
upeetting the whole household.
. „Witherby smiled 'a pitying smile.
"What do 3roti keep .her Thr ?" he
asked. •
“WhY, we keep her " replied Di
pleton, "because the chances are the
next one will be worse."
Witherby laid • his hand on his
friend's shoulder. "My dear fellowt!
he said, "that is the whole trouble.
That is .the key to the entire ques-
tion. Householders, as n rule, are
too timid or too lazy. I don't know
which. You .take anything you., can
get, and suffer, rather than change."
• ,"But," interrupted Direpleton, with
some ' surprise, "why should we
change if it doesn't do any good'" ,
"The point," replied -Witherby, "is
this., I've tried it, and know'. • My
method is troublesome for a while,
but it pays. I keep on changing un7
'til I just get the girl I want. I
never engage a servant for more than
a week's trial. Then, .11 she doesn't
fulfil my requirernent,s exactly, 1 try
another onc. I keep this up until I
am satisfied. Of course, while you
are doing this; it is inore..or less up-
setting.. Du t It's the'sbnIV_way."
Dimpleton was thoughtful. "1 don't
know but- you're, right," he. said.
finally... "NOW long. ha ye You', been
trying this -2; ' '
IV] th erby - Sighed . ''AboUt teen
years," he said, '
WHY THE ' C()NGIZeGATION
STAYED..
The chapel of an English fishing
village used to depend for its sere
vices on the occasional help of the
clergy. of I he nearest town., One very
wet Sunday the clergyman waso vol-
unteered to do t,he duty drove over
in a rig.
Tolling the chapel bell •himself, he
annotinced hisearrival to tnc natives,
but for a long time no one appeared.
At last ,one ;Solitary person came
in and took a: scat; at the very back
of the chapel. The clergyman then
found his surplice and conducted the
service. That ended, he remarked to
his audienceof one that perhaps a
sermon was superfluous.
• "Oh ! please go on, sir," was the
flattering reply, and the clergyman
mounted the pulpit.
70 the course of hisoaddress he .ex-
pressed, the fear that he was ovcarV-
neg ti°119€1 ll eh'alr(e -r, and 170%S ;'.1 or tn: tite totoo
long. The Sereoon, consequently was
lengthened out to some forty: min-
utes. .
When it was ended the preacher ex-
pressed a desire tO,shake hands with I
the gentlernon who had lit.teried td
him with 50011 evident eppreciation.
Imagine Ids consternation at d133-1
'covering on a nearer view (for he I
was somewhat, short-(ighted) that he
had been preeching to the driver of
his rig, who was all the while charg-
ing -overtime 1—London Tit -Bits,
Mabel --"I must say that for abso-
lute untrustworthinees there's 'no-
thing • 3iIce a man.'' Rate—''Why,
what, inalces yasti say the t ?" Mabel
—"Well, yo31 remember when I reject-
ed „Mr. Bullfinch about, three weeks
ago 7" Nute--"Yes."
Pc said lie should cel tainly pine awlie
.11.1d die, and 1 should he his mar-
deras. Now, 1 lus1 met him hi .i he 1
street walking with another girl, and
a 0(0 ly 1 believe' the 'fellew 11315
gaited twenty pounds in weight,"
11011ENOillKIUWAL
HE, RO.INE zrun. E 0' THE
ILO0bY'OR,INEA,
----
England's .Angel of Nerey in That
. ' t a ,
,• ,4,wful War Nearing ,li, e En. ,
• of Her 'Lite.
r , .
, .
Seine years ago the stireilying Brit'len Wheel's or the Crimean' war held
a banquet -in London. , One p1 eheil
nUMben.P1'9,130,!=;ed, til.94.:,Slionia,take a
'VO.Ce" en the question, ''''')\ liat name
COLIlleeLeci' with that war will ' live
longest iri history ?" , Wlien the bats
tote were counted, )(nand behold 1
every vote . was for a woman, and
when the name, df, 'Florence. Nightin-
gale was announced .as the unani-
mous E(tlec.t,iOn, Of the ,griezled Veter-
ans the hainmet hall rang with ap-
proving cheers. Small wonder, then,
that the whole world is filled with
.interest and sympathy When the-. re-
port goes forth that she is seriously
ill in her eighty-seecnd year.
As the pioneer in the sy,stern of
trained',femele nurses for ,whr ', and
as the ministering angel who saved
thousands of lives and ea,soci untold
silliering, Florence Nightingale' won -
immortality cn t,he bloody fields of
the Crimea. 'Phis is the more re-
markable as she was rearedin , lux-
ury and 'came of a race of peculiar
delicacy of taste. leer father was
William• Edward 'Shore, it 'banker , of
Sheffield. On inheriting the estate of
'ft kinsman named . -?(Etc,,r, Nightingale
lie was -comfielled •by the'terniS of the
will to assail -le . ,- ." •
., THE NAME OF NUGHTINGALE.
.. , " .., , • . a . ' • ,.., ,. •
r1lics family spent . ninch 'time in
Italy,' and the second daughter .,was
P011151 irr 'IclaY; 1820., ' in the' ei'i,y ' •cif
Florence from Which her name NI.,`IS
borrowed. She ' Was a precocious
child, and early in life made great
advanc,ement in ransic, niathernatics
cui.d tangua,ges.-,Happening to ,v-ieit a
hoO.,,it.al the impressicnal)le girl ,at
once al:mob/iced that nursing was' to
be.her mission in life, and she drop -
lied her other studies' to learn the
,cgt of caring, for the:sick. As a girl
she 'sought, to improve the sanitery
coedit:ions of the eaborers and peae-
ants-about her father's nfa.nor in
Derbyshire.
.' Her 'parents took her to Egypt, but
she turned from a life' of idleness and
pleasure' to 'utirse' •sick Arabs. in a
. .
hospital. •On returning. to London
she ignored society to 'Workin hos-
pitals, where she laid. the foundation
of a practical training that 'proved
of inestimable benefit to mankiud for
all subsequent Utile. In 1849.. she
went ' to Pastor Pliedner's school,
conducted by the Pratestant Sisters
of Mercy, at galserwertli on the
Ehine, not far from Dusseldorf, and
took a course of. ins-truction in -their
methods of relieving .distress. Froth
Germany. she wet to France to •ex-.
amine .: rydri.e.iis institutions in her
chesein line of Work... , .
_ Soon after her return to Landon
she 1131(1 an opportunity to imclertake
ithportant work. Learning' that the
sanitarium for.governesSes was lan-
guishing for want of proper 'snpport,
she volunteered her services free of
cost. She also raised money for its
support and mit it on a good fin-
ancial basis, but . • •
IMPAIRED, HER HEALTH.
Shortly after the be,ginning of the
Crimean war,. in the winter of 85.*,
England was horrified by the -gra-
phic descriptions of the sufferings of
sick and • wounded Britishesoldides
sent, home by the correspondent of
the London Times; afterwa.rds known
as "Bull Run" Russ,e1 1, because of
his account of the.federal'disaeter in
the Arnerica,ntivil,war. A' cry of ire:
dignation went up all. through ethe
'empire, . accorapaiiiecl, with a demand
for -"a'neforra...*:'IPlorence, Nightingale
offered her services to Sydney, , Her-
bert, Secretary. of War. H.° had
writ,ten her to accept the command
of a body _Of trained, nurses, and
their ktters passed each other in the
mails. •
It.. was only a few ,duys before the.
"Angel' Of,.the CAnnea". as ,tlie" ''spl-
. .
diers christened ' Miss Nightingale,
-wass. on - her way to•S- C. • 't1
en err • ., sv-f .1
thirty-four trained ilimses . •
,,.„,,?..e was described as I.eing at that
:::ii:lcitelish ,,.(isi.mId-aalwl ,fitahsigl;f-at::artir:irsd:zep-crata3,11crief:it,..g..31ceosviti)ois:inoel.v.:xi..1
pressiori of conntenance."' 'She „faced
a° frightful condition of chaos and
stifTering at Scutari. She found 18,-
000 soldiers disabled by sickness and
wound.S., 4,000 being pile to the re-
sent battle of 'lrikermari. She was
given almost absolute authority.
How -nobly he did' her work is tin
old story, and her 'narae. is a 11 01/ Se-
hold„;word throughottielhe, civilized
world.' Sovereigns have- delig,hted to
honor her, and her /lame has a
. -
,ing place in• ,
HISTORY. FOR ALL .TIATE.
To the mangled' and fever -racked
victims of the war the slight form
that...flitted so silently from ward to
ward, -the ,syrapatlietic faCe that bent
over the torturing cot,. tile sweet
voice that whispered words of cern-
fort the gentle lia 1- that - --11 d
wounds with ' sizch delicate -touch all
were, the symbols of en -angelic, being
Whose ' m i nistrati ems , Were niore . ,pre -
(eons than diamonds, amlorubies.
'Miss Nightingale and her 'assistants
not only cireSsed 'the soldiers' wounds
and gave 'medicines, to the 'sick, but,
they aided the sm-geons in riumbei--
less operations, though never' so
bloody -a lid. n gen' Zing. And . When,
the soldiers readied. the convaleecing.
stage the nurses sang the der eld
.fi011f,,'g 0 1 1101/le to the I'Veill`led and
scarred veterans. Mies Nightingale
also established an Invalids' kitchen,
a inelildre, a iilprary and a school-
room. ,She walked day and nigetgin
an air laden With ,dise.ase germe and
amid Scenes and odors tI4 niade'
streng Men turn sick, but, 1,er body„
proof , uga.inst cholera an) t-pii'ils.„ ,
..1(/)
animated' by an unyielcliri • sorzlo was
1,17hen she' returned,,toAond on "in.
Aug,ust, 1856, it great/reception Was
tendered , her, but, s'-',wass declined.
Queen Victoria. svoalel 'riot be' refused,
however, and 'insisted on having her
ne a,gueste....t. p 1, '31.-19ral, , where the
nuree Wae, decorated.: by 1.66 hands :of
the. eOVolebign; , The ,Sul tan , Of .' TUrkeye
sent her a Inagin icent, present, and
1 'eh 8140 IVered • 110e 01'4',
her. Atnong the gifte of the 13zit
people, :was
VRESENT "$250,,O., 00,
nbittetnts;.101ei detyllootAil.)digiitititnogatileie efrstraoh:?lie.li
ij
Sehool for
But th,e devoted woman „
escaPe , the penalty of her tc1li
ordeal of two years • in the' Crier -lea
After reaching, lioxne there came aere.
action, She broke down Pllyslealle
and continued to be MOVE: isse"ae
iavalid•during , the resteiii" her lit
Levee 'in her sick reom'slie
in '510 cause of the sick 'and siitt6r
ing. Siae wrote a, number of work
for the, direction, Of nurse33. and,'
others careng for the „eiek.
"Notes -on Hospitals" apPeared • i
1859 andel-lad' it large circulatie
It was approved by the British We,P,
Department and was used by it as A'
tent look 'copies being seet to ever3r
army lioepital. "Notes on Nursing e,
had a circulation of 100,000 cOries;:,
and "Observations on the Sanitary
State of the Ar-rny tti India" proved
Ia valoablc vork, At the request of
tile -"War Department s e prepared a
voluminous confidential. report en
• the working of the array medical de-
partment, during the Crimea 3.var,
which resulted 'in many reforms. Silo
also brought about iniproverneets in
the sanitary re ulatIo-ns of 1,he vol-
unteer,/ and her advice has often,
been sought by the war officials. For
inany years pest she, lias lived quiet-• ,
ly in the old family limner house ina.,„
Derbyshire. •;, •
STORY or TIIE
I Here is an episode of the biograph,
I which rivals ,the most pathetic and
curioas tales of ,fiction. A few days
1 -age biograph scenes, 'Made at the oc-
cupation of Pekin, were being thrown
on a smeen at a public exhibition.
The scenes, printed over a year ago,
represented it 'company of infantry
entering the gates of the Chinese -
capital. So realistic were the files of
soldiers that the /nen appeared liter-
ally to be stepping from tile stage,
two by two with steady tramp. Sud'
denly it ,woluan who sat in the front
of the audience arose with a scream
of terror. e"Ivly God, there is rny
dead brother Allan, marching with
the soldiers!" she cried: One of the
figures e had , been recognized by the
woman • and 'by otheremin the au-
dimme. eIt was that of it man who
had . dleappeared mysteriously `some
years age. The sister wrote to the
War Office and learned that the man
in the biograph scene was -really her
long -lost brotherand that he was
still alive.
111
• ELECTRIC MOTORS.
• The great 'objection to electric rao-I
tors—that they will not run • for
enough •without recharging --IS said
to be overcome. Recently in England
it circuit of 94 miles was run • with --
out recharging. It was done with a
battery of 42 four -plate cells, with a
capacity of 180 ampere -hours. The
carriage was it four -wheeled dogcart,.
with .two motors of two and a half
horse -power each. The secret of the
battery which enabled it to znals(f
such a record was that in going
down grade the motors were reversed
thus making dynamos for chtugine,
the accumulators. In this way the
current was not only saved, but ,
Dew CUrrt?,Elt etually generated, ren-
dering the battery stronger at the
bottom of -the grade than it ,was
the top. •
MILITARY A.ITTOMOBIL7eS.
The development or the automo•
151e.as an engine of war iS at present
•occupying", much 'attention anaone
military authorities in Europe. Th(
English, the "French, the Italians,
the Germans and the Russians'. art'
all at work upon the problem. 4ev,
eral types of military antomobtlef
are being dx-p.eriniented with., Ix
Italy a special form of armored
chine has beendevised for the pm -4
pose of protecting railways.iRt-fl
of war. Sonie of the ,Gerinan ma-
, ,
chines are intended for scouting, and
are furnished with drawing tabl
me _maps . OtlierscarryMaidm gut'
and can do a little fighting.
MANX TAXES.
... •
foollie -matter of taxation 'the Isle
of Man is unique. • There is no 131-
0
come tax, 310 SileeeS SI 011 duties)
egargeable against the estateb of dee
ceased persons, nor highway or turn-) '
pike tolls. :Roads are inaintained hY1 /
the • revenue from two som-ces—a
small tax upon evert wheel and shod; '
hoof and a levy upon every limitenirre--
habitant, who raliSt, day's
inke sn- tleo baCi'Zir" its ecitrivaiont ij
cash. 'Hier° are no stamp duties on
reeeipts, cheques, or proniissory not,
es; in fact, stamPt;',are used -only for
poStage.•
-
CAN SEE 200 AT:FLIES.
About 200 miles in every (111.001101
the distance it man can see wile/
standing on 0 clew- day, on the
peak Of the highest mounta in—say,
ae, as height of 26,668 feet„ or it lite
Ile 'over five miles above Cho level pt
the eea. An observer must be at r ,e
height of 6,667 feet, above sea level -
1(0.see objects at a distance of 10C,
miles, The distance ' in miles at
which an object, upon the simface. 01
the eel rth ie visible is equal to th (
square root of one and a half Humt.
the height ol the - observer in fee(
above the sea level.
--
WILLING TO TAKE CHANCES.
"So you're going to marry 'Mike ?
egiid the mistress inquiringly.
• 'eVie, /num,"
"Are you sure ';',7 011 are not ma'kin
niistake,?"
rt:,."turned cook t
fully, -"lie's not, the best r
world, to be, SAITO, Pirt-11 1 TaVO
e
go how kin •I be sure :of gittin
erther Wall ? I'vc. been thinkin' ab
it, an' it, looks to inc lilcu g
an' proper to take what ye kn
1011011 ye kin git 'fbem 14)01.11
off for tbe big prize hos been 1211
bo lose the 'little wanS, 1 thin'