The Beeville Bee. (Beeville, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1899 Page: 3 of 5
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Your loving sinter. V
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hey can be caged up, Inseets of every
Church Econonaist.
Murmuring Spt
who want to grow fat. says Pearson’a
early training, but it te full of good.
months ago with
ly shonid-not be deprived of the ndvan- rather to create wonder than to give
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a financial deal, Inquire
to the
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out gotse and those that shot without
smoke.
bort Humbert, has already
made a
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touched.sfsh.
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bottom of the cratf.
vents. In the
Capt. Benthe, however, found that the
perfectly obacut
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new York
Mngnette uriet.
CANDY
gested to the French committee of
the native,with eyes wide open "yer
their abw
tachment
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Insect*
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mon."
"What
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buribarra an' trn’le ime * tanas doom
return of the air to the barrel.
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African war*
sideration.
In mere shied*.
In porder to.n
new rapid-fre artillery
a the climax of field
Not a bug remained in the
One bat devoured, while I
burned, to accompany the corpse
their servants to the next world.
contractor who is putting up • fine
house la tbs suburbs. "I canna ianage
France
cun that
was the second to climb to the crater,
a most difficult undertaking, which oe-
cupled.iwo days. Count von Gotzem,
who discovered rhe mountain, found
of weeks it wi
lug as many I
iter.whtch
> the vol-
of Irrup-
region la
y natives
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walked to'the car with her ana naked
if he might call the next night.
He came, and Margaret received him
with fluttering heart, for she had never
attracted any man's attention before.
After a few minutes Tolly ram* in,and
I
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ild take a man, work*
urs a day, to count a
F ..
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churehes where roosts can be provided
for them, re that during the vervicen
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Boete Frohtem
Watts-Then you don't believe that
the man who offers the bribe Iran bad
Toeth Nrushes Scare*.
One of the western soldiers'at Man-
ila writes that he went Into a store to
buy a toothbrush, and that the store-
g» HEADY FOR-ACTION.
detructivenees
Soldiers are trained to light an en-
emy they can see and their blood is
tired ty the roar of cannon and «xash
Tes’m; I had him there to I
other man away 1—Tit-Bita,
in the musical scale will produce a
different picture, so you may produce
a great variety of them. Some of these
pictures, look like pansies, rosea and
other Bowers, some like snkes, and
others like flying birds; In fact, there
is no limit to the variation. The ple-
‘ hisnn7
Stomaeu3
not -TTi
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navy .went back to their home govern-
ment and, reported the sueess ofTheeeT
two most destructive forms of tais,
modern war—the guns that shot with-'
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fully and look at thesand-You.wil
find that tbs vibrations of your voice
of lava forcibly,
mat the sea. M
FREE
Your warn on a postal card will get you
Spalding’s
Mandeomely tlluetrated
Otalogue of Sports
n Fhffoe, with newly 400 ■ootretfane
A. a spALDIa A sass.
wSivatbe 2
Root Beer Ext 41
Phospbate.i 2
Ammionta... •9
Biufng d6
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•• Vanftia .. .r
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number of millions Involved, more in
fear that the total will be toy-small
thd that It will be too large. This
was Illustrated recently when a mod-
est schemer who wanted only $5,000,-
000 was told by some downtown mag-
■ from that day, for t have
_______thy American pubile carefully,
and it will not place confidence in the
"aQamoarums®"
BRERS’tnCfK UAIACRE FlWfiil
A arzotzimrtainzdrterum. ten nAc2a 10
there, for tonight
Good-by, my dear si
and John be as happy
is the last wish of yon
y awallow
re him mad
at deal, bu >
The fame in4et the qanes being
t fto6fhhptTrthe barret
ould be rlores n the moment the pro-
aectile left it there could be no noise.
rut* a Lena-Teit Want
’ An extenanie car step, which
designed by Harlow S. Bpih of Os-
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band of the apa
that his wife wo
r. a green oue _
lue one Ism en-
LA HUM ta. making itay, 2
Asts on the nelgb aowi
.........
"Dear Margaret: ! am vorty iogileve
you. but I cannot marry John Murray
/ Me is too plain and pokey and would
/ never suit aw at all. and I am going
to marry the man I love. He is not
yoar style and knowing you will not
approve I am taking French leave, and
The morning papers contained
count of the deglh of another
hall singer from an overdose of mon
phine,—BufaloTimea, »
elurae not The briber has plenty of
money. Indianapolis Journal.
Buaxr, Sun I
K K. Harri,
A urns If
bedkteads ja
"wa..Calla
The Ran
and bringin
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tarfety, Iat
Am mgeit
double aster, with ever so many petals
of light green. giossy as satin. and
each one tipped with rose-color. These
lovely petala do not lie quietly in their
place, like those of the aster in your
> garden, but wave about in the water,
while the opelet generally clings to a
rock. How lovely and innocent it looks
on its rocky bed! Who would suspect
that U would eat anything groener than
dew or sunlight t But those beautiful
waving arms, as you call them, have
other uses besides looking pretty. They
have to provide food tor a large mouth,
which is hidden deep down among
them—so well hidden that one can
scarcely find #. Well do they perform
their duty, for the instant a- foolish
little fish touches one of the rosy tips
he is struck with poison as fatal to
him as lightning. He immediately be-
comae numbed, and In a moment stops
struggling; and than ths other beau-
GorN-
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and ravishing dimple. completely
einated him Margaret aw it all.'
noiseless gun. He again set to work.
Improved It and applied It to the new
French field cannon. That government
adopted his invention. , .
The leading organ of the French ar-
tillery service, the Revue d'Artiilerie,
from its secret sources of information
gives an account of the performapces
there, ml* Wade an' glowert at met
remumanamwtrewifenyedima;
underntan" Kagilsh.“ Detroit rge
Preen,
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it is the time to laugh, the I
year’s fresh prime. Sensible J
people now do the same tha: |
Nature does—sim to be pun. l
fied, and for the same reasons. I
They usethatmarvelous blood j
purifier, Hood 9 Sarsaparilla, 1
that never disappoints.
Ita work and worth ar kn own worla d
wide as a household medic ine.
catanh-"Dinagreeable ent rrtial amo 1
phiga ln my throat made me MrVOU, a 2
luy. My Over was torpid. II d, *" 1
aapsrilla corrected both tr M, 1
taiatiu. H
Eruptions-"1 spent huntrsordos 4
ton to nue eruptions on my rigiit Ieg wi- J
out permanent good. Bills.....1
Barapariile egmpletely cured me 1n J
very grateful. HzMax IARTLETT, # 7
Ninth Ave, New York eity 9
USEFUL SCAVENOERS.
nats a Great Help to Melt ina in Cienn-
Ing and Kenovnting (hurehen
insect powders and "bug-act-knock-,
out-drops" acomplisp their purpose
fairly weil but leave behind unpleas-
ant odors end a great deal of work to
the saxton lo do-i gathering up and
BRASSEELKEOIRONBED I
#KFREEL-2 i
Wsde p tets and beam knobu dhy
h camclover leaves his6le3
in dolowing widthu 3 It, Mm ■
moo and receive the Bed and
runulaledSUGARSI
‘roeertes: orei and thegoods ;
bjeortoexamination. Thlsi
aORDN BU •• _
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common sense, and comes from a
prominent physician. His suzgestiope
are as fol lows: "If you are thin and
want to put flesh on your bons, eat
before going to bed for the night.
Physiology teaches us that there J* a
From time to time experts have no-
ticed certain-unexplaidble peculafi-
ties In magnetic Instruments In vaii-
oua buildings. It is now decled, as
the result of experiments and investi-
gations. that the vagaries are due to
the presence of magnetism in beieks.
They are made of earthy matter eon-
tatning a greater or less proportion of
magnetite or magnetic Iron ore.
.the gun it was painted a greenish tinf.
Another balloon was sent up to try to
discover its location while thir Bring
was going on. But even at an eleva
lion almost directtyvek the gun not
the slighteat vapor nor flash' could be
detected. Only when it was wheeled
over an open stretch of ground and
away from all foliage could the gun
Itself be seen.
Similar firing tests have been made
before on dummy figures and balloon;
at Chalons But nothing has evet
-eqealed the destroying power of th
new quick-firing gun that can neither
Iw seen nor heard. ,
he, 2
soldier learned, that its natire name
waa "tapoknos tam pulse," and that U
waa the only one in stock.
than one man at a distance of four
miles. '- . -
The test which the French officers
made of this gn was by setting up a
dummy 'regiment at this distance. In
a single minute almost every one of
the thousand wooden figures was shot
through in some part. • •
A battery of old guns was placed at
and. this being so, them should ba
continuous nourishment. Food taken
at dinner or in the early evening to
always digested at the time of retir-
tag, and the activity otthe process of
assimilation continues until long after
we are asleep. If the tissues are not
nouriehed they are pulled down by
the waating process, and aa a result
sleeplessness ensues .On a full stom-
ach, however, or with some food to
sustain the system, there is a build-
tag up of the tissue. Man to the only
creature I know of who does not deem
it proper to qsleep on a good meal.
The infant. In thia respect, instinct-
ively cries to be fed at night, showing
that food is necessary during that -
time as well as through the day and
that, left too long without it causes
a discomfort, which it makes known
by crying. Ther la nd need for rest
in the digestive organs provided the
quantity of food eaten is not above
the normal during the .24 hoffra. Too
long intervals between meals are bad
for the stomach .from the fact that the
cessattonand resumption of work of
the digestive organs tend to enfeeble
sal with tile lines gradually deepening
in her face, and wished she had not
been so foolish as to crimp her hair.
Such frivolous things were for Polly,
and she was rightly punished.
John Murray came often after that,
but it-was plate that it was Polly he
came to *e;. They became engaged,
and after a while he obtained a posi-
tion in a wholesale store end there
was no excuse for delaying the mar-
screwed ou the muzzle in a minuta them.
But ta this case it is a ball instead of a t.e=
Oninene Moreua
in the Chinese morgue, la San
Francisco, one of the strange sights is
a number of lite-sized dolla, which are
that direction, but they find an outlet
‛in‛the two little passages in the uppes.
part of the tube. The gases rush, out
through these with such force aa to
make a recoil which offsets the recoil
of the shot. The flash takes place in
the Interior passages of the attached
tn be, and is thus completely hooded.
When colonel Gullbert Humbert, a
retired omeer, first brought his, inven-
tion to the notice of the French ord-
inance expert*, over a year ago.thev
' ’declined to even test it. Even Colonel
Humbert's reputation for honorable
aervice In the Franco-Pruslan and
live in small natural 1
over by sheeta of lava. The explorers
discovered nine new lakes in this vol-
"5020,
New Deal
IN MILEAGE TICKETS
ISSUED BY
Santa Fe
Route.
BVBRYTRAVBLn SHOULD KNOW JUST
WHAT THIS MEAN*. AND ANY -9
SANTA PE TICKET AGENT WILL TELL
FOB THE ASKING. I
W.S. KEENAN, 1
Gener Passenger Agent.
GALVESTON
a distance of three mites, with wooden
post* for artillerymen. A single shot
from the silent gun disabled- g, the
guns and blew the wooden post? to
pieces.....-a"
The new gun was’ rained on a ball
loon half a mile high and nearly-two
miles distant. It took three shot* to
get the range, and the fourth ahot blew
the balloon to pieces. 14 floated down
imokeless powder canhon. The result
is the present matchless artillery piece .
An effort is belng made to keep the
matter a secret and all French army
uticers are jealously guarding it But
it had already become known by the
mistake of first refusing e invention
and allowing Colonel Humbert to get a
public patent of it.
..When Colonel Humbert frat aet him-
self to solve the problem of noise and
flame in a gun he considered the
causes of these things.
The noise ia due to the sudden expul-
Yonkers Statesman, . ; ------
At this time of the year when tbs
bicycle is brought out from hs win-
ter bed it will be noticed that the
outer cover of the Urea is very hard
aad stiff and closed to the rim parched
and gobbed The heat method to get
the rubber pliable azain la to defate
the tirentand rub well with ordinary
toft soap. —Chtcago Nws,
made a taw
pineapple Abre,
uang name mon." "What slon of the Eases of the exploded gun tneeete
' Dini x I tell " ye to take the powder following the bullet and the morning
-----f-m-mi j ( return of the air to thd barrel. eounted, sixty-eight files.
man who says humorous things."
Pierre Loti’s plans for ths future la-
dude trips to Asia Minor, Persia, tha
Himalayas and the plains of India. It
la said ythat. he never reads books,
but And* .all the mental ailment he
wants in change of surroundinga.
The winter has been a phenomenal
one in England, with abnormally
warm day a and then sudden periods
of frost." As a consequence the death
rate has goae up noticegbly in nearly
all the towns, and the outbreak and
sudden Increase of Influence ehows la
all the reporta.
"What!" exclaimed the surprised
traveler in Florida, Vyou want m to
pay $3 for riding half a mile in your
old carriaget HCertalniy," replied
canle region.
have scattered the pinch of sand into . On the whole Africa has remarkable
Momarknbie Meeneve Diatarbenee-
The Ruselan province of Kursk
proves to be oae of the moat remark-
able areas of magnetic disturbanees
yet known. M. Mourpaux reports that
the differences between theory and ob-
servation art fib great that it to obi
possible to draw inomagnetie lines, and
• the magnetie force is as great aa it
s would be in the immediate vicinity of
'the magnetic poles. The dip ot the
needle ranges from torty-eight to sev-
enty-nine degrees. At' two point*,
about 450 yards apart, the deelinations
are minus eleven degrees and pius
torty-fve degrees, and the variation a*
two places about a mile and a quartet
-apart 1* from minus thirty-four degree
to plus ninety-six degrees. Nothine
near the surface to cause theue an-
pmalles to known to exist.’
be an uncanny contiiet that no army
in the world. Is trafud for?
Imagine it* effect* upon the-iznorant
of the orchard near by told me that his
apples wer always free from worms
I took a dozen Itais home with me and
inatalled them in the parlor. They
sprays and buds at the uppermost
points. Or honeysuckle will lie used/
beginnanig In'Hke manner with pre-
ternaturally large clusters, and mixed
with sweet pea, which latter presently
meanders alone toward the top of the
skirt. A naturally careless arrange-
ment is aimed at, and further to soften .
the effect a delicate muslin or crepe de
chine is generally employed as a tunic,
falling nearly to the ground at the
back, and draped tn frrtnt into a pep-, ”
lum point so as to com between the.’
‘two paintea garlands as an .apron.
When only a border round the edge or
a short trail nf fowers is painted, the
very tine muslin overdress is made the
full length of the skirt In front, and
just drawn up sufficiently at the sides
to show the flowers peeping out under
it, the folds being fastened up by an
imitation diamond or other brooch.
. keeper took down everything In the
8 shep before he could bprmade to un-
6 deratandi what bl* customer wand.
After the brush had,been found the
valve that rises aad prevents the
escape of th* gaa. Rifles equipped in
this was are intended tor sharpshoot-
Centri A fries** Velennoe-
A good deal of lava la scattered
through the continent of Africa from
the central lahe regions northeast al-
most to the Red sea, and many of the
mountains. including the two highest
summits, Kilima-Njaro and Keola, ar
great piles of lava. But no active vol-
canoes were known to exist until re-
cent years, and thus far only two have
been Revealed.
The flrat one waa discovered by
Count Telehl at the south end of take
Rudolf, and Ite peculiarity waa that
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them.1 A moderate working ot the or-
gans through the 14 hours is much
more benecial. I would advise those
suffering from insomnia to tahe some-
thtngtoeat before going to sleep al- <
way*. A glass of milk and breead or ,
any digestible food will do." —' 4
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Aa is just Wbsi his inventlonacoom-
pllshed by it > valve arrangement. The
iame which ame from the mouth of
the gun occurred inside the passages of
the tube, making II invistble.
w*go, N. T. It ta not convenient to
make all statlons at th* same level
nor ta It practicable to build steps on
Ue can that will project far enough
to be a source of danger. In overcom-
ing thta Mr. Bpink has designed a tele-
scoping ex teas I on, which, when out of
service, to ralsed to a point itmediate-
ly under the lowest stationary stop.
It ta supported by sliding* that are
housed in casings on etther side of Ue
stepa. The extenston has a light later-
al movement, -by whieh A drop houl-
dor ta. allo wed, to art,land the sliding
footboard is held at liny desired point
within reasonable limits.
million of this or that. The efect of
such dmonstrations, however, waa
and superstitious wild men that the
United State* is now fhting in the
Philippines
Practical experiment* have lately
been made by th* Erench artiilerists at
Chalons w‛th this new gun. It has
been proved that it could destroy an
insrenched regiment or a battery in one
minut at a distance of four miles.
The gun ta loaded with shrapnel
shelis conta’ning 250 shots each. , -g2
Twenty of these shots can be fired
in a minute.' This is an unheard of
ratetingaM-gun. The exploalve
Coupled with Its powerful darknese-
plercing eses guarantees a surer re-
moval of these pests. Prof, Clifton F.
Hodge of Clark University found br
experimenting with hate that they ate
everything from a epider to a polyph-
emna moth so numerous in churches
When seen the other day by a repre-
tentative'ol the Church Fonomist, Dr.
Hodge told of hl* experiment* at
Clark, and how churches might profit-
ably domesticate these animate. HI*
attention was railed to hate through
the codin moth, which eat* into ap-
ple* and other kinds of fruit. He sld;
"In an orchard near my home I found
nine of the grub* of this insect in a
minute. 11 went, to another orchard
near by and found only four of the
weapons la modera warfare.
It gives/no emoke, no dash of flame,
dad. strangest of all. It makes no nolse.
Yet Uta allent gun. that can be
neither seen nor heard, can shoot twen-
ty times a minute and each tlm* hurt
a throe-Inch projectile containing MO
separate bulleta.
la December. 1897, the Journal de-
scribed Ue Arat experlmenu with a
noiseless gun 'by its Inventor, Colonel
Gullbert Humbert Last October the
Frenck rapic-fre cannon was illus-
trated. Now these two devices have
been united in a weapon that chal-
lenges and deflee the world.
This gun, with Ita mysterlous pow-
er. ta the direct outgrowth of the late
Spanish-American war.
There were two wonderful things in
the Santiage campaign. One was the
smokeless powder guna of the Span-
tarda 0 land. They placed our army
at the mercy of an Invisihle foe.
The other marvel at that campaign
belonged to the American aide. It was
the almost nolseless guns of the dyn-
amite cruiser Vesuvius.
tores of the notes at muaical instru-
ments are made by holding the horn
as near a* possible to them.
orator last ’ ear was full of
indicates that for some tl
cano had not been in a st
tion. All the aurroundlt
covered with lava, and u
strong paper over the flaring end of an
old tin horn. Hold the born with the
.sheet of paper lipward. Taha a little
pinch of Bns sand and place it In Ue
> center of Ue paper. Then hold the
horn vertically above your face and
sing a note into the lower end of the
instrument. Do not blow, but sing
the note. Now Tower Ue horn care-
.."$CRAPS.*
Japan has A new lghthouse, made of
bamboo, which la said to resist ‘ th*
waves bett than any kind of Wood.
The wool on the bark at a sheep la
a shepherd’s(barometer. The curlier
the wool the liner will be the weather 1
Queen Margherita of Italy speaks
German fluently, and generally uses
that language when abe meets GdFlhan
artists.
The island of Malta has a popula-
tion of 157,736. The number of deaths
top of the window draperlea. At Brat
they were wild when any one ap-
proached them, but in time they be-
came tame They mfever, however, al-
lowed thenngelves to be handled. At
night, and even during the day, they
would fly about the room while, per-
rona were present. One evening I re-
leased several nesttuls of night-nyins
The device can also be uzed on a , hey can b* caged up. iuoectoreve
rifle. It la a mere nut that can be | deseriptior cohttut. Aowcdto b
free during the six week day* —
erzurukrtminzupz
ambition was tor Polly, ths saashlM of
her lite, aad she aat up late plying her
needle that she might have a gay lit-
tle dreaa for achool. Her own waa
patched and darned, her coat waa
threadbare, her shoes were mended,but
so long as Pglly had a ribbon tor her
hatr and was bright and happy Mar-
garet waa satised.
Polly danced and aang. accepting all
without a thought of her sister’s sac-
rinces. She grew up to be a beauty,
and finally graduated from the public
achool. much to Margaret’s delight
The younger boys now began to get
• places to work, and the atraln was not
quite so great. Margaret obtained a
• situatibn ' in a dry goods store, and
they move I into a better fiat, and had
more of the comforts of life..
""Why, how pleased yon look!" ex
elatmed’ Polly one eventag when she
opened the dhor tor her sister. "Ooi a
raise’" .
* "Ko. indeea," laughed Margaret. "I
wish I bad!"
To tahe a picture of your voice it ta . . . —
only necessary todie’a sUet of thin.* that lava was bubbling up through
. - ’ vanta {n the hnetNw ke 4L. A-nazd -
,. tiful arms wrap themselves about him,
and he is drawn Into th* huge greedy
mouth, and I* seen no more. Then the
lovely arms' undose and ware again
In the wate looking aa innocent and
harmless as though they had never
It was thoughtto-he-an-ald mana ■;
toy. In tormally declining II for army
use he was politely but ironically give .
“permission to patent It* and make it
public." (
He did that and made a test of hte (
own. His Arst trial was on a 1%-ineh ,
Hotchkiss gun. It worked almost per-
fectly. The firing produced no flame
and only a slight htsaing sound from
the discharge of the gas through the (
•mall holes. Xhe recoil was also less-
ened.
The French ministry of war at once '
acquired the ‘right to adopt Colonel
Humbert’s invention. . .
The Spanish-American war showed
the immense advantage of rapid-Are
smokeless powder guns. This" sug- '
e22S-rsus"uummv*i2"e 1
Bernaparina which complete ly rured me, 4
Man. otbers heard of my cure and they use 1
Hood**, C. L. Rmonra, Etna, Ohio. I
HodSatapatig
Badly they went home, and John
drew Margaret‛s head to bl* breast aad
told her to have a good cry. Then he
asked the right to comfort her al-
ways.
1. Next Morming she received a letter
from Polly:
"I know just how you fell when you
‘a" peat the show tonight, and bow
much I shoeked yon. Neceasity foreed
-0 14 Ant the tatetae*. The man that +
. eknea IB breference to honent John
s Murray demerted me after a tew mouths
*
flameless and smokeless Held guns ami
a company o. •harpshooters with’ride-
x "om-nm; tor weekiy.atmdembaicoutbzbe.stt.ouz
would be likely to create-as for their
— ---- -- nates that, while hte plan was good.
She did not tell thet John Murray i was hardly big enough to make the
e fle orwnlkor in her ectinn han .... .17 .. ....
qulsite wonders of th* sea, ta deadly
L to flahN^JlLlll about as-large as a
•—■ German eater, lookig, indeed, very
much HisFone. Imagine a very large
at our expeuse and we ' 22
andyee may the Bed. *
atCT,,
eeEwaad
■
.
suggestive wink* and smirk*. eThe
........took of innocence had left her face, and
when she performed a nerles of high
kicks Margaret was so shockeshe af
most fainted.
- " John sat as if turned to atone, and
realized a* never before the contrast
between the painted woman on the
stage and Margaret, and wondered
haw he could ever have loved Polly.
"Shall we go nowT" he asked, when
Folly'* turn was done.
"Y»a," she said, and they left th*
hall and went to the stage entrance
. and xaited. .......
At last Polly came out.
, "Polly! ' said Margaret, stepping for-
ward with outatretghed hands. I
Pdz guve • ji art at the, familiar
sound and stared in astonishment ’at
the two before her. •
time there was not a fly in the aouse
r 01 a ronwet t nw watk BaG m
quent mam churehen, and it ta tonne
that thev keep the wall* free from cob
-barge vieh scojtere these bullet* I
M , melinite, like dynamitein strensth. In
The” French Inventor Colonel Gull ‘ one mtnutethis gunthrows 5.000 bul-
lets. Each one of these can kill more
tages of the day school, she denied her-
self almost ths necessities of Ilfs to
keep her out of the shop All her
brwR, painted cheeks, and sea HLaLtEe. telung joke*
• nd saug a coarse song with many ntudied th f
poupwektyilten,
BiHera. It- cur. - ktomae1l
iirelluanmalariaand feve l
I ".......neidei
aeon of the year. AI Cr6
• IL •w ■ I
illery to apply Colonel Humbert'* at- Erubs In at hour'* tme. In the barn
— - ----- - h-- -- T 1 there were nearly 100 bats," The owner
Mest Temperate Nation.
The Greek* were perhaps the most
a temperate of the ancien: nations. True
F they had their wine, but it waa of,a
mild character, contatning but Bttle
alcohol, yet they never drank it with-
out the addition of water, apd.to drink
it otherwise they deemed woifld be
the act of a barbarian in shgrt, the
2 Greek drank for exhilaration, and nev-
er allowed hte eupe to carry him -be-
yond H. —- -------
1
--
On reaching Polly's room to asalat
- • bar in dressing for her wedding Mar-
Barat found this note upon the table.
The girl had managed very adroitly to
get her clothes out of the bouse with-
out exlting suspicion, and left st ths
last minute Bo there was no wed:
ding at the little flat that eight, and
when the guests arrived they wpre
quietly dismissed
- An her liter Mtargaret Magulre, bed
primped ard saved and aacriAiced.
prectieing every form of self-denial for
her younger stater At 14 she entered
the shep that her small earnings might
■ -be added to the ramily store. Earnest-
ly desiring an education, she went to
night achool aad determined that Pol-
«r ‛* "*‛A V * w " MV VP5 J WS
Polly come home with me, and give don't think lm like you other jays—
up this horrible life!" said Margaret down-here for my health, do yert-
with tear* In her eyes.
•bro. but did not meet ith success,
and IB Burmah also, whee the plant
ta very abundant, no nerlous attempi
has ever been made to spin the fibre
IB the Phitppines B varlety Ot eloth
ta made tyom pineavile Abre whieh is
celebrated for Ita Ind ebair-iike Abres,
but the plant from which the fibre is
obtained is thought to be Ot a ditters
ent spectes from ths usual torm. In
Immunity from subterranean disturb-
antes of all kinda. The only part of
the continefat which is known to be
subject to earthquakes la the region-of
the Atlas mountains in Morocco, which
xcasionally share the disturbances
that now and then cause considerable
destruction la the neighboring Iberian
peninsula. ,
SCIENCE OF BATINQ
*” be effort of ^battery of nolseless, *ow- Ae "ua"ort "h "e "
Here 1* good advice to thin people
-Muthe" "Mary. Mr"uluk,tema m.
ibedl ”ln"X‘n pjaman
. . Many facta pupport the view that
eolcanoes exist under the sea. Ships
often pass through long tracta ot water
covered with pumicestone and other
sbstances capable of floatlag. aad vaat
numbers of dead fishes. Occenionally
the ocean ta found to ba bollina. mi
from some disturbance benenth; and
bonta passing along the shoes of Ha-
waii have mors than once bean strdek
of rifle volless.
is ^5^4 SXTit
i
'£53“
xroieyxmi* archegrorerieeo
-ocal Happe
2, itemasi
an idea of concrete quantity, and for
practically everybody the diatinetion
between Infinity and a million waa al-
most inappreciable. We'have changed
all that of late. Not a few men, or at
any rate more- than a very few men.
handle dally millions of dollars, their
owa money or that of other people,
and congress for the second time has
taught us that actual transaetions in-
volvig over a billion are among the
possibilities of modern life. Aa tor
the railway corporations and - tbs
great business corporations popu-
larly known aa "trusts," they deal
with millions almost as the units of
their figuring, the lesser sums being
la effect fractions, not unconstdered,
exactly, yet after B fashion inconse-
quetial. And it I* a fact that there
be men who, when asked to. engineer
undertaking of It worth while by those
particular reorganizera. And this was
not sarcasm or distrust. In sober
earnst the.pospeotiwe.commission on
$5,000,000, though satisfactory as a
percentage, did not amount to-enough
to warrant a diversion of attention
from operations of greater magnitude
—New York Time*. •
"coughed" earthquakes. Without any
warning report it threw bomba that
laid' waste acres of forts, houses and
intrenchments wherever each' oae fell.
The Spaniards teared this more than
all the reat of the blockading fleet.
The Freneb artillerymen who ac-
companied Re American army aad
TTB tmm ' ------
The daily coot of Presid n MteI, I
lays tabla Is snid to excend
^Laagh Out, Oh,
there last year was 5,547, Including
eight victim* of leprosy.
In a family in Kirwin, Kan., one son
I* a-doctor, another kA undrtaker, and
a third a tombatone-maker, whose wit-
is a registered pharmacist.
Among the 3.405 newspapers printed
in Germany sixty-eight are in foreign
languages, including thirty-nine Pol-
ish. nineteen Danish and seven French
journal!.
When Thomas A. Edison was a
newsboy on a train passing near the
handsome houses of, East Orange.
N. I., be said to a friend. “I shall
Uve in one of those places some day.”
And he does.
Senator Depew says that President
Gareld once’ advised hiarto stop
—removing the corpses. Besides, many
failed to secure him conTinmects escape the volson. It has been
discovered that titefappetite of the bat
explosive gases are made to counteract
the recoil.
Yet this wonderful sound-destroying
device is so small that it can be. put
on to the end of any modern gun as.
easily as' a sewing machine bobbin
can be slipped Into its place.
The French artillery experts have
applied It to their newrapte-fring Aeld
gun. By- this combination they have
the most perfect and destructive gun
in the world
This noise and ftame destroying at-
tachment. is very simple. It is a tube,
which isserewed on to she muzzle of
a gun. There is but one piece of mov-
able'mechanism in it, a hinge valve.
When th* gun is Ared snd the projec-
tile teaves the muzzle, the outward
rush of gases mekes this valve done.
This stops thebcape of the gases in
"MILLION" IS COMMON.
Net Long Age th* Wera Was OsMeat
Haar*
Oae doesn't have to be very old to
recall a time when the word "million"
was |a muh less common usage than
it ta toda.’and when it had little
more defniteneas of meaning than the
word "aeon" has now. Not so long
ago there frequently appeared in pript
laborious computations of the number
Recene Inventtema
Band beaches can be formed along
the bank of streams by the use of an
Ohio man’s device consisting of wooden
cribs to be Ailed with atone and sunk
into the water, projecting arms being
arranged at the sides to prevent the
crib from tipping over as it sinks, at,
low,M the water to deposit, noil and
form the bench.
Dental foss for cleaning the teeth
la anally mantpulated by a new tool,
which has the floes wound on a spool,
suspended between two hollow arm*,
through whieh II la threaded, paaning
from the tip of one arm to the other,
to be drawn tight by a reel and in-
serted between the teeth.
A Maryland Inventor ha* patented an
electric switeh which baa ao metallic
surfaces to be throw* la aad put of
contact, the ends of the wires being
bared and extended Into a chamber
parttally tiled with mercury, no that
a tarn submerges the wires in the
fluid find complete* the circuit.
W BBk^ 1#
SLICKER
1 WILL KEEP YOU DRY.
221Dortbetoolpythamackintosh
Mrlor rubber coa? E
UAngzayggrn "Bra l
aisiicker. W M* for sale in your M |
IKE/rwauE.Mae-7K
A to newer Deat «• tih
Th* opelet, one of the most ex-
declareaithat. recent experimenta show
that the gun give* no nash or sign of
Are. It is practically noiseless, and its
---------- .
; No Smoke, no Noise, But Awful Destruction-An
Made to Keep the Matter a Secret
and It waa found to sustain 350 pounds
as compared with 260 pounds supported
by an equal amount of >**- The pine-
apple Abre la said to be bmpervious to
molsture, and ropes made of it can ba
used continuously in water without
rotting, and it ta used in India for
threading th* bead* ot the neckiaces
It is claimed that in Aneness and luster
ths pineapple nbre ta superior to flax,
and the process of bleaching ta sum-
eent to destroy the adhenlon exiating
between the bundles of fibres ao aa
to render them available for spinninE
it ta atao believed that the Abre can be
used aa a subatitute for ailk le mix-
turee with wool and cotton, azd for
such purposes aa sewing-thread, twist,
trimmings, laces, and Gdlalra it Ia
considered particularly suitabte. The
fibre can be obtained from both the
wild and cultivated varteties of the
pineapple; and if textile-workers can
make nae of It Ia spinning with any
ooeoooo, there Mems to be no reason
why it should not enter Into a number
of manufacturing procsss *a However,
the outcome of qumerous recent
schemes to utilize various kinds of
fibre* has been rather unsuccessful to
the majority of cases, and pineapple
fibre must undergo extensive trials
both in manufacture and actual uwe
before it will bo used by the spinners.
made their home in the folds at the as the man who takea it? Potte—Oi
you will never be bothered with me
. again Hoping that in time you may
forgive me, I must now any tarewell
Two westerner* bare patented an nnaM
improvement in ice tongs by which UIUW
the pronnere made to grip the enke
mors securely, the handle being shaped mamu
like .a Inverted IT. with the tong PATE
pivoted at the enda. a alidingwaZr ■
innide the handle being rainea to pudr .........
.. . ------.-----. . u5 to M «.
"9° tne lew w. " •
—— .......
though moderately active, the crater
ru not rained ‘very much above the
surrounding surface. It wae atao in
an active state when Dr. Donaldson
Smith saw it some years later, but a
remarkable thing had befallen It when
the young English traveler, Cavendish,
visited the volcano over two years ago.
He found that some mighty outburst
had entirely blown the erater away
and that a new volcanic vent bad
opened at a considerable distance,
while no signa of activity were seen at
the former center of disturbance.
Capt. Benthe of the German army
has jpst returned from his ascent of
Mount Kirunga, the active volcano
north at Lake Tanganyika, which, he
waya, is ove2,000 feet in height. He
"Hoot, mour shouted :e Scotch
—eea 2 23
ac' 32
PAINTED BILKS NEW AGAIN.
whtriigig at Tims nevolve One. Mofe.
Fashion Is following the example er
history this season and epeating it-
self. Hand-painted silks and eatina
for evening dress wear have suddenly
I ecome so much the rage in Paris that
the modistes find difficulty in discov-
ering people able to paint the materials
in sumcient quantity. There will be
for instance, roses about twice, the
natural alze of the largest blossom*.
One huge rome wit-be painted in three
places at the bottom of the skirt, with
a trail of flowers gradually decreasing
in size and a fsw leaves, rising up to
cnd aboyt midway between the knee
and the wnist, toning off to * few
"No. no " she answered; "don't ask
me, don't come near me J am not
lit!" She -waved her off and ran so
fast down the street they could not
follow, and disappeared around a cor-
ghpe
h Mad-f-cemr
• 2fau66Ke)
Baeteria in Hallatones.
Several variettea of bacteria have
been discovered in freshly-tallen hall-
stones. Two of them appear to be
new, according to their discoverer, Mr.
F. C. Harrison of Guelph, Ontario
while other* are mantestiy of terres-
trial origin, and must have been car-
ried up Into the clouds by wind, or
ascending air-currents.
Margaret worked early and late that
Pol y m ghi have pretiy things for her
wedding. Th ■ day was set and a small
company inviced. Then she found the
little note—and Polly was gone. Not
a void of thanks to the slater for her
•elf denial never a kind word for the
man she had treated-o -etuells.
Two years dragged slowly on and
nothtng--Wt-esg,ot Polly. fThey
made no effofffo her, and did not
run know the name of the man she
muerried She dropped as, completely
cut of their lives as if she had died
John .Murray continued to call at the
ittle home they had a cdmmon sor-
row. but Polly * name was never men-
tioned " .
One night, when Margaret seemed
more depressed than usual, he said:
“Margaret, you must not grieve so
much. Cunt, get on your thing*, and
let us go to some place of amusement,
and .see the lighter side of life."
They Went to one of the music halls,
and there they saw Polly, She came
out'upon the stage with penciled eye-
. P
. g p-n.
Lmu ,
wets, and tie absence Of qther insectt
j* noted Dr. Hodge susgests the do
mesticating of these animals in
IT WAS POLLY HE CAME TO SEE
' from that moment the world wai '
- , -- changed fol Jphn Murray. ..
' IMUr<- pretty Polw. with her viva-
not only pommesues all th«
characteristica ot dax, but
aavantagenoti
| On petit ion
I pality of ttau
I solved as tin
I special actol
| lug out of exi
! the colonial
I there are ofd
I than Sun Pat
I that has rota
l ovthegoveru
i was founded
| in she early
| when Texas*
I municipality
! land and:s
I Mexican law
I u was the nn
I civilization it
He.........ronntiese-
| Bexar, comp
I western Texa
I swafh; havet
I dents of th
l spung tip nin
I com merei al ii
nothing more
idents of wh
I became a us
I . years Peter T
I oftheorigina
-sition of may
ityof munfei
r nalsofthol
- —much of the
r A word t
L ami a ven! I
I • ficient, but yt
Thone who kt
• perience of tr
taken for knd
rv says Char
| gives better *
in the marke
I basiness nt K
yas sold hum
1 ody and near
cines mannfa
elusively that
I satisfaetory t
best. For sit
Opening th
this Side of t
head wear of
the most daz
These goods i
of an up-to-
lady who lns
j - of our millin
tite beauties i
The Philor
last of its cut
astie year la*1
ereditable per
This society,
sehool, arsist
uiven some v
ments since i
IW;T:II a
- rendanny.oti
affordiug plet
publie, anti u
contnibuted c
pheinalia M
riittomatte™
school libra
Through it* 1
taina over 50
I valuuble boo
only eight c
school bench
1 increasing th
ithh. A st
I of tuue wad i
-— affordrdbyt
stage in I lust
- -itionk. A firu
a stage ermt
l ’ otlet lit th-
All thishn«
tlseffortsof
ately,some,
- ism./ have
puhlic school
! was rei»
Chamherhin
I dhoea Remed
prise recenti
—r till*, ican.
r l any remedg"
i- diarthowa: r
I thanonsort
case with n
Srot, Pop
by H. E. Ha
I - •i you hav
। he baek, ine
I ! here beage
I v<*> in ull ful
I t’katine. T
I the fnet that
No consti|
I her bestr f(
I inactive live
F Sairser’sEt
t. they will mil
I :
I . nds of deat
I n-ed Dr. Sav
I ncommend
I . Don’t sera
I Dr. Sawyer
I. Nalve far sex
I Kober Ri
I of the Beevil
I Texas Regin
I dig, their co
I rd out of nor
I ■ day. These
9 live who mi
2 retnrned. I
I lin liked Co
I mediateiyu
I being mush
L leftinCaba
L the ragid
| willberont
I ment. Both
I will rtmm i
| 1nIN8m
I attavke wil
L o no relief t
■ l’.lin Balm. ■
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