Monongahela Valley Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • 1

Rbpu MONONGA 3ELA CHILL W. HAZZARD. Editor. A LOCAL NKWl'APKlt. KNTAHJjWH KU IN lN-4.

TERMS 81.50 a Tear In Advance VOL. XLIX, MONONUAIIRLA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1899. XUMBKR 11. GOAT POND OF INK. WHO OF US KNOW? WOMEN WHO SAW WAR.

UNDERTAKER'S PROGRESS. happy if her g.ie did not so often wander through the window fraint. and INGRATITUDE AND MURDER. How an I ni; rule Laid the Plans Which ftcsulliil in the Killing of llix I riincl. OFFIOIA PIKKCTOUY.

A Huhlirr Tireil Carriage for Cluiri'D AiMlcs Ik One of the Xcwt'sl Inventions. Among the many new appliances of up-to-date undertakers is the casket carriage, upon which a burial casket may lie moved up the aisle of a church. The latest form of casket carriage, upon which a patent was issued in the present year, is of lattice construction, of brass. It is supported upon six low rubber-tired wheels, three on a side. When not in use it can be closed up together, occupying a small space; when opened for use it is of ample size to bear a casket, which can be moved upon it securely, smoothly and noiselessly along the aisle, says the Now York Sun.

It is not expected that the casket carriage will take the place of bearers in state and military and other funerals in which bearers would naturally be employed, but it is found useful in other church funerals, and especially in churches having narrow aisles in which there might not be room for bearers to walk at the side of the casket. The removal basket is a modern means of conveyance, used by undertakers for the removal of bodies from GEN. GALLIFFET, FRENCH WAR MINISTER. This famous French soldier is an aristocrat by birth and Inclination. He is dt3 stalwart upholder of the honor of the French army, and has consented to sen in the present cabinet merely to see that justice shall be done to the unfortuna'e and persecuted Dreyfus.

Gen. Galliffet served as colonel through the Franco-Grr-nian war, was afterward appointed a general of division, and still later a member of the national council of war. He holds the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, and has a European reputation as an authority on cavalry maneuvers. He was born in Taris in 1S31, and entered the arroy in 1S4S. hospitals or hotels or other places where it might, not be convenient or desirable to carry a cumbersome ice box.

It is coffin-shaped in its general form, but with rounded outlines and a rounded top. It has a steel framework, upon which the basket work, of rattan, is woven. Stout wicker handles are woven into the sides. In such a basket, occupying comparatively little space and which may be conveniently handled, the body is removed to the undertaker's. GIVES BOUNTEOUSLY.

Portoft-al's Queen Devotes lneh of Her Time and Money to Doing Good. We herr less about Portugal than about Spain any time, and of late have heard less than usual. The queen of Portugal is a sovereign deserving a long mark for hex interest in hospitals and hygiene, and also in the welfare of the children of poverty, says Harper's Weekly. At Alcantara she founded, in 1SP.3, a dispensary peculiarly for meeting the demands of childish invalids, as pleasantly situated as possible, and spaciously planned, combining a diet kitchen, consultation rooms, surgical halls and much of the departmental work of a hospital. Almost every day Who of us know The heartaches of the men we meet Each day in passing on the busy street.

The woes and cares that press them, Forebodings that distress them Who of us know? Who of us think Of hoV hot tears have chased the smiling cheek Of some we meet who would not dare to speak The pangs they feel, the burdens that they bear. Each hour that passes through the solemn year Who of us think? Who of us care To try and think and know their pain and grief. And help to bring to breaking hearts relief. To help to bear the burdens of their care By tender word and loving look and prayer Who of us care? S. C.

Allen, in N. W. Christian Advocate. To What Base Uses SIS- lif -Jiv- "Jiji- H'lif BEYOND Dieppe is a fair country skirting a blue sea, and the poppies grow red and tall in the rustling wheat. The hedges are starred with blossoms and powdered with dust, for the highways are the roads of many.

Half way down the steep hill is a little hostel, a roadside in. It has a face of flowers and is pleasant; it smiles with the welcome of a courteous native to the casual stranger; it invites inspection; it suggests refreshment, and i' disguises the materialistic form of its refreshment with the glamour of roses and a rustic porch. The day was hot and I hesitated at the porch. The room inside looked cool; it had a stone floor and a latticed window, which was thrust open. Then I saw the flutter of a pink gown and a silvery laugh came to me.

1 had a married sister waiting for me at Pour-ville, and 1 was all ready; but then, I argued, 1 always had a married sister, and she was generally waiting for me somewhere, for I am invariably late; und a pink gown, in conjunction with so silvery a laugh, was alluring. I went in. The sunlight outside was very bright, the half-light in the room was dim, and 1 stepped upon a dog a pug dog, I afterward discovered which resented my familiarity with his teeth. That destroyed the effect of my entrance. It produced a hurried exclamation and a half-laugh translated into a cough.

The exclamation from me. I apologized profusely to the lady who had been indeterminate as to laugh or cough. She was I saw divinely small, a cool, sweet, innocent face, with mischief, however, lurking in the eyes', a figure slight, willowy; an air of command and a dress inconceivable to an insular understanding a mere dream of light frills, soft silks and color. She drew herself up with some hauteur to the full extent of her five feet four inches, from which 1 deducted two inches in consequence of a glance at hr shoes. In the labor of buttoning a long glove she spoke.

I too must apologize. It was ill of Fido. It is pardonable that, in the heat of such a surprise, a man should say should say what you said." "Yet to me it is a grief," I protesud. she went on, buttoning her glove, with her eyes fixed on me under the curtain of their long lashes, "I thought you were some one I hate to be taken for anybody else but myself I like to keep the fluttering hope that I am unique. I was piqued.

"Madame," I answered, "I am sorry that I was not the other She looked at me for quite awhile, which made me feel uncomfortable. At such moments I have atwrys a misgiving that my tie has wriggled. Then she smiled. The smile began in her eyes, spread to her lips, and finally took refuge in her teeth. I smiled too from sympathy partly, and partly to show her that 1 bore her no ill will for her mistake.

"Doesmonsieurgenerally enteran inn to tread upon little dogs'?" I became aware that I had not summoned the landlord. I was also aware that I did nqt wish to summon the landlord. "I heard you laugh," I said. The fact seemed all eloquent to me, it appeared so to her. "I was expecting some one.

We had quarreled," she made reply. "He was to blame." "I have not said that it was a man." "It was unnecessary. You were good enough not to think me devoid of common sense." "lie departed in anger." "A most ill-tempered man." "If I were in the wrong "Which is a supposition very much strained." "I should be miserable, but as it is I laugh." "And when you laugh the world stops at your window." "Monsieur is pleased to regard him self in a very flattering light." "And 1, as the only tangible object of the world, entered." "Ah!" She played a short solo upon the stont' floor with the tap of her shoe, it was crescendo. Ker brow it was as marble for whiteness and as soft as rose wrinkled in thought, her lips- I hardly know whether to bless the gods for permitting me a sight, or curse them for the hot temptation puckered. She was evidently ponder ing.

"It is," she said at length, "an un ceremonious entrance." "It is an unceremonious introdui- ion," 1 corrected "the entrance was not unceremonious "Unless to Fido." She laughed a little, and 1 began to find her laugh rather irritating at times. "But. the worst of it is there lias been no introduction." "Does that matter?" I asked. For part 1 was willing to forego such trivalities. "I do not know your name." "Nor I yours, so that is a bond of sympathy.

Let us," I went on in a glow of inspiration, "imagine that we have been introduced at a dance. One never knows the names in such cases." "lie was certainly to blame." "Certainly. a man wili.ngly walks one of paradise he must be cither a fool or" "He will come Hack." that case" I began, rising and taking my hat from the chair. "Iteally," she answervd, "a man who willingly waiks off "Hut I don't." 1 objected. "1 go with the greatest reluctance." "It is very warm in Hie sun, monsieur." "Madame, I great I fear sunstroke.

It is a disease which has had remarkable fatality for our family." I replaced my hat upon the chair on which 1 had previously seated myself, and seated myself upon the chair on which I had previously placed my hat. That chair was nearer to madanie by over a foot. "Monsieur is prudent," she said, and "irtiled. should have been perfectly seek the sunshine outside. "Nay, I 1 murmured, looking at her anlentlv, "That is hardly in the nature of a compliment." 'T-ecause," 1 went on boldly, "in the joy of a moment, a minute, an hour, I peril my future peace.

She beat another solo upon the floor. and airain looked into the sunshine. My i'ves followed the direction of hers, and 1 thought 1 saw a hat. The hat was severe, nay rigid, it was a masculine hat. "Is the peril so great?" she asked.

Site spoke so softly llutt I pushed my chair a little nearer to her and leant forward. "Tfie answer is entirely in your hands; madanie," I said. may be no peril," she pouted, "for who knows what tree of love may spring from this mere grain of barely tin minutes?" She glanced at me sideways. "Have you noticed the roses at the window?" "Xo," I answered. "They are there, no doubt roses are often at windows but I have eyes for you only." "There is one, almost a bud.

I covet it. I must have it." She rose and passed swiftly to the window. Again 1 thought I saw the hat. 1 rose. 1 followed Jicr.

stood behind her as she raised her ungloved hand a dainty, slender, white hand; a hand that any man might not tire of kissing easily. She caught the bud, broke its stem and gave a faint cry. "You have hurt yourself," I said. "A thorn," she answered, hurriedly; "it has pricked me it is still in. I fear." I took her hand in mine.

I have had some experience with thorns in connection with little hands, and I did not look for any deep wound, yet 1 must confess to some considerable surprise when I found nonfat all, and even after minute search no visible impression upon the satin of her skin. "Madam," I said, faltcringly, "I can see nothing." "Stupid." she cried pettishly, yet not loudly. "Look again I tell you I have hurt my hand badly. You cannot see well. Ilold it to the light." I held it to the light.

I looked at it very carefully the hand was really worth looking at I bent lower over it lower still. Then suddenly I glanced upward. She was smiling. 1 saw a challenge in her eyes. I kissed her hand.

"Ootilde," said a voice over my head. It was a strange voice, and it seemed out in the garden a little above me. I looked up and recognized the rigid, severe hat. lie looked bad-tempered when he observed me; he looked penitent when he gazed upon madanie. she cried, "I have a thorn in my fingej.

This gentleman is clumsy he cannot discover it." She glanced at me scornfully, and stretched out her perfectly healthy hand to the owner of the rigid hat, who took it. Then, in that hand, innocent of a scratch or mark, he found a thorn, plucked it out, and kissed the place where it had been. 1 think, though, the wound was after all not in her hand and if I did not find it I was rrot useless in the healing. Then suddenly 1 remembered that I had not summoned the landlord, and rectified my forgetfulness in a violent manner. When mine host entered he was in time to see the rigid hat bending under a parasol somewhat down thf road.

"Ah, they have made it up again," hi? cried, with evident satisfaction. "I am glad of that, for the wedding is to be in the early part of next week, and I am to supply the wine for the ceremony." Everyone seemed satisfied but myself. I continued my walk to Pourville, having remembered my sister who was waiting. Chicago Times-Herald. SHIRTS FOR FAMOUS MEN.

A nsliinnton Woman Who Una 3lale Tli em for Many of America's Celebrities. lit bright, sunny apartments in one ot Washington's choice homes for widows lives a bright, chatty old lady, with volumes of quaint lore stowed away in her vivacious mind. Most of it, she says, is "shirt" lore, intermixed with the peculiarities and eccentricities of her famous patrons. Johnson, Seward. Mc-Culloeh, Stanton, Grant and Drowning all went to her to be itUed with shirts, and all of their peculiarities of form and manner are indelibly impressed upou her memoiw.

Thoughtfully turning over the leaves of an old measure and order book, Mrs. McLean said, retrospectively: made lien. Grant shirts, and he was inaugurated for his first term in one of them. 1 continued to make them until he left Washington. He was kind, pleasant and easy to please.

His mind was too much taken up with great affairs to be very particular about the fit, and aside Irotu good material and having them comfortable he did not seen to care. His broad, round shoulders and short neck made him a little hauler to fit than some of my customers. He generally wore turn-over collars. His measure taken more than 21) years ago. stands: Neck measure, inches; back, 10 inches; sleeve, 23 inches; wrist, inches.

Plain front, with three plaits, sleeve buttons. In this wonderful old measure book are the autographs of many of America's most famous men. Over each measure each customer signed his name. Washington Post. C'niit.

SIk'nIk eN Siieeeh. In an address at Fall Hiver recently ('apt. Sigsbee, of the Texas, told the following story, illustrative of the fact that naval men made no pretense at being orators: is a difficult situation for said Capt. Sigsbee, "to be required to make a speech, and 1 am in the situation of the out sailor who was fond of tea, and was devoted to the oeople ho served it. Hut this old sailor had no society manners, and had never attended an afternoon tea.

He was afraid of the ladies, but in some way he was forced to an afternoon tea. He almost in despair, and when he i jack to his ship his mates said: Trown, did you go to the 'I 'How did you feel '1 felt like a sperm whale doing croehtt (Laughter and applause.) Nevertheless, ('apt. Sigsbee makes an able address. Boston Globe. erve of Sparrow.

My informant was feeding with bread crumbs in St. James' park a wood pigeon at his feet. One of the bird's leathers, an under tail-covert, which was ruffled and out of place, cattght the eye of a sparrow. The sparrow (lew down, seized it in its beak pulled its best. The feather did not y'cld at once, and the pigeon walked off with offended dignity.

The sparrow followed, still holding on; and, in end. flew o-T rinmphant ly with the trophy to its uert. it that don't take the cake for cheek." was the comment of a passing lain "I'm- London Times. ia Association of Heroine Who Served Their Country in I he 'ISO's. The heart of the veteran is strongly stirred whenever he sees a woman wearing a little badge of blue and gold, having upon it the cabalistic- letters X.

A vision arises before him. and he sees, through a dim vista stretching away over the toils and triumphs, Ihe joys iind sorrows of more than years, young woman in the flush of health and strength, tenderly caring for the sick and wounded, or reverently closing for the last long sleep the eves of dying soldier, far from home and loved ones. She was undaunted by the sight of blood flowing from gaping wounds, uncomplaining in the lace of privation, always patient, even if suffering' the loss of many hours of sleep, and ever sympathetic when by the cot ol the sick or dying. There were many women of this type when there was need of their rvices, but now their ranks are thinning year by year, and this year when they gal her in our city for their annual business meeting an additional interest will attach to them, for we know that before another year rolls around many of the feeble but loyal sisterhood will have answered the last roll call, and gone to higher sen ice. in an army where there is no (lit harge.

Many of these army nurses are members of one or the other of the patriotic organizations which have grown out of the civil war. but as theirs was a distinct work so it seemed proper that1 there should be a distinct organization for them. Miss Dorothea Dix, who had the direction of so many of these women when they rendered such excellent service, remembered their deeds of and heroism, and thought it would be an appropriate thing to band themselves together in an association, so she issued a call to them, and Ihey came together in the city of Washington June IS. lsl. and organized under the title of Kx-Army Nurses" association.

BARN. Miss Dix was enthusiastically elected president, and served acceptably until called to higher service. She was succeeded by Dr. Susan Fdson, of Washington city, who served until failing health compelled her to resign. Among those who have served faithfully is Mrs.

Emily F. Woodier, of this city, who went from here early ill the war and stood at the post of duty until there was no more need for her services. She was succeeded in otlice last year at Cincinnati by Ihe next officer in rank, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Ewing.

The constitution of the Army Nurses' association requires that each candidate for membership shi.ll prove active service as a nurse in the civil war. In March. the association was incorporated in the District of Columbia. The recognition badge is a gold star, with X. in raised letters the face.

The badge to 1 worn at the convention in Septeniberis a while satin ribbon with a tiny flag draped across it. and "Army Nurses' Association" painted by hand upon it, while underneath will lie a red ribbon. The national president of the Army Nurse association, is Mrs Elizabeth W. ICwing. who is natuiaiiy ol her position as the president of an organization which, like the grand army, cannot be recruited.

She fond of the noble band of women ho. when Ihe "boys in blue" were suffering from disease or the dreadful effects ot shot and shell, gave up 1 he comforts of home that Ihey might minister to the necessities of the ioyal sons ol the nation. Mrs. Kwing is a pleasant speaker and is overflowing with reminiscences of hospital life. For a long lime she was connected with the hospitals during the war.

and was an efficient and sympathetic nurM-. In appearance she i.s tall and stately, with hbundant dark hair and a face wonderfully smooth for one of her years and service. Mrs. Fwing is a Pennsyl-vanian. her home being in Phoenixv Mrs.

Mary A. Aston. 1he financial secretary of the association, is a Phila-dclphian. and served in the hospitals of this city. She has a magnificent record for length and continuity of service.

She was a vo.uiiteer nurse, and was with Surgeon K. S. Kemlerline at the hospital tit P.road street and Washington avenue, and later with him at the Christian Strct hospital, serving from September 3. 102, to August 11, without an absence except of one week hen her husband died. Mrs.

Aston volunteered for the work out of pure loyally. Her husband, being an invalid, could not render any service to his country in her hour of peril, so was willing that his wife should do as her heart prompted. Mr. Aston still lives in ihis city and is proud to wear the badge to which every soldier litis his hat. Mrs.

Kmilv Wood ley. the counsel, oii of the A. N. was with Mrs Wilson during the civil war. and as Wilson" is affectionately remembered by hundreds of old soldiers who came under her fender and motherly ministrations.

She rendered such distinguished and valuable service in the Arjny of the Potomac under Gen the Army of the James G'cf and in the Army ol the West under Gen. t.rant. 1 hat several years ago in loving recognition of it the association presented her with a hajidsome budge Mrs. Wood ley's resi-Jtnec is in this city. other national ollieers are: Senior vie president.

Mrs. Flizabeth Chapman: national jt.nior vice president, Mrs. Delia Fay: secretary. Mis Kate M. Scnlt: chaplain.

Mrs. Jean nelte M. Morrill: treasurer. Mrs. J.rdia L.

Whitman. Philadelphia Kecord. He Unit tin Mounted. A young lieutenant, sadiv ignorant of military ladies, olna't know exactly whal to do when the commanding officer ordered him one morning to "mount guard." He inarched off with his squad of nu n. however, and about an houi afterward was found sitting under a tree talking to some one in the branches.

"Well, lieutenant, have you mounted guard?" "Oil, yes, sir." w.if the reply: "got "lev'n up this treen'td Pothers are over roostin' in an ot be: I i troit Free Press. President Judge Twenty-seventh Judicial District J. A. Mcllvaine. Washington.

Additional Law Judge J. F. Taylor, Washington. Member of Congress Twenty-fourth Congressional District E. F.

Acheson, Washington. Pa. State Senator Alexander L. Hawkins, Washington, I'a. Members of the Assembly Wm.

M. Murdoch, J. V. lark, Washington; J. II.

McLarn Murdocksville, Pa. Sheriff Joseph Hemphill, Washington. Prothonotary W. S. Campbell.

Washington Register -O. M. Hartley, Washington. Recorder -Frank Tcnn. Washington.

Clerk cf Courts-Henry T. bailey, Washing ton. Treasurer -John W. Hallam. Washington.

District Attorney Alex M. Tcmpleton, Washington. Coroner-J. J. Fitzratrick.

California. Surveyor George D. Jenkins, Washington, Pa. Commissioners-Jihn M. Dunn, Dunn's Station: W.

G. Sh llito, Uug-'ettstown: J. Murr.iy Clark, Washington, Meet at their office, Washington, first and third Mondajs of each month. Clerk George K. Lockhart.

Solicitor-J. Q. MiGiffin. Jury Commissioners Joseph H. Simons, A'ex Snyder, B'allowileld, Pa-Meet to draw jurors four net ks before each term.

Auditors-E E. Longdon, Washington: Jas H. Breese. Prosperity; M. Wilson, laanoas-bur'.

Directors of the Poor-D. W. Myers, Lone Pine; Tlirmus Urillith, Claysville. Kobert Wilson, IlicLoiy. Terms of Court.

There shall be four regular terms: February term the second Monday of February. May term on the second Monday of May. August term on the third Monday of August November terra the second Monday of November. CoppDi Plate Engraving SOCIETY ENGRAVING TO ORDER. INB VISITING CARDS, WEDDING INVITATIONS, RECEPTION CARDS, Latest and Correct Styles.

THE REPUBLICAN Has added a new feature to lti Printing Department Orders will be received for FINE SOCIETY ENGRAVING, the latest styles and correct form. Th 9 Is in addition to our fine line of printed visiting and roceptlon oards. weddini invitations, etc Fine samples tc elect from. For either printing or ngra? come or write to Thi Rkpcblioas offiot CHILL W. HAZZARD, Monongshsl, Pa.

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S. Bonds Bought and Sold. Colleot Botes, Drafts, Payable at any Point is the United States or Canada. .1. B.

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of Allegheny ASSETS BITO.4ia.su. Pa, Farmers' Fire Insurance Co. of York, ASSETS SJl3.1tl8. Connecticut Fire Insur. Co.

ofHartford, ASSETS National Fire Insurance Co. ofHartford rnnru, ASSETS Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, AtSETS London and Lancashire Co. of Liverpool ASSET S3.70U,5 17.SS. Norwich Union Fire In, Society, Norwich, Enj ASSETS Sn.SZ'X4n.5S. PEXSYLYANIA H.

K. PHILADELPHIA ERIE It. R. DIVISIOM Til! Table In effect June 3i. Ifi.

Trains leave I'nion City as follows: EASTWARD. a. rn. Train 2. week days, for Harris-burp and intermediate stations, arriving at Philadelphia a.

New York 7:33 a. m. Pullman sleeping cars from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and New York. Philadelphia passengers can remain in sleeper undisturbed until 7:: 0 a. p.

m. Train 4. daily for Sunbury. Har-risburu. Lancaster, and intermediate stations, nrr.

Philadelphia New YorktCXta. week days and a. m. Sundays. Baltimore Washington 7:40 a.

m. Pullman keeping curs and passenger coaches -Erie tc Philadelphia, and I'n Williamsp rt to Balti-iniie a asliinirton. Passengers in sleeper lor Baltimore and Washington will be transferred into Washington sleeper at Willianis-iort. p. m.

Train 2. week for Kane and Intermediate stations, arriving at Kane p. m. WESTWARD a. m.

Train i). weelt days, arriving ai Erie at a. m. This irain leaves New Yor'u 6:50 p. 1 hil idelphia 8: W'ashingtoi 7:21 p.

I'aitimore 8:40 p. with Pullman fleet ers i.nd passenger coaches from I'hila-delph a to Erie a'rd from Washington and Ualti-moie to Wi 3:00 p. m. -Train 3. daily, arr.

at Erie p.m. This trs. in leaves New York 7: to p.m.. Philadelphia I p. Washington Baltimore p.

with 1 uiluian sleeper MiUsMiel' ort. an i passenger coaches flora Philadelphia to Erie an I Baltimore to Williams) ort On Sund iys Pull-ma' s'eener i'hihtdclpMu to Eric. 7:00 p. m. Train S.

arriving at Erie at p. m. Leaves vine- at 4:15 p. m. For further particulars sec time tahies.

13. HUTCHINSON'. J. R. WOOD, Gen'l iManuger.

(Jen. Pass. Ajt For Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Fine Commercial Job Work of All Kinds, Get Our Figures MotNlna; Satiofim lllllj" Kplrareaa TiiIi-i Uuilr aa Much aa Hlark Wrllinic Fluid. A valued appurtenance of a Twenty- second liinilK-r yard is an elderly goat whose gastronomic propensities rival the reputed accomplishments of his comic paper prototyjie. Ink is the ap petizing delicacy which appeals to the epicurean taste of this goat, and he will not only eat newspapers and blottws, but considers pads used for letter press purposes toothsome morsels, provided they have been long enough in use to have become covered with the ink soaked from copied letters.

Every writ-- ten thing has to be handled with care outside the lumber office, else it will go joFF.ce HE TASTED THE INK. to swell the quantity ofliterature which has been devoured by this caprine gourmand. One day last week a small boy employed by a stationery firm entered the lumber yard to deliver a bottle of ink. The youth was not aware of the peculiar characteristics of the goat, and suspected nothing when the animal sniffed and approached. Just liefore lie reached the oce the boy felt himself performing sundry aerial convolutions and when he sat up he saw the goat placidly licking the ink from the plank pavement near the brick wall of the office against which the quart bottle had burst.

The goat greedily chewed the sawdust and shavings which had become saturated wilh the black fluid, and Stacked his lips between bites. Chicago Daily News. FUNNY FIRE BRIGADE. Conolnnlinople Han a rtrpartmeat IVhniir Operation Wnald Make Oar Firemen l.auch. Of all the queer things to be found in Constantinople, none seem so stupid as the fire engines, if they can be called by so big- a name.

The houses in that city are almost all buiit of wood, and if a fir does start, it burns fast and fiercely, nnd yet the precautions taken for discovering fires and the methods of extirguishing them are most feeble. There is a constant watch kept on the summit of the old (ienoese tower in Ca'eta: a similar watch is kept on the tall tower of the in Stam-boul, and another on a hill behind Can-dili. one of the snburlis. From this last place a cannon is red to give warning of a lire, and when this takes place the watchmen of the city knock on the shutters of all the houses, crying: "There is a fire in such and such a quarter." And then the fire department comes running down the street. It consists of a long barrel carried on the shoulders of half a dozen men, who are relieved as fast as they get tired by other men who run along with them.

Arrived at the scene of the fire, there is tremendous confusion. All the firemen get in one another's way. and perhaps in the course of an hour a few feeble hand-pumps are playing gentle streams of water somewhere in the neighborhood of the burning buildings, if the fire has not burned itself out bj that. time. How would such a system work in any American city? Yet this the Constantinople method of not put ting out fires.

So far there is no case on record of one having lieen quenched bv this funnv brigade. Slrnccle with a Cougar. In company with an Indian a Port Arthur (Wash.) man wont fishing for salmon in a rocky river. Suddenly a bijj cougar appeared at the entrance to a cave, and with a roar crouched to spring at the Indian. The white man threw his fish siearat the cougar, hile the Indian ran for his life.

The spear entered the animal's neck and ear, and thus the man held him at a distance and tried lo drown him. Hut Ihe cougar was too strong and agile for that, and finally the spear came out of its hold. For four long hours the man and the cougar fought, the cougar walking around and around, and every once in awhile making a spring, which the man every time repulsed with the spear. The combat only ended when the Indian returned, after a l--mile rip, with a gnu. His first shot wounded the boast in the side: the secoud UWged in its head and killed it.

Where the (ompa Came From. The earliest references to the use of the mariner's compass are to Vie found it Chinese history, from which we learn how, in the sixty-fourth year of the reign of Hoang-ti (2034 E. C.L the emperor attacked Tchi-yeon, on ihe plains of Tchoulou. and. finding his army embarrassed by a thick fog raised by th enemy, constructed an instrument indicating the south, so as to distinguish the four cardinal points, and was thus enabled to pursue his adversary and capture him.

The ower of the loadstone to communicate polarity to iron is said to lie for the first time explicitly mentioned in a hinese dictionary, finished in A. P. 121. where the loadstone is defined as stone with whtoh an attraction can be given to the needle." The Chinese appear to have once navigated as far as India by the aid of th? compass. Pearson's Weekly.

llorme Ilefendn a Dogs and horses generally get on well together, but the following story from Manchester proves that in some cases the friendship is something more than a mere tolerat ion of each ot her. A carriage horse, accompanied by his stable companion, a rctricwr dog. to which he was exceedingly attached. wasdrink-iiig at a trough near the exchange. While the dog was waiting for his friend to finish his draught a large mastiff picked a (parrel Villi him Ohieh ended in a tight.

The mastiff, aa may be supposed, h.ui the better ol the battle, and the retriever was severely bitK n. The burse, the moment he heard his friend's cry. broke from the man who was holding him. hurried to Ihe rescue, and. after kicking Ihe mastiff across the slnct.

rctuno-d to the trough ami tieished his drink. Ileennwr Tliry Killed Sheep. Little four-year -old Flossie was looking at a picture book and finally said: "Mamma, why do men hunt lions ami tiers'." "I.ecause they arc cruel and kill sheep and the btile innocent lambs." replied her mother. "Then by don't they hunt the butchn too!" she asked. Chicago Journal.

i A detective told a story a few evenings ago which illustrates the ingratitudcof criminals. The ingrate, says a Chicago exchange, was-one of the principals in the Met lee murder, which was committed a little over a year ago. His name was W. .1. Willows, a well appearing youth, bill the man who decoyed the aged creamery agent into the Indiana avenue apartment building where Jacks killed him.

Willows had "been in trouble" before that, and the man "who came to the front" for him was the keepcrof a lunch counter near theCrim-iual Court building. The man's wife had known Willows in his days of respectability in a small Michigan town. She urged her husband to do what he could for him, and, wilh money for attorney's fees and a few well placed words of commendation, Willows was helped to get out of the scrape. The lunch-counter man was a close personal friend of the old man McGee. and liked him much.

He talked to Willows about him in their short acquaintanceship in the days of Willows' trouble, and the lunch-counter man told his acquaintance how much this friend had done for him, yet, while in jail, Willows met Jacks and the two of tlieni formed the plan of robbery which led to McGre's murder. The lunch-counter man lost his best friend through a needless and useless murder and Willows earned a sentence in the penitentiary. BRAVE JAPANESE WOMEN. How- Count Ito's Wife Saved Mis Life During Kejiellion Many Years A Japanese lady is noted for courage, her strength of mind and her self-possession. It is wonderful to think what physical trials and dangers these fragile little creatures will undergo in an emergency.

The late prime minister's life was saved by the courage and presence of mind of his wife. Many years ago, when quite a your.g man, during a rebellion. Count lto was hiding from his enemies, who, having tracked him to his house, send a band of "soshis" to assassinate him. On hearing his enemies approaching, and trapped like a rat in its hole, the count drew his sword and prepared to die, but the countess whispered: "Do not die; there is hope still." and, removing the "hiliatchi," or fire box, and lifting up the mats and the planks beneath, she. induced her husband to conceal himself in the hollow space which exists undet the iloor of all Japanese houses.

The murderers broke into the room just as the fire box had been replaced and demanded of the countess their victim In vain they threatened and cruelly ill-treated her, dragging her about the room by her long black hair. Hut it was of no avail; they could not shake her resolute fidelity. Thanks to her courage Count lto escaped and has lived to give to his country a new constitution. A llinerciice Only In nnie. We call il ice cream.

To the Knglish ii is known as cream ice. Just when or where it was invented is the question many people have tried to solve. In the beginning of the ecnlury it was almost unknown in England, though well known in Naples and Sicily, where the cream was artfully made into copies of peaches, apples, apricots and such dainties, much we have tlieni to-day made in mollis. Mnri-lnue Hottentots. The marriage customs of nations are (piaint.

A Hottentot widow marrying again has lo cut olf the joint of a finger, which she gives to her new husband. Each time she becomes a widow ami marries again she has lo sacrifice one finger-joint. Iowa State Kegisttr. QUANTRILL'S LAST STAND. 'I he Old llarn In Will Hi Hie Guerrilla Lender Wiyi ItronKht to Hay.

An old barn, in an advanced state of decay, situated on the farm of W. L. Heady, about a mile west of Wakefield Station, in Spencer votiuty, is a historic abject, as it was in this old structure that William Clarke Qunntrill, the noted guerrilla chieftain, received his Jeath wound. This barn is an old-fashioned building, common in Kentucky in ante-bellum days. The interior con tains but one apartment, ordinarily known as the "cutting-room." from the fact that all the feed for the stock was chopped and prepared there.

The room is about 30 feet square, with loft above it. The barn was, in its palmy days, surrounded on all sides by sheds Hi feet in width. These sheds, at this time mostly fallen away, were used for various purposes. Qunntrill and his men were occupying this barn when Terrill's band of koine guards surprised and attacked them. In the sharp skirmish which followed Qunntrill received a wound in the lungs which prostrated him.

He was captured and taken to the commodous old-fashioned farmhouse of James IL Wakefield, who then owned the place. Here the wounded guerrilla was given medical attention and kind nursing by Mr. Wakefield and his family, and also by Judge Jonathan Davis, who owned the adjoining farm, and at whose house Quantrill and his men. when in the neighborhood, frequently stopped. The former entertained a high regard for Judge Davis and never allowed his men to take the slightest advantage of him.

Judge Davis was a true friend to Qnan- THE OLD trill and remained faithful to him to the end. As a freemason Judge Davis received secret from Quantrill which he was never at liberty to disclose. After being allowed to remain a the Wakefield house for several days. Quantrill was removed, under guard, to Louisville, where, after lingering for two or three months, he died. Louisville Courier-Journal.

PAT'S "BAD BASTE." Be (nuclit the Hok Fating Acorns, anil That Si-Kled the Mutter. Gen. Thomas was a stern disciplinarian. He had received many complaints about the pilfering and plundering committed by one of his brigades, and being resolved to put this offense down he issued some very strict orders, menacing with death any win, should transgress. The brigade in question wore for its badge an acorn, in silver or gold, and tlie men were inordinately proud of this distinctive sign.

Several cases of disobedience had been reported to the general, but the evidence was never strong enough for decisive action until one day the general was riding with an orderly down a by-lane outside the posts. Thomas came full upon a son of the Emerald Isle who, having laid aside his rifle with which he had killed a hog. was busily engaged in skinning the animal with his sword bayonet, so as to make easy work with the bristles before cooking some pork chops. "Ah," cried the general, "you rascal! At last 1 have caught one of you in the aet. There is no mistake about it this time, and I will make an example of you, sir!" "ltedad, gineral, honey!" said the culprit, straightening himself up and coining to the salute, "it's not shoot in" me that ye ought to be at, but rewahrd-in' me!" "What do yon mean, sir?" exclaimed Gen.

Thomas. yer honor," the soldier replied, "this bad baste here had just bin disecratiu' the regitninlil badge, and so 1 was forced to kill hint. It's 'atin' the acorns I found him at." Even Gen. Thomas was obliged to lafcgh at this, and the soldier saved his life bv his wit. Detroit Free Press.

HERO OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST, Johnny Captured the Colors, Hut Yank Got Him and the Colors. The deeds of the "unknown" privates of the union army during the rebellion form a brilliant chapter of history. One of the most notable of all was that of a member of one of the companies of the Seventy-first Xew York regiment at the battle of Chanecllorsville. Federals and confederates were in the thick of one of the several engagements which made tip that conflict At the time when the incident refciod to occurred fortune seemed to smile on the confederates. A federal color bearer was attacked by a brawny confederate captain, who succeeded in shooting him and tearing the flag from his grasp.

Colors and confederate disappeared in the smoke that enshrouded the line of battle. A private, conspicuous for the courage lie had already displayed, itnessed the loss of the colors and dashed a fictile fleeing confederate. In a moment the pursuer was lost to view, jnt as the pursued had vanished. TV: tide of battle ebbed and flowed for a terv moments, and then out of tin-smoke, and hurrying toward the union line, emte the confederate captain, minus the colors and menaced by the weapon which the union priate just behind him held grimly with the muzzle on a direct line with his focinan From the staff in the private's lei! hand floated the colors the confederate had risked all locnpture.and that night both reposed within the union lints. X.

Y. World. A II, itchf Hoy. Teacher -What arc the principal Spanish Johnny The thev goi from Hie roiled Mites. N.

Journal. a a JEST ERBOUT AS BIG AS ME. Therei a frller llvtn' round here, Somcwheres, that I'm layln' for; An' whenever I kin' find him. Let me tell yer. there'll be war.

He i.s always cuttin rustles. Always g.ttin' inter wrap-; An' the vorst is, folks Is always Puttin' blame on me Jim Mapea, 'Cause he happens f- to be Jest erbout big as me S'posin" pa thould loos his hammer (SVch thint.1, somehow, will get lost), I will hear him tellin mother When 't was got an' hat it cost; An' he thinks a boy has had it, "Jest erhout the size o' Jim, An' the chances are fir tindin'," tie will say. "most mighty slim." There it is yer see! "Jest erbout aa big as me." Mebhe mother makes some cookies, Lfaves 'em on the pantry shelf. Where, the window liein' open. They most says, "jest help yerseif!" Course.

I don't do eny countin' Hut 1 don't eat more than ten: Thouch ma says they're most all taktn An' I'm sure to hear ag, a. "Some young feller's been too free Jest erbout as big as me." I would like to find that chap, sir. An' to find out what's his name; Fer I've got a sneakin' notion That they thick it's me to blame. They don't say so when they're "Course," they say. "it wasn't Jim; Must a-been that other feller That we're apt to take fer him." But their eyes look kinder sideways An' they mean me all the time.

Oh. I'm goin" ter lick that feller Now. sir. yer kin bet a dime! He's no business to be Jest erbout as big as me. Cora Gaines Carrel, in Ohio FarmT.

A STRANGE NURSERY. The Surinam Tond Carrie Her Fam ily Around in Little Ponehe on Her Hack. The Surinam toad is the ossessorof one of the strangest nurseries known science. It lives in the dense trop ical forests of Guiana and Rrazil, and is a true water-haunter. Hut at the breeding season the female undergoes a curious change of integument.

The skin on her back grows pulpy, soft and jelly-like. She lays her eggs in the wa ter; but as soon as she has laid them. her lord and master plasters them on to her impressionable back with his feet, so as to secure them from all as saults of enemies. Every egg is pressed separately into a bed of the soft skin. which soou closes over it automatical ly, thus burying each in a little cell or niche, where it undergoes its further development.

'f lie tadpoles pass through their larval stase within the cell, and then hop out, as the illustra tion shows, in the four-legged condi tion. As soon as they have gone off to shift for themselves, the mother toad finds herself with a ragged and honey combed skin, which must be very un comfortable. So she rubs the remnant of it off against stones or the bark of SVRAXI.M TOAD CARRYING HER FAMILY. trees, and redevelops a similar back afresh at the next bret'ding season. Almost never do we find a device in nature which occurs only once.

The unique hardly exists; nature is great copyist. At least two animals of ivholly unlike kinds are all but sure to hit independently upon the self-same mechanism. So it is not surprising to learn that a catfish has invented an exactly similar mode of carrying its young to that adopted by the Surinam toad; only, here it is on the tinder sur face, not the upper one, that the spawn is plastered. The eggs of this catfish, whose scientific name is Aspredo. are pressed into the skin below the body and so borne about bv the mother till they hutrji.

This is one of two in stances where the female fish herself assumes the care of her offspring, instead of leaving it entirely to her ex ccllcnt partner. Strand Magazine. SOME BIBLE FACTS Mnti1lr Which Are of Particular Interest In Mniliiius SundiiJ-Schonl Punlls. In the P.ihle, Old and New Testaments, there are :i.jt"o.473 letters, words, verses, LIS'J chap ters and rt books. The longest book is Psalms, which has 150 divisions.

The shortest is Second John, which has one chapter of 13 verses. The longest chapter is the lll'lh psalm, which has 170 verses. The short est, the 117th psalm, which has 2 verses. The longest verse is the ninth verse of the eighth chapter of Esther. It has words.

The shortest is the verse I of the 11 th chapter of John. It has two words. The Sth verse of the lHth psalm is I the middle verse of the Pible. The chapter of Isaiah and the chapter of Second Kings are alike. In the li7th psalm the sth, 15th.

"1st and erses are alike. Each verse of the Llt'th psalm ends alike. Esther is the only book in which the inline of (iod is not found. The Slst verse of the Till chapter of Ezra contains ell the letters of ihe alphabet. Siiflrninn Stopped a Clock.

A few days since, to ihenntioyanccof everybody, it was found that the town clock had ceased to toll out the hours af the day. A jeweler was called, and an examination made. Nothing wrong could be found with the mechanism of the clock; everything seemed to be right, and no reason was apparent Indie cl'H-k did not run. but the old thing would not tick. A further investigation rev eulcd the fact that ihe sparrows had built a nest on the face of the clock behind the hands, and had carried sticks ami i traws ilu-rc nougl, clog the heels.

A long tishiuir pole was pnieiircd. the birds" nest knocked out. and the clock resumed its tick with its accustomed regularity. Pino ille (Ky.) Courier. hat Mir Said.

"Pid your sister say she's 2n ye(?" asked the young man. "Yes; she sas she's 20 yet," replied the younj ui other. Yonkers fctaten I lutn AUTOMOBILE WATER CARRIAGE. An invention which makes the climax of pleasurable traveling possible is hem reproduced from the Philadelphia Press. The picture shows an automobile party afloat.

They have driven down to the water's edge, where the automobile catamaran awaited them, and then allowed the automobile to glide down the runways onto the lloating section of the aquatic horseless carriage. The party then travels by water instead of on land by simp.v switching the motive power from the wheels to the which sends it forward on the water. The transfer from land to water takes less time than the changing of horses during the old coaching davs. the queen herself goes to the establishment and takes a personal share in the labors of the charity, now waiting in the kitchen distributions, and again assisting in the surgery. Several well-known women of her court are equaliy practical.

The general charge of it is committed to a religions order, a favorite of the queen's, but the eminent Portuguese physician. Dr. Sylva Carvalho, heads the staff of medical workers. In one year there were given in the building consultations, at ions from the diet kitchen, bandagings. Tli.isi) pri.sciptions ami 170 vaccinations.

The milk and vegetables are furnished gralis by the and 1 lie medical supplies are also defrayed by her. Fifteen hundred babies vjere treated in one twelvemonth. It is said that lliere is not any royal charity of the sort in Europe so efficiently managed, with the additional active cooperation of the founder. 'the of Ge.iins. All nun of genius are.

said to have eyes clear, slow toving and bright. This is the eye which indicates menial ability of some kind, it doesn't mailer I'ennileNs Klonilikers. T' number of penniless men in the KlssuiKe is placed at 3,000..