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Show ME I am employed by the husband without DREARER. In appearance be was about aa commonplace as other people a middle-age- d man, inclined to portliness. Aa (be train moved on be discusaed commonplace aubjecta with me In a commonplace way. I should not have been surprised to have been told that he was a stockbroker or a solicitor or that he was engaged In the tea trade. In the course of our chat something happened to be said about curious occupations. "Well," Bald my companion, I do not suppose that there Is any more curious occupation than my own. I am a breaker. He had not at all the appearance of a man used to horses; but I sugr, you mean? gested, A No, he said, Just a plain breaker. A man who breaks' things, breaks anything that requires to be broken; gets his living by breaking. I glanced nervously at the communicator, though he looked even less like r. a lunatic than he did like a horse-breake- IS DEATH TO MIXERS. the knowledge of the wife, or by tne wife without the knowledge of the husband. Even with the utmost tact THEIR DISLIKE FOR THE SAFEone gets oneself disliked, but that I TY LAMP INVENTED BY DAVY. must put up with. The other day one of my clients asked me to come to his house to break a dinner service. Wont Light Ilpoa Handily 0 id I, I dined there and made myself as Xusfiy Blown Oat For All of Which Hanson tha Man Prefer to Ulak pleasant as I could and told several Thai Lives. good stories. But then I also broke the dinner service, or most of It, and It was one to which my hostess was Doubtless Sir Humphrey Davy would much attached. She said to him afterhave been greatly astonished when he ward, T will never have that brute in Invented the safety lamp for coal minhouse my again! ers eighty-thre- e years ago if he could And what did he say? He said, I fully agree with you, my dear. To the best of my belief the man was drunk. If he had not been the son of an old college friend, I should never have asked him at all.' That was a little mean; but then It was necessary for him to cover himself in some way, and as I never break a dinner service under twenty-fiv- e pounds, I received some solatium for the Indignity.' Have you got any engagements at present? I asked. Yea, he said, I am going to one I see, he said, smiling, that I must explain. When I left Cambridge now, but it Is a trifling thing requiring with a classical degree, no prospects no tact at dll. Had I an assistant I and no Influence, I looked about for a should have Bent him. I am to go the profession. I found everything over- day after a wedding reception, when the presents are being packed. Those crowded; besides, none of the professions appealed to me at all. I like to which, from their ugliness or worthtravel about a little, and I enjoy social lessness, are not worth packing up and life. I like talking talking to anysending to the bridegroom's distant one. I hate work of any kind. This home, have been placed on a separate being the case, I looked about me to shelf. I shall upset that shelf and see If there was not a chance for some accidentally step on anything which Is new profession; if among our million not broken in the fall. The job wont wants there was not one that was not take me five minutes, and I get three supplied. The Idea came to me by guineas for it. I am doing it for the accident. I was stopping at my bridegroom without the knowledge of uncles house when he received as a the bride. Men begin to deceive wompresent from his wife's brother a sin- en very soon, I find." I have, I said, one or two little gularly ugly but very valuable pair of oriental vases. His wife's brother was objects In my own home which But at this moment the train enfrequently In my uncle's house, and therefore these abominations had to tered Victoria station, and though I be displayed. I heard him grumbling managed to complete my sentence, about this. I suggested that he should and my companion said that he would sell them. The Idea was, of course, be glad at any time to oblige me. In absurd; he told me so. Nor, he said, the confusion of our arrival I neglectcould he break them himself, for his ed to take his name and address or wifes brother would never forgive to give him mine. Barry Pain. him; nor could he ask his wife to break them, because, although he had been SHEDDING BLUE CLOTHES. married fifteen years, he felt that he did not know her well enough; nor Cnele Sam's Bora Old Clothes Worn by could he ask the servants to break Yonnger Patriots. From the Chicago Tribune: Soldiers them, for that w'ould encourage careThat Is who have returned home and been lessness and thriftlessness. all right,' I said. I rose from my place mustered out are shedding the blue and smashed the vases one after the uniforms of Uncle Sam. A large dropother on the floor. Sorry I was so ping off of men wearing the blue has clumsy, I said; you had better ring been noticeable since the chilly days and have this rubbish cleared away. came and especially since Colonel He rang, and told the servant I had Youngs First cavalry was paid off and broken them accidentally. When she discharged at Fort Sheridan on Tuesbad gone he said without a smile, day. The troopers proceeded 'It seems rather a pity. I said, I am to get intoChicago clothes more suitable for very short of ready money. Could you the chilly air, and the troopers' front lend me five pounds? He wrote me a country took early trains for home. check for twenty, and said that I was the But the uniforms will continue to do a useful man to know of. Then I said, service even after being discarded by me to .or 'Recommend your friends, men the who wore them to the front -: already I sa- the possibilities of my a blouse, a pair of legOccasionally me futuro profession. He mentioned a or boot is to be Been gings cavalry some he to knew, people some of whom I had never seen in In the stock of a pawnbroker. Some of my life before. They seut me invita- - the soldiers get rid of the garments by giving them to their own children or their neighbors boys. These youngsters delight In the blue clothes. They wear them regardless of fit, adjusting them as well as they may, with pins and bits of Btring. They are particularly fond of the legglns, and a boy with a pair of them is the envied of all the juveniles in his circles. He can trade them for any other valuables any of the envious may possess. A canteen is another favorite article from the soldiers kit, but It is not always put to good uses. Over on the west side one day last week the police raided a soiree in a secluded alley. The receptacle the guests were using was a canteen that went through the campaign. The slouch hats are also in demand, especially amongst teamsters, or young fellows who desire to put a tough edge on themselves. Besides being a serviceable article of dress Uncle Sams hats are capable of being pressed into wonderful and startling Some of the decorated bat Bhapes. command fancy prices, and many have SMASHED THE VASES. been offered for sale, which the venlions to their houses, and they indi- ders are willing to guarantee had seen cated the objects on which I was to service in the battles before Santiago. operate. In my first week I broke, They point to holes in them as passaglike an es made X remember, a lamp shaped by Mauser bullets. Of course owl, an oil painting, a tea service and the soldiers are not allowed to retain table. a dining-rootheir arms, but what they are allowed But an oil painting, I said. How to keep they generally part with quickdoes one break an oil painting? In a spirit of generosity, It is simple enough, he Bald. I ly, usually as a means of profit. but occasionally first of all undid the wires so that the In I picking it up picture fell, then Apparent Difference. put my foot through the face. It was a portrait of my host's wife's aunt. Johnny Pa, some of the curious It was more difficult to break the people round here they call odd and -room table. I recollect that it be- some of the others eccentric. What came necessary for the purpose to In- is the difference? Pa When a man vent a somewhat boisterous form of is said to be eccentric he usually has round game. Even then we had to more or less money. When he is poor play it for three evenings before the a man Is simply odd. Boston Trane-criplegs came off. When I left this house my host handed me a check and promised to recommend me to other people. Jut Awful. X never advertise, and I have more Do you know, I saw an Cholly to can do I than possibly breaking And time for. If I could find a young Item In a papah the othah day that man with plenty of tact I would take said the annual pwoduct of papah was fifteen million a yeah! Reff-ghim as an assistant. Gwaclous goodness, what a lot It must need some tact, I sugof people tbeah must still be vulgah gested. It does. It sc often happens that In this world! Ex. horse-breake- - half-doze- n can-rushi- ng m dining- L col-la- hs le have foreseen that nearly a century later accidents would still be occurring in -- the depths of the coal pits due to the use of ordinary open lamps In the g firepresence of the damp, says the New York Tribune. The Inventor would have been forced to conclude that his lamp had In some way failed to prove Its efficiency and yet such is far from being the truth. So well has the Davy lamp maintained Its value as a safeguard for the coal miner that In spite of many later devices In the way of mining lights It has always been found, on the whole, the most satisfactory, and, with slight death-dealin- modifications, is tho one used wherever a safety lamp is desired. But just here lies the point mentioned In the first sentence: A vast number of coal miners still lightly disregard the dangers they work In dally, prefer an ordinary lamp or candle and cannot be induced to use any other. In the report of the explosion In the Empire mine at Brownsville, Pa., where several lives were lost, there was this simple but significant sen- considerable quantity of firedamp present, however, some of it finds its way in through the gauze and causes the flame to expand slightly and to burn with a weird, pale-blu- e light. This ought to be a warning to the miner, but often he is too busy or too careless to notice it, and if the damp continues to increase the gauze becomes hot and glowing. In some cases it may burst or become incandescent enough to act like an exposed flame, but generally the miner does not allow the danger to proceed quite so far as this before he retires from the gallery. Various devices to avoid this danger of incandescence have been tried, but they have bgen too clumsy to be popular. Indicators, to give warning of the presence of gas by means of a little bell, have also been Ingeniously contrived, hut they were open to the same miners objection of being too complicated, and it was difficult to arrange them so that they would work neither too quickly nor too slowly. So the plan of the davy still remains the most practical, and it is that one which is meant by the term safety lamp, and against which the miners criticisms are WOMAN HORSE BREAKER. Moats Sucrose by Haver Showing tba Fear of liar Mount. It is universally agreed that even a homely woman who has mastered the art of equestrianism looks well when in the saddle. When the rider is pretty and sits her horse with ease and grace of course the beauty of the picture is much enhanced. Hence it is that Mrs. Annie Benson, wife of a prosperous farmer living near Fowbles-bur- g, tence: Md., is regarded by all who know The men wore open lamps, such as her to be an exceedingly pretty sight are used in all the Monongahela river when seated on her favorite thoroughbred mare. Mrs. Kenton is a slender, mines. d country-woma- n of No explanation or excuse accombeen has and deriding the it figure statement; panied merely scribes a state of things which has horses almost ever since she can relong existed in that part of Pennsyl- member anything. She began riding vania. The mines of Fayette county, when she was 5 years old, and her along the Monongahela, and also those father used to put her on the back of a a few miles to the northeast, in West- great animal while he guided the plow moreland county, have been regarded behind. She has broken colts, been for many years as being comparatively kicked and bitten by horses, thrown free from firedamp. This reputation out of buggies and had divers other exhas caused even more than the usual periences of the kind," but has never carelessness among the miners who been thrown from the back of a horse. work there and the safety lamp is an Mrs. Benson says, in discussing the article seldom seen. Yet the occur- difficulties which confront girls just berence a few weeks ago shows that even ginning to ride: The entire secret of mines which are not fiery, as the men being a good rider, I think, lies in not say, are subject to occasional explo- being afraid of your horse. This is the sions and that the deep caverns and one great essential, but there are some passages from whlib coal is excavated other things just as necessary to know. are never to be reckoned safe. The When a girl gets on a horse, if she is Brownsville disaster is only the last In the least bit frightened, the horse of a series of tht same kind in its knows it, and that knowledge has a deSeven years ago last moralizing effect upon it, especially If neighborhood. came the frightful explosion it happens to be a thinking horse. I January of the Mammoth mine, near Young-woo- used to wear a very long skirt until one miles from the day a horse I was riding caught its about twenty-fiv- e scene f the recent accident. At that hind foot in the Bkirt and tore it off time 107 charred and mangled bodies me. Since then I have ridden with a were taken out of the galleries after skirt of walking length and find If the explosion. The Mammoth was an- much better. I do not think it would other etfo mine and all its men used help a girl much to ride astride like open lsmpe, though they had plenty of a man in managing her horse. I have darlis furnished to them free by the ridden that way, but I felt that if a company. How little confidence is to horse started to run I could not stop be placed in the fact that a mine has him at all. I am breaking two colts always hitherto enjoyed freedom from now that will make beauties. One was noxious vapors may be judged from two years old on May 29 and tbo other a few months older. My method of this particular case. an the of inspection training is hard to describe. I simply Every morning Mammoth for of the purity put the bridle and saddle on them and galleries of air was made by the fire boss. As he then get on myself. When I am once finished with each section he scratched in the saddle I know they cant get upon its walla his mark signifying that me out. I ride one of them every day, it was safe to be worked that day. At sometimes six or seven miles. Of 3 oclock in the morning of Jan. 27, course they are so young that I make 1891, the fire boss made bis rounds as them travel very slowly and never usual, and the men, coming to work allow them to run. for fear of weakenat 6 o'clock, at once began work where ing their backs. It Is not customary to his 27 assured them of safety. Ten break a colt before he is three years minutes later there was a tremendous old, but these weret such big fellows shock, which made the mountain that I thought they could stand iL tremble for miles. Of the 133 miners at work In the fatal gallery 107, includ- Spain Slowly Evacuating tha West Indlaa The evacuation of the islands of ing the fire boss himself, were killed. It was supposed that a miners pick Cuba and Porto Rico is progressing had chanced to open an unsuspected, as rapidly as circumstances will allow. pocket of firedamp. And the report On each island the Spanish forces are from Brownsville can give only the moving from Interior districts toward same theory regarding this accident: a main point of ultimate departure-- in The explosion is said to have been Cuba, Havana; in Porto Rico, San caused by the loosening of a large Juan. As one district after another block of coal, which opened a pocket of Is vacated by the Spaniards it is ocgas. cupied by the Americans, who are masses of fire- obliged to exercise civil as well as So there are pent-u- p damp even in safe mince, and yet it military and police function. The in not at all probable that the miners evacuation of the districts and the embarkation of the troops are slow procalong the Monongahela will be frightened into abandoning their open lights. esses, but the unavoidable delays are Miners, as a class, are superstitious proving highly beneficial to the Amerregarding their work. They have a icana By the time the work of the belief that they will not die until joint military commissions is finished their time comes, and that a greater and the last Spanish forces are ready or less amount of daily risk does not to embark from the capital cities, the make any difference. Then, again, United Staten will have perfected it they have- certain objections, for one or permanent armies of occupation, now two of which there is some slight ex- being mobilized and hardened to sercuse, to the safety lamp. vice in various southern ram pa The blue-eye- well-round- ed d, Before mentioning these, the gen- eral features of the davy and Its imitators may be given. The lamp consists of a metallic cistern for the oil and a cylinder of fine wire gauxe, about eight Inches in height and an Inch and a half in diameter, which protects the flame from direct contact with the outside air. Thus any gas which this air may contain cannot he fired by the lamp. If there la any weather, too, will have become more propitious. Bhaphard sad Floelc. The Rev. Mr. Brassey is an enthusiastic golfer, isnt he? . Yes; and so are most of the members of his congregation. When he told them that In their lives they should try to make spiritual bogey scores they knew what Puck. he was talking about NEW CURE FOR NERVOUSNESS, Chinas Wear Soft Ho) ad Khoaa aad Am rarfcrtly Cnliu. A new cure for nervousness has been suggested to' American sufferers from this indefinable but terrible malady, and by a Chinese student of national and racial characteristics. The mam who has formulated the new nerve specific says that he believes its adoption will cure the worst case of headache couchant over the nerves rampant known to mankind. He believes the entire absence of nervousness which characterizes the Mongolian race to result simply from the centur-- 1 ies of practice which his countrymen have given to the simple cure. And this is the cure: Always wear softi soled shoes and you will never be con- scious of possessing nerves, says from the flowery kingdom. To Americans but recently Induced to try the wearing of heavy, thick soled shoes, with a view to mitigating the very con-- 1 ditions now under discussion the idea would seem at first sight ridiculous. Upon closer inspection, however, it bears at least a semblance of reason. A hard soled shoe, like a tight or a high heeled shoe, puts a person unden a tension, says the man who is responsible for the propounding of the new idea in America. This tension is naturally and necessarily wearing, and the nerves seem to wear out first It is relaxation which is necessary to; cure nervousness, not bracing up or1 tension. I feel convinced that the theory which I have advanced, to the' effect that if Americans will stop wearing the stiff soles which keep them under a strong, if unconscious, tension,, they will cease to be nervous, will Boon, be borne out by facts. In support of this theory the Chicago people who are just now interested in the Chinese doctor's Ideas instance the facts that a tight shoe will produce more wrinkles nervous wrinkles around the mouth, eyes and forehead inside of a given time than any other form of suffering, known. The sudden adoption of a heavy soled shoe after the wearing of light kid shoes will sometimes insure a similar result. Some of the Chicago physicians talked with on 'the subject, while deprecating anything which will tend to drive the sensible thick soled shoes which have lately become fashionable out of popularity, declare that they believe much truth to be enshrined in the Chinamans statements. This is the way In which I would compromise, said one of the best known physicians in the city not Let everyone, man or wolong ago. man, who steps outside the house at all in cool or bad weather wear thlck-Bole- d shoes, but see that the soles are also as pliable as possible. It is not the thickness of the sole which is at fault; that is always good. It is the Btiffness. Get shoes as pliable as can be found, and rest the feet and nerves further by wearing the softest shoes to be had, real Indian moccasins, if possible in the house and when and wherover conventionality allows. Everybody realizes, albeit most of us do it unconsciously, what a relief to nerves, and feet alike omes with the getting into slippers process so dearly beloved of the average man. Women, too, usually slip off their heavy shoes and don easy slippers the mo--, ment they reach their own rooms, and this is right. Pliable shoes furnish an easy and simple way of resting for overtired and overworked people. So far, at least, the Chinese doctor is right. The experiment of treating the nerves by wearing pliable and to pliable I should add 'wide, roomy, comfortable shoes whenever possible Is an experiment exceedingly easy to try, and it has a better chance of proving efficacious than is the case with many popular Ideas of the kind. the-savan- THERE ARE NO FLIES ON HIM. They Drop Dead on Touching Ilia Electrically Charged Body. From the New York Press: Benjamin Berdell, a wandering clock repairer, is death on flies. Three years ago, when at Rahway, N. J., during a storm he was picking cherries, when the tree was struck by lightning. Berdell received a severe shock. It transformed him into an electric man. Anyone who shakes hands with him now receives a severe 6hoek. By pressing the blades of a knife between his thumb and finger during a storm he charges the metal so strongly that heavy weights ran be lifted. When flies alight upon him they drop dead. When he is in a dark room sparks flash from his flesh and his eyes shine like incandescent lights. Whenever a storm approaches Berdell becomes highly charged with electricity and it la dangerous to touch him. He says that he feels no Inconvenience except that he will not go near a moving locomotive for fear of being drawn against it and killed. Blinded by a Collision. Fred Sheyer of Brazil, Ind., while riding hla wheel collided with a team and was badly injured. When he recovered consciousness it was dlscov ered that he was totally blind. Shoos for tbo Dogs. Pet dogs in London wear chamois shoes when in the house to protect the polished floors from scratches. t |