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Show . 1 t f .e gether by a mysterious eovd of fleah, and they died on the aame day, laavlng their property to be distributed among among all iOMB COOD STORIES FOR OUR the poor iff the parish, aand who care to apply, for dole of bread JUNIOR READERS, and cheese on Easter day. This benefaction has been In existence for six or fl Bkf1 Ovtlt CkUAnl 8o of seven centuries, and tt present Its value Is about 1200 a year. Formerly tb illip - U CbUtfUfc CM Til. Orll I Tata That Kukti SOU doles consisted of bread and cheese and ale, but the latter produced so much hilarity in tha village that It was abolX Hm hf TN.Uk ished, and the charity la now limited Ain't U M lira tit lntiUk-- ( Billy's to the two first mentioned nutritive ar. at tb tat ticles. The breed Is msds up In the With a litife wilier banket that Is wrlg- - form of cakes, betring a rude reprealia with lb. bait; of the Twin Maids of sentation took river Ea tha Invitin', an' lts shady and are generally preserved aa as kin b. 4a for all the fish that1 bum, that's a curiosities by tb recipient. They are Ash U wait far mat baked very hard, and are admirably , Pawn by tha rlv.r adapted to give work to dentists by LUa Is like a song, breaking the molars by those who at" An1 tha yalief bert h air hi tin to penetrate their mysteries. The tempt Tha rosy morntn tong! poor of the parish, as distinguished Alnt got no ttma far troubla far waath from necessitous strangers, are supplied ar a mighty Ana. with ordinary quartern loaves and An I saa tha worm wriggle as tha fur cheese. , and o' tha Una; The mockin birds air slngin la tha blossom. all saotta. , Te Speak or Hat t Ipwtf But tha bast tha wrathar'i b ringin Is A New York paper has a department I tha aark down In Ita evening edition beaded, "To Down by tha river Spank or Not to Spapk," and under Ufa Is Ilka a song, many wise and- - many A tha.yallai perch sir Wtta Tha rosy morn In longt worried mothers air their view, and Atlanta Con.lltutlhn. seek for advice on the subject, of the seed or goo of spanking wayward Tha Baby's Oatflt. children. One woman writes; Three or four flannel about "1 hv always believed In spanking thirty inches square and bound with children who were obstreperous, but ribbon, will be found very useful while my little daughter, Minnie, aged 9, the baby Is young, ssys Harpers Ba- does not seem to mind. She says to ser. They ara easy to wrap around tb her little brother, Harry, aged 8; Oh, baby after a bath and whan ready tor come along. Harry, Mammall- - beat a nap. Ltttls sacks are alas teOded, aa, but thatll last only a few minutes, and can be knitted la white pink and we can do this for an hour. What and blue borders, op be m Of Scotch can 1 do with a child who reasons in outing fiaonel or cashmere. These thi fashion can b usds en a yoke, or can In reply to the inquiring mother the neck, and be hang straight fronj-tb- a answers; paper trimmed with a tvoad collar and tied "This letter ehows that .when It Is a with a ribbon 15 front - Two or three wrappers egt be simply md'd. prefer- - child that confront ua and not a theory k Is well toriudytheehlld, and ably of Scotch flannel, either 6 A yok or witjt a cluster of tucks across the not to Insist too strongly upon the thefront. Three or four knitted blankets ory. If this small damsel fears no a necessary, and can be made of light spanking because she la philosophic lak, bine or white. White, as A rule,. enough to weigh It grief sting with ' washes beat. The long coat can be the long enjoyment of her naughtiness, made of silk, cashmere, or any soft devise some long punishment for her. white goods. It should be lined wish Deprive her of her opportunities to enjoy life. Keep her Indoors and at some A thin allk, so as to slip on and off easily, and if a winter coat, lined task for a. punishment. "Devise for her some long punishthroughout with lambs wool. It can Poor thing! shed find long be trimmed with a wide collar or a ment round shoulder caps if desired, A lit- enough one of the punishments devistle cap abould go with the coat, made ed for me when I was "obstreperous" of the same material and lined if for by toy "Aunt Llule," who "brought me winter, hut la summer the dainty little up," and waa a perfect genius for Inmualla cape are the besU venting "long" and. I now think, cruel punlihment Pointing to an extra The babys basket la a delightful tittle article to plan about, and can be high chair, from which my feet could not reach the floor, she would say, .. made In a variety of ways. The long eternlyr "Emily, get up In that chair low shape Is perhaps the moat convenient. If It Is to be . trimmed... at and shut your eyes and keep them hut for ten minutes" U seems a alight home tuck cotton batting on to the Idea, which hare been sprinkled with punishment but. oh a spanking waa wouldnt be orria powder, and then cover with fun beside It My-eywhatever material is desired. Rose or shut two minutes before it would seem light bias silk Is a pretty foundation, that ten minutes and more bad passed covered wttk either a fine dotted mus- How the "long punishment dragged, lin of point deeprtt lace. The mualla and long before It ended I resolved that ov lace should be sewad o full, but the It would be long. Indeed, before 1 again e.lk can be put on plain. . A flowered gave "that woman, as I used to mensMkolene caa he used la place of these. tally call my exacting aunt, who was This, of course, should be put on full, not my own aunt, hut an uncles wife, aa It does not have the lace over tt. A another chans to so torture me. But big satla bow at the aide or on the top Aunt Llule did not allow her punishmakes a pretty finish. In the tray are ments to loso their terror by too frean Infliction. She had a largo kept the babys toilet article, and in quent and exaaparatlng variety, and It was of underneath the the basket . the part a long tlm between turns baby's clothes. The tray should conShe wes not really a cruel woman, tain a pin cushion on which are the assorted sixes of safety pint, A little and waa not a very naughty child; bag can be made of rubber yet the punishment were actually as cloth covered with whatever material cruel aa It 1 had been a wicked sprite the basket is trimmed with, and sewed and she a witch. Many a good, Into one corner of the tray for the ba- Christian mother, in her eagerness to correct her children, tortures by's sponge, which should be email and wisely even as did my puritanical guarthem, A fine. piece of good soap in a little dian. -- 1 guess a good spanking, after disk, a powder box and puff, a bottle of vaseline, a email box of borax, a all. Is the beet, and It Is the only quarter of a pound roll of absorbent punishment recommended- by Holy cotton, a roll of old linen and a pair of Writ small blunt-pointactoaora, These litAtmosphere f ruoeu. tle things are constantly needed, and Dr. Johnson Roney's name has long should always be on hand. been associated with a theory that she composition of the atmosphere of a planet, an. Indeed, the question CkUmV HnI it Sleep, One of the most fruitful sources of whether it shall have an atmosphere or the Illness of chlldreo is the .habit not, depends upon the else of the planwhich some parents have of allowing et, which determines the tore of gravJt surface, . . -t- hem to stay up unduly Isle at night ityItat1 more It la one of the greatest mistakes of particularly with a referthose who have charge of them to let ence to the moon that the thory has them have too little sleep. It Is con usually been presented. Stripped of ' feeeedly a difficult matter always to Its scientific phraseology. Dr. 8toneys get little onee to bed at tb time they view Is that the gravitational fore of to go; they, of court, pi cud tor tho moon, which la only about one-rix- ought no great ac the only a little longer to stay up; but If earth, la not parents would realize the extreme lm strong enough to prevent the indefinite form the poriance of plenty of rest they would expansion of such gases remain obdurate to all such entreaties. earths atmosphere, and that conseIt should not be forgotten that ehll quently U the moon over had a gaseous drea are naturally .wakeful -- la the envelope these gases were probably Water morning, and In consequence of having long ago dissipated la space. to be off To school betimes are fre- vapor upon the moon would be as truquently called before they have finished ant as a pi. Hence the moon haa lost, their morning nap. Children as a rule by evaporation Into apace, Ua mu as ought to sleep ten or eleven bourn, and well as Its atmosphere. The latest to do thle they ought to he put To pod eoncluriona towblch Dr, Ftoneys inearly enough at sight so that they may vestigation have led him, and which have this amount of unlnterruptped are set forth very fully In the "Transleep. If children do not get the need-- . sactions of the Royal Society of Dubed amount of rest It la no wonder that lin," are thus summed up by Nature. they become nervous, fretful and difficult to manage Their nervfs. Inheritla ChUHeH Tree. ed la many caeee from dyspeptic par-ent- s. The vagueness of the young with reare keenly alive to every sound, spect to' the age of thehr elders is pleasand their tempers are Irritated by be- antly Illustrated by the early history of ing called out of bed when they are so noblemsa who once represented a much Inclined to sleep. During the division iff Manchester In the earlier years of childhood, whatever parliament. His mother had English a maid elsq may be dona, there should be stawho seemed to childish eye a extremely for and undisturbed old. Tb children of the family longed long ple provision - sleep. to know her age. bnt were much too well-bre- d to ask a question which they Original Trim . felt would be painful; so they sought London Telegraph; Crowds of people to attain the desired end by a system from nil parts of Kent many evsm of Ingenious traps. The boy chanced from London train traveling by or ey- In a lucky hour to find In hla "Book of rie visited the quiet, remote and sleepy Useful Knowledge" the tradition that , Tillage cf Blddendea, not far from Hie aloe flowers flowered only one la Tenderden, for the purpose of celebrata hundred years. He Instantly saw hla ing the memory of the Two Maids of opportunity, and. accosting tho maid, that ancient hamlet, whs were tha with winning air sad wheedling acoriginal precursors of the , Siamese cent, asked. Insinuatingly:, "Susan twins. It life they were Joined to have you often veen the aloe flower?" FOE BOYS AND GIRLS. II.M . Bld-dend- -- ln that-headin- t rb r sht , . ' i ik , uy jk' - es . t cup-shap- ed th . llm SCIENTIFIC, T0PIC3 NOTES Or DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. CURRENT btfiy is Buillsf CsHm-Hm- Um WhSIsi Trait llMtlag CapatbUlUM WgUg S44WS Cum Wee - CrateffteN- - - - - eletj Is' Headlla Cette. Cotton shippers are very keenly the report of one of thtfr examination two hundred samples of food and drink articles wef tested. Out of this number copaiderably more than werd found to he iff such poor quality that they were condemned altogether Among the article examined were flour, butter,, lard.- - milk, chocolate, freh eggs, green tea. salad oil, lemon extracts, and alcohol and wines of various aorta The most objectionable article was butter. Out of twenty-fiv- e samples twelve had from 25 to 7$ per cent of oleomargarine, two were entirely made of oleomargarine, and two others were compounded from various material that rendered them unfit for food. The milk examination was most extensive and exhaustive. The commission carried Its examination through about fifteen hundred places where milk was aold, finding nearly one hundred cases of adulteration that made the milk unfit for use. Iu many other cases the milk was extensively watered. This was considered leas objectionable than some of the other adulterations, and the water was for the moat part apparently pure. The worst case were those in which milk powders, chalk and various concocted additlona had been made. As matters now stand In the trad, Tellable and reputable dealers donot find food adulteration very profitable. The penalties are too heavy In case of detection and the danger of being found out and acquiring a bad reputation la ever present before them. one-qnart- er tit it 1 ' litre to the dangers that attend 46handHag iff their wares. A spark from cigar or the smoke stack pf aa engine may fall upon a bale. It sinks In and in the hast of losing la not observed. For week itrpay eat and smolder in the bale, then at some unexpected moment It. may. break out with tho mot disastrous results. . Heretofore It bss been Impossible to pack cotton so that this contingency might not aria at any time. There is, however, a new method by which cotton Is packed cylindrical! Instead of the ordinary square shape. By the new process the packing Is so close end firm that fire might run all over the outside of It and then go out, because there Is not sufficient oxygen In the Interior of the package to conduct the fire or totals It. Thla discovery la of great vai-to shippers, a well es ship owners. Ftres In cotton bales have been of frequent occurrence, aad when a conflagration la once started It seems next to Impossible to put It out Exposure to the air give the fire just the support it needs, while smothering It down merely postpones 4he calamity. Jn. addition to the greatly increased safety iff such cargoes, the new style of packing puts the fiber into much smaller eompesa and consequently the bestowal is easier, and much more cotton caa be carried In a given apace. , A Submarine Warship. Both men of science and officers of the navy have been greatly interested in the successful experiments with ths Holland submarius boat In New York harbor. The boat la able to run on the surface at a speed of sixteen knots, and when completely submerged at a A gas engine la speed of ten knots. used to drive her on the surface, and to electric motor, driven by a storage Sfeehln fee WWllo Trait. ...So rourh lrouble hn been made by battery, propels her when she Is subthe appearance of black spots on or- merged. She stays on an even keel,' anges and lemons that all aorta of and automatic mechanism keeps her at plana have been devised to rldjhe fruit a constant depth. When diving, with iff tjtla unsightly blemish. One iff the most practical appliances la a scrubbing machine supplied with water, carriers and brushes. The fruit 1 put Into a tank and allowed to remain for a few minutes to permit the specks to soften ' a little ; then It la taken uff by the carriers and conveyed to a large wheel, which has arranged around Its periphery movable automatic acting brushes, which form a portion of the carrier around It rim. A the orange or lemon proceeds on Its journey 4ht brushes attack It from all quarters, crabbing R very thoroughly, and In almost sll cases completely cleansing It from the unsightly speck. After a given time tt la automatically dropped Into a trough,- - from which It la conveyed to tho receiving baskets or boxes. Caa at Ooatagioa. Tho brushes, while firm, are not suffl An eminent physician la the author! rind of so ths fruit to the Injure clently la the least' It thla device works as ty for the statement that boys are well as It promises It to a boon to the anch more likely to contract many orange and lemon grower, and a- for-- 1 diseases than girls, and gives the res-touon that tho youngsters play In the V to tho Inventor, ' . ..... 'Isg-eetwhere they pick up all aorta , A boy hurts hla finger, end of germs. Wood. Heating CepabUtU of From time Immemorial soft wood sticks them In bis mouth, and ifiayhap to get a better bold of hla bss been regarded aa comparatively licksorthem he may be handling. whatever top Valueless tor beating purposes. Hard wood baa brought high prices aad has Diphtheria, and typhoid fever especialconmore been la much greater demand then ly, he says, are on likely to be In account. tracted this boys by toft, on account of thla generally roam abont evnotion. Experiments with addition to this, boys so to apeak, la evweoda of varloua aorta have demon- erywhere, and are, A lad may conkind of mischief. ery strated that the linden, which la one of a disease by picking np eom the softest of woods, gives the great- tract or article previously handled, by est amount of heat. The value of other stick infected person. He advisee that woods In their order, aa ascertained, l an "Fir with 0.99 hearing when boys come In from play. theya aa follows: should give their hands and faces power; next follow the elm and pins not forgetting to with 0.98; willow, chestnut and larch thorough washing, with the utmost ear. teeth the clean and fir with spruce with 0.97;maple Excellent adTlce. no doubt, but wht 0.18; black poplar with 6.85; alder And amount of "moral persuasion" white birch with 0.14 only; then comes an bo required to get tb average would and the locust with 0.92; oak hard the to take these precautions! Washboy the whit beech with 0.01, and the red to often looked upon as a very very Hence hard wood ing beech with 0.90. operation, and a aad waste unnecessary la reone U of the least." heals the time. of markable facts of the day that so many theories that have been held for many r Staging Spiders. yean are Taat giving way before the critical analyse of science. A naturalist who has given many years of study to some of tho smaller Iree Mining by Steam Shovel. forma of Insect life haa discovered that On the Mesabl range, la the Lake Su- certain sorts of spiders are possessed perior Iron ore region, a steam shovel of organa, for which there eeema to la and digger la ued to nine the ore, no us mvs to create sound.. They are which la worked in an open quarry. mostly used whea the little creatures are alarmed, although tho opinion 1s held by some that this to their means of calling to their mates. Tho alarm idea, however. be eom support In the case of the rattlesnake, which to provided with tho means of making Ita presence known . whenever aa enemy Whether the possession approaches. of organa for creating sound to designed merely as a protection or warding to a polat to which naturalists are giving careful .and enthusiastic attention. RAYE OYER ACTRESS, IN LOVE CHICAOOAN8 WITH MARY MANNERINCL food favor the foundations cannot cully be shaken. I of which B, (L HES THE WHOLE TH1NO. (Barbourviile, Ky Letter.) L.Mayor William Anderson of Is perhaps the meet Interesting wn la the blue grass commonwealth. He Is well known to SL Lonto Anderson. traveling men as Bos He wu born et Barbourviile 78 yean ago and never lived anywhere else. He never used eyeglasses, never tasted alcoholic stimulants of any kind, never smoked, chewed, or used 'tobacco In any form. He ow&a and operates th only street car line in th town. He to proprietor of the only hotel in the city and personally meets ail day and night trains with bis street car, looking for patrons of the boteL He to leader of the choir of the Christian (From the only photograph he ever had made. Taken before tbe war.) church and Is superintendent of the Sunday school. He has been choir leader for twenty-eigyears, and has not missed service during that time. He hu not been absent from Wednesday night prayer meeting but once In twenty-thre- e years, when he, aa mayor, had to preside over a special meeting of the council to consider the question Mr. Anderson knew of local option. Lincoln, who appointed him postmaster at Barbourviile. He attended both conventions which nominated Lincoln. William Anderson was the first mayor of hla native town many years ago, and few others have held the office. For thirty-seve- n year he hu been trustee of the jury fund, and not oqc hare his accounts- - been examined or quutloned. Although he to I feet and S Inches tall, hla appearance is graceful and pleasing. -- Bar-bourvll-le Fke Chare la Earllek Flayer Believe Be Throerlec Her TaXeati Away aa Traehy Cemelj Her Flae I la - Shall eepearlaa Dnaa (Chicago Letter.) HILE there ere differences of oplnioa without number In regard to playa and players in general, one little English g lady, Mary by name, baa Uken such a strong bold upon the love of our Man-nertn- theater-goe- that r the language of abstract criticism does not seem to fit her case. The snnshine of her manner, the warmth of her smile, the lithe grace of her dainty figure and the spirit of buoyant, beautiful youth that shines out even through the moments of sentiment, all combine In one of the most engaging stage creations with which England has ever favored ua. Not that we admire her solely as a sweet and womanly young person, out of whoa violet black eyea we read the story of tenderness, fidelity and truth. She has also won our sympathy and respect by her beautiful and artlitlo stage work, which to filled with so many evidences of that magnetism and susceptible temperament without which even the, most beautiful woman who appears under the gleam of the lime light can only command the tribute of ten-dere- st ht r--j mww-- . ns - g . UqaKt AtrOtna. When liquid air to exposed in aa open vessel) It gradually vaporises, and the vapor thus formed looks like steam, Peckbam except that, s Prof. W. remarks in an illustrated article la the Scientific American, It doe not rise In the air, but flows down over th edges ft the dish or cup on all aides This falling of th vapor la due to thi tact that It to heavier than air at The ora rises along the side of the quarpressures The hand, placed ry in a face fifty fees In height The near the steamy cloud, feels the powerstrain abovel la capable of loading five ful ehm of IU preaenee. hundred tons of ore per hour upon the car, whose track run clang the face IpM el the Oolf KnIb. . of tho quarry. 'The cost of mining by Three miles an hour to about the thla method Is Mid to be about fifteen average speed of the gulf stream. At cents per ton. certain places, however. It attains miles an bout the ipeed of fifty-on- e Sec tha Seine till Examination f Wood. rabidity of the current giving the ur While there la undoubtedly a great face, when the sun to shining, th apdeal of adulteration iq food products pearance of a sheet of fir. of all aorta, tho Pure Food commission aad the scientific experts ho Are eu-- 1 If a man could yell aa loud In, progaged In this work are doing excellent portion to hla Ie as a baby can. telej service la exposing the frauds perpe-Itrate- d phone companies would soon .be unon aa unsuspecting public, in able to declare dividends ; a - 1 MART MANNERINO. a passing fancy without touching the CHINAS LARGEST FINANCIER. heart or leaving behind any distinct Hero to the J. Plerpont Morgan of Impression that defies the envious China. He to aa great a Celestial In hto tooth of time Mary Mannering to no passing fancy. The gentle dark beauty Illuminated by ravishing smiles and embellished by the sincerity that shines out from those truthful aad lustrous toyea, to not her The Impulse that ealy endowment first carried her upon the stage wu the consciousness, not to be restated, of aa Inborn talent for tbe actors art, and during the few brief years of her tag career the hu fully demonstrated that her Instinct In this case wu not mistaken. Although just now In th flash of youthful success, awaiting th mellow art of maturity, she hu given evidence of those distinguishing qualities that belong to those who are tern for the stage. The delicate touch of art to observed In all that she does, and one perceives at once that ahe to in sympathy with the higher forms of feeling and the deeper sentiments of tender truth that spring out of a pure and sensitive heart One of these daya, rwsaklng thoae dramu given over to tho cheap veneer of modern philosophy, in which she hu been " obliged to appear, we may hope to see her at her best In some of Shakespeares delightful heroines. No on can reasonably doubt her success Viola-- Rosalind or Imogen, and whea experience hu steadied and broadened jhe talents that have at- ready been ko felicitously disclosed, we may reaeohaldy expect that she will make the character of Juliet her own, and sound tbe deeps iff a tragic love in no uncertain manner. Not only does her joyous manner Indicate a fitness for Rosalind, but the Intensity of her nature, only half disclosed by th requirements Of th contemporaneous drama, should respond with picturesque sincerity to the wider emotions experienced by Capuleta u daughter.' Thu, far Chicago has enjoyed Miss Mannering! appearance In five' plays, not one iff which commanded her best talent, although in each cbm the grace and beauty of the actreas proved meet alluring and established ber so firmly tn esteem that her brilltont future to Anticipated with the utmost confidence. Ehe hu Appeared Jean Maftory In "The Mayflower," Daphne In Th First Gentleman of Europe," Sadi In "The Late Mr. Costello, Ay Zullani tn the "Princess and the Butterfly, anff Monica In "The Tree of Knowledge." In all of these character, not one of which Is vital. Miss Mannering ha charmed ns by her definite touch, dainty manner and sympathetic reading. establishing hereof upon a throne u own way LI Hung Chang. Hto name to Sheng Taotl, and he to looked upon the greatest financier the land of the yellow dragon hu yet produced. He to behind all the great railway projects now on foot In China and wu also a promoter of the Chinese Imperial Buk scheme. A Belgian symdloate hu just advanced 221,000,000 tor a truik line u SHENG TAOTL between PekiB. and.. Hankow,. . which Sheng ioti to engineering. m Tb DtM XhMn f Ctybi. A curiou mask used by the -- devil dancers of Ceylon to supposed to .be e. the portrait of a devil, It i painful to have to record that the Cingalese, Instead of "abjuring tho devil and all hto works," they r. ought, actually worship If anybody to 111 the priest of the devil. Wearing hto mask, which to made of wood, painted In various colors, and has a tusk sticking out of each side of the - horribly grinning disks nt each side, and three cobra cap alias on tho top, come and perform the devil own dance. An altar, decorated wlthgarlanda, to erected, and tho sacrifice, usually a cock, to offered on 1L Calloo-Coomar- u Calloo-Coo-ma- ... Br, Gift f Bair. A few weeka'ago a hairdresser fa Paris received an offer of eighty pounds weight of hair from a convent' near Tour. - This represented the tree of 800 novices who bad entered ' the convent, for on taking the veil they were, of course, obliged to have their , ' lock shorn. , |