3 ;.1S- . Miim- brautr wnridly way. ihr- Wauhtafftun I’twt.

((ICE-LIVED DAY. }

•r how*Bn c. warui:n. ropes of this rrpcatiajc a day. .'rescott.Vfcere does the extra day .e from, anyhow?” ^ Jiura Marry and a vast array of

ner of the deck of the Pacific liner C‘ty of Pekin; her voice came from the interstices between 'several ‘pillows. a veil and a hood. Ferrv prescott's chair stretched over a considerable portion of the deck in her neighborhood. They were gazing out at the sea and talking fitfully. “Why. we pick it up out hei c In mid ocean." answered Pe-'v; "~-e carry it along a way. and, drop it where the ateamcr going the other way can t And It" "Oh. yes. of course: but where does the extra time conic from? 1 really don't understand-it at all." "It s simply taken from the boats that we pass going westward. Some tonight, you know." said Perry, gravely, "we meet a freight steamer. They have plenty of'time to spare on board. We heave to. send out a boat, ask for an extra day. pay well for It. and ship it aboard. In the morning yvu and I wake up. and it la today again. Tbat'a the way they manage it. Miss Marcr." "Mr. Prescott. 1 think you are very rude. 1 really wanted to find out t about it. If you don't know yourself, don't be ashamed to confess your ignorance." "Pardon me. Miss Marcy.” said Perry; "I was speaking in parables, of course; but there is an element of truth in whst I said. The boats going westward lose a day. and we gain one: . that’s the truth. I was just putting the transaction on a commercial basis. that's alL" "But how can it be so?" "Easily enough. We drop an hour here and there, when we don’t especially need It; and today, when the voyage beings to grow tedious, we call them all in and paste them on today, so we can\get in a day earlier." "Thank .yo^or alluding to the tedium of tjtt voyage. For my part. 1 think it rather pleasant, except that 1 cannot always enjoy my meditations without interruption." “If that Is all. I will see the voyage is one grand round of pleasure for you in the future.’ There was a long pause. Prescott moved about uneasily In his chair; he started to rise once or twice, thought better of it each time, and finally settled down to a silent contemplation of the ocean and the extension end of hU companion's chair. A little tan sho: swung nervously to and fro In the line of his gaze. "Of course. I can take ray chair to the other end of the deck, if you wish." far said softly, at length. "But as your pillcws and wraps constitute all your landscape In this direction, possibly my mere presence here will not Interfere with your enjoyment." ■ “It. Is quite imipsteria! to me what you do." was the haughty reply. Another long pause. The little tan ahoe bad worked Itself clear of the wrap, a bit of black stodge and blue, skirt appeared. '•Let me obscure your view for an irrtant," said Prescott, aa be stooped* ever to tuck In the wrap. -“Whkt time la it?' , was the evasive reply. “Half past four: no. .half psst five. I forgot to omit’ the last hour we dropped overboard." "Why don't you dfbp overboard after It. and secure It foh your own private me? You would spend It In very amiable company." The shoe had struggled loose from Its moorings sgaln. “You are very gracious today." said Priecott. meekly. *7") •"Yon are very gallant, sir. I'm sure. No!" she burst rat. as he stooped over again; "don't touch that shoe! 1 want it just so.” The silence was awfii! The little shoe waved furiously. At length Iaura rose. “I am going down to mother," the said abruptly. "No. thank you. those i will be all tight there. Uood-

"Why. wc pick R up Inthe middle of

and on amused smile his countenance. Evt-

| She steadied herself by the rail, and t passed quickly' along to the fcompan- | way. Prescott was left standing be- |. side -her chair. L The, evening ptaaed away without his seeing here. The next morning f was stormy, and she stayed below with j her mother. 'Then it cleared and in the afternoon ehe appeared on deck again. Prescott had set her chair next to his |r own In the same secluded corner atuT [* carefully placed the rugs and plllowr Laura greeted hi* pleasantly enough, and allowed him.to tuck her in the L chair without a word. When they spoke again It wa* about the storm and her mother's illness. There was no allusion to. their quarrel; each' was dy friendly, yet there was constraint about the ootrhlch soon d<M away. Both rm-swollen wavss In

Suddenly Laura broke the spelt "Apropos of this repeating a day. Mr. Prescott.” she said mischievously, "where does the extfa day come from

anyhow?"

Quick as a flash Perry responded:

"Why. we the ocean;"

played over

drntly their thoughts bad taken the same-road and reached^thc same des-tination-at about the same time. "But where does the extra time come from? 1 really don't understand It

at all."

"We drop an Idle hour, here and there, don't you know, all the way around the world; and then, when wc find we have done something we are sorry for. we pick them ^1 up. paste them together, and live the same day o\er again. And I'm glad Us so.” added Prescott, with feeling, 'for I never wanted to live a day over again so much aa yesterday. I mean today. There was a pause. A little tan shoe, the mate of the one that had appeared before, was tapping the chair nervously. A flushed face peered wltchlngly out from among the pillows. Laura broke the silent "What time la It?” she said demure-

ly.

"You mean It Is time for me to apol " he began. "No. no, no. Listen, what time la ur A light began to Hawn on Prescott's face. "Oh. let me ece: half-past four.' A pause followed. “Go on." urged Laura. "Go on how?" ho queried. •Finish your remark. You forgot something." "Oh. yes: I forgot the last hour we dropped overboard." “I wish 1 had bo beard Instead of the hour,” remarked U.ura. candidly. "It would have served me right.” "Absurd!" remarked Perry, with a warmth hardly called for by the demure statement. The little tan shoe fairly danced about on the chair. "Let me obscure your view for an irstant." quoth Perry, eagerly; and he stooped over te replace the wrap. "Laura." he murmured, earnestly; "dear Laura.” and observing that the deck was deserted he pressed his lips —yes. actually—to the tanned leather. •'Perry! How utterly absurd!" cried Laura, blushing furiously. "Don't touch that shoe! I want it ao!" Her own lips were pursed with scorn perhaps—as she said it; and the "ao" might have referred to them. Certainly Perry Interpreted the remark In that way.—New York Home JoumaL

LAME WAS READY.

"Henry S. Lane was one of the best stump speakers that Indiana ever produced." said a gentleman the other day who haa resided in this state for over 60 years. "He was essentially a stump speaker, using that term In the old time sense of the word, and I km sure that sending him to the United States senate was equivalent to putting him in a coffin, as far as display of his peculiar oratorical ability was concerned. He waa especially brilliant at repartee, and his SbHtty In thla respect might me likened to the play of a maatcr with the rapier. "I shall never forget thq time that I heard him make one of those apt replies to Thomas A. Hendricks. It waa back in 1S57 or 'bS. while 1 was teaching school oown at Leavenworth, in Crawford county. Lane and Hendricks had been stumping the state and holding a series of joint debates that roused the Interest of all the people. Their stay at Leavenworth was limited to the time between two boats, and It was agreed that the debate should be governed by this fact Hendricks spoke first and made a very plausible argument for hla side of the question. Lane arosw to reply only a abort time before the boat waa due. but he pitched Into tfa argument of his opponent with such a vigorous attack that-In a very few minues Hendricks became uneasy, and appeared to be very uncomfortable. I ■ was well down toward the front of the audience, where 1 could see every expresalon of the two orators' faces. Presently. as Lane was in the mlflst of one of his most scorching and sarcastic periods, the whistle of the approaching steambatgxras heard. \ “At the sound. Mr. Hendricks, who as seatd or. the platform Immediately behind Mr. Lane, leaned forward, and In a whisper that could be plainly heard by most of the auditors. Bald: -'Mr. Lane, the boat Is coming. Don't you think you had better stop?* "Mr. Lane paused and looked down over his shoulder for a moment at his interrupter with a look of utmost scorn on bis face. then, turning to the audience with a Emile, remarked: *1 thought that it waa about time that the gentleman would want-to take to water.' This witty turn, of course, caught the fancy of the crowd, and It was many a day before Hendricks heard the last of the Incident."—Indianapolis News.

BIG FORTUNE IN REFCSE.

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS THROWN AWAY IN NEW YORK WASTE.

facts Gleaned fra by 'b. City An fap*r, lisas ■ Mnk. ■ Very Pr

Alnak.’s Rich Coppar Deposits. The rich copper deposits of Alaska arc beginning to be developed, the first shipment from the White Horse belt haring been dispatched to Tacoma al-. ready Thl* belt, traversing -a tribue Yukon, is 25 miles long ■aid

• family rrtda. Wood—1 notice Sawyer is very proud of his family ires. Slabb—Well, he ought to be. HU father got his start la the li>«bar

There Is a lually in th writea a correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. The poor of ParU could be well boused, fed and clothed with the proceeds from the waste of this city. This statement is not based on mere supposition, but upon facts gleaned from an experiment which was tried by the dty authorities last year in caring for a certain portion of the city's waste. For a period of U months the refuse and waste gathered from street cleaning districts Nos. 13, 14 and 16 was delivered at a special station, where It waa carefully separated Into Its constituent parts and such as could J>t utilized for any good purpose was sold for what It would bring and the balance was destroyed. The area covered Included a population, according to the census returns, of 116.S25. Every class of house, shop, store and a few factor!oa are to be found within the dUtricU, so that the results of the year's work would form a fair basis for estimating the value of UJc waste of the whole city. During tho year 12,947 loads of sep-arated-refuse from carta holding four cubic yards, weighing 900 per load. or. In the aggregate 6S26 tons, was burned as useless, and from 6 to 8 percent was worth I cts. while about 87 peresnt waa marketable. The matter reserved for sale contains 3.058.616 pounds of paper, which was classified as follows: Manila paper. 471385 pounds; news. 803.301; mixed, 442.866; straw board, 687,208; mixed wrapping. 635.136; books, 18,630. There was a total of 576,812 pounds of rags, classified as follows: Woolen. 18.617; white. 41.460; mixed. 116.550; black. 195.815; bagging. 48.055; twine. 21,070; aeftback carpet, 18.795; hardback carpet. 79.820; wool carpet. 3916; Unaey carpet, 7180. old coats, 30.94&; stockings, 4690. Among other articles there were found 80.840 pounds of old iron: 494 'pounds of copper. 2090 pounds of zinc, 1607 pounds of brass. 303 pounds of lead. 9769 pounds of old rubber. 36.160 pounds of old shoes. 400 pounds of hair cloth. 765 pounds of curled hair, 2100 old hate, 12'loads of tin cans, 40 mattresses, 2890 barrels and 29205 proprietary bottles. Beside all this. It must he remembered there was an Immense amount of matter of all classes gathered by the countless number of rag and garbage collectors who'do a business independent of the city department Taking these figures aa a basts for estimating the amount of refuse collected from the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx tor this year, at the same time allowing for the natural increase. it would amount to 112.000 tons for 12 months About 32 percent, or 35,840 tons, represents the paper and rags. It is interesting to note that the dally newspapers In New York consume 350 tons of paper per day, of which. It la. estimated one-half remains in the city and Is no sent Inte

during the year. To this vast paper heap must be added the Immense stack

This forms ths second method of utilising the waste paper, rags and other combustible waste. Of the grand

Is. therefore, to be used as fuel. It has been drmonstrated that thla class of garbage. In thq modernized furnace for Its combustion and for utilizing the heat units for the creation of steam, has In It one-tenth the value of coal. This means that New York c4ty towed out to sea last year more than 5600 tons of coal, which had a money value of 135,000. This rubbish waa worse than wasted, for after being dumped Into the sea it was blown, drifted and tossed about by wind, tide and waves, much of It landing on the shores and beaches of the health renorts, there to become a nuisance and menace to hu-

manity.

WHEN PERIL COMES Buddaa and Kxtram* Daafar iba T«»t el

Trva Canrac*.

It Is when the unexpected happens that fatalism proves bow fatal a prop it is, after all, for human courage. The soldier or the sailor can aay to himself, when be knows that he must take a supreme risk in battle or in a storm: "I am powerless against the fate which was decreed for me from the beginning of the world. If my time has come 1 cannot help It; If not. all the forces of earth «nd sky and ocean cannot prevail to harm me." But when, without an Instant's warning. a rock crashes through the ship's bottom and the water* rush into the gap; when confusion seizes the entire company aboard: when the fog is too thick for the captain to be seen.

of the sea drowns the sound of

> an

It Is that the courage which rests on

s order*, a new test is applied. Then

nothing firmer than a negation gives way. and in his greed to save hts own life the stoic becomes as a madman. There have been stespublP disasters in which men of humble station, of all colors and faiths, have shown the finest quality of heroism; and there have been those in which the common sailors. all whites and Europeans, have earned eternal disgrace by thetr cowardice. The point we are making is not that it is possible to draw a hard and fast line between one religion and another, or one race and another, in the matter cf bravery; but that the affirmative sense of responsibility for one's own acts, of the difference between right and wrong, between nobility amj Ignominy, and of the grandeur of duty well done at the aacrlflce of self, is a far surer dependence in the presence of sudden peril than all the stoical philosophers ever worked out by the mind of man.—

Washington Post.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

An owl was shot 400 miles out at sea by the captain of tne British steamship Ethelreda. No other case is on record of a land bird haring flown ao far from

shore.

A wonderful cavern, rivaling in beauty and natural phenomena. If not In size, the famous Mammoth cave of Kentucky, haa just been discovered across the Juniata river from Mcpleton, Pa. A manufacturer £l Sheffield, Eng.. who has had trouble with the postoffice about registering his mail packages is taking his revenge by sending 200 cmloyes daily to the postofflee to buy

HABBISON’S SAD ORDEAL

o, =.U.r, ^

posters, advertising letters, etc., and the refuse from the weekly and month-

ly publications.

About one-half of this vast total of waste paper finds its way back to the manufacturer through private .channels while mach of it is consumed in the furnaces of office buildings. Institutions. and the like, with most unsatisfactory results. For example, the federal authorities in their building down town undertake to destroy large quantities of paper, and owing to the fierce draft doe to the tall chimneys and the poor combustion, half-burnt paper Is distributed Impartially over the neighborhood. For weeks together last summer the atmosphere of a section. including parts of Broad. Wall and Exchange street was. at certain hours. loaded with floating ashes and half-burned ecraps of paper, and on several day* in particular the walks and pavements in the vicinity of the custom house were literally carpeted with charred fragments t burned gov-

ernment records.

These crude methods of disposing of this particular kind of waste are bound to become a thing of the past very soon, for steps are now under way whereby a modernized destructor, one which is patterned after an English destructor, will be Installed before the year Is out But It la not the intention of the authorities to burn all the waste paper. It will be utilized in two ways; First by the sorting and saving of that which is marketable. While the worth of clean paper and rags depends upon the demand and the price upon the market quotations, yet the records of the past few years show the average would be about 88 per ton the season through for a good quality of stock, and the poorest quality about Assuming the above figure* to be correct and taking Into consideration the fact-that the waste would be disposed of at a much less coat per ton than by the'preaent system, more than 8300.000 would, be saved to the city in

thla Item alone.

But after disposing of the salable

itlble part to get rid

ring

be disposed of at a profit by converting the heat obthe combustion into bo«i»

orated with read tape and Is provided with a sovereign's worth of coppers with which he buys one stamp at a

time.

corset firm the debate revealed that one of the principal branches of their manufactures was men's corsets. Tho judge, having demanded an explanation. it was sworn that more than 18,000 corsets were wade yearly for Freeh men and 3000 were shipped to England, principally for army officers. German officers created also quite a de. mand till a rival Berlin Ann offered a

Mrs. Archibald Rankin, aged 65 years, living near Sharon. Pa., was recently paralyzed by a bolt of lightning. So many times has she been injured In this manner that she is known as the “human magnet." Several years ago she waa struck by lightning and over since then her whole system has been charged like a galvanic battery. She la ao sensitive to electrical d 1st urban cee that she sleeps in a bed upon the legs of which are glass insulators. She also sits Id an insulated chair. When the air Is heavily charged qrltjj electricity her flesh tingles and gives her great distress. Lightning striking -within a half mile of the house invariably abstks her. There are no points in Europe where the cold records of America are eclipsed, but in Asia our lowest recprds are thrown completely in the shade. Siberia bas the coldest weather known anywhere in the world. At Werchojansk. Siberia. 90.4 degrees below zero was observed in January. 1888. wcich gets away below anything known In the world before or since. At that point the average temperature for January is nearly f4 dea below. This town Is situated at ilcvation of 230 feet above the level le sea and during the entire winter the weather is- nearly always calm and clear. Perhaps the majority , of people suppose that the coldest weather

In the

world is at the North Pole, but

which, by following the practice reliable observation* made by explor-

ers disprove this theory completely.

No pins were made until 1811—#1 a

EX-PRESIDENT FOUND FATHER'S BODY IN A DISSECTING ROOM. Waal There lo Try te rind thr Hedy of ee Uaiahle (iermen Which lied Keen Melee — I'rrelslrd le Itle Search, end Wee Greatly Shocked at Hie Dlecovrry. The death of former President Benjamin Harrison has recalled to a few residents of this city, writea a Cincinnati correspondent of the New York Bun. a tragic incident In his career which happened here not long after the death of John Scott Harrison, bis father. In May. 1878. The man who -was later to be president had accepted the nomination for governor a short time previously and although he ran 2000 ahead of bia ticket the Republicans were defeated. It was before he had been elected to the United States senate, although that possibility was already contemplated. General Harrison had returned to hla native town of North Bend, 16 miles from here, to visit his family and renew his old friendships In the place of his birth. He had gone there from Indianapolis, because It was already rumored that he might be called to Washington to serve hla term aa senator. During hit visit to the little Ohio town he was made much of by the persona who hnd known him in his youth and although his father had just died he received many visits from the country people; one of those who came to see him was an old German woman, whose husband had be»a buried re-

cently.

"She came to see General Harrison," said a man who was a part of the incident he was relating to a group of friends the night after General Harrison's death, "because she knew be was influential, a friend of her husband's. and would help her In the trouble that had come with her widowhood. Her husband s Ijody bad been buried in tho little churchyard of the village and a few days afterward there were unmistakable evidences that bis grave bad been tampered with, investigation showed that the body bad been stolen. There waa immediate suspicion that it bad been sold to one of the medical colleges In this chi', and the woman wanted her husbmd's friend to help her to recover the body. "She told her story to General Harrison. who promised to do what he could to help her. as he waa coming to Cincinnati the next day on his way back to Indianapolis. He agreed with the idea that the body had been brought here and sold for the purposes of c first’ thing

nati w police.

"The general and he agreed as to the beat means of conducting the search. The chief got a warrant and sent a constable with him and his friends to all of the medical colleges here. The first institution they went there they found no signs of tifo body. General Harrison knew that be would be able to Identify It and ho spared no effort In making the search thorough. Every body !n the dissecting room was shown to the party, and when General Harrison told us that he had failed to find any that looked like the old German wc moved the three other colleges with diasseting rooms In none of these was there any sign of the body for which we were searching, although General Harrison looked at every cadaver from tboeie which had Just been brought In to those pickled In the cellars down

stairs.

"Wo had about given up hope and only the general's suggestion that we return to the Ohio State college once more led the party back there again. We felt certain that there was no place we had not seen, but when General Harrison thought that It might pay to look through the rooms again we all went back willingly.' The dissecting room in the State college waa on the top floor, and the cellar. In which the bodies were kept, was directly under this. The subjects were lifted from the cellar to the top floor by a pulley rope, which passed through the different floors by means of trap doorm cut on every landing; In these were cut bole* for the ropes. We had walked up the staircase without noticing this rope, especially until we reached the dissecting room, and then understood from its appearance for what purpose It waa ’used. The constable In the party put his hand on It Just as we were leaving the room and felt that It was taut; be suggested to General Harrison that the trap doer be opened and that whatever was on It be hoisted to the room In wMch W were standing. In order to see what It was. •The Janitor of the but Ming, with one of the Instructors, was showing us through. He demurred at this suggestion: but when General Harrison indicated to him plainly that be wished the rope pulled up the two men complied. We stepped back from the trap door, which waa opened; the janitor leaned forward aud pulled down the rope, which brought up the object attached to the other aid*. "Suddenly there «iot into view through tho aperture from the floor below the naked body of an old man. A rope was’tied around the ncckand in this was a hook attached to the rope that served to lift the bodies upward. General Harrison had been through all sorts of experiences that evening with the bodies of so many .kinds that we had seen. He had never flinched or hesitated to examine closely enough to «ee If he bad found the missing husband of hts old friend. He was not an emotional man, but changed color at the sight of the body that came into view. Its hand had already been •haved for the dtaecllng table. He spoke a few hurtled words to the constable that none of us heard. The of-

ficial remained in the room, while we left it at General Harrison's reqdSet. These two remained alone with the college officials In the dissecting room up stairs while we awaited them down

"It was not until the constable came to dismiss us that we learnca the truth The body which so suddenly came into new waa that of General Harrison's father. John Scott H.-.rrlson. the grandson of a signer of the Declaration of tho eon of a president states, and a distinguished lawyer, soldier and statesman; but he was the- prey of body snatcher* Just as the humble German In the

oral again that night. He sent for a friend, and with him went to the newspaper offices in the city, explaining th* matter fully, and requesting that th* least possible notice be given to it As far as 1 can remember now, th* incident was scarcely alluded to, and at ail events Us details never becam* public. The body was returned qulrtly to the grave at North Bend, which had been robbed by ghouls from Cincinnati who had supplied the medical colleges during the entire winter. 'The authorities lu me college where -General Harrison found his father’s body supposed that the cadaver on the dissecting table, when they learned the business of bur Investigating party, was that for which we were seeking. It was then lowered Into the cellar on the rope, anti when we went down there to look it had been lifted to the floor above- In that way it had been concealed until the sudden demand that the taut rope be drawn up was made on the janitor and instructor within. "A party of us went out on the fol- # lowing day after we had heard of the Incident to visit the cimetery of North Bend, and found John &cott Harrison's grave empty. The fresh earth had been removed, the upper part of the

body t en. I never heard whether the body for which the search was originally started was ever found, bnt I know that the chief of police, who learned of the incident, eaw to it that the dead In that little cemetery were protected in the future. "General Harrison confessed shortly after the incident that he bad never In his life gone through an experience !lk< that which followed hla first discovery that It was his father's body hanging by the neck to a rope only a few da\s after he bad been buried with all the honor that the region could show."

THE SPEAKING PORTRAIT. A Xew Schcinr lo Aid Dclectlvcs la Idoa-

tirj-lnc Criminal*.

Every one knows that, thanks to the great Parisian criminal expert. M. Bertillon. a criminal who falls into the clutches of the law more than once stands absolutely no chance of hiding his identity if hit measurements have been taken by the anthropcnotrical system. B::t !■” every criminal also knows when he is at large this system is practically useless to his pursuers: th? detective cannot measure the length of a man's middle finger in a crowd or take au impression of his thumb. Yet once again the genius cf M. Bertillon has triumphed over the identification difficulty, and he has come forward with a system which

y near perfection.

Parle," as M. Bertillon calls his method, consists In form of a card that • may be carried in the pocket, oa which arc noted down those characteristics that have tho most fixity In the individual and the meet variability !n different people. “The anthropometrical system." said M. Bertillon. when discussing the subject with me. “necessitates the detention of the criminal, whose measurements are taken with the aid of compasses, but the verbal portrait * which alms at the criminal at liberty may be applied unknown to him and

from a distance.

"This description, based on a knowledge of human anatomy any one can master with a little preliminary study.

' o much precision that it to the person it repre-

sents. to the exclusion of all other*.

applies sold;

It is composed, for each Indlvldua 1 . of from 10 to 15 distinctive signs, which should always be borne In mind by an officer in search of a law breaker. The verbal description has the advantage over a photograph In that it can be turned up In any place at any hour

that It Is divided Into three chapter*. The first deals with the color of the eye. hair and face, the second with the characteristics of ft* forehead, nose, right ear and build of body, the third with an analysis of the profile and

face.

It does not necessarily follow that because the chapters are arranged in this order the detective will apply them In the came order to hla crlmlWhcn looking for hla man 11* carries in his mind oifly the most characteristic features—the fixed features. ~ as the « These the criminal cannot alter at will, but he may dye the color of his hair or the complexion of his face; hr mar hide his mouth under false hair or disguise his build of body by

mind a kind of caricature of the person to be recognized, concerning himself at first with only the most-exag-gerated features and taking no heed of those which would be described as average.' Every one knows hqw easy it is to recognize seme well known »m a caricature, which it

to the 1

i beet photographs