nii<! ■mill-. «vrir “• huiw Inuuly wiirldlr way. .hr \Vu»2iincton Tohi.

rfICE-LIVED DAY. >f-rtOWARDC. wauiu:n.

pll-

f « i

ropo» of this repeat I or a day. 'rwott. where does the extra day

c from, anyhow?”

Jtura Marcy and a vast array of r> and wraps were joint occupants •t a steamer chair In-a secluded corner of the- deck of the Paclfle liner City of Pekin; her voice came froi the Interstices between several lows, a veil and a hood. Perry . colt'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 hdje in mid

ocean." answered I it along a way. and

steamer going the'othcr way can't find

It.”

“Oh. yes. of course; bin where does the extra time come from? 1 rcall;don't understamUt at all." “Its rimply taken from the boats that we pass going westward. Some lodight, 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 you and I wsTie up. and it. Is today again. That's the way they manage . It. Miss Marcy.” “Mr. Prescott. I think rou are very rude. 1 really wanted to find out 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 what 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 IV 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 ran get in a dav .earlier.” •Thank you for alluding'''to the tedium bf the voyage. Ifor my part. 1 think It rather pleasant, except that 1 cannot always enjoy my meditations without Interruption." “If that Is ^11. 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 ccd of hU compcnicn's chair- A little tan shoe I swung nervously to and fro In the line qf his gare.

c my chai the other end of the deck, if you wish."

'But a

f he aaid softly, at length.

T pllli~—■ — 1

ipsai— . my mere presence here' will not inter-

fere with your enjoyment"

“it Is cultt immaterial tQ-ine what

you do." was the haughty reply.

Another long pause. Tltp little tan

Suddenly Laura broke the spell. “Apropos of this repeating a day.

.Mr. Prescott." she said mischievously, f.

"where docs the extra day come from

anyhow?”

Quick as n flash Perry responded: “Why. we pick K up In the middle of the ocean;” and an amused smile played over his countenance. Evidently their thoughts had taken the same road and reached the same destination at about the same time. "But where does the extra time come from? I really don't understand it

at all."

"We drop an idle hour, here andthere, don't you know, all the way around the world; and then, when we find we have done something we are sorry for. we pick them ^1 up, paste them together, and live the same day over again. And I'm glad it's so," added Prescott, with feeling, "for I never wanted to live a day over again so much as yesterday. 1 mean today.” \ little tan hat had appeared before, was tapping the chair nervously. A flushed face peered wltchingly out from among the pillows. Laura broke the silence. * "What time is It?” she said demure-

ly.

"You mean It is time for me to

apol " he be|

'No. no, no. Listen, what time Is

It?”

A light began to dawn on PrcscottgS face. "ffh. let me fee; bnlf-past four." A pause followed. "Go on." urged Laura. "Go on how?” he queried. "Finish year remark. You forgot something." "Oh. yes; 1 forgot the last hour we dropped overboard." "1 wish I had been dropped overheard Instead of the hour,” remarked Laura, candidly. "It would have served me right." "Absurd!" remarked Perrys 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 Perryr eagerly; and he rlooped over to replace the wrap. "Laura." he murmured, earnestly, "dear Laura," and observing that the leek was deserted -yes. actually—to "Perry! How utterly absurd!" cried Laura, blushing furiously. "Don't touch that shoe! 1 want It so!” Her own lips were pursed with scorn perhaps—as she said It; and the "so" might have referred to them. Certainly Perry Interpreted the remark in that way.—New York Home Journal.

LANE WAS READY.

Witty Retort Which Ho Mode to Th

A. Hendrick..

"Henrf-S. Lane was one'of the stump speaker* that Indiana ever duced." said a gentleman the othe who has resided in this state for 60 years. “He was essential! stump speaker, using that term il old time sense of the word, and sure that sending him to the Ui States senate was equivalent to pu him in a coffin, as far as display c peculiar oratorical ability was ccrned. He was especially brillla repartee, and his abHIty In this' re might me likened to the play of a ter wltn the rapier. "I shall never forget the time t heard him make one of those ap

your lug school a own at lasavenwortl Crawford county. Lane and Head had been slumping the stale and I Ing a series of joint debates that re the interest of all' the people, r stay at Leavenworth was limite

shoe had wdrkcd Itself clear of Uu^ erned by this fact Hendricks a

tockli

wrsp. a bit of black stocking and'blu<\ first and made a very plausible i skirt appeared. ; mcnt for his side of the question. '•Let me obscure your view for an aros« to reply only a short time b

* pit

icnt

s he stooped

every gracious today.'^Mid

1 your

Irstant." said Prescott, i ^ ever to tuck in the wrap.

'"What time Is it?" was the evasive

reply.

"Half past four: no. half past flye. I forgot to omit the last hour we

dropped overboard.”

"Why don’t you drop overboard after It. and secure it for your own private ute? You would spend it In very

amiable company.”

, The shoe had struggled loose from

its moorings again. ■

L ••’You are very gallant, air. Pm sure. • . No!” she burst out as he otodped over again: “don’t touch that shoe!

J want it just so."

The silence was awfnl. The little shoe wared furioualy. At length Lau-

ra rose.

"I dm going dotvn to mother," she said abruptly. "No. thank ypu. those wraps will be all right there. GoodShe steadied herself by the rail, anil f passed quickly along to the fcompanT way. Prescott was left standing bej side her chair. The evening passed away without kls seeing here. The next morning was stormy, and she stayed below with her mother. Then It cleared and in the afternoon she appeared on deck again. Prescott had set her chair next to hi* own In the same secluded corner and P carefully placed (he rugs and plllowr

Bit.

aura gr and allowed him to t Y ' chair without a word. When they spoke again It was about the storm and her mother's 111 new. There was no alUnldn to their quarrel; each was osASgrtatlously friendly, yet there was a marked constraint about the conTsrsatkic. which toon died away. watched the ‘ ^

agreed that the d

the boat was due. but he pitched th argument at his opponent with

a vigorous attack that in a very minuet Hendricks became uneasy, appeared to be very uncomfortable. I was well down toward the front of the audience, where I could see every expression of the two orators' faces. Presently, as Lane was In the midst of one of fats most scorching and sarcastic periods, the whistle of the approach-

ing steam bat was heard.-*'

"At the sound. ^Ir. Hendricks, who was seatd on the platform immediately behind Mr. Lane, leaned forward, and In a whisper that could be plainly heard by most of the auditors, said: "‘Mr. Lane, the boat is coming. Don't you think you had better stopf -Mr. Lane paused and looked down over his shoulder for a moment at his Interrupter with a look of utmost scorn on his face. then, turning to the audience with a smile, remarked: T ; thought that it was about time that the gentleman would want to take to water/ This witty turn, of course, caught the fancy of the crowd, and H

anapolls News.

Alaska 1 * Rich Copper tlepo*lta. The rich copper dsposlts of Alaska arc beginning to be developed, the first ■hlpmtut from the White Horae belt having been dispatched to Tacoma already. This belt, traversing a tributary of the Yukon. Is Sh miles long and four miles wide. The ore is said to range from .26 to 76 percent copper. and carries irom ♦« to J10 per ton

Wood—I . notice Sawyer Is y proud of his family tree. Sltbb—Well, he ought to be. father got his start la the lt*» business.—Detriot Free Pres*.

BIO FORTUNE IN REFUSE

reel* Gleaned Pram an Kaperlraent Made by iba CMy Aalborlllas la (arlag for Papar. Rag* end dank — Old nltaaa Mnke n Very rramloant Showing. There Is a fortune thrown away an* nually In the waste of New York city, writes ti correspondent of the Philadelphia Itecord. The poor of Paris could be well housed, 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 12 months the refuse and waste gathered from street cleaning districts Noa 12, 14 and 16 was delivered at a special station, where U was carefully separated Into its constituent parts and such as could J>c utilised 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 116,525. Every class of house, shop, store and a few factories are to be found within the districts, so that the results of the year's work would form a fair basis for estimating the value of the'

waste of the whole city.

During the year 12,947 loads of anted refuse from‘carts holding cubic yards, weighing 900 per load. or.

6CP-

In the aggregate 5S26 tons, was as useless, and from 5 to 8

was worthless, while about 27 percent

and from 6 t

was markctabla The matter reserved for sale contains 3.058.616 pounds of paper, which was classified as follows: Manila paper. 471,285 pounds; news. 803.801; mixed. 442.866; strawboard. 587,208; mixed wrapping. 635,186; books. 18,620. There was a total of 676.812 pounds of rags, classified as follows: Woolen. 18.617; white. 41.450; mixed. al6A50; black. 195,826; bagging. 48.055; twine. 21.070; ssfthack carpet. 18,795; hardback carpet. 79.820; wool carpet. 3918: linsey carpet, 7180; old coats, 20.945; stockings, 4590. Among other articles there were found 80.840 pounds of old iron; 494 ’pounds of copper. 2090 pounds of sine. 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 hats. 12 loads of tin'cans, 40 mattresses, .2890 barrels and 29.205 proprietary bottle*. Beside all this. It must be remembered there was an Immense amount of matter of all classes gathered by the countless number of rag and garbage collectors who do a as Independent of the city de-

rat-

ing these figures as a basis for ting the amount of refuse colfrom the boroughs of Manhat>d Bronx for this year, at the Ime allowing for the natural in- , It would amount to 112,000 >r 12 months. About 32 percent. 640 tons, represents the paper

In the city and Is no sent Into itlon through the malls. This Jf will amount to 63.870 tons : the year. To thl*~vast paper mist be added the Immense stack nted matter, such as circulars, f. advertising letters, etc., and ’ute from the weekly and monthlicationa it one-half of this vast total of paper finds Its way back to the acturer through private chanhlle much of it Is consumed In rnaces of office buildings. Instli. and the like, with most unctory results. For example, the I authorities lb their building town undertake to destroy large tie* of paper, and owing to the draft due to the tall chimneys it poor combustion, half-burnt 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 tours, loaded with floating ashes and half-burned scrape of paper, and on several idsys in particular the walks and paramenia in the vicinity of the custom house were literally carpeted with charred fragments of burned government 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 la patterned after an English destructor, will be Installed before the year Is out But It Is 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 depsnds upon the demand and the price upon the market quotations, yet the records of the past few years show the average would be about IS per ton the season through for a good quality of stock, and the poorest quality about Assuming the above figures to be correct and taking Into consideration the fact th’at the waste would be disposed of at a much less^cost per ton than by the present system, more than 1300,000 would be saved to the dty In this item alone. But after disposing of the salable part of tiie rags and paptf there remains the combustible part to get rid of. which, by following the pracUca of foreign cities, can he disposed of at a profit by converting ths heat obtained from the combustion into bona

It Is when the unexpected hsppenr that fatalism proves how fatal a prop it la. after all. for human courage. The soldier or the sailor can say to himself, when he knows that be 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 I cannot help it; if not. all the forces of earth and 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 waters rush into the gap; when confusion seizes the entire company aboard; when the fog Is thick for the captain to be seen, or the roar of the sea drowns the sound of his orderi, a new teat is applied. Then It is that the courpgc which rests on nothing firmer than a negation gives way. and in his greed to save his own life the stoic becomes as a madman. Ttffre have been steamship disasters in which men of bumble station, of ail 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 their i ardlce. The point we are making la 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 ef bravery; but that the affirmative sense of responsibility for one's own acts, at the difference between right and wrong, between nobility and ignominy, And of the grandeur at duty well done at the sacrifice of self. Is a far sorer dependence in the presence of sudden perl! than all the stoical philosophers ever worked out by the mind of man.

Washington Post.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

utilizing the waste paper, rags fiber combustible waste. Of the grand total of rubbish collected about 60 percenit? good only for combustion, ami Is. therefore, to be used as fuel. It has been demonstrated that this class of garbage. In the modernized furnace for Its combustion snd for utilizing the heat units for the creation of steam, has in it one-tenth the value of coal. This means that New York city towed out to sea last year more than 6600 tona of coal, which had a money value of 125.000. This rubbish was 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 snd beaches .of the health resorts, there to

become a nuisance and mi

e to hu

WHEN PERIL COMES.

Sudd** and Kxtrama Daaa*r tb« Test of

Kentucky., has just been disci across -the Juniata river from 1 • nn Or

An owl was shot 400 miles out at sea by the captain of the British steamship Ethelreda. No other case Is on record of a land bird haring flown so far from shore. A wonderful cavern, rivaling In beauty and natural phenomena. If not In size, the famous Mammoth care of discovered Mapleton, Ps_ A manufacturer at Sheffield. “Eng., who has had trouble with the postoffice about registering his mail packages is >vcnge by sending 200 emto the postoffice to buy penny stamps. Each employe is decorated with read tape and Is provided with a sovereign's worth of edppers with whlefa he buys one stamp at a time.

between two partners of nn important cornet firm the debate revealed that one of the principal branches of their manufacture* was men's corsets. The judge, having demanded an explanation. it was sworn that more than 18,000 corsets were made 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 firm offered a cheaper article.

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 ahe la known as the “human magnet." Several years ago she was struck by lightning and ever since then her whole system has been charged like a galvanic battery. She is so sensitive to electrical disturbances that she sleeps In a bed upon the legs of which are glass insulators. She also sits In an Insulated chair. When the air Is heavily charged with electricity her flesh tingles and gives her great distress. Lightning striking within A-haW mtle of the house invari-

ably shocks her.

There are no points In Europe where the cold records of America are eclipsed, but In Asia our lowest records are throws completely in the

weather Id. At

zhade. Siberia baz the coldest known anywhere In the wor

Wcrcbojansk. Siberia. 90.4 degrees below zero was observed In January. 1888, .which gets away below anything ever known In the world before or since. At that point thd average temperature for January is nearly 64 degrees below. This town is situated at an elevation of 230 feet above the level of the sea snd during the entire winter the weather Is nearly always calm and 'clear. Perhaps the majority , of people suppose that the coldest weather |n the world Is at ths North Pole, but reliable observations made by exhlor-

dlaprore this theory completely.

1811—rll a

HARRISON’S SAX) ORDEAL

EX*PRESIDENT FOUND FATHER'S BODY IN A DISSECTING ROOM.

lody of I l-.MD

MoUn — fml>|p<t In UI* Sesrrh, and Wo* urnatlr Sbocfcad at HI* DUcovrry. The death of former President Benjamin Harrison has recalled to a tew residents of this dty, writes 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, his 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 his ticket thp Republicans were defeated. It was before be bad been elected to the United States senate, although that possibility was

already contemplated.

General Harrison had returned to bis native town of North Bend. 16 miles from here, to visit his family and renew his old friendshlpi In the place of his birth. He bad gone there from Indianapolis, bccausr It was already

ator. During his visit to the little Ohio town he was made much of by the persons who had known him in his youth and although his father had just died be received many visits from the country people; one of those who came to sec him was an old German woman, whose husband had been buried rt cently. "She cametosce General Harrison." said a man who was a part of the In-

Tbese It college officials In the dissecting room up stairs while we awaited them down

father. John Scott Harrison, the grandson of a signer of the Declaration ol Independence; the son of a president of the United -tales, and a dlslin gulsbed lawyer, soldier and statesman; but be was the prey of body snatcher* Just as the humble German in th« same cemetery at North Bend had been “Naturally, we did not tee the general again that night. He sent for c friend, and with him went to the newspaper offices in the.city, explaining th« matter fully, and requesting that th< dice b remec incident was scarcely alluded to, and at all events Its details never became public. The body was returned quietly 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 In toe college where General Harrison found his father's supposed that the cadaver on swell ng tab the business of o ty, was that for Ing. It was then lowered Into the cellar on the rope, and when we went -down there to look It had been lifted to the floor above. In that way it bad been concealed until the sudden demand that the taut rope be drawn up was made on the janitor and Instructor within. "A party of os went out on the fol-

trouble that | hood. Her husband's body/had been burled in the little churchyard of the village and a few days afterward there were unmistakable evidences that his grave had been tampered with. Investigation showed that the body bad been stolen. There was Immediate suspicion that It bad be*n wold to one of the medical colleges In this city, and the woman wanted her husband'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 was coming to Cincinnati the next day on his wayback to Indianapolis. He agreed witk the idea that the body had been brought here and sold for the purpose of one of the clinla, and the flrat* thing he did on reaching Cincinnati was to consult with’ the chief of

police.

“The general and he agreed m the beat means .of conducting 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 th'e body. General Harrison knew that he would be able to Identify It and he spared no effort in making the search thorough. Every body In 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 we moved on to the three other colleges with dissecting rooms. In none of these was there any sign 'of the body for which we were searching, although Harrison looked at every cadaver from those which had- Just been brought in to those pickled in the cellars down

stairs.

“We had about given up hops and only the general's suggestion that we return to the Ohio Bute 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 room* again wc all went back willingly. The dissecting room in the State college'was on the top flopr. 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 doors cut on every landing; In these were cut holes 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 was‘used. The constable In th* party put his hand on it Just as we were leaving the room and felt that It was taut; he suggested to General Harrison that the trap door be opened and that whatever was on it be hoisted to the room in which we were standing. In order to see what It was. ^“The janitor of the building, with one of the instructors, was showing us through. He demurred at this suggestion; but when General' Harrison 1 , indicated to him plainly that he wished the rope pulled up the two men compiled. We stepped hack from the trap door, which was opened; the janitor leaned forward and pulled down the rope, which brought up the object attached to the other side. "Suddenly there shot into view through the aperture from the floor below the naked body of an old man. A rofifB was tied around the neckand in this was a hook, attached to the rope that served to lift the bodice upward. General Harrison had hsen 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 see if he had found the missing husband of his oii friend. He was not an emotional man,' hut changed color at tha sight of the nedy that came into vl*w. its head had already been

ed for tha dissecting table, a a few hurried words to the conle that none of us heard. The of-

Bend, and found John ocott Harrison's grave empty. The fresh earth had been removed, the upper part of the coffin lid cut sway and the body taken. I never heard whether the body for which the search was originally started was ever found, but 1 know that the chief of police, who learned of the incident, saw to it that the dead in that little cemetery were protected in the future. "General Harrison confessed shortly after the incident that he had never In his'life gone through an experience like that which followed his first discovery that It was his father's body hanging by the neck to a rope only a few days after he had been buried with all the honor that the region could show."

THE SPEAKING PORTRAIT.

UUon, i clutches

A Xrw fthamr la Aid Del act I re* In Id*n-

ttGrlng Criminal*.

Every one knows that, th»nv« to the

great Parisian criminal expert. M. Ber- ■" a criminal who falls Into the

of the law more than once

stands absolutely no chance of hiding his Identity if his measurements have been taken by the anthropcnelrical system. Bri ex every criminal also knows when he is at largp this system is practically useless to his pursuers; the detective cannot measure the length of a man e middle finger In a crowd or take au impression of his thumb. Yet once again the genius cf M. Bertlllon has triumphed over the Identification difficulty, and he has come forward with a system which

approaches very near perfection. "Le Portrait Parle." as M. BerUllon

calls his method, consists In form of a card that may be carried In the pocket, on which are noted down those characteristics that have the most fixity In the individual and the mort variability !a different people. “The anthropometrical system." said M. Bertlllon. when discussing the subject with me, "necessitates the detention of the criminal, whese measurements are taken with the aid of compasses, tjut the verbal portrait which alms at the criminal at liberty may be applied unknown to him and

from a distance.

and it Is of eo much precision that ii applies solely to the person It represents. to the exclusion of all other*. It Is composed, for each Individual, 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 and. transmitted by telegraph or tekphone.” Examining a verbal portrait, we find 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 the forehead, nose ear and build of body, the thtnl 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 same order to his erimlsaL When looking for his man he carries In his mind oifly the most characteristic features—the fixed features, such as the eyes. nose, forehead or ear. These the criminal cannot alter at will, but he may dye the color of hls'balr or the complexion of his f^ch; he map hide his mouth under false hair or disguise his build of body by dding his clothe* or In other wayr. lerefore the officer carries in his mind, a kind of caricature of the perbe recognized, concerning blmflrst with only the most exaggerated features and taklnfc no heed of which would be described as average.' Every one knows hqar easy, it is to recognise some well known from a caricature, which i« to the best photographs

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