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Ilrgest SawmiII in the South.

lib not generally known, yet it is
a fact that the largest sawmill in the
South is now in course Of construc-
ton on the banks of the Withlacoochee
river, two miles north OF Hartshorn
and about fifteen miles from Inver-
ness, Fla. Thirty-six carloads of ma
chintry have arrived for the mill, sd
several more cars are en- route from
the east. The mill is the property of
Messrs. Chatter and Sowdan, two en-
terprising and wealthy men Of 0cala.
They are men of experience and
thoroughly understand their business
atlanta Constitution.
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A MYSTERY SOLVED.
BY RICHARD BOWLING.

"Hallo, Bracken!" said I, one
brisk April afternoon, as 1 saw my
friend the detective leaning against
the paropet, like idlcst loafor alive,
''who would have thought of meeting
you on London Bridge?"
"Come here, Mr.. FALL" said he,
catching my arm. and drawing me to
his side. ''Do you know that I have
this morning solved the mystery of
that" He pointed to the burnt out
she'll of great wharf on the Middle
sex side of the river not far from ihs
bridge.
"Whatl" I cried, "solved the mys-
terry of the great Thames street fire
First of all tell me what the mystery
was, for candidly do not know; and
then tell me how you solved it, for ly
that time l shall be dying to hear"
"Let us step into the recess and get
out of the peoples way" said he.
ssYou saw of canrsn in tho. ,,o
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WAea Ilnmio Cones From scs.a,.

W,ica Jimmie Come5 From Sca5o!.
When Jimmie comes from school ut four,
J-e-r-u-s-a-l-o-m! how things begin
To whirl and buzz and bang aud spin,
And brighten up from roof to moor!
The dog that all day long has lain
Upon the back porch wags his tail
And leaps and barSs and begs again
The last scrap in the dinner-pan,
Whom Jimmie comes from school.
The cupboard la.ches clinks tune,
And mother from her knitting strs
To tell that hungry boy OF hers
That supper will be ready soon,
And then a slab OF pie he takes,
A cooky and a ounce or two
And for the breezy barnyard breaks,
Where everything cries, 'How d'y dc2"
When Jimmie cones from school
The rooster en- the garden fencs
Stirs up AMI down and crows and crows
As if he knows, or thinks he kn1wg,
He, too, is of some consequence.
The guneas, join the chorus, too,
And just beside the windows sill
The red bird, swinging ont Of view,
On his high perch begins to trill,
When Jimmie comes from school.
When Jimmie comes from school, take care
Oar hearts begin to throb and quake
With life and joy and every ache
Is gone before we are aware,
The earth takes on a richer hue,
A softer light falls on the flowers,
And overhead brighter blue
Seems bent above this world Of ours,
When Jimmie comes from school.
JAMES NEWTON MATTHEW.
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NO. 4S



do dogs reason? Well, if that
dog does not, his instructive love of
sympathy is abnormally developed. 4"
said gentleman on Fifth avenue, as
he pointed to a woebegone, NANCY
looking dog that was seated in the
middle Of the pavement looking up at
passers-by in pitiful manner with
tears glistening in his eyes. "Now
look at him fer while and see how
his mcte appeal for sympathy will
meet with response.
l waited for a while. and two ladies
We're about to pass the canine mendi.
cant when, with an intensified look of
misery and an adroit shift Of his posi-
ton, he brought himself where the
women must surely see him. Then,
when he was observed, the tears
welled to his eyes as the ladies mur-
INJURED, while petting him. ''Tho
poor, dear thing. Isn't he sad look
ing? Nice little dog, etc.
''Now, said my friend, 'that dog
is professional beggar, although he
asks only for sympathy. have taken
some trouble to find out something
about him, seeing him always on some
ono Of the principal streets of the
city going through the same act which
we have just seen him do. He is an
expert at his business and his one de-
sire seems to be to get himself noticed
He is a good enough Judge Of human
nature to pick out those who will give
him sympathy rather than kick. for,
although | have watched him many
times he has never failed, where he
hes tried, to bring to himself gentle
pat, ii not kind word. He is par.
lcularly fond of the sympathy Of
notwithstanding old ladies, and
nave frequently seen him follow Them
lfter they had passed by without
lotieing him until they would give
lim gentle words. How the dog lives
don't know nor can find out, for
iobody who knows him ever g~w him
at. If he lives on sympathy there is
ome accounting for his bony appear
nee. Pittsburg Dispatch.
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A Remarkable Lightning Photograph.

Cowper Ranyard, the British sci
enlist, who is making collection Of
photographs of lightning flshes, has
recently obtained very remarkable
one from an amateur photographer Of
Newcasile-on-Tyne. 1t is a perfect i'm
age of one of the arrest of electric phe-
nomena-a clear-cut fash Of ''ball
lightning. 1t is said TO bs the only
photograph OF such thing ever made.
The luminous spot on the plate bears
a strong resemblance to the disk Of a
sunhower, being plain circle Of light,
surrounded by numerous tongues Of
flame shooting from the periphery Of
the wheel in every direction. Besides
the Image of the main flash, the plate
is streaked and speckled with many
smaller luminosities, supposed to be
pictures of stray points of electricity
that have separated from the main
ball. New Orleans Picayune,
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Relief for the Ewes.

In continued use of the eyes, in
such work as sewing, typesetting,
bookkeeping, reading and studying,
the saving point is looking up from
tlif work at short intervals and look
ing around the room. This may be
pr'eticed every ten or fifteen minutes.
Wis relieves the muscular tension,
rests the eyes and makes the blood
.s2giT much better.
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LAp1ATA MARYIANl b. DECEMBER IS 1884,

dull reed, -o1Fle of hundred yards
E, ON the river. He is a childless
idower of forty-fve. He never saw
n ~ company, and his household con-
s, sts'1 OF himself, an o,d huuseksepsr
o nd one maid servant. On week DAYS
i never made more use of his Putnev
h puse than TO sleep and eat breakfast
i, IT. Even on Saturdays he did not
p, pmc home until it was time for bed.
7, summer he spent good deal OF his
!, isure on the Thames, but had no
i bat of his own, always hiring one of
. d Greenfell, the boatman.
Little time as Tomilson devoted to
p lney, as rule, they told me he
% ent less than usual there that week;
n the maid servant had gone home
q, Friday to Hertfordshire to see Ler
+, other, who was i'll, and Tomilson
h, ID given his housekeeper a holiday
r. pm Saturday to Monday to visit her
m rrricd daughter, he saying he would
b pself spend from Saturday to Mon
Brighton.
: Now, many men without families
Il in the habit OF going to Brighton
fr pm Saturday to Monday, but he was
n, one of these. In fact, his visiting
p Iighton was a most unusual event /;
~ for years he had not done any
Il ing of the kind. This set me think
1 and inquiring further and more
j Isely about Tomilsons manner of
- Iounting for his time. He had
=, len out that he went to Brighton by
II, 6.l5 on Saturday and came back
,v the $50 on Monday morning. /
j, le sure that he had not been seen
Il 'utney from Saturday to Monday
;; ht, when he went home after the
Iomilson told them in Thames
4, Eet that he had stopped at the Boli-
"a in Brighton, 50 | took u little trip |
q myself down to the sea, and drop
no. into the Bolivar. At the hotel
Z big one, as you know found
~ that he had been there from Satur-
In night to Monday morning accord
n 10 the books, for he had paid for
i, bed on Sunday night and breakfast
~ day. l lounged about and found
atty chambermaid w4o said that
Il, Hough the bed was rumpled she did
y think my man had slept in it on
fday night. Then / met waiter
n would. in the ordinary course,
IL ygervel Mr.. T9milson's breakfast
at topday mornins and who could
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pers, said he, "Schofield's wharf had
been burnt down, and that there was
no way of accounting for the fire.
"Unfortunately, Bracken, said I,
''my newspaper reading for the past
week or ten days has been absolutely
nothing; but saw on the p!acar Is
something about Great Conaasra-
ton in Thames street. "
"Ihen I suppose must tell you all
about it, said Bracken, with sigh
of resignation. "Well," he went on,
stretching across the stone seat of the
recess and resting his elbows on the
parapet, '1ast Saturday afternoon Mr..
Tomilson, who owns Schofeld's
Wharf, locked the Tower street door
at 2 o'clock and from that time until
4 o'clock on Monday morning, when
the place was found in flames, that
door was not opened by him or any
body else. There are two doors, to
be sure, but the other one on the wa
ter can be opened only from the in
side, and when the tiremen got on the
spot the river door showed no signs of
having been tampered with, although
the fire seemed TO have originated in
the rear of the building. At the rear
of the building were few bales of
jute, and at first Mr.. Tomilson said he
supposed they had heated, but,
strange to tell you, they were found
uninjured save by water, and We're
about the only thing in the building
which escaped.
''Schofeld's was very heavily in
sured, and on Monday people began
to say it was good thing for Mr..
Tomilson it had gone up the hue, as
his afrnirs were in bad way.
''By Tuesday morning the bad ru-
mors got stronger, and people whis-
pered that the cause of the burning
ought to be looked for in Tomilson's S
difficulties -"
'In fact. that he had set fire to the
place, said ].
"Well, yes" said Brocken, petu-
lantly, ''but they did not put it in
these words exactly; maybe I'd tell
my story just as quickly if l told it
my own way"
''Then by all means go on your own
way, l will not interrupt again, .
said I, sitting upon the parapet, with
my feet on the stone seat.
Tuesday evening I was called in.
1t was plainly put to me that there
were strong suspicious in the case,
and 1 was told that it would be made
very well worth my while if 1 found
out all about it. You know that in
surance companies will hardly ever
set the law in motion; here they
could not but do something, the crime
was so glaring--'
"You could not expect it to be
otherwise than glaring, said I ''witE
such blaze.
Bracken shot glance OF scorn a
me, but took no further notice Of M
interruption.
''The first thing I did was to finI
out all could about Tomilson. Hi
home was at Putney. To Putney
went. l discovered he lived quietly j
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Living Tn TO His Light.

"That new hand hired this morn.
ing, said Farmer Haycroft, "plowed
one furrow across the field and then
went and laid down, and he hasn't
moved since.
"What was the matter with him?"
''He said he believed in goin' ac-
eordin' to Scripter, and that when a
man has put his hand to the plow ho
yer ort to turn back. ~ Chicago
T,ibune,
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ed fng him that day.

see Fne him that day.
'Tomilson was not known in
Br fghton, and lost all trace of him
the Jlre the moment put my foot out
sid 1e the hotel However, the facts 1
haH picked mp put an idea in my head,
anndl ! came back to London and went
onu Ito Putney once more and dropped
in fI9n old Greenfell. OF course, the
boz hting season has not begun yet for
hi 70. l found him doing some var
nivlhing in expectation of the season,
an sd fell into chat with him.
sd"He had not seen Tomilson for
w1Rcks-months. 1t was of him the
teH merchant always hired boats in the
Sc ason, but Tomilson would not be
h,kely to take to the river for month
Of six weeks yet. Greenfell had moth.
iung but good to say of Tomilson, and
rs very indignant at the rumors re-
81 9ecting the fire in Thames street.
why, said Greenfell, the man
" as fifty miles away at the time the
fl re broke out
" SO l have heard. said Green
f. 1ll had no notion was a detective.
| had come merely to see about boat
Or next Sunday.
"'They tell me, " said old Greenfell
4 chat the fire began at the river side.
Veil, I'll tell you curious thing.
d5unday night or Monday morning one
i my boats, pair oar, was taken by
ONE one who did not say .'By
-Four leave o. pay penny.
81 was all attention now, you
nay be sure.
"Whoeyer borrowed the boat
brought it back all right, and nothing
the worse if it wasn't for stencil of
lparaflin. Whoever had the boat must
have upset his lamp in it.
II "'Which boat was it?''I asked.
"'That one there, said Greenfell,
pointing
! HAS anyone used it since?' l said.
| "'No It's not fit for hire. I must
wash it well out before l let anyone
have it.
Il got into the boat and found even
I still a smell of paraffin. l lifted up
the stern sheets. There was a little
water in the boat, and in the water l
found this.
Bracken handed me a broken link
OF gold watch chain. 81 slipped
the link into my pocket" he went on,
''without saying anything to Greenfell
about it, and in few minutes was on
my way to Thames street. As went
l examined the link. 1t was long S
loop, hattened and marked is earats.
"When got TO Sehofeld's Wharf
asked for a private interview with Mr..
Iomilson He did not know who
Brackcn was, and saw me at once.
told him was detective put on the
I job, as it was feared some of his men
had fired the place out of spite.
said;
"Mr Tomiison, have theory as
TO how this fire arose. I think the
man who did the job borrowed boat
from old Greenfell, of Putney with
!
out saying anything about it to Green
al. / think he had a few gallons of
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-12-28
DEADbY DYNAMITE.
How the wful Explosive Is Man
y utaotured,
Nitro-Glyeer-na Mixed Drop by
Drop With Clay.

The recent free use Of dynamite in
criminal atitmpts tbat have been mode
upon ne - property reyivos an in
terest IN u $3ra,iou and prompts
curiosity 70 know now it is handled
when employed for such purposes and
howit can safely carried by the
men who uss it.
1t perhaps may not be known that
dynamite, (Which present. sach an in
nocent Appearance, is most Disagree
able poisog tie yapor arising from it
after its explosion clu.iug severe
nausea, and its simple contact with
the fingers, particularly if any Of it
gets under tho nails, will produce 4
violent headncao, generally aeeompap.
led by nsus5d.
To learn howitis handled in IFS
Manufacture and how it can be ma
nipulated afterward with freedom from
this unpleasant accompaniment New
York Press reporter visited an estab-
lishment not far from that city where
dynamite is put up and prepared for
use. The Ingredients employed are
nitric acid IN a concentrated form.
sulphuric rcs also highly concen-
trated and glyeerine.
These products are carefully anal |
yzed indis'tAkgy before being mike
and are weighed off into their proper
proportions with great care. As TO
the proper weight each has, so far as
danger is concerned at this stage of
the proceedings there is none. because
each in itself is comparatively harm
less; it is only when they are com
mingled that they become explosive.
The acids ara mixed in receptacle
by means Of air forced into them. The
receptacle is q lealen vat or tub, hay-
ing double sides, between which cir
culates a current Of cold water, while
crossing and recrossing the interior
are a number of little pipes through
which the water also flows.
A thermo9 ter is constantly en- c
ployed e ii cate when the proper a
temperatsw reoohel. The acids
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-12-28
Where Cork Comes From.

"Very few people understand how
corks are made or where cork trees
grow, said wine tout the Other
evening in a Broadway cafe. "Of
course / understand all branches Of
the business" the corkologist went
on. "Ihe cork tree on an average
lives 100 years, and its average height
is % or 30 feet. It is a native of the
Mediterranean basin, in Northern
Africa, Corsica, Southern France and
the Siberian Peninsula. 1t docs not
grow in America except in spots--dry,
warm places of mild temperature.
These trees are very rare and consid-
cred great curiosities.
"On a recent visit South 1 found
two fine cork trees in the college
grounds at Bay st. Louis, near New
Orleans. They are very large and
beautiful, and are called The Twins.
A maker of corks had obtained per-
mission to strip the trees of their
bark, The cork tree is valued for its
bark; the best time to strip it is in
July or August. The outer bark of
t 'e tree is first stripped when it is
about twenty-five years old. This re-
moval of the rough bark, or outer
skin, as some would call it, causes
growth Of finer quality. This requires
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quality inrsoves Nth each successive
stripping. So you will see that the
cork tree, as well as man, changes its
skin in about the same number OF
years, though l believe seven years is
the time given to man for a complete
change.-New York World.
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ATTORNEY-AT-I-AW.
PRlEoE FREDERICK. CALVERT CO., NJ

VIII prEeslce IN the Court OF Appeale and
- sAe courts Of Charles, ST. Msry'a, Calvert
AspS Arundel, and Prince Georges count--
v1pA lie NJ attend regularly
sssedce %sd address, AnnAPoliN ~
.-AvYs-i'
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-12-28

An interesting feature Of the new
House Of Relief, ON the corner of jaw
and Hudson streets, Is its complete
electrical equipment The heating
and ventilation are accomplished by
meops of four va Neal air shafts, one
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-04-06

Orr KeuterUiIte Budget.

Mrs. Growing has been confined
to her bed several days with rheu-
matism.
One of the Carter babies was
still-born, instead of living but a
few hours, as reported last week.
Rogge x Coney intend starting
up the single mill this week.
Those wanting shingles will do
well to call ON them before pur-
chasing elsewhere.
A. p. Tefft returned from Lewis
ton Sunday. He reports the land
too wet to work in upper Tamma-
ny.
George Grove, of Clearwater,
was here looking for stock the first
of the week.
BoRN.-To Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
man Helm, March 20, 1894, a
daughter.
BoRN.-One mile west of Keu-
terville, to Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bensching, March 81, 1894, a son.
Keuterville, April 3, 1894.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
Oar Lewiston Letter.

Weather cloudy and blustery.
Rivers at a good stage.
Robt. Schleicher left on the boat
yesterday for Walla Walla to meet
with the executive committee of
the Fruit Growers Association. I
think the Association will be a big
benefit to the fruit industries of
the country.
All the large orchards and most
all door-yard orchards in Lewiston
and vicinity have got through
spraying, and the fruit crop prom
ises to be large one. Il wish YOU
were here to inhale a little of the
sulphurous smell from the spray !;
the reminder might have good
effect on you for a short time.
News received to-day from Boise
City states that Messrs. VanArs-
dale and Bond had arrived there
safe and sound from their trip
through the mountains from north
to south Idaho; we have no par
ticulars of the trip, but it is evil
dent that they are good travellers
and met with few Instructions to
have made such good time.
Mrs. Fee died at her residence
in this city yesterday. Mrs. Fee
was the mother of Mrs. Wallace
Scott and Mrs. e. C. Sherwin, of
Grangeville. Mrs. Scott has been
in Lewiston for several weeks, but
Mrs. Sherwin did not hear of the
sad news until yesterday, the day
after the funeral, and was there
fore unable to Attended,. +. P.l
One w. G. Duncan, from up on
thehill ,maliciously stole some wood
from a poor Indian. Duncan was
arrested, tried and convicted and
gets his sentence to-day.
A man by the name of Owen
Clark, from up ON the hill, was be-
fore Judge Erb yesterday on the
charge of killing a poor widow wo-
mans cow. He was cleared by
the jury.
The Rev. Woods and family
leave for Ontario, Canada, to-mor-
row. His health has not changed
materially. MossBACK.
Lewiston, April 3, 1894.
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Denver Netcs.

Fred Schafer has decorated his
shop with a new sign.
Mr.. Bragg and family are ex-
pected in Denver this week.
The wedding in Stringtown was
postponed for want of funds.
Samand Willis Jones have leased
their fathers stock for the next
three years.
Seth Jones carpenter went
hunting coyotes when the old
coyote was away.
Z. ii. Brockman has again
sprainod his knee and is quite lame
on that account this week.
The report of Forney's townsite
near the reservation line, proves to
be a hog-wash story of Sam Jones'
Chas. Miller was in town the
first OF the week making prelimin-
airy arrangements for his new
residence.
VIM. Dickerson received orders
TO arrange to begin on another well
for Denver as soon as he comnleted
the Zehner well.
Dr. Shawley was called to attend
Mrs. L. j. Yandall who is suffer-
ing with La Grippe and a slight
attack of pneumonia.
Felix Warren was up Monday
and arranged to have the drivers
OF the mail change at Cottonwood.
Al: Wood will drive on the swing.
Senator Morris started for Lew
iston with his family Wednesday
OF this week. John Graham assisted
them IN getting over the mountain.
There is to be a mass meeting in
Denver, Saturday the 7th, to de-
eide what action, if any, is taken
IN support of the proposed Ken
drick road.
One of the citizens of Fiddleville
was down in Stringtown after the
recent raise in the creek looking for
his fence rails which he declared
were all ear marked.
OF all our Nimrods there has
none succeeded in making as
large killing as little 12-year-old
Benny Hartman who bagged six
ducks and a goose in an hour one
day this week.
Fet Rhoads concluded to take
his blue-eyed girl for a drive last
Sunday, April first, and when he
was in the parlor waiting for his
dulcinea she slipped out the kitch-
en- door with another fellow and
they drove off with Fet's team.
Denver, April 3, 1894.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-04-06

some NOteS on IdQNO Mines.
J. B. Hastings, in Engineering aud Mining
Journal"
That gold is disseminated
through the gravels of Snake
River for some 400 miles within
the State has been known for many
years. 1t mainly occurs in the
Toured form, so light as to float on
water, and needing 20 or more
"colors" to equal one from ordinary
placers. The source of the gold is
often attributed to the basalts
bordering the river for the greater
part of its length, but this opinion
is not based on any systematic
study Of the rocks in question. As
every mountain stream in Idaho
tributary to Snake River has
placers of greater or less economic
value, it is not strange that the
bed of the main river should be
auriferous from lighter and impal-
pable flakes that may be carried so
far. By the working miners along
the river this gold is not supposed
to be distributed evenly from top
to bottom of the gravel, but in
concentrations at any level, usually
on an impervious stratum acting