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Charge for Winding a Watch.

During hard times. when some peo-
pie are compelled to borrow money at
. rate of interest that amounts to
usury, stories of close and stiugy men
are numerous, but the story of the
champion stingy man comes from a
West Seattle individual. The West
Seattle man was obliged to pawn his
watch, fine, solid gold time-piece,
which he priced highly. lie placed it
in the hands of well-known five per
cent. man as security for small loan,
to be redeemed in thirty days. In
closing the deal the man requested
that the watch be wound every day
and kept running, and to this the
other man agreed.
When the thirty days were up the
West Seattle man came around with
the principal and interest and de-
manded the watch, but the five per
cent. man counted out the money and
said that 1t was short.
SHOWS thatP" demanded the bor-
rover, angrily.
"W-well, yon wanted the watch
kept wound up, didn't you?' protest
ed the fellow with an in jured air.
eyes, bat are you going to charge
me for that?7
II don't see why I shouldn't. he
answered. Its business. / had to
wind up that thing every day and my
time is valuable. It's worth about five
cents a wind
The West Seattle man gasped, but
he paid $3.50 extra for winding the
watch and made his escape before the
money.lender could think of some
other pretext on which to increase
the bill.-Seattle Wash PostrIntel
ipenner.
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Plans for Suppre ssing Mosquitoes.

Not long ago Robert b. Lamborn,
of New York, offered q prize for a
practicable method of suppressing
mosquitoes. Hundreds of suggestions
we're offered, the most notable being
to the effect that dragon flies should
be artiicially bred for the purpose.
This idea, though not lacking in nov
city and picturesqueness, was not
deemed acceptable, simply because it
could not be carried out on scale suf-
fciently extensive. Dragon flies,
under natural conditions kill a great
many mosquitoes, but to multiply
their species to any great extent would
not be possible, partly on account of
the manner of their development.
They cannot be reared in box like
silkworms. The larvae of the insects
are ugly-looking worms, known COM
monty as ''helgrammites,". which
crawl about in the muddy bottoms of
ponds.
Another odd suggestion offered to
Mr.. Lamborn was that spiders should
be employed in the war against
mosquitoes. Some time previously,
however, Mr.. L. o. Howard, who has
since become United States Etomolo.
gist, had devised and experimental
with method which proved to have
much practical usefulness-namely,
to pour oil on the surface of waters
that propagate mosquitoes. A small
quantity of kerosene employed in this
manner will 60 long way. II there
is stagnant pond or overAowed
marsh in your vicinity, you cannot
invest money more pro6tably this
summer than to buy some kerosene
and apply it. The process is very
simple, the oil spreading itself far and
wide in an extremely thin film. Five
gallons, costing sixty cents, will cover
10000 square feet. A single applica.
tion will suffice for the season, and will
absolutely prevent the production OF
mosquitoes over the area treated. The
coating of oil quickly suffocates and
kills all wrigSlers. This system might
be adopted most proftably in the
neighborhood of some resorts. .-Bos-
ton Transcript.
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prisoner has to dc is to sit and pick
from three to six pounds of old rope
per day into oakum. The quantity
picked into oakum in Pentonville
Prison will average about three and
one-half tons week. 1t is sold, and
brings in some return for the labor.
In addition, trades are taught in the
prison which are usually akin to the
useful arts.
Punishment in Pentonville Prison
have been made into five classes. First
comes the loss OF advantage which the
prisoner gets in being rated in Glasses.
Then comes the transfer from the
highest to the lowest class of scrvi-
tude. Next comes fasting and bread
and water diet, and the next stage is
confinement in q cell of correction.
Lastly is ranked bodily chastisement,
but this is limited to eighteen lashes
to prisoners under eighteen years of
age and thirty-six lashes to older men.
Anotherpoint, too, which all the Eng
lish prisons have in common is in Civ
ing convicts with exceptionally good
behavior records before sentence
expire ''tickets of leave" which
allow them to leave an institution and
keep at large without a return during
good behavior.
In all English prisons the routine"
of daily work is about the same. In
fact, the prisons do not differ much in
styles of architecture, and neither do
they differ in routine work. At 6
o'clock every week day morning the
Chief Warden gives the signal to Gun
lock" The officers 6 the different
wards hurry from cell to cell with
keys in their hands to open each NOR
row dwelling. In some OF the more
modern prisons the American plan OF
a crank which, when it turns, locks or
unlocks the cells upon a corridor at
once, is use
As soon as the cells are unlocked
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Deep.Sea Thermometers.

Thermometers made for taking the
temperature in moderately deep waters
have the tube encased in q copper cyl.
inder to protect it from inquisitive
fishes and from contact with rocks
there is a ring at the bottom to which
sufficient weights may be attached to
sink it readily. The cylinder has o
long, narrow door in front of the
scale, which may be opened for the
reading; and this doo- closes with
joints so tight that the cylinder brings
up the water from the bottom with its
temperature practically unchanged by
the waters through which it passes.-
New York Sun.
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The Variety OF Fuels.

Besides the ordinary domestic fuels,
such ss coal, wood, petroleum, kero-
sene, gas, charcoal, coke and peat.
numerous other substances have been
utilized. Corn cobs in their natural
state or treated with some infamma-
BILE mixture and pressed into blocks
are largely used, many patents have
been issued for mixing coal dust or
pulverized coal with some other ma.
terial to form o fuel. Among the sub
stances made use OF have been clay,
molasses, sawdust, Irish moss, ashes.
tos, lime, resin, cut straw, chaff, Pc
troleum, waste, corn meal, sugar, sea.
weed, broken glass and forest leaves,
the idea being to form some solid COM
pound. In shoe manufacturing towns
leather cuttings are used as fuel. Corn
makes O roaring fire and is largely
used in the West. Chemical products
furnish fuel, the best probably being
alcohol. National Car and Locomo'
tive Builder.
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and grated style so apparent in Amer
lea. The frames of all the windows
are of cast steel, but the window frames
themselves are made SO small as to
serge as light givers and safeguards as
we'll.
The cells are thirteen feet long, SIX
by seven feet in width and nine feet IN
height. Some of them contain looms
for carpet weaving, but in that case
the cells are nearly twice as large as
the ordinary ones. Against the wall
on one side is placed a bright copper
hand basin with a water faucet near
it. A small closet we'll supplied with
water pipes occupies one corner OF the
cell. A shaded gas Jet is in conven-
lent point in the wall, while there are
shelves for the spoon, platter, mug
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the prison is lighted. From 7 p. m.
to 9 p. m. the prisoners are allowed to
read, but at the latter hour all the
lights are put out except one or two
in the corridors.
That is the week day rou';ne. On
Sundays the convicts are marched to
the respective chapels in the different
prisons, and they also have usually n
few little tidbits for dinner, but ex-
cept for the lack of labor and only
one short trial at exercise the day is
passed in the solitude of cells.
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4 Slave From B0YhG0d.

(Fron The Red Wing, Him., Republican,,
" am now twenty-fou- years DID," said
Edwin Swanson, Of White Rock, Goodhue
County, Mimi, to Republican represents
| tive, "and as you can see am not very large
Of stature. When was eleven years old I
became afflicted with sickness which baf-
fled the skill and knowledge Of the physician.
was not taken suddenly i'll but on the con-
trary can hardly state the exact time when
it began. The first symptoms were pains in
my back and restless nights. The disease
did not trouble me much at first, cat II
seemed to have settled in my body to stay
and my bitter experience during the last
thirteen years proved that to be the case.
was Of course child and never dreamed Of
the suffering in store for ne. I complained
to my parents and they concluded that In
time would outgrow my trouble. but when
they heard ne groaning during my sleep
they became thoroughly alarmed. Medical
advice was sought but to no avail I grew
rapidly worse and was soon unable to move
| about and finally became confined continu-
ally to my bed. The best doctors that could
| be had were consulted, but did nothing for
! me. tried various kinds OF extensively ad-
vertised patent medicines with hut the same
result.
''For twelve long years I was thus suf-
ferer in constant agony without respite,
ahscesses formed on my body In rapid sue
cession and the world indeed looked very
dark to me. About this time when all hope
was gone and nothing seemed left but to re-
sign myself to my most bitter fate my atten-
=. II - n, D;,Ix
for Pale People. Like drowning man
grasping at straw. in heerdesperationI con-
cluded to make one more attempt-not to re-
gain my health q dare not to hope so much)
! but II possible to ease my pain. r.
II bought box OF the pills and they
seemed to do me good. I felt encouraged
and continued their use. After taking six
boxes was up and able to walk around the
house. have net felt so we'll for thirteen
years as during the past year. Only cne
year have 1 taken DR.. Williams Pink Pills
and am able now to do chores and attend
to light duties. =.
"Do hesitate TO let you publish what
have said2 No. Why should II It Is the
truth and am only too glad to let other suf-
ferers know my experience. 1t may help
those whose cup Of misery is as full to-day
rs mine was in the past"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in con-
| densed form. all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are also a
specific for troubles peculiarto females, such
as suppressions. irregularities and all forms
OF weakness. They cuild up the blood, and
restore the glow Of health to pale and sallow
cheeks. In men they effect radical cure in
all cases arising from mental worry. over
work or excuses OF whatever nature. Pink
Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk)
at so cents box or six boxes for $3.50, and
may be had Of all druggists, or direct by
mail from DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
schenectady, N. Y.
bismarck has been decorated with fifty
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in Pentonville. The allowance for
breakfast to each convict is ten ounces
of bread, three-quarters of pint Of
cocoa, with two ounces of pure milk
and two drachms of molasses. For
dinner half pint of soup, four ounces
of meat, beef or mutton alternately,
five ounces of bread and one pound of
potatoes is the menu. For tea each
man gets pint of Cruel, made of an
ounce and one-half of meat, and
sweetenel with five drachms OF mo-
lasses, with five ounces of bread. In
case of certain line of punishment
these rations are reduced. The most
salutary form of punishment is in the
docking of rations. A prisoner will
give in quicker when placed on star
vation diet than for any other cause.
In the prison there are four stages
of service. In the first-class the
prisoner has to perform first-class hard
labor for certain number OF. hours in
each day. That means he has to work
in the treadmill or upon what is known
as the 'cranks.
The treadmill, or treadwell, is not
particularly useful machine. The
prisoners call service upon it "tread-
ing the wind" and that is about what
it is, for it seems to serve no useful
purpose, except to keep prisoners en-
ployed. The sole use the machine has
is merely to keep certain number OF
men employed when there isn't any
thing else for them to do.
Each tread wheel or mill is 80 con-
structed that if necessary twenty-four
men can be employed upon it at q
time. The mill is divided into twenty
four little compartments or stalls.
Each compartment is something less
than twenty-four inches in width and
is separated from the adjoining one by
high wooden partitions The mill is
connected with fan, which is so ar
ranged as to give enough resistance to
the mill to make the words "hard Ia
Dor" mean what they say. There are
twenty-four steps in the wheel, which
are eight inches apart. This makes
the circumference of the wheel six
teen feet. The wheel performs thirty
revolutions in each quarter OF al hour,
and each man walks on an average
fifteen quarters OF an hour day. So
he ascenAs something like 1909 feet,
or 240O yards, for days labor.
Crank labor consists Of making 10,-
900 revolutions Of q crank, which is
placed on narrow iron drum pnt on
legs with long handle on one side,
which, when turned, causes a series of
caps or scoops in the interior to re-
volve. At the lower part OF the drum
is quantity of sand, which the cups
scoop up and carry to the top Of the
wheel, where they empty themselves.
A dial plate registers the number of
revolutions made. A convict at or.
dinary rate of speed makes 12o revolu-
tions of the crank an hour, so to turn
10000 Of them means about eight
hours and twenty minutes Ia bor.
In case OF physical inability to do
treadmill or crank labor, the convict
is placed at second-class labor, which
means the picking of oakum, stone
breaking and kindred pursuits. All q
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and soap box of the prisoner nailed
upon the wall at one side of the door.
During the day the upper of these
shelves is used for the rolled up ham
mock OF the prisoner and his bedding.
When night comes the hammock IS
slung about three feet from the
ground to iron braces set in the walls
of the cell, which gives the advantage
of good bed and one that does not
take up room in the daytime. A lit
tie table and stool makes up the re-
mainder of the furniture OF each cell,
while on the walls OF each is placed
the rules of the prison, which convicts
must carefully obey.
The prison garb, of drab canvas,
shot plentifully with broad arrows, is
fully as beautiful as the drab and pale
yellow striped cloth of the New York
State Prison convicts at Dannemora,
Auburn or Sing Sing. With each suit
is furnished two changes of plain
white cloth underclothes, q Scotch cap
and heavy cowhide shoes.
All convicts in Pentonville Prison are
known as soon as they become prison
ers by numbers. If man before he
became prisoner bore the proudest
title in the peerage of England, Scot
land, Ireland or Wales, be becomes
upon his entrance to the institution
only q number. He is A 2174 or B
5051, as the case may be, and he must
wear at his breast at all times big
brass badge bearing his number.
"Look out there, A 2174," sings out
a guard when addressing o prisoner.
And all through the prison life of a
convict only this number is used. 1t
would puzzle even the warden of the
prison to tell the name of prisoner
without reference to the records upon
which, opposite his name and number.
stands the Christian and surname of
the convict.
Prisoners are by no means starved
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A big bell in the prison summons
the prisoners to work at $50 every
morning. Men hurry to the tread.
mills, the cranks, or report in files un-
der charge of a guard to the "trade
instructor" who sets them at work.
Carpets are woven on looms in the
cells, shoemakers hustle at their work,
oakum pickers hurry to duty, and SO
on it goes all over the prison. Every
convict must work, whether he only
"treads wind" or aimlessly turns
"cranks" or is busy at some vocation.
For an hour the prisons hum with
the sound of labor. Then, at 7.3O
o'clock, breakfast is served to each
prisoner while at work. Work con-
tinues until II o'clock and then the
prisoners are marched in long files,
lockstep fashion, to exercising yards.
In each yard is long rope with
knots about fifteen feet apart, so that
23O prisoners can get on the rope at @
time. Each file of 130 men grasps the
rope and then at brisk PAGES for tif-
teen minutes whirl round in a circle.
The idea of keeping the men fifteen
feet apart is to carry out the idea OF
separate confinement. The only pos
si5le time that the prisoners can com
municate is when in the lockstep, but
then they cannot speak to each other,
so closely are they watched.
at 1890 o'clock daily dinner is
served, and then work begins again
and is continued until 5 o'clock, when
another fifteen minutes is devoted to
exercise. At $50 o'clock the convict
has his supper of cruel and bread, and
q little before 6 o'clock lanterns are
riveu to the prisoners and the gas in
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each prisoner hurries in his under
clothing for tub of water from the
faucet in his cell, with which he cleans
out his little home. This is done un.
der military rule.
Prior to the beginning of the days
work the "cleaners," as the men who
clean cells are called, the 'cooks," or
those who do duty In the kitchen, are
marched away in long prison files to
their respective duties.
Then some of the convicts wash the
cells, others sweep the pavements un.
til they glisten. while all are watched
by armed guards from the little mid
air bridges above the stone corridor
floor.
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TIE SAN GREeoR1o METEoRITE.

City of Mexico, or are represented by
full size models. Similar models of
the larger masses we're exhibited by
Profess or A. a. Ward, of Rochester.
n. Y, in the Mining Building of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi
caeo. The claim to being notable
will be demonstrated by q recitation
of the dimensions and weights of
some of the prominent meteorites.
A visitor to the National School of
Mines in the City of Mexico will no.
tice on either side of the portal lead
ing to the commodious courtyard two
large, irregular masses, resembling in
shape the result of "boil" at blast
furnace casting bed, or leak between
the cope and the drag of large cast
ing. The brown, rusty color of these
masses gives the impression that they
are specimens of brown hematite iron
ore, but at the few points where the
structure has been exposed by chip
ping and filing, metallic lustre, with
situations common to meteoric iron,
demonstrated the origin of these
monster specimens. The principal
average dimensions of the two pieces
are:
Length. Width.
q. feet. 3 feet inches.
b. feet inches. 6 feet inches.
Thickness. Weight.
a. foot inches. 20, $50 pounds.
b. foot 4 inches. 81, 400 pounds.
The irregularity of form will not be
appreciated from the sizes given, and
the total weight-54,s50 pounds, or
nearly twenty-five gross tons-there
beng number of trolibite depres-
sions or pot holes on the surfaces.
The density is given as 7.S.
The form of these two pieces also
indicates that they we're originally
parts of one great mass recognized as
the Chupaderos Meteorite, which af-
ter more than four centuries was in
1893 conveyed over 900 miles to the
City of Mexico. The two pieces were
found about 500 feet apart.
Another notable meteorite, that of
San Gregorio, which may be consid-
cred arrival of the specimens described.
is approximately con1cal in form, av-
eraging four feet in diameter at the
base and forty inches in height. The
density was found to be TIA and the
calculated weight 37,920 pounds. This
mass is also to fern feature of the
collection of the Mexican Geological
Survey, which occupies the large
building IA former palace) in connec'
tion with the School of Mines. The
illustration is intended to show the
dimensions of the neteorite San Gre
gorio, as compared to men of ordinary
stature.
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Chimes on London 'CIange.

On the Royal Exchange at London
the chimes have played the same fonr
tunes for fifty years. They recently
broke down and new chimes have been
put up which will play twenty-one
tunes during the week, three times a
lay; English, Scotch and Irish airs on
week days and psalm tunes on Sun
iays.-Chicago Times. Herald.
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Imbert de Saint Armand, the author
of an endless series of semi-historlcnl
books on the Queens of France, is
writing sensational book on the his
tory of the Second Empire on lnforma'
ton furnished by the Empress Eu-
genie.
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IT'S so common that every tobacco user
has an irritated throat that gradually derel-
ops into q serious condition, frequently con.
sumption. and sthe kind OF sore throat
that never gets we'll as long as you use to.
bacco. The tobacco habit. sore throat md
lost manhood cured by No-To-Bac. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by Druggists everywhere.
Book. titled '''Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke
Your Lille Away" free. Ad. Sterling Rem.
ledy Co. New York City or Chicago.
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To Cleanse the system

Efectually yet gently, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood is impure or slugsish,to per-
manently cure habitual constipation, to awak-
en- the kidneys and liver to healthy activity
without Irritating or weakening them. to dis.
pei headaches, colds or ferers, use Syrup Of
Tive
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A Rig MeteOrite in Mexico.

A New York Times writer has had
look at some big meteorites which
have fallen in Mexico. Most of these
meteorites are preserved in the mu-
scum of the School of Mines in the
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Rev. Joseph Cooks New Field.

Rev. DR.. Joseph Cook, the noted
Boston divine, recently sailed from
San Francisco to spend two years lee
turing in Australia, Chine, japan and
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For Well People.

Most medicines are for the sick. Some can
be used with good effects by persons anparc at
ily well. Occasional resort to Ripans Tabules
;prevents attacks that result from disorders Of
ifhe stomach and liver.
To preserve is better and cheaper than to
trenair
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s. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarie Scott. writes:
find Halls Catarrh Cure q valuable remedy"
Druggists sell Il, 75c-
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Tobacco Users Sore Throat.

Canada's game laws have been revised in
the special interest of American spcrtsnen.
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Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup for children
lteething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
lfinn allays main cures wind collie. 25c. bottle