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There will be no added laurels
won to the United States by a war
with Spain.
When Jupiter Pluvius under
takes to wash out the cutters Of
this city the job is done up brown.
An object lesson was given to the
town cleaners on Sunday night
that they would 90 we'll to note.
Abundant rains for the next
sixty days will put Texas out of
pawn to the prosperity of next
year.
France and England are SQUAD.
bling over the gobbling up of the
New Hebrides. 1t is in order for
the United States to put out her
hand ard take in the Hawaii
islands out of the wet.
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The movement now on foot for q
representative gathering at Waco
on the 10Th inst, for the purpose of
organizing an Industrial and I'M
migration association for the state,
bids fair to be success. A circu-
lar letter received from the pro-
motors of that movement shows
that nearly all of the cities in
Texas are earnestly taking stock
in the call and will be represented
in the initial meeting. A large
number of the mayors Of Texas
cities, about all OF the Congress.
sional delegation and many other
prominent citizens Of the state
have signified their intention oil
being present. In the lists
presented the name of Hon
George H. Noonan is the only one
billed to attend from San Antonio
The matter OF properly represen.
ting this city in that meeting de
wolves upon the Business Mems
club, and it is to be hoped tina
they will send live representative
men for that purpose. Five dele
gates will be admitted from an,
organization that represents itsel
there. The Importance of thi
movement has already been lait
before the readers of the LIGHT.
is action that is now needed.
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mountain side. A few monrned over
the fading laurels of the convivial old
fellow, always ready for "drap~
with his patients, sick or dying though
they might be; but among the min
ers, whose daily life was prolific of ac-
cideuts, the cool head and ever firm
hand of the temperance man" could
not fail to inspire confidence.
Slowly. but surely, the tide turncl
in his favor. During the very severe
winter which followed, the doctor
braved many hard ride through rain
and slect, snowdrifts and swollen
streams, while tho anxious wife spent
many IL lonely night wishing for the
dawn and his safe return. Sprinq
found the doctor with slight balance
IN hand, and n steadily growing prac.
tice, rs others besides ''moonshiners'
and miners gradually became aware
of his existence, and took due note Of
1T for future reference.
In new country like ours, towns
often spring into cities and men into
riches; but our doctor and our town
climbed upward, step by step to fame
AMI fortune. For man ready to seize
every honest opportunity to rise,
there are always more ups than downs,
and such n one is certain to have,
sooner or later, what many style
luck" but the doctor and his wife
called it, "Taken at the flood"
Ere middle age succeeded in catch
ing our young couple, tho doctor
could and did afford belated we'd
ding journey, during which tho little
wife bought and wore her Paris bon
nets, with sublime indifference to
what people might think of the still
youthful face. Her husband ran
sacked Europe in tho interests of his
profession, making special researches
which brought him fresh lnurels in
the medical world. York indie
pendent
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English aud American Postmen.

The difference in compensation be.
tween the postmen in London and the
United States is remarkable, tho high
est sum paid to London postwar be-
ing 334 q month and the lowest paid
to poslman in the United States being
$50. The pay Of q London postman
is only from eighteen to thirty.four
shillings, or from $3.50 to 81 week
in our money. But he may obtain
three good-conduct stripes, each of
which entities him TO one shilling, or
twenty-five cents, n week extra. The
first stripe is given for five years faith.
full service, the second for ten and the
third for fifteen. He receives full pay
when absent from duty on account OF
sickness, is provided with gratuitous
medical attendance and is awarded q
pension when he is too old or too dis
abled 20 work. He also is furnished
with two suits Of uniform each year,
ono for winter and one for summer.
Thus n London postman cannot get,
even after fifteen years Of faithful ser.
vice, q larger salary than 1892 year,
while tho pay of an American postum
is $500 at first, then $500 and finally
5000.
The number of auxiliary postmeu or
subs" in London is 23Gl, who man.
age TO earn from six TO sixteen shil.
lings n week-that is, from 5l.5J 10
81 according TO tho amount Of WORK
thay perform.
Twelve deliveries q day are made in
the downtown or business districts an ]
from six TO eight in the residence SEQ.
ton. Postmen arc employed for eight
tiuuous. IL Is made up Of two or three
or sometimes four turns Of duty of
two TO four hours each. Chicago Rec
ord
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AIninc Torrents in Harness.

"All over the Tyrol, Switzerland,
and the Alpine country generally, you
lind to-day curious conjunction of
the modern and the medieval in the
village streets, tho stores and the
inns, said n traveller. 'Iu the small
est, the most remote and the most an
cient villages in the Bavarian Alps,
the Tyrol and the Bernese Oberland
You find the streets, the stores, the
inns and not infrequently the
houses supplied with electric lights.
l revisited last August little village
back in the Tyrolean Mountains, near
Innsbruck, which is one of the most
Enthusiastically medieval communi-
ties one could well find. The people
live in the houses of their grandsircs,
and follow their customs and WAYS.
"This year 1 arrived there in the
evening, and was amazed to find the
streets rs brilliantly lighted as Broad
way, where formerly the only light
was from swinging horn lantern here
and there. There were clusters of
incandesccnt lights strung across the
streets every few yards. The little
inn had n complete installation, and
so had the few little shops. / was
prepared to learn that the formerly
quiet village had become a fashiona-
bic watering place. But it hadn't.
1t was rs quiet and rs slow, nntiquated
and out of date as ever. Later, rs
wandered about the Tyrol and Swift
erlnnd, l found the same change
everywhere.
sit is very natural that it should be
so, too, for in all that region there
Is power in superabundance running
waste on every hand. From every
rock leaps cascade, and over every
cliff roars n waterfall; there are
streams that flow evenly with steady,
small power, AMI torrents that thun-
der down with tons of force. The
village of Murren, perched on the
edge of n cliff opposite the Jnngfrau,
at height of 5000 feet above sea
level, has very complete electric
lighting system, and power enough
within few hundred yards radius to
light half New York The villages get
their light almost free.
"This is, SO far as could learn, the
very first use to which the vast water
power in the Alps has been put.
Hitherto it has all run idle. Materi-
alistic travellers often wonder why
Switzerland is not big manufactur-
ing country. Alas 1t soon may be,
now the patient plodders there arc
finding what wonderful capnbility
Tor work is in the wutcrfalls.-N
York Sun.
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Habils OF tn Pengnln-

The habits of che penguin are exceed
ingly interesting. TO see thom swim
ming under the surface at the zooloQi.
cal Gardens OF London or Amsterdam
is n rare sight. In nature they swim
like pOrpoise, in q prolonged dive,
broken ut intervals Of about thirty
yards, rs they rise to take breath,
when they leap entirely out OF water,
Immediately disappearing with scarce
~ n ripple, after clearing a space of
from two TO two aud n half feet One
was found to survive being held uu-
der water six minutes. Their food
consists of large shrimp, and their
stomachs generally contain a number
Of angular pebbles. New York InGe-
pendent,
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comes extremely sensitive to the
slightest blow, and that fact was for
gotten or disregarded by the men who
were blown to bits last winter.
When ordinary gunpowder explodes
it releases 800 times its volume of gas,
but dynamite releases 1000 times its
volume in gas. An explosion is an in
tense combustion which forms gas so
rapidly that an immense pressure Is
obtained, and as the combustion, tho
release OF gas AMI the pressure are
simultaneous n tremendous power is
suddenly let loose, which acts in
every direction, breaking through all
restraint.
Nitro-glycerine is less than fifty
years old, for it was discovered in
1917 in Paris by Pelouse. Before that
gunpowder made of inter, sulphur and
carbon, n mechanical mixture, which
remains inert until heat is applied,
was the principal explosive used. For
several years after it's discovery nitro
glycerine remained simply as IA fearful
explosive, made only in small quaint
ties by chemists, for its extreme SEN
sitivcness to jars and slight blows and
its terrific power prevented it from
being used ms practical explosive
until it was discovered that it could
be handled safely by mixing il with
au absorbent clay to form dynamite.
Earth g. clay is seldom used now in
making dynamite, rs other absorbent
materials have been found to be bet
ter in every way.-Chicago Record.
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Irish Moss.

a little town, known as Jericho, in
Massachusetts, seems TO DO the centre
of the Irish moss industry.
Boys, men and women all engage in
the work, which consists spreading it
upon the beach prepared by raking all
the dirt, stones and drlftwood away,
and leaving n fine bed of white sand
when the weed is first brought in by
the boats, each of which gets about
barrel and half, it is taken upon
creels, sort of barrow, and spread
out upon the beach it is turned over
daily rs i'll hay making, for the space
of two weeks; each morning it is
washed in clean sea water fresh water
ruins i'll it is then gradually bleached,
as when first gathered it is of light
green color, and in the course of few
weeks becomes succcssivcly red, pink,
and finally nearly white.
Stormy weather is l great drawback
to the mosssr's work. Some of tho
moss that the storms tear loose and
scatter upon the rocks is gathered and
classed rs hand pic&e I, bringing gen
orally quarter or one-half cent per
pound more than that gathered in the
usual way for commerce.
Should n spell of rainy weather
come on during the seasoE of gather
ing, ) avy unbleached muslin covers
are used to protect the moss, which is
packed up in heaps.
Two crops are obtained ench year,
the first one being the better; the
late crop is liable to be injured by u
little black vegetable growth called
glut. caused, it is said, by the warmer
water of August days. Boston Her
oil
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Undermining inc molr land.

The completion of tho Jaffa-Jcrusa-
lem Railway, with the early prospect
of n completed road between Haifa
and Damascus, is but the most prom
inent of growing indications that tho
lands of Bible history are falling under
undermining influences. Tho first
American locomotive which circled
the Mount Of Olives and Gethsemano
on it's way 90 Jerusalem marked tho
first step i'm the change. Actuated
apparently by the prospect Of com
m5rcial aggrandizement for his Asiatic
poss cssions, the Sultan nfterward gavo
his assent TO the construction OF the
now road TO be known rs the Syrian.
Ottoman Railway.
Already tho effect of these new eli.
deavors is 20 be seen in the efforts OF
British aud other capital to secure n
field for Investment ON the historic
ground. The same company which
he's placed modern steel bridge
across tho Jordan has laid plans for "a
grain elevator in the heart of the land.
There are propositions TO establish
public carrier for great grain trade,
TO put ON lines of steamships from
London TO Haifa and to open up
through tho region made famous by
religious associations the paths fol
active and profitable commerce.
In short, the Influences which ar,
everywhere else knitting the worl,
together are ut last ut work upon TN,
holy land IL will be n curious evolu
ton which this region of ancient ira
dition will have undergone when TIA,
traveller OF fifty years hence sets foot
in Jerusalem or Damascus and finds
in them tho busting commerce ans
trade Of latter day civilization. -
Chicago Record.
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Diamond. 10 Rom.

IT ia gradually becoming known
among pretentious people that dia-
monds, like houses and horses and
carriages, eau be reute1 for the SCI
son. This will enable those who have
II high social ambition but limited
means to make a greater display than
they have been able TO do formerly.
You can go to certain diamond dealers
IN Maiden Lane in New York, and OBJ
tain rings for the fingers aud ears,
necklaces, brooches. pendants, hair
pins and all the other kinds of din-
mond iewclry by depositing or giving
bond for the full value Of the article
and paying five per cent. month for
their use, and this, 1 am told, IS get
ting to DO n very large and profitable
business. IL seems to have originated
in the hard times aud in such persons
as wanted to wear diamonds, but woro
not able to buy them. -Chicago Rec
ord
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Greatest spendthriit OF the Age.

Jack Mytton, the famous Shrop-
shire fox-hunting squire, was perhaps
the most renowned spendthrIft tho
world has seen during the present
century. At Harrow School he spent
$4,000 year. At nineteen, when n
cornet in the Sew, nth Hussars, he
spent S15, 900 in one day When told
that no could afford to spend $50, 900
II year he replied that he preferred
death to such miserly income. Upon
one occasion he paid $500 to Lon
don poulterer for supplying his table
with pheasnnts. He always travelled
with piles OF loose bank notes on the
seat beside him., which in windy
weather used to blow out through tine
window all over the country. Upon
another occ tsion, when going on d
journey, he took roll OF bank notes,
squeezed into hard ball, and aimed
them through the window Mt some ono
who had displensed him, hitting him
in the face. lie realized 800, 900 by
the sale of timber on his estate, which
he sold Immediately. He ran through
his inheritance, the Hnlston estate,
with rent roll of $500, 900 n year,
and $4,000, 900 of money accumulated,
dying bankrupt HnI paupcr ut the
early age OF thirty-cight. London
Answers
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Bermuda farms bear three succ sssive
crops in one year.
\ house in Calhoun County, Georgia,
has been struck by lightning thirteen
times.
\ fair article of molasses can DO
made from the stalks of tho common
maize.
The Greeks had oats b. @. 200, but
used them only as food for their
horses.
The Russians mako a soup of sar.
dimes. 1t is said to be rs rich as tho
Rothschilds.
Jefferson McKenley. colored, of
Great Darlington, Mass, is 100 years
old and tho oldest person in the State
The Ministry of Old Boots" sup.
ply 30, 200 garments and 1000 pairs of
boots to the needy ones of London
annually.
There are about 100,0 islands
large and small, scattered over the
oceans. America alone has 500
around its coasts.
A Minnesota sheriff spent $1,000 aud
travelled 5000 miles to capture n man
who stole u so wheel. lie got the
man and the wheel.
Wet-ground snuHs are always al.
lowed to ferment after grinding, aud
various perfumes and essences are then
added to give the desired flavor.
From 1857 to 1881 Russia sent GA
900 persons to Siberia, fully 100, 900
relatives of prisoners having accom-
panied the exiles of their own &c.
cord.
Elible birds nest, prepare for use,
are worth from 81 to So per pound,
according to quality. There is con
slant demand in China for nll that can
be obtained.
Darius Hystaspes in 490 b. @. in.
PRODUCED q system OF nSse 5smeut aud
taxation of land, ami ma 10 himself so
obnoxious by it that. he WAS clllol
Darius the Trader.
The Towers OF Silence in Persia are
stone structures provided with graf.
ings within on which bodies are ex.
posed to be devoured by the hocks OF
cultures that always infest tho local.
ity.
Lemons are in season oil tho year
rouui, but March AMI April in the
spring, aud September and October,
In the autumn, are the times when the
crops are gathered in large guam.
lities.
Grand Duke Alexis, of Russin, O
brother of Alexander Ill, is the most
deliberately tattooed Prince in Europe.
a huge Japanese dragon extends al
right arm.
In a hurricane at Bathurst, Aus
tralia, n mass of timber weighing eight
tons was detached from the show
ground pavilion and carried 900 yards
The timber in the pavilion was. all
splintere1 like mntchwood.
There is timber chute out in the
Oregon Mountains 1923 feet long,
where the logs come whizzing down
the mountainside into Columbia River
with a velocity of a cannon ball and
make the distance, which is about
three-fifths of a mile, in twenty sec.
onds.
There are only $780, persons in
the State of Washington. fthat State
was as closely settled as Switzerland
it would have 100000 persons; as
France, about II, 900, 900; as. Holland,
about %, 900, 600; as England, at least
40, 600, 900, and as Belgium more than
50,0O0,O00
w. Il. Page, of Netarts, Wash, is
exhibiting out there some samples of
seal and sea lion leather, also shoes of
the same material, made by him. He
says the seals and sea lions are very
valuable for their hides and oil, and
that they are easily procured. The
leather is very tough and soft and
takes fine finish.
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a r1oNopo1ls.cs WANTS,

My wants aro few, sit serene
Upon contentment's highlands
III i can have carth's continents
care not for it's Islands.
j would not climb upon Il throne
Through seas OF bloc ~ slaughter,
If can call all lands my own.
Why you can have the water.
Give me but these, they are enough
To suit my humble notions.
and YOU can have FOR all your own
The land beneath the ocean.
Ind tits IA generous slice Of earth,
And doubtless quite prolific.
Ityou can only drain it once,
The led ofthc Pucin,.
Aad all ask is Just this earth,
TO regulate AMI man It,
AMI surrender all my claims
TO every other planet.
And 40 you sco cut my cloth
On contracted pattern;
we m" the aar,h, drop all claim
10 uranus an 10 saturn.
Little need, my wants are few,
Nor wouli havcthem greater,
only want the land between
The poles AMI tho equator.
Give me tho earth, It's all | ask,
For me and my wlfo Sarah,
Then I'll give nil my fellow mer
y house lot in SlharI.
Tho earth is very. very small.
And not in good repair;
Compared with Sirius it IS
a very small affair
And just want 1t while I liv,.
AMI Death, I'll no. res st him,
For after death hopo to get
The whole great solnr system.
Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade
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LAND ON YOUR FEET.

You take cat up by the tail
And whirl him round aud round.
AM hurl him out into the air.
Out into space profound
Ho through the yielding atmosphere
viii many n whirl complete.
But when he strikes upon tho grounl
He'll land upon his feet.
Fate takes n man, just like cat,
And, with more force than grace,
1t whirls him wrigglinS round and round
Aud hurls him into space.
An those who fall upon tho back.
Or land upon the head,
Fate lots them lie there where they fall
They're Just as good rs dead.
But some there be, that, like the cat,
whirl round and round and round.
Aud so gyratlng of through space
Until they strike tho ground;
but when at last the ground and they
Do really coma TO meet,
You'll always Ind them right side up
They land upon their feet.
Aud such "A man walks of erect
Triumphant and elatc.
Aud with "A courage In his heart
He shakes his fist at Fate,
Then Fate, with bonlgnant smilr
Upon its face outsprend
Puts forth it's soft, caresslng hanl
And pats him on the head.
Aud he's Fato's darling from that day,
His triumph Is complete
Fate loves tho man who whirls AMI whirls
But lands upon his feet
That man, whate'cr his ups and downs,
Is never wholly spurnct,
Whose pcrpcndicularity
Is never overturned.
New York World.
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A Two-stOried Hearsc.

A Baltimore man has hit upon n
novel idea for hearse. It is a two.
stored vehicle with a receptacle for n
coffin in the upper part, and the
mourners are TO ride below rs il thty
were in stage. New York Adver.
tiser.
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ADVERTISING RATS.

Advertisements VIII be inserted ~ enc dellsA
per square tor the hrst insertion and hfsy
cents for each subsequent insertion
Local, Business and Special notices len
oents line. and NO notice inserted Cor lsS
than one dollar.
Legal advertisements win be inserted 81
the rates allowed By law and viii. In all cases,
be required upon delivery of certified copy.
CHAKoRs FOE ANNoUNCKMENrs.-Fo
county oniceTs, -; State and Congress, $40.
Terms for ctaniing advertisements made
known on application 70 the publisher.
Jon PAINTING executed with neatness and
Dispatch. Ie-Orders by mail viii receive
proavt attention
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Several kinds of birds are known TO
follow COWS, horses aud other stock
abo1t the pasture for the purpose Of
feeding on tho tlfccts disturbed by
the feet Of these animals.
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TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, "
EY OLIVE NAY EAGER.

YOUTHFUL ply
siclan and his still
III o + c youthful
bride were driving
slowly along n lone
ly mountain road,
where the lat e
autumn sunshine
shone IN i | d | Y
through t Ii o al.
ready frost trick-
en-, wind-stripped
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trees. They stopped n moment when
n break in the hills gave them n
glimpse OF their destination in the
marrow valley below. The Struggling,
hastily built village near the recently
discovered coal beds of that region
was not calculated to excite either
hope or admiration.