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Salathiel Green was appinted post master of Squan Creek way back be- fore the war, and up to two or three years ago nobody hankered arter his place. Then the salary was rig, the post office moved into drug store, and 50 different men began to itch to boss tue mail bags. It was Moses Jackson who made the fust move. One day he went over to Tobias Browns house, and out into the back yard where To bias was mendin' hoe, and arter sum talk about fish, crabs aud the weather he suddenly says:
 'Look-a-yere, Tobias, but 'sposin' the mayor of New York should cum down to Squan Creek to go out crabbin'?''
 ''Lordy!" gasped Tobias as he looked up.
 The mayor of New York is heap of a feller-almost as much of a feller as the president of the United States. t
 "Yes, I know"
 "If he was to cum down here to go out crabbin' he'd expect to be met at the train and welcomed. Sum one would hey to make a speech and take him home to dinner. The man 10 do it is the postmaster. He's supposed to be the biggest man in Squan Creek. Tobias Brown, will you jist imagine SalathieI Green maxim burnin speech of welcome to the mayor of New York city, and afterwards entertainin' him at dinner!"
 
 "Snaix and snails, but he never could do it-neveris whispered Tobias as he turned pale clear back to the ears
 'Of course he couldn't. He never made speech in his life, and as fur dinner his wife would cook corned beef and 'taters and think 'em good huff fur anybody. It would jest be the death- blow of squan Creek. Not one of us
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common in Sonora and elsewhere in Mexico. This shrub, shown in the ac- eompanying illustration, which is re- produced from photograph taken by MT. Bell, is not even known to botan- ists, so far as can be learned
 In statement concerning his discov- ery,which accompanies the photograph herewith produced, Mr Bell says: ssThe shrub, purely native of Mexico, is to be found in different localities in the Sierra Madre range, growing most luxuriantly at an altitude of from 1000 to 5000 feet. My investigations con cerning the period during which it has been in use have been very exhaustive, and l have found that legends of the Yaquis carry its use back for centuries.
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.srhe lndians.tell me that they have

'grhe Indians.tell me that they have never known an instance where it failed, and this is particularly wonder full when you stop to think that in Sonora the bite of many animals pro duees hydrophobia. As a result, the I1s- dians have suffered greatly from this malady, and I really cannot imagine what they would Lave done without the secret Of the shrub.
 My attention was first called to the shrub during q journey through the mountains in search of vegetable spe- cies containing medical qualities. have spent the greater portion of the last four years in the mountains and on the plains of New Mexico and Ari- zona and in the states of Chihuaaua and Sonora, all the time seeking the truth about this shrub.
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THE FORELOCK OF TINE
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 The farmer who overlook me on tRs highway and offered me a lift in Hs wagon had a gravestone lying on ts straw in the bottom, and after littl1 got around 10 express my sorrowthai death had invaded his family circle
 "Ohl l heven't had no deaths in t4s family" he cheerfully replied.
 Then the stone is for q neighb9H perhaps?"
 "No, not that. It's for my famiEE right enough-but none of lem needs jest yet. Can't you see the readln E it?''
 And looking more closely l saw tha' it read: Sacred to the memory of -5
 , who died on the 18th of Augus1 1885," That's rather curious l said as turned to the smiling and complace9' farmer. Wall, mebbe," he laughed. "As said, the stone ain't needed yet, but ' takin' time by the forelock. But it reads the 18th of August
 'I know it does, and that's all rlslg On the 18th of August Jim sWIPeS comin' over to my place from Dem ' run a foot race with my son Dal Dan1 has got a great gait on nlni' i,il has, but Jim Swipes he thinks nc s n,a beat him five yards in hunui' We've got ten dollars nit
 'But what about the graFestoails,. ,..4. "Don't git impatient. If oanl ss@d Dsr, Jim then Jim will jump up ana uyg il.I and cuss everybody fur ten nal's1 N around. If Jim beats Dan'l it won sas \ no fair show. Dan'l will Wno0p = yell and nobody kin hold him.
 There will be a row, eh?' ,.,.oa,
 asartin to be. Jim will bey his frlena' ,' there, and I've got five boys anqa iooar, Pe, good crowd besides. II Dan ..1swil to be licllin' Jim then Jim's frienas ,sssr, @,. raise a yell and pitch in. | Jl.H .ids MI to be downin' Dan'l then our sla n fol throw down thar hats anu glory" ,. crave
 And you don't know who 'ns stone is for?" .5 needi 'sNo, sah. If one O Jims eions 1a. f ont it I'll sell it fur what t cost llsi 4 ln at O my crowd needs it Ell tnIoT ,4 Torterbi a gift. It jest struck me thas a.,,og 7 vaY prepared fur d climax eilngl nagIl.abonl Stranger, will you be around nS's the 18th of August" ,io5
 q d,oa't think shall, ] , fsP''s come ta
 If you happen to be yoa y ' op yot the race. I shall sorter eeup rov. bu' to take my side in case oi .ds nS and bt if you'd ruther sot on the fenSs V Yes neutral nobody won't blame me lime D sah, it jest struck me to lans s.yestops the foreloelz and buy that ,e gaaf off apd and if the foot race don't Z. eoa. nside agE' nobody is killed, I'll lay .,asia Il a a camp 1neetin' or q huskin D's
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A NEW WAVE MOTOR.
The Invention Of n London Maj, That Promises Much.
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 A well-known member of the Me chanics' Institute of Civil Engineering of London, Mr B. Morley Teacher has actually invented and is experimenting with motor which obtains it's power of propulsion from the waves of the ocean.
 For very many years the utilization of the power to be derived from the rising and falling motion of the waves has been a fascinating subject for in yentors.
 This tells the idea of the action of the new wave power motor. If a straight object such as walking stick is pushed vertically in the water little resistance is offered by the fluid, but if a small disc of any rigid material is af- fixed to the end of the stick consider able resistance will result, the amount depending upon the size of the disc. In the case of this wave motor the stick is in reality a long tube, having at it's upper extremity piston working in the cylinder attached to a floating buoy. The disc with tube attached is so constructed that when detached
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A pEAp cARMATIoN.

 Leonard Contemplnfes Che Confe hts
 ef Desk Drawer
 The desk drawer opened, eXhaied an oaor of faded flowers.
 ..Let us plunge into the atmosphere of sweet memories" said Leonard.
 Wife absent, Leonard, addressing Bayard. his most intimate friend, indi- cated withered blossoms. Faded and grown musty in the lapse of years, they reposed at the bottom of the desk drawer.
 "This lily said Leonard, signing, twas the flower given me by Blanche, my first love, when I took from her lips ,a timid kiss. She was as white as its inn peecable petals, fragrant as it's pure cofolla, graceful as it's dropping stem, and who knows what might not have happened had she not died in the bloom of youth"
 And the rose 2. added Bayard.
 "Ah, that was later," said Leonard, with burst of laughter. "Rosette gave me that when she first brushed my lips with her own. The petals were once rosy as her warm being. and the flowers beauty was radiant and amorous as her young womanhood. If she had not been fielde she might now be my wife"
 And the orehid?" queried Bayard.
 'Hippolyta presented me with that" said Leonard, thoughtfully, "when she saw me trembling in adoration at her feet. Time was when it had the mystic charm of her own personality, and if a Russian nobleman had not eloped with her I should still be her devoted slave"
 Bayard discovered a bunch of faded violets.
 And these?" he interrogated.
 "They were the flowers" murmured Leonard sadly, (which Etienette sent me when I had treated her brutally, be lieving that she had deceived me. She was demure and tender as the blooms. and, after the storm of my passion, she came like peaceful sprite to pour beauty and love into my life. Had she forgiven me it might have been.
 At this point Leonard interrupted himself, seizing angrily dead carna- ton
 .'NEhy is this flower here?" he cried; ''it has no place among the precious memories. Away with it at once!"
 In moment the unresisting carna- tion was reduced to dust under his pit Hess foot
 'sWhy do you destroy it ?a questioned Bayard.
 Because it is the earnation Emilia gave me when she said she would be my wife," said Leonard, cynieally. "and I married her."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
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from the buoy and placed in the water it will just float with few feet of the tube vertically out of the water.
 When the whole apparatus is placed in the water the disc sinks to.its nor nal position below the surface and the buoy floats on the waves. As the waves rise and fall the buoy follows suit, but the resistance of the sunken disc is so great that it practically re- mains stationary. As a consequence the buoy with the cylinder attached moves up and down the piston attached to the disc and the power thus obtained measured by the resistance of the disc may be utilized at will.
 There are, of course. several details such as pipes and valves, into the uses of which it is unnecessary to enter. There are innumerable ways in which such q motor may be employed, such as in supplying the motive power for elec- tric lighting in seaport towns, pumping sea water into tanks for street water ing and the continuous blowing of siren whistles or foghorns on danger ous parts ot the coast.
 The wave motor idea has been once or twice brought to the experimental stage in this country. The nearest ap- proaeh to success was made by ex- Mayor Adolph Sutro in San Francisco, who had a wave motor that really ac- complished something. No one seemed to care to buy if, however, neither did Mir. Sutro give evidence of being aEe 10 utilize it, and so 1t practically passed into oblivion.
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'In connection with this it is interest," ing to know that in Chihuahua and Sonora there are any quantity of herbs of superior medical qualities, many of which have been in use by the Indian tribes in crude fashion for very long time. A number of these are not known to the medical world at all, as near as can learn, as specimens of them have been SC difficult to secure. owing to the great danger to which ex- ploring parties have been exposed up to the time of the signing of the peace treaties by the Indians. l have been fortunate enough to be of service to the Indians on several occasions. and this accounts for the protection afford. ed me-
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WHlPPlNG-PosT FOR BOYS.
An Indiana Justice Ha. Made It's Use
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 Effective.
 Copyright, 1S98.l
 It has been left to an Indiana police justice 10 discover an ingenious use for the whipping post. He utilizes it to discipline small boys. and so far it's operations are declared to have been beneficial. Judge Winfrey is the jurist and Evansville Gnd) the place. For some time the judge has been puzzled to decide what to do with the young sters who are brought before him for offenses that were not criminal in them selves, but were in the nature of disor- derly conduct, resulting from the in- ability of parents to control the chil- dren.
 Reprimands served no purpose unless to make the bad boys think that they could easily escape punishment, and so the judge, after thinking it over, de- cided on this method of enforcing the law and parental discipline at the same time.
 The judge was often compelled to make the best of the unpleasant knowledge that the bad boys fines were paid by the hard working and sober fathers. So he arranged to infict this
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THE JOKE DIDN'T V,
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 Just as the stage road oT.,
 tain made a sharp turn to t la' m taught sight of a grave asa '9 9ae fig board and when the driver N. raae about it he replied: Y 3as
 That's the grave of Ji,, old frien@ of mine, who was l,ii'l gaF1' thar two vars ago" .aS Aliledf
 "Kilied by Indians ?gI asl...
 "No, sir. No Injuns aronsa nsa' kill anybody" s'4o yefe
 "A bear, perhaps?o
 No, sir. Pore old Jim was n. a joke, and In not feeiis, e's Killed il yit. I was col4in' over this s3,y 9sya ab1 five passengers, and when '1 r.s fail down at Murphy's fur di5ne. ~ a'pi to-day, one of the passengers a saas ne and sez: = comes
 Tom, mebbe ye hey r.a Teller among us with the red u g1.., and loud voice? He's sassr @llsk sull O brag, and we want x Slo @ him into the dust v nOnd
 How ye goin' to do its e.,
 We'll put up a job on him s1 = < 9te's blowin' around that tbi. s,a .,19 can't be robbed while he's alope yoarll git somebody to hold ,9ug as u humble old red whiskers wen m.5. ap E a purse of $5o.'" 4'Ae
 'It was to be a joke? ?o opeqi.a
 'Yes, joke on the old red.pb;s, g. man. replied the driver. aIim r'sesl p happened to be thar that dar he was a great hand fur a joke I aas ans the job with him. I gin him b.is rg hour the start and then folleraa as'' aa as soon as we started the nasss1sI began to work up the man. Hs \ a couple O guns with him. and I oa1 h'ar him blowin' and blufiD, as to wd he would do if tine stage was stona1 It jest ticl1led me, fur Jim was an IT raI lookin' kuss and had a voice mn \ like the growl of a bar. ealksrl,1 he'd make redrwhiskers go down in I butes at the fust yell"
 Well, the stage reached the turn said.
 .It naeherally did. sah. When reached the turn I slowed m lo. and Jim jumped out and yelled hands up. Ipulled up the horses spd hollered fur the passengers to git doa Lord, how Jim hollered You co; hey heard him two miles away Eysi body got down, and the passengers the joke purtended to be balf-skeert death"
 eBut how about red-whiSkers?7
 Fur about a mint or two he 'peaI to be ready to collapse, but then pulled himself together and it was | fur poor Jim Burns. He had gun both hands. and he opened fire and sl to kill. I don't know how many bull he fired into Jim, but it wasn't les six, and then he put in half an ht scoutin' around to see if any more T bers was at handn
 @Then the joke was not q success?
 Not sl1assly, sah-not skassly. I my $50, but Jim Burns is lyin' b. thar, while the red-wbiskered man so mad about the put-up job that drfv all the other passengers out of stage and made 'em walk 15 mi I'm great hand fur a joke, sah, bl nin't jokin' no more-not with T whiskered men. They may be gr hands to brag, but they is also loal fur bar.
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sentence upon refractory youngsters that came before him: They should be taken to a cell in the prison, where they must submit to sound foggings by the fathers in the presence of one of the officials of the court or prison.
 1t seemed next to impossible to en- force a sentence of this sort, but the judge was pleasantly surprised by the exceeding willingness of the fathers 10 help carry it out. When the pun ishment was imposed the prisoner was taken to the specially assigned cell and trieed up-that is, fastened to the bars of the cell. Next his father was given stout leather strap and told to infict the sentence of the court. Not single father has declined to take this action as yet.
 Recently the Humane society of Evansville had the matter brought to their attention, fl being stated to them that the walls of the boy prisoners could often be heard in the rear of the city prison. So the society felt com pellcd 10 interfere, thinking that the punishment was inhuman and not beftting the crime, but the police court adhered to it's policy, asserting that it was less inhuman to give a bad boy wel-deseryed thrashing than it was to compel hard-working father to spend one or two weeks wages in get ting him out of trouble, not counting the deprivation to his family that ex- penditnre called for.
 The Humane society yielded and Evansville's bad boys are turning over new leaves.
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4 slieht niRerence.

Diggs-I just finished reading an ac- count of how they burned heretics at the stake in ancient times. Such bar barism would not be tolerated in this enlightened age.
 Biggs-No, indeedl The modern her etic is let off with a roast in the reli- gious journals. n Chicago Evening News.
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CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBiA.
It Hns Been Discovered Among the Yaqui Indians of Mexico.
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 For more than hundred years it has been known that the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico, possessed vegetable specific remedy for hydrophobia abso- lutely sure to cure and not in the least degree poisonous.
 Every effort has been made, partieu- larly of late years, to induce some member of the tribe to part with the knowledge of the remedy, but until re- gently attempts failed. At last, how ever, an American, Mr. J. s. Bell, has succeeded in penetrating this carefully guarded secret. The specific now proves to have been taken from shrub quite
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She Came 3o sfndv Farminm

Mme. Bokaseif Russian lady who is at present in America. studying the farming and dairy business, and who is an expert in saaHower cultivation, says she keeps farm for the special rearing If the sunfower in her native country and that relative of hers was the first to obtain oil from the seed. She is resolved, should she find in the states tract with soil and climate con ditions favorable to the growth of the plant, to start the cultivation of the sunfiower on an extensive scale. and also to erect mills for the extraction of the oil.--London Echo.
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The only way some men have of showing what political party receives their support is by putting up bills for -seSsin2s.- Washington Democrat.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-03


a minute. II q fast cruiser like the
Minneapolis were steaming ahead at
full speed q torpedo aimed directly
against at her broadslde at q distance
Of half n mile would pass fully a third
OF q mile astern. Even q slow-moylng
vessel like the battleshIp Massachu-
sets could rapidly steam several hum
dred yards forward or back TO evade a
torpedo discharged at this range. As
war vessels at sea are always In mo-
tlon, the difficulty OF hitting such mov-
ing marks may readily be perceived.
Moreover, the entire secondary battery
of any OF our war-ships has an effective
range of considerable over q half mile.
Any approaching boat would advance
through n hail OF shot and shell which
would almost certainly wreck the as
saIlant IL an attack In the daytime
were attempted.
Our naval commanders are alert and
wary: no possible p%recaution will be
neglected which might warn our fleet
of the approach OF q flotilla OF torpedo
boats. 1t appears at present as II our
navy were more than likely to suffer
from the undertaking OF the compara-
tive service Of the heavily plated and
armed cruisers Of Spain than from any
advance OF the dreaded torpedo-boa
f1otilla.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-03

Brumby. flag lieutenant; Ensign H. II.
Caldwell, secretary.
Olympia. flagshlp-Captain. Charles
v. GriGiey; lieutenant COMMANDER, S.
c. Paine; l!eutenants.. C. G. Calkins, ".
S. Nelson, G. s. Morgan, w. G. Miller
and S. NJ. Strife; ensigns, NJ. NJ. Taylor,
F. b. Upham. W. P. Scott and A. G.
Kavanagh; medical Inspector, A,SF.
Price: passed assistant surgeon, j.. e.
Page; assistant surgeon, C. p. KIrdle-
berger; pay inspector, D. A.. Smith;
chief engineer. j. Entwlstle: assistant
engineers. L. II. De Lany and j. +.
Marshall. jr.; chaplain, j. b. FRAZIER;
captain of marines, w. P. Biddle; gun
ncr. L. j.. G. kuhlweln; carpenter. W.
Mcdonald; acting boatswaln. E. ].
Norcott.
United States Steamship Raleigh
Captain. J.. 3. Coghlan; lieutenant COM.
mander, T. Singer; l~leutenants. W..
Winder, 3. Tappan. H. Redman, c. 3.
Morgan; enslgns. T. L.. Chadwick, p.
BabIn; surgeon, Z. II. Marstcller; as
slstant surgeon, d. N. Carpenter: passed
assistant surgeon, S. T.: Heap; chief
engineer, f. II. Bailey: passed assistant
engineer. A. s. Halstead: assistant en-
gineer, j.. r. Brady: first lieutenant Of
marines. T. c. Treadwell: acting gum
ner, G. D. Johnstone; acting carpenter,
T. =. K!ley.
United States Steamship BOSTON,
Captain, T. Wildes; lieutenant COM
mander, j.. A. Norris; lieutenants. J..
Gibson, W. L. Howard; enslgns, S. s.
Robinson, L. H. Everhart, J.. s. Dodd-
ridge; surgeon. n. II. Crawford; assist
mt surgeon. r. S. Brakeman; pay1nas-
ter, J.4R. Martin: chief engineer. G. q.
Ronsom; assistant engineer, L. It.
James; first lieutenant of marines, r.
Mem. Dutton: gunner, j. c. Evans;
carpenter. o. II. Hilton.
United States Steamship Baltimore
Captain, N. NJ. Dyer; lieutenant com
mander. G. Dlockllnger; ~lieutenants,
W. BrauBersreuthcr. a. G. Wlnterhni-
ter, +. W. Kellogg. J.. NJ. ELLIOTT, G, s.
S,anworth; ensIgns. G. II. Hayward, NJ.
J.. Mccormack; naval cadets. D. W..
wurtsbaugh. L. q Wettenzell, c.. NJ.
Tozer, II. A. Carney. passed assistant
surgeon, i. a. heslcr; assistant sur
gcon, Il. *. Smith; pay inspector. T..
Bellows; chief engineer, Il. Kirby: as
sistnnt engineers. II. b.: Price, II. I.
Conc; naval cadet (cngincer), C. y.
Burt: chaplain, T. S. *. Freeman; first
lieutenant OF marinos, D. Williams;
Ar i'll. mHH- LE#
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-03

MD ....aa .aHNn. .'MH. H".. #r. f.n|#." |I.H'
acting boatswaln. II. r. Brayton: gun
ner, l.. j. Connolly: carpenter, o. Bath.
United States Steamship Concord
Commander. a. S. Walker; lieutenant
commander. G.. P. C~olvocoresses: leu
tenants, I. B. Howard, p. w. Hourlgan;
ensigns, L. A. Kiser, w. s. Davidson,
H. ". Butler, jr.. O.. s. Knepper; passed
assistant surgeon, r. q. Broderisk;
passed assistant %paymaster, Z. d.
Ryan; chief engineer, Richard Inch;
passed assistant engineer. H, ". Jones;
assistant engineer. E. H. Dunn.
United States Steamship Petrel-Com-
mander. E. P. Wood; %lieutenants, E. VI.
Hughes, B. a. Ffske. A. n. Wood, C. P.
,Plunkett; ensigus, G. L. Fernier, w. 8.
Montgomery; passed assistant surgeon,
C. D. Brownell: assistant paymaster,
G.. @. Selbels; passed assistant engin-
Ger. r. T. Hall.
Revenue Cutter Nice
d. b. Hodgdon.