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Buysrs ., BOOK sales.

1.-TWO things are noteworthy about
the book sales Of this CITY," remarked
man who has made it a practice to
attend old book sales. zone is the
almost entire absence OF middle class
Of buyers, such as we find In the Euro.
pean countries. Abroad, all classes
who can afford it buy books. Here,
aside from the retail booksellers, all
the buyers belong to one OF two
classes; rich men who can afford to bny
anything, and poverty stricken biblio.
philes who are willing to give mp their
last dollar for choice velume. Men
Of comfortable incomes seem TO prefer
to buy Of the regular retail dealers.
'"The other curious fact IL the
amount Of buying done under assumed
names. After sale In over II is often
impossible for the auctioneer to say
what has become Of the volumes hs
has sold. He may have his suspicious
that John Smith, the extensive buyer.
IL really Mr.. So and no, but he seldom
knows positively. Rich men seem 10
have been driven to this course TO %.
cape the prosecutions Of the army Of
persons who have books 10 sell. -
New York Post.
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WORDS OF wisDoM.

Ruins are milestones on the road OF
time. .-Chamfort.
There is never but one opportunity
of kind. --Thoreau.
True education enlargcs in thought,
feeling and purpose. - Rousseau.
To learn of fault is an opportunity
to add new line OF beauty to the life.
Miller.
A judicious silence is always better
than truth spoken without charity. -
Francis De Sales.
How much you read is OF less conse-
quence than how much you think OF
what you have read. Dickens.
If every person would be half az
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what heaven this world would bel
Talmage.
All great natures delight in stability;
all great men find eternity affirmed III
the very promise of their faculties.-
Emerson.
He who has high standard of liv-
ing and thinking will certainly do bet
ter than he who has none at ALL
Samuel Smiles.
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained than this: that when the injury
begins on his part, the kindness should
begin on ours.-Davis.
Men seldom, or, rather, never, for
length Of time and deliberately re-
bel against anything that does not de-
serve rebelling against. t.-Carlyle.
One thing is clear to me, that no
indulgence of passion destroys tho
spiritual nature 80 much as respccta-
BILE selfishness. George Macdonald.
Do not live in the clubland OF some
transcendental heaven: do your best
to bring the glory Of real heaven
down, and ray it ont upon your fel.
lows IN this work-day world. Pun.
shon.
by doing each duty fully as IL comes
we qualify for more light and greater
aptitude for succeeding duties. Faith.
fulness day by day in small things will
make MS keen TO recognize the divine
voice with reference to greater things,
--Chapman.
We are apt to underrate tho mora
quality of mans regular vocation
his daily talk, his business, to lool
somewhere apart from this for his OPP
rortunity for achieving character ant
doing good. But there is nothing else
that is 30 determinative OF n man,
character, nothing else that 80 fur
nishes hands for his benehcence aud
feet to run his errands Of good will
John w. Chadwick.
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The 0.n,l. Art Of wlnklnr,

When you have mastered the gentle
art of winking," said Lord Beacons.
field, ''you hold the key to success in
your hands"
Everyone's personality is made up
of trivial failings aud trivial talents.
Foster the good qualities In your
friends and snbordinates and wink at
those failings no dear to their posses.
sors. Not to see everything is u rule
which will strengthen friendships aud
help You to get tho best results from
your llow.workers.
"He is no good" said the great
Napoleon Of ono OF his officers; "hc
is continually looking into the pri.
Yates stew.pot!"
want man who can keep his
eye on the ultimate result and ignore
little failings. never mind how aggra.
vating," said Nelson. And General
Gordon once remarked that the man
who lost his temper because . pri.
Yates bootlace was tied loosely on the
day Of battle did more to lose tho day
than oil the cnemy's guns.-Answers.
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villa, Nigh. Ia Saved.

Tho Office of road inquiry in the
Department OF Agriculture has esti.
mated that over 5000. 900, 900 might
be saved annually in the United States
by the construction OF good roads.
The statistics Of tho Department OF
Agriculture show tho total amount OF
oil kinds OF grain raised in the United
States. The amount consumed on the
farms was estimated as being Offset by
large amount OF other articles
hauled by farmers on the public roads.
I3y reducing this all to tons and using
their inquiries into the cost Of haul.
ing one ton as basis, II was found
that tho total cost Of hsuIage amount
cd to s04G, ,414.6 .6G5, and that two
thirds Of this enormous amount might
bo saved each year.
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GOOD ROADS NOTES |
New York,s Road Material.

New York's Road Material.
The State OF New York Enjoys on
decided advantage in the work OF con
structing improved roads in the fac
that it contains, within it's own limit
and pretty well distributed through
out its area, an ample supply OF frs
rate raw material. There are doubt.
less other States as fully blest in thi,
respect, and ihere are certainly many
others not thus blest. On the whole
it is doubtful if any other State with
so great proportionate extent ol
level and arabic land has SO abundant
and we'll distributed a supply Of road
making material.
There are few counties in the State
in which quarries of good road stone
are not now in operation. and there
are still fewer in which such quarries
might not profitably be opened. On
Long Island there is, we believe, no
quarry, strictly speaking, but there
are numerous deposits of gravel and
powders, which may be utilized for
roadmaking with admirable results.
The Hudson River region is thickly
dotted with quarries of limestone,
granite and trap. In the Catskill and
Shawangunk mountains and along the
Delaware and Susquehanna rivers and
their tributaries bluestone is plentiful,
with liberal admixture of sandstone
and limestone. Along the Mohawk
Valley and the line of the Erie Canal,
clear to Lake Erie, sandstone and
limestone abound. as they do north
ward, on Lake Ontario and the St.
Lawrence River. In the lake region
and the Southern Tier sandstone is
the chief material, with here and
there an outcropping of bluestone.
We are not sure that there is more
than one county in the State outside
of Long Island in which there is not
quarry of one of these kinds of
stone in operation. And wherever
such quarry exists nothing is needed
but stone crusher to enable the out
putting of first rate material for i'm
proved roads.
The value of these different stones
for roadmaking varies, of course, but
they are all good. Trap and granite
are, no doubt, the best, the former
because of its unrivaled binding or
self-cementing qualities. and the lat
ter because of it's hardness and dura-
bility. Limestone has fine binding
properties, but is too soft to with
stand heavy traffic. Bluestone and
other varieties Of sandstone are not
particularly hard, and have almost
no binding qualities. 1t is evident,
however, that these less desirable
stones may proiitably be combined
with other kinds. and that thus road
may be made which will be better
than any Of any single kind of stone;
while of course the poorest of them.
used alone, will make an incompara-
bly, better road than mere clay and
loan. New York Tribune.
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DrifiwooI In Alaska.

One OF the greatest curiosities no.
ted by travellers in Alaska is the won.
derful haven Of driftwood on the const
between Yakatag and Kyak Islands,
some 1900 or 1900 miles northwest from
Seattle. The constant deposit Of logs
and driftwood in this particular spot,
which has been going on for hundreds,
nay, perhaps Thousands OF years, il
due to the phenomena OF the tides,
the Pacific Gulf Stream. the mysteri.
Gus ocean currents and the peculiar
formation Of the shore lines mt that
point. Logs and timbers ara readily
identified there rs having come from
japan, China, India and other parts
OF Asia, as well M from California,
Washington and other parts Of the
American continent.
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rrnanerr. Of Now Hooks.

According TO u recent writer, Gren,
Britain produces fewer than third oi
tho number Of new books published
by Germany, not many more than
half OF tho new books produced by
France, and considerably under the
total produced by Italy. Tho mum.
bers given are: Germany, 24.0O0
new books per year; France. 10000;
Italy. $500; Great Britain, 1900;
United States, $500; Netherlands,
1900. II. however. England IL thus
low IN the general production Of new
books, sho leads In tho production Of
novels, heading tho list with 2i38.
Germany leads In educational works
with 5442, arts and sciences with
2D38, bellies lettres with 2453, and
travel with 1889; while Italy leads Ia
political economy with 1904 and
France In history with 1104.--Tit.
Bits.
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Food Elements 4. Fruit.

Sugar. starch. gum, dextrine,
pectine. saccharihable cellulose, or.
ganic acids and other extractive mat.
ters are. together with water, tho
chief elements In pulp fruits. The
sugar IL assimilable. and IL . food.
Fruits which contain most Of II, ss
bananas. dates aud figs, are true
hydrocarbonsted foods. Extractive
matters are also nourishing, but In q
less degree. ~ they are not no diges.
tibls. With these aud other rare OK.
ceptions, however, fruits. In tho
opinion Of NJ. Ballnnd, are little nutri.
tive, and cannot be considered q
foods. Their juices which please NJ
by their smell or acidity are condi.
ments rather than foods. London
Globe.
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ELECTRICITY IN CHURCHES.
The Most Modcrn Appliances BrouKh
Into Use In These Edifices.

Into Use In These Edihces.
Electricity is put to various uses il
churches; in no other buildings il
fact it is moro commonly employed
In this city all new churches are pro
vided with electrical equipment; ant
many old churches, also, have beer
similarly equipped. The same i,
substantially true of all cities and
towns in which there are TO DO found
electric plants. Some churches have
complete plants OF their own OH the
premises, but the greater number take
the current from the street main.
Besides its use for lighting pur.
poses electricity is commonly en-
ployed in churches for running a
motor to operate the organ bellows
This motor can be set i'll motion, or
stopped, by the organist as lio sits in
his place at the keyboard, simply by
the turning of switch; and, in opera
ton, it accommodates itself to the
demands upon it, running slower
when the bellows is full, aud faster
again, MS it is emptied.
In the newer churches-and snch
appliances have also been put into
older churches-the organ itself is
provided with electrical appliances by
means of which the valves of the or
gan pipes are opened. Formerly this
was done by means of mechanical ap-
pliances that were operated by tho
pressing down OF the key. Now, each
key is connected by wire with the
valve of the pipe to which it belongs,
and when key is pressed down its
wire is brought into contact with u
supply wire running along under the
keyboard, the circuit is closed, and
by means of the power thus trans
mitted along the wire from the key
the valve is opened. 1t is, of course,
kept open until the contact is broken
by the release of the key. Organs
set up in separate sections in church
are connected by wire in the same
manner and readily played from the
same Keyboard and the new organs,
however situated in q church. arc now
likely to be provided with electrical
keyboards.
Church chimes are now played by
electricity from keyboard like that
of a piano or organ. at which the
player sits with the music before him.
Chime playing us formerly done. by
the pressing down Of levers. to which
cords running to the bells We're at
tached, called for very considerable
exertion on the part of the player;
now the heaviest as well as the light
est bell is rung by simply pressing 4
key. York Sun.
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NEvApA,s "prArtl SPRING. !.
Men and Animals Fsit victins to
Poikonotl Watars

Men and Animals fa1t yictIna to
Poisoned waters.
The death Of Robert Watson. !
tie man, after drinking OF the vat (
Of death Spring." in the Rabi,
Hole mountains, again brings III
prominence this terror Of Nevsd,
stockmen. The spring is situated /
Humboldt county, Nevada. Its vs.
ters are SO impreguated with arseuic
that death results to most creature
that drink from it. Running from
the spring is tiny stream, clear a.
crystal, which sinks into the eroun,. I.
about . hundred yards from the
spring. Along the banks of this
stream are to be found the bones of
hundreds OF small animals, and even
Of deer, sheep and cattle that have
drank OF the water and died.
Stockmen have built high fence
about the spring and. 80 far 81 posi-.
BILE, have enclosed the stream. It
seems impossible, however, to keep
stock from drinking the water. Stu
ated many miles from any other water
supply, cattle will get to II, no matter
what precautions are taken to prevent
bu0hs 4A0huA 0Ao Va hO0h "a otoCA are
lost each year on account Of it.
Watson had lived in the vicinity
for quarter OF century and was
well aware of the fatal properties of
the spring. He was out hunting
stock when he became separated from
his companions. He lost his horse
and was obliged to follow them on
foot.
The second day after his mishap,
after being nearly thirty hours with
ont water, he reached the spring. His
thirst was overpowering and, in his
partial delirium, he drank of the pois-
onous water, much the same a. ship
wrecked sailors drink from the ocean
when their thirst becomes unbearable.
His friends, who had expected him to
overtake them every hour, had, in the
meantime, concluded that some mis-
hap had occurred, and turned back
to look for him. They found him
shortly after he had drunk of the
deadly waters. He was still alive, but
suffering the greatest agony. All that
could be done in the desert te relieve
him was done, but without avail. He
died within an hour after his COM
panions found him.
A similar spring is to be found be-
tween Mountain Meadow and Susan
vile, Lassen county, California. The
waters of this spring and the stream
that runs from it are green and unin-
viting, unlike those of the Nevada
spring in this respect. The bones of
many deer, cattle, sheep and wild
animals that have tasted of the water
of spring or stream are to be found
in the vicinity. Stockmen have built
n seven-foot board fence around the
spring, and on top of the fence have
put several lines of barbed wire, that
stock may be kept from it.
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A SONG FOR THE OLD YEAR.

Yes. sing a song for him. my friends
Tho year is lonely nowl
Tho frost and rime OF winter-time,
Lie thick on beard and brow.
To had his faults, his fobles, too,
His follies. doubts, and fears;
ret, take him NIL In all, tits true
He brought moro smiles than tears.
So we will speak him fair, my friends,
We loved him we'll. you know,
And sing the good old year u song
Before we let him 30.
Oh. shall we sing how blithe be seemed
The night when first he came.
Whom bells were ruDG, and songs were sung,
To usher in his name?
How spring time met him in her bowers
Festooned with garlands gay.
And sn MINER strewed his path with flowers,
And lured him on his way?
Aud though among the Joys he brought
There lurlsed some dregs of woe,
Well sing the goud old year song
Before we let him 20!
or, when the bearded grain grew ripe
And harvest songs went round
II. swung his blade in sun aud shade
Tiil all tho wheat was bound.
He led US through the golden sheaves,
Aud through the ripcniny shocks,
And twiued tho first bright autumn leaves
Among his tnncleI locks.
Oh. then tho year was in his prime,
But row his step is slow,
And we VIII sing q song Tor MIN
Before we let him 20!
'Tis true he robbed us in his flight,
And took from form or face
Some touch OF color or of light,
Some trick of air or grace
AMI ia their stead, perchance, he dropped
wrinkle here and there.
Or traced upon the once smooth brow
Some lines OF gr!ct or care.
But still we II cherish in our hearts
The year we've learned to know
And sin; a song for him. my friends,
Before we let him 30,
What though he left some folded page
No eye may .'er divine?
Or In the heart. some bnrbed dart
OF which We make no signe
Though some sweet chord, whose numbers
thrilled
Our being to the core,
Is hu-hed and mite, its music stilled,
To thro5 FOR MS no more.
The memory OF tina. silent voice
Cling- TO the yelr we know.
Aud we Will ~ln: song for him
Before we let him yoi
Helen Whitney Clark.
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deeply hurt. There seemed to be no
reason, no excuse, for such neglect.
| To think that this, their first separa-
tion in so many years, should be un-
abridged by word!
1t was the way Of men, and he, il
seems, was no better than the rest OF
them. Once out of her sight he for.
got-forgot all the love aud daily de-
votion Of forty-two years.
By Saturday morning Mrs. Allies
tree was ill--ill enough to go to bed.
Jimmy had to fetch both posts, and
after delivering in person the first
one, which consisted of papers only,
he vowed to Molly that he would not
approach Mrs. Allestree again while
Mr.. Allestree was away.
All day Sunday Mrs. Allestree lay
silent in dark chamber. Molly could
not get word from her, nor would
she eat.
But by Monday morning she was
suffering torments once more. She
felt that if Jimmy returned without
either Joseph or letter she would
surely die, and indeed she nearly died
as it was.
When the wheels sounded again up
on the gravel Mrs. Allestree sat up in
bed. She was winter than her hair.
No voices were heard below. She
clutched her heart and gasped. But
presently door opened and step
came up the stairs. 1t was the step
of Joseph. As he entered the room
she fell back among the pillows.
MY dear Henrietta, what's all
this?" He looked around almost &C.
cusingly upon the two frightened
women, as if he had caught them in
the act of assassinating their mistress
Joseph, you might have sent me
one little line!'
Henrietta, wrote to you every
day, and sometimes twice day."
They stared at each other.
but never got a solitary letter, +"
rhe said, presently. 81 sent to every
delivery-went myself until / became
i'll. Mr.. Framwell said there was
nothing from you. 1t nearly killed
me, Joseph" "
However" he muttered, "they
Henrietta, have it, Wait I'll be
pack lu twenty minutes, ana the
gentleman fairly ran ont of the room.
He laughed all the way downstairs,
and she heard his hah-hahs between
his shouts for Jimmy to bring bacl,
the trap. In few minutes they
ratified out of the grounds, aud within
the time he mentioned they ratified
back again. Mr. Allestree tore breath
less up the stairs, bursting boy fash
ion into his wife's room. He carried
package of letters, which he spread
out in circle on the bed. There
were fourteen of them, aud every
one was addressed to Miss Henrietta
Shower"
For short space nothing was said,
and then the two aged lovers began
to laugh, and they laughed until they
cried.
Joseph" she said, 'its very
funny, very, but it was almost the
death of me. How did you come to
do it?"
why, Henrietta, love, when /
once got out Of your dear, familiar
presence the old days came back COM
pletely. You were little Retta Shower,
an1-n
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Senator lssverIde, s.ld.

''You look like o very young man.,
said some ono TO Senator Beveridge,
Of Indiana, In tho Senate corridor .
few days ago.
"Yes." said Bcveridge. with the or
OF one who has made Apatient investi'
CATION, II am I've years younger than
was Alexander Hamilton when he wss
appointed Secretary Of the Treasury,
and am four years younger than
Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the
Declaration Of Independence. To be
sure, Henry Clay, when he was elected
Speaker, WAS"
AZ this point the Senators voice bad
AIDED away and he had disappeared
lround 2 corner Of the lobby. .-wash-
(ugton Post.
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And it was not sent to soften wrinkles
either. She wore as many of these
ornaments as it is legitimate to wear
at orty-eight and no more. oh, she
was certainly wonderful woman for
her age, was Mrs. Joseph Allestree.
Her husband had been in town,
and was late TO dinner.
Mr.. Allestree, after embracing his
wife. as if he had Just returned from
years journey, went in with her to
dinner, and Mr.. Allestree was-but
will :.ot describe him; simply he was
everything that tine husband of Mrs.
Allestree should have been. Forty
two years had gone by since their
marriage, and in all that time they had
never been separated single day.
Dearest" said Mr.. Allestree, as
they sat down, II owe you an apology
for my hardness, but it couldn't be
helped. I got letter calling me
away on an important matter, and |
had to stop to attend TO some things
at the village. must go Immediately
to morrow"
''Oh, that Perley affair." she said,
glancing over the page
81 cannot, Henrietta It's got TO
be attended to at once"
''But, Joseph, you can't go without
me. You know you never did such q
thing
II am afraid / must do it this
time" he replied mournfully.
They sat in silence for some mo-
ments. Twice Mrs. Allestree wiped
away sly tear with her napkin. At
length, brayely assuming a cheerful
aspect. che asked
''How long will you be gomez"
II cant possibly reach London,
accomplish all want to aud get home
again in less than ten days"
''Joseph, it will kill MS both"
''Ah, no, my DEAR" he laughed
''i. won't do quite that-at least. /
hope not. 1t will be hard, very hard.
But think. my love, we were apart for
five long years once on Il time"
".ih, Joseph" with rob in her
voice, that was before we had eves
lived together We only knew each
other by letter, you know"
And n mighty comfort we did take
out of those same letters. Isn't il
strange ;ha. in two aud forty years we
should never have occasion to write to
one another? Not since you were
Henrietta Shower"
Mr.. Allesireo had gone AWAY early
on Saturday. Now it was Tuesday
Sho had managed to bc patient over
the Sabbath. but on Monday morning
when Jimmy came mp from Stonetoi
empty. handed she refused TO believe
That he had not dropped The letter oil
that tho postmaster had not over
looked it.
There were only two deliveries in
the tweniy.four hours, aud at the
evening the same performance was re
peated.
On Tuesday Mrs. Allestree wen
herself to Stoncton aud delivered 4
severe lecture TO the postmaster upoi
the general Indifference OF govern
ment officials. thereby greatly annoy
ing :hc poor man.
by tho middle Of the week he
whole mood changed. She felt hurt
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whl,. sf~nin A,n.i,u,

Not counting tho Aoating popula.
ton Of miners and fishermen aud lum.
bermen, which stays in Alaska only
from spring till early fall, or the vari.
ous tribes Of Indians, which are esti
mated 10 aggregate between 10000
aud 60, 900, the actual whitc resideptA
probably do not exceed ten thousand.
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oooooco3ooooooooooooooocc:
s LOVE is EVER YOUNG. s
Observation-Disclosures:

He had not the
least shame abont
telling her age.
On the contrary.
she was rath el'
proud to do so.
1t was something z
to be proud of.
Not that she was
sixty -four, but that
at sizty-four she
looked not a day
over forty-eight,
and q blooming
forty-eight at that.
True, her haii
was silver, but
what a waving
wealth OF silver,
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Iits 0rievnnre.

II IL no wonder the humorist feels
bitterly toward the cooking schools,
when these have oil but eliminated
the woman who thinks sponge cake Ia
laads Of spongeS. Detroit Journal.