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Sea Has Grown Deeper.

The phenomenon OF the changes IN
the level of the sea Is one which 10
we'll shown in the case Of the Mediter-
ranean- NJ. Phi. Neg1s, In a recent bro
chure presented to the Academy OF
Sciences, furnishes interesting infor-
nation on this point, It being apparent
that the sea has greatly increased ID
depth as compared to ancient times.
Formerly a bridge 1900 feet long
united Leucade to the continent To-
day it is submerged, but the founda-
tons Of the work were discovered
eleven feet beneath the surface. 1t
may therefore be concluded that since
the construction of the bridge the sea
has risen at this point over nine feee.
At Itea, in the bay Of Amph'ssa'
there has been observed mole that 10
also over nine feet beneath the sur
face. At Rhenee there has been found
q completely submerged dock, evident
" of Roman construction, the depth
Of the sea above the dock at places be-
ing fully nine feet
From all Of these facts one may con-
clude that there has taken place an
important increase in the depth Of the
sea since the Roman period, the Medft-
erranean having risen at least nine
feet in 1000 years.
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MONEY By MAIL
Amply Protected by Registration. but
Not by Special Delivery Stamp.

Amply Protected by Respiration. but
Not by Special Delivery Stamp.
The recent discovery Of the post
office inspectors of New York City
that mail clerks have been stealing
letters bearing special delivery stamps,
and that many of these missives have
contained large sums of money, has
revealed to the department that there
is, apparently, pretty general miscon-
ception in the public mind as to the
function Of the special delivery sys-
tom. The arrest Of one mail clerk in
that city, in whose pocket were found
several bank notes that had been
marked and placed in a decoy special
delivery letter, furnished proof for
suspicion the inspectors had enter
tanned for several months.
1.-The special delivery stamp placed
on a letter." said an official in the de-
partment, docs not mean any more
for any ordinary letter. People seem
to believe that because the charge for
the same and for other reasons vary
ing with different persons, letter is
guarded as closely when 1t bears a
special delivery stamp as when it is
registered.
"ThiS is not true. A registered let-
ter is watched over during its entire
trip, from the time It is mailed until
it reaches it's addressee, each clerk or
postmaster receiving it into his Gus
tody giving a receipt and taking one
when he surrenders it to another. The
only receipt required In the trans-
portaton of a special delivery letter
ia from the addressee. If the letter
does not reach him there is no means
eff tracing it. The receipt he signs is
not so much to insure the safe deliv-
cry of the letter as to furnish a record
for the department, none being made
when the special delivery stamp is
sold. OF course, it serves, too, to keep
a tab on the special delivery mail car
rfer, the time it Is given to him and
the time it is delivered at its destina-
ton being closely marked. During the
trip each special delivery letter is
placed on top Of a bunch Of letters and
not buried In it, and each clerk must
use all effort to speed it on its way.
But this does not mean much addi-
tonal safety for the letter en- route"
continued the official, according to the
New York Times. THE misunder-
standing that 1t does has led hundreds,
yea, / believe thousands, to put spe-
cial delivery stamps on valuable pack.
ages when such packages should have
been registered. In the postof1ice de-
partment, as well as in every other
department Of business, there is here
and there a crooked clerk, and he
has not failed to learn Of this. The re-
suit has been that we have had hun
dreds of complaints Of the disappear
ance Of special delivery letters. We
are conducting a thorough investiga-
ton and hope to ferret out those who
have been robbing the mails. But it
would be better to relieve the temp
tation and secure safety in the first
instance by inducing the people to re
frain from sending valuable packages
and letters containing money by spe-
cial delivery, but to use instead the
registry system"
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! wind I'D his multfarious business at
fairs to prepare his estate al though
he was his own executor. On the
| whole, he found that he got out better
than he had expected.
He had long been regarded as a ris-
Ing young man in the financial world,
and sage cid heads had predicted that
he would some day be a power in the
| ''street."
This had been his own ambition,
and It hurt him to give it up, but he
found some conoslaiOn in the fact
that he would have at least a million
to settle down on-not a bad amount,
after all, he concluded.
So he bought the old Dinwiddie
mansion on the James River, Virginia,
and prepared to settle down as a
planter, fairly well content, but chat
ing still a little for the excitement Of
the old life, the warning Of master
minds Of finance, the eXultation of vic
tory and even the quick pang of mo-
mentary defeat
Then came the love affair, and with
the love affair the discovery that he
was poet, either circumstance being
sufficiently disturbing to even a
healthy mind.
With the mansion went the Din
widdie family portraits, hung in q
long gallery.
| Exploring this, Jermyn came across
one portrait before which he paused
In absorbed interest. 1t was a picture
of young girl, slender and beautiful
us a May morning. Her costume was
that Of the eighteenth century, and its
colors were still almost as bright as
when first painted
| She looked out on such portion of
the world as might be observed from
where the picture hung with gray eyes
that were, Jermyn decided, the most
wonderful eyes that ever were in all
the world.
A few Of the old servants of the
Dinwiddie family still lived on the
place. but Jermyn could gain no infor-
nation from them as to the identity
OF the portraits original None Of the
family had lived on the place since the
Civil War, and Jermyn gradually gave
up the hope of naming the picture.
Instead, he began calling it INV
Lady's Portrait" and took to stand
ing in front Of it for hours at a time
and making up all sorts Of romances
about It In time he even ventured
ON verses.
Now, Jermyn had never beon ac-
cused Of being a sentimentalist md
1t came on him with distinct shock
that this romancing about the portrait
was sign Of the mental weakness
which he had come so to dread. His
doctor was his old friend, and to him
Jermyn wrote full account of bis
case
In reply he received a letter from
the doctor, giving him laughing ad-
Vice to find the original Of the picture
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; My Lady'S Portrait.


e T was Jermyn's first love affair
j hence a very desperate thing and
one long to be remembered.
REST commanded the physician.
Il cannot" answered Jermyn.
when cannot is opposed to must,
then cannot will have to yield. Either
you must have complete rest or you
will have complete mental break
down that may land you in your grave
or In an insane asylum" said the ply
sician, with a directness that would
have been brutal had it not been 50
kindly meant
Cannot" being opposed to such a
must" did yield. Jermyn began to
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CHAPTER III.

The boat did not start until three
o'clock in the afternoon. Those of my
companions who intended to cross the
Caspian hurried off to the harbor, it
being necessary to engage a cabin, or to
mark ones place in the steamers saloon.
Ephrinell precipitately left me with these
| words:
II have not an instant to lose. I must
see about the transport Of my baggage"
"Have you much p
"FOrty-two cases."
"Forty-two cases" I exclaimed.
If he had had voyage Of eight days,
instead Of one Of twenty four hours, and
had to cross the Atlantic instead of the
Caspian, he could not have been In a
greater hurry. He did not think of Of
fering his hand to assist our companion
III descending from the carriage. l took
his place. The lady leaned on my arm
and jumped-no, gently put her foot on
the ground. My reward was thank
you, sir, uttered in a hard, dry, unmis-
taxable British voice.
Twenty-Five years is apparently about
her age, she has an Albionesque complex
ion, jerky walk, a high dress like an
equinoctial tide, no spectacles, although
she has eyes of the intense blue which
are generally short-sighted. While l bend
my back as l bow, she honors me with
nod, which only brings into play the
vertebrate of her long neck, and she walks
off straight toward the way out.
As eleven o'clock strikes, l make nv
way to the restaurant at the railway. As
l am entering Ephrinell rushes out.
al,fo c,tr
Il have had it, he replies.
"And your cases"
Il have still Twenty-Five to get down
to the steamer. But, pardon, have not
moment to lose. When a man repre-
sents the firm Of Strong, Bulbul & Co.,
who send out every week five thousand
cases of their goods
''Go, go. Monsieur Ephrinell. we will
meet ON board. By the bye, you have
not met our travelling companion?'
| What travelling companionY'
| "The young lady who took my place
in the carriage"
WAS there a young lady with us?'
| 'Of course"
well, you are the first to tell me so,
Mr.. Bombarnac."
And thereupon the American goes out
of the door, and disappears. 1t is to be
hoped | shall know before we get to
Pekin what it is that Strong. Bulbul &
Co. send out in such quantities. Five
thousand cases a week-what an out.
PITT. and what a turnover!
When it is two o'clock I think I had
better get down to the boat. 1 must cal
at the railway station where have left
my light luggage at the cloak room. Soor
1 am off again, Fastening down one OF
the roads leading to the harbor.
At the break in the wall, where access
is obtained to the quay. my attention Il
attracted by two people walking along
together The man is from thirty t.
thirty-ive years old. the woman from
twenty-five to thirty, the man alread!
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-06-30
Learned Lesson Too Quickly.

Dr. Carl Peters, the explorer, who is
soon to try to find King SoIomon's
mines In East Africa, has an interest
ing fiat in London-a fat decorated
with some forty or fifty poisoned darts,
arrows and assegais- missiles that
were shot at him In various African
cOmbatS.
: On his last expedition Dr.. Peters
gave employment to 4 homeless black
youth whom he took from the forest
and trained An the duties of a valet
Thus his tent, where he kept his out
landish weapons, was always neat.
One day the boy brought an assegas
to DR.. Peters.
II found this, SIR" he said. outside.
1t belongs to you, doesn't itr'
ut does" the explorer answered.
He had remarked the interest that
the boy took in his collection, and
therefore he added:
"You may keep that assegai, Jerome,
for your honesty"
The boy appeared properly grateful,
A few days later, though, DR.. Peters
lost piece of gold. He knew he must
have lost it in his tent Therefore he
waited confidently for Jerome to re-
trun it to him. But the boy made no
sign.
Jerome" DR.. Peters finally said,
Il lost a gold piece the other day.
Did you find it?"
"Yes, SIR" Jerome answered.
well, what did you do with 1T"
IL kept it for my honesty" SAID
Jerome
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Steel Pine Af1Oat at Sea,

Eight or nine lengths Of steel pipe
three feet in diameter are floating on
the ocean somewhere off the northern
California coast. They were sent down
the Trinity River to Junction City,
and, getting away from the other
pipes, drifted out to sea. Being
plugged at both ends they cannot sink,
but will float til they drift ashore, or
lre picked up.
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and to marry her. ending with sufa-

and to marry her. ending with sufa-
cient seriousness to recommend him TO
seek out his neighbors and indulge in
human companionship instead Of lone
ly imaginings.
Acting on this recommendation. Jer.
| myn began to cultivate his neighbors.
among whom he soon made many
friends. More than one of the girls
whom he met attracted him, and he
began to consider the possibility and
even the ACCESSIBILITY Of matrimony. A
thing Of which he had never had time
to think during his busy life in Wall
street
His physical health was coming
back to him rapidly, and he began to
reflect that the old Dinwiiddie man.
sion was a lonely sort of place for
single occupant. Yet, wheN he would
go into the portrait gallery and look
at MY LAdy's Portrait" it seemed to
| him impossible that he could ever fall
in love with a living woman while the
memory of the picture clun. to him.
In this dilemma he made up hin
mnid that he would either destroy the
picture or present 1t to some public
gallery.
With this in mind he took a long
ride to debate with himself, and finally
came to the decision that he would try
to seek out the surviving members of
the Dinwiddie family and present
them with the whole collection Of their
family portraits
Determining on this. he returned to
the house after an absence OF several
hours, and strobe into the portrait gal
lery for one last look at the picture.
angry with himself all the time at the
senhmentaHsm Of which he was prov
ing himself guilty.
| Turning the corner in the gallery
which would bring him face to face
with the picture, he came to an abrupt
stop.
Facing him was the original Of the
picture, living and breathing!
No, not the original Of the picture,
but young girl SO marvelously like
the portrait, except for her modern
costume, that 1t would have caused
anyone a sensation Of establishment.
Il beg your pardon, madam. L.
| -
NO, 1t is who must beg yo,rr par
don for trespassins l take It for
granted that you are Mr.. Jermynr
YES"
And l am Elizabeth Dinwidd1e.
Father used to own this place, you
know, and as We were in the neigh
borhood, persuaded him to bring me-
| over and show mo the home Of my
ancestors. You see, I was born in
San Francisco, and have lived there
all my life. One Of the servants told
us you were out when We called, but
hs, insisted on showing US over the
house. Father is at the other end Of
The gallery looking at tho pictures"
You owe me no apologies, Miss
Dtnwiddie. But, pardon me, II ask
the name Of this ancestress Of yours?"
II am her namesake"
"Ah! knew you must be-"
And year Later Jermyn told his
wife how he had fallen tn love with
her great-grandmother Globe.
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CHAPTER TT

AT last was about to open my mouth
when my companion prevented me.
You are Frenchman?" he said in
my native tongue.
es. sir l replied in his
Evidently we could understand each
other. The ice was broken, and Their
question followed Oh question rather rap
Idly between us.
Wait Bit said my American. "II
lay ten to one that You are a reporter
And you would win. Yes. l am 6
reporter sent by the Twentieth Centur,
to do this Journey"
Going all the way to Pekin? S,
am l."
Same trader" said 1, indifferently.
NO. You need not excite yourself
we don't sell the same stuff, SIR
,Claudius Bombarnac. of Bordeaux,
aelighted to be on the same road as
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-06-30
Jealous.

Bookkeeper-The boss came in and
caught me taking a kiss from the pref
ty stenographer. Actually said 1 was
dishonest.
Mail Clerk-In what way?
Bookkeeper-Said I was taking
something that belonged to him.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-06-30
The Special Correspondent

| 'Fulk Ephrinell. Of the firm Of Strong
BulbY1 & Co.. of New York City, New
York, J. 8. A"
| We we're mutually introduced. l q
trave' lin news, and he traveller In
in it.? That l had to find out
H; ! you ever been in the United
States Ir- Bombarnac?" he asked.
No nois,ieur Ephrinell."
| "Yol will. come to our country some
day. en- you will not forget to explore
the esi olishment Of Strong, BulbuI q
Co. p
| "ExL ore it,"
| "You will see one Of the most remark
able industrial establishments of the Ne"
| Continent Imagine a colossal work
shop, immense buildings for the mount
ing and adjusting of the pieces, steam
engine Of fifteen hundred horse power
ventilators making six hundred revolu'
tons a minute, boilers consuming a hun
dred tons of coal day, a chimney stack
four hundred and fifty feet high. vas
outhouses for the storage of our goods
which we send to the FIVE parts of the
world, general manager, two sub-man
ayers, four secretaries. eight under sec
retaries, staff Of FIVE hundred clerks and
nine hundred workmen, whole regiment
Of travellers like your servant, working
in Europe, Asia, Africa, America. Aus
traliasia, in short, a turnover exceeding
annually one hundred million dollars
And all that, Mr.. Bombarnac, for making
millions of-yes, I said millions"
| At this moment the train commenced to
slow under the action of its automatic
brakes, and he stopped. Our conversa'
ton is interrupted. I lower the window
on my side, and open the door, being de-
sirous Of stretching my legs.
AS soon as the bell begins to ring
return to our carriage, and when l have
shut the door 1 notice that my place is
taken. Yes! Facing the American, a
lady has installed herself with that
Anglo-Saxon GOODNESS which Is as unlim,
tied as the infinite. My French gal
lantry prevents me from claiming my
corner. and I sit down beside this person
who makes no attempt at apology.
Ephrinell seems to be asleep, and that
stops my knowing what 1t is that Strong
Bulbul & Co. of New York manufacture
by the million.
| 1t was nearly midnight. WEAKNESS in
vited me to sleep, and yet, like good re,
porter, must sleep with one eye and one
ear open.
In this way I heard the shouts OF
Geran, Varvara, Oudjarry, Kiourdamid
Klourdane, then KarasOul, Navagi. l SAT
up, but as no longer occupied the cor
ner from which had been so cavalierly
evicted, it was impossible for me to look
through the window.
And then l began to ask what is hid
den beneath this mass Of wells and wraps
and petticoats which has usurped my
place. Is this lady going to be my com
panion all the way to the terminus OF
the Grand Transasiatic? Shall l ex.
change a sympathetic salute with her in
| the streets Of Pekin?
l must gradually have fallen sound
asleep. Withdrawn from exterior infu
ences, 1 did not even hear the stentorian
respiration of the Yankee.
| "Baku! Baku!'
| The word, repeated as the train stop
ped. awoke me. 1t was seven o'clock In
| the morning.
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Time and tide wait for no man-ow
some women will
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Had Feathered His Nest.

CTo be continued.)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-10-27
THE MILK CANS

All milk cans and pals should be OF
timed steel, and. in order that they
may be properly cleaned, they should
be so made that every part can be seen
and reached, and all cracks or crevices
should be filed up with solder. All
seams should be well made and filed
up with the same material. The best
cans are now made Of che piece or
steel without seams. Milk cans and
pals should first be scrubbed and
washed out with cold or tepid water,
then swilled with cold water, and final-
~, scalded out with boiling water or
steam. Then they should be set out
to drip and dry in such a position that
no dust can enter. If the cans have
bad seams these must be cleaned cut
with great care. They should be picked
out with a splinter of white wood or
bone before beginning to clean the can.
The cleaning of milk cans should never
be delayed a moment after they are
empty. 1t would be very great adj
vance, indeed, if one daily cleaning OF
milk cans could be undertaken by the
creameries. where power and steam
are both at command, not only the cans
going back to the farms empty, but
those going back with skim milk or
buttermilk as well. = Massachusetts
Ploughman.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-10-27

The Dakota Sioux Who, II Is Said.
Killed the Custers.


Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux CHIEF
whom history credits with having
been the man who killed Gen. George
A. Custer at the battle Of the Little
Big Horn. del on the Sanding Rock
reservation near Aberdeen, s. d. His
death was reported through the regu.
lar official channels yesterday. He
was 62 years old, and had outlived the
massacre by nearly thirty years.
He was a man of great prominence
among the Sioux nation when the war
with them was wagei in 1875. About
1873 he had killed two prospectcrs
who were travelling through the Sioux
country in Dakota. He took great
pleasure in describing how he had
shot one OF them full Of arrows and
had pounded in the head of the ether
with a heavy war club. Word OF the
crime came to Gen. Custer, who was
encamped at the post near the present
big Sioux reservation. His men cap
tured Rain-in-the-Face, who at that
time was big, handsome, 1.-THE chap
Brought before Custer, he would
say nothing. A council of his tribe
was called and an offer to trade two
young men for Rain-in-the-Face was
made. He was a big man, being
brother of Iron Horse, the headman
of the tribe. The offer was refused
and the guilty Indian was chained up
In small hut use1 as jail He wac'
rescued after about a half year by
some hay thieves who came to free
his companion, a white man arrested
FOR hay stealing. He swore vengeance
against Custer and when he Joined
Sitting Bull sent notice to the In
dams on the reservation that he would
get even in some way.
Mrs. Clusters story of her husbands
last campaign credits Rain-in-the-Face
with having been the man who cut
out Tom Clusters heart and some of
the Indians in the massacring party
said the same thing. Whether or not
he killed Gen. Custer few ever cared
to ask him.
Since the subjugation of the Sioux
he had been living in retirement on
the reservation. He took no active
part in the Indian troubles of the early
'9Os.
AS to how he got his peculiar name
the histories are not clear. 1t is said
by some persons that his face was
pitei with powder marks through the
explosion of a gun, and that it mad
the appearance of being covered with
little drops. Another story, tells of
fight in which he stood erect among
the flying arrows, and minded them,
as he said in the high flown language
Of the Cooper Indian, mo more than
the rain in his face"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-10-27
BEES AS BAROMETERS

Whoever observes bees carefully
finds it easy enough to foretell exactly
the kind of weather to be expected
At least that is the opinion of many
raiSers of bees. Generally the bee
stays at home when rain is in the air.
When the sky is simply dark and
cloudy these busy workers do not leave
their dwelling all at once A few go
out at first, as though the queen had
sent out messengers to study the state
of the atmosphere. The greater num-
Der remain on observation until the
clouds begin to break up and disap-
pear, and then all the bees rush out in
search of nectar. A bee never goes out
in a fog, because it is we'll aware that
dampness and cold are two of their
natural enemies. The bees cleyerness
consists in never being taken una.
wares, for it is possessed of untirins
vigilance. Often one may observe the
sudden entrance of bees into the hive
when dense cloud hides the sun, and
even though rain is not in evidence
Editor, in The Epitomist.