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THE LUMP CITY MINER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA: e -.V •••• SET IN *DIAMONDS. 1'1.:1.1., YOU I I.et trust him—\ •'Toentertain such suspicions is to argue a na - \That's all right —but I'm a man— I hear things; end—\ \What have you heard, Joe?\ \That Jack Stu- art isn't an honest man; that when he is lucky enotgh to possess the 'where- withal to do sq, he is knoivn to gam- ble; that he plays far sharper games than cards—\ \Joe!\ Hid cousin's blazing eyes con- fess to him a truth he would almost rather die than admit. He knows that when those steadfast eyes burn with such tires of indignation, beneath them will melt his most carefully built walls of precaution; that the woman befiire hi m will go to the ends of the earth with a nine she trusts as she trusts Stuart, arei that she will continue to believe in him though the heavens fall. \There Kate, l'ertmlidone. Remember I've warned you, and blame only your- self if, in the future, there should be the deuce to pay.\ \Jack Stuart is an artist—\ \So he says.\ \He is poor - - \He certainly presents a seedy ap- pearance, .and 'seedy' rhymes with 'needy' in my book of po—\ \13e silent: You shall not traduce the man I love and trust! Prove your ter- rible accusations are true before you try to slander an honest man!\ Joe looked with wonder and sadness into the eyes of the wrathful girl. Then, musing upon the strength, the ob- stinacy, the depth of woman's love, turned and went his way. Just how the evil reports had started, how the whispered rumors of the shady doings of Stuart had spread about towfl. how all such insinuations had ever gained their first impetus was never known. But Joe had heard tidings that had driven him to word his anxiety and belief to Kate. His cousin, he feared. already loved the rather dashing and debonair young fellow who had mys- teriously disappeared from his own Bo- hemian world, and it was to save Kate from after regrets that Joe provoked her ire. Another week passed, and no news came to Joe or Kate concerning Jack Stuart. The girl grew quiet and wan, and raised such pitiful, questioning eyes to meet Joe's own that the heart within him was touched, and he longed for any news wherewith tu break her wearing suspense. At last tidings of Stuart's where- abouts reached him. A gang of \green - /Woods\ men had been arrested, and one among them bore the name of Jack Stuart. Should he tell Kate this woeful bit of news—that fact that must kill the love she fondly cherished, and, by so doing, probably break the faithful, trusting heart? In his perplexity Joe halted at the corner, where he must turn to go to his aunt's residence. Should he, or should he not? Absent-mindedly gazing about him his glance chanced to fall upon the glitter of precious stones that lay just where the afterncen sun glinted through the pane of a jewel -lined window. The flash blinded him for an instant, and. turning from the glare, he saw further on upon a velvet tray a tiny gold watch, set In diamonds. With a cry he stared at the elegant little timepiece; then, as if be must \RE SV.ENT.•\ satisfy himself more fully, he dashed Into the shop, over whose door hung three shining balls. \I—I ha've come to redeem that watch In the window yonder.\ :le was asked tor his ticket—his num- bered certificate. \Oh—ah—yes—to be sure!\ And Joe went through a searching pantomime worthy a professional clown. \pleas my gout! Can I have lost it—can I—\ The ehopman's eyes twinkled If the certificate of deposit were not forth- coming the watch was his own. \I certainly have lost it!\ cried Joe. inwardly bewailing the blackness of hie sin. \You are not the person who fetched It here,\ said the pawnbroker. \No but he has senti me to redeem it for him. I can tell you Ids name; It is Jack Stuart.\ \That's all very well, hut Jlark Stuart himself doeen•t get this watch unless he fetches the ticket I made out to him three weeks ago. Do you hear?\ So Stuart had pawned Kate's watch —the watch Joe's own dead mother had left to her beloved niece, the costly trinket, upon whose golden rase was his mother'etnonogrant set In dia- monds' He left the shop, his head in a whirl He went toward his aunts house, bent upon telling the whole hideous happen- ing to his cousin, who was worthy the best love of the best man that ever lived. To his surprise he met Kate hurry- ing down the steps toward him. \Come with me.. Something awful has happened. Doo't ask me to ev- plain no;v, only come. Mother ha,. ' gone out and 1 dare not wait another moment. Call a carriage, Joe, and— take me to Jack.\ Take her to Jack! Silently he obeyed her, but when once within the carriage he has hailed and the driver is urging his steed to- ward the address she has brought, written upon a slip of paper, Joe ven- tures to ask one question, which Kate answers. Yes, she sent her watch to the jewel- er's by Jack; it . needed a new main- spring. How slowly the horse creeps! A back street, a rather shabby tene- ment, three long flights of narrow stairs, and then— \Come in,\ breathes a feeble voice, and the cousins enter. \I have come, Jack—oh, Jack!\ \Bless you, Kate, I—\ \Why didn't you send before? Mete, are you in pain?\ \Yes dear, but \Jack!\ will soon be ov — er\ \Kate Kate, be my own bra girl.\ \I cannot bear It! I will not ' but Joe heard no more of the girl's wo ded heartbreak. He rushed from the room, and down -stairs. Help must be found at once, medical aid, for in spite of all the &finning evidence against him a look into those dying eyes had changed Joe's doubt to faith. At the streert door he ran into a stout little person carrying a square medi- cine case. Joe, grasping the situation and the doctor at one and the same time, asked him, as they mounted the stairs, enough hurried questions ta keep the little man busy answering him all the way to the top. \Yes poor young devil,\ vouchsafed the doctor, as he stopped to take a breath upon the last landing, \there's a chance for him, a very slight one, but not if he stays cooped up in this beastly hole. I did the best I «Slid when I stumbled in on him on my rounds. His fever was raging, and, as he needed a few things besides turpen- tine, brushes and a few tubes of paint. I took a costly little watch I found among his other possessions and pawned it for him in his name, at the Pawnbroker's. Life is worth a million of such trinkets to a man, and now that he has found friends—or rather they have found him—he will certainly be able to redeem it. There's the tick- et, sir—please take cire of it for him. Here we are.\ Cupid must certainly have proved a most effective and able second in the doctor's game ot \Who wins?\ for Jack crept slowly but surely back from the very brink of the echoless shore, and, in due time, set to painting pic- tures away up in the sky -lighted attic of his mother -In-law's home on Forty- sixth street. As for Joe,. it has occurred to him that it might actually be possible for two people living in the great metrop- olis ta bear the same narne, and that he was a bit hasty in concluding that the very promising young landscapist, Jack Stuart. and the Jack Stuart now enjoying the hospitality of Sing Sing were one and the same person. A DWARF'S QUEER RUSE. Shipped in a fox in Order to Best the Railway. Four or five yearn ago one of the most celebrated of European prodigies was the Polish dwarf, Herman Zeitung, at one time one of the chief attractions at the Follett Bergere. Latterly Zeitung has been little In the public eye, or rather was until the other day, when he started in to carry out an interesting exploit which very nearly succeeded. He had himself fastened up in a box ad- dressed to a large importing 'house at Madrid and labelled \Fragile. With Care. Top.\ Holes had been made in thfs box for breathing purposes, and - itte of its sides was so constructed that It could be opened from within to give the little dwarf a way ot getting out unnoticed when he reached his destina- tion. The box was fitted up with a cushioned seat, and an abundant sup- ply of provisions was placed within it. The start was made at Vienna. where Zeitung had been living for some time, and after the dwarf had placed himself inside and fastened himself in two lusty portent carried him off to the station, having been paid beforehand a fee of 60 cents each. They gave the box In charge to the station master to be shipped to Madrid by express. Accord- ing to Zeitung 'the journey was an un- interesting one and without incident but when he got to the Spanish capital his troubles began. The Madrid sta- tion master evidently had a poor knowl- edge as to the fragility of glass, for he turned the Igor over and over, and at last came to the conclusion that its contents ought to be investigated. His aides therefore opened it, and dragged the dwarf out more dead than alive from the shaking he had received. It would have puzzled a man lees full of expediente how to further punish Zei- lung, hut the station master solved the problem by having him arrested for trying to swindle the railroad compan- ies out of their fares. The dwarf's de- fense was that he was traveling in this manner on a het of 3,000 francs, the terms of the wager being that he was to get to Madrid without a cent In his pocket. Three hundred francs, how- ever, were found concealed in his shoes. The real reason of his traveling in this remarkable manner Was that he might 'nave railroad fare and also get a good advertisement for the engagement in Madrid, for *bleb he was billed. \The Heavenly Twins\ is to be trans fotmed Into i a musical comedy. Richard Stahl, the comic opera composer, will write the music for it. SCIENCE ITP TO DATE. LATEST DEVELOPMEN I IN IN- DUSTRIAL FIELD-, I he Eirctro- îrtograpli, nit Invention tor Engraving Picturce by UII0 of Batt ery Photo Heady for Printing Thrcn Ntioot or iSotc ,, S. AMSTUTZ, a well known me- chanical and elec- trical engineer of Cleveland, O., has brought out of the elements an inven- tion by which pho- tographs are trans- mitted. It might appropriately be termed a marriage of the phonograph and telephone, as the features of these two inventions are allied in this, called by Mr. Amstutz, electro-artograph. The object of the invention is to transmit copies of photographs to any distance, and reproduce the same at the other, end of the wire, in line engraving, read for press printing. The undulatory or wave current is used, as in the tele- phone, while the reproduction is made upon a synchronously revolving, waxed cylinder, as in the phonograph. There is required for this end both transmit- ting and receiving instrument The view of the boy and dog was engraved upon these machines in the private laboratory of Mr. Amstutz, the time required in engraving the latter being but three minutes. It is not difficult to believe that in the future events which may take place in London or Paris may be sent from photographs taken in Europe and the reproduction of the same in an artistic picture appear in the next morning's New York or Chicago pa- pers,and this without disturbing the ex- isting conditions of telegraphic com- munication further than supplying the two offices each with machines for transmitting and receiving. Railroad Torpedoes. When a railroad train desires to warn one that follows it af defacer. the most available means is a torpedo, which is placed on the track. The locomotive of the coming train explodes the torpedo and thus gets the warning. Heretofore it has been necessary to atop the train so that a man might place the torpedo .4n position, but the device here illustrated permits the plac- ing to be done while the train is mov- ing. The torpedo is suitably held in the tubular end of a long handle, where it is connected with a detachable spring. This spring is shaped 90 as to embrace the head of the rail when it has been detached, thus holding the torpedo firmly in place. The operator grasps the handle and carries It In position to discovered In birdolegy: and the appetite Of our Wingcd triundelor ants, is that these industrious little insects plant colonies of mealy bugs on certain va- rieties of the coffee tree. These bugs are cultivated by the ants for their food, and as they flourish and increase rapidly, they furnish abundance of sub- sistence, and the ants thrive corre- spondingly. It is suggested by a num- ber of scientists that the woodpecker should be encouraged and protected in every possible way, as many circum- stances seem to indicate that he would be the very best assistant In getting rid of the grubs that are destroying the elm trees all over the country. The World's Lament ('itt.'. The following infermation is often inquired for, anti as it may be useful i in many cases for reference, we have compiled a table of the largest cities in the world, with their populations as stated by the latest authorities. In the absence of any official census, the Chinese cities have simply to be esti- mated, and, of course, must be accept- ed as an approximation only. We have not given any city whose population Is below 500,000, though there are many we could enumerate which closely ap- - tpieoach that figure. It will be seen that iriNktie 35 cities tabulated below there are 31'442,500 souls, or nearly the popu- lation oelhe British Isles, a fact which cannot be geasped in a moment by an? ordinary intellect. A4tichi, Japan. 1,332,050: Bangkok, Siam, 500,000; Brooklyn, N. Y. 771,000; It -Ilia. Prussia, 1,122,330: Calcutta. India„ 766,298; Canton, China, 1,500.000: Changchoofoo, China, 1,000,000; Chicago, 2,112,400; Constantinople, Turkey, 700,000: Foo-choo, China, 630,000; Glas- gow, Scotland, 514,048; Hang -Chow -fon, China, 600,000; Hang-Tcheon, China. 800,000; Han-Kow, China, 600,000.; King- ‚ te -Chiang, China, 500,000; Liverpool, England, 673,000; London, England. 4,189,000; Madrid, Spain, 500,900; Mos- cow, Russia, 611,974; New York. N. Y.. 1,987,000: Paris, France, 2,269,023; Peke - longa, Jetva, 505,204; Pekin, Chinn, 800,- 000; Philadelphia, Pa., 850,000; St. Petersburg, Russia, 766,964; Sartama. Japan, 962,917; Sian. China. 1,000,000; St. Louis, Mo., 500,000: Tat -Seen -Loo, Chi- na, 500,000: Tien -Tain, China, 950,000; Tokio, Japan, 987,887; Tschautchau-fu, China, 1,000,000: Tsin-Tchoei, China, 800.- 000; Vienna, ,Austria. 728,105; Woo- chang, China, 800,000. The next census of the United States, when completed, will probably show a population of nearly 100,000,000. The census of 1880 counted 63,000,000, of whom 17,392,099 were earners. The combined wealth of the country in 1890 amounted to over $60,000,000,000—about $880 per head, or $2,600 per worker. Half of this was in lands and houses. This half was made up of farms, 810,197,000,000; resi- dence and business real estate, $9,881.- 000,000: public buildings, churches, etc.. not taxed, $2,000,000,000. One -eighth was railroads ($5,536,000,000): another eighth, household furniture and eupplies ($5.- 000,000,000); the other quarter, live stock and farm tools ($2.406,000,000); mines and quarries ($781,000,000); telegraphs, ships and canals ($419,000,000); specie ($612.- 000,000); miscellaneous ($650,000.000); and the stock of products and imports ($0, 160.000,000). hold the torpedo -supporting spring over the head of the rail. By a quick 'downward pressure the handle is disen- gaged from the spring, which Instantly contracts and embraces the rail -head. All this is 4one while the train Is in motion. A man in San Antonio, Texas, has patented the device, the description of which is taken from, the Scientific American. Importance of Birds. A paper was recently read before the Biological society of Washington, the subject of which was the food of birds. So much has been said about birds as being destructive to fruit and vegeta- tion that an investigation of this kind Is of the utmost importance. In the stomachs of some of the birds there were thousands qf ants. Over six hun- dred stomachs were examined, and in almost all of them insects formed the greater part of the contents. Ants es- pecially seemed to he popular. and In almost every inetitnee the other in- sects were of harmful sorts. In one of the reports of the agricultural depart- ment It is said that each bird has Its favorite foods, hut when these fall It casts about te find something that can be aubastItuted Another tweedier fact 0. IleAlloyin's Minor Inventions) It is not the electric lights nor th' phonographs, nor any of the other things with which Mr. Edson's name le connected that strikes the visitor as the greatest part of his work. It is the Invention of the innumerable machines with which these things are made. The idea of the electric light would have been of no use in the world without ma- chines for making the lamps and the other parts. All of these machines had • to be invented and made by the elec- tricians, and there are thousandsr of them—some no bigger than a toy en- gine, some as large, nearly, as a house. Many of them are so delleatit that they are operated with a belt no larger than a shoestring. One of them is used for polishing jewels for use in the phono- graphs. Without being touched by any- body It holds the tiny jewel In every possible position, shifting it. turning it, absolutely feeling it to learn whether It is smooth, and all the while its deli- cate fingers are at work rubbing, rub- bing at the jewel, which IM no bigger than the head of a.4arge pin. No boy could move his fingers more dextei.ous- ly.than this machine moves Its parts ln, turning the jewel around. Production of Atei)' imp. Acetylene, the most powerful Illumi- nant of the hydro -carbons, can now he produced on a commercial scale. says Professor Lewes in a paper read before the Society of Arts. Iii. a colorless gas with an intensely penetrating smell re- sembling garlic: so that the smallest leakage would be quickly detected. Five cubic feet of the gas will give a light equal to 240 candles for an hour. It is made by mixing forty parts by weight of any form of powdered car- bon in an electric furnace and adding water; the product is lime end cattle carbide, a pound of which will yield 5.3 cubic feet of acetylene. The carbide can be made for 420 a ton; the gas would cost about $1.60 a thousand feet, but its Illuminating power would meke its cost equal to coal gas at 12 cents t thouaand % g t , .,r i,.• K ur th. , a...•r •Iing t() ge(dogh al computation, the minimum age of the earth since the formation of the primitive soils is 21,- 000,000 years -6,700,00e years for the primordial formations. 6.400,000 years for the primary agf`, 2,300,000 years for the secondary age. and 480,000 year.; for the tertiary age, and 100,000 sine. , the appearance of man Upon the globe The Retort courteous New Yorker—You ought to have fast- er trains between New York and Boston. Bostonian—There should certainly he fruiter trains from New York to Untton —South Boston News. Apple -Tree Lire (Aphis Mall Fabr.) Prof. James Troop, horticulturiet at Perdue University, writes. This little Insect has appeared In such numbers in our apple orchards as Ir attract the attention of fruit grower . lrom allover the state. In fact inquiries were re- ceived during the winter concerning the eggs which were found in unusual abundance on the branches. Since the warm weather 'began these inquiries have become so numerous that it seems best to publish a brief account of the Insect and means of combating it. The little shiny black eggs, men- tioned above, an- deposited by the fe- male louse on the twigs and small* branches of the apple trees in the aut - umn. About the time the buds bey;in to expand in the spring, these eggii hatch into very small light green lice, which immediately insert their tiny beaks into the young and tender leaves and commence sucking their juices. The broods hatched at this time are all females, which mature sufficiently in ten or twelve days to enable them to begin the process of reproduction, 'which, contrary to the general rule, they are able to do without the pres- ence of the male, and the slow process of egg laying is avoided, as the young which are produced during the summer are hatched within the mother. The process of throwing off these summer broods continues until fall, when a brood of true males and females is pro- duced, from which comes the stock of eggs for the next season's supply. • • • Remedies: The many inquiries re- elved concerning this insect have de- Veloped the fact that people are not generally acquainted with the man- ,ner in which it takes its food. Like all members of this family, instead of having well developed jaws for biting and chewing, its mouth parte are de- veloped into a beak, which is adapted for sucking. It will be seen therefore that the arsenites will have but little value in fighting this pest, as it takes its food from the inner tissues of the plant. It will therefore he necessary to apply some substance which kills by contact: and the kerosene emulsion is as effective as any substance which can be used. This is made by dissolv- ing one-half pound of hard soap in one gallon of hot water, after which add one gallon of kerosene or coal -oil and mix thoroughly, by forcing the mix- ture back into the sanie vessel by means of a spraying pump, until it be- comes a thick creamy mass. Dilute this with ten times its hulk of water be- fore applying it to the trees. These insects also have their natural enemies, which aid very materially in their destruction. Among these are the several species of Lady -bird beetles, which are unusually plentiful this sea- son. They should not be destroyed, as they are among the horticultUrists' best friends. Treatment of Meadows. A number of the experiment stations are discussing the treatment of mead- oa3. According to the Minnesota station, grasses and -clovers sown In that state in the spring with a small grain crop should have a hard, fall -plowed seed- bed. If the soil be wet and heavy, her- -rowing should be Very light, but if the land be dry it may be thorough. Per- manent meadows are not considered as profitable as short rotations of mead ows and cultivated crops. For wet lands a mixture of red top and alsyke clover is recommeqded. The latter makes a good growth in the first few years, while several years are re- quired for the best results from redtop. For this reason redtop does not find a place in short rotations. The cost of orchard grass seed, from $3 to $5 for the three bushels necessary to an acre, practically excludes this grass from a short rotation. Timothy tits Into rota- tion well, but alone it serves for onl. a few years in a permanent pasture or meadow. Blue grass in Minnesota grows too short for meadows. In choos- ing a field for a permanent meadow, it is well to avoid dry, sandy or gravelly soil. At the Michigan station recently seeded meadows yielded more hay than those which had been in griots and pas- tured for about twenty flic years. The following plants were soe ti alone: Mopilow fescue, meadow (oxtail, tall oil grass, redtop. June grass thine gr ai . ;), orchard grass, alfalfa, agropy- rum tenerum, fowl meadow grass, tal- ler meadow fescue, timothy red clover and mammoth clover. Meadow fescue anil perennial rye grew; were sown to- gether. The yields made by these two were conipared with the hay from a mixture of timothy, tall oat grass, or- chard grass, red clover, mammoth clover, and agropyrum tenerum. The mixture afforded by far the largest crop. The Massachusetts station condemns the seeding down of grasses in the spring In Massachusetts, tin the other hand, In Kansas it trite been found he« to seed in the spring, not earlier than April 15 On t he Kansas suit Ion farm mixture of orr-hinni grass t2 bushels per flirrol, filet red clover (3 quarts), has proven more eat isfacherV than any other combinat lui Suppress Filled \over were ve t t o he ttle air i\ reS r e ' ll ur ‘' afie-mi-mioi) the subject of 1111e1 hoes\ than now From evccy cheese district In the coun- try is heard the Macedonia)) cry for succor, and Judging lv the hills now before many of the legislatures, an ef- fective damper will be put on the we gltimate Bitic of finch goode Ni reamon able man cell , t,rliplain of the ! mourn,- ture of skim Ii ''eut', ito long ita it Is gold fte whirl it r -ill\ is: the crime eoneitiel in eupplyIng the plece of the natural fat With a fotadgn article and then mak the the prmluct masquerade na frill cream goods. and attempting to palm it ott on the •onsurning public as the ten nine Firth le. thug robbing the buyer and Injuring the sal\ of wire goods. - • A merice n reap rut k
