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Flesherton Advance, 22 Aug 1889, p. 6

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Vulccs. A m&u diod yesloroiijiit. To-day the towu Makca iiienuun of hia uhiug oil. and Bums HiB virtuenand hi« raihugu. On th« Htreol, Midst many bartoriuus and lure* of irado, lu liumoa wbcru he wai kuuwu. in bu»y marts, Or pulilic (ilacun nliere tUo cumiiioiiwoal (jatborg thB town-fi.lk : up and down Ins name Is apoke of in im variaus »ay» of 8|iuuoli Ab aro tiio variijua voioett ttuiindiuK it , lit'ir thr. at^d bans »linll treble olold ago, Koft sibiiaiicy of a w>>mau'H toiiKue. Or reodliko iittisrauce of a iitHo child 'i'bua i>n«. lilH mate iu busmuan : " Ab I tt •brewd Dry band waa tUat ; much losH to un, much loBS, And aa for heart "â€" wi«8 blirug of aboiildors nowâ€" " Well, 'ti.* but little (|Untod hero ou change." Auotbar, who bad auiiiiuiT«d with biiii once In leisure time : â- ' A ri^btBo.id fellow eouo? •Tia true, be likfid bis ease ; but who dooa not '.' jb'or mo, give mu tb<i uiaii that Horace 1 .vud, Who doomed it wibc to 1oii\ wbou syaHunablo.'" A liny one who oft bai found (;r.-at store Of Bweotmeata la bia liaud, and, |iri?,id far lodH, Great Mtora of leudeiuei^t within bi.s heart ; " Ob, won't bu come and nee ua any more ?" TIiK aurplicMl pastor, bound to save bis kouI, IValaaced a bit by mcuiiBinte icieti He thought ho Kaw, in private to his wife ; "Alas, poor nouI. it he bad ou'y Kra»pod n'bat matter of the creed, and luade ub sure I But thanâ€" hia heart naa riglit, and Ciad is eooJ." And <tnc, a wruian, \. ho bad f ^-iiiid lii^ arms An all-proteetiu.' shelter through Tut! years, Kaid naught, but ku.-eJ the lokcus he bad left, And dreamt of beaven lor hiH bake alone. Meaawbilu, what was lliist man, and what bis place? Yon aiik, confused by all this ISalxl talk Of liere and youder, Irom Ins K-llovv men. 1 alij as i;(uuraut aH uny tme VVhoBo speech you heai J. autl y»'t 1 loved blm woll. Kay, ask tue not , esk only (>od. He knows. â€"Jtichdrd K. JJtrtOU. A STaANOE MONLY-LENDINQ OASE. (From LouJon Truth.) "It really ia too bad of yoiir father. When you coiue iuto the title, Ronald, you will not have a sbillino to support it with." " I oan't help it mother. Voa know I've remooatrated with the KO^<^raor often eooaKb, bat nothiutj that I caa do will Btoi> him. lie's raired more than a tboosandiu tbo last month." Toe apeakera were Hoa. Mrs. Browning, wife o( IIoo Georiie Browniii)(, brother and heir to the Knrl uf Si. Oavid's, and heronly aon, iwOiiald. They were iiov; discutiHing the extravaijant habits of the aforesaid Oeori^e, where b> he bade fair to antioipate the whole of the St. Oavid'a property be- fore be came into it at all. This property, which was Dot entailed, wa:i left iu au un- usual manner. The prt-sent earl had only a lifu iolereat in it, the reversion beio^ left to hia brother abd bcir out-and outâ€" what the lawyers uiyle " iu fee simple. " But by a codicil to the will it was ordained that, should the UonorableGeorxe die before his brother the earl, the latter should acj aire the " fee aimple 'of the property, uud bu empowered to leave it to whomsoever he chose. Mow, the earl was fond of hia nephew, Hoiiald, and had fre<|ut'jitl> stated bis determiuatioii to leave ine whole pro- perty to him i.'i the event of his father a demise. On the other hand, if the Honor able (JaoTiie oatlived his brother, he would naturally leave the property to his son wheo hia end c*me. Ihuif, whichever event happened, U joald appeared aure to auooeed to the family eatate Uut tbia waa not really the cage ; for the Honorable George, beiiifj of an extravaifant taru of mind, and nuabie to sabaist ou hia younKer aon'a allowance, waa rapidly in- volviiii; the St. Uavid'a property by poet- obits, at a rate which in a very few years woiild mortgaite the whole of it ao that if he outlived bia brother, and succeeded to the property, he would hava to aurrender every acre of it to the money lenderu. A farther evil iu the case waathat the Uonor- able Ciaori{u, beini( very few years younger than the earl, and having lived a fast, dis- sipated life, wan regarded aa by no mnana certain to outlive his brother. And thus the money had to be raised from Jews at an exorbitant interest. Mrj. Urowninx'H brother, JameH Godfrey, senior partner in the ^''"at hanking honae of Godfrey, Jouea A Godfreys, 1,0U1 Lombard utreet, had lent bis brotherin law money at 6 per cent., until he dia- oovered that he had an affection of the heart, when he promptly refused to aoooin modatt him with another hhilliiii> ; and thi Honorable Georoe aocordiii){ly took reffjne with the Uebrewa and cent, {xi cent. " It waa a ri liouloaa tbiuK," Mrs. Drown in^ argaed, " for the property ever to have b'j«n left iu that manner. Vour only chance, Kunald, is that your father sboold not out live tile earl." " UaDK it, motliur, I oan't poison the Kovarnor â€" ai the old Romans aaed to trc^at their obnoxioas relatives I Sacb condaot is out of date." " Don't joke about the matter, Uonsld. It ia nothing to laugh at, I aaauro you I " " I know that well unoaxb, mutber, and I wish to goodneas I could do aometliin^ to stop the ({overnor in his headlonif oxtrava |{anoe. It is not only the loaa of the property that I fear, but my ancle James has let nil) see pretty plainly that, if this sort of thing nontinaea, he'll make Amabel break off her engagement with me." Amabel was Mr. James Godfrey's only daughter, and cousin and tinancee of Itoiialil Browning. "James is very striol on the point of money," Mrs. Browning answered. " And only two days aijohe gave metoanderataiid what yon have just aaid." •• D n it, mother, it's rather hard line* on a yoang fellow like me (o be cheated by his governor's confounded ex travaganoe, not only out of a tine eatate, bat also out of the prettiest girl in Lon- don." " Vour father mast be stopped I " hia mother said ornphatically. "But how?" It's out of the (|ii6Btion. llncJB James has pitcheil into him, the earl has pitchod into him, you liavo alter- nately blown him iiii and appealed to his butter feeliiiKH. And I have sulked and growled at liim till I'lii tired of it. lint all to no purpose. He promises amenil- raent eviry day, and every day ooinniila some fresh extravaKanoe. Not down yet, you see, and nearly 12 o'clock. That meana he waa late at the club last ni){ht, where, I dare say, he lost no end of money at l>i<i. or poker, or some other infer- nal game." " I wish, lionald, that yoa wnnld go and see your llncle James, and nonaidcr with him whether soma plan oannot be deviaed to atop your father. ' Ronald pushed hia ohair impatiently back from the breakfast table. " U'h per- teotly liaeleaa," he saiil ; hut I want to see Amabel, ao I'll go round there to luncheon, II my uaole ia at home, I'll take ocoaaion to broaoh the eubjeot to him â€" jaat to satisfy you, mother. Bat, of ooarae, he'll be unable to do anything." " Yoar ancle ia a clever man, Konald, and I have great faith in him." Konald ahrugged his shoaldera and made no anawer ; be evidently did not share his mother's opinion. At that moment the honorable George entered the breakfast room. He waa an oldiah man, nearly 70, and the marks of fast living had atamped tbemaelvea very clearly on hia onoe handsome countenance. But his dreaa, hia elegant figure and hia aprigbtly manner were all twenty years junior to liia face. The surly reception which he had from hia wife and eon did not affect hia urbanity in the least ; he waa perfectly auave, cheer- ful and good-humored ; told them wbat a pleaaaot evening he had spent at the dab last night (omitting to mention that he had lost several huodred poanda at cards) ; asked what news there was in the morning paper; inqaired whether Ronald was seedy this morning, as he looked devilish grave. To which inquiry hia mn replied by leaving the room to make his morning toilet. His father's anasasilablegood humor only made hia conduct the more provoking, for no one waa ever known to see thebooorable George out of temper, Thia waa partly what ren- dered him B] utterly incorrigible. When he waa dressed, Ronald walked leisurely round to his uncle's house in Hamilton plaoe. Aa the footman opened the door to liim, his undo chanced to be crossing the hall and stopped. " Ah, Ronald," be aaid, shaking handa with him not very warmly, " come to see me, eh '/ " " I came to see Amabel especially ; but I did wish to have a word with you." " That is lucky, for I have something important to discuss with you. Just step in here. There is still twenty minutes before lunch." Bo speaking, the banker ushered the way into hid private atady, and shut the door. He was a Rtool, rather handsome old gen- tleman, with a certain pompoua dignity of manner. After pacing the length of the hearth rug several timea, with hia handa beneath hia coit taila, he said : " What do you think the 8t. David's estates are worth, Konald, eh ?" ' Twenty five thousand a year, I under- stand, uncle.' " So they are â€" every shilling of it I And to be an earl, with i:'i2,5,0(H) a year, ia a noble thing, Ronald, and gives a man high standing in the world. And that ia what I thouifht you would one day be, when I con- sented to your engagement with Amabel. Kut, from what I can judge now, by the lime yoa become Earl of 8t. David's, you are likely not to have JL'io.OOO or £10,U00, or oven io.OOO a year. ' " I know what you mean. And that waa what I wanted to talk to yon about. My father's extravagance i.H rapidly involving the property." Involving it I The word ia soaroely strong euoagh. In another year or two he will have forfeited his right to every single acre. I do not speak at random, I asiure yju. Having long been anxioua about the btats of your father'a afTairi>, I determined, last week, to obtain accurate information concerning them. Bo I viaited Lionel Levi, of Jertnyn street, with whom your father has had most of his pecuniary transactions, and pretended that I wished to buy up his bills. They amounted, 1 found, to more than U 100,000." " Good gracious I What can the governor have done with all that money ?" " Oh, he has not had a fifth part of it in cash. That makes it all the more pro- voking. By raising the money at this out- rageously exorbitaut intareat he is practi- cally selling the property to the Jews at a fifth >>f its real value." " Oan't he bu stopped somehow '.''' " liupoasible I We have no hold upon him. Ho, unleHi your fathor - ah, ah â€" fails toâ€" ahâ€" survive the earl, yoa will be a pennileaa peer, Konald. .Vnd, pardon me for saying so, 1 cannot roijard with oom |ilacuncy the proa|>tict of Aiuaberu marry- ing a beggar I " " Vou are very plain spoken, nnolel" " I'm a straightforward man of buaineaa, air, and there'a no palavering about me. I don t wiah to hurt your feulinga, Ronald, for you are a good fellow, and I like yoa ; l>nt, at the eame time, 1 am bound to do my beet for my daaghter'a welfare. And I cannot permit her to throw away a uum bor of curtain fortunes now for thia pro blematical one of youra in the future. The young Marijuis of Truro might be hera to- morrow, and so might Hir Owen Meredith, both of whose eatatea are larger than the Ut. David's." " You moan that you wish our engage inent broken off ?" "I'reeiaely! I really regret it, Konald; but it is for Amabel'a aake. ' " And what doea ahe aay to thia?" ' Amabel is a aenailile girl, and will do what her father bida her I" " Vou will let me aee her, and tell her tbia -.'•' "Certainly. And if you two oan lay your hoada together and dcviae some plan for securing the estate against your father'a extravaganceâ€" why then the engagement may conlinae." " Is that a bargain ?" " Yoa ; but 1 fuar that yon will not profit b\ it inaoh, ainoe the condition involved is an iniposaibility." It may bn imagined that, after this con- versation, Konalil'a manner at lunch was far from cheerful. Bis aunt and ooaain rallied him on hia low apirita ; bat he re- fused to be drawn oat of himaelf, and he aat moody and despondent. When luncheon waa over, the banker wont olT to Lombard street, and Mra. God- frey, who waa the kindest iind moat oon- siiierate old lady in the world, left Konald and Amabel together in the inner drawing room. " What iuthe matter, Ronald? " Amabel asked, aa Hoon aa they were alone. lionald put hin arm around her and drew bur to him. To call her " the prettiest girl in London " waa, perhapa, a rather sweep- ing statement ; yet she was, beyond doubt, very lovely. And aa ahe stood looking fondly into hia handsome faoe, her auburn head ruating against his shoulder, and 'lur dainty little white hands clasped roand his arm, it is no wonder that he cursed his father'a extravagance more bitterly than ever. ' rias not my uncle told yon ?" he asked. ' Told me what." ' About our engagement. Us wants it brokoii off, beoauaa my governor is antici- pating the property, by raising money upon it, and wben I come into the title there will be little or none of the eatate left." The little white bands clasped tighter on Ronald's arm, and the tender ha/.el eyes looked atill more fondly into hia. " I can't give yoa ap, Konald, whatever my father may aay I And what does the property matter. Father has always promised to give me a dowry tit for a prinoesa ; we can live apon that !" " Bat, if yoa marry me againat hia will, he will not give yoa the dowry. No, Ama- bel, there ia only one way out of it â€" and that is an impossible one." "That sound Irish. Bat what do yoa mean?" " Yoar father told me that it I could de- viae some certain meana either to atop my father'a extravagance, or secare myself against the conaecjoences of it, oar engage- ment might contiuae." " And ia that impossible? " "Utterly. Every conceivable method has been tried andâ€" failed." " Tell me all about the matter, Ronald ; and let me aee if I cannot tbiok of aome plan." The young man told her all the oircam- atancea of the caae, adding at the end, "There, my darling, yoa see how hopeless it ia." " I'm not so sure that it ia hopeless. Tell it me all over again, ao that I may understand it quite, quite clearly." Konald complied ; pausing every now and then to â€" but this has no bearing on the story, and, therefore, need not be entered into. " Now, Ronald," said she, smiling up into his face, " I mean to think of aome plan. And when I mean to do a thing, it is as good aa done. I ahall rack my poor little brain day and night, and ahall give it no real nntil the plan haa been thought of. Don't look BO glum, air. I tell you a plan shall be found." Ronald only smiled hopeleaaly. " I have great faith in woman'a wit," he said, " but even it cannot accomplish im- poBsibilitiea. And ahe anawered, looking fondly into his eyes : " The power of woman's wit ia perhapa limited, but there is no limit to the power of woman's love." At that minute Mrs. Godfrey, having discreetly coughed to announce her ap preach, entered the inner drawing-room, and, soon after, Ronald took hia departure. Amabel ref uaed to go out for a drive that afternoon. She wiahed to be left alone and to think. Khe sat in the library, by her- self, gazing dreamily into space, and buried in her own meditations. At length her cheeks auddenly tloahed, and her eyes grew bright, and clapping her handa, ahe jumped up from her ohair, crying aloud : " I have got it t" " What have yoa got, my dear .'" aaked Mr. Godfrey, who had jaat come back from the bank and entered the room at that very minute. " Oh, father I I have thoQoht of a plan I " "What plan? What on earth do you mean, Amabel?' waa the banker's per- plexed rejoinder. His daughter threw her arms roand hia neck, kiaaed him, and, drawing him into an armchair, sal npon hia knee. Then she whisperad something in his ear, and began to talk in a low, eager voioe, growing more excited as she went on. Mr. Godfrey's faoe, whioh at the begin- ning had assumed an obatinate and un- yielding expression, gradually relaxed iuto a complaisant and approving smile. " You are a true daughter of your father, my iloar," he said, at the end. " A first- rate financier ! The plan is a clever one, and, I believe, ijaile feasible. Who would have thought that that little brain of youra contained suoli ounniog? We'll send fur Ronald this very evening, and see what he aaya to )our auggeation." Ho a note was deapatched to Ronald Browning, re(|aeBting him to dine in Hamilton plaoe that evening, as bia uncle had aomething important to oom- munioate. After dinner the three conspirators â€" Mr. Godfrey, Amabel and Ronald â€" held a Hi^cret conference in the banker's study. Mra. Godfrey was not included, because, though the most amiable of old ladies, aha could not be traatod with a aeuret. In the meantime, the Honorable George, all unoonacions of the plot that was being hatched againat his extravaganot, thought that ho would try to recoup himself by the aid of the turf. So, with hia usual princely recklesHneas, he backed the favorite for the Gambridgeahire for 13.000. The favorite, unfortunately, wii4 beaten, and the Honor able George was in the poaition of being forced to raiae Cit.UOO in cash before settling day. He went to hia friend tbo money lender, Lionel Levi, of Jermyn street, noth- ing doubting bat that that worthy woald be (jaite ruady to accommodate him. But, to his great aurpriae and dismay, the worthy Lionel refused to let him have a abilling. " What the devil does thia mean 7" the Honorable Ueorgu asked. " There is still nearly three-iiuartera of the property un- encumbered." And Lionel anawered : " True I Bat I do not like the look of yonr health, sir, and, to put it plainly, I think it very probable now that the earl will outlive you." " What the denoe is worse abont my health now than when yoa lent me that thousand last month 7" " I was not aware then that yoar heart waa affected I" â- ' No more it ia, by Gad! Who told yoa so?;' Lionel Levi amiled incredalously. He had it on good authority, lie had already lent him £'20,0U0, which he now aaw every chance of losing. And the long and abort of it waa that he would not advance another aixpanoe. The honorable George left iu a rage, and drove to another money lender of his ao- qaaintance. To hia great wrath and ubagrin, this individual treated him to the same reply, and assigned the same reason. The would-be borrower waa farioas. Who on earth had been Hpreadiug that report about his heart ? He thought that no one knew of it, except his own imme- diate family. It really was dâ€" d pro- voking. These Jewa all olung together, and very likely by thia time the informa- tion had gone the roand of every Hebrew in London. He drove home to luncheon, and to con- sider hia position, A pile of letters had come in for him ainoe he had left the hoaee two boars before. He turned them oare- leaaly over ; moat were of a bilioaa appear- ance, and be did not open them. Bat there was one, marked on the envelope " Private and confidential," whose con- tentB he deigned to inspect, " thongh I am sore," he soliloquized, " it's only aome infernal advertisement " " Egad 1" he ejaculated a minate later, " Glad I did open it, by Jove ! Jast the very thing I want 1" It ran aa followa : 1,-200DUKK BllKET, St. JiMKS', 8. W. Dkar hilt,â€" fu the event of you requiring at any time a temporary advance of cash, I shall always be happy to accommudate you. Haviog a large capital at my cominaud, I am able to advance money at a more reasonable rate than most luuderii and to supply it at the shortest possible notice Yours truly, DA-NIEI. LAZAIiUB. " Well, I'm hanged," mattered the Hon- orable George to himself, when he had fiaiahed reading the above. " If this isn't one of the luckiest things ever happened ! Here, at any rate, ia a Hebrew who has not heard of my heart diseaae. I'll call upon him tbia very afternoon and borrow that £3,000." " I'm going out, my dear, to pay a few vitilte," he aaid to bia wife after lancbeon, and the firat viaithe paid waa to Mr. Daniel Lazarus' office, at 1,200 Duke street, tit. Jamea'. Ad he entered his clab that evening, two men were standing in the lobby, with their backs to him, talking. " I know for a fact, that Levi refused him this morning," said the one. " That IS excellent, anawered the other. Hon. George slipped past theca anob- aervud. He recognized them both. They were bis brother in-law, James Godfrey, and his son, Ronald. " So ho," he thought inwardly, " that waa a dodge of yonrs to prevent my bor- rowing money, waa it 7 I wonder how you would both look if yoa knew that I have thia very afternoon paid into my bankers a cheijue of Daniel Lazarus' for £5,000 ?" From this time forward Hon. George plunged into more hopeless extravagance than ever. His wife and aon ceased to re- monatrato â€" either becaase they did not gueaa the real extent of hia loana or because they thought remonstrance aaeless. Bis viaita to Daniel Lazarua grew fretjaent, bat the latter waa always ready to aooommo- date him with caab. " I'll be frank with yoa," the money lender said, on the oooasion of one of these viaita. " The fact is I am gambling for your eatate. I have set my heart upon it, and have bought up all your bills from Levi. Our friend Lionel was growing nervous about hia moneyâ€" thoagbt that you were aure to die before the earl, so he let me have the bills on reasonable terms. I know that there's a chacoe of your dying before the earl, but I also know that there'a a good chance of yoar surviving him. I speculate on the latter. The game is worth playing, too, eince at my present rate of in- terest (which is ao high becaase of the risk involved) I ahall by the expenditure of a hundred thousand in cash ohanoe winning five handred thouaand in land. Un the other hand, I may lose everything, if you are so disobliging as to die before the earl." Kgad I" answered the Honorable George, with a laugh. " That's the only ohanoe for my aou. Why, you've lent me close on fifty thousand now !" 'Tbat involveshalf the eataate, and yoar billa, whioh I have bought up from Levi, involve it to the extent o( another ijuarter. Therefore, only a iiuarter remaiua for you to borrow upon. I ahall be willing to ac- commodate you, air, to the full extent of that security." ' Well, Lazarua, it yoa don't do so, it shall not be fur want of application on my part. I promise that." Thia convereation took place aome twelve months after Hon. Geo. Browning's first introduction to Danial Laiurus. It will, therefore, be seen tbat he bad been apend- ing money with tolerable freedom during that period. He had, in truth, thrown it away with a reckleaa laviahneaa peculiar even for him. The next half year found bim no more economical, and at the end of that time aoaroely an acre remained upon which money could be raised. But now an event happened whioh brought great joy to the heart of Dauial Lazarua and auoh othera aa had claima upon Hon. Geo. Browning. The Karl of St. David'a caught a sudden chill on the first day of cover-abooling. A aharp attack of broncbitia followed, and within 48 hoarathe nuble earl waa a dead man. The Honorable George (we beg hia par- don the new earl) received the intelligence with his usual imperturbability. Uedid not much relish the prospect of bis pecuniary embarrassments being disclosed, but Lazarua waa an obliging fellow, and the diacluaure might yet be deferred tor aome wceka. He toaod, however, that Lazarae, the ao- cominodating lender, was a very different mau from Lazarua the creditor, in full poa- seasioD of his legal rights. For, on the same afternood that he received the tele- gram with the news of hia brother'a death, a note reached the Honorable Creorge from Lazarua, reiiueating him to atup round to hia oBiue before o'clock and arrange for the immediate traiidfer of the St. David's property. Highly indignant at aaoh a summary proceeding, he drove straight to 1,200 Duke atruet : ' 'I'on my life, Lazaraal" he aaid irrit- ably, aa he entered the money lender's oSioe, "thia haste is poailively indecent. You might at least have waited antil after the funeral." Daniel merely ahrugged hia shoolders, and answered, coldly : " I am (|aite within my rights, sir ! Be- sides, I am acting on inatruulion. For I may as well inform yoa that I am not a principal, but only au agent, in thia affair." "Come, Lazaraa, that is • very old story." " It ia true, nevertheless, ia the present oaae. To convince you beyond doubt, I will introduce you to my principal at onoe. Will yoa step this way, please? " The Honorable George followed the money lender into an inner otlioe, and there found, to his otter aatoniahment, no other a peraon than hia brother-in-law, the banker. " What the devil doea thia mean 7 " he ejaoalated. " Listen I " answered Mr. James Godfrey, a carious smile playiu); about bis lipa, '* and yon will understand. 'Tia I that have lent you the money. " " You 1 I'ooh I You're joking." " Uu tho contrary, I am qaite serioua. Seeing that yoa were bent on selling your estate to the Jews at a fifth of its tms price, I aaed Amabel's dowry â€" £100,000 â€" to bay it up with. In doing so, no risk was ran ; for if yon survived the earl, I could claim, by law, the whole estate ; and, it the earl survived yon, he bad given ma hia word tc leave the property to Ronald, and Ronald promiaed to aettle £100,000 at it upon Amabel, in repayment." " You mean that I have, iu tact, aold tha estate to you ? " said the new earl, when hia surprise permitted him to speak. " Preoiaely ! And it ia my intention, this very day, to settle it upon Konald and Amabel, and their children after them. You will not have the control of a aingia acre, George 1" " Well, well," the other replied, accepting the inevitable with hia caatomary eaaineaa, " after all, it had better go to Ronald than to the Hebrews." An Klectrlc Catecliiam. Bcribner's Magazine (7-13 Broadway, New York) is publiabing a aeriea of articles on electricity. The following twenty qaea- tioiis and answers contain a bint of the extent of the ground to be covered : 1. How strong a current ia used to send a message over an Atlantic cable ? 30 celia of battery only. Lqaal to 30 volts. 2. What IS the longest distance over which conversation by telephone ia daily maintained ? About 730 miles, from Fort- land, Maine, to Bu£falo, N.Y. 3. What is the faatest time made by an electric railway ? A mile a minate by a small experimental car. '20 miles an hoar on street railway eyaiem. 4. How many miles of submarine oabla are there in operation? Over 100,000 miles, or enough to girdle the earth foot times. 6. What ia the maximam power gener- ated by an electric motor ? 75 taorae power. Experimenta indicate that lOO horse power Will aoon be reached. b. How ia a break in submarine cable located ? By measuring the electricity needed to charge the remaining onbrolun part. 7. How many miles of telegraph wire in operation in the U. B. ? Over a million, or enough to encircle the globe forty times. 8. How many messages oan be trans- mitted over a wire at one time ? Four, by the quadraplex system in daily ase. 'J. How is telegraphing from a moving train accomplianed ? Through a circiiit from the car roof inducing a current in the wire on polea along the Irack- 10. What are the moat widely aeparated points between which it is puaaible to send a telegram .' British Colombia and New Zealand, via America and Europe- 11. How many mileaof telephone wire in operation in the I' .& ? More than 170,000, over which 1,055,000 meaaages are a«nt daily. 12. What ia the greatest candle power of arc light aaed in a lighthouse? Two mil- lion, in a ligbthooae at Houstholm, Denmark. 13. How many persons iu the l' S. are engaged in buaineaa depending aolely on eleotrioity 7 Estimated, '250,000. 14. How long doea it take to transmit a measage from Ban Franoiaco to Hong Kong ? About 15 minates. Via Hew York, t'auso, Venzanoe, Aden, Bombay, MadraH, Peuang and Biugapore. 15. What is the fastest time made by an operator sending meaaages by Morae ays- tem ? About forty -two words per minate. Hi. How many telephones are in aae in Unitid Statea ? About 300,000. 17 What war veeaul has the luoat com- plete electrical plant ? United States man - of ~ar Chicago. IS. What ia the average cost per mile, of a transatlantic aubmarine cable? About Jl.OOO. I'J. How many miles of eleotrio railways are there in operation in the II. B. ? About 400 milea, and much more under conatruo- tion. '20. What atrength of current ia danger - oua to human life ? 500 volta, but depend- ing larely uu physical conditiona. Pipoa the Favorite In Philadelphia. Nothing ia more noticeable now-a-daya than the great increaae in the number of men who smoke pipes on the street. Ihia ia by no meana confined to workmen with their abort clay dudeena. Clerks, lawyera, brokers, dudea and the young and old of all classea seem to prefer the pipe to tha cigar, nuleaa there ia a high wind. Fine meerchauma, briar roots, an oo- caaional corn-cob or a tially mical are among those seen. When the largest aizea are balanced oarefnlly between the lips, and the men'a trouaera are turned up all around, " beoauaa it'a rain- iug in London, dou' ch'er know," the poa- aeaaor may be set down aa an Anglo- maniac. However, pipes are the tad now, and they have the merit of cheapness. â€" Philadelphia Inquirer. A Valnable Hxperlene*. " There conies the life iosuranoe agent I" exclaimed a Wall street broker, aa be stood at a window in h<a office the other morn- ing. " To see you?" " Yes. He's bothered the life out of ma tor the last six months to take out a policy." " My dear air, yoa maet have encoaraged him to start." " Well, I gaess I did. He askad me for a light for hia cigar, and I gave it to him. It will be a valuable experience to me." Wm. Rouehts, M.D., Phyaician to tha Manchester, Eng., Infirmary and Lunatio Hoapital, Professor of Medicine in Owen's College, aayKi "The attention of tha patient ia awakened aome months, oi it may be years, after advanoed kidney diseaae exista." If you think it unwiae to take further ohanoea uae Warner's Safe Cure before the malady beoomea any turthac advanoed. â€" "Shoot any one that botbera yoa,** aaid a Georgia man to hia wife on present- ing her with a ahotgun. She followed hia advioe and now be has a bad wound in the neok. â€" The eeoret of lite ia not to do what one likes, but to try to do like what one haa do. Two small girlsâ€" "Oh, anntie, we've come to tell yoa there'a a baby at oar house ! " Aantâ€" " That is nioe. Did the stork bring a little brother or a little aiater ?" Little giria (puzzled)â€"" Nobody knows till the christening." vn «..»»'' .-4f'^'

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