H ouse and Garden 
Scribner’s Magazine 
* The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 
By John Fox, Jr. 
No serial story of recent years has won such instant 
recognition or appealed to so many readers. 
Here is a story that is refreshingly romantic. The scene 
is the Kentucky mountain region, the land of the feud and 
“moonshine.” There is plenty of exciting action and touches 
of sentiment and humor that grip the reader’s heart. June is 
one of the most fascinating heroines in modern fiction. 
In the April Number will appear the first chapters of 
Vera, the Medium 
By Richard Harding Davis 
The first novel he has written for several years. It is in 
his best vein, full of striking situations and intensely dramatic. 
It is distinctly a novel of to-day; a transcript of real life; a 
story of business greed, designing seekers after an old man’s 
money, spiritualism as practised by clever charlatans; with a 
strong element of romance. 
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GEO. J. CHA RLTON. GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT. CH I CAGO. 
MOTION OF THE NEVADA LODE 
A YEAR ago the Virginia and Gold 
^ ^ Hill Water Company’s employes 
repaired a disjointed pipe in front of Dr. 
Cole’s drug store and put in a “sleeve” 
to permit of its expansion. Three days 
ago they were called upon to lengthen 
their “sleeve,” and readily calculated 
that the “sleeve” had moved ten inches 
in one year. In some parts of the town 
the ground jams or compresses, and in 
other parts it expands and stretches. 
To accommodate this action of the lode 
the water company puts in“sleeves” in 
its fire and water-mains. The pipe col¬ 
umns that lead water to the electric 
motors on the i,6oo level of the Chollar 
mine are also provided with “sleeves.” 
During the process of putting in those 
pipes the heat expands them to a con¬ 
siderable extent, and when the cold 
water is turned into them their shrinkage 
can be observed with the naked eye. It 
makes a diff erence of about eight inches 
in 1,700 feet, leaving so much space be¬ 
tween the foot of the pipe and its base. 
If It were not accommodated with a 
“sleeve” the action of the water in the 
pipe would tear everything to pieces. 
I'he Water Company’s tanks on the side 
of Mount Davidson are all situated in 
the “country” formation — off of the 
lode. They don’t move. Pipes lead from 
the tanks to the moving lode. The 
point of separation is as distinctly mark¬ 
ed as the Chinese wall. 1 he pipe comes 
to the bank separating the two forma¬ 
tions, and at that point a double elbow 
is put in the pipe, and as the lode lowers 
away from the immovable country rock, 
the lower point of the double elbow 
accommodates itself to the movement.— 
Virginia City Enterprise. 
THE CHIMES OF ST. GERMAIN 
L’AUXERROIS, PARIS 
TAWELLERS near the Louvre in 
Paris are treated twice a day 
to some old-fashioned music by the 
chimes of the Church of St. Germain 
I’Auxerrois. Formerly the bells played 
tunes four times daily, but as their mech¬ 
anism went wrong they became silent 
for years. These chimes have been re¬ 
stored in the tower between the church 
and the town-hall of the district, where 
they were before, and they have been 
formally handed over to the city. The 
airs, which have been arranged by a 
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