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I' Plan to Reduce Road Widtlis. j ' Consul Thompson,of Hanover, Ger- , many, contributes some valuable com- 3 ments on the roads of Prussia as ' compared with those of the United . States. The German roads, he says, J Tange from twenty to thirty feet in ' width, while in our Middle or West- 1 em States, we take land of an aver- I . age value of $100 per acre and cut it 1 up with roadways sixty-six feet wide, j 1 practically two-thirds of the same be- | lng given over to weeds, which fur- i ' nish an inexhaustible supply of seed3 for the adjoining farm lands. The , J farmer of Germany who has conquered the weeds on his ground need ; j I have no thought of their being started again from uncultivated or uncared- j for land along the roadways. Look- j ! ing into the valleys from one of the i thousands of lookout towers which j ' have been placed on the summit of j nearly every high elevation in Ger- 1 many, the roads lie before one's view . J like bright white ribbons running past squares of green or brown fields, J along the verges of cultivated woods, I ; and binding village to village?a so- ; lution of the first and most impor- J tant problem of human economy and : evolution, that of transportation. One of the simplest and most prac- j : deal measures that could be taken " !or American roads betterment would be to reduce their width to from one- , 1 third to one-half of what they are I 1 aow. Work could then be concen- ! 1*1 CLICV1 UU ivuu..w; v.. ^ ind both building and maintenance of joads become much less expensive. No road can be called really good ' 1 it is bordered with weeds or mud, ; md to care for and keep up a road .'rom sixty to seventy feet in width, ' aot to mention the loss of land, means J a the long run nearly double the ex- , ' >ense of a thirty or thirty-five foot 1 road. j The average width of the first class aighway in Prussia is thirty feet, and 8 found to be ample for all purposes. ! Seducing the width of public high- ( vays in but thirteen Mississippi Valey States, aggregating700,000 miles, tfhich now average sixty-six feet, to :hirty-six feet, leaving them still J auch wider ' than the highways of j 1 y Ttinmncnn shnws Wfill 1 d ' .1 A U OOXtfc, iUl . A WMW .? M " . , five back to the farmers of those | States for cultivation 2,500,000 acres >f generally tillable land, which, at in average valuation of $100 per j , icre would mean the restoration to : :he producing values of the States lamed of $250,000,000. This sum ' ias an annual interest value of $12,500,000, an amount which might be .recovered, and if applied to the proper scientific construction of roads in 1 the United States would in a few ' rears give us the most extensive and finest country road system in the arorld. G. E. M. | ' Washington, D. C. This might do very well but for ] the autos, says the Indiana Farmer, though we prefer a sixty-foot to a thirty-foot roadway if we can afford j the space., and the roads can be kept ' slear of weeds and other rubbish, j 1 But what kind oJ a chance would the ^ anver 01 a siuiusu uutac ui auj uiuoi fcind of a horse in fact but a worn- j out plug have, in trying to pass a big machine on a thirty-foot highway? So long as autos are allowed to use our common roads the roads should remain as wide as now, and the improvement should extend from fence to fence, the outer ten feet on each Bide being made by the auto owners. I * ?Right Way to Figure. j Good roads will reduce the cost of transportation by private conveyance , one-half, so it is a measure which is entitled .to strong support, remarks the Atlanta Journal. Yet there are many who use the roads every day , who do not stop to figure this way. J They will install a labor saving machine on the farm because it will save ! them a little extra labor, and perhaps !a little money, but they will not sea , that 2*>od roads are both the greatest labor saving and money saving thing 1 extant. The Fort Worth Record recently figured that if good reads were j ' universal the saving to the country would be 5250,000,000 annually, and 1 1 every farmer in the country would get his portion of this saving. This agitation for good roads in Texas should go on until every country road i in the State is brought up to the high- | ' est standard. Jefferson County has made a great start with its new shell 1 roads on all the principal highways of the city, but there are cross roads ; 1 and the less traveled country roads that yet may be improved, and the work should continue. In the mean- i time much of the Jefferson County soil is amenable to the efforts of the split log drag and the farmers of the ' country should interest themselves in J this implement to a greater extent than they have yet shown an inclination to do.?Beaumont Enterprise. i Easily Remedied. An old lawyer, who is a noted wit, ! has for a partner another old fellow who is very conservative and strait- j laced. Recently the wit remarked to . his partner tbat it was advisable to j employ a female stenographer in the , office, maintaining that stenographers of that variety were much more satisfactory than males. But the partner didn't like the idea. "My dear fellow," he objected. "I don't think it would be proper. ; It wouldn't do, wouldn't do at all. j You see, here I should be in the of- , flee, hour after hour every day, quite j alone with the young lady, and?" "Well," observed the wit, with a | twinkling eye, "couldn't you holler?" ?New York Times. ' , Labor Day. ; Twelve hours, with two hours' rest, < *? Iniril 11 Knri n <r Hav at flrlpssa. 1 1T5 IUC ICgat iftwv?*u0 ~ , Russia. Workers under seventeen < must go to school for three hours < daily. Christians are not required to . < work on Sundays or feast days, nor ; Hebrews and Mohammedans on their I religious holidays. Those who have 1 to work on Sundays have the next ], day, for reat.?St. Louis Republic, j ] "?'?:? ??? The Passing of Satire. By AMBROSE BIERCE "Young man," said the Melancholy Author, "I do not commonly permit myself to be 'interviewed;' what paper do you represent?" The Timorous Reporter spoke the name of the great journal that was connected with him. "Sir, I never heard of it," said the Melancholy Author. "I trust that it Is devoted to the interests of Literature." Assurance was given that it had a Poets' Corner, and that among its regular contributors it numbered both Aurora Angelina Aylmer and Plantagent Binks, the satirist. "Indeed," said the great man, "you surprise me! I had supposed that satire, once so large and wholesome an element in English letters, wa3 long dead and d pardon me? buried. You must bear with me if I do not concede the existence of Mr. Binks. Satire cannot co-exist with * * - 3 s?- n /i alien mouycoaaie senumcuLo ?j brotherhood of man,' 'the trusteeship of wealth,' moral irresponsibility, tolarance, socialism and the rest of it. Who can 'lash the rascals naked through the world' in an age that holds crime to be a disease and concerts the prison into a sanitarium?" The Timorous Reporter ventured to ask if he considered crime a symptom 3f mental health. By way of fortifying himself for a reply, the melancholy one visited the sideboard and toped a merciless quantity of something imperfectly known to his visitor from the arid South. "Crime, sir," said he, partly recovering, "is merely a high degree of selfishness directed by a low degree of intelligence. If selfishness is a disease none of us is altogether well. We are all selfish, or we should not be living, but most of us have the discernment to see that our permanent advantage does not lie in gratification of our malevolence by murder, nor in augmenting our possessions by theft. Those of us who think otherwise should be assisted to a saner rrlort? Kir niinkhmpnt Tfr Is sad. SO 3ad, to reflect that many of them eslape it." "But it is agreed," said the journalist, "by all our illustrious sociologists ?Brand Whitlock, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman? that punishment is useless, that it 3oes not deter, and they prove it by the number of convictions recorded against individual criminals. Will pou kindly Bay if they are right?" "If punishment did not deter, the housebreaker discharged from prison would enter and rob the nearest dwelling to the prison gate; whereas, we know that the most incorrigible ol the tribe will behave himself until pressed by want, or until in his bruti stupidity he thinks, as he thought before, that he can escape detection. Punishment deters?not perfectly, foi nothing is perfect, but it deters. I! svery human institution that lamentably fails to accomplish its full purpose is to be abolished none will remain." The Timorous Reporter begged to be considered worthy to know what, apart from its great wisdom and interest, all this had to do with satire. "Satire," said the Mclancholy Author, "is punishment. As such It has fallen into public disfavor in its justice and efficacy. So the rasals go unlashed. Instead of ridicule we have solemn reprobation; for wit we have 'humor'?with a slang word in the line, two in the second and three in the third. Why, sir, the American reading public hardly know that there sver was a distinctive kind of writing known, technically, as satire?that it was once not only a glory to literature but, incidentally, a terror to all manner of civic and personal unworth. tf we had to-day an Aristophanes, a Jonathan Swift or an Alexander Pope, lie would surely be put into a comfortable prison with all sanitary adrantages, led upon yellow-legged pullets and ensainted by the Little Broth *rs of the Bad. For they would think him a thief. In the same error the :hurches would pray for him and the women compete for his hand in marriage. " The thought of so great a perversion of justice overcame .the creator 3f the vision and he sank to the ground, tried .to cover his face with his coat-skirts and groaned aloud. Process Jealously Guarded. "Essen is essentially notable for Its crucible nickel steel," said Ernst Lange, o2 Werden, A. R., Germany, who is making a tour of the steel mills of .this country. "There is socalled crucible nickel steel made elsewhere in the world, but so far as known the Krupp material is unexzelled. This accounts for the large exportation of Krupp crucible nickel steel to the United States. In the case of engine parts, where heavy strains are exerted, manufacturers (eel the necessity of acquiring the best steel obtainable, regardless of origin. iub prucess ot muKing cruciDie niCKej steel at the Krupp works is jealously guarded, although, even i? all the details were known, the steel could not be made in America or elsewhere, since only the Krupp works possess both the requisite organization and experience. This crucible nickel steel is almost exclusively used by Krupp for gun work, and accounts in a large measure for the high reputation of Krupp ordnance."?Washington Post. A Woman's Crowning Glory. Good hair will often atone for a want of grace or classical outline. In one's mind's eye one can see the cloud of soft gold hair which frames a thin, white face or features that are too misshapen for orthodox beauty, or the masses of rich black hair *Via+ m a Ir oc nno frtrorot Q Hull cVin a stern mouth, or a big-boned, lanky figure. Red hair is now much admired and its ruddy tints bring parion for many flaws, such as no eyebrows, a sharp chin, a flat nose? sven freckles. And a woman's looks san be saved from ruin by a lovely complexion.?Strand. A Lost Day. The most completely lost of all lays is that upon which you have not \ \ - Belle of the V ! IS ' "'?* HHBiBw^iraBfBIW^BHiBBIHHrB^?s^w:m^^^'r^:'''^ r>y v^'-; \ vpp^ - - ^ 'v 3^ I ^\.;' -sy ' . MISS HELE Only Daughter of the Pr< " Up-to-Date Clothesline, 1 A sensible clothes dryer, which will I be welcomed by the particular house- i wife, ia the recent invention of a resi- < dent of Port Angeles, Wash, It does away with the unsightly long lines of ? plothes usually associated with wasn day. Instead, the clotheslines are I ; economncally arranged on one sup- * port. The latter consists of a post, '? , ' to which are pivoted five or six bars. These support the clothes line, which ' , is arranged in graduated lengths be- 1 tween the bars. When thus spread 1 1 ' ' I ( ! I' I 1 i < i ' ( i ' j IL ? - * ?' ! A<?f 4es tVino nrnhoKlv 1 !\A f O/if 1 of clothes line, affording considerable 1 j space for the clothes. After the ! ! clothes have become dried the line 1 and supports can be folded up and ' | placed out of sight by operating a 1 ' small lever on the main post. The upper part of the framework being ' , thus detachable, it can be quickly re! ; moved or replaced when needed. > ; There are thus no disfiguring clothes poets to mar the lawn.?Washington 1 | Star. . , ' Hall Calne's Portrait. i ! Clyde Fitch, the noted playwright, i was praising the reporter of the past. 'I "He has merged now," said Mr. 1 Fitch, "into the playwright, the novelist or the leader writer. We don't l i ^ i ii mil ' ' I ! | This gate, located In Avon, Mass., (>f an Injustice which the owner bellev part of his land by eminent domain fo It is made of a tree trunk and small bra Cover For Water Pall. j i The drinking water pail is usually 1 | the most likely catch for all dust, * dirt and flies in the house unless pro- 1 L I :JS-> tected in some way. Get aa inch or 1 three-fourths inch board twelve I inches wide and saw off a foot and < ________________________ /hite House. A^v ---, jB? >o N TAFT. asident and Mrs. Taft. lave reporters like him now. Th< >ower is too soon recognized. Th ise too fast. And hence the ne solumns suffer." Mr. Fitch took down one of 1 icrapbooks. "Here is a sample of the way i jorters used to write. It's very go md amusing," he said. "It's a < icription of Hall Caine. Listen." And he read: " 'When he removed his slouch t le showed long hair brushed back a pompadour. It has the shade ? ??? ?%? nri/4 If lo flpoff (TXT napic sugai, auu u id go?.biub w* )n the top. He had an enormc :ollar, with a turn-down flap thi nches deep. He could wear a col; it least five sizes too small withe ihoking. His white necktie was tl so carelessly that the knot part of aung two or three inches south :he collar button.' "?Washingt Star. Easy. "In what condition was the pat arch Job at the end of his life asked a Sunday-school teacher ol 3uiet looking boy at the foot of t class. "Dead," calmly replied 1 juiet looking boy.?Illustrated Bi BH HbHP 4 a' ^ ^I!?wBB^b r ^BSbb^^M^ J^SKjv^.- Sftv fe' iSBS ?From The Survej MRS. RCJSSELL SAGE. One of the World's Richest Women. The pedigree of some Arab hon uay be traced back for 2000 years &&&L. mm. eel he suffered when the town to< r the establishment of water worl nches.?Boston Post. Uso saw off the corners to make oundlng on one end. Fasten hing :o the square end and screw the igainst the wall at a height so th his cover will rest level on the wat )ail. Nail a block of wood abo he cover and put a small wood bi on on it so that when the cover aised up against the wall it will leld by the button. This will ke lust, dirt, flies, millers and oth nsects from falling into the wat< ^o cat or other animal can drii 'rom the pall when the cover is dow JVhen fresh*water is wanted, mere ift the cover and fasten back agaic he wall with the button.?Lewis E horp, in The Epitomist. The Church of England repoi 12,000 baptisms for last year, and nembershlp of 2,142,039. Sunda school teachers number 210,42 vlth 2,488,230 pupils. Felled at Amersnam. near Harro Bngland, a walnut tree measur :wcnty-four feet round, weighed t ;ons and the trunk realized |245. Another's Mission. I = ? rt By W. T. CHILDS. l| A little messenger boy, dripping ft with perspiration and covered with , dust, stepped up to the paying tell- jg ' er's windows at one of the largest banks in the city, and said: "Please, . sir, give me nickels for this?" The teller simply raised his eyes and pushed back the $10 bill. The ^ messenger boy thought he had not ^ been heard and repeated his request. . "No!" snapped the paying teller. ? The messenger boy was so fright- r ened that he almost forgot his mis- , sion. He meekly picked up the $10 bill from the counter and returned to * his employer's office. "Well, where are the nickels?" his employer asked. "He wouldn't give them to me!" re? j answered the boy. In less time than it takes to tell, the employer heard the whole story. i He was a very heavy depositor in the ^ bank and also one of its directors, ? tfil <??/* ho ir>at nn -Mmft in maktne an in ! vestigatlon of the affair. "I didn't think he needed the nick- opi els," the paying teller sought to excuse his action. . "Of course he did not," answered the employer, "but did it not occur to you that he was on another's mis- mc sion?" *a The paying .teller could say nothing. He acknowledged that he was inexcusably wrong. If the employer cbi had not been such a magnanimous g0: man he would have exerted his influence as a heavy depositor and director of the bank to punish the pay- ve: ing teller, but he was willing to for- en give when the paying teller assured *U! him that it would never occur again. "Ah, young man," said the em- ex' ployer, "you should remember that the message is often greater than the messenger."?Home Herald. ml ? WORDS OF WISDOM. *lr dii ey A kick in time may also save nine, ga WS No man wants to go to heaven by ^ ??e aeroplane route. Man wants but little here below, clc re- eicept the things he knows he can't od get. th) le- Soipe of us complain that we don't er< get all that's coming to us, and are Un lucky at that. La* Some women are such bargain ? ! fiends that they would demand cut ab i rates for a surgical operation. hi^ (U i The people who sneer at us would ml ee I Probably be very much surprised to ln_ ; know what we think of them. t0 lar sei ,ut I When a girl thinks she has a . :ed ! swanlike neck she is apt to make a it I goose of herself over it. ' of j It sometimes seema to the rest of 3e] on us that success comes to a man in be spite of himself. ga The race is not always to the thi swift; but that is no reason why a tei ;r** : man should emulate the tortoise. I It doesn't make much difference ^ a , what we think so long as we don't 'f*e ; think out loud. :he 1 ts 1 Many a fellow with no desire for ' , ereat wealth would like to be rich I enough to tell his boss just what he of j thinks of him. pr< I saw a woman buying some ci- en j gars for her husband the other day. | She got them to match his stockings ^ ! and neckties. j Some men do so much talking Fq j about being square that we naturally expect to see the corners sticking out .. ^ 3f them. fllr The man who says nothing and ca saws wood may some day trade that ac\ occupation for the more agreeable one of cutting off coupons.?From tit "A Gentle Cynic," in the New York wj Times. bu tn Damage by Rats. bl( Great Britain would like to rid it- fei self of rats. Recently a deputation Ar from the Incorporated Society for Ar the Destruction of Vermin, headed by rto ses Slr James Crichton Browne and the Pu Duke of Bedford, waited upon Lord oa _ Carrington at the offices of the Brit- Ar! Ish Board of Agriculture and urged him to appoint a commission to in- j th< quire into the destruction of crops J by rats. A Scottish newspaper sums j frc up this destruction as follows: j "The deputation pointed out the I enormous damage done by rats, ! which amounts, on a most moderate j he computation, to ?75,000,000 per an- ! num in Great Britain. This is ar- isl1 rived at by allowing one rat per cul- as tivated acre of land. wh "Assuming that each rat does | sei damage to the extent of one farthing Ea day, this works out on the 40,000,- rec 000 acres of land at the figure men- ret tioned. Sir James Crichton Browne sta incidentally stated that 2,000,000 ma people died of plague in India, and rec said it had been proved that the rat was the chief cause of the spread of ?r( infection. ^)o: "It was also stated that the ex- *ai pendlture on rat poisons in the occ United Kingdom amounts to $250,- sea 000 per annum, which is considered ^u: many times more than would be reer quired properly to exterminate the I 3k | vermin if the campaign were system- j ts- I aticaJlv conducted."?Chicago News. , va? _ I '<" Quite Polite. j ata ,eg Ther were slight acquaintances, ! wo ' and there was no love lost between j all! Tt them- nui er "Well," said the first 'grande aln ve dame,' "bye-bye. I must really be lt_ getting on. I have to make a call on ^ 3 js my mother." by jje The second put up her lorgnette sra ep and drawled: are er "Really?ah?you don't mean to jr> say you have a mother living?" The first "grande dame" laughed j361 n ?a high, thin laugh, with something !ar ,ly biting, like acid, in it. "Oh, yes," she retorted on the one li" who had tried to take her down, "my mother is alive, and she doesn't look r a day older than you do, I assure R you."?From Tit-Bits. . u :ts> uir ? " ?? 0dc Ly He Passed. an( [9, Judge?"You are a freeholder?" bin Talesman?"Yes, sir; I am." ru "Married or single?" teii "Married three years last June." tac W-' "Have you formed or expressed 'any opinion?" . j "Not for three years, your Honor." eig ?Success. ate [n making a silver dollar the die , ?iven a pressure of 100 tons to the j lare inch, while one of 155 tons is ( en to the double eagle. i An alloy of seventy per cent, of | ium and thirty per cent, of iron | 3 the remarkable property of giv- j ; off a shower of sparks when j | uck by steel. I | The British agricultural colleges ' j ve been testing the growing of po- i oes from sprouts with great sue- i is. The yield and quality kave , th been Increased, and the diseaselisting powers strengthened. X A new dirigible torpedo, patented a Swedish inventor and operated electricity, is said to have a range 5000 yards. Its course can be al ed, while submerged, from the Int of departure at the will of the erator. A Chinese takin has been mounted the Museum of Natural History, j e animal was captured in the j mntainous regions of China, and ! ,s presented to the museum by I ison Mitchell, former American isul to China. The takin has the aracteristlcs of an antelope and a at. We are accustomed to think of sere and continuous cold as being an emy to life of every sort, but data rnished by the Pasteur Institute in ' ris by Dr. Charcot, the Antarctic ! plorer, prove conclusively that the | :ense cold of the south polar re- | )ns still allows various forms oi j croscopic life to flourish. It is said that a new supply of radlm has been discovered in Portu-. 1 by Thomas H. V. Bower, a memr of the American Institute of Meanical Engineers. A certaic earn, the name of which is not disced, was reputed to have therautlc powers. Mr. Bower followefl 3 stream to its source, and discov2d that it ran over a bed of uranil phosphate. Gaston Bonnier affirms that the ility of bees to fly straight to theii res from a distance as great as two les is not due, a a some have be- | ved, to either sight or smell, but | a special sense of direction pos- [ ssed by bees: Monsieur Bonnier j ses his belief in the existence of j Is strange senae, which would be j tremely useful to man also, on a j ries of experiments with homing j es. He does not know in what or-' J n the sense ia located, but he says j at, at any rate, it is not in the an- j inae. . iUINE HERO OF PEKIN DEAD, j itnam, of the Astor Battery, Had Retired With Honors. Word comes from the Philippines the death of old Putnam, a horse esented to the United States Gov ament by Colonel John Jacob Astor th the other equipment of the tor Battery at the time of the anish-American War. Putnam was out eighteen years old and died at >rt William McKinley. At that ne the horse was on the retired t, having been the second animal ice old Comanche of the Seventh valry to be regularly relieved of tive duty. The history of Putnam up to the I ae he landed in the Philippines th the Astor Battery is uncertain, t his career since then is easily iced. Just before the Boxer trou- i is in China Putnam was trans- i red to F Battery of the Fifth Field tillery and sent along with the nerican contingent. On the ar- ! ral of the allied armies at Pekin tnam and another veteran horse med Corregidor were pulling the 3t of the American light field gunq. The battery had just started up 3 hill. Corregidor's traces broke ' d it was necessary to cut him away j >m the gun. The absence of his ite didn't bother Putnam and he j t the gun up the hill alone and ar- ! , ed there in time for th-? cannon i pulled to open the firing. j : Putnam found his way back to the mds in due time and did his work a wheeler up to two years ago, i < ien he got too weak to stand hard j vice. A few months ago Colonel j T. Brown, of the Fifth Cavalary, i juested that Putnam be put on the j : ired list and be turned out on all j .te occasions and permitted to i ? .rch behind his old battery. The ! :ommendation was approved. From that time Putnam had a '< )om, extra bedding and a padded | ic stall. The old veteran's health j i Izarl r?r? v Q r?H V?a H I or? hofnro (JnV I :asion arose for him to march in j te behind his battery.?New York , ' Q. Africa's Forest. i fn the heart of equatorial Africa a ?t and dense forest has been found it would cover solidily the entire .te of California. It furnishes a nderful field for research to natursts. So dense is the foliage and so merous the creeping vines that they lost choke the tall monarchs of es. The animal life is varied. The ;hest grades of animals exist side j side with the pygmies, or lowest | :des of men. Sweetest songbirds the companions of elephants and < affes, while the tangled wilds are 1 =d with all sorts of venomous ser- 1 its and reptiles. It is said that the 1 gest pythons ever seen by hunters i 1 re been noticed in this territory.? I ' roit News-Tribune. -- - , I Russia Leather Repels Moth, rhe peculiar and agreeable odor of ssia leather is derived from the ch bark used In tanning it. This I > )r repels moths and other insects I i makes it invaluable for book- : ding, as a few books bound in ! ssia leather in a library will prot the remainder from insect atks.?Philadelphia Inquirer. j California judge gave a man : ht years in the penitentiary for 1 aling eight cents. " 1 . " . < ,-f' ;7'-" y.VT*:'.Vjv f : ' ? ?r STARTING A PROG FARM. Set Government Pamphlet and Put Up a Fence to Keep Snakes Out. A gentleman of this city has recently received pamphlets from the Department of Agriculture on the raising of the large food bullfrog. It' is the purpose of the gentleman; j'V shortly to start the culture of the frog on quite an expensive plan. It is also the intention of the gentleman to get a large collection of the best bullfrogs he can find and put them in a large marsh that is located near his place in Santa Rosa County, fencing the mash in such a manner that snakes cannot get into it. It is thought by the gentleman that ha can thus raise a large number of healthy bullfrogs for the market and make a good profit out of the business. "I have been living in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties for the last ten years," he said, "and have noticed tie plenitude of bullfrogs that are in the fresh water bodies in both coun ties. The frogs grow to monstroud size and seem to thrive in this section of the country. I think that a large and better grade of frog can be raised with proper care and I think that the raising of the frog will makd a comfortable livLng for the man whci engages in the business. "I wrote to the Department of Agriculture some months ago Inquiring as to the method of raising the frog, and have received a pamphlet giving me full directions. My intention is to fence in the marsh that is on my, place and keep it as clean as possible, so that the frogs will be healthy at all times. I shall\have the enclosure large enough to accommodate a large number of the croakers. "I believe that there is an ample market for them in Pensacola, as al] of the restaurants and hotels buy, them whenever they can. The reason for the great scarcity of frogs at the present time is not tfiat they are' scarce, but .that they are aomewhat /ill II f/\ /tfi+ztVi uim^uiu t\j uaiwu. . gq "I am a firm believer in the work and shall set out with an eye to succeed. It seems to me that all a man has to have 1s a mud puddle in hi* back yard and put some frogs in it, put a fence around It and feed the , frogs. The climate is natural to " -! them and they will thrive in spite ol all efforts to exterminate them. With a little attention a large, high grade of frog can be rained."?From the jj:) Pensacola (Fla.) News. . Influence of the Mind. The power of the mind over the body, as demonstrated in all forms of faith healing, was recognized in the v seventeenth century by Richelieu's physiclau, Citois. Summoned to attend his master's constant fits of depression. Cifois would call solemnly for a sheet of paper on which to write a prescription; and almost invariably after his departure the prescrip- tion would prove to consist of tho ^ words: "One dram of Boisrobert." Boisrobert being a poet of small tal- | ent, but possessed of high spirits and wit. In those days, when the common remedy was bleeding, when it is! ' known that Voltaire, the poet, was . , -wSj bled to death, and the Princess Conti, suffering from apoplexy, was beaten till she died in the hope of rousing her from her lethargy, it is no wonder that a humane and a human physician like Cltois should have been successful. I The famous frequenter of tbe . French salons, Fontenelle Is, however, the best example of the power of the spirit in retaining life. At the age of ninety-five he fell when picking up a lady's handkerchief and -.}t made the historic remark?"Ah, que je na'i pas encore mes quatre-vingts ans." A certain callousness marked his determination not to die, as on the occasion when, a friend dying , -- > beside him at the table, he requested his man to remove him and continued his conversation. He managed, nevertheless, to survive to within a' month of his hundred years, and1 then complained that he would have lasted much longer had not the outbreak of war "put a stop to pleasant '/< conversation."?London Chronicle. ; Reward of Honesty. s He was a conscientious office boy, and he had always been taught to \ emulate the great George Washington and never tell a falsehood. "Boss," said he, timidly, as the noon hour approached, "I want to get off this afternoon." . . '. "Oh, you do, eh?" said the old broker, peering over his glasses. "Yes, sir, and I haven't any grandmothers. " \ "Well, you are an exception, indeed." "And I'm not sick." "Extraordinary; very extraordinary. " "In fact, sir, I want to get off to go md see the ball game." The old broker's face brightened. "Well, Willie, I must say that you ire the most honest boy I ever met." ? "Thank you, sir." ' "Yes, and come to think of it, I vant to see that game myself. I was ifraid to leave the office at first, but low that I see you are such an honest joy I know my business couldn't be; n safer hands. It will take some: :ime for me to get back, so you will> stay an hour or so later. So long, kVillie; there is nothing like being lonest. When I come back I'll tell *ou the score."?Chicago News. Worse1 Than the Honk, Honk. The "honk, honk" of the homicidal luto is an insult preliminary to injury. It serves to attract the atten- . \ :ion of the victim to the method by which he is about to be eliminated 'rom the human scheme, or it makes iim jump for the divertisement of .he joyous rider. However, com~ *"Y\n non' nnfeo mor?hinA iJt&lCTVl ? i U Li IU^ UVU JiWiUV WUMVU*?*W ittached to some modern autos, a :ontrivance productive of clamor, combining diabolical screech with lemoniac whistle, the blatant and offensive "honk, honk" is almost ;oothing.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. ?j Kansas Sweets. When a young and pretty girl apoears in a white dress and a blue' sash on a summer evening, a man. 'eels like taking a spoon and eating; ler.?Atchison Globe,