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1 - : ? ufl K&v ' WHEN THE MAIL GOES THROUGH Nuthin" in a countrv town 'Cept 'bout tive o'clock to go To the deepo?mail, south bound. Due at that time. There's, you know, Crowd o' lanky country fellers Loafin' as they alius ao; Hounds an' dogs?half-breeds an' yelleri > >. .When the Mail?goes?through! Never stops at Sasserville; Comes with lightnin' in her eve! Lordy! Whizzin' down the hill, Jist a-screechin' on the tfv! Engineer's head out a-bravin' Smoke an' cinders fiyin' blue! An' -vve-uns with hats a-wavin' When the Mail?goes?through! You can feel the whirlpool come. When she clatters past you?Gee! Feel 'er rock the deepo some. An' the platform! Mercy me! Getherin' at ev'ry minute. With a long an' scrcechin' woo! An' us wishin' we was in it, When the Mail?goes?through! Then as soon's she's gone, you git Tired of old Sasserville; Them's tne time it is that it Never seems to fill the bill; Fer you think o bigger places, Where the train's a-goin' to, An' tromp home with lonely faces .When the Mail's?gone?through! ?Edward Singer, in Indianapolis Sun. >3 ??c?SH5H5H5H5HSH53SHSESa5^ I STEPPING STONES. I K5H5H5HS55HSH5H5H5E5H525Hn] S ^ By Martha Prouty. L^SSHSH5E5HS5Sa5H5H5HSH2^ Victoria Moore was born in Peteraham with a nrsflisnnsitinn tn nhvsi cal frailty and an inheritance of family penury. In due time she showed signs of a predisposition to all the Petersham prejudices, such as pride of family, shame of penury and suspi^ , cion of those who came to Petersham without publishing credentials from the house tops. As Victoria grew into a tall slip of a girl the family resources receded further and further - into the shadows of Petersham's wonderful past, along with the fortunes of many other of Petersham's great families, and Victoria was forced at the age of nineteen to go to work or starve. Over Petersham's valleys and hills there then arose a wave of protest, and the burden of it was not weighted with a single word of sympathy or 1 kindliness to lighten the effect of Petersham's displeasure. Victoria was made to feel it in many ways, especially when Mrs. Peats' hearts' party came off and that worthy lady exnloinp^ thnf- thp nnmhPT was limitpri and when Mrs. Trueham gave a little dance and ignored Victoria, who was ' notoriously the best dancer in her set. It became apparent to Victoria that according to the lights of Petersham it were better to starve than to work, and with one bound she passed up a step higher, shedding certain prejudices as she would her old clothes. In her heart she felt bitter and hurt and stormy. Outwardly she maintained a reserve and hauteur that refused the advances of her old friends, until she went among them as an outcast. Indeed, after the first few years of earning her livelihood had gone by and she found herself able to support herself comfortably, she awoke to find that amnnsr Petersham's great fam {lies she was no longer mentionel save In whispers, being, so to speak, utterly condemned. When this became clear she shed a few more prejudices .. and the dust of Petersham at the same time, shaking her skirts furiously when she got in the outward-bound train, and thanking her lucky stars that she need never come back unless she wanted to. Occasionally thereafter Petersham folks saw Victoria Moore's name in print over a short story in one or another popular magazine, and Petersham South sniffed and said the stories were poor stufT, and Petersham North snorted and said that she would find out after all what an atom she was, and Petersham Centre simply smiled superciliously and waited its time. The time came when Mrs. Peats and Mrs. Trueham met Victoria on an i . afternoon train bound for Petersham, they in the glory of matinee finery, Victoria in a suit much the worse for wear and a very weary look upon her face. Their time had come when Victoria bowed with a pleased little smile and they cut her dead. According to their lights they truthfully reported that they had put her in her place. Victoria set up her few belongings in her old home without much trumpeting. She came and went as she had done years before, and Petersham decided she had failed, some ignoring her, while others treated her with pitying condescension. But Victoria, tramping over the hills in the early morning, visiting among the plain folks, spending a day with some sick person, playing with everybody's babies wherever she found them, helping old ladies to clean house and sew and bake during the day, and in the evening taking up her allotted task, went up one more step, shedding her pre/HannaHInn f A J 1 Si*.-- 1 u?u|/uoii>ivu tu uaillj ctnu family penury. For her magazin? work, in spite of Petersham's forebodings, yielded her a goodly income; and outdoor exercise and work gave lier new vigor. When she had been back among them for two years and Petersham had let her alone so long that theii interest in her was almost dead, a prepossessing stranger, arriving on a morning train, asked a loiterer neai the station to direct him to Miss Moore's home. As they walked along this man, Petersham born and bred felt his curiosity getting the better ol him. "I suppose you know Miss Moore when you see her, don't you?" h( asked, "because I haven't set eyes or her for so long that I don't know myself as I'd be able to noint her out tc you." It was pretty weak for a starter, but the stranger did his part nobly. "Ob, yes, I know her well," he an swsred, smilingly; "I'm her publishei and it gives me great pleasure to com* here and visit the scenes where hei book is laid. It's going to make hei t famous, and I suppose you'll all b< ?mm "Of course, oh, yes, very proud,*' stammered the Petersham citizen adding with a tremendous gulp of surprise and chagrin, "Well, if that isn't the greatest thing in creation!" The stranger, viewing the scenery with delight, spoke absently, but with 5 a certain force. "Yes," he said, "the -v??n+ABf + Vi iTI or In opnofinn ' ic prpn 5I ca LCOU IU1U5 iU V,i v. WW. tion!" The book was good because Victoria had made one more step, shedding all the bitterness that had been in hei heart, leaving out all s>igns of her knowledge of their weaknesses and pettiness, making all of the strength and simple greatness that abides with plain people everywhere. It was great, her book, because it reached their hearts and showed them the way up, stone by stone, to a better Petersham than they had known. And when it had reached its second edition Victoria packed her trunk for a trip abroad, set about closing up the house and planning her glorious future. Her income had reached a satisfactory stage so that she -ould do as she pleased without.counting the cost. "They owed it to me," she kept saying to herself as she went about the house, "and they've paid in full, for what I've got I took away from them, right out of their very lives, under their very noses, and they never knew what they were giving me ! They deserve nothing more from me I than I've given them." But she stopped, for she knew that her reasI oning was somewhat weak, and there | remained another stepping stone tc 1 climb. I After a little she went up stairs and unpacked the trunk, and as one bit of new finery slid to the floor af ter another she sighed a little and laughed a little and cried a little, as is a woman's way when she is very happy. "I owe it to them," she whispered 1 "I owe it aH to them, for every step of the way I've taken upward has been by their help, building on a past which never could have been without them. How much I do owe them, after all. I'm going to stay awhile and tell them so." And she did.?Boston Post. WHEN BLEEDING WAS IN VOGUE. Little Instrument of 'Jorture Was f Used on Martyred President. "Farmer" Lawton, of the Western Union, uses a grewsome-looking paperweight in the shape of an old-time physician's bleeding instrument that was generally in use up to sixty years ago, and which once was used on Abraham Lincoln. The little instrument of torture is a brass bos, one and one-half inches square. On the lower side are hidden sixteen steel lances. Before the instrument is used th: lances are forced mit nf their hrass sockets about one eighth of an inch. Then the instrument is gently pressed against a portion of the body, usually the arm, a spring is touched and as the little lances disappear they leave sixteen small wounds that penetrate through the skin, each about a quarter of an inch long and deep enough to cause the patient's blood to flow freely. Medical men have not used these crude instruments for bleeding people for over fifty years. The instrument wa3 the property of Dr. George Hewitt, a distinguished physician of Quincy, 111., during the 50's, and an uncle of the "old farmer." Shortly before becoming President of the United States, and while practicing law at Springfield, 111., Abe Lincoln had one of his sick spells, and Dr Hewitt was called over to Sangamon County for consultation. He pro nounced Lincoln's case the usual spring malaria, but the local physician was sure it wa3 bordering on typhoid fever and nothing but a good bleeding would save the coming President's life. Dr. Hewitt performed the operation unwillingly, then watched the effect for a few days, after which he declared he would never use this instrument upon another patient, and he never did, although he practised medicine until his death, twenty years later. It was not long until the leading physicians of this country followed Dr. Hewitt's example and began to give their patients tonics to , make blood instead of draining theii systems of blood that nature had provided them with. In consequence these little instruments of torture are almost as much of a curio now as tho dollar of our dad's, whose coinage was stopped about the same time that bleeding went cut of vogue.?Denver News. A Better Record. When Peter Jenkins returned to Lanesboro for a short visit after having lived ten years in Colorado he ap1 parently could not say enough in praise of his new home and in dispar agement of his birthplace. His senti'< ments were, as a general thing, received with the utmost good nature ' by his old friends, but occasionally he : met what the Lanesboro people called "a come-uppance." "Now, there's the climate," said ! Mr. Jenkins one day to a group of listeners in the postoffice. "Why, the > climate here isn't anything that's ! worth talking about, but out there! It's fattening just to be out there and ? take in the climate. 1 "Why, when I went out there 1 only weighed 130 pounds, and now 1 1 turn the scales at 193." 1 "I can tell you a story of Lanesboro climate that'll go nhead o' that. Peter," remarked Obed Strong quietly. "Well, I should like to hear It," said Mr. Jenkins with a somewhat sceptical smi'e. "It's veracious, an' relates to my! self," returned Mr. Strong calmly ? "When I come to Lanesboro 1 weighed ?it's in the fam'ly Bible?jest pounds, an' now I settle the scales down at an eveD 200." Mr. Jenkins gave a sniff, but the citizens of Lanesboro felt that the reputation of the village climate had been established.?Youth's Compan ion. A chimney of concrete block was decently built in Germany without the use of scaffolding, which repra> , I Sentimentality. It is the fate of womankind to bi charitably regarded as sentimenta creatures, but if they are half as san timental as the American man ha: shown himself during the past yea their case would indeed be pitiful says the editor of the FederatioJ Magazine. A perusal of a large portion of thi j American press would seem to indi cate that the average man is regardet as an easy mark to be fooled, cajolet and entertained with a never-endinj series of worthless sensations, appar ently invented for the purpose o keeping his mind employed and ob livious, while his enemies are run ning away with every right and privi lege which a free people ever en joyed. Our wonderment as to how Romi could be amused so successfully witl gladiatorial shows while the earl; emperors were subverting their lib er.ties, now begins to give away befon i the still greater achievement of thi I yellow press of America. A littli J learning is, indeed, a dangerou thing, and Colonel Higginson's hu j morous discussion as to whethe j woman ought to be allowed to lean j the alphabet might now be turnei | to much better advantage by askini whether men snouici oe auoweci t< read the papers. Try to interest thee on any serious subject and see wka your experience will be. Can the; weigh evidence? Having Pictures Taken. Fashions in dress" for the "takinj of photographs" are almost as closel; observed by smart women a3 thi cd . \ Souffle of Hani, fl ?* | | fourths cup of macaroni ?3 i j boiling salted water un S ( of cold water. Butter g 5 ) lnto alternately with ?JL ? j in all about one cup oi <3 ? j grated Parmesan cfieese e_ 5 j mix with a generous cuj j ' <?? and ham. Let bake in z style of street costumes and gowns worn for dinner, and fetf care to pos< nowadays in any but the acceptec design of frock. The correct attire for having one') photograph taken this season is ar evening gown cut decollete. Clad ii a light colored frock of the newes filmy material with .trimming of sheei lace or hand embroidery any womai may feel that so far as dress goes hei picture will be correct. The wearinj of the big picture hats with plume3 ribbons and velvets, becomingly ar ranged, which was such a fad a yea: or so ago, is still in vogue. It de , pends entirely upon the person pos ing, and though the majority of pho tographs will be taken without thest hats, the latter are an adjunct of pic ture taking that will probably alwayi be considered good form. The use of furs, provided they ar< handsome ones, will again be fashion able, for a boa or even a collarett< placed carelessly around the necl lends a touch of elegance that i: greatly favored by the average worn an. A fur cape or even a long coa< thrown open in front to show th< evening costume will be permissible though doubtless little worn for pho tographs. The wearing of jewels on arms oi neck depends largely upon the cos tume the woman poses in. If it is ai 1" *? - : 1" "w/v Alfilinrot/ I exceedingly awi:.yio uhc, cm | dog collar, or strands of pearls anc I diamonds will naturally be out o J place, as will heavy bracelets for th< arms, while if the dress is muct trimmed, ornaments will be in har mony. It should be remembered, i: selecting jewels to wear when posing for pictures, that diamonds do no take well, and that pearls, turquoises or amethysts will show up much bet ter when the likenesses are finished As to the style in posing, bust anc full length photographs will be mos popular this winter, though a fe^ three-quarter lengths will be pre ferred by persons who do not tak< well in either of the other ways. The trick of relieving the hands j when posing of any awkward appear j ance by putting a rose, a dainty fan i a nair of gloves, opera glasses, or i sheer piece of tulle for the neck intc or around them will be used again for any of them not only make < more effective picture, but add : gracefulness to the lines of the boa: that otherwise would be lacking.. Glove3 on the arms are strictl] tabooed, for they make the arms anc hands look much larger, and, too, th< long kid ones usually wrinkle and s< spoil the harmony of even a beautifu pose, for creases and folds about th< hands and arms are a detriment t< any photograph, where smoothness ii the essential point. When hats are worn they must al ways be carefully put on and workec with until they are just at .the mos ! becoming angle. If no headdress ii | used, then the style of hairdressinj ' must be a soft and suitable one, foi a photograph of a pretty coiffure tha has no severe or hard lines will b< much more effective than some elab orate fashion that may be stylish, bu Is not becoming. Being photographed in e/eninj j dress with one's canine pet, whicl was done to such an extent last sea son, will again be popular later on ii the season.?New York Telegram. Must Be Acknowledged Promptly. Wedding invitations and announce aents demand prompt acknowledge | ment, for no matter how slightly on< may be acquainted with those whoaf names appear on the cards, the fac that the bits of pasteboard have beei sent requires the courtesy of ai answer. When there is a church wedding with a reception afterward, acknowl edgement depends upon tne way th< T ii j|PPl9[ vited attends the ceremony and then, 5 within two weeks after, pays a visit ^ 1 to the individual in whose name the c _ invitations were issued. For exam- * g pie, if Mr. and Mrs. Smith sent the r cards, Mrs. Jones goes to see Mrs. Smith, taking one of her own cards * j and two of Mr. Jones', one of the lat- ? ter being for Mr. Smith. If it is an a unmarried woman who makes the _ call, she leaves only one of her cards. I ? j as she does not, of course, pay,a visit j to the gentleman of the house. , ' Those who are unable to go to the I church must post visiting cards so f they will be received on the day of the j5. . ceremony. The number of the cards _ is the same as those left at the call . above described, and the envelope n . should be addressed to Mr. and Mrs. ^ Smith. The form of these cards is a not unlike that U3ed for a'.tea. ^ When the wedding invitation inY eludes a card for the house reception, 1 . those attending leave cards on enter- ? B ing the hall, as they would for an 0 afternoon affair?one of the woman's r a for the hostess and two of the man's ' s for the hostess and host. A recepta. cle is always provided on a stand in r the hall for such visiting cards. . 1 Attendance at such a function ^ j means a call later, a month being the , ^ ? longest period in which it is good t) 5 form .to delay. p j No cards are left for the bride or t( t bridegroom, they being guests, as it y were. A visit is not paid to the bride in her new home, unless one has been r requested to, either verbally or by I ^ "at home" cards. | u ine receipt 01 weaaing announce- 0 5 ment cards should be followed at once f; r by posting visiting cards .to those in p s' lacaroni and Cheese.?Cook threei, broken into inch lengths, in rapidly til tender; drain and rinse in plenty I G a baking dish and put the macaroni j cold boiled ham, chopped fine/using ! ham, and sprinkle each layer with j and bits of butter. Beat two eggs, ri ) of milk and pour over the macaroni i slow oven until a custard is formed. 0 31 be In the form followed for invita- e J tions. Unless such acknowledgement c 1 is given by those receiving announce- n ments, the persons sending them have " 3 no way of knowing whether or not i the cards arrived at their destination, i n i Inasmuch as a certain number always ! t go astray despite precautlops, the an- ^ r swer is of importance. Jj i It is not obligatory to send wedding r gifts when only announcements have been received. One is more inclined . to do so when the wedding has been 11 a very small one, and announcements are sent generally to the visiting list. ? In cases where many persons are in- * vited to attend the ceremony or go to a reception immediately afterward announcements become the merest courtesy, and nothing except a return card is expected from the recipients. a When one is invited to both church r< and house it is incumbent to send a gift. It should go to the bride, even 11 though one may know her fiance aad ? not her. .The sender's visiting cards accompany it, nothing being written * on them.?Rosanna Schuyler, in the New York Telegram. p. T i Cl PlReTTY'Sj I gwwGsJS. 'TO WEAR 4^^ 1 Shorter coats are coming into use. ^ f M i All the new dance frocks have w x short nklrts. 1 gl The rose is the leader among cor- cs 1 sage flowers. a: ; Every other hat seems turned up tl t at the left side. b 3 Fluffy malines are usurping the a - place of the jabot. i D j The vogue of the fur hat is now ^ t firmly re-established. T There are renewed predictions that V( the old hip panniers are to come back ti into style. r< Jet buttons are a favorite mode of tl adding .the invaluable touch of black B to a colored garment. c< Many of the handsomest silk P: gauzes have printed borders which S' work well into the new draperies. ** The puff is again in evidence; it ^ adorns the sleeve anywhere, seemingly, between the shoulder and wrist. ^ Black and black and white?or V( "marpie"?effects bid fair to remain \ in high favor all through the season. jr I ? 5 Some of the handsomest evening si j and house dresses are glove-fitting tl 1 princess forms with a leaning toward ei ? th6 stiff-boned waist portion. w > The newest revival in sleeves is the lc 3 kimono cut in one with the waist, but G it is by no means so full and wide as - formerly, and at first glancc does not 1 suggest its origin. 1 Navy blue topcoats with black fac3 ings and jet buttons are very chic, ,0 ? both in Paris and America, and black r buttons are seen on many of the long suit coata of dressy style. tv j I vi An attractive dressing sacque may j t be made of white wash crepe, bound i 'all around .the edges with colored rib- pi r bon, and with huge dots of the same ^ ? color embroidered over the surface. The long rolling lapel worn so ,j( i much in the cloth coats is carried out w in the fur coats, .the collars and cuffs usually being of one of the longhaired furs, different from the body . of the coat. bg The fashionoble wedding stockings (D i are marvels of beauty. Real laces, ; frail spider-web openwork and deli- (jj t cate hand embroideries are lavishly i employed with no thought to service- f i ability?or price. ae Levantine newspapers report that' ^ - Turkey has granted a conditional con- I ; cession to an American syndicate for 1r a 1243-mile railroad through Asia'^L f r ' ' ' I V British use of American shoemakig machinery and the making of half izes and various widths has lessened lie sale of American shoes in Engxnd. Ruftber leads in acreage and will oon be .the most important agriculural product of the Federated Malaj tates. At this time rice is the prinipal product. Rubber exports iD 907 were seven times those of 1905. Of Japan's postal savings funds about $50,000,000) the sum of $1,00,000 is loaned to the various preectures for the development of loca! adustries. To that extent the monej f the people is being used to help nd work for the people. As all Asia Minor lights by peroleum lamps, both houses ane treets, its import of chimney glast hrough Smyrna alone is worth $500,00 a year. No attempt by American lanufacturers to export glass chimeys to Smyrna has yet been heard of. In Halmstad, Sweden, a manufacurer is about'to start a spinning mil) Dr making yarn out of paper. Suet lllls already exist in Germany and 'ranee. Thus far the manufacture o? ugs and carpets seems to be the mosf ractical use of this new paper yarn Whalebone cost oaly thirty-five ents a pound half a century ago. 'o-day it costs about $5 a pound 'he total product landed from th? itaerican fisheries during the ninesenth centurv exceeded 90.000.00C ounds. A single whale may yield uf o 3000 pounds. Japanese horses wear sandals ol Ice straw. The Iceland peasant shoe? Is pony with sheep's horn. In the pper Oxu3 Valley horseshoes made f .the antlers of the mountain deer, astened with horn pins, are emloyed. ) Horses in the Sudan wear ocks of camels' skin. THE EDITOR'S MISTAKE. lencrally Deemed an Inexcusable Outrage For Newspaper to Err. It is held to be an inexcusable outage for a newspaper editor to make tie slightest mistake in a statement f any sort, while professional perans, upon whose certainty of knowldge and on whose statement in reard thereto, life or death and the lost Important interests depi%d, lake the most serious errors without lcurring the slightest criticism, luch less blame. Take the judge on the .bench, 'hose decisions are set aside or anulled by higher courts almost every ay, and the judge whose judgment is a reversed does not suffer .in the jast in public and professional estilation. In the same way, the physician who lakes a wrong diagnosis of his paent's disease, administers treatment iat results in faeath instead of a nr# Inqpa nnnn nf thfl onnflripitrp nf Is patrons in his skill, and he may ill tiny number of persons secundum rtem without incurring the slightest ssponsibllity. These are curious facts, ? but they re facts, and they are mentioned, ot by way of excusing editorial misikes, for there is no excuse for them. ; is because every individual firmly elieves that he could conduct newsapers better than those who are barged with the work, while no unrofessional person would undertake ) usurp functions of the judge or the hysiciai^.?New Orleans Picayune. A Gorgeous Mace. A reception was held at the Queen's niversity, Belfast, on Saturday, at rhich the mace to be presented by [r. William Gibson to the university as on view. It is of eighteen carat old, decorated with stones, such aa irnelian, Oriental onyx, lapis lazuli nd carbuncles. Its length is thirtylree inches, and its design symolizes the sway of learning over the rts, sciences and letters. The head 5sembles the high cross of MonasteroiQe, though otherwise the mace is ee from ecclesiastical character, he head bears the arms of the uni ersuy, surrounaea Dy insa Qeuurave ornament. Above the surface in jpousse is shown the decoration of le Cumdach or shrine cf "Dimma's ook." On the face in the second sntre of the design is a scroll reroduction in repousse of the Great eal of Queen Victoria, who granted le first charter to the foundation in S45. That part of the mace'which sads to the main column bears four aiblematic figures representing earning, holding the torch of Injntion; Science, whose leading sym3l is chemistry; Letters, representig the author and scholar, and Art, lowing the figure of Music, holding le Harp of Ireland. The column'is f ah f ol/loo Kni n nr anrlnVtoH 5UV-31UCU, 1UU1 OlU^O WCIU5 VUl 1VUVU ith. Irish interlaced ornament. The iscription is: "The gift of William ibson, a citizen of Belfast, Novemjr, 1909."?London Times. Wise Old Rip. Rip Van Winkle awoke from his >ng nap and started down the rocky sights in a hurry. "Why didn't you sleep another v'enty years, old man?" asked the llager. "What," ejaculated Rip, in sur ise, "and have them say I never ;ached the top of the mountain at 1?" For oven iln those days there were jubters and scoffers whose motto as "Show me."?Chicago News, Not Guilty. Prisoner (as he is being dragged ick from his cell)?"I tell you I am nocent!" Lynchers?"String him up! Hang m!" Prisoner?"But I am innocent! If had been guilty wouldn't the jury ive acquitted me?" The mob retired through the bro:n door of the jail. "That iu so!" they muttered under eir masks and in chorus. ? New John MacMurtrie, a Norwood (Pa.) I tnechanic, has Invented a plumber's jj flropot. which burns kerosene Instead I of gasoline or charcoal. I '' ' ' : 1 Day Dreams. ! By GEORGE T. HARGREAVES. ! "Hopeful Bill" he was dubbed In his schooldays. The nickname clung through all the -years. With his hair tinged to the shade of the gray of Storm clouds, his flabby cheeks corrugated by cares and his squinting eyes watery from the unspectacled 3train of half a dozen decades, he was , Hill "Hopeful Bill." Dreaming in boyhood of the day ' when as an advocate-at-law?to Jvhich profession his plastic mind as- i pired?he would stir throngs with :he fervor of his words, the originalj ity of his ideas and the eloquence of ] his voice. Bill was deprived of even the final rudiments of a common school education by .the death of his father. | The dream of fame in the law dissolved, but the glow it shed for him continued until his duties as roustabout in a hardware shop pointed his mind in another direction. Here new hopes were born. Eill, as he grew to know something of trade, pictured himself as master of all its details and then as the owner of a vast establishment, employing hundreds oi hands and handling thousands of dollars. Till, husbanding much technical knowledge and on the way tc promotion, this dream, too, was disI siDated when business fell away > and the sheriff locked the doors on the scene of his labors. Came other hopes no less satisfying. Bill, .trying to be a carpenter, drew himself on the canvas of his dreams as the builder of business skyscrapers and palatial homes. But these hopes were blurred when 8 scaffold's fall bent one of his arms into palsied shape. Then he tried office work. Dreams again varnished his toil as they pictured him the\jrlsing master mind of 8 great commercial house. ' But the handicap of disfigurement blotched these. He lost his position when his feeble arm proved unequal to hh figure task. The crowning hope arrived wken; having wedded a pretty girl who had accepted him more in pity than in love, velvet-cheeked babies were consigned tenderly to his awkward arms One?two?three?four of the little visitors arrived in turn, stretching the meagre income so tenuously that parents suffered to give the growing children food and clothes. Yet Bill whimpered not. Hi3 mind was toe crowded with glowing dreams of the ! future attainments of his offspring. v j Even when age-slackened feet reduced him .to the task of a common night watchman Bill kept his prospects bright with anticipations of a brilliant flse of his boys and girls. Friends smiled sympathetically, acquaintances grinned sarcastically, neighbors scoffed rudely as. Bill voiced glowingly his predictions ol, the coming achievements of his I .LIU.a. I CUUUiCU. And l^ater, when the burden of years made daily toil impossible and the aged man found shelter beneatb the roof of a grown and married son, Bill still nursed dreams of greatness for the chuckling grandchildren whc scrambled to his knee. And, finally, when the family physician left the sickroom with a solemn shake of his head and the declaration that Bill could not last but a. day or two longer, the patient, when asked how he felt, wheezed: t' "Oh, better; I'm hoping to be out of this to-morrow." Bill's life a failure? SureSy, the ' superficial rrorid will insist. But is it certain that ah the vivid dreams that filled Bill's wakeful hours were not -the bearers of as much happiness and satisfaction tc him as the pomp of power to kings, ! unbridled luxuries to the rich or capstone achevements to tho master j builders in science and the arts?? j New York American. The Hopping Prince. Senator Tillman at a Washington dinner party was talking about the duties of an ambassador. "They are important duties," said he. "A really good ambassador should know all about the country . Ha oont tn Thfin ha wouldn't make the mistake committed by an Ameri| can in Afghanistan. j "This American entertained the j shahzada for three days, giving him ; a very handsome suite of rooms in I his house. I "The morning of the sh&hzada's arrival the American host visited him in his apartment and was amazed to see the royal guest and his entire staff hopping about the floor in the oddest way. They conversed politely and gravely, but instead of walking they hopped, taking great leaps of eight or nine feet. "The host ventured to ask the reason of this hopping. The shahzada politely replied: " 'You see, this carpet is green, with pink roses here and there. Green is a sacred color with us, so we are obliged to hop from rose to rose. It I Is good exercise, but rather fatiguing, ; [ confess.' "?Washington Star. rv?nl Wasted hv Locomotives. Ninety million tons of coal were ; consumed by the locomotives on American railroads last year, according to Professor Goss, of the University of Illinois, more than one- | half of this amount being lost through : waste in operation. Estimating the j totals from experiments actually con- i ducted, Professor Go3s states that more than ten million tons are lost "through the heat in the gases that are discharged from the stacks of the I locomotives." This is a loss that has ) been iu evidence since coal was first 1 burned in a locomotive, but up to the ; present time no means have been discovered for checking it.?Portland Oregonian. ! Curing a Cynic. The best way to cure a cynic is to tell him the truth. Nine times out of ten he v.*i 11 back down and say he doesn't believe things are as bad as that.?Puck. The oil strike in Tayabas, P. I., | has brought into existence six oil development companies. Many other I companies have also been lately formed to develop the mineral re The leading makers of "all-British" i i;l automobiles are giving special attentiop to aeroplane engines and have delivered several V-type flfty-horse- ! ! power machines to Intending aviators.^^HB These motors, although they only 300 pounds, are claimed capable of delivering as high.as enty-five horsepower. One of was recently installed in a new A minor drawback connecte^HHBj^M the nse of the electric been found to be in the facl^H^B^H^B temperature varied considei^^SHB^HH was passed from one piece^^HSB^^BS to another containing mofl moisture. This has now 1 come by au automatic tnea^^H^V^ I trol by which the ten^^H^^^ps I maintained aty one point^^^^PTa , ^ J fraction of a degree. ?&n|V Vl i ' ?j | A shell which will hit two marks 1 will be tested. The solid steel head I j?>f the shell contains a-charge of high explosive Which is detonated onl impact. Back of this is the shrapnel chamber, containing 120 bullets and a charge of high explosive. The shrapnel portion can be timed to explode above a body of troops, leafing . the solid head of the shell to pass od and strikfe elsewhere. . V * An unsolved problem in geological history is,the disappearance of-the gigantic dinosaurs, which may be Mid ' ,v to have ruled the animal world Id the cretaceous period. They are known to have lived in nearly all lands until the close of that period. ?' aays Dr. A. S. Woodward, and there is no reason to believe that they suffered from a struggle with any warmblooded competitors. They seem to v - x i JoiU nave aiea a uaiurai uwiu. Through the discovery of radium in the' neighborhood, it is possible ( that Marienbad will be in a position ' i. to add radinm bafhs to its other heal- ( ing institutions ne:;t year. In an old 6ilver mine, un worked since the fifteenth century, near Schoenflcht, 'uranium ore has been found enbedded in the mountain granite sad very near the surface. Experiments made in the' Balneological Hygienic Institute there show that thisv radium rock, pulverised and dissolved 'in ^8 water, makes the water in a 'few hours radioactive in a much higher j degree than the strongest baths at Gastein. , KING EDWARD'S BOUSES. - ^ Has So Many That He Lends Then to Save Expense of Upkeep. There is a good deal of speculation in England as to who will hav$ the offer of White Lodge from King Edward if, as is expected, Mrs. H*rvraann resigns her tenancy owtafc to v financial difficulties. It is 8B jpot for a residence, only just a tar miles out of London, yet perfectly rural in.all its surroundings. The drawback to White Lodge is that the place, though not large, is eery expensive to keep up, and it was ror mis reasua mat ??vertti pcuyio x cfused the King's offer after the death of the Duke of Teck?including, so ^ (t was said at the time, at least one member of the royal family. These extra residences around London prove rather an embarrassment Df riches to ^he King, who does not need them himself. Buckingham J Palace, Windsor Castle, Balmoral and j Sandringham are all the places the i King and Queen need in the course j of the year. Yet if not lived iu these empty houses would be a drain on the privy purse in the matter of upkeep. Almost all these superfluous houses have been at the'King's disposal sinc? he came to the Ihrone. Thus, says The Gentlewoman, we have the . 'v Prince and Princess of Wales at Frogmore, Georgiana Lady Dudley at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond; Colonel and Lady Sarah Wilson at the Stud House, Hampton Court; Sir Stanley and Lady Clarke at the Ranger's Lodee. Hvde Park, and so on. ? -I Awful Suspense. Strangers seeking accommodations in Brockton during the fair tell many funny stories of their experiences. One man, after ringing hesitatingly the night bell, was answered by a gruff voice informing him *hat there, remained only one room, and that bA ji side a very nervous and irritable old gentleman, who had been in the hotel for some time and was a star boarder i there. After the poor fellow, tired by his day's sightseeing, promised to be very careful not to make any noise, he was allowed to enter. Undressing hurriedly, he thoughtlessly allowed one shoe to fall with a resounding l crash; then catching himself, he care fully laid down the other and crawled beneath the quilts, only to be disturbed about a half hour later by a knock at the door. . ^ Upon asking what the intruder ! wanted a high, shrill voice piped out, ! "Hey, there, why don't you put down^^BS that other shoe, or are you a legged man?"?Boston Record. The Newspaper. The publisher of a newspaper h^^HIH one thing to sell and one to rent. hna Hip newsnanor to sell and the^H^Si space in his columns to rent. Can^^^Hj anyone tell us why he should be ex<H9R pected to give away either the one or the other? He can if he chooses, and does as a matter of fact, furnish a nM great deal of space rent free. But it does not follow that he ought to be expected to do so. It ought to be recognized as would be the giving of^H^E sugar or coffee by the grocer. But^^^Hg strange to say, u is uui iuukku In that light c.t all, and yet everyba^^^Bfl knows that the existence of a news* paper depends upon the rent of its space and the sale of paper. Just. the same as a merchant's success de-' jMB pends on selling his goods instead of