Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ASOTHBH ggto. IWa H lirni wW are InMfortWrlMfaf Mthilili TWi an hero? who w tagiaM Id lMr?mp bt immm; ThM an iwrow who rak Udljr to sere lUw to Abtw; TtotM^Wraw wW|jw kaaiqr HKfrfiiM it inntbk Ut nagh* the jMroeeasodabirhoaslerth todareanddo In Iks crash and roar of hattto. mw ?lni? flaaaaa are Wtpiat, too; ^?ko^ tka. thai nohl, kelp the poor and week .3^3/ f? *?*?_? atotoe, finely wrooght and white and tall, WW refrains front boring otlwri wUh his tronhbo, just for spite. Who works ?a wrthont complaining vkn he isn't feeling right. ?Chicago Record- Hers! d. HE READ HIS ANSWER. A ROMANCE OP THE MOUNTAINS By Charles Sloan ??H p ie -pic-rifj -oo-uu r* Nance Hooper tras stnntl Inf at the liead of a lUtle open raviue which wound away toward the foot of the mountain. There was I low rail feuce across the head of the ravine a few yards from the mountain highway. and against this fence Nance waa leaning. A great mass of flowing brown hair reached far dowu below her walat, about which her houicspuu track waa tucked Into a large roll. V?oa shortening her skirts, in order -ist she might move about more ft eely. Up to the right of the ravine was a little log cabin where she lived. It waa late In the afternoon, and as Nance called the hogs a great crowd of them came galloping up the hill to scramble over the aprouful of vege tables which Nance threw over the Fence. From far down the ravine came the roar of tiie Tuckaslege Iiiver as its waters tumbled over the rugged bowlders that marked Its bed. With her elbows on the fence and her chin resting In her hands. Nance lingered to .listen to the roar of the river while she dreamed. Small clouds were gathering In the sky all around, and the yonr.g girl's eye watched them slowly change from one shape to another, forming to | her mind the outlines of various nui mals and birds. While Nance wns thus lost In her dreaming and picture-making she sud denly felt an arm placed about her. Whirling around sh? found herself in the embrace of a tall young roonn tulneer, who held her firmly about tin? waist and was looking a world of ten derness down iuto lu-r eyes. "Oh, Zeb, how you seared me! Turn me loose this minute!" cried. Nance, struggling to free herself. At the same time two bright tear* came Into her eyes. "Won't you kiss me. Nance?" asked the young tnuu. eagerly. "No, I won't. You didn't have any business to scare me, that's what you tidn't." Zeb released her and stood back. For a moment neither of them spoke. Nance again stood holding the top rail of the fence, and wns gazing Rs-ny town the ravine. Zeb stood u few feet ?war, with his eyps turned toward the ground. At last he spoke: "Nance, I'm powerful sorry I seared rou." The girl did not reply. Th<?re wns mother long pause, r.fter which Zeb ?pokoagalu: "Did a big day's work yesterday and mother one to-day. Nance. Put fortv Ilve logs into the river, nearly all big >nes." He waited a moment, during tf'.ilch be cautiously raised bis eyes to a level with the back of Nance's head. "I? I got that strip of land paid for last Saturday: and? and I've got enough left to build u house on it, Nance." Still no reply. "Wages are better than they have been," he went on. "and I thought we might as well got married now. That's what I've come to see about. Nance, i I think we've waited about long ?nougb." Silence stilt: Zeb snt down on an old ttatnp near by and waited a long while. Finally he rose again and gazed up at the sky all around. "From the looks of the sky the rlver'll oe high enough to lloat logs in the morning," he said, thrusting his hands town Into the |>ocketH of bis pantaloons tnd striving hard to clear u strange Duskiness from his voice. "They're putting in machinery down ftt Dlllsboro to start up a locust pin factory, Nance. Beckon I could get u food many locust blocks off of that piece of land I've bought." Again Zeb'n vision wandered toward Nance, but she still stood motionless by the fence, her long hair waving fently In the light breeze that wns stlr flng. And the longer Zut? gazed upon the woman lie loved the fuller grew his. bosom, until he could no longer with itand the pressure; and his words were ilmost In the tone of a wall as lie sank back upon the old stump: "Oli, Nance, ain't you ever a'golu' to ?ay anything?" Nance continued as Immovable as be fore. At last Zeb replaced his big hat opon his head and arose. "I know what's the matter. Nance," oe salil. "I can see It all now, Pole Dorsey's been n-comiu' to see you of ate; and? yes? I can see It now. Nance; foij don't love me any more." Zeb paused to steady Ills voice, which lad grown a little husky. "Nance," he continued. "I'd a -died for you any time, and I thought yon would have loved me right on. Nance, fight on. But now? I- I can't say any tnore. flood -by, Nance." lit turned and walked toward the foad. But he had only gone a few iteps when be turned and came back ?fain, going close up to Nance, where be stopped a moment. Then he spoke: "Before I go, Nance, won't you tell ?e, fair and square. Is It me or Pole?" There was no answer. "Never mind, then: I know that you lost bate to tell me that you don't love me any more, and I won't make you. Once nQore, Nanee. good-by." He atealthlly lifted a wisp of her long balr and fervently pressed It to his lips, then walked rapidly away. Nance heard the sound of his footsteps grow ing fainter and fainter as he ascended Ihe bard roadbed whlcJi turned over It* Mil Jvmt above th? cabin. Ftoaliy kK>.ked "round. Zeb was juat dla 2!Jarto? ^^onif tlie turn in the road, and to Nance it suddenly oc curred that lie might never retutu A jcared look came lnto hi,r eye? whmt t mo}noat?b* ?too,l undecided froMi ti? *?" eu sprang away aud ran Up tbtf road, a hundred fears taking possession of her bojoiu. But Zeb was gone. "Oh why Jld he so? Why did he not wait Jnlt a moment longer- she quickened h'J fhn im. " "he tlje top Of /eb had " ?Ut ?f br<,,,th '<ob had gone out of sight down the uounta111 She tried to call his name But ?etriUlIWf UCe na* on,y a wl.i*|W. Oh. ZebV to The bree ze blew the echo of her own tones back Into her face. Tears irusbed ?;es* an<l K,K* ???* down upon LSr "* ? * "??S? nti-Uti hi01??* lntgan to K^^r and a' rcit" l?!UV'al" bP#,,n t0 fal1 ,n tor T, l ? * " tbf> Wttter* of the , J Kf ? >Vere ,n'?h between Its wi h"iVn" Ur ,,ooul ,"???rs were busy ? ith li eir rafts, but Zeb Norton their foi mer foreman. was not among tlieui . .x years had slipped awUy. Nance Koop,r Hiiii |Iv,d wiin her father ^ ZTtrn -r th, mountain i-i he-Ti J. ? .* '* oi 'k'' rnv,I?e. and >-? hp. heart >h* still Ihvd the old love and deep iv^rei. Zei, Norton has never bet n heard of since his suddeu disao th"r Tu7knl ?,d had ht'eU tlis< ovpr??d on wa< t n V'T' ""d tL<t community ? J* wild with excitement. But what "tl , ,C Plch vp||i bad been dis cmered on a body of land belonging one Zeb Norton, whose whmabouts "f They Z. eeed witl, ,U|?|nit operation* without Iuvii.r (Irst bavins ?ee.tred a lease "r XT' ""<1 tills could not lie ed from the owner the enterprise at a standstill. Half a year passed by. One dav i S'whLir'T^ ,"'um "? "'"-""'s itild ? 1>0"sl'oro. nntl . . ' bis hands rammed down into pockets. He was dressed In the ?t>leof a Westerner, a wide-brinimed sombrero rested on his head and a all aro",!d ?f?r " i. v^r^v," v 1 1 'Vr j*1*" r,i 1 ? -?'Hi ??.~ ? .?????? nwjj. it was noon ??'" II e inn -r W;,K l,l,Ilffrv *.vc L r , 'r St U,rt ''"trance, he the wiv to , I,IlMV umI askt?d \\.i> to the dining room. After dining the stranger vent ser hg,. jZ ?-??tIeri..g about the vil i V'i " afternoon he sus ? d his valise on a stout staff which n 'Z'"r S!""""-r ??.! ?H ..a ?I> the river road afoot. Kver nn.l anoti as he tramj?a,l along the hlxh waj he would stop at some liiu'h point Just like they us^l to be. all Just he n, rT'd WO,,,,, ,,R"n,,y '"'^ter as Journey """ ?>??"???? Lis rrsra:;: If Mark li?*" ln, "" r">" Mark Hooper lives tlure y,.t " rr'i'S:::;: ars.'arcrRwS It ?as almost sumlnwii and there were a few clouds in the sky '?.lust the same." he muttered asain aft r a few moments' silence; 'Vv -rv I lI'Mf Just like It was. I wor-l.r Tf Nance did?" wot.der it He closed hi* ||?., tfghtjy njriljIIR{ Invast. " """" "? " inliVXe0;, path toward the fence iv Vii ki"K '""'kwird. I, ml ?.?re,.l ly . llxini, eared lieyond a turn In t|.,. .pi",!"''!1'* ??.' the aounda: the hog? ?? P "" X?'?' < Again the staff and valise slinoed from hi* shoulder, and. with his hands rammed down Into his pockets he listened while his heart beat heavily ngainst bin breast. ?ea\uy At last he turned about and slowir retraced hlx steps, leaving his hig. of fh ere 't had fallen, in the mlddfe the road. He approached within a few feet of Nance before he stop , e . n. "tendylng his voice ?h wel as he could, he culled her name. ?rnj!L?0P IM,d<.le,,,y turned nbout and lta*e<I uj>on the tall form or the Went ^rner. Then, bursting Into tear* nh p dropped her apron and Irapuhivelr ?prang toward hint. "uP"'*"e,y MOh, Zjbr' she cried tbrough her IWtl Oik why Myw|? twtyr M naght tar la hit arms aal far ? (Mr ?nannta tkm vu iwMt <? -Naa?." Mid M. at lut, "I amr eoald think of loTiaf utfbady bat yaa. Bat when I came back to look after that gold mine I didn't npaet to fad sack a Jtwfl at this waiting for ?e. It appear* like I am mighty rick all of a sudden." "Ain't keif as rich ss I am now. Seh, for, X'eo got you beck again." and. ree ching up. ihe took kls rough cheek* between her palms and kissed him under hie big mustache. ? Chicago Rec ord-Herald.' >????? ?f KmUm. Radium exists In combination with lead end chalk and silica end iron snd various other thlnge that must be got rid of one by one In s series of reac tions and operations that are compli cated and costly, ssys Clevelsnd Mof fat. In McClure's Magazine. For days the powder must simmer over s slow fire with water and soda, then It must be decanted Into big barrels, where a sort of mud settles: then this mud niKst be washed and rewaslied, aud finally put back on the Ure to siuiiuer again with carbonate of soda. Then comes more decanting aud the settling of more mud aud the repeated wash ing of this. 1'oMowed by treatment with hydrochloric arid, which give* a color less liquid, containing small quantities of nullum. To isolat? these small quantities from the rest 1h now the chemist's ob ject. which is attained In a series of reactions and crystallizations tliat finally leave the precious chloride (or bromldei of radium much purified. In each crystallization the valuable pnrt reuialus chiefly in the crystals, wblcb become progressively richer in radium and smaller in bulk, until finally you have the product of six weeks' manip ulation there at the bottom of a porce lain dUl). no bigger than a saucer, some twenty -five grams of wbite crys tals. ami the*? at so low uu intensity (about 2000) thnt the greater part will be refilled away by M. Curie himself, as we have scpu. iu succeeding crystal lization*. and at the end there will be ouly a few centigrams (at 1.500.00 )?. wliat would cover the point of a knife blade, to show for a ton or so of gran* Ite powder and months of hard work. Clailttoin1'* Strength of Will. A remarkable illustration of Glad- j stone's strength of will Is given in Mr. Justin McCarthy's "More Memories of Gladstone." contributed to l^uis Wain's Anuual for loft*. It was Just after Gladstone's opera tion for cataract. The doctor told him that his eyes must be kept closely ban daged for some time, in order to pre vent the admission of light in the deli cate organs. Gladstone asked why a man could not close his eyes, and keep them closed for any period of time, if Such a course were necessary for their restoration to healthful condition. He was told that It was not likely any man could have the nerve aud the strength of mind to keep his eyes firm ly closed for long hours after hours, without a chance of his forgetting for a moment the obllgatlou that was ou him. or yielding to the mental tempta tion to test his sight. Gladstone, how. ever, assured the medical man that he could keep his eyes closed as long as it might be necessary, and that he did not like the idea of having to submit to the bandaging process. So he was allowed to have his way. and during all the required time he kept his eyes firmly closed, aud only opeued them when ussurcd by the proper authority that the darkening injunction had been removed. Tills was in its peculiar way another illustration of that strength of will, guided by conscience, which Gladstone had shown at so many a great crisis iu his life.? Scottish American. Jap ProgreislveneM. The Japanese always want the latest "tip" of science; they are all for pro grcss. It is interesting to note that they have established communication across the IJay of Korea by wireless telegraphy, sending messages from Chemulpo to Chefoo, u distance of U70 miles. , Uf course, the messages are not very elaborate, and we can Imagine some simple signals being arranged before hand. and the Japanese would know for certain that there was no danger of their news being intercepted in any way by the Russians. For the rough purposes of war It can quite be believed that the Japanese, with their extreme curiosity as to what Is new. have rigged up in a few ships instruments capable of taking in signals with the assistance of some of tlielr skilled civilian telegraphists 011 board. Ashore the army wlil rim their field telegraphs,' at which they are adepts, and j: float the navy will use despatch boats, tings and flashing signals. The Japanese flashing lamp Is peculiarly powerful-in fact, better than anything 1 we have iu the llritish navy.? London : Telegraph. I'liitil'i) Pnthrtic rtoH. I*athellc was the plea put forward by a little girl named Capewell ut Hen ley. Kuglaud, in answer to the charge of having stolen a dress piece, valued at ?l. "I took it to buy bread for the ' poor little children who had nothing to j cat." she said, and it was then stated J that, without parents, there was a fam- j Ily of live helpless children without a 1 penny to keep them, and that ill the few weeks since her father's death the plucky girl had struggled to provide for them. The magistrate was deeply moved, and said he would not regard the girl as a thief. He would give her every possible practical assistance, um' ! dismissed the ehurgc. M? "Well" D?a?rve<l If. A little while u go the newly elected Mayor of a provincial town was about to make his first Journey In that capac ity through the place. The townspeo ple had arranged that from an arch of flowers, r.nder which he was to puss a floral crown should hang, surmounted by the words. "He well deserves It." Hut the wlud blew away the crown, and when the pompous Mayor pass?< under the arch, to the great Joy of those who batl voted against liini. only a rope with a noose at the end ?' It dangled there, with "lie well deserve* it" standing out ia bold relief above.? I Loudon T. A. T. ? ~ HOW DO AHMLS commcnTE? W hj Pltck* at Blris, Otstm ?t Btatto ui ScliMlt ?f PUk Act Wit* a CtaaM JOHN BURROUGHS IN Tnk ckmtvmt maoaxinc. c EBTAIN things to ani mal life lend me to sua pect that animals bnre some means of communi cation with one anstlier. especially the frecurlous animals, that Is quite Independent of what we mean by language. It la like an interchange ot blending of subconscious states, and may be an n logons to telepathy among hamau be ings. Observe what a unit a tlock of birda becomes when performing their evointlons in the air. They are not ranuy. but one. turning aud flashing in the suu with u unity and a precision that It would be hard to imitate. One may see a flock of shore birds that be have as one body; now they turn to the sun a sheet of silver; then, as their dark backs are presented to the behold er. they almost disappear ugainst the ahorc or the clouds. It would seem as If they all shsred in a conuuunal nil ud or spirit, and that whut oi.e relt they ail felt at the same instant. In Jamaica 1 manj times saw large schools of mullets fretting aud breaking the surface of the water with what seemed to be the tips of their tails; u large urea would be agitated and rippled by the backs or tails or a host of fishes. Then suddenly, while you looked, there would be one splash and every fish would dive. It was u multitude, agaiu. acting as one body. Hundreds. ? thousand-; of t:?ils slapped the water at the same instant und were gone. When the passenger pigeons /-ere numbered by millions, the enormous clauis used to migrate from one part of the contluent to another. I saw the Inst flight up the Hudson River \ alley in the spring of 187(5. All day tliey streamed across the sky. One purpose seemed to animate every flock and every bird. It was as ir a'J had orders to move to the same pohit. T!:e pigeons cauie only when there was beechuiast in the woods. Ilow did they know we had had a beech - nut year? It is true that a few stran gling bands were usually seen some days in advance of the blue myriads; were these the scouts, ami did they re turn with the news of the beech-nuts? If so. how did they communicate the intelligence and set the who!.* mighty army in motion? "A COMMUNITY OF MIND." The migrations among the four footed animals that sometimes occur over a large part of the couutry? among the rats, the gray squirrels, the reindeer of the northTseem to be cf a similar character. How does every in dividual coiuc to share In the common purpose? An army of men attempting to move without leaders aud without a written or spoken language becomes a disorganized mob. Not so the animals. There seems to be a community of miud among them in a sense that there Is not among men. The pressure of great danger seems to develop in a de gree this community of mind aud feel ing among men. I'mler strong excite rnent we revert more or less to the ani mal state, aud are ruled by instinct. It may be well that telepathy? the power to project one's mental or emo tional state so as to impress a friend at a distance? Is a power which we have curried over from our remote ani mal ancestors. However this may be. it is certain that the sensitlveuess of birds and quadrupeds to the condition of o:u? another, their sense of u com mon danger, of food supplies, of the direction of home under all circum stances. point to the possession of u power which Is only rudimentary to us. Souie observers explain these things on the theory that the flocks of ?jl*ls have leuders. and that their surprising evolutions are guided by calis or sig nals from these leaders, too quick or loo tine for our eyes or ears to catch. I suppose they would cxpluin the movements of schools of lish ami the simultaneous movements of a large number of wild uiiimuls on the same theorj. I can not accept this explana Hon. It is harder for me to believe that a flock of birds bus o code of culls or signals for all Its evolutlons-now right, now left, now mount, now swoop ?which each Individual understands on the instant, or (hat the hosts of wild pigeons had their captains and signals, that to believe that out of the flocking instinct there has grown so.ne oilier In stinct or faculty, less understood, but niUitW.v potent, that puts all the mem t or* of ;i flock in such complete rap port with one another that the purpose i ud the desire of one become the pur pose ami the desire of all. There is nothing in this state ol' things analogus to a military organization. The rela tion among the members of the flock Is rather that of creatures sharing spon taneously t In* saur.* subconscious or psychic state, niul acted upon by the same hidden influence, in a way nr.d to u degree that never occur among men. Th;' faculty or power by which ani mals tl'.id their way home over or ?icro*< long stretches of country is Hiiiie as mysterious and incomprehen sible to in as the spirit of the flock to which I refer. A hive of bees evident ly has ii collective purpose and plan that does not emanate from any single individual or group of individuals, aud which Is understood by nil without out ward communication. Uoitcini tli? Tm Collector. In the American citizen's attitude to ward his debt to t'le State, at least so f;ir us the rich are ? aueerned, Is per civcd a steadily strengthening Inclina tion to make fewer and less Insistent demands upon himself. He discards the high sense of honor required by his social code and resorts to various de vices. scarcely stopping short of down right perjury to dodge the tax collec tor. Boston Advertiser. _ . ... ?ACHcuxt vg? or m kauv ?W Ww? 1> Mwrty Umm B?mlf FwOf. "The first doty of woman Is to tn beautiful." The Crusty Bachelor knocked tin ashes from his pipe and hsstened t? qualify this sweeping statement. "Beauty.** ssld he. "may mean sbs<? lately different things In differed persons. When I ssy that It U t women's first dujy to be beautiful, mean It should be her chief aim to b. fosd to look upon? snd good to tool upon In the sight of au Intelligent besuty -loving, clesr-seelng eye. "That." he contluued. reaching fo; the tobacco jar and proceeding t< transfer a bit of lta gulden browi contents to the bowl of bis pipe, "that I need not ssy. disqualifies the pent I blonde, the too obviously pluk-cheeke< ?In short, the iuade-up beauty. .1 clear-seeing eye detecta artificiality a once, and? Ruhr* finished the* Cru*t> Bachelor contemptuously, giving a fina deft pst to bi8 tobacco and vicious") striking a match. He drew a gentle puffs and continued mure lui'dly **A woman who is not good can neva be pleasant to look unou. Tlios? srraee* of uilnd and kouI which in:ike a wouiat good alsq make her beautiful. It is no the woman with faultless form am features alone who satisfies the eye c" the thoughtful. She mus". a 'so huve : grace of expression a ud >i genilene#: of mauver revealing beau'y of charae ter. And the womau who possesses this innate beauty tufty be outward'.\ lovely, though her features are Irregu tar and her form not ideal. "I say sue may be but why " !.? weut 0:1 impressively, "is she not? He cause she spoils herself. Because ?dn neglects herself. Because sh;? Is ut terly careless and indifferent to tin duty of making herself attractive." Here he laid his pipe down and for got It. says the Philadelphia Bulletin. "Because a woman Is good, let hei not suppose the world forgives her fo wearing clothes that Co uot fit her. Be enr.se she thinks, let her not iiuagiiu she will be excused for a carcless. Ill groomed coiffure. No woman on earl I has an intellect so gigantic, or a char acter so heavenly, that slio u:ay neg lect her personal appearance wlthou bringing down on her head the right eous disapproval of every man ?s?n deniued to look upon her. A cultivate! mind and a charitable heart are ran and praiseworthy possessions, am blessed is that female who posss-'ssc them. 15:it they in no wise exeus?? he from making the most of her persona appearances. ' The Crusty Bachelor pleked ir> hi? pipe. It had gone out. He r> lighted i and puffed himself into a snore p.-rre ful state of miud. "No woman has a righ; to be ngiy ' murniuivd he. as he watched ll ?? tinj rings of smoke curling ceilingwa?\' I*r> ivfr.'ul Mnn of Ku?*l:i. Among the most powerful men li Itussia. in foreign as well as In domes tie affairs, is M. l>e Plehwe. Miuistel of th? Interior. When promoted tt his present office he was head of iht Police Department. To him pe:rnap; more than to any other member of tin Imperial Couueii is credited the stead iness with which Nicholas II. has pur sued the greater Itusslan policy whlel has forced the present war at iter liav ing raised the eagles of the Czar ov.'J Finland. Hightly or wrongly. 1>i Plehwe has been charged with bavin; been the agent who instigated the f;?av ful massacre at Klslihief. lie wa? prompt to deny, however, that cithet his imperial master or himself gavi the nod of permission for the slar.gh ter. "Urenki" or Hie Ba. Iifti?. >fale t? ?'?:;? rs in women's s? h >oh ami colleges have a hard time, hu when one happens to he hushful life 2: tr.ade miserable for him. Members o! a certain class > one of the higher in stltulions for the education of woniet here are still laughing over two mis takes recently made by their youthfu instructor. On his way to recitatioi one day lie accidentally stepped on i girl's skirt. He made an effort to saj "Pardon me." but instead blurted ou. "Promise ine." l?Ut worse came one day jusrt ns tin teacher was dismissing his class, lie wanted to talk with one of the girl: about her work, and this was the re quest he uiude: "Miss Blank, may I hold you for s? while after class V" A .Joko on flrorglM. When Hoke Smith was Secretary ol the Interior he was especially generou# to Georgians in the matter of depart ment clerkships. It was generally conceded that around the Patent. Pen sion and Laud Office one could uo' throw a stick without hitting :? Georgian. Senator Voorhee*. of linli ana, had been trying to place one ot two booster constituents, but had failed^ One day the Senator cairn along whistling "Marching Through Georgia" and keeping step to the tune. "What nre you doing that for?" askei' [ Hoke Smith, ".lust can't help it." sab? Senator Voorhees. "This Is Just like marching through Georgia to come I through your department." He got j the appointments that day. Wl?y tli* IIm? Store Honey. | An Irish apiarist gives a novel idea in the following utterance: "We know flint the microbes causing foul brood retain their vitality iu honey for souif time, but Just how long we do uot know. That the pores of Bacillus me senterleus will germinate after being steeped in honey for over a year, 1 lmve very great doubts, and If a few years' immersion in concentrated honey Is fatal to them, we have a clew to the reason why bees store, and keep in store, large quantities of honey. If the microbes causing foul-brood could be exterminated, there would be uu bee-keeping; the bees would not store honey enough to make It an object." Cannon Hall Cttecne. In 4 cheese market of Holland one sees great piles of spherical object* resembling cunnon bails. The men working about them, however, are not artillery officers, as might be supposed, but prosaic cheese merchants busy with their wares. The cheese Is round, ed Into great balls for convenience In handling and tossing about or piled in triangular heaps, exactly like the dead It munition of war. . . TMC OtlCOVCWY or nc TREES. Vkn 4.T. Da?4 Hl< riad M? Was I At. One* upon a time? it was In 1823. to be exact? a hunter in pursuit of a wounded deer found himself at night Tall iu a dark forest. The air was dry tnd warm. and belnc weary, he stretched himself upon the pine need les which covered the grouud and weut to sleep. He awoke at daylight, and when he saw what kind of a forest he was in. he rubbed his eyes and pinched himself to make sure he wa? not dreaming. Ou every side of liim were monster trees, such ax no man had ever seen before., They reared their heads seemingly into the b>ue ?ky. and their enoruiouK trunks, bright cinnamon in color and ribbed and seamed, rose like mighty fluted towers. The hunter felt like <*ulllver did in Brobdlngnag. and looked, half expect ing to see the huge forms of giants come striding through the forest. He knew that If the tallest church of his native town was set down in this wood, the cross upou the piuuacle ot Its spire would be shaded by the branches as would a doll's house be neath an apple tree. He walked up to one of the trees, aud spreading out Ills arms to their full extent, he clasped the bark. Theu he moved side wise, placing his left lingers where his right ha'.id had been, spreading his arms an before. He repeated this again aud again, and h? did it twen ty times before he had circled the trunk. This hunter was Mr. A. T Duwd, and the forest lie had discov ered was one of the "big-tree groves" of California. Of course, when he re turned to civilization, his description of the trees was laughed at a# a yarn and he was accorded sceond place to tlaron Munchausen as an inventor of stories. As a matter of fact, his storiea were much less wonderful than the trees themselves, aud the best of it is tiiat many of the trees are still standing there to prove it.? Woman's llo:ue ?impuniou. Moat r?r?nnn Klglil Ftmlrtl. "Old you ever notice that people are right-footed?" asked the proprietor ot a shoe store. "Watch my clerks, and you will sec that invariably customers will put out^ their right foot when going to be fitted. Now. watch that corpulent woman going to sit down over there." The woman with gve.it weight ot body took a seat, lifie.l h.*r curtain of black veiling, and :;s the clerk ap proached her poked her right fool from beneath an expanse of skirt. ??It's always the case and 1 don't be lieve I ever knew it to fail. The shoe manufacturers evidently are wise to tiiis fact, as in the cartons the right shoe is always packed on top. Once 1 had a b?t of shoes come to me with the left shoe ou top. and it caused mc such annoyance that ! wrote to the manufacturer, calling his attention to the matter so that it wouldn't happen again. The majority of people are right handed, yet a left handed person has the right foot habit. The right baud is larger than the left, as it is used more, and consequently develops the muscles to a greater extent. On the other ham', the left foot is larger than the right in most persons. The difference is so slight that we seldom lt?.Vt> trouble In fitting shoes, however. It is the left shoe that wears out be fore the right, and probably for tlii# reason."? Shoe Ketailer. llawki ami Owl* A scientist of the Department of Agriculture has demonstrated that hawks and owls are tiie friends and not the enemies of fanners. These birds were formerly sliot because of the belief that they lived on young chickens ami ducks, ami in oilier ways acted the role of pirates. After spend ing the greater pari of ten years in ex nmining the contents of the stomachs of hawks and owls, however, '.his I scientist announces that these birds be long to the category of beuelicial and not harmful species. lie scrutinized the food in the stomachs of thousands of owls and hawks. It was found that { while the hawk will occasionally pick j up a young chicken, it depends largely i for food on the animals which are j known to be highly injurious to farm I crops. The owl lives utmost entirely on Held mice, which are great pests in certain sections. A Monntrr Hirer. Sixteen years ago the iate Dennis* JelTers, of near Hopkins, owned a <tet-r that weighed 2.'?un pounds. The inimal was a monstrosity. He was not fat when weighed, but was simply big all over, being eight feet tall. Mr. Icffers meant to fatten him and place him on exhibition, but without auv warning the steer lay down and died night. Ills hide was saved and now in St. T.ouls. Abe JelTers. sou of Dennis .icffers. has been asked to send foipe of the boues to St. l.onis to be i exhibited along with the hide. Mr. Jefl'crs has accordingly dm: all the skeleton that is still in ?.;ood slate of j preservation. The steer is considered ! tiie largest framed one Unit ever lived | ami it is sahl that if i lie skeleton bad I been preserved entire it would now be j Worth $UHMi.- -Kansas t'ii.v Journal. ?' Kfcnin,-." In a new Irish play tvlin-h is ebout to be presented in l.ot:d ?n ??keening" is introduced. So far has tiiis weird f'.ui. ml custom gone out in Ireland tli.it the Dublin players despaired of I being able to study their part from the lift* ? I f such a bull may be permitted One huly. however, knew of an old tlalway woman, living in Dublin, and the players sought her out. She was .ptlle willing to keen, but said this tvouhl be Impossible iu her silting "?oui and without a dead body. Not Interred by so reasonable a request, the lending man at once died iu the ?>ld lady's bed. ami she forthwith keened over him. Qu??trlrjrctf? Fire Knglnc. A nuadrlc.vcle, composed of two tan Jem bicycles arranged .side by side, i lius been Invented In Purls to serve as ! * Are engine iu cases of emergency. J It Is worked by four men. and is tit ted , up r,ith tlie necenwcry hose pipes and . fittings, which occupy the space be tween the riders. Ou rcuchlng the { scene of action it will be the work of a minute to bring the hose pipes Into 1 play ou the tire. Humor Tbdeiv Hut M(?. "So you think hp'* a genius. ?lo youT* "I know It. He'ii always hungry. nod poverty makes Ului nee stars!"? Athu* ta Constitution. K*?. ^ Miss Pert? "Can you dlagnos? lone toluenes*. Dr. Steel?" Dr. Steel? "Certainly. Its chief characteristic Is an .tll-goue feeling." ^Detroit Free Press. P?H ot Her. Doctor? "Your wife must keep out of excitement." , Mr. Brls?rie~"She can't, doctor. She carries It arouud with her."? India* ?polis Journal. Close Ouirten. Old wed ?"Do you and your wife quarrel?" New wed?' "No; we live in a flat, and there Is no room for argiimsut.**? Manitoba Free Pres*. ]>SD(?r of M XV ret k. "We are toM to "cast our hrcad on the water*!'" said the young wife. "But dou't you do it." said her litis baud. "A vessel might run aga-.ust it and get wrecked."? What to Hat. Taking It Literally. "Does .tones practice what he preaches?" "Joues isn't preaching now? he's practicing uiedieine."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer. Konio Uen'* Str?n(e XYmyp. Alice "Is your husband economi cal V" Clara--" Well. he is terribly stingy with Ins nickels, but l;e lust throws arouud his $."? bills."? Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. ThoM ttrlictit She ? "In a college town the girls are made to walk on one side of the street and the boys on the other." He? "There's nothing to prevent tho girls from (coking <?:i the sonny si** I suppose."? Yotikers Statesman. That ll.tl.U Thsm. "It always makes me mad to talk to an actor. lit pretends to lisu'ii polite ly. In. i at". ".:tl<>:i is wandering all the time. Kver notice It V" "No. I always talk t ? ? tlfin about themselves."? Philadelphia l.edger. NotltliiK l>itin>. "I don't think I'll wager with you," said the baker. "You haven't the douKh." "That may I'.'." replied the butcher, "but 1 flon't see you putting up any stakes."? Boston Commercial Bulletin. An Knifr^enry Mhii. Klen nor? "Cook says she must go we live so far out it gives her the blues." Kdgar? "Tell her she can't go; we will hire a nice lady companion to cheer her up."? Cincinnati Comn:* r clal-Tribuue. l'ulut of View. "Kissing." said the coy maid, "should be strictly private." "Oh, I don't know," replied tin strenuous youth. "Must think of what we would have missed if the discov erer of kissing hud never made it pub He."? Chicago News. til* >1 rmor v \V:n ?1 i>o it. Angry Wife? '"It seems to me we've been married a century. I can't even remember when or where we lirst uiet." Husband (emphatically) "I can. It was nt a dinner party, where there *ere *, l,,li,e.i at table." ? Tit Hits. Marti Luck. ** ".*?*.-! 1. if tliat ain't jusf my lurk' I lern I've went an* lost that exetise I \va?4 hriugin' the teacher for belli' ab sent yesterday. An' it to;>k in(? threo limiM to write it. too!"? New York Amcrienii. A? Ollien Sec 'I'liom. Vegetarian ** I you know that the strongest animal--. are nil vetfiM ar ia im, the elephant beitr.; the most pow err it IV" t'arnlvorotH l'riei.?l ? "That's riyht If they weren't so strong they nevr would l?" able to stand a veyetaMo diet." A HuiIiIoii <'liitfiRO. 1 1 i jctj 1 iih ? "!><> yini believe Hint any person's hair ever turned gray in a siiiyle lllght?M Winter --"Oh, I don't know! Should think It might happen. Once I knew u you iik woman's hair whleli turned from red to golden In a single day. It was the day she eaino Into a for tune."- Boston Transcript. Hound to (let Hint. The Indy arose and drew her boa lighter. "Then your answer Is iijV" sh" said In husky tones. ".My dear lady," the mail remarked in his gentlest manner, "I told you vlght years ago that I could not marry you, and I have not changed my mind.'' The Indy paused in the doorway. "I will see you agiiin in four years," aha m'J -Cleveland I'lnln L>eulr;r.