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A ViZlT TO THE OLD FARM. Can you find the spring in the pasture-lot Where the sweet-flag used to grow. And the garrulous, laughing little brook Where trout flashed to and fro: Car you show me once more the broken wal!. Where blackberries ripened first. And we crushed their thin and tapering flasks To quench our childish thirst? Oh. take me again to the spicy grove I On the western slope of the hill. Where we never knew that the day was done Till told by the whip-poor-will. Ah. here is the same smooth, rounded stone I That locked the lips of the well; fow many a sweet and homely tale That sentinel gray might tell! Look! through the low and crumbling wall e The old-time berries shine. Where else out in this sunny lane Was ever found such wine! But the hollyhock path to the old farm door, Once smooth to feet unshod. b thorny now with the brier-bush, And choken by the golden-rod. S And out of the windows where love looked forth % Peer only Pyes of the dead Though I thought I heard the spinning wheel That stood by the trundle-bed. It wa-z only the south wind stirring a dream In the heart of the lilac-tree. While my soul grew faint at the old per fume And the la:y drone of the bee. 'Now The ;un has set; we must both turn back From the land of the long ago. Where b'ossomed the reddest rose of a1 And fell the whitest snow. For if we wait till night shall fall. Our hearts may break to see Two children's faces that smile in sleep. Dreaming of vpars to be! -'-try Minerva Barrows. I I . I ! I I I I * * * * * * * * * I I ! I i I THE PRETTY COOK Dv MAE MARTIN. tOM EAR mother. will be down 1 on the twenty-fourth. with 0 D 0 my friend. Allen Estwald. - r e's a splendid fellow, but MOW rich, and a little fastidious, t perhaps-so have every thing in trim. But that warning is not necessary: you are always ready. 1 Your affectionately, Royal Dent." That simple little note brought con sternation in. the Dent household, for the cook and maid of all work had just taken French leave, and it I wvould be impossible to fill her place on such short notice, for servants did I -not flourish readily in the quiet little Tillage. -What shll we do?" exclaimed Mrs. Dent. glancing around at her three daughters with an expression of trag Ie despair.C "-Telegraph to Royal that he mustf bring a cook down with him." said Ange. the, youngest, with an irrepres sible smile. -Nonsense! To-morrow is the twen ty-fourth, so we shall have to all en ter the kitchen and tuke our turn. t -uintil I can engage a cook.' s '-Oh, mother! you know it would t spoil my complexion to bend over that hot stove. That plan will never do," said fair Gertrude, folding her soft. lily-white hands. --And if we do the cookinig. who will entertain Mr. Estwald?" said Mira. "Well, you know we cannot get one 1 now for love or money," sighed the troubled matron, "-Yes, you can. mother mine. Here is one for bye," said brown-haired - brown-eyed Ange. "I will be cook un til you can get one, and Royal's fas. I tidious friend need never know it. Myt name is Polly Ann, and I'll prepare the daintiest dishes, and you can en .gage a boy to wait in the dining room." '"You are making quite a sacrifice. I Ange, my dear .child. and I do not like to have you banished in that 1 style." -"But it is self banishment." said lAnge. gau.;. giving just one regretful sigh, and then entering heartily into i the work before her. Royal came at the appointed time. accompanied by a handsome man of< eight or nine and twenty. with fair bair and moustache, keen, clear blue eyes, and the winning ease and grace of one long used to the cultured cir- I cles of society. The Misses Dent were faultlessly 1 dressed. and charmingly cordial. andi Mrs. Dent beamed graciously; but Royal glanced around with a dissatis- I fed look.1 "Where is Ange?" "-She---sh:---". the mother began I and then not being in the habit of tell-3 ing falsehoods, she broke down. "She has gone on a visit to Aunt 1 Marys." said G ertrude. smoothly. "-Must .jave been rather sudt en:" he I said. surprised. "'Oh. yes. Ange. dear child, is so flighty." murmured Mira. turning toi Mr. Estwald with a swe~et smile, and I there the subject droppe. But passing through -:he back part of the house an hour ia-:er Royal was astonished to find a young person.< half hid in a huge apron, in his arms; I to feel the fond pressure of soft arms around his neck, the touch of a velvet< chehek to his. "Hlo: e cried, filling back a step. "Oh. Roy:,al, don't you know me?" "Ange:" he gaspeCd. "No--Polly Ann, the (ook." she cor reeted with a soft hiugh. 1 "'What is the meaning of all thisi mystery?' h e inquired sternly. "-Don't speak so loud." she said, and 1 then explained the situation. -'Hang it all: I'll hr ye a cook, if I have to go b~a-k to town after one. Here i've brought Estwald dowvn to see you. aud then tind you banished to the kithen: l've a great mind to r-aise a row." "If you do. I-I will spoil the din-1 ner:" she cried. in alarm, then disap-< peared in the pantry. Royal glowered at the hare wall for a minute: then a smile suddenly spread over his face, and' he wvent back into the dr-awing room, whistling cheerfiul ly. The dinner was far Itiessly cooked1 and served. and afte:' it was over. and he'r mo -r cann- out, insisting >athed her face, put ,u a fresh. white own, and taking a book, sought the olitude of the orchard. She climlied to her favorite seat in he fork of an old apple tree, and had een there long enough to get rested .nd cool. when a gentleman came auntering along through the shady weetness of the old orchard. Ange did not see him in time to run way, or even get (own from her ierch. and sat still and almost breath ess, hoping he would pass by with ,ut seeing her. But he came on. straight to that >articular tree, a fold of her dress >rushing his sleeve. He glanced up, and said quickly: "I beg. your pardon." "It is granted," she said. irigidly, pparently intent on her book. He stood still. "I am a stranger here; came down rith my friend Royal Dent this morn ag. You are a member of the family I-esume?" lifting his hat, and peaking in the most respectful tone. Ange raised her sparkling eyes. a light smile curling her fresh, red ps. "I am the cook. sir." "Ah, yes! It must be delightful to erve so cLrming a family," leaning gainst a low, sweeping bough. and riendly eyes. thought Ange. feeling , trifle warm. "Are you laughing at them. sir?" "No. indeed. I am in earnest!" he uickly cried. "Just as I thought-ready to flirt ith mistress or maid," said Auge to erself. She stole a glance at him. He is very handsome: but beauty ometimes covers a very deceitful eart. I shall test this fine gentle an." He interrupted her thoughts. "May I have an apple?" "If you like them so green." Encouraged by her friendliness, the entleman drew nearer. and while hey partooic of green apples their ac 1uaintance progressed rapidly. That meeting was only the begin ig. A week passed. and every day len Estwald managed io see the ook, for Ange still filled that posi ion. At last they succeeded in securing he services of a stout woman, and 'ith a little nervous laugh Ange said Lunt Mary wished her to return home. I will come this evening, and be in roduced at the tea table." she said, .nd went away to her favorite haunt a the orchard. She felt sorely trou >led. It was her duty to betray Est rald, but she shrank from the task rith trembling dread, and finally de ided to keep silent. Just as she had rrived at the generous conclusion he ade his appearance. "So your situation has been taken rom you?" he said, with grave con ern. "Yes," heaving a sigh. "What will you do?" "Tr. to find another." . . "I can offer you one if you will ac ept it." speaking slowly and doubt ully, and coming quite close to be:. .You are kind," she murmured. vrting her face. "What shall I have 0- do?" "Te first and most important duty rill be to love me as deeply and as ruly as I d.o you," coming nearer till. a'nd stretching out his arm un i it half encircled her, "Mr. Estwald-sirl how dare you?" lie cried out, turning her flushed face .nd flashing eyes toward him. "Hush. Ange, until I have finished." "Ange?" You know me, then?" "Yes," he said and boldly took her "Now, how long have you known?" he faltered, blushing deeply. "Royal told me the first Cay. I fell a love with your picture before I. aw you, and Royal's account of your aanifold perfections determined me o see and win you, if I could." He talked cloquently, and must hav'e on her complete forgiveness, for rhen he lifted her down from her merch. he ke-;t her close in his arms a ainute, and stole a kiss from the sweet ps unrebuked.-New Yorr News. M1en's Absurd Clothes. I like to feel clean, and my great (ea of clothes is that they should be lean and comfortable, as far as such .thing is possible in London. This, of ourse, excludes starch. I couldn't rear a thing which, after having been ade clean and sweet, is then filled nith nasty white mud, ironed into a tard paste, and made altogether dis rusting. To put such a garment on my >erson, wear it. move in it, perspire in t-horrible! The shiny white tubes on the wrist, he shiny black cylinder on the head, he shiny white front to the shirt, the uiny black boot, the rain-pipe trouser eg, the japanned-zine sleeve-that is -our fashionably dressed man, looking ike a cold blackleaded stove with as >estos fuel. The great tragedy of the .verage man's life is 'that nature re 'uses to conform to the cylindrical deal. and when the marks of his knees d elbows begin to appear in his cyl nders he is filled with shame.-George lernard Shaw, in The World of Dress. Do Vegetables Breed Typhoid? One of the theories concerning the >rigin of typhoid fever ascribes the in ection to the agency of vegetables town in contaminated soil, Some re et experiments made in Europe to letermine the facts had interesting re ults which are described in Harper's X'eekly. A thorough test was made rithl cultures of bacteria applied in va ios ways to peas, radishes, cress and tecr vegetables. The results showed hat in only one of the four experi nents could any typhoid bacilli be 'ound, and th.' final conclusion was at 'even in the event of bacteria be ng present on the roots or leaves they vere not able to reach the interior tructurs., A Cheerful Giver. Bobby's father had given him a ten ren ~t p~ie aid a quarter of a dollar. eing him he might put one or the >ther on the contribution plate. "hich did you give. Bobby?" his 'ather asked, when the boy came from li, father, I thought at first I iught to pt in the quarter." said1 Bob vy. --ut then jiust in time I remuem ieed. 'lg Lord loveth a cheerful giv -r and I knew I could give the ten -en pne a~('. grea:t deal more cheerfully 21 r putri in."-Youth's Companion. DR. CIANGES MIND Exciting Day in Now Famous Trial r Nan Patterson IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN SUICIDE Coroner's Physician O'Hanlan Says His Opinion Regarding the Cause- of Caesar Young's Death Has Under gone a Change. New York, Special.-Perhaps the most interesting development in the testimony in the trial of Nan Patterson charged with the murder of Caesar Young. came when Coroner's Physi cian O'Hanlon took the stand for the prosecution and said In reply to ques tions, that he had changed his opin ion that Young committed suicide. Dr. O'Hanlon performed the autopsy on Young's body. In his testimony to day, he said: "My present opinion is not the opinion formerly expressed to Ooroner Brown." The counsel for the defense, Lawyer Levy, asked the doctor: "Did you re port this case to Coroner Brown as one of suicide?" When Dr. O'Hanlon replied in the affirmative, Mr. Levy asked: "Do you now say that in your best judgment it is a case of suicide?" "No, I won't say that." "Didn't you say so once?" was asked. "I did, but I think now it is a case for the jury to decide. I thought at the time that:I detected powder marks on the hands of Caesar Young." Assistant District Attorney Rand produced the official report of Dr. O'Hanlon, which did not define the case as one of suicide and the doctor said that be simply expressed the suicide opinion in conversation with Coroner Brown. After some further question ing Mr. Rand asked the witness if he still held the same opinion that he expressed to Coroner Brown and Dr. O'Hanlon replied: "I will only say this, my opinion now is not what it was when I talked to Coroner Brown." This incident came at the close of the day's proceedings in the trial. When court opened Miss Patterson appeared In a black and white checked dress in direct contrast to the mourning cos tume which she had worn during days of this and previous trials. At today's session Police Captain Sweeney told of a conversation he had with Miss Patterson soon after her arrest in which she sai: she had put her hand in Young's pocket after the shot had been fired, had looked at the revolver and then dropped it back in the pocket. The scenes on West Broadway where the shooting took place were gone over by witnesses and the cab driver who was on the box when Young was shot was on the stand, but the testimony at the previous trial. When Frederick Michaels. the cab driver, was asked why he did not look i:2 the cab when he heard the shot fired, he replied: "It wasn't my place. Suppose I had looked in and got shot?" Dr. E. M. Riggin, formerly of the Hudson Street hospital, testified that the bullet which caused Young's death entered the left side and after striking the backbone lodged in the muscles of the back. While Dr. Riggin was being examnin 2d a headless and legless skeleton was brought into court. -Lawyer Levy strenuously objected to the introduc tion, saying that it was unnecessary and tended to prejudice the case against the defendant. Miss Patterson was visibly affected. After Dr. Riggin had indicated on the skeleton the course of the bullet which killed Young, Mr. Levy, counsel for the pris oner, asked that he illustrate the posi tion in which the revolver nmust have been held to produce the wound. "I could not do it at the point I have in dicated," the witness replied, "because I could not twist myself into such a position." 14 Die in Convent Fire. Montreal, Special.-The little village of St. Genevieve is in mourning over the loss of 14 lives in a fire, which destroyed the convent of St. Anne there early today. One nun, nine chil dren, ranging in age from 10 to 18 years, and four old women perished in the flames. Two nuns were so se verely burned that ~it is feared that they will die. In their grief over the catastrophe, the villagers find some' con:fort in relating the heroism dis played by Sister Marie Adjuteur, who gave up her life, and Sisters Marie Therese and Marie Robertine, who were perhaps fatally burned In their effort to save the lives of the children and helpless old women in their charge. Key West Octogenarian Dead. Key West. Fla., Special.-James G. Jones, SS years of age, United States commissioner and deputy collector for the United States Court, died here Sunday. He had held the offices of mayor of Key West, sheriff and tax col lector of the county and justice of the peace and United States marshal. lHe was born in Canada of French de scent and had a varied experience travelling around the world prior to 1850. Noted Stake Winner Sold. New York, Special.-Major Dainger field, the winrer of many famous races and t'he holder of the three-year-old championship in 1902, was sold to P. J. Dwyer, in the Fasig-Typton auction sale of the horses of William B. Leeds and Andrew Miller, at the Aqueduct race for $3,000. The stakes won by Ma jor Daingerfield in the past four sea sons were worth $91,905. Death of Senator 0. H. Platt. Washington, Conn., Special.-United States Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt, of Connecticut, died at his summer home in this, his native town, at 8:35 Friday night from pneumonia, aged 78. The end came almost unexpectedly, the immediate cause being the break ing of an abcess which had formed in the right lung, and which produced strangulation. The funeral will prob ably be held Tuesday. Prohibition Wins at Smithfield. Smithfield. Special.-In Monday's ekction, prohibition won by 33 majori PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS Weather and Crop Conditions as View. ed by the Department. The week ending Monday morning, April 24th, averaged much cooler than usual, especitlly during the first three days, with slow rising temperatures until Saturday when a maximum above! 80 degrees was recorded in the south eastern counties. The lowest for the week was 28 at Greenville on the 18th. The week closed with temperatures considerably below normal. There were general showers and thunderstorms on the 21st, with hail In the central counties, but the rainfall was very light in the extreme western and the southeastern counties, where the need of rain is indicated. There was no damage by hail. Full reports on the damage to fruit, vegetables and field crops by the freeze and frost of the 17th and 18th, Indicate severe and extensive injury to peaches, apples, plums and other fruits in the western counties, especial ly on low lands where the destruction was practically total; in the central counties and in the coanmercial peach raising districts the damage was se rious, but not total destruction at any point; while in the eastern and south eastern counties the damage to fruit was slight. r -den truck was largely destroyed in a.- sections, except in the coast truck regions, where the damage was not material, although thin ice was noted within about twenty miles of the coast. Corn that was up was nearly all cut to the ground, but only a small proportion of it will need to be re planted. A few reports indicate that wheat and oats were injured. The large majority reports both grains all right and still promising. Tobacco that was set out was only slightly dam aged. Watermelons, cucumbers and like field crops were practically all de stroyed and will be replanted. Many of the correspondents state that it is too early to determine the extent of the damage to peaches as 19 fruit is dropping rapidly. The weather was generally favorable for farm work and rapid progress was made in cotton planting. It was too cold for favorable germination and growth. Corn looks yellow and sick ly. Early corn is being cultivated; cut worms are numerous in many places. Transplanting tobacco was de layed by the cool weather, but towards the close of the week made fair pro. ress. Cotton planting is nearly fin ished in tile eastern part of the State and about half finished in the west ern part, where the season is later than usual. .J. W. BAUER, Section Director. Prominent Man Arrested. Laurens, Specia.-As the result of the inquest conducted by Magistrate W. W. Campbell, of Waterloo, acting coroner, over the body of Abe McDan iel, the negro farmer and land owner, who was killed late Saturday night in his home fourteen miles southwest ol Laurens, brief mention of which was made by The State, Powell H. Baldwin. a young farmer, of the same section, was arrested at his home Monday night by Sheriff Duckett's deputies, A. R. Sullivan and W. D. Glenn, on a war rant issued by Magistrate Campbell charging Baldwin with being a mem ber of the alleged mob that killed the negro. The deputies arrived here some time after midnight and committed Baldwin to jail. He is now in the custody of the sheriff. Application for bail will be made in Columbia by Col. J. W. Ferguson, of the law firm of Ferguson and Featherstone, who have been employed to represent the ac cused. According to the evidence given at the inquest, a party of men went to McDaniels house late Saturday night and attempted to enter the negro's house through the door, which some member of the crowd opened by un. locking with a key in his possession. Instantly the crowd was fired upon by McDaniel, who used a shotgun. The fire was promptly returned with fatal effect. The negro was shot only one time, the charge taking effect in the right side. He lived about an hour. After shooting the old man the crow d went upstairs and took McDaniel's two single daughters, Mary Jane and Evi lina, from the house to a nearby wood, where a severe whipping was given each of the women. Five Housebreaker~s Arrested. Greenville, Special.-F'ive men com posing a gang of housebreakers, giv ing their names as Walter Sheldon, Earle C. Hurdts, Samuel Levy, T. G. Barber and John Patera, were arrest ed by two police officers. The men, who are charged with burglarizing the I'ouchstone residence at Westminster Sunday night, were found cleverly con :ealed in a car of lumnber on a siding n the Southern yards. South Carolina Items. W. 3. Harley, who shot the negro at Harleyville on Monday, has not been arrested and his whereabouts are not known. The negro, so far as known, till lives. Hampton Zeigler, of Bamberg, who was sbot Saturday night by Marion Black, died Monday morning. At the post mortem it was found that the bullet had pierced the intestines in three places. No motive for the kill ing developed at the inquest. Both men were drinking at the time of the shooting. Zeigler's dying statement was that there had been no quarrel and he 2id not know why Black had shot'him. The people of Kershaw community were aroused by another alarm of fire at the cotton platform Thursday after noon about 4 o'clock. About 30 bales of cotton on the platform near the cot ton warehouse where the fire occurred some days ago were considerably dam aged. Owing to the promtness and thor oughness of the fire department, the fire was prevented from being commu nicated to the warehouse and to other cotton on the platform. The fire is thought to have originated from the southbound freight train, which had just passed. Charged with Lynching. Chester, S. C., Special.-Messrs Stewart W. Heath, John T. Stevens. Stephen Welsh and S. Frank Hough of Kershaw, were arrested here Tues day night by Sheriff Peden on war rants charging them with participat ing in the lynching of the white man, John Morrison, at Kershawy last Octo ber. The party was detained at the Nicholson Hotel until this morning. when they left for Chester in charge: of Deputy Sheriff Carroll. Two white men and a negro were committed tc jail in Lancaster county, Saturday, on ?ALMETTO AFFAIRS )ccurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. CHARLOTTE COTTON MARKET. These figures represent prices paid :o wagons: Strict good middling .........7 14 3ood, middling ............... 7 1-4 Strict. middling ............... 7 1-4 Tinges .................. 6 to 6 3-4 Stains ................. 5.00 to 6.00 GENERAL COTTON MARKET. Middling. Galveston, quiet ............... 7 3-8 New Orleans, firm ............ 7 3-16 Mobile, steady ............... 7 1-8 Savannah, steady .............. 7 1-8 Charleston, fquiet ............7 Norfolk, steady .............. 7 3-8 Baltimore, nominal ............ 7 1-2 New York, quiet ................ 7.55 Boston, quiet .................. 7.55 Philadelphia, steady ............ 7.80 Houston, steady ............... 7 1-4 Augusta, steady .............. 7 5-16 Memphis, steady .............. 7 3-8 St. Louis, quiet .............. 7 7-8 Louisville, firm ................ 7 5-8 Union Schools. Union, Special.-"The indications are that the enrollment of pupils in the graded schools of Union will tLis year exceed by far the enrollment of last year," sa- Superintendent Jeffries to i press representative one day this week. "In fact, including the night ichools I have reason to believe that :he enrollment will probably reach ver 2,000. As it now is, Union holds the record in South Carolina for the umber of children who attend school n proportion to the population. Last year the enrollment was 1,883 from a population which numbers about 10, )00, which includes Monarch and Aetna, but doesn't count in Buffalo. "Accord ing to the national superintendent's di rectory received this week, I see t'at there are but three other places in outh Carolina that have a larger en rollment'than Union, namely, Charles ton, 8,161, with about 60,000 population; olumbia 2,833, with about 35.000 in habitants, and in Spartanburg, which I believe, claims some 15,000 people. the enrollment is 2,298. The figures show that Union had 33 more enrolled than ad Greenville, 103 more than Ander on, and 343 more than Sumter, the other towns of the State falling far be ow these figures. I have not examined the directory very carefully yet, but an examination showed last year that the record held by Union for the proportion of her population of those who were seeking an education through her com mon schools was not excelled by any other town in the United States. About ur night schools, I find that the at tendance on them is even better than during the day, and now is something more than 200. The work is very en ouraging, as all the pupils seem to be anxious and work hard that they may derive all the benefit possible from this opportunity." Severe Storm at Union. Union, Special.-About 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon a terrific storm aged here for ten minutes and in that time great damage was wrought, and that many lives were not lost is mirac ulous. The only person injured was ohn Campbell, aged 20, an operative f Union cotton mills, who was badly ruised about the forehead and hurt Internally by the falling walls. The greatest damage was done to the spin iing room on the fourth floor of Union mill No, 2, the southern end of which was blown in for over 100 feet and a big strip of the roof torn off. The many children working there only escaped with their lives by fleeing when they saw the windows beginning to fall in. Eight spinning frames were injured. The damage is estimated at $5,000. The Beer Dispensaries. The dispensary directors have not yet decided upon their action in re gard to the beer dispensaries. The uestions submitted to the attorney general, and upon which an opinion will be given some time this week, are as follows: 1. Whether the State board can, un der the law, give each beer dispenser royal instead of a fixed compen sation? 2. Whether bottling plants are ille 3. What constitutes drinking on the "premises?" Fire at Union. Union, Special.-Within twenty-foul hours after the storm of Wednesday afternoon struck the city and laid low $10,000 worth of property. Union was again visited by a destructive fire. which started in the stables of Craw ford, Aycock and Deaver. completelf destroying the stables, with five other buildings adjoining, and but for a change of wind $50,000 worth of prop erty would have been swept away. The total loss is estimated at $5,000. with some insurance, The fire originated in the second story of the stables among hay and other Inflammable feed and within two minutes had spread over the entire building. This is the third destructive lire the city has passed through this year. the total loss of all three being near $100,000. Had His Skull Fractured. Pickens, Speelal.-W. R. Taylor, town marshal at Calhoun, was danger ously and probably fatally injured at Calhoun Thursday afternoon. He was in the discharge of his duty, trying to arrest a young man by the name of Barker who is said to have been drink tng. While the arrest was being made, Spinks Barker. father of the young man, ran up and struck the marshal on the head with a hoe, fracturing the Just before General de Sonnar, an talian Senator, expired on April 8. he had himself dressed in his general's uniform, and all his medals and dec orations. Then he called for a glass of champagne and. with his relatives gathered around his couch, drank to "The King's health and the prosperity of Italy." London's new county hall. on the banks of the Thames, will cover 5.E Died at Lamar. Lamar, Special.-Mr. Mitchell Rey nolds died here on the 20th after sev eral days illness. He was about 79 years old and a veteran of the War Between the Sections. The remains were interred in Newman Swamp cem tery Friday afternoon in the presence of a large crowd. Mr. Reynolds was a prominent 'farmer and leaves a large family connection. A man who used glue to thicken the ravy in the meat pies he sold at Old ham, Englanet is now serving a three -monh' sentence in thre iail there. PAY TO BE LONELY. Instanes of Persons in Whom the Gre garious InstInct II MIssing. Not many people would pay $1500 a year for the privilege of never seeing a human being. But this is what! John Farren. a notorious hermit. who resides on the coast of Sutherland does. He is perfecting an invention which he firmly believes will bring him undying fame. though what the I nature of his discovery in no one knows. His house is entered by climb ing up a staircase to the second floor, and at the foot a retainer is always I on duty to keep away strangers, while seventeen other servants are similar ly employed all the year round in various parts of the grounds. .Many will remember the case of Dr. Borthwick. the wealthy hermit of Ath erly Edge. He owned a fortune of $500,000 in all, but some time before his death he purchased $440,000 worth of jewels and tapestries from London merchants, and then threw the whole lot into the sea off the coast of Angel sey. With the $60,000 remaining. he built himself a house, sheltered by a high wall, so that no one could over look him, and then engaged six watch men at handsome salaries to keep the inquisitive at a distance. After paying several hundred a year for the privi lege of being lonely, he died seven years ago, and left the balance of his fortune to his two nephews. Probably no man ever went to more trouble and expense to be lonely than did Josiah West, a retired woolen man ufacturer, who resided in the Mid lands. Being an extremely ugly man, he became impressed with the idea late in life that it was a trial to his fellow mortals to look upon him. so he laid out his fortune in cutting him self off from the world. The first thing he did was to pur chase a large area of land, in the mid die of which he built himself a house. in the shape of a square, with all the windows facing on a quadrangle in the centre. Then, although-he had a small army of keepers to guard him from the curiosity of strangers, he bought up a neighboring village. con sisting of sixty-two houses, and razed it to the ground to still further insure his solitude. From that time forward until the day of his death he never set eyes on a human being, all his food being delivered to him through a trap door built in the side of the house for the purpose. Saurier. the eminent French novel st, also laid out a large sum of mon ey in order to be lonely. He had a perfect aversion to human beings of both sexes, and declared that he could not work with any one in the same house as himself. Eventually he spent $80,000 in building a room beneath the lake iii his grounds, which was approached by a subterranean passage, and had a plate glass roof. It was in this room that he wrote several of his finest novels, and here he lived for a number of years without hearing the sound of a human voice.-Tit-Bits. A Human Interrogation Point. It was refreshing, too, when a young child traveling eastward from the far West held a conversation, close beside me with a pallid mother. I never saw a woman more utterly exhausted, while the child seemed as fresh at sunset as at dawn. It was when the through train on the Boston and Albany still stopped at West Newton, and the con ductor had just called with vigorous confidence the name of that station. After a cause the child exclaimed as vigorously, "Mother'" to which the mother responded. perhaps for the two hundredth time that day, in a feeble voice, "What, dear?" when the follow ing conversation ensued: "What did that man say, mother?" "He said West Newton." A pause for reflection, then again: "Mother?" "What?" "What did that man say West Newton for, mother?" To this the mother, with ani evasiveness indi cated by despair, could only murmur, "I don't know." This was too well-tried an evasion, and the unflinching answer came: "Don't you know what he said West Newton for, mother?"- Thus demanded came the vague answer: "Said it for fun of it. I guess." By this time all the oc cupants of the car were listening breathlessly to the cross-examination. Then came the Inevitable "MIother," and the more and more hopeless ~What?" "Did that man say West Newton for the fun of it, mother?" "Yes." said tihe poor sufferer, with an ever increasing audience listening to her vain evasion.. The child paused an atom longer: and then continued, still Inexhaustible, but Ias if she had forced her victim into the very last corner, as she had. "What was the fun of it, mother?"-Atlanltic. The short story Art. The art of short story writing nas not become a widely popular accom plishment in this country, according to the testimony of the judges in the Collier prize story contest. There were no less than 12.000 stories sent in for competition and William Allen White, vho was one of the judges, states that ach of the first ninety-five in every hundred could be cast aside with five minutes' reading. Only one in a hun red contained the rudimenits neces ary to make a good story--even a passably good story. The work of the amateur, says MIr. White, may hide it self for ten pages, and then stiek up ike a sore thumb in a trite handling of an excellent situation: but the pro fssional writer, the skilled workman, hows his presenlce in the first sentence proves himself in the first paragraph. nd establishes himself in the read r's confidence before the first 500 words.-Bostonl Herald. Tho Iron in the Blood. "Iron in the blood." expresses, no dubt a chemical fact- as well as a fgure of speech, but probably not One in a thousanid, even among chemists, eeer saw ferrum sanguinis material ized to visible metals. This feat, how ever, has been performed by 31. Bar ruel head of the chemical laboratories of Paris. M1. Barruel. wvho has. in ime racticedl muclh phlebotomy on the human rnubjct. ha:s systemati el ly extracted chemically tile ferru m from the other constituen:ts. This he transformed into minute globuies or "pearls" of iron. At last the idea oe crr to him to have the:n all wvelded together, and the result is an iron ring made fromi human blood. whichi he wrs11hsgenr.-A\meie1n inven GOOD * 1 ROADS] How Good Roads Pay. ~Oy.N an article in "he Bulletin of the American Geograph 0 0 ical Society there is a dis cussion by A. P. Brigham v of *Good Roads in the United States." in which the estimated handicap of the people of Maryland due to bad roads is $3,000, D00 a year. On dirt roads the cost of transporting a ton a mile is twenty five cents, while on railways it is three-fourths of a cent or less. By water the rate varies from one-fourth to one-twelfth of a cent. The ocean rate is one-fifth of the canal route, one-fifteenth of the railway rate and ne-five-hundredth of the country road rate. Railway rates improve, but dirt road rates never do, says the Baltimore Sun. In 1869, for example, the eost per ton mile on the New York Central Railway was 2.4 cents, while in 189n the cost was only seven-tenths of a cent. showing a large deduction; bit the preliminary haul to the railway station over a dirt road costs as much as ever. By making a good road for the farmer the State may reduce the cost per ton mile of hauling freight from twenty-five cents to eight cents, thus saving the farmer seventeen ents per mile. In New Jersey it is found that on Improved roads a team hauls four or five tons, against one ton on an unim proved road. At $3 a day for man and team this means a saving of from $9 to $12 for a ten-mile haul. Good roads justify long distance hauling by team, which is worth while in the case of perishable produce and furniture likely to be injured by the delays and rough handling of the railways. In Belgium wagons carry freight six. ty to seventy miles. In this country the roads are generally such as to re strict the market for many articles. It is said to be as cheap to take freight by rail from California to the Atlantie as to convey farm produce over dirt roads to Raleigh, N. C., from farms only fifteen miles away. Naturally, farms made inaccessible by bad roads are worth less than those which enjoy good transportation facilities. Or. to put it differently, good roads enhance the value of farms, adding materially to the price for which they will sell. Good roads, in effect, put money into the farmer's pocket, whether he re tains his farm or sells it. What he pays in a road tax-if the road is im proved by a trained engineer-is re turned to him a dozen times over in the increased selling value of his prop erty, to say nothing of the decreased cost of getting the hauling done. The road tax lifts other taxes. Various gains accrue. The isolation of farm life and its dreariness vanish when communication is easy. If the farmer, his wife, sons and daughters an finish their day's work betimes and visit neighbors three miles away in the evening, or flit easily to town, they think better of rural life and are more disposed to hold on to "the old place." Schools, mails, shopping, social enjoy ment-all are brought within easier reach by the improved road. But by "improved- road" is meant a road made under the supervision or an engineer, not the product of undeveloped ideas.. Working for Wide Tires. The Bureau of Road Inquiry of the U~nited States Government has been making a study of the width of tires prescribed by local and national au thorities in various parts of the world. In France every freighting and mar ket cart, instead of injuring the high way, improves it. Many of the tires are ten inches wide. In the four wheeled vehicles in that country the rear axle is fourteen inches longer than the fore, and as a result the rear wheels run in a line about an Inch outside the level roiled by the front wheel. After a few loaded wagons have passed over a road the highway looks as if a steam roller had been at work. A national law in Ger many prescribes that wagons heavily loaded must have tires not less than four inches wide. In Austria the min Imum for similar vehicles is six and one-half inches; in Switzerland, six inches. In a number of States In this coun try laws have been passed granting rebae of highway taxes to citizens who use on lumber wagons tires not less than three inches wide. On toll roads in Kentucky and several other States farmers hauling loads in wide tired wagons are entitled to lower rates than those paid by the owner's of narrow-tired vehicles. At an experiment station it was dem onstrated that It requires forty per cent. more power to draw a load on a wagon drawn with one-and-one-half inch tires than on one with a three inch tire. With a Baldwin dyna mometer careful tests were made with loaded wagons drawn over blue grass sward. In a wagon weighing 1000 pounds it was found that a load of 3428 pounds could be drawn on wide tires with the same force required to move 2000 pounds on narrow tires. Moreover, the wide tires did not Injure the turf. while the narrow ones cut through it. In some parts of the coun try pioneers in the use of wide tires have had to stand a good deal of ridi cule. The manifest benefit to roads, however, soon changes public senti ment. The president of a leading wagon manufacturing company states that the demand for wide tires is in reasing every year. Another company in the same line of business conducted a series of tests, using a Fairbanks dynamoeter carefully calibrated, and was convinced that on very hard roads the preference. so far as draft is con erned, is for narrow tires. In the ef fect upon the roads, rowever, wide tires have the advantage. Rnu'ianl Royalty. Catherine's husband. the Holstein~er, was a bibulous boor streaked with in anity: Catherine herself was a clever, oarse. jovial virago, absolutely lack ing in moral sense; and from their wretched son Paul downi to the present generation their descendants have par taken of their quall'ies in various ~lends. Such qualities. from no per onal fauit of their own, prevent the Ho olstein-on~offs from being either successful autocrats or good constitu tional princes.--Sergeaut's "Catherine he Grat."