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WILD, BY IT=Z I wish, because the sweetness of you passing Makes all the earth a garden where yol tread. - That I might be the meanest of your nses To pave your path with pelass passion :the2 s ftness Of vc., ze jasm:ne at your w:r.Iov .e the fra;:r;ance of a ii1.t breeze with your dear .A BohemiE Schaunard and Marce. who had been at work si-.ce mor-::-. sudden ly stopped. "Gods' I'm hungry," said S-haun ard, aid he added. carelisz:'. "don't we breakiast some time to-Cay?" Marcel showed gr--a: astonishment at this question. "Since when have we breakfasted two days in succes sion?" said he. "Yesterday was Thursday," and he finished his re sponse by designating with his maul stick that commandment of the church which refers to meat on Fri day. Schaunard found nothing to say to that, and set to work again at his picture, which represented a plain on which a red tree and a blue tree were clasping branches-beihg a transpa;ent allusion to the charms of friendship from a very philosoph ical standpoint. Just then the porter knocked at the door. He brought a letter to Marcel. "Three sous to collect," said he. "Are you sure?" replied the art Ist. "All right, we will owe them to you;" and he shut the door in his face. Marcel took the letter and broke the seal. At the first words, he put himself to capering about the studio in an acrobatic dance, singing, at the top of his voice, a popular students' song of the day, which indicated with him the very apex of joy. "Look here," said Schaunard, feel ir.g already ymptoms of mental alienation, "if you don't dry up I'll play the allegyoof my symphony on the inflVaC_e of blue in the arts;" ')nd.e went on to the piano. 'This threat produced the effect of a drop of cold wa*er falling into a boiling liquid, calming Marcel as by enchantment. "Read that!" said he, passing the letter to his friend. It was an invitation to dinner from a deputy-patrons of the art in gen eral, and of Marcel in particular, who had painted the portrait of his coun -day," said Schaunard. that the ticket isn't But, come to think puty supports the min .an't, you ought not, to - . .r p)rinciples forbid you eating bread soaked in .the sweat of the people." "Bah'" said Marcel: "my deputy belongs to the left centre, and voted against the government the other dlay. Besides, he is going to give me an order, and has promised to intro duce me in society. And then. you see. it is Friday; and I am hungry enough to eat a raw dog, and I must dine." "There are yet other obstacles,' replied Schaunard, a little jealous of the good fortune which had be fallen his friend. "You can't go to a swell dinner in a red blouse and a longshoreman's hat." "I will borrow some clothes from Rodolphe or Colline." "Bah! Have you forgotten that we have passed the twentieth of the month, and that at that epoch the clothes of those gentlemen are spouted?" "I will, at least, find a black coal somewhere about here by five o'clock," said Marcel. "It took me three weeks to find one when I went to my cousin's wed ding: and that was early in Janu ary." "Well, I will go as I am." replied Marcel. striding across the room. "It shall never be seid that a miser able question of etiqc'ette prevented my taking my first step in society." "Good," said Schaunard, taking much pleasure in the chagrin of his friend; "but what about the boots?' Marcel went out in a state of agi tation impossible to describe. Toward two o'clock he returned. loaded down with a p)aper collar. "That is all I can find," said he piteously... "It was hardly worth while run ning about for that," respondec Schaun.ard. "We have p,aper enougl here to make a dozen collars." "The dovil'" said Marcel, tearinI his hair; "we ought to have som4 effects between us." and he scom menced a long research in all the cor ners of the two chambers. After at hour's hunting, he realized a cos tume composed as follows: One pair of plaid trousers. One gray hat. One red cravat. One glove, originally white. One black glove. "That will make two black glove '" Schaunard. "Bu d you will 1ool 'um. But wha lorist." tried the boots ey were both fo in sam IO'- mne despairing ar ist then spied in a corner an old boo in which they put their brushde and possessed himself of it. "Like Garrick in 'Syllabe,'" sal his ironical companion. "This on is pointed, and the other is square. "Nobody will notice that. I wu varnish them." "Good enough: All you want no' is the regulation black coat." There came another knock at th door. Marcel opened it. "Monsieur Schaunar'd?" said stranger', standig on the threshold. "That's me," said the painter, bes ring him to enter. "Yes, monsieur, I can boast, of that. Horrors!" murmured he to himself, "I am denying my gods." "That is worth mentioning, young man," replied the delegate, in put ting on the dressing-gown which had such a noble origin. "Hang the genNeman's coat in the wardrobe," said Schaunard to his friend. with a significant wink. I say," murmured Marcel, in leap ing into his prey, and designating Blancheron, "some style about him. If we could only keep a little of him." "I will try; but dress quickly and run. Get back here by ten o'clock, and I'll keep him till then. And don't you forget to bring me something in your pocket." "I will bring a pineapple," said Marcel, going out. He dressed himself hurriedly. The coat fitted like a glove, and he went out by the other door. Schaunard put, himself to work. As it grew dark, Monsieur Blanch eron heard six o'clock strike, and re membered that he had not dined. He so remarked to the painter. "I am in the same fix; but to oblige you I will let it go to-night, al though I was invited to dine in the Faubourg Saint-Germain," said Schaunard. "But we can't disturb ourselves; that would compromise the resemblance." He turned to his work. "However," said he, carelessly, "we could dine here without disturbing ourselves. There is an excelent res taurant down stairs, and they could send up whatever we wanted." And Schaunard waited the effect of his trio of plurals. "An excellent idea," said Monsieur Blancheron; "and, in return for the suggestion, would you do me the honor of keeping me company at table?" Schaunard bowed. "Hurrah!" said he to himself, "this is a man worth knowing; a veritable envoy of providence. Will you select the bill of fare?" he asked. "You will oblige me by doing it yourself," said Blancheron. vs. Oysters. r once said that an oyster . There was greater pro n than would appear at first a sign of life and activity. hing worth while is immune ig minor errors, but, what is .reer is one great big mistake. ieeds have small heed for the mn of circumscribed vision, of ews, who ponders long and his affairs. ;ho are willing to make one ish nine things "worth while" )attle that they may achiev3 is a moral for advertisers. any newspaper any day and en or twenty people. Nearly eficiencies or show where, in . ces results-it tells its story. all defects. The advertiser opy intelligently, puts vigor f d keeps "everlastingly at it, 'for success. s judgment, or trip over an ot let that alter his course, . goal with undiminished vigorH chant or Manufacturer, take e afraid to make a mistake in stake you can make is not to "You will repent of it, Nicolas," sung the painter, as he descended the stairs, four at a time. He entered the restaurant, stoiod u; at the counter, and dictated a bill of fare which made the Vatel of the shop turn pale. "Some ordinary Bordeaux." "Who is going to pay?" "Not I, probably," said Schaunard, "but an uncle of mine, whom you will see up stairs-a great epicure. So try to distinguish yourself. And we will be served in half an hour, and in porcelain-do you understand?" At eight o'clock Monsieur Blanch eron felt the desire to pour into the bosom of a friend his ideas on the sugar question, and recited to Schaunard the pamphlet which hie had written. Schaunard accompanied him on the piano. At teu o'clock, Monsieur Blanch eron and his friend danced a galop, and called each other endearing names. At eleven o'clock, they swore never to part, and made their wills, each leaving the other his fortune. At midnight, Marcel returned, and found them in each other's arms, dis solved in tears. There was already half an inch of water in the studio. Marcel ran against the table, and saw the splendid -debris of a superb repast. He examined the bottles; they were perfectly empty. He tried to awaken Schaunard, but he threatened to kill him if he should take from him Monsieur Blancheron, of whoem he had made a pillow. "Ingrate!" said Marcel, pulling out of his pocket a handful of nuts; "this to one who has brought you your dinner." - From the French of Henri Murger, translated for the Argonaut. A Cool Gamester. "Lady," said the hobo, "de great est pleasure dat I could find in life would be to chop some wood for you-" "I don't want any wood chopped." "Or carry some water from de sprin -" "I've got a well right at the kitch en door." "Or shoo de cows in from de pas ture-" "I haven't any cows. We buy our milk." "Well, lady, I've made three guesses about what I could do to help you along. Now it's your turn. An' I don't mind givin' you a small hint dat victuals an' clothes'll be purty near de answer. It's a nice game, lady, an' I t'ink ygu're goin'~ to be lucky."-New York Times. The "Place-makers' Bible" is so called from a typographical error whch makes Matt.56:9 read: "Blessed are the place-makers" instead of neacemakers. WISHES. . X. BzwrrT, r I wish, because the glary of your dreaming Strews all the ,ield of heaven with throb I bing stars, That I might storm the portals of your slumber. And soar with you beyond night's golden bars! 'Iws to U2 t:.c dInv vou (!I(,. 'oe, at its cv.'O M in li,h heart must break!I ILt r.nit i ::11. I wish. ly dearest -o S;e tie Decse I Marn::n when you -:om In rpr's Magazine. mr Bonanza. "Monsieur," said the unknown, b.arer of one of tfiose honest faces which are the type of the country man, "my cousin has talked a great deal of your talent for painting por traits, and being about to make a voyage to the colonies, where I am delegated by the sugar-refiners of the city of Nantes, I wish to leave a remembrance of myself with my family. That is why I have come to find you." "Holy providence!" murmured Schaunard. "Marcel, give a chair to Monsieur "Blancheron," replied the strang er; "Blancheron of Nantes, delegate of the sugar industry, former mayor of V-, captain the National Guard and author of a pamphlet on the sug ar question." "I am very much honored to have been selected by you," said the artist, inclining himself before the delegate, of the refiners. "How do you wish to have your portrait?" "In miniature, like that," replied Mcnsieur Blancheron, Indicating a portrait in oils; because, for the dele gate, as for many others, that which is not a house-painting is miniature; there is nothing between. Philosophers SA LITERARY philosophe never made a mistaki fundity in this aphorisi '::lance. 'aking mistakes is Th man %who never does any, from the danger of perpetrati a g'eat deal worse, his entire c Men who accomplish great little errors. It is only the m; limited capacity, of narrow v Ceeply over each minor step ii Successful men are those mristake that they may accompl who are willing to lose one 1 nine victories. And right heri Take any advertisement In *present it for criticism to any every one will point out Its d their belief, it can be Improve1 Yet the advertisement prod Ismain good overcomes its s g an d force into what he does, a: I sthe usual winner in the race If he should stumble in h Ioccasional obstacle, he does and speed. Now you, Mr. Me this home to yourself. Don't t advertising. Realize that the biggest m * advertise at all. * This simplicity gave Schaunard the measure of the man; above all, when he added that he desired his portrait painted with the finest colors. "I never use any others," said Schaunard. "How large would mon sieur like his portrait?" "As big as that," replied Monsieur Blancheron, designating a canvas. "But how high does that come?" "From fifty to ~sixty francs; fifty without the hands, sixty with-" "The devil! my cousin talked about thirty." "That is according to the season," said the painter; "the colors are high er at different seasons of the year.' "What, just like sugar?" "Exactly." "Go ahead, then, for fifty francs." "You're wrong; for ten francs more, I would put in the hands, In which I would place your pamphlet or the sugar question, which would be flattering." "B'gosh, you are right." "Ye gods:" said Schaunard to him self, "if he continues I shall explode, and wound him with the pieces." "Have you remarked?" hissed Mar cel in his ear. "What'." "He has on a black coat." "I understand, and I have your idea. Leave mec alone.". "Well. Monsieur," said the dele gate, "when shall we commence? It must not be delayed, for I sail short "I have a little journey to' make: myself; I leave Paris day after to morrow, so, if you like, we will commence at once. A good sitting will advance the work." "But it will soon be dark, and you can't paint by candle-light," said Monsieur Blancheron. "My studio Is so arranged that I can work at all hours," replied the painter; "so, if you will take off your coat, and assume the pose, we will commence." "What do you want me to take off my coat for?" "Didn't you say you wanted this portrait for your family?" "Yes." "Well, then, you ought to be rep r resented in your home costume, In - your dressing-gown.' Besides, that t is the custom." "But I have no dressing-gown with me." - "But I have. The case is forseen," e said Schaunard, presenting to his model a ragged jacket, historic with 1paint stains, which made the honest countryman hesitate at first. "That Is a very singular garment," said he. e "And very precious," responded the painter. "A Turkish vizier pre a Isented it to Horace Vernet, who gave it to me. I am a pupil of his." y"You are a pupil of Vernet?" said Bn1nermn. NO TIME, A OW - | ~O)v PreparingF re 0 %&'. Preparing For Tho -Cartoon b; Tuberculosis Killed 7 Death Rate Declines in All Ref Nine Causes Are Most Out of Every 100 Oc, 25 and 34 Due Washington, D. C. - Health De partment returns show the total num ber of deaths from all forms o tuber culosis returned in 1908 was '78,289, exceeding those of any previous year of registration, but the death rate per 100,000 for 1908 is less than that for 1907. In all registration States the deaths from tuberculosis showed a decline except in Colorado, Rhode Isl and and Vermont. Each of the following causes of death was responsible for at least 5000 deaths of male breadwinners during the year: Typhoid fever, tu berculosis of lungs, cancer, apoplexy and paralysis, heart disease, pneumo nia, Bright's disease, suicide and ac cident. The total number of deaths of occupied per'ons from these causes was, for males, 138,259, and for fe males, 17,434. Of the deaths of occu pied males, 29,433, or 15 per cent., were due to tuberculosis of the lungs, and of the occupied females, 5511, or 21 per cent., were due to the same cause. In the registration area of the Uni ted States during the year 1908, 30.9 eaths out of every 100 deaths of oc upied males who died between the ages of 25 and 34 years were caused y tuberculosis of the lungs, or nearly one deathi out of every three. During the same ago period 41.9 per cent. of the bookkeepers, clerks and copyists, 40.1 per cent. of the barbers and hair ressers, 40.9 per cent, of the ser ants, 44.1 per cent. of the boot and shoe makers, 49.2 per cent. of the ompositors, printers and pressmen, 41.2 per cent. of the tailors and 25.6 per cent. of the farmers who died in the registration area during 1908 EXPOSED IN Professor From New Yoi less } Marion, Ind. - Professor Garnumn Brown, an expert from the Museum f Natural History in New York, ar rived in this city with para-phernalia necessary for excavating, preserving and shipping the skeletons of prehis toric animals,, to find that the institu tion ha represents has been the victim f misrepresentation. For more than a year Frank Mart, afarmer, has been in communication with the museum regarding the sale of the skeletons of prehistoric animals which he said he had f.ound on his land. Mart informed the institution last spring that he had found the skeleton of an animal, while excavat LACK OF WORK If Steady Increase in Arm ing Great Washington, D. C.-The army o1 unemployed in Great Britain has grown steadily, and now has reached proportions that are causing the Gov mnent great uneasiness. In a spe cal report John L. Griffiths, United States Consul-General at London gives extracts from a special state ment just issued by the royal commis sion on the poor law and relief of dis The commission declares that dur ing the fiscal year ended March 31 last the number of persons-.withoul work and seeking Government aid to. taled thirty-one in every 1000 01 population, while in the fiscal yeai preceding only fourteen per 1000 made application for assistance. The number of men who applied for reliel in the last fiscal -year 'constituted Three Seats In Prussian Diet Cause Great Joy in Socialist Party Berlin.-Elections for four repre sentatives of Berlin in the Prussiat Diet were held, and resulted in the re turn of three Socialists, with one elec tion still undecided. Socialists were elected to the samt seats at the last election, but their 'e turn was nullified on technica: grounds. The success of the candidates fol lowing similar victories in Coburg Baden and Saxony, has caused jubila tion among the Socialists everywhere Essence of the News. The King of Italy offered a cup as aprize at the aviation meet a Brescia. Mass meetings of protest againsi he puting to death of Franciscc Ferrer were held all over Europe. President Taft, in Salt Lake City announced that Gifford Pinchot, the chief forester, would remain in thE Government service. Arthur G. Wright, of Lowell Cen re, Mass., was arrested in. Portland Ore., while heavily armed and ming in ia th +hrong near Presideni OR FARMING.; CZ r Iy se Census Questions. r G. Williams, in the Indianapolis News. ,289 Persons in 1908 stration States Except Three Frequent---30.9 Deaths upied Males Between to Tuberculosis. were victims of pulmonary tuberculo sis. Among the principr,l causes of death were the following, with their rates per 100,000 of population, for 1908 and 1907: 1908. 1907. Tuberculosis (all forms).173.9 183.6 Pneumonia (all forms)..136 161.2 Heart disease ........ 133.3 141.7 Diarrhoea and enteritis. 116 116.7 Bright's disease ...... 87.1 94.6 Cant-er ..... ........ 74.3 73.1 Typhoid fever ........ 25.3 30.3 Diphtheria and croup. .. 22.3 24.3 The number of deaths from all forms of pneumonia returned for 1908 was 61,259, a decrease of more than 6000 from the number for 1907 (67,320), despite the increase in the registration area. The death rate from pneumonia was lower for 1908 than for any other of the past five years. The crude death rates from cancer continue to increase, and slightly higher rates are recorded for each main subdivision of the registration group. For the year .1908 33,465 deaths from this disease were report ed, as against 30,514 for 1907. The enormous extent of the mortal ity of infants from diarrhoeal dis eases may be inferred from the fact that the aggregate death rate from these diseases, more than four-fifths of which is due to deaths of infants under two years old, exceeds one per 1000 of the total population, and ranks them in the same class for gen eral effect on the death rate as heart disease and pneumonia, diseases whose influence is felt upon all per iods. DIANA FAKIR, -k luseum Takes a Fruit aurney. ing an open ditch, which had been pronounced to be that of a crocodile by a professor of an Indiana college. He said that he had exposed twenty eight feet of the skeleton, but had not reached the end of it. Mart endeav ored to sell the skeleton to the insti tution for a large sum of money. Arrangements were finally made for Professor Brown to come after the skeleton. When he arrived Professor Brown found that Mart had sold his farm two weeks ago and had left this part of the country. Professor Brown made a trip to the farm in hopes of find the skeleton, but was unable to find even an open ditch on the place. J BRITAIN GROWS. y of Unemployed is Caus Uneasiness. 4 1-10 per cent, of the workingmen of England and Wales, while during the previous year they constituted 2 1-10, and the year preceding that only 1 9-10 per cent. The destitution and absence of work for the unemployed is general in practically all of the manufacturing cities and towns in the United King dom. A striking feature of the situa tin is that the men seeking work are for the most part in the very prime of life. Plans are being considered where by the employers and the working men may be brought closer together. The Government also is seeking to discover some means of cutting off the supply of unskilled and unintelli gent labor by training boys to enter regular -and permanent work. King to Publish a History of Nu mismiatics, in Which He is Expert. Rome, Italy. - The Tribuna an nounces that King Victor Emmanuel will publish a book shortly on the history of numismatics. It is written by himself. The King has been a ':oin collector for years, and has already written a treatise on the subject, which was is sued for private circulation among his friends. The new book, which is to be richly illustrated, is the result of long study by the monarch. Jottings About Sports. There will be a cross-country race in November between the teams of Syracuse and Colgate. Lozier No. 3 won the twenty-four hour automobile race at Brighton Beach, with a new record of 1196 miles. James J. Jeffries said that he hoped "Jack" Johnson would cover a forfeit for a heavyweight champion ship fight. H. B. Duryea, an American turf2. man, won two races in France, bothe with American horses, Ben Ban and ISetatress. Wodd's Fruit Basket Methods and Profits ki Orchards of the NortlToVst, Writing in Collier's on "The; World's Fruit Basket," Richard Floyd Jones tells of the growth and romance of fruit firming in the West. Mr.; Jones says that"though.Marcus Whit man had driven his gospel wagon into Oregon at the time -Fremont set out to blaze the continental trail that re sulted in the conquest of California in 1S46, the real acquisition of our Pacific Coast came when the Luelling brothers, with patriotic heroism, car ried their apple trees in Oregon In 1847, and the Argonauts trailed their picks and pans over the continent's rocky spine in the memorable year of '49." The Luellings were sons of a Welsh Quaker planter and slavehold er in the Carolinas, who through force of conviction moved his family and negroes to Indiana, where he lib erated his slaves and hired their labor lor fited wages, T,he sons became in terested in fruit nifrseries and drifted across the three "I" States, leaving orchards behind them in Indiana, Illi nois and Iowa. finally reaching Ore ,on and the Wiliamette Valley. Mr. Jones continues: The advocates of a separate Pacific republic, who were won over on grounds of rational sentiment by Starr King and his lieutenants, were bound to the Eastern States by strong ribbons of steel in the early days of Grant's administration. And in 1883 the rail road to Portland went through, and soon followed the Northern Pacific to Tacoma. This opened the market. Before this time Florida was our or ange State, and oranges were a lux ury. California soon delivered an abundance, and oranges became a common, though not an inexpensive fruit. Before this time Michigan and Wisconsin were regarded as good ap ple States in the Central West, and Nova Scotia and New York apples were placed on the tables of the elite. The railroads soon put ail these apples in the pie pan. The world got a good taste of Pa cific fruit. The departments of Agri culture and the Interior at Washing ton sent special atents West to be es corted by Mr. Smith over these won derful budding fruit lands. Hood River became the University of the Apple, and to its dean Germany, France, Russia, Argentina, China and Japan sent special students to be to tored in the fine arts of apple grow ing. Eastern pro uce merchants sent buyers West. The Niagara orchard ists were puzzled that a bushel box of apples, hauled more than 3000 miles, should bring a better price than a barr4j of apples raised at home. The large, luxurious, costly crated che'r ries from the Dalles of the Columbia sold when the basket cherries of the East went to waste. The peaches and plums and grapes that came out of this wonderland induced many a. Michigan and Delaware grower to correspond with land agents a conti nent's wit'away. And California gave us orange crops that were con stant and abundant. Of the chances for a poor man fti Washington and Oregon Mr. Jones says: Success here, as everywhere, de pends upon the man, not upon -his money. The man who rents land among the fruit fields is welcomed and assisted the first year, and per haps the second. The third he is to erated, the fourt. es his credit fall, and the fifth count. him as a failure. Good, unbroken fruit land can be pur chased, according to location, from $50 to $100 an acre. This can be bought for half cash and half credit. If the man is poor he can clear it him self, and five acres ought, in the course of six years, to return him from $2000 to $3000 a year. If he can acquire ten acres, so much the better. From the first year he can do better than $200 an acre with strawberries and garden truck planted between his trees. If one has money enough to buy his land, pay for Its clearing and planting, a little con stant and intelligently directed work will accomplish great results. The superintendent of schools at Dayton, Wash planted his savings in or chards until he had 100 acres in per fect, mature tree's. He was not a hor ticulturist, but his supervision of this large orchard was his recreation. He now nets annually over $50,000. A Tacoma society woman indulged her self in a sixteen-acre orchard at El lensburg. She soon found herself harvesting more than 7500 boxes of apples a year, which sell for about ?17,000. There are many in the Ya kima'and Hood River valleys that do even better than this, but the average will not run as high. If an orchard is intelligently and skilfully handled it ought to yield from $700 to $900 an acre, and if the earning falls be low an average of $400 to the acre there is probably something serious the matter. The railroads that have brought San Francisco nearer to New York than Boston was to Philadelphia a century ago have been the cementing agents of our national life, says Mr. Jones. The economic and political is sues of Providence and Pittsburg are* those also of Seattle and Spokane. We are a homogenous people. The scenes along the Willamnette in Ore gon and the shadowy St. Joe in IdahoI are strikingly like much of Wisconsin and Massachusetts, except that there are the great backgrounds of lofty pines and snow capped mountains that the East does not possess. SO with the people. They cannot escape the impress of their environment. They are less cultivated than the East, but better educated. They have large ness of conception, boldness of action, lack of provincialism and a venture some spirit. The writer adds: ' The Pacific fruit growers are begin ning to work collectively. Legislat ures may make it a felony to ship a wormy apple across the State line who in New York or London is going to prosecute?i But the buyer of the worm doesn't go back to that kind of a box again. The reputation of a whole valley can be killed through the carelessness or trickery of one fishonest shipper. The Kentucky slo en rn:ed we sann. divided we iai, s beof# Dmma attractivepacgage a e inspired'the fruit gr9wri'b en$ chee, Missoula, the towns of the Ya kima Valley, Hood-River ad, Others to organize their frait grolo 4rtu unions. The apples no-1ong*r Went forth under the meaningless names of Ben Brown or John Jones, .but' with the guarantee of a great 's.d wealthy valley. No grower was al lowed to pack his own apples. The associations did it, and did it with conscientious care. "Find a bad ap ple and we'll give you the car," was their confident assertion. Eastern traders discovered that there was a valley standard. It was no longer necessary to send buyers West. They could order the standard products by wire. Ben Brown and John Jones discovered that the surest way to sell their fruits at the highest prices was to standardize and get the valley stamp on their box. But the union idea did not stop here. The associa tions set out to educate their mem bers along the line 6f their occupa tion. The unions make liberal use of the telegraph wires, and so make a more intelligent distribution of wares than an individual could do. They set out to discover newmarkets. They married the orchardist to the horti cultural schools of the State agricul tural colleges and made of a trade a scientific 'profession. They taught caution and conservation. They showed that, though apple trees may live 150 years, and though their val ley lands were richer than the Asiatic province of Shansi that has been farmed for forty centuries, the orig inal orchards of the Luellings had gone into decay through carelessness and neglect even In the virgin rich-' ness of the bank of the Willamette. But the fruit growers' unions are do ing most as a school of applied ethics. They erase Jealousies and suspicion and establish a trust and appreciation of neighbors and a spirit of fraternal. ism and patriotism. s.eeeseeeee*bsessesee * SHE MANICUIES AND BEAUTI iWI. 0 0 AI @60o60F6S TOWNsS.sessSs6ss In the past few years the passion for the "town beautiful" has become a national Ideal. City councils have taken up the work, philanthropists have contributed fortunes, and civic associations have put-their shoulders to the wheel. That everyone knows; but what scarcely anyone knows is that the movement began in the brain of' a quiet, unassuming wo;nan in Springfield, Ohio, says Hampton's Magazine. Miss Jessie M. Good was an as sistant in the Springfield library, and had been for sixteen years. One day, in an interval of her work, she hap pened to pick up a magazine and 'ead therein of how the village of Stock bridge, Mass., in order to attract sum mer tourists, had formed a local im provement society to clean the town. That was her inspiration, as narrated with a wealth of interesting detail in Hampton's. Clean the town! Why should not all towns be clean? Why were dusty streets, littered sidewalks, disfiguring vacant lots, treeless high was and unsightly back yards neces sary? Why should not every town have parks and public gardens? Miss Good told her plan to the ed itor of a floriculture magasine pub lished .In Springfield, and wrote an article about it for him. The idea spread, letters ca$pe in shoals, and Miss Good and Mr. D. 3. Thomas, ths editor, calling a conventi~on of those Interested, formed the American League of Civic Improvement. That was in July, 1901. A year later, at a meeting in Buffalo, N. Y., the American Park and Outdoor Art As sociation merged with the league un der the title of the American Civic Association, which now embraces every State in the Union. Miss Good, who was born In Johns town, Pa., is still a resident of Spring feld, where she has built up a large business In the sale of plants, seedsi and flowers. A Ventriloquist. Probably every one has seen a time when he wished he could admin ister rebuke impersonally. The Springfield Republican pictures an oc casion when It was done. The "grouchy" individual came from behind his paper and glared savagely at the woman with the cry ing baby. "Why can't you keep that brat quiet?" he snarled. "What's the matter with it, anywcy?" There was a dead silence in the car, and then a pitilessly distinct voice from nowhere in particular replied: "He thinks your face is th3 moon, and he's crying for it." -The surly one looked about with a deathly stare. Every one was quak ing with mirth, but preserved a so! emn countenance except the man, who was smiling out of the window at tfie other end of the car.. "There are advantages in being a ventriloquist," he murmured softly to himself.. That's All He Forgot. The cab containing the absent minded man and his family drew up in front of the Grand Central Depot. There emerged the absent-minded man, his wife, three children, a bir$ cage, a dog on a leash, and innumer~ -able bundles and parcels. The ab sent-minded man paid the driver, gathered up the bundies, dropped. them and pressed his hand dramatic" ally to his fevered brow. "There!"- he exclaimed. "I just knew I had forgotten something." His wife carefully counted the chil dren, saw that the dog and the bird cage were intact, and took an inven tory of the bundles. -We seem to be all here," she re marked. "I am sure we have every thing. What do you think it is you have forgotten?" Why, bless my soul!" cried the absent-minded man. 'Now that we are here I've forgotten where we In tended going! "-New York Times. According to a Government report, 2,600,000 cattle die every year in this country from disease, exposure