I THE GUEST. My daddy is a 'feasor at a big, big 'cademv, ? And he has Rot a picture-book of stars, T. called 'stronomy. jS But, oh, you ought to hear him talk to ? j me and brother Jack i ! *Bout all the funny folks who live up in r the Sody .^ck. I don't know what the Sodys do, And never saw an Ack, did you? My dady has a telescope that pokes up through the trees. He let me see the Ram one night, the one with Golden Fleas, And pointed out the Fishes in the Pie Seas of the sky. I couldn't find the Fishes, so I tried to find the Pie, And found it, too. all by myself. On Aunt Lucinda's pantry shelf! ?Harrold Skinner, in Woman's Home Companion. 1 I EVEN UNTO THE j i VALLEY OF SHADOWS, j | By Hrs. Mary Louise Bozzeli. ft " ?<5i5HSH5E5H5HSHSESHSH5HSEi$> "Search, if you will, the wide world through? You'll find no love like the mother love. And never a heart so true!" The song died aw&y under the clatter of dishes in the rough hostelry of the mining town. But into the throat of the boy outside, it had brought a gripping ache; an irrepressible longing to go to the lonely woman in the BOlltary cabin up among the frowning kills. A week ago, while searching the | woods lor a strayed neirer, ne naa been suddenly confronted by a stranger, who, tossing him the bridle of a panting horse, had thrust a pistol Into his face with a savage injunction to take the animal and "clear out!" before disappearing. Too frightened to refuse, he had barely slipped the bridle over his arm when a howling mob appeared over a distant ridge? and their enraged yells of: "There he Is! Shoot the thief!" told him all. The horse had been stolen and these men took him for the thief! And in Goldfleld horse thieves were given short shrift. For an instant he stood staring? r?r?Kr roniamhr^npo nf tho U W ful sight he had once stumbled upon In the silent forest, where self-constituted dispensers of justice had left their victim dangling in gruesome inertness from a creaking branch! 1 A bullet whistled overhead ? he V - ducked, and with a stinging blow sent the horse snorting into the brush, then darted away in an opposite di'rection. But now, after a week of iBtarving days and hideous nights, and with only the darkness to shield him from his pursuers, he was going to risk almost inevitable capture by going home. And so, as the night shadows fled before the flushing dawn, the watcher . In her mountain home heard a faintly breathed: "Mother!" Her heart leaped to the call, her r , fingers flew to the fastenings of the door; then her arms held her boy? half starved and shaking with cold. He panted out his story, clinging to her piteously. Choking back her tears she half led, half carried him to the-ioft above, coaxing him to rest on the ruda bed.. She fed him?bathed his drawn face, his swollen feet, quieting his fears with comforting words, and soon, under her soothing voice he fell into the deep sleep of utter exhaustion. Kneeling, she rained kisses on his pale face; held her cheek to his for one lingering moment, then groped her tear-blinded way to the room below. But here her movements 'became decisive, for with the quick mind of one early thrown upon her own resources, she had already decided what to do. Throwing off her dress she put on a suit belonging to the sleeping boy, thrust her feet into a pair of his boots, pulled his wide brimmed hat low over her eyes, and went out. She struck into the trail leading to the town, assuming a boyish stride. Save for the scurrying rabbits and cawing crows she was apparently alone in the forest, although several times she thought she saw watching eyes peering from behind the gray boulders. But?unmolested, she kept on her way and at dusk came in sight of the scattered houses of the town. Here she dropped down beside the dusty ribbon of road?wondering if her plan had worked. She feared she had failed, everything seemed so quiet?eveu the Red Lion being to all appcarnnces without its usual evening patrons. Perhaps after all? A heavy hand on her shoulders brought her to her feet. The silence was broken by angry mutterings? the stretch of waste peopled with shadowy forms pressing aggressively about her. She swallowed convulsively, and her captor, mistaking the motion tor an eitort to speak, growled brutally: "No palaver, boy! You're guilty all right! Clancy, here, saw you running his horse off! Ain't that right, Clancy?" Clancy muttered a gruff confirmation. "You hear?that settles it! Come along?we make short work of horse thieves out here!" She was hustled under a tree?her hands tied?a rope slip-noosed around her neck. As the rope's end>swished upward to encircle a stout branch a quivering shudder shook her; then she set her teeth determinedly?no weakness on her part should show them their mistake. It would soon be over and?well, her feet were already treading the thither slope, but fnr hpr bov life was iust hpsinninsr So? A lithe form shot out of the darkness, a boy's shrill voice screamed: "Stop?you cowards! You are hanging a woman! Oh, mother!" He threw aside the man holding the rope, catching her as she fell fainting. "She left me asleep," he panted, "and drew you away from the mountain to save me! She'd have died for me, too?if I hadn't got here just as I did! But remember?if this kills her every one of you look out, you brutes!" Shamed into silence they watched him working frantically ove* the un | conscious woman, then as she stirred I feebly some one muttered sullenly: "Get her home?I'll help ye! But mind, we ain't through with?" "Hands up!" ^he sharp command sent every hand into the air. The newcomer swung around in front of the huddled group?smiling down at them , sardonically from the back of a powerful gray horse. It was Jake Morley, the most notorious horse thief in the country. "It ain't the boy you want," he j jeered. "You want me?and this! horse I'm riding! Well, we're yours j ?when you catch us!" He whirled like a flash, and under j the prick of spurs the gray horse j thundered out of sight before a single ; man could draw his weapon. As the raging crowd scattered in | futile pursuit the boy cried: "Mother, why did you do it? Oh, why did you?" "Listen!" covering his lips with ^ her hand. ^ And from the Red Lion there drifted through the darkness: "Search, if you will, the wide world ! through? You'll find no love like the mother love. . b And never a heart so true!" | 3 "The 'mother love'?that's why!"!** she whispered.?Boston Post, LUL'KI (iLUlt'USlUtv axvui iiiv. i s Never at Loss For Good Fishermen to ! ? Ship With Him. ^ We inland people knowing the sea o only as a source of amusement or pleasure, a thing in which to bathe or on which to sail or as a beautiful view, often fail to realize that a con- ti siderable population in the eastern a part of our State view that magnifi- I t cent body of water solely with a busi- i c ness eye. The sea has fish, and from | the earliest days of the colony the j fishing industry has been an important one. . i Boston and Gloucester are the j T headquarters of fishing, but the latter j j city, largely because it is wholly given | j up to the business, is popularly con- 0 sldered the fishing town of the United e States. On one day recently eleven a vessels came into Gloucester with 262,000 pounds of fish, and on the same day eighteen vessels arrived at Boston with 1,000,000 pounds. On j this day. too. ten vessels left Glouces- j ter for haddock and halibut. Just now tho interest among the fishermen is in the mackerel fleet. Sol Jacobs, the veteran Gloucester | skipper, several days ago brought into j Fortress Monroe, Va., the first mack- j erel of the season and thereby ob- i tained one of the coveted honors of j the season. Thir.ty-eight sloops and schooners are now planning to join the fleet from Boston and Gloucester. All summer they will chase the elu- j sive mackerel up the coast as far as | I Nova Scotia. j t Gloucester papers keep a close tab j *! on the catch that each vessel brings ' y in, and the captain who gets the . F greatest amount for the season is j * "high line" and the fact is prominent- j ^ ly recorded. A skipper who shows up ; ^ well in the list year after year is j a never at a loss for good fishermen to E ship with him, and some keep the same crew year after year. The fishermen share in the fares. and to sail with a clever captain, one I who can find the fish, is financially de- I sirable. There is much said about the j r heroism of the fishermen, and they are I a indeed a courageous lot. But they j e take their work as do a fire fighter i a or a policemc.^ or a railroad man, and j s they .themselves make no claims to d the qualities given them by their j I friends. j I Some are Nova Scotian youths who j come from Cape Breton farms settled i by their Scotch ancestors years ago, j and when the fishing season is over i c they go back home with more ready t money in their pockets than they would see in years if they stuck to q the farms.?Springfield Republican. t a Horse Sympathy. \ A chauffeur whose first love is j d horses even if he is now wedded to J i an automobile made his appearance j <2 on Seventh avenue on a scorching ! c afternoon. A string of automobiles r stood in the shade of a big hotel. Presently a delivery wagon was added to the row of vehicles, but the ; shadows were not wide enough to j, shelter it, too, and the horse stood | r panting and trembling in the broiling i j sun. The driver of the machine that j ^ stood just behind the delivery wagon i alighted and patted the horse's ' t sweaty flank. { g "You poor old fellow," he said, I "it's a confounded shame, isn't it?" j ? Then in the absence of the horse's j driver he undertook to remedy the ^ shame himself. His own machine was run a little way from its position t at the curb, the horse was backed T into the shade and the automobile j g took its place in the sunshine. It is ' not recorded that thereafter anyone ^ expressed sympathy for the automo- t bile.?New York Times. P Lnnch on Wheels. ^ "New to me," said a traveler late- i ly returnsd from his, first trip in the l South, "v. as the lunch table on wheels i that they push alongside the trains e there for the convenience of passen- c gers in the cars. We saw one of these at a station in North Carolina, j Table, maybe four feet long by two j feet wide, built rather high and set : t upon wneexs Dig enougn so tnat tne | c table could be moved about on them ^ easily. Sort of a two story table j ^ this, tho lower story being practically s a long, broad shelf underneath, on | a which they keep supplies from which j j to replenish the things on sale? ! j oranges, bananas, sandwiches and so j ^ on. At a station where there is no j t dining room or where the train i j doesn't stop long they roll this table j along at the side of the cars; the j, table top is high enough for passen- j gers to reach the things on it from j. the car windows."?New York Suu. t t Sounded Familiar. g Sunday-School Teacher?"Now tell r me about Noah and the beasts." t Tommy?"Aw. that's another of L them stories the Bront Zoo hands oat I fer de Monday papers."?New York t Times. i \ iris? New Linens. Among" the new linens are those rith the crepe effects and the wide iagonal stripes in self tones. Basket reaves, too, are as popular as they re effective. White and Blue. White upper bodices are worn with lue, red, pink and apple green linen kirts, and ecru and bronze upper odices are worn with brown, tan and ven black skirts. Velvet Flowers. Large velvet flowers, especially uch blossoms as daisies and other at-petalled blooms, are chic. Often hese are in blues or greens instead f the natural color. Hatpins. Hatpins are provided with "progge-points" often as large and ornate s the hatpin head itself. Frequently hey are the same as the head or orrespond in design. Fashion's Little Demand. All that is demanded by fashion is hat whatever you do shall be done irell. The very smartest of the French frocks have an aid of simplicity, though the simplicity of line is ften the result of consummate art ,nd is offset by subtlety of material nd color associations. Manhattan Shrimps.a5 chafing-dish let me suggi .2" ? Merritt Farmer, in Won ^ A, J tablespoonful of butter, OS C i stir until well blended; C9 I. ?? ring constantly, one-half ? g 'i of a cupful of stewed a: +1* *" [ tew grains of soda.. Bri] 5 i cupful of finely-cut chees ? Ano_Vieads and crystal all in gold, the phole dress being covered with it. ["here is a wonderful salmon-color hat almost takes the breath away, ,nd there is a so-called emerald .that vould "kill" the true stone quite lead. Another sequin is called grass;reen, but if any meadow were to Ion such a tint the cows would deline to enter it, and would certainly etreat in much confusion. Spanish Queen's Fancies. The pretty young Spanish Queen las inaugurated a new fashion in nanicuring. She lets the nails grow onger than the finger tips. They are ery long and quite rounding. Very iften they are actually way beyond he ends of the fingers, so that they how white and glistening. This is ne of the new fads. Let the nails ;row very long, but do not cut them lointed. Let them curve in a lovely ielicate rounding shape. It is said that the young Queen akes milk baths. She has the soft yhite, Irish skin and, like the pretty ;irls of the Emerald Isle, she takes nilk baths. She washes her face laily in milk, skimmed and allowed o become slightly acid. This lied to skin, after it has been washed n hot water, and it is allowed to dry in. It soaks into the skin and when t has penetrated the pores it is lighty washed off with cold water. There s nothing in all the world that whitins and softens the skin like this ourse of treatment.?Brooklyn Eagle. \ ?? Difficult Task For Management. "Shoplifters are one of our most roublesome worries," said the head if a big department store the other lay, "and they are becoming more lifficult to deal with every day. It is imple enough when we merely have , professional. The chances are she - ?on ci^q cofa fnnf b rtXU^HUUU US SUUU US Olig A.WV/W n the store, and one of our women letectlves is detailed to keep watch intil she 'catches her with the goods,' ailing which the unwelcome visitor s called aside quietly, informed that ier record is known and asked to feave. The real trouble comes when >oaa fide customers yield to the tempation to picking up a few unconsidired trifles, or, as has been a conipicuously favorite trick during the ecent holiday rush, 'accidentally' akes up some one else's shopping >ag or parcel and walks off with it. f we make any fuss we are liable o suits for all sorts of damages or libel and false arrest, and aa a qJ ( ?~~:p WOMAN'sl REALM j -. i0% rule, even when we are morally convinced the mistake was a part of a deliberate theft we are glad enough to let It drop with the recovery of the property. But you cannot help having your own opinion when the same woman is caught making the same mistake two or three times In a month or so." Two Women's Success. This is a short story, but a true one. Once upon a time there were two young women living in a small town in Ohio, and th&y felt the great impulse that comes to all young people to go out inl:o the world and make a name and reputation for themselves. So they packed their trunks with the consent of their parents and came to New York, one to become an artist and the other a trained nurse. But after looking the field over they found they could make more money in other ways. So one of them opened a small tea room. She had an original plan ?such an original plan that in a short time she had thousands of women asking for card entitling them to the privilege of lunching in that tea room. Shortly after this the second young woman came to the first and talked thing3 over, and they packed their trunks and went to Europe. While there they visited the notable tea rooms on the Continent and in th British Isles. Then they came back home and opened a tea room togeth ?For those who enjoy using the sst Manhattan shrimps, says Fannie aan's Home Companion. Melt one add one tableBpoonful of flour and then pour on gradually, while stircupful of thin cream and one-third nd strained tomatoes mixed with a ig to the boiling point and add one se, one egg slightly beaten, and one canned shrimps broken In pieces, t, mustard and cayenne, and serve of cheese have entirely melted. er. This was so successful that they very soon opened another one, and shortly after that a third and a fourth, and still people clamored al their doors. Then a retail organization heard about these young women. It went to them and asked them to open one ol their famous tea rooms in a store, and after some consideration the young women decided they would do it. These two women are to-day man aging ims new tea ruuui. it 10 uuc ui the coolest and most, attractive spots in New York in which to take lunch, and'nowhere in the city is the cooking better or the service more prompt nor the atmosphere quieter than in this tea room. Nowhere is a daintier luncheon served, nowhere is genuine home cooking better done. They have brought to bear their feminine taste, their delightful experience in the Old World, and their curious American , power to focus on business, which if rapidly developing in our better class of women, in the making of this t.ea room.?New York Times. Sheer linens are as good and quite as correct for the washable guimpe as are the eyelet embroideries. A scarlet patent leather belt and a tie of scarlet worn with a plain white tailored waist and a white linen skirl will be one of the season's fads. Persian silk covered cord put on in braid patterns is one of the uses of the many colored silks that are here this season in such brilliant array. One of the smartest fixings for the shirt waist is the Persian trimmed silk Ascot or bow. There is no end to the schemes to which it lends itself. Buttons are made of silver these days and inlaid with little spots of bright enamel. Two or three of these take the place of a dozen of any other sortClerical collars?the ones buttoning at the back, with shaped turnovers embroidered in white with a touch of color?are among the popu lar trifles. Striped materials, especially in the popular combination of black and white, gray and white and blue and black, come next in favor to the coindotted fabrics. Soutache braiding combined with embroidery, using heavy silk, makes a more striking garniture than allsilk embroidery. This is yet a favorit? decoration. Wide etamine ribbons, all cotton, but printed in chic Egyptian and Persian designs and colorings, are in demand for scarfs for panama and other outing hats. The most popular ribbon rosette i9 made from half-inch double-faced satin ribbons, made into a number of knotted groups. Five yards are needed for each rosette. T^he Charlotte Corday is fast gainins in favor in the lace lingerie hats. Lace is used over a colored silk lining, and a bunch of flowers or a rose made of ribbon is the trimming. A novelty in the binding of hats ig to take a ribbon about three inches wide, gather at each edge, and draw up to fit over the brim edge as wide on the lower as on the upper side. Persian and other Oriental effects are leaders of the moment in ribbon designs and colorings, and are extremely effective when combined with 1 plain fabrics or other plain ribbons. ' ~ * JAP QUICK AT FIGURES. ? Using an Abacus, He Beat Bank Clerk With Ailing Machine. At a meeting of the Tacoma chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks the other night a Japanese clerk, using a "saroban," "put it all over" a Tacoma bank clerk using a modern adding machine in casting up a long column of figures. The Japanese, with his "saroban," did the arithmetical "stunt" in thirty seconds, while the bank clerk, with his modern adding machine, took fifty-four seconds to obtain a total, and afterward it was found the clerk or the modern adding machine had made an error, while the Japawse with his little abacus or "saroban" obtained the correct result the first time. In another test the Japanese might make an error, as did the bank i clerk. However, it Is significant that the Japanese did not err and that he obtained a correct result far more quickly, though he used an ancient arithmetical device. The Japanese that won the contest in adding was once a clerk In a bank at Osaka, Japan. He disclaims being an expert in adding, and says many ! Japanese are much faster on the "saroban" than he. The little old fashj ioned adding machine used by the Japanese is wnat we cau an auauue. Years ago in our public school rooms the abacus used to hang on the wall, and it was sometimes used in the study of arithmetic. It is not used much nowadays, though it would appear from the speed and accuracy of the Japanese that it might be employed with good results. The abacus in use in China is j known as the swan pan. The Chinese I are also rapid calculators. The abacus is a very simple device when compared with the modern adding machine. It is probable that it requires more practice and more arithmetical ability to get correct results from an abacus than are required with the modern adding machine. The abacus is very ancient. It was used by the Egyptians and Greeks in a form similar to that now used in Japan, China, Arabia and Russia. The word is traced through the Greek to a word meaning "dust." It is said that dust was spread upon board and that numerals were inscribed in the dust. In early times the Greeks used such a board, and it is supposed that geometry as well as arithmetic was tauj^t with the use of that kind of an abacus. Later an abacus was developed in which beads slid on wire or in grooves, the beads having a value de J' nnliimn TMq WRS I pending upuu tutULUU. . ?.w probably like the abacus now used in I Japan and China. The word "calculate" is traced to a Greek word mean* ing pebble. It is supposed that pebbles were used in the early abacus. The victory of the Tacoma Japanese with his "saroban" over one of our bank clerks with a modern adding machine is not an exceptional instance. A few months ago, when the Japanese commercial commissioners I visited the United States, a contest was held in which a Japanese came out ahead in a calculation contest in which he used an abacus.?Tacoma Ledger. . ? A Hard Heart. An itinerant preacher preached to I a cowboy audience on the "Prodigal Son." He described the foolish prodi igal's extravagance and dissipation? he described his penury and his huskeating with the swine In the sty; he described his return, his father's loving welcome, the rejoicing and the preparation of the fatted calf. The preacher in his discourse noticed a cowboy staring at him very hard. He thought he had made a -* -J -a?onmhnv convert, ana auuiesomg ws .. ? personally, he said from the pulpit: "My dear friend, what would tyou have done if you had had a prodigal son returning home like that?" "Me?" said the cowboy, promptly and fiercely, "I'd have shot the boy and raised the calf."?Detroit Free j Press. Cutting Sarcasm. "Mother's compliments," said a I youngster to a butcher who keeps a I shop in a busy, suburban thorough- j I fare, "and she's sent me to show you ! j the big bone brought with the piece J j of beef this morning." "Tell your mother next time I kills j a bullock without bones in it I'll I make her a present of a joint," said the man of meat, with a grin. "Mother's compliments," continued the boy, "and she says next time you find a bit of sirloin with a shoulder of mutton bone in it she'd like to I nrViolo r>nrr>?ss as a CuHoSity." ?Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Flexner on Whiskers. Dr. Simon Flexner, chief of the Rockefeller Institute, referred, at a dinner in Philadelphia, to the increasing number of clean-shaven doctors. "It is cleaner, safer, to be clean shaven," he said. "Certainly, as fat as physicians are concerned, there i was more truth than poetry in the dia-1 logue of the two little boys on the street corner. " 'Don't you hate to have your face washed?' said the first little boy. "'Oh, don't I, though!' the other answered. 'You bet, when I grow up I'll wear full whiskers.'" ? Detroit Free Press. The Farmer's Feast. A farmer who was taking his first j Ions trip on a railroad train found i himself getting hungry. The train j boy came through and, after some ef- | fort, sold the farmer three bananas j for ten cents. The farmer peeled the bananas. , ? ^ ? ?=? 1 Vv/* I tlirew away me, lruit auu ate mo skins. Presently the boyenmo back. "Want some more bananas?" lie asked. "No, I guess not." "Why, wasn't they good?" "Oh, good's common, suppose: but j they's too blamed much cob about ! them."?Saturday Evening Post A. Softened Expression. "Father." said the small boy, "what is a 'euphemism'?" "It is something, my son, that enables a man to say he is a free lance instead of admitting that be is out (4 a job."?Washington Star. All starlings have a very peculiar formation at the extremity of the tongue, which gives the appearance of a piece having been nipped out of it. This fact gave rise to the mistaken idea that a starling's tongue must be cut before it can be taught to speak.?Scientific American. It is reported that the Lehigh Valley Railroad will soon put in service a dining car which is practically germ-proof. The usual ginger-bread carvings, moldings and hangings will be dispensed with. The woodwork will be of smooth finished mahogany, so that a microbe, according to the superintendent of the road, "would slip off and break its neck."?Scientific American. The War Department has considered the advisability of immunizing soldiers against typhoid fever by vaccination. It has decided that inoculation as a preventive against typhoid has been so thoroughly demonstrated in foreign countries and its efficacy so well established that the vaccination method is to be adopted in the United States army. ? Scientific American. Cornish miners of half a century ago sought for what are known as simple ores and threw aside the complex ones as refractory. Ia this way they found uranium ore and sent it to the smelters as "black copper," only to have it returned to them ae rubbish, and so some 40,000 tons of ore containing perhaps ten per cent, of pitchblende estimated to be worth $2.60 a pound, has been found dumped at the, head of the Wheal Trenwith mine near St. Ives.?Scientific American. The use of the telephone for train dispatching on electric roads is becoming very common. The various systems employed were discussed in a recent paper by Frank W. Fowle. The relative advantage of stationary and portable telephone sets was considered, with the arguments favoring the former. The objection to the latter being that at night it is difficult tn mniro thft connection with the wires by means of the so-called "flshpole," without coming in contact with line wires.?Scientific American. A prize offered by a German society of manufacturing chemists for a method of removing arseniureted hydrogen from crude hydrogen gas has been awarded to O. Wentzki for the following process: The impure hydrogen is caused to flow through a cylinder filled with a mixture of two parts of dry chloride of lime and one part of moist sand or any similar inert material. The cylinder should be vertical and the gas should be admitted at the bottom, immediately above which it is advisable to place a piece of fine wire netting. The cylinder should have about one-third the capacity of the hydrogen generator. >?Scientific American. JUDGE BREWER'S TALE 5 S ON TOLERANCE. 5 ? ? ta The late Justice Brewer was noted for his tolerant and broad minded views. A Washington diplomat rer.ollnrJ *ViQ nfhor rinv ? storv told by Justice Brewer in illustration of the need for tolerance. "We should respect the views of others"?so the story ran?"for morality itself is only a matter of~ environment. "A missionary in the South Seas was distressed because his dusky parishioners were nude. He decided tc try delicately to get them to wear at least a little clothing, and to this end he left a great many pieces of scarlet and green and yellow calico lying I about his hut. ; "An elderly dame called one afteri noon for spiritual advice. The missionary noted how enviously her eyes ^ rested on the calico, and he took up a two yard piece of the yellow, saying: " 'I'll give you this if you'll weai it.' "The female draped the calico about her like a skirt and departed ir great glee. "But the next day, nude, as before, she returned with the fabric undei her arm. Handing it sadly to the missionary, she said: " 'Me no can wear it, missy. Mf too shy.' "?Washington Post. Eureka. Eureka, or, rather, Heureka, is the exclamation of Archimedes, the Syracusan philosopher, when he found oul how to test the purity of Hiero's crown. The tale is that Hiero suspected that a craftsman to whom he had given a certain weight of gold to make into a crown had alloyed the metal, and he asked Archimedes to ascertaiD if his suspicion was well founded. The philosopher, getting into his bath, observed that the water ran over, and it flashed into his mind that his body displaced its own bulk in water. Now, suppose Hiero gave the goldsmith one pound of pure gold, and the crown weighed one pound, it is manifest that if the crown were pure gold both ought to displace the same quantity of water; but they did not do so, and therefore the gold had been tampered with. Archimedes next immersed in water one pound cf silver, and the difference of water displaced soon eave the cluc to the amount of alloy introduced by the artificer.?New York American. Bacteria. Not long since it was announced that Regnault had discovered bacteria in coal. Continuing his researches he found evidence that bacteria were probably coeval with the first appearance of organic life on the earth. They attacked vegetable tissues, as well as the bones and teeth of animals, but as a rule they belonged to species distinct from the bacteria of to-day.?Philadelphia Record. WANTS HER LETTER < PUBLISHED For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ids ' Minneapolis, Minn.?"I was a great sufferer from female troubles which ? caused a weakness ..gglgV. and broken down condition of tho MM system. I read so ::BW TWijiii much of what Lydia Im <5^ WB E. Pinkham's Veg. IpS u J$pi etable Compound llifk iii had done for othei P ZJIil suffering women 1 - felt sure it would: help me, and I must Win say it did help me . \4%yi- \ T wonderfully. My I . '\ V * > pains all left me, 1 i mrew stronger. and within three months 1 was a perfectly well woman. "I want this letter made public to show the benefit women may derive from Lydia E. 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The cus-i torn was originated by a French j judge in the seventeenth . century I nrk/\n VinnnAninry fA A nn Q TT1Q mil Ifl' vr ucu, uappcuatg tu uuu ? ? wig one day, he found it gave him - 9 such a stern and dignified appearance I that he decided to get one for himself I and wear It at all times in court. B This he did, and the result was so 9 satisfactory from a legal point of ; H view, that not only judges, but bar- B risters, also took up the custom B throughout Europe, r . IS The Dentist's Joke. H At a recent dinner of the Authors' r Em club In London to Mr. Owen Seaman, H the editor of PunCh, Mr. Walter H Emanuel, another member of the s&ff H of Punch, referred to the fact that tile flg man with the largest sense of humor - 9 he had ever struck was an Englishman H ?a dentist. He went to him after suf- Kg fering long with a toothache. 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