Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Moraine Glories for the Window!. Nothing can surpass Japanese morn ing glories for a sunny window. Last year from a small paper of seeds cost ing 10 cents the vines grew luxuriant ly and produced large, lovely flowers which were a delight until frost The blossoms were very abundant and of mammoth size, white, red, royal pur ple, bhie, brick red in solid color, red blue and purple edged with white, etc They were given the same care ad the common varieties but surpassed thora wonderfully in growth of vines and beauty and sire of bloBm. The vines were trained on strings to the top of the window casings and then kept clipped and not allowed to grow higher.-The Epitomlst Good Thine? for Fowl?. Turpentine is good for bruises, in flammations, worms and broken limbs. Tincture of iron is good for chick enpox, sore head and ulcers of all kinda. Chlorate of potash ls good for any throat trouble. Bicarbonate of soda is good for in digestion. Camphor is good for gapes in young chlcki Carbolic acid Is good for disinfect ing. The above things are all useful in the poultry house, and while healthy fowls need no medicine, still accidents may' happen at any.time, and it is Well to have remedies-at hand. Common sense treatment will do more to keep the fowls healthy ban an the physic in the world.-Home and Farm. Work After Harvest. At the close of the fruiting season thoroughly cultivate the ground be tween the rows of strawberries with a small-toothed cultivator. In the rows and about the hills the hoe and spading fork must be used to stir the ground and destroy weeds and grass. The plants should be thinned so as to stand at least six inches apart, if the soil needs fertilizing this should be applied broadcast before the cul tivator ls started. Blackberries and raspberries should I -ve the stalks which produced fruit cut out and the new stalks thinned to the proper number in the hill. If the terminal was not pinched out of the growing stalks earlier in the sea son the top should be cut back to about 30 inches high. Gather all the brush where it can be piled and burned, which will destroy many in sects and fungi. Currants and gooseberries close their fruiting season a little later than the strawberry, blackberry or rasp berry. At the close of their fruiting season all wood that has borne two or three crops should be cut out and the young stalks thinned to five or six. If the plants are crowded too close, three to five stalks will be enough to Insure a good crop. The cultivator should be started to give a thorough stirring of the surface, following with hoe and fork between the hills, and continuing the cultivating up to the middle or last of August. If the sea son ls dry the cultivator may be kept going at Intervals of six or eight days. Currants and goo3eber.ies delight in a loamy, rich soil wLb a damp, but not wet. subsoil. There is no better means of securing this than by apply ing a liberal dressing of stable manuer at the commencement of winter." This is applicable to all small fruits.-S. BL Luxton, in New England Home stead. Growing Pota* oos Under Straw. I prepare the ground as for ordinary cultivation. Let the soil get well warmed before planting, say from the middle of May to June 1. Plant in drills, 24 Inches between rows, drop pieces 12 Inches apart and cover with two Inches of soil Apply the straw as the potatoes are coming through the ground, if some are two or three inches high they will all find the sur face. Cover six to eight inches deep With straw, which will settle to three or four inches with the first ra4n. Too much straw is ruinous most seasons, the ground is kept too wet and cold and the potatoes come up weaklings. Just enough straw should be used to retain moisture and smother weeds. One rain after the straw is applied is sufficient to secure a good crop. Be careful to select a well drained, rather light soil if possible. A wet heavy soil is not desirable. Most tubers will form at the sur face, none deeper than two inches be low surface of ground. In digging throw straw off two rows at a time and scoop out each hill with a single stroke with a potato or common five uned manure fork. One man last year dug and crated 50 bushels a day. Beetles seldom attack potatoes under straw very seriously. I have grown po tatoes under straw every year for nearly 25 years and only record two or three failures. Last season the yield was 400 bushels per acre of fine smooth tubera A single vine- produced 17 tubers, 15 of which were marketable and weigned 7.25 pounds. Two vines produced 12.25 pounds. Potatoes weighing 1.5 to 2 pounds were quite common. Potatoes grown this way never take the second growth, which Is always deleterious to the eating Quality, and unless a very wet season are of excellent quality, both in ap pearance and for the table.-J. B. Kel ler, in American Agriculturist Hegfect In the Flower Garden. A little wholesome neglect is as good for the flower garden as It is for a family of children, provided always that there te just enough of it In the perpetual borders, if I may call th^m to, where the dear old favorites have then* permanent home, undisturbed from year to year, a kindly, benefi cent rule seems to take possession that favors the domestic gardener who has abundant love, but scant leisure. The Idle youth, reminded of the old saw about the early bird that catches the worm, retorted: "Serve the worm right He's no business to be out so early." Somewhat on the same prin ciple, the weeds that are let alone may turn out to be flowers. Hurrying out recently to look at my sweet williams, now almost ready to flower, I found no weeds, but a thick mas? of young plants surrounding the clumps, a sufficient colony to estab lish a fine large bed in a new place. Some one in these columns remarked. recently upon a so-called professional gardener who had assumed charge of a place and called in a friend to idenf 1 fy an unknown flower, which proved to be the sturdy sweet william, lt is among th coe somewhat homely yet al ways pleasing and reliable perennials that d?jerve a good corner in every g?rten that has space for a little free dom. This habit of self-seedins: gives the easiest possible means of enlarging one's stook and perhaps sharing with our frienda Tb make lt successful all that ls necessary is to kee*. Jie soil free from objectionable growth throughout the season, so that it may be stocked with no vile seeds, and then to practice a little wholesome neglect Nature then works in her own sweet way and reproduces her kind. All the hardy summer pinks increase rapidly in ihii fashion, as well as th'.? colum bine, larkspur, Canterbury bell and a score of others. Marigolds, mallows, popples and the like will fill any inch" of unstirred room. A hardy dark co leus. ,a hardy verbena and a "dusty miller," as volunteers almost deserve ?hp ill name of wer-ds, they are so ag gressive In certain gardens. I hare found vigorous young hollyhocks growing in the paths, but that is go a little too far. However, let all of us who are con scious of importunate hindrances and enforced tardiness in caring for our gardens take tUs comfort to our hearts, that ?ho universe is full of com pensations, and even nesrlr-ct has tts solid advantages.--The Country Gen tleman. Hay and Pasture Gras*. Hay is perhaps the "most importtint article of food for live stocV >n tho farm,- and grass ,is said to be the "foundation of farming." The grass crop may not be as valuable as corn, but it is an article of food for which no substitute can be found, as it gives bulk and quality to the rations, both in the green condition and when cured-as hay. There are many excel lent and nutritious grasses known, and which can be used by the farmer, but he confines himself to but two or three. Clover and timothy are the grasses mostly used "for hay (clover not really belonging to the grass fam ily), and with all that may be said in its favor there are many grasses superior to timothy. Custom, however has given timothy a prominent place on the farm, and which it will holli for a long time. But although tim? otny and clover are grown on the same land, as a mixed crop, yet they do not ripen together, and are conse quently not suitable for each other and for producing mixed hay of the highest quality, for If the clover be comes too iipe it will contain a large proportion of woody fibre, while If the clover is cut before the timothy is ripe the latter will not be as nu tritious as when fully matured. Or chard grass, which is disliked by many because lt "stools," comes Into blossom at the same time as clover, and will grow on light or heavy soil. It will also stand drought better than timothy and will give successive cut tings. Timothy is also low In nutri tious matter compared with some grasses, and its place can be filled by some otb er grasses without risk of loss. Pasture grass should be for pas ture only, and not for mowing for hay. If ?i pasture can supply the stock in summer it should not be re quired to do more. Another reason why the hay crop should be separate from the pasture product is that tho pasture should contain as many va rieties of grass as possible, some of the best kinds hot being profitable if mowed, as they do not gro^ to suffi cient height for being cured as hay. Pasture grass should be short, be cause the animals will prefer it so, as they can then better select the kinds prepared. The young and tender grass, that is but a lew inches high, is always more highly relished than any other, and if a pasture is to be occu pied by the stock they will keep tho grass down. No farmer, therefore, should expect a crop of hay from his pasture land. The meadow is also de pended upon for producing the hay crop, but the meadow is also given up j to the animals at times. The point j is not to take advantage of the meadow, but to make it better, by in creasing the variety cf grasses. A va riety having some fault should not be condemned if it also has merit Orchard grass comes early in spring, it will remain for several years, and it thrives where some grasses should not exist. Herd's grass is excellent on meadow^ land that is somewhat moist, its running roots soon forming a thick and permanent sod. Blue grass can be made to thrive on a great many soils, but prefers lime stone land, and it is a grass that gives the best late pasturage, but it should not be grazed too closely early in the season. Adapt the grasses to the soil if possible. There are a great many kinds of hay crops that need not be mixed in the fields, as they can be mixed in the feed box when cutting the feed for stock in winter.*". Clover is the main 'jay crop, but such, a crop as Hunga rian grass, which grows in the sum mer, and in a short time, will add largely to the supply of hay, and ex periments made show that cow peas and oats, cut when not to~- ripe, will give good yields of hay that may per haps be better than clover in some respects. One of the most valuable crops, ic proportion to cost, is cow peas and corn. Plant the corn In rows and plant the cow peas In the same rows, but between the corn hills, the corn being one foot apart in the roows. Cultivate one way, and allow the pea vines to grow upon the corn. It. may be mentioned that it is not too late now to grow such a mixed crop, as it may be harvested at any time. It adds variety of ensilage and the ensilage will be more nutritious and also more highly relished by stock in ; winter than If the ensilage ls made ex clusively of corn. But the farmer should study grasses and hay crops, for there are kinds that thrive on rich soils only, while others will grow on sandy soils, damp soils, medium soils, etc., and if they cannot be grown to gether they can be grown on different fields. The greater the variety the less the liability of loss during dry seasons, as some hay crops will give good results when others fail under the same conditions.-Philadelphia Record. Sovereign or Greater Britain. It appears to be in 'contemplation to give King Edward a title more wor thy of his actual position than that of king, and the one that seems to find most favor In the discussion is "Sov ereign of Greater Britain." Thia would* give him distinction over all the other rulers of the earth, since it would raise an indefinite title to a position of commanding definiteness, as the addition of "the" to an Irish name marks the head of the house; when allusion was made, to "the sov ereign" it would be. understood that the Sovereign of Greater Britain alone was meant How the other sovereigns would take such an assumption cf su periority remains to be seen.-Phila delphia Ledger. . The huckster may stick to one oc cupation and still be a man of many callings. HOW MOLES OPERATE. WHEN A WALL IS IN HIS WAY, HE COE3 OVER IT. Makes Life Miserable for the Gardener In a Most Provoking Way - Ha? Both Eyeg and Ear?-Hit Curious Semi-ll u inau Hamil?-Get? Out of Sicht Quickly. Of all the animals which assist in making life miserable for the gardener perhaps the mole is the most provok ing. Just as a certain bed of choice seeds has been worked into perfect condition, the mole, which may not have been near the garden for a month comes back as though by special ap pointment, and plows that bed from end to end. Back and forth he works, through the loose soil, close to the sur face, heaving up a little ridge of earth wherever he goes. He- rapidly des troys the bed. uiough that is not at all his object in coming. He is really out rm a hunting expedition; he is hunting for earth worms, slugs, grubs and in sects which live in the ground and on which he depends for iood. When he has finished his meal he leaves the bed, and pushes through the turf of the lawn until he reaches the garden wall perhaps. This proves a little too hard for him to plow through, so he comes out into the open, runs at quite a fair speed across the walk, and then burrows into the turf again on the opposite side. He probably does this at night, and next day the seeds which he turned up during his hunt through the bed will die. If the sun is hot they will be baked in the lossened earth, or, if it rains, they will probably be washed away. When the gardener discovers the damage, he will stride about the lawn, stamping in the loose turf with his heel, and we can hardly blame him, if, under his breath, he says some very unpleasant things about the mole. Then he will probably set a mole-trap in the hope that his little enemy will come that way again. And there he may have another disappointment, for the mole is quite as apt to stay away until a nice line of young peas or car rots has begun to show above the "ground. Then, some night, after a shower of rain has softened the soil, he will suddenly return, uproot the line from one end to the other, and disappear as before. But if, as sometimes Happens, he re turns along one of his old tunnels, he will probably meet his death. At one point along the route he finds the roof of the burrow crushed down some what, and he has to give an extra heave to force his body through. That heave presses on the platform of a mole trap and releases a number of sharp-pointed iron prongs which, driven by a powerful spring behind them, pass through the body of the mole. When the gardener comes along and lifts from the soil the limp body, around which the ants have a Iready gathered, it will be seen what a curi ous little creature the mole is. From the tip of his nose to the root of his tail he measures something less than six inches, and his total length is in creased by a rather short straight tall, sparsely covered with short hairs. His body is covered with a beautiful, solft, lustrous fur, which may look any one of a number of colors, according to the light in which you see it In one light it will appear dark brown, and in others black, dark silver-gray, or pur ple, possibly, and perhaps the most astonishing thing about it is the fact that an animal living in the soil should be able to keep his coat so beautifully clean and bright In front, the body terminates in a naked, cartil aginous snout, on the upper surface of which, close together, are two oblong nostrils. The snout ls very flexible so much so, in fact, that the animal sometimes twists it around and puts it into his mouth, from which he after wards withdraws lt with a "pop" re sembling the sound which might be made in drawing a miniature cork. I don't why he does this, unless it be to wipe the soil off his nose. When his mouth is opened, it will be seen that it is full of little teeth of several sizes and shapes, and that it somewhat re sembles the mouth of a diminutive Pig. At the first glance one would say that he had neither eyes nor ears, but buried deep in the fur are two little shining black dots, which are doubt less big enough for anything he ever requires to see, and about three quar ters of an inch behind them are two very small round holes which lead to the ears. His forearms are hidden by the skin; his curious, semi-human hands alone being visible. The fingers are united, forming broad, leathery plams, which in life are flesh-colored. They are armed with large, slightly curved nails and are excellent tools for digging with. The hind feet arc small and slender, naked on the under sur face, and clothed with fine, short hair on the upper surface Wnen the mole wishes to enter the ground he brings the back of his flat hands together in front of his nose, and, digging them into the ear?h, makes a stroke just as a man does when he Is swimming. He repeats the stroke again and again until he is soon out of sight below the surface. As he goes through the earth, he twists his head from one side to the other, and up and down, searching for earth worms and other daint'~s. of which he eats great numbers in the course of twenty-four hours. When he finds an earthworm he seizes it with the outer surface of his forepaws, and crams it into his mouth, bit by bit, munching all the while, like a greedy boy eating a banana. When he ls fed in captivity the crunching on the gritty particles in the bodies of the worms can be neard at a distance of several yards. When In his burrow a mole can move backward almost as fast as he caji move forward, and when for any reason he moves over the surface of the ground, he runs on the edges of his front paws, with the backs of the lat ter toward each other. It is difficult to believe how quickly a mole can work his way into the earth, unless one has actually watched and timed him. Last spring a kind neighbor sent me word that her gar dener had, with great trouble, caught a mole which had been playing havoc In the garden, and asked if I did not wish to come over and examine it I accepted the Invitation, and, finding the mole an unusually fine specimen, I at once began taking notes on the speed with which he could bury him self. The flower beds were well cul tivated and soft from recent rain, and at the first attempt Mr. Mole was out of sight in five seconds. Just as his tail was disappearing I caught hold of lt and pulled him out. to give him another trial. At the next attempt he was gone In little over three seconds, and again I pulled him out. to see if he could better this splendid record. He did not try it again at once, but ran about, as though searching for a particularly likely spot. At last he found it, and down went his front paws, with his long snout b?^/'JJ them. I could see that he wasgoingt to break the record, and just as his tail was going into the earth I put out ny hand lo seize it. But, alas! my finger? closed on the air; my friend the mof? had struck right into one of his old burrows, and my kind neighbor has not spoken to me since.-Ernest Har old Baynes, in Hartford Times. <?i HARNESSING J JVE'S BOLTS. Protection Ag-Unat Lightning: Still a Kiek fur InvtMitom. A severe electrical storm visitet St. Louis last week and a consider able property damage resulted, while several persons were more or less seriously injured. In recent years St Louis seems to have become a favop ite target for Jove's missiles, and the? frequent repetition of such disasters, has moved the Post-Dispatch to re-j mark that it is time some steps were taken toward the possibility of con trolling the discharges from the artil lery of heaven. Our contemporary, suggests that 150 years ago. Franklin showed that lightning was nothing more than untrapped electricity, and that since that time no progress has" been made on the lines which he started. It is argued that if Frank lin, with his primitive apparatus, could harness the lightning on a small scale, modern science, with all the resources which It has at hand, should be able to subdue the thunder-storm. The Post-Dispatch also calls atten tion to some experiments made in re cent years by an English scientist who erected tall poles about his estate, topped with lightning rods, and stored the electricity caught in Leyden jars. There seems to be no doubt, In view of the statistics compiled by meteorologists, that damage from lightning is steadily increasing in this country. Various causes are ascribed. Some scientists say that the destruc tion of the forests has resulted in an increase in the number and severity of electrical storms. Others say that the centralization of industry result ing in vast emanations of steam from every city in the country, has tended to increase the amount of vapor in the atmosphere and resulted in more frequent storms. But whatever the cause the fact remains. Eatest fig ures show that more than 500 people were killed by lightning in the coun try last year, while the property loss ran high into the hundreds of thou sands. Of course, as has been said, 500 people out of 75,000.000 is not a great number, but the loss of that many lives yearly from any cause which might be removed by proper effort is appalling to contemplate. Moreover, the property damage is a factor of no small importance, and one which cannot under present con ditions be entirely guarded against.. There seems to be little doubt that science will soon be called on to take up the question of wholesale protec tion from lightning. The writer quoted above favors an endeavor not only to make the lightinng harmless, but to make it the servant of man. This is a tremendous proposition. ?lectrlcity has been put into service to a remarkable degree. Today it fur nishes man with heat, light and pow er. It carries his messages for him, furnishes him quick transportation, cooks his dinner, lights his room. Yet we do not know what lt Is. No man knows whence it comes or whither it goes. Its most tremendous and ter rific demonstration is in the lightning. Men who attempted- to follow the ex ample of Franklin have met death^as the result, of their temerity, and " we have no assurance that an effort to enlarge, on his ideas might not result in disaster on a larger scale. - 1 But the experiments of the English scientist spoken of above seem to have been entirely successful, and there appears to be no reason why they should not be followed on a larger scale. In the cities immunity from danger might in all probability be procured by the erection of very tall poles, equipped with proper con ductors for carrying off the current from the clouds before it has time -to concentrate into a destructive dis charge. This experiment has been tried with success. But so far as the country districts are concerned such safeguards are. of course. Impossible. And as to utilizing the electricity tak en from the clouds in the manner sug gested, it would probably be not so much a question of catching as of holding on.-Louisville Courier-Jour nal. The Duiy of Keeping CheerTnl. It may be that some enthusiastic and laborious German statistician has already accumulated figures bearing upon the question of length of life and its relation to the enjoyment of length of life and Its relation to the enjoyment thereof; if so, we are un acquainted with his results and yet have a very decided notion that people who enjoy life, cheerful people, are also those to whom longest life, is given. Commonplace though thia sounds, there is no truth more com monly ignored in actual everyday ex istence. "Oh, yes, of course, worry shortens life and the contented live to be old," we are all ready to say, and yet how many people recognize the duty of cheerfulness? Most persons will declare that if a man is not naturally cheerful he can not make himself so. Yet this is far from being the case and there is many a man who is at present a weary burden to his relatives, miserable through the carklng care of some bodily ailment, perhaps, or some worldly misfortune, who, if he had grown up Into the idea that to be cheerful under all circumstances was one of the first duties of life, might still see a pleasant enough world around him.-The Lancet Snapshooting a Submarino. While the new submarine Sirene was making a trial trip in the roads at Cherbourg, the lookout reported that two young men in a Bmall boat were apparently taking photographs of the vessel's every movement A steam lauch was sent in pursuit, and the men were arrested and brought to the submarine. Their camera was seized and the plates extracted, smashed and thrown overboard. One of the men was found to be a dock yard hand, and the other the son of a tradesman. They were not kept in custody, but a strict investigation will be made into the matter. t ; Owing to no fewer than 20 subma rines having been laid down this year, none will be begun in 1902, but five will be begun in 1903, while in 1904 26 more will be* put in hand, making 68 submarines iq all, to be ready for ser vice by 1906. Three will be ready early next year and 17 others In 1903. Buffalo, a village until 1832, and at the date of its incorporation as a city having a population of only ,8000, is now the second city of New York. Its population, now 352,000, was only 42,000 in 1850. Um GraHshopper'g Untimely KIMI. "Just watch me," said tito grasshopper, Preparing for a Hight; "I feel so vigorous today, I'll jump clear out ol sight I" I watched him os hu rot>e lu air, Hu kept his word no doubt, For down he came into a stream "Where lived a hungry trout. --St. Nicholas. The Game of Citied. What boy or girl knows how to play the game of "Cities?" ThlS'is how you begin: I ask you the question: "What city In the United States am I thinking of?"' .You reply by naming some city you think I have in mind. .?f you do not guess right the first time I say no; that city ls too far north, south, east or west from the one I have in mind. For instance: Supposing I am think ing of San Francisco. I say to you: WJiat city in the United States am I thinking of? You answer Boston. :. No, I reply; Boston is too far northeast Then you try again, this time naming a place further west and south of Boston, say, Philadelphia. I tell you that Philadelphia is still too far east. Thus you continue, naming cities further west until you say San Fran cisco, when it will be your turn to think of a city, or until you "give it up," when it will be my turn to choose another one. If you can keep before your mind's eye a picture of the United States, with the position of the many colors representing the states, you will find it of immense service in locating the direction of the various cities. Brl-an and the Tur-key. "Oh! I'm so glad Bri-anis com-lng. He is such a dear lit-tle boy," crl'-d rjpt "What a lot of things we shall have to show him. It seems fun-ny to think he has ne-ver been in the coun try be-fore." "Here they come!" cri-ed Marie, s rush-ing to the gar-den gate; and thc children kiss-ed their lit-tle cou-sin un-tll his cap fell off. After dinner the three children made for the farm yard. "You see, there's such a num-ber of ' things you've ne-ver seen. Bri-an - chickens and ducks and geese and pigs and-" "I've seen lots of zem," said Bri-an, a lit-tle in-dig-nant. "We has chick ens for din'ner, and ev-er so- ma-ny years a-go, I don't 'xactly 'mem-bcr when, we had a goose, and we has tur-key at Ch'is-'mas." Dot and Mar-ie laughed. "But you have ne-ver seen them run-ning a bout, have you?" Be-fore Bri-an could make up his mind what to say, they came, up-on a brood of duck-lings, and his shout of de-light told them the sight was new to him. Then the chick-ens and the gos-lings and the lit-tle pigs, all were fresh and de-light-ful to the city boy, and his cou-slns were as happy as he. But his ro-sy cheeks grew a shade pal-'er when he saw a big tur key strut-ting a-bout with out-spread I ail. "He doesn't look much like the tur-keys in the shops, does he?" said ..Dot _ : 4 ^tAffrthe tur-key took no no-tlce of them, Bri-an's courage soon came back. Sud-denly he gave a great ,. shout and ' point-lng to the tur-key*s wat-tles, he cried ex-cit-ed-ly, "Why, the tur-key's got a trunk!" ' Dot and Mar-Ie laugh-ed so much at Brl-an's dls-cov-ery that Bri an be gan to laugh too, al-though he did not know why; so lt was a ve-ry hap .'py par-ty that mo-ther call-ed in doors at last. But al*, the time he stay-ed at the farm no-thing plea-sed Bri-an so much as watch-Ing the tur-key, and when he was quite a big boy his cou-slns used to re-mind him of the tur-key's trunk.-Cassell's Little Folks. They Lived COO Year* ABO. In the early part of the 14th cen tury two exiled Italians left behind them forever their beautiful native city of Florence. One of them was Dante, whom you have all heard of as the poet; the other was Petracco, the father of Petrarch, the poet. Petrarch was born July 20, 1304, at Arrezo, during the second year of hi3 parents' exile, and was named by them Francesco. He was destined to be as famous as his father's com I panion in exile. Dante. From his earliest childhood Francesco, or Chec co, as his little companions called him, loved literature, and dally the longing to be a great writer grew in him. His father, a passionate man, could not give up the desire to see his son a jurist like himself. The story is told that one day in anger he threw into the fire all his boy's most cherished books. Francesco pleaded so hard for his treasures that at last his father rescued two books which were only half burned, and these two were "Cicero" and "Virgil." This love of letters nothing could kill. It is true that, yielding to his father's wishes, he spent seven years of his life at Montpelier and Bologna studying law, but he always regarded these years as "not so much spent as totally wasted." and after his father's death he gave up the study forever. Free at 22 to devote himself to lit erature, he placed himself under the patronage of Influential nobles, a necessary step to a literary man of that day. We marvel at the number of books which came from his pen. Though all the world knows him best for the beautiful love songs which he wrote in Italian, his list of Latin books ls very interesting. Then there was the Latin poem about Scipio Africanus which brought Petrarch the greatest honor of his life. Largely because of the Interest It aroused, .m Easter, 1341, Petrarch was crowned with the laurel wreath. Petrarch's life was a long one, so long that he found time not only to become one of the foremost writers but to collect a library, to make a col lection of coins, to arouse interest in preserving old manuscripts, fast be coming lost to the world, and in many ways to awaken the people of his time to a love of the old Greek and Roman writers. One day in 1374 they found him fast asleep over a book in his home at Arqua. W^ien they tried to wakeu him .they found that he was dead. So was,, tlje wish which he had once ex pressed to his friend Boccaccio ful filled^ T d?sire that death find me reading or writing."-Chicago Record Herald. .\ * ?VTint the Wave Said to Molly. One day not very long ago Molly and Tom went with mamma to the beach. Mamma sat and read while Molly and Tom built castles and forts, waded in the water, caught a jetty fish, and did lots of things. . By and by Molly got tired of play ing, so she sat down and watched the wave? as they splashed up the beach. At last one little wave almost covered her with water, and then she jumped pretty quick, I can tell you. "Please don't run away," said the wave. "I wanted to tell you of an adventure of mine." And it gave a splashy chuckle of delight. "Dear me," said Molly. "Do you have adventures? I thought you did nothing but play all day." "No, indeed," said the wave. "Wc have lots of adventures. Once I helped wreck a ship-but I'm not go ing to tell you about that. This was a funny happening. Yesterday T was playing down there by the bulkhead under the long walk. Lots of land people were leaning over the wall to watch us dance. Pretty soon along came a little girl and her mother. The little girl was crying hard 'cause she was hot and tired and cross. They stopped to watch us and the little girl climbed up and looked over the wall, while her mother held her tight. And all the time the big tears were a-rolling down her face." And the little wave gave another chuckle1. "I don't think it was very funny," said Molly, frowning. "Don't you?" asked the little wave. "Why, I thought so. Now, please, don't get angry 'cause I haven't come to the funny part yet." "So the little girl cried," it went on, rippling along the shore. "And I kept a-wondering how to make her laugh. I dashed myself against the bulkhead ever so many times, but it wasn't any use. I couldn't jump high enough you see. And the little girl's tears came so fast she couldn't see through 'em." Here the little wave stopped and ran off toward the ocean. "O, come back, do, please, little wave," cr ed Molly, "and tell me how you made her laugh." The wave came splashing in again and curled around Molly's toes. "I didn't think you cared about it. But If you really and truly want to know-" "Of course I do," said Molly, clasp ing he hands." . "Well," said the little wave, os Jr rolled up a pebble. "I couldn't do ii all by myself, you- see. So I though* and thought and then I remembered by great-great-great uncle, Seventh Wave. So I ran off quick to find him, 'cause I was afraid the little girl might go away 'fore I came back. And I met him rolling in toward shore. He was foaming with anger and was going to tear down that bu-khead, he said. I told him all the st "ry and af ter a while he promised to do what I wanted. Then I -hopped on his back and away we went rolling in. Tho little girl was there still, crying hard, and lots of other land people wer? there, too. Everybody cried, 'Look at that mon-ster-ous wave!' They didn't know it was me on uncle's back that made him look so big. So we came crashing against the bulkhead. And just as we struck it I jumped high in the air and dashed my spray right into the little girl's face." "And then?" asked Molly. . "And then-the little girl laughed," said the wave as it slipped back int?* the sea. "Molly!" called mamma. "You've been standing there for ever so long. Was it a day dream, little daughter?" Molly rubbed her eyes and Jaughofl. ^ut never-a word she said about the story the little wave told her.-Brook? lyn Eagle. STRIDES IN MATCH-MAKING. Urent Fart Played by Mu ch i no ry - Cuba Unconquerable. The consolidation of two large match companies recently effected in London attarcts attention to the great growth of the business abroad, and, curiously, its apparent inability to se cure a foothold in Cuba. The union of the Diamond Match company with the Bryant & May concern makes un doubtedly the largest incorporation of its kind in the world. An idea of the total output of matches is to be had by figures furnished by the Atlantic Match company, one of the strongest competitors. Five hundred million matches are said to be made daily in Europe, and these figures may be doubled for the United States. One factory in Ohio alone ls cred ited with turning out 100,000,000 fin ished matches in 24 hours. Fifty mil lion feet of lumber are used in the United States in the manufacture of matches, and some $20,000,000 Invest ed. What an important part modern machinery plays in this industry may be imagined when it is said that only about 15,000 people are employed. "There are but a few statistics to give," said a match representative recently, "to convince one of the strides In the business. American matches have been able to secure a foothold in Europe because of the su periority of American machinery over tools that were in use 25 years ago. In Cuba, however, machinery is al most unknown. Matches are hand made, and yet we do ?ot seem to get in. Some attribute this lack of suc cess to the popularity of the small wax match made in Havana, which boys peddle on the street for almost nothing. There are about nine of these factories in Havana alone, and it would he a strange Havana, In deed, without the ragged little match boy. Cubans will not use any other kind of a match."-New York Post. Hie Wealthy Indian. White men and women are em ployed to take care of the babies of the Osage Indians, of Oklahoma, who feel so rich that they scorn the thought of work for themselves, and insist that that is what white folks are for. These Indians live in shacks or tepees and dress in full Indian costume, which is made of the finest materials and includes beaded shirts and moccasins and th gaudiest of red blankets. They drive the best horses and carriages to be had. Each mem ber of the tribe, man, woman and child, has an income of $400 a year. 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