Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Morning Glorie? for tho 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 Sowers which were a delight until frost The blossoms were very abundant and of mammoth site, white, red, royal pur ple, blue, brick red in solid color, red blue and purple edged with white, etc. Tiley were given the same care as the common varieties but surpassed them 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 Epltomist Good Things for Fowl?. Turpentine is good for bruises, in flammations, worms and broken limbs. Tincture of iron is good for chick enpox, Bore head and ulcers of all kinds. Chlorate of potash is good for any throat.trouble. Bicarbonate of soda is good for in digestion. Camphor is good for gapes in young chicks. Carbolic acid is good for disinfect ing. . The above things aro 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 pense treatment will do more to keap the fowls healthy than all 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 ol 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 ?8 started. Blackberries and raspberries should have the stalks which produced fruit cut ont 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 SO 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 is dry the cultivator may be kept going at intervals of six or eight days. Currants and gooseberries delight in a loamy, rich soil with a damp, but not wet. subsoil There ls no bettor means of securing this than by apply ing a liberal dressing of stable manner at the "commencement of winter. * This is applicable to all small fruits.-S. H. Lurton, in New England Home stead. G row in c Potatoes Under Straw. I prepare the ground as for ordinary cultivation. Let the soil get well warmed before planting, say from the middle of Hay 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 rain. Too much straw is ruinous most seasons, the ground is kept too wet and cold and the potatoes como 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 lined manure fork. One man last year dog 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 tubers. A single vine- produced 17 tabers, 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. Xes?leet la the Flower Garden. A little wholesome neglect is as good for the flower garden as it is for a family of chlKren, provided always that there is just enough of lt In the perpetual borders, if I may call them so, where the dear old favorites have their permanent home, undisturbed from year to year, a kindly, benefi cent mle seems to take possession that favors the domestic gardener who has abundant love, but scant leisure The Idle youth, reminded nf 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. Harrying out recently to look at my sweet williams, now almost ready to flower, I found no weeds, but a thick mass of young plants surrounding the clumps, a sufficient colony to estab a fine large bed in a new place. Some one in these columns remarked .| recently upon a so-called professional lener who had assumed charge of a place and called in a friend to ident! fy an unknown flower, which proved to the sturdy sweet william, lt is long those somewhat homely yet al ways pleasing and reliable perennials lat deserve a good corner in every iruen that has space for a little free This habit of self-seeding gives the easiest possible means of enlarging one's sto?>k and perhaps sharing with our friends. Tb make lt successful all that is necessary ls to keep the 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 thi t fashion, as well as th'.- colum bine, larkspur, Canterbury beril and a score of others. Marigolds, mallows, poppies and the like will All any iccE of unstirred room. A hardy dark co leus. ,a hardy verbena and a "dusty ! miller," as volunteers almost deserve .ho ill name of weeds, 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 tWs comfort to ?HT hearts, that ?he up'verse is full of com pensations, and even negU-ct has Its solid advantages.-The Country Gen tleman. Har and Pasture Grass. Hay is perhaps the most Importftnt article of food for live stock on tho farm, and grass ,is said to be the "foundation of farming." The grass crop may not be as valuable as corn, but lt is an article of food for which no subs'itute can be found, as it gives bulk and quality to the rations, both in the green condition and when cured-as hay. There ara 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 realty 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 hold for a long time. But although tim othy 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 ripe it will contain a large proportion of woody fibre, while if the clover ls 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 it "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 other grasses without risk of loss. Pasture grass should be for pas ture only, and not for mowing for hay. If a pasture ci.n 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 tbe best kinds hot being profitable If mowed, as they do not grow 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 few inches high, is always more highly, relished than any other, and if a pasture ls to be occu pied by the stock they will keep tho grass down. No farmer, therefore, should exoect a crop of hay from bis pasture -Ld. The meadow is also do pended upon for producing the hay crop, but the meadow is also given up ; 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 of 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 excelleut on meadow land that is somewhat moist, its limning 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 bay 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 too ripe, will give good yields of hay that may per haps be better than clover in some respects. One of the most valuable crops, in 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 fall under the same conditions.-Philadelphia Record. Sovereign of Greater Britain. It appears to be in contemplatien 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." This 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 j would take such an assumption of su periority remains to be seen.-Phila delphia Ledger. The huckster may stick to one o* I cupation and still be a man of m<tny I callings. HOW MOLES OPERATE. WHEN A WALL IS IN HIS WAY, HE COES OVER IT. Makes Life Miserable for the Gardener in a Most Provoking Way - Has l?oth Ky es and Ears-HU Curious Semi-Hu man Haud?-Gets Out or 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 i little ridge of earth Wherever he g ?. He- rapidly des troys the bed, mough that is not at all his object in coming. He is really out 5n 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 roo 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 bim, 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 lt 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 is very flexible so much so, in fact, that the animal sometimes twists it around and puts it into bis mouth, from which he after wards withdraws it 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. Wbfr. his mouth is opened, it will be seen tnat 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 euough 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, s.'ightly 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 earth, makes a stroke just as a mau 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 dainties, 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 is 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 can 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 lt. 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 tall was disappearing I caught hold of it 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 them. I could see that he was .'going to break the record, and just as his tail was going into the earth I put out my hand to seize it. But, alas! my fingers closed on the air; my friend the mqj? had struck right into one of his old burrows, and my kind neighbor has not spoken to me since.-Ernest Harf old Baynes, in Hartford Tlme3. ? HARNESSING JJV?'S BOLTS. j Protection Acninst Lightning Still a Viehl for IIIWMOIH. A severe electrical storm visited, St. Louis last week and a considers able property damage resulted, while several persons were more or less seriously injured. In recent years Sti Louis seems to have become a favors ite target for Jove's missiles, and the] frequent repetition of such disasters has moved the Post-Dispatch to re mark that it is time some steps were taken toward the possibility of con-' trolling the discharges from the artllr 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 dtarted. It is argued that if Frank lin, with his primitive apparatus, could harness the lightning on a small scale, modern science, with all th? 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. ?lectrlclty 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 It Is. ?o man knows whence lt comes or whither it goes. Its most tremendous and ter> rifle demonstration is In the lightning. Men who attempted-to follow the ex ample of Franklin have met deathes-, the result of their temerity, and w?" 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 Duly of Keeplnc; Cheerful. 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 enjiy life, cheerful people, are also those to whom longest life, is given. Commonplace though this 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 ls many a man who is at present a weary burden to his relatives, miserable through the carking 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 waa one of the first duties of life, might still see a pleasant enough world around him.-The Lancet. Snapshooting a Submarine. While the new submarine Sirene was making a trial trip In the roads at Cherbourg, the lookout reported that two young men in a small 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. ( .<.." 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 in 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, ano. at. the date of its incorporation as a city having a population of only 8000, ia now the second city of New York.' Its population, now 352,000, was only 42,000 in 1850. Vt 1 he Grasshopper's Untimely Knil. .'Just watch me," said tho gra chopper, Preparing for a Hight; "I feel so vigorous today, TH jump clear out of sight I" I watched bim as hu rotio la air, Ho kept his word uo doubt, For down he came luto a stream Where lived a hungry trout. -?t. Nicholas. The Game of Cities. What boy or girl knows how to play the game of "Cities?" "This- 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. df you do not guess right the first time I say no; that city is 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: .What 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. Bri.an and the Tur-key. "Oh! I'm so glad Bri-anis com-ing. He is such a dear little boy." crt';d Qpt "What a lot of things v,e shall have to show him. It seems fun-ny to think he has ne-ver beeu in he coun try be-fore." "Here they come!" cri-ed Mar-ie, _rush-ing to the gar-den gate; and the children kiss-ed their little cou-s-n un-til 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 little in-dig-nant "We has chick ens for din'ner, and ev-er so- ma-ny years a-go, I don't 'xactly 'ir.cm-ber when, we had a goose, and we hus 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 little pigs, all were fresh and de-light-ful to the city boy, and his cou-sins 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 .turnkeys in the shops, does he?" said .Dot. ; . ?^??a-^tbe tur-key took no no-tice of them, Bri-an's courage soon came back. Sud-denly he gave a great shout and'' pointing to the tur-key's wattles, he cried ex-cit-ed-ly, "Why. the tur-key's got a trunk!" ' Dot and Mar-ie laugh-ed so much at Bri-an's dis-cov-ery that Bri-an be gan to laugh too, al-though he did not know why; so it was a ve-ry hap py par-ty that mo-ther cal?-ed in doors at last But all the time he stay-ed at the farm no-thing plea-sed Brl-an so much as watch-Ing the tur-key, and when he wac quite a big boy his cou-sins used to re-mind him of the tur-key's trunk.-Cassell's Little Folks. - They Lived COO Years Ago. 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 his 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, cr Chec co, as his little companions called him, loved literature, and daily the longing to be a great writer grew in him. His father, a passionate man, could not give up the desire to see hit 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, ard 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 Is 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 crowued 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 inter?s* 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 waa^ the wish which he had once PX pr?'?se? to his friend Boccaccio ful fill?d-1 ? desire that death find me r^aijing or writing."-Chicago Record Herald. /\ * What the Wave Bald, lo 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 toxis, waded in the water, caught a Jelly fish, and did lots of things. By and by Molly got tired of play in,;, 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 ?in adventure of mine." And it gava 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 mothei\ 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 t^ie big tears were a-rolling down her face." And the little wave gave another chuckle. "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 como 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 ur''-. 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. "0, come back, do, please, little wave," cred 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, as Ir roiled 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 lind 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 bulkhead, he said. I told him all the story 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 wo 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 laughed, but never a word she said about the story the little wave told her.-Brook? lyn Eagle. STRIDES IN MATCH-MAKING. Croat Part Played by Machinery - 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 tne 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 periorlty 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 not 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 be a strange Havana, In deed, without the ragged little match boy. Cubans will not use any other kind of a match."-New York Post. alie Wealthy Indlnn. 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. This ls the Interest on the proceeds from the sale of their lands in Kansas, and also from the leasings of their tribal lands for pasturage. There are about 2000 members of the tribe. Kuli Took Scconcl-Storv Room. Missing a young bull, weighing over 300 pounds, Henry. G. Wagner, a farm er of Strausstown, Pa, instituted a search, and found the animal looking out of the second-story window of a vacant house. With the assistance of neighbors the animal was driven down a winding stairs and out ot the build ing.-Philadelphia Record. And AIRO Lawyer i. Bobblj-Pa, what happeus when cars are telescoped? Father-The pa^'enstu? see stars, my son.-Smart Set i EXPLAINED. 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