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f HE NATJON?L BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, PreVt. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Undivided Profita } ?110,000. Facilillos of our magnificent Keir Vault containing 410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to 810.00.per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Paji Interest on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Bajne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. VOL, LXVI?. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 13. 1902. NO. 33. B?RROVV?D kby wiLm William Rand was just returning from his first year at college-a year which had been supplemented by two months of camping in the Adiron dacks, and which was to conclude with a few. "weeks spent with his mother and sister in their seaside cottage. AR the train carried him swiftly to ward his destination, he pulled ? le?tef out ?f Iiis pocket ?nd ran His eye Over .its concluding sentences: it was frond his mdther, and he had rectived it the day before: ""You mustn't be too much disgusted if you fiiid Frances passing through ? phase which must be distasteful to young men, as it certainly is to older women. It seems to be the fashion just now for girls to be as much like boys as they can, to dress in a man nish way, to go in for the same sports and amusements, and altogether to pretend to be something they ?re Hot, Of course Frances has caught the fe ver, for it is raging here, and all the young girls have fallen victims to the ?pid?mie, but we must bs patient, and remember tu?t fevers have to run their c??ri?;" ?n spite of this warning, when Will iam got out of the train, he lound him self vainly looking for the sweet-faced girl who was hardly more than a child when he saw her last. Suddenly he felt a slap on his back and "heard a deep voice exclaim, "Well, bid ina?, hsw are you? It's bully to see you?'* tie felt his fingers crushed in the affectionate grasp of a hand which wa? the logical conclusion to an ?rm bared almost to the shoulder and ' freshly browned in nature's oven. "Hallo, Frances! ' he replied, heart ily} then as Re looked at her mOre at^ tehtiv?iy h? added, "i should never' h?v?, known j'?u. Stand off aud let me look at you." The girl obediently took a position to be inspected. She was dressed in ft Bhort linen skirt and white shirt waist with rollcd-up sleeves. Her h?eiies? "sneakers" wrere planted squarely apart as if t8 ?n?bi? h?f tb 7-ithstand" a sudde? ?t tack, her strong, straight neck .was bared like a stage sailor's and ; burned to a cris?, and her curly, dark hair was gathered so tightly to her head that it gave the appearance of being elos?-ef?pped. The whites of her ?y?s and her gleaming teeth flashed in their sun-br?wned setting and seemed ?imost luminous. William's first dazed impressiori was that some stalwart youth had disguised himself in. his sister's clothes and his "'sister's' "fraTuresp -twA v.'?s J??Sq?erad ing as a girl. "Well, I'll be bio wed!'"he said aloud. Then, "How brown you are!" he com mented, feefrly. .'Mercy ? you ought to see Crace Hodges!" Francos exclaimed, laughing boisterously. "She's simply ebony; I tell you .what, she's a corking good chap. She and I have been sailing the catboat a lot this summer. We go out in all weathers, and you'd just better believe it's a pretty stiff storm that can puzzle Grace." While she ?vas speaking Frances had seized her 1-rather's heavy valisd? and swung it lightly into the high dog-cart that was Walting for them. She hurled herself In after it, as if she, too, had derived impetus from some hid den source, and William climbed awk wardly after her. "Barker's rdmihg down to spend a few days with me tomorrow after noon," he said. "He's\ stroke on his class crew, you know, and no end of fun. How would you two girls like to take us out sailing as soon as he arrives?" "i'll bet Grace can teach him a thing or two all right, stroke or no stroke," Frances maintained. Then she point ed with her vhip to a distant house overlooking the harbor. "There's our moorings, and if I'm not much mistaken, that white flutter ing rag at the window is mother's handerchief." jfen^e squared her elbows to the angle Hrpproved in sporting circles, and add led, with some embarrassment, "By the v:ay; Billy, I wish you'd stop car ing me Frances. It's so goody-goody! I always did hate the name. All the girls call me Frank, and I wish you would, too." "Oh!" gasped William, under his breath. "Mother was right; she's got the fever, and now the question is hov/ to cure her." But aloud he acquiesced meekly. "All right, Frank." The next afternoon LAVO young girls, the color of Indian squaws, were swing ing at anchor in a trig little sailboat. "There they come!" shouted the lighter brown of the two damsels. "I'm awfully anxious to meet Tom Barker. He must be a dandy, and as for Billy, he's just the best there is!" She waved her discarded sailor hat, and.the two young men hastened to ward the- signal. In another minute the introductions had been performed, and Grace and Frances were furtively exchanging glances of horrified amaze ment at the appearance of the rowing hero. He was fairly tall and distinctly broad.-no one could deny that,-but how in fhe name of common sense could a fellow associate for two years with rough-and-ready college students and come out looking as he did! The difficulty began with his hat band, which was a delicate baby-b^e and of the variety of satin ribbon known as "double-faced"-a hypocriti cal badge of honor for a "stroke." Underneath the hat-brim his fair hair was plastered to his temples in a "bang" which owed its curliness to art rather than to nature. Nor was this all. His neck was swathed in a white pique stock of dis tinctly feminine appearance, and the bow-knot under his chin was kept in place by a turquoise pin, the exact duplicate of one Frances had once owned and repudiated as being baby ish. Yet in spite of all this, Thomas Bar ker seemed entirely self-possessed, and gave thc impression of being dressed In the latest style. Frances had build ed better than she knew in calling him a "dandy." He talked In rather a PLUM?QE. 3T pr iCE; mincing, affected way and lisped his s's in a manner that might have been considered attractive in a girl. "Oh, dear me, I do hope it's not go ing to be rough!" he exclaimed, with a funny little giggle. "I am not at all a good sailor, ano' it would be so mor tifying to be ill, wouldn't it, Willie?" Again thc girls exchanged eloquent glances: What manlier of mail was this who pronounced "at ail''-that touchstone of pedantry-as if lie were a schbolma'am, and who dared address the rhkhly William by the name he had put away with other childish things ton years ?sgo? "Ob, you needn't be scared!" Grace announced, scornfully. "If this v/ind holds there can't be squalls, and they're the only thing the boat's afraid of-or I, either, for that matter." Th? young men seated themselves as passengers, and watched tho vigor ous yourtg crew haul tip the anchor and get under way"; For about an hour ail wont smooth ly; both with the weather and the oort v?rsatioh: They all talked about indif ferent subjects^ and although once or twice conditib'is seemed threatening, no rocks were' struck till Thomas Barker made a tactless remark: He had been watching Grace Hodge's brown arms skilfully manipulating the tiller, and he said, with the smart air of a pert young miss: "If tan gloves are the iashion next wihtef you woh't have to wear any, will y??, Miss Hodg?s 7" Ho smoothed his bwn fingers, heatly eu; cased iii kid; ?s he spoke!. "I never wear gloves, anyway,"' sim replied, shortly. "They're only for sisses who cars about their looks." "If there's anything I don't like, it ls ? feminine man!" Frances added, vehehTe?tly: W?li?m cao? to the rescue of his friend. "Why worse than a masculine girl?" he inquired, affably. "Aren't both trying to be something they can't pos sibly be?" "I do despi?e ? moliy-coddle!" Pran ces insisted, With great spirits "Yes," agreed Barker, with a little less mincing utterance, "but eved worse, I think, is the girl who tries to be a tomboy; and worst of all is the young lady who tries to be-what .-hall we call it?-a 'tom-man.' " Willi?m l?ughed indulgently at his friend's jest, but his eyes were clouded with apprehension: His "sister's voice had taken, on an unmistakably shrill quality in her sr^orn, and Thomas Barker's mincing enunciation had sud denly relapsed into something much less affected. With this return-to-ira ture, peace-loving William began to be conscious of a storm brewing. "There's no use arguing about the matter," he proclaimed, decisively. "As soon as girls find out that a masculino woman is unpopular with men, just as surely as the feminine man. is despised by girls, there will be an end of this masquerade. "Perhaps some good may even come out of it all," he added, judicially. "It's certainly fine to see girls as strong and athletic as some of them are nowadays." While the others were talking. Grace Hodges had beer, preoccupied. Her si lence seemed to show that there was something in thc wind,-a squall, pre sumably,-for she was working hard at the helm, and could give but slight attention to the Irrelevant conversa tion of the others, Finally she said, with a tinge of irri tation in her voice! "You don't any of you seem to rea lize that the wind has shifted to north east, and that we are in for a good deal of a blow. That cloud over there has been following us ever since we started, and it means rain and wind. I'm not afraid in the least, of course, but I guess we may as well come about and make toward the harbor again, lt would be a pity for Mr. i Barker to spoil his hat." This last remark was presumably a safety-valve to let Off her irritation at the prosp?ct that her qualities of sea manship might be put to an unexpected test befoie the young men. Although sh? had been quick to take in every extravagant touch of Barker's attire, she had failed to detect the keen, comprehending glances which he bestowed on the clouds, the sea and her own slight, boyish figure. He seemed to have added up these separ ate items and found a result not wholly satisfactory, for there were anxious lines under the offending hat brim. "Well, Grace, I guess we can weather a little storm. We've dont it before, haven't we, old girl?" cried Frances, attacking a streaming lock of hair with v savago thrust of a side comb. At that moment the ominous cloud opened and with a crash let out its weapons of war. It spread its vast shadow over the waters, and .'.he black ened waves became the victims of con tending winds. The boat swung this way and that, obeying by turns thc conflicting orders of the elements and those of the girl's weak hand. For a minute the boat, although sorely buffeted, seemed to hold its own against the tempest. Then came an other burst of thunder, fairly tearing open thc heavens and letting loos? all that remained of wind and rain. The little craft reeled and staggered before the blow. A drenching wave?, came aboard-then another. .Grace was fast losing all control of the'boat, and the question of capsizing became a mere question of minutes. As the next great wave came rush ing down, the "man at the helm" gave a feminine shriek, and looked help lessly about her. Then dropping the tiller, she c'ung to Frances in terror, while somehow Thomas Barker ap peared at her deserted post. "That was pretty stiff, wasn't it?" he said, quietly. "I guess we were all frightened. Here comes another. Steady now, Billy, lend a hand here, will you? All right. Miss Hodges; don't be alarmed for your boat. She'll come through alive with the rest of us." In spite of his reassuring words, the little craft bobbed about like a cork, the spray th?t. dash?d over her ic'S gun-wale sometimes bringing ? rdsfi of green water with it. ? .. the. girls were giving a thoroughly femjt?bSeexhibitip? ?f fright. No ?mourit of tan' arid slang arid swvaggef could ever agairi impose upofi any one" who had seen them clutching each! other iri the bottom' of thc boat-sf hopeless tangle of brown' arms and writhing forms. All the time that the two young men were busied in getting the boat safe into the harbor the girls lay quiet, and when the fury of the storm -asscd as quickly as it came, they still looked like an ignominious heap of wet clothes, Thomas Barker's bliie-ribbonod hat had blown into the sea, and tho rain had washed the citri out of his hair, thc Storni had taken" all the feminine touches otit of him, and left him stand ing as nature intended Him to be-a fine, tail, vigorous fellow with confi dent eyes and modest bearing. Wil liam looked quizzically at him and at the mortified girls, and then he said, with seeming irrelevance: "I believe doctors are right in apply ing the cold-water cure to fevers. Of course it seems like heroic treatment, yet sharp attacks sometimes demand violent measures." This attempt to lessen the embar rassment met with rio success, so he tried another tack. ?'Look here, there's no need for any One to feel badly about anything," he proceeded. . "We've weathered a very I smalt squall that, would have been more than ? m?tt:h fer atty one but Tom Barker, and iii own up to hftv* ing been badly scared myself. Of course" it would have been more thrilling to have been upset and had you girls Fave our lives, but instead of that there's nothing heroic about us. We're just soaking wet and uncomfortable." "Billy, I'm going to confess," Thomas Barkel" Paid, very seriously, "so it's no use your making faces at me. Your brother and I." he continued, address ing the prostrate Frances, "thought it would be a good joke for me to get myself np as much like a girl as I could, so as to show you-" Kc began to hesitate for a polite con clusion, but William substituted a truthful One. "So as to show you what confound ed fools girls make of themselves when they get themselves up like men!" he proclaimed, vigorously. "Shut np, Billy!" Barker inter posed. "1 want to apologiie to both of you," he continued, "for very ungentlemanly con duct. It was unpardonable to play a practical joke of this kind on Billy's sister and her friend." Grace Hodges shook herself free from the damp bundle that had once been Frances, and stood up with a Strength that was not assumed. "I was neither a gentleman nor a lady," she confessed. "I rather think tfie name coward about tits me. Please"' don't apologize, Mr. Barker, because if you eat cay more humble pie I ought to be eating dust-instead of which I'm swallowing sea-water. Besides, you saved our lives like a man, when I had almost lost them-like a woman." The two brown hands clasped with a respect and sympathy that an hour ago would have seemed impossible. William seemed to have relapsed into his medical meditations once more, for he was heard muttering. "I guess it was a case of kill or cure for a few minutes, but mother'll be glad to know that the crisis is past and the fever is abating." "Don't mind him, he's delirious," Barker said, but William leaned over i his shame-stricken sister and whis- j pored, "Hallo, Frank!" "0 Billy, I'm not going to be an imi- j tation mah any more!" Frances half sobbed. "I'm going to turn over a new \ leaf and be-" I "A new woman," her brother sug- I gested. and he gave her shoulder the j kind of a slap that one good fellow gives another.-Youth's Companion. J . GUAINT AND CURIOUS. The biggest average farm in the world is in South Australia, where the average squatter holds 78,000 acres. The largest library in the world is the National Library of Paris, which contains 40 miles of shelves, holding 1,400,000 books. There are also 175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts, 150,000 coins and medals. It is a hundred years since King Frederick William III ot Prussia issued an order forbidding officers and men to take off their hata in saluting and or dering the salute to be bringing the hand to the level ol' the eyes. Milan has a curiosity in a clock which is made entirely of bread. The maker is a native of India, and has de voted three years of his life to the con struction of this curiosity. The clock is of good size and goes well. It is estimated that there are fewer than 10;000 wild elephants left in all the countries on the globe, and that five of these will be killed off where one is born. It is a matter of only a few years when the last one must go. Probably thc most expensive book known is that which tin Ameer of Af ganistan has presented to the Shah of Persia. It is a manuscript copy of the Koran, the binding of which is worth $150,000. This binding is of solid gold, 2 3-4 inches Ulick, the carvings, which are the work of an Afghan goldsmith, are incrusted with precious stones 167 pearls, 122 rubies, and 109 diamonds of the. pu rest water. The'following curious advertisement recently appeared in a Spanish journal: "This morning heaven summoned away t*e jeweler, Siebald Illmaga. from his shop to another and a better world. The undersigned, his widow, will weep upon his lomb, as will also his two daughters, Hilda and Emma, the for mer of whom is married, and the latter is open to an offer. The funeral will take place tomorrow. His disconsolate widow, Veronique Illmaga. P. S. This bereavement will not interrupt c*ir employment, which will be carried on as usual: only our place of business will be removed from No. 3 Lessi de Leintures to No. 4 Rue de Missionaire. Our grasping landlord has raised the SCENES ?N TH Of ST- P?ERR1 ev W?LU/ WHEN we landed at. Fort do France, just two weeks af ter the fearful catastrophe which in one blow laid low the most prosperous city, not only of Martinique, bul in ?ill the Lesser An UHes, lt was difficult to realize tlmt only sixteen miles away lay the world's ^..entest picture of min and death. ?e(wee? Fort de France and the, lot where oiiee was St. fierre tbe THE DISMANTLED land conics down to the sea in alter nating scallops and tiny valleys. Hld-, lug from the people of Fort de Frni.ce the monster head of Mt. Pelee, the two-headed Car bet rears its giant form over 3000 feet above the level of the ocean. In some ages of the past the mud flowing down Car bet's ponies formed the scallops Which now end abruptly with the ocean. Dotted here and ibero between these intu? banks, covered with delightful verdure are j red-'?led houses surrounded by waving I fields of sugar cane. On the topmost" point of each ridge there now stands a huge cross as n guard from the fury of Mt. Pelee. But even so, none but n few of the most hardy have re-' rnaincd in their homes outside of Fort de France since the day of the de-, structlvc eruption of Pelee-that moun-; ^nJaj^Uif.tic liyns^nrft tke*B^?~oZ4 ho ? citizens of Martinique. Two little towns are situated on the shore between Fort de France and thc line of death which marks the termina tion southward of tho zone of Influence of Mt. Pelee. First is Case Navire, and then, a little further up, is Case T?nte. Only a little further along the coast and St. Pierre is before us. Now the mountain in nil Its terri fy lng glory ls clearly visible, only a short distance ahead. For over 4000 feet lt rises A SHATTEHED TOMB AT ST. PIEKRE, from the sen and throws forth for ! hiany thousand feet higher massive \ clouds of now white and now black smoke and vapor, it seems ns if some giant hand, controlled by a supernat ural power, has, with one scoop, ung out near the mountain's base an Im mense hole with an opening only to ward the sea and Mt. Pelee. In this hole there once thrived one of the most prosperous cities in all the West In , dies-it was the site of St. Pierre. Now it is hard, from the distance of n mile, for one to discern that there re mains anything which bears re I semblance to thc works of man. A lit i _ A ST. PIER HE STREET. LOOK tlc nearer in the land seemed simplj roughened, ami it was not until wt had come very noni' io the shore timi it was possible to distinguish between ! li sp mi SON. the plac? where the city f?a?l ffliCo hwn and the works of nature ?h' tire r?'?r toward Hit- mountain. But let us enter the town. It hardly Oms possible to tell in w?i?eh il I rec m rtud where the streets had fonder', l^tfun. Houses were topj)led in and (shuttered themselves to such an extent that "it appeared as if the same giant which had once formed the site I'fW St. Piene had now swept Itse'f CATHEDRAL BELL. over the entire city, knocking down buildings with the ease that ten pins j fa ll when struck by the rolling ball. There must have been a wind with the fury , of n terrible cyclone, for. iron burs as large ns a man's wrist, were bent and twisted and huge, trees have been literally torn from the earth and cast in every direction. AVbere there ?.rm' no ruins to be seen P was due to the fact that they had been buried far below the rivers of mud, which j had flowed down Peke's side through ^tliis natural gateway luto the city. But I .most surprising of all, there was no -lava. I Looking to the north, to the east REAR OF THE CATHEDRAL I and" to the south there was one con tinued stretch of desolate ruin. A no place in the city was there to li seen ? house with a roof, and, indeec there was uot one house with wall higher than what had been Its tits story. Dust and ashes were piled big against the sides of these flattern walls, and huge rocks-some from th! volcano and some which had formcJ parts of buildings-had been throw/ here, there and everywhere. And i| and among this monotony of wreck and ruin were the decomposing bodies of the former people of Rt. Pierre. How did this city meet Its doom? How was it possible that In less than Ave minutes St. Pierre was changed from a place of life, joy and happiness to this desolation? From an eye-wit ness-a priest-who lived about live kilometers inland front St. Pierre and partly around the mountain just out side of the blast of Pelee's breath, wc obtained what is probably the best description of the destruction of the city that bas yet been given. At about hftlf past 7 in the morning of May 8th a dense black mass of smoke rising rapidly, rolling, twirling and twisting upward to a prodigious height, was seen coming from Pelee's crater. Suddenly the upper portion di lated like a huge sunflower on its stalk, and the lower part became wrapped I KG TOWARD THE CATII EUR AL. JjiP'a snow-white wreath of vapor, v nick encircled the column and riieu intermingled with it ami appeared ns black cloud and silvery masses, Through the pitchy" Haning nbore lightning played incessantly {?titi teitrw* on the side of the mountain ruorisfef jets started upward until the whole RUINED MANSION OF A WEALTHY RESI DENT OF ST. PIERDE. mountain appeared to be a submerged, smoking, burning mass. There was a blinding Hash, nnd it appeared as If some keen-edged knife had cut the stalk of thc tlowcr, and with a loud report, like the guns of the navies of the world simultaneously exploding, the black cloud swept down the moun tain upon the little city. Lightning flashed and crackled, and the surround ing world became as dark as the dark est night. As the cloud reached the city there was another blinding flash and a loud report, and from north to south St. Pierre burst into flames. The only lire from the volcano was that of lightning. Flames do not come from the crater. Only a short distance from where the quays of St. Pierre were formerly situated stands the ruins of the beau tiful cathedral. Only a small section of the frout and rear walls are now standing, and between them are huge stones-the wreckage of the towers, the immense bell and the broken and desolated altar. The flow of mud has buried nearly everything. Here, In this .wreckage," were found many bod ies,' and it is very probable that at the time of the eruption the church was Ailed with people praying to the Al mighty for deliverance from the vol cano. These people, De it known, had been given not less than t >velve days' warning of the subsequent '-jtastrophe. The first eruption, on May 8th, left standing a large part of the cathedral, but-the second eruption, on May 20th, ;hops, banks and opera house and a city hall was now but a gray waste, on which dust and ashes had drifted in large piles covering heaps of stones that had formerly been reared in mag nificent edifices. The ruins of the Hotel de Ville, the City. Hall of St. Pierre, are shown in the photograph. This building stood in a great square, r\?iMs op Tr\e MOTEL PE VIIXC, Trte CITY /HA--t. or ST pierce,. .VJ. r where once had also been fountains, gardens and statues. In what was known as tilt- central section of the city there Is perhaps slightly less devastation than any where else. But even there it is nest to impossible to distinguish one house from another. In one of the ruins, however, I found n little crevice lilied with clay pipes, not one of which bad been broken in all of this ruin. Walls had tumbled ami toppled around them, and the blasts of superheated gases had killed and destroyed all life for miles around, nnd yet these little fragile pipes had remained intact. In another place we found a nest of china ware, with only a few pieces cracked by the intense lient. Here, also, im mense rocks had fallen, but in such a way as to protect the ware. Walking over and along where once was the Hue Victor Hugo down into Anse one is most forcibly reminded of Lord Lytton'? last days of Pompeii. There, where those smoldering ruins are now seen once stood the palatial residence ol' Dionied. A little beyond had lived Ciedlas .-111(1 down this street hail lied Mullens, hearing in his anns the beauriful (omi tit his beloved lone. But from St. Pierre no human soul es caped, and the novelist of the future, who attempts to narrate and describe the' horrors which befell St. Pierre Ott thai fcftefal morning of May Sib. must, If he be iniiilttii. bring n ?'sr differeut ending to his book" ifcftM Lord Lytton gives to his famous work. OTbe ?lient evidences given by the dead bodies scattered H'roughout tbe ruined city show conclusive'y that some of the pfiople, at least, saw the' Whirlwind of MieM eland, flashing lightning, burn ing gase? flttd boiling mud conting toward St. Pierre/fy.'** the burning hole on the summit of Pelee, but not om escaped.-New York Independent. BOSTON'S AERIAL CAMP A Unique Hospital For Sufferers by Heat Prostration. A "roof garden" for the treatment of heat prostration cases is the latest ad dition to the equipment of the Boston City Hospital Relief Station, says the Boston Herald. The flat top of the building has been closed by a raised platform, inclosed by a wovenwire iron . fence, and from iron stanchions erect ed at convenient points awnings have been stretched. When the work is com pleted the roof will have the appear ance of a camp of four or five tents. Each tent is equipped with two cots, and supplied with tables, chairs, etc., as well as adorned by plants and ferns. The sides of the tents are not placed in position in fair weather, in order that the patient may receive thc full benefit of the circulation of air, and when this circulation is not naturally induced electric fans will be operated ns auxiliaries. In addition to the mun BOSTON AERIAL HOSPITAL. ber of baili rooms especially provided in the body of the building for the treatment of heat cases, a portable bath tub will be installed on the roof. A Japanene IIoueUMtd. Japanese women servants have the reputation of being the most aristo cratic looking and haughty menials in existence. Some idea of the prettiness and daintiness of their dress may be obtained from the accompanying pic ture, which shows a typical "servant girl" of the land of the chrysanthemum about to set off for her morning's mar keting. These dainty little creatures are the most thrifty of workers, and the best of housekeepers and cooks, and if it were possible to induce a few* thousand of them to immigrate to America a solution of the ever existing "servant girl problem" might speedily be found. A New Field For Yoting Men. There appears to be a new field open nig up for ambitious young men. It is the field of scientific forestry-one of the most important malters of the day. The young forester has prospects of J? salary that equals that of the average college professor. To men of mental and physical vigor who delight in na ture and outdoor life, this would seem to be a congenial and lucrative occu pation. In fores ?d States the aban doned stum lands need scientific at tention.-Success. Grinding drain in Japan. Japan and the Japanese are progres sive, but hand labor is so cheap that progress in some directious will be nec essarily slow. There are now hundreds of water, steam and electric power es tablishments in Japan, but the hand mill is still exclusively used all over the agricultural districts of the Mi JAPANKSE GRAIN GRINDER. kudo's Empire. Thc cut shown here with, executed in Japanese style, shows the process. Like American Slioen. The sale ol line shoes of American manufacture in Canada bas trebled in (<>c years. It is .s!i;n.i:cd that it will this year amount io $JUU,UU?. THE MARCH OF MEDICAL PROGRESS, We used to have the measles f* When vf o were children smalL And various other aliments Which commonly befall. Although their names were simpl They flllod us with dismay, But with maturer {Sorrow? We laid thom all away. It's "teno-synovitis" That gets us going lame; Wo find there is a new disease That goes with every game. And 'mid these strange afflictions, Some comfort we may clotcb; Although their names are more severo, Thoy do not hurt so much. -Washington Star. HUMOROUS. Wigg-lg he a man of intelligence? Wagg-I suppose so. At any rate, he has never served on a jury. Halton-What is the difference be tween a physician and a "medical ex pert? Steele-About $48 every visit. White Chick-My mother had four legs. Black Chick-Get out! Waite Chick-Yes; my mother was an incuba tor. Blobbs-What a silent, taciturn fel low Gotrox is. Slobbs-Yes; he be lieves in letting his money do the talk ing. Tommy-Pop, what is a despot? Tommy's Pop-A despot, my son, is a -a-well, it's something like a hired girl." Nell-Why doesn't she try to im prove her mind? Belle-I suppose she's too busy trying to improve her complexion. Hook-What was the outcome of their marriage? Nye-The outcome? How do I know? I don't even know their income. "Poets," remarked the Wise Guy, "are born." "That's funny," said the Simple Mug. "I always thought they grew on trees." Tiger-Why is Miss Hippo chasing Mr. Monk through the jungle? Lion Why, he had the audacity to ask if she wished her picture enlarged. Miss Olde-How did your trousers come to be worn at the knees? Cinder Sam-By kneelin' down an' proposin' to pretty ladies like yourself, mum. "Amelia," faltered the young man, "I love you." "Oh, herbert," she said, clasping her h?nds together, "what A long, long time it has taken you to say so." The Caller-I wish tb leave this man uscript with you. I may not be a fin ished poet, but-. The Editor-But if you're not quick, you may be. Ah! Go ing? Poet-This little poem is all my ow .. lt is my first, and I worked hard-. Editor-Indeed? I wouldn't be so cruel as to take it from you, then. Good-day. "I was without money," related the great tragedian; "but I toured the Far West." "Indeed!" ejaculated the -friend; "who was behind you?" "Oh, the sheriff, most of the time." "Lady," began the dusty wayfarer, "could you help a poor sufferer of Mont PePe?" "Mont Pelee?" echoed the boase wife: "why, you are no resident of Martinique." "I know dat, mum, but I am a sufferer just de same. Half de things kind ladies had saved for me dey sent down dere." Hester-People are so queer; I sang at an entertainment the other evening and if you'll believe it, not a soul had a word to say about my performance. What do you think of that? Bertha They certainly were very considerate, dear; but I should think they might have found something to say that would not injure your feelings. M ? li lng BascbalU. The process of making baseballs on a wholesale plan is a rather interesting one .consuming in a single season something like 8000 skins. The scrapings from the shoe factories, of which the "raw" balls are moulded, are stored in cellars of about one acre area, and from this material the balls are shaped by hand. According to quality, the ball is bound by a few or several dozen rounds of cord. The "raw" balls are placed in automatic moulds, shaping the ball, and at the same time press ing out all moisture, to the tune of three hundred gross a day. One em ployee will shape as many as 4000 of these raw balls in a single working day, says the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The newly pressed balls are then sorted and allowed to dry out for a period of from three to four weeks, when their weight is reduced to per haps five ounces. Something like two hundred of these twine-bound leather I balls can be found in the bins at all times. In the mean time the skin covers for thc balls have been seasoned and dressed on the floor below, and, as a last stage in the process, rubbed back and forth against an upright blade, to take out all kinks iii the skins and also whiten them. The covers are cut from the skins by hand and sewn around the balls by women. Each woman is expected to finish 15 dozen balls daily. From every skin from 15 to 30 pairs of covers are obtained. All in all, it. takes about s s weeks to turn out a baseball, and the prices of the product will vary from 3 cents to $1.25. The largest sales are of the 5-cent balls. An Exception. "It is a great injustice to say that we put prices up," said the trust mag nate. "I am sorry if I have done you any injustice," answered the plain citizen, "but there is a general impression to that effect" "It is a very erroneous impression. When we desire to buy anything our selves we always put the prices down." -Washington Star. Th? Field of Danger. . Greene-Some folks fancy that golf is a dangerous game. Do you think there is any danger in it? Gage-I had two friends who got en gaged on the golf links last season. Boston Transcript Salmon frozen in Oregon and shipped to the cities of Germany can bd bought there for 35 cents a pound, while German salmon costs $1.25 a