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! . HER 1 HOUR OF A ROMANCE OF BY MARGUER AY," Mollie," said Nolan, in . an * off-hand manner, ".what's that fellow in the .leggings doin' up here?" The sun had passed the meridian, and the shadows were beginning to fall oe Nolan's side. The hop-field code of courtesy demands that -when a man is picking with a "lady** he give ber always the shady side. But Nolan, in his perturbation of mind, forgot his manners. "Nothin'," came indifferently from Mollie, feeling the rays pelting down ?Trpou her head, and remembering the thoughtfulness pf the fellow in the leggings in pulling the fullest vines down on her side. "Say, Mollie," asked Nolan, persua sively; after a half-hour's silence, dur ing which time several couples had changed sides so that tbs girl might have the benefit of 142 shade, "what was he hangln* round you all morn in' for?" "Nothin'!" The black eyes were stubbornly glued to their work, while beads, of perspiration stood out on the round, tanned cheeks. Thereafter, vine after vine was reached and .stripped in oppressive silence. At length, after having de cided to adopt ? course of moody .silence, which should break the "haughty spirit of this girl, and make her hang upon his slightest word, Nolan, heard himself say, before he knew it, in tender, coaxing tones: "Say, Mollie, what was ho talkin' to you about,^nnyw-ay?" aVNothinM " Mollie's chin went into the air and her lips snapped together like the blades of a jack-knife. Thc beads, of perspiration brui grown into rivulets that trickled from nose to x fchin, and splashed into the basket. .T?he foreman of the field rode hy sev eral-times, and noticed gratefully there /was,; less talking and more work being done between: the two than usual, and when at last the shadows grew so long it did not matter which side of the row. she-was on, and the sjui begun to redden bel ?nd a bank of smoke and dust, the joyful sound of the quitting ben' pealed over the fields. Arms just lifted to reach a vine, hands in the'act of stripping a branch, fingers - just crooked to pick a last hop, stopped and fell empty at the sound of that first tap. The unhappy Nolan could not stop his thoughts so quickly, nor resist a last appealing. "Say, Mollie, what's the matter with yon, anyway?" But"the maid only threw a defiant '.'Nothin'!" over her shoulder as she was joined at the end of thc row by a tall fellow in leggings. The black eyes lost their defiance, the lips rippled into smiles as she pushed her sun-bonnet back and looked up into thc laughing face under the sombrero. "Great place, isn't it?" the tall fel low said, half to himself, as he watched the pickers filing by-China men, Indians, Japs, and whites of ev ery-brand, and all sorts of conditions. .There was the objectionable clement of "hobos," of course, in plentitudc, but the majority of the pickers were tK& inen -who; after harvesting their cwn meagre little Ji^y crops, packed their .'wagons, loaded in their families, Titled to th^ir dogs,, and started off .. Jfree or four weeks* camp injthe hop-fields. With these families it is a regular instifaition, and the one in teresting occasion of the year. Herc n?wfacq?aintanccs ave made, foot-hill gossip exchanged for tule district scan dals, flirtations and romances spring up, flourish, and die, with the hops, and most of the back country belles date their social debut from the Sat-, urday night dances. Mollie stole a one-sided glance at the fellow in the leggings, and took in every detail as his eyes followed the crowd. She held her head just a trifle, higher than usual when familiar faces looked up and saw her chatting with this stylish looking fellow in the cor duroy knickers. In fact, when some of her Coon Creek friends came along, she found it Inconvenient to look their way, for she felt that in refined society their "Hello Mol!" would not be con sidered good form. "How long have you worked here?" the tall fellow asked her, shortening his stride^ tb fall in with her little trip. Mollie, delighted to be called upon for information, gurgled out everything she knew about the hop-fields; the ad vantage of being paid by the piece instead of the day, the amount the average picker could make a day, the weighing in the baskets, the processing in the kiln, the pressing and baling, and the joys of the dance given every Saturday night. Adding, for she could scarcely believe this distinguished-look ing personage could be a common picker, like Mike Nolan and Pinny Smith, and thc rest of them: "Are you visiting at Hoptown?" .iNo," the fellow laughed. "I'm a cit izen, if I can stand these beastly .hours. For the next few weeks I'm a son of the soil in order to fill up my coffers for the next semester," This fellow relished the dilating power of the black eyes beside him, and Mollie, having studied Short Primer of Chem istry, felt herself on an intellectual level with this'college senior. As they neared the camp ehe was conscious of a double row of curious eyes peering at her from under tent flaps, but tucking her chin up into the*alr, ?be walked along as oblivious of them, apparently, as if she and this new-friend were alone in a wilderness. Before picking-time tho next morn ing-it was thoroughly understood by all the tenters on Mollie's side of the" field that Nolan's race was run, and that Mollie had a,-new "steady" from "below," as the southern counties are termed by thc inhabitants of the north ern.. Nolan, his wrath cooled by a night's repose, became awarexof this fact when *?e waited at the usuai trysting place "\e *rst row of poles, and saw the ..i sombrero-looming up in the wake of the blue sun-bonnet. The rest of thc day-he was pursued by the cheerful jibes of his friends about being thrown down for a city "guy." Poor Mike, even his dauntless good humor went /down under their clumsy efforts at consblation. Bat Mike Nolan was not the only one suddenly'effaced from the girl's fickle men?ory. There were Pinny, and Spike and'Big Terry,-into whose youug and susceptible hearts her black eyes had, burned big holes, now not even seen .when they passed her on the row. . The cy?s under the sombrero lost nothing of the situation.- This little girl was undoubtedly^ pretty after a sort" of wild-rose type, she certainly wasche only one in the field who could 3RIEF TRIUMPH THE HOP-FIELDS. ITE STABLER. help to make the long hot days en durable to him. Her eyes had a way of widening when he talked to her, which was highly agreeable to him, and he spared no opportunity to produce that effect. Her cheeks, too, had a frank little way of going pink-sometimes red-when the allusion, was direct .enough-and altogether her open ad miration put a fine gilt edge on his self-esteem. "Is it possible you have never been to San Francisco?" he asked her, one day. "Nb, I've never been there," she ad mitted, apologetically, "but," she hastened to add, in order to dispel any idea of rusticity that admission might have given, "I've been twice to Ked Bluff, and we live only nine miles from Coon Creek." "Have you ever thought you might' like to live there?" he pursued, reach ing up to pull down a cut vine from the pole. His glance was very direct this time, and his tones full of meaning. It was pretty to see her. eyes and cheeks glow with a deeper hue, so in tent was he on noting the effect he could produce with the slightest touch. He did not wait for an answer, but went on. "Wouldn't you like-" But just then tho Sacramento train thundered by on the trestle, drowning his words, but not the look in his eyes. And on the the heels of that, the noon bell rang, at which everybody quit work, and they walked up to thc set tlement together in silence-little Mol lie's feet touching thc ground only in high places, her foolish little heed 'way tip in the clouds, the man's thoughts miles away from the scene about him, and thc hope of his heart centred on getting on thc 'varsity foot ball team. By the end of thc season Miss .Mol lie's social circle had narrowed down to few more than her own family, and one tall man. She had discovered her tastes to be of the climbing variety, and had reached the fatal conclusion that not one of her old friends at Coon Creek possessed a particle bf culture or s'.yle. And when, before dispersing for another year, the pickers prepared to give a grand ball in honor of the wind-up of the hop-season, Mollie de termined to chow them the size of the gulf that now yawned between her self and them. These hop-pickers' dances are open to every one. so there are not many lines of social distinction drawn. The men exchange their bandana neck 'kerchiefs for stiff celluloid collars, and the girls wash out a sprigged lawn frflfck, and are radiant and ready for the frolic. But Mollie, with a reck less slash into her summer's earnings, burst upon the scene, on thc eventful evening, an animated billow of frills, and flounces, and furbelows. As thc frolic progressed, thc tall fellow with his sombrero under his arm, watched the scene from the door way with an amused, wondering smile. The big dining room that seated 500 hungry pickers three times a day had been transformed lu less than an hour into a dancing hall. The tables had been hoisted to the ceiling by stout bale ropes, where they were secured to the rafters, while the'shelf that ran the length of the room on both "lien, Was studded"at regular interv?is^wlth empty bottles, into each of which was stuck a tallow candle. After the good old-fashioned custom, Pinny Smith, with a- girl in a yellow frock, led off the grand march, after which there were polkas, quadrilles, schottisches, and dances his town-bred feet had forgotten, or never learned. When his eye caught Mollie's, he crossed the roora to ask her for a dance. From the opposite doorway Spike had started toward her at tlie same time. She held her fan-a gauzy, flimsy thing that represented the price of several long days' picking, so she might not seem to notice Spike-and her breath in fear lest he should reach her first. The fellow'in the leggings was so interested ia his surroundings he walked slowly, and Spike, she saw, was gaining. In a second he would be within speaking range and all would be lost. The next instant she rose to her feet, turned her back on the crest fallen Spike, and reached her hand toward the tall fellow, approaching in his leisurely, indifferent manner. When thc accordion began to wall out "The Blue aud the Gray," the man found to his surprise-this little back woods beauty could dance.- She didn't hop, ncr "scrape matches," nor stiffen like a poker in his arms; she danced with that lithe free grace with which a bird flics, or a fish swims', because it was the natural expression of her. bubbling, lightsome spirits. But, all too soon the. music wa* stopped, and there was a .mad stam pede for the counter, over which pink lemonade and cookies were sold. Thc leggined fellow, however, led the ra diant little girl.out into the moonlight, which had transformed the denuded redwood hop-poles into endless colon nades. Regardless of her slippers and flounces, everything but the dominat ing presence of thc man beside her, she strolled down the row on the rough bare ground. When they regained the ball room pro tera., the music had struck into the long, swinging strains of -"Creole Belles," Again they circled 'round and 'round, never pausing for n breath until the music stopped. Happy little Mollie! This was her brief hour of triumph, and she carried it off with a high hand. Her Coon Creek friends, who were not too dazzled by her airs and graces, came up as usKal and asked her for a dance, but the next one was always engaged. Nolan looked a moment longingly in her direction when he caught the first bar of "The Honeysuckle and the Bee," but having heard of the treatment ac corded the other fellows, he turned and consoled himself with the Hen essy girls. When at last the danoo was over, when thc accordion had wheezed out the plaintive strains of Home, Sweet Home," and the happy dancers paired off in twos for the best part of the evening's fun-the walk home in the moonlight-Mollie wondered, in her simple little soul, if heaven could bc any better than this. Her companion did not tell her that bc was going away thc next morning until they had reached her own tent door.- He had fancied she might be. sorry, but had not imagined she would care so much. He was sorry the moon was not brighter, for he knew he was missing much of the tell-tale play of expression in her eyes and cheeks. And when, arter repeated protestations of remembering her until his dying day, and promises cf coming up to Coon Creek to visit Uncle Sy's dairy ranci? tho very first chance ho got, he tool?. her hand to say "good-by" and bent so low her cheeks Aimed up as red .'.s her lips. But she could not have been so angry as she pretended to be. be cause, after thc lights were out all up and down the line, they were still saying "good-by." It was not a long walk to noptown station, and next day tho tall young fellow, again in tweeds and a Panania hat, tramped up and down the plat form, impatient to be back into tho stir and bustle of the life he had left, and recounting to himself for the hun dredth time his chances of getting cn the 'varsity team as half-back. "Hello, old man:", he shouted, cs he jumped en the step, wondering at this gathering of thc clans. "Hello! Hello!" a volley of voices echoed as he entered the car. "Just coming down from Shasta," one of the fellows explained; "my sister and some friends of hers In the car. Come onl" Tho train moved slowly when it crossed the trestle. Mollie had counted on that, and hurried to the end of thc hop-field so she might get a'Jas't smiling adieu from the car Avindov.\ Four, five, six windows slipped by, and-her heart began to fail, but at tho eighth, there he ires, looking toward her, too. The bla.ck eyes widened .ns tho wintlow came abreast of her fence-post. Yes, his head was turned in her direction, but why, oh why, did he not see her handkerchief waving wildly at him: The next moment brought into view a fair-haired girl in the seat behind him. and the same look, tho same smile she had lived upon all these weeks were bent upon the new face. It could not be possible that he had fovgotten hei already!- Still, trusting little Mollie waved her handkerchief, and then her bonnet., His head was turned in her direction, but he had eyes for no one but this trim-looking girl with thi dotted veil. A moment more and the train was gone, the rear end of the baggage car grew smaller and dimmer, till it was out of sight. When the forlorn little figure turnee back to the hop-field, a great, dry sot In her throat and an empty ache in hoi heart, the one or two Coon Creek peo ple she met let her see they had learned they were not expected to speak to her At a turn in the road she passed a hilarious group of pickers exchanging tin-types with hearty promises of meet ing again next year. Pinny was there, lavishing peanuts and gum on the crowd, and though he saw her, he did not look np. She drew her bonnet down over her eyes and told herself she didn't care. But as she walked up the long, hot avenue alone, she met Nolan, his high spirits restored, walk ing home with the red-haired Henessy girl.-San Francisco Argonaut. MOOSE AND LOCOMOTIVES. The L'.-.ual Result of Their Comin? To cether. The spunky and stubuurn bull moose has again been defying the locomotive in Maine, with the usual disastrous results-to the moose. This time a whole moose family was wiped ont in about ten seconds, making a great waste of big game and a lot of w for the section men. It was on Tuesday last that i engineer of a freight train on t Bangor and Arcostook road, as h locomotive rounded a sharp curve c a down grade, saw on the track . few rods ahead three moose-a bit bull, a cow and a calf. He sounded the whistle expecting to see thc wh^c family make a break for th?:woods, but they stood their .ground, and the bull, with a snort of defiance, braced himself for the combat, swinging bia great antlered head as though he ex pected to toss the locomotive sky high. The shriek of thc whistle sent men scurrying over the tops of the cars, setting brakes, while the engineer had the brakes on locomotive and tender clamped up so tightly that the wheels were sliding and smoking over thc rails. The speed of the train and its momentum were too great, however, to be overcome in the short distance, and down swept the fast freight upon the heroic moose family. There waa a crash and a crunching under the wheels, while blood spattered over the boiler head, and fragments of moose went whirling through the air. When, a few rods further on, the train was brought to a stop, it was found that all three of the moose had been killed, the carcasses of the cow and thc calf being thrown some dis tance from the track, while the car cass of the bull had been ground under the wheels. At the next station the section boss was informed, and a crew was sent back to bury the moose family. The men said that the bull was a monster-one of the largest ever seen along the line of the Aroo stook road. A few days ago a train on the Inter colonial railway ran a race with a big moose which was promenading the track near Dalhousie Junction. The moose ran for half a mile or more at surprising speed, and then, finding that the footing was bad on the tics, left the track and ran along in the ditch. Here the animal tried to jump a high wire fence, but stuck half way over and hung there while the train came up. One of the passengers says that the moose looked puzzled and ashamed when the train passed him. Bangor (Me.) Correspondent of thc New York Tribune. How He Saved Himself. A prominent clergyman used to tell of one of his parishioners who had been very sick: A physician had given him some medicine and told him he could go out, but under no circum stances was ho to get wet. The man wont out on the farm and a shower of rain came up suddenly. There was no shelter near, and to save himself he crawled into a hollow log. Tho action of the rain caused the log to shrink so as.to endanger his life. He could not move, and being brought face to face with death the whole of his past life came before bim as in a panorama. He remembered the days of his childhood, his entrance upon life, his successes and his sins, then he remembered, last of all, that when he left home that morning he re fused his wife, when she asked him for fifty cents, for the church, and the thought made him feel so small that he had no difficulty in getting out of thc log.-Grace Church Bells. A Chanced Mon. A Scotchman had reached the sum mit of his ambitions, says Everybody's Magazine, in attaining to the magiste rial bench. Thc honor seemed to him a great one, and he tried to live up to it. With his head high in thc air he swaggered along till lie went bolt up against a cow winch had not the man ners to get out of the way, but contin ued to browse by the roadside in mild unconcern. "Mon," cried thc indignant owner, "mind my coo!" "Woman," he replied, with fine dig nity, "Im no longer a mon. I'm a bail Ho-"-_. Flimsy English Building. It used to be affirmed that English building if tardier was more thorough than American. But this view of the case wiil no longer serve. American building ls decidedly more thorough and serviceable. I have yet to find a house in all London which Is not the prey of drafts. Inri c ud, the horrible dampness of English winters might be shorn of its worst bed room, sitting room and dining room terrors if houses were more solidly put together. In the older parts of the "West End thia shell-like quality of structures con stantly surprises and annoys the for eigner. It is all very well for him if ho comes here to spend a few sum mer weeks. Then he lauds the "de licious coolness" of the climate and fails to realize that in winter stealthy air currents would creep upon him from every quarter. There are hun dreds of houses in the emart regions of Portland place, Bayswater, Knights bridge and Kensington, where an ut ter lack of repair prevails, where sometimes the wind almost whistles below the ill-Joined doors, and where gas is often absent from all but one or two apartments. And yet for lodg ings in these houses prices are at all times asked which a New Yorker would regard, in his own city, as the quintessence of extortion.-The Con servator. "I had a most stubborn cough for many years. It deprived me of sleep end I grew very thin. I then tned Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was quickly cured." R. N. Mann, Fall Mills, Tenn. Sixty years of cures and such testimony as the above have taught us what Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will do. We know it's the great est cough remedy ever made. And you will say I so, too, after you try it. ^here's cure in ever/arop. Three sizes : 25c, 50c, $1. AU dragtfsts. Consnlt your doctor. If lio says tako lt, then do as ho says. If he tells yon not to take it, thou don't take lt. Ho knows. Leavo lt with him. Wo are willing. J. U. AV Eli CO.. Lowell, Mass. THE BEST SHOE IN AMERICA FC li ?ii n.f to US . .oil WHERE _ YOU CAN GET THEM. CRAPPOCK-f ERRY COL LEADING SHOE MANUFACTURERS OF THE SOUTH. LYNCHBURG - VA. My skin was sallow, I had a bad taste in my mouth in . th? morning and my breath was offensive at times and occasionally I had a bad headache. Bv the use of Ripans Tabules I am now , in a condition to attend to my daily duties, my appetite is excellent and my diges tion much improved. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, GO cents, contains a supply for a year. il Indigestion Pains 1 RELIEVED IMMEDIATELY BY 0 g SOOTHES THE STOMACH Sold a.t Drugstores 21.. IO*. -^wi-ii' ?I.II m Dringt. Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In bolt. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something jost as good." I PAY SrOT CASK FOR Mtt&A?%* LAND WARRANTS taned to soldiers uf any wnr. Also Soldiers' Addi tional Homestead Lights. Write ute at (inc FKANK H. BEG?K, r.O. Box MS, Denver, Colo. Bed Seal Shoes Money Savin/. Catalog ???Give the name of this pm,er wiiei. writing to advertlSers-(At. 50, '02) RAREST OF DELACIES. DIAMOND BACK TERRAPIN OFTEN BRING $100 A DOZEN. How the Species is Hunted-High Cost Encourages the Use of Substitutes Danger of Extinction-Found By Sounding With a Stick. Crlsfield, 'Md., is now the chief source of terrapin supply, although a few are sent to market each season from the Choptank River and the wa ters of Talbot County. For some years the dealers at Crisfield and other points have been gathering the diamond backs, a few at a time, and keeping them in pounds staked off in the water. Nearly all the good Chesa peake terrapin left are nov/ impris oned in these pounds, it is estimated. It la illegal to market those under five inches in length on the lower shell, and pound men keep the undersized until they reach the required length. Prices at Crisfield now are: For those seven to eight inches long, $60 a dozen; six to seven inches, $3G a dozen; five to six inches, $14 a do?,en, and under five inches $2 a dozen. There seems to be a g-oat discrep ancy between $G0 and $2 a dozen, out of all proportion to the size, but ter rapin are distinguished for more quali ties than mere price. As they in crease in flavor with age and appear to be more tender, the one hundred or more years of a terrapin's existence is worthy of some consideration. Then, as said before, tho small ones cannot be marketed, and not every hunter is able to keep them until they reach the proper size. The item of cost is considerably in creased, however, before the diamond back is found on the banquet board. Orders from consumers are usually placed with city dealers, who may or may net bc able to fill them from the stocks on hand. If a dealer receives a large order and hasn't a sufficient supply, he skirmishes around among other dealers, and frequently sends to other cities. New York and Philadel phia are thus drawn upon at times by Baltimore dealers to meet demands, but as a rule it is this city that is ask ed to help out her Northern sisters. In the course of the diamond back's' progress from his native waters to the epicure's table its value begins to soar. The prices to the consumer range from $30 to SSO or more a dozen. As only the wealthy can enjoy the delici ous dish, and as most of those who in clude it in their special menus desire as good an article as they can get, the cost is usually from SCO to S75 a dozen. Large sizes readily bring $100. Catching terrapin for market was once more or less followed as a busi ness all along the bay shores, but it is now practically an incidental of the waterman's life, as the scarcity of thc game makes the hunt unprofitable. It is considered a great piece of luck at present to find a diamond back or two snuggled down in the mud. Dredg ing for them with drass somewhat resembling the crab net was lucrative at one time, but ls now almost forgot ten. The few found arc taken in a different way. The diamond-back hunter goes out to the marshes with a slender iron bar or "prod," which he sticks down at in tervals of about six inches in spots which look to him as though likely to hide the pre}*. Early in the fall the terrapin go to the marshes and bury themselves in the soft mud to the depth of a foot or more. Many sink in the mud at the bottom of a muskrat run. Others select some retired pond and disappear from sight in its ooze. In these places the "prodder" hunts usually after the first winter thaw of ice. The terrapin then seems to rise almost to the top of tho mud and sink again, leaving p. distinct depression as it settles back in place. When struck with the blunt end of the iron prod the hunter pulls the quarry out with a little hook in one end of the bar. Sometimes a piece of wood is struck with tho rod. The novice is unable to distinguish between the sound made upon thc wood and the ring of a terra pin's back, but. to tho experienced hunter it is quite different, and he sel dom makes mistakes. The old hun ters say that the terrapin never hi bernates in deep water, but always seeks the shallows or thc marshes in which to bury. In collecting terrapin enough for a shipment the reptiles are sometimes kept for several weeks out of their native element. They are usually stor ed in a dry temperate room or box un til ready to be sent to market. Thc desultory collector or one not regularly in the business usually shins his terrapin to market in small lots soon after securing them and they arc kept in the storage houses of city deal ers until wanted. They arc usually placed in a dry room or large box and left to shift for themselves. One local dealer states that his firm has had $10.000 worth on hand at a time, "but that hasn't been within the last ten years," he added. The bay-shore collectors and dealers usually come to the city about November 1 to ar range for marketing the season's sup ply. The scarcity of the genuine article and the resillar demand for it have, of course, led to the use of substitutes, some of which are sold and bought in good faith, while frequently the sub stitute masquerades an the banquet board as the highly prized diamond back. One of the most frequently used of these pseudo diamond-backs is the Biloxi terrapin, so called because it comes principally from the marshes and bayous of the gulf near Biloxi, Miss. The "golden" also often takes the place of its more aristocratic rela tive at stately functions. Many golden come from the West. The meat of these plebian cousins of the lordly diamond back is not as dark, but only to the educated taste is much different from thc real luxury. The golden and Biloxi articles arc also increasing in value as the demand for them grows, and those of good size and other mar ketable attainments sometimes reach as high as $25 a dozen. With the passing of the diamond back the business of developing "sliders" and "red-belly" terrapin for market has begun in some sections of tho Eastern Shore. The "slider" orton attains large proportions, weighing as much as twenty pounds or more. The "rod-belly" is a smaller species. The larger variety occasionally sells for as high as $2.50 apiece, though thc aver age price is from 75 cents to $1.50. The smaller variety sells for from 75 cents to $1.50 a dozen. These terrapin bury in thc mud from three to five feet deep and, like the diamond-back, are found by sounding with a stick and pulled out with a hook. Thc female, before she deposits her eggs, is most sought arter, as the numerous eggs add greatly to the rich ness of the prepaiod disn. The fe male terrapin deposits her eggs rang ing from twenty-five to thirty in nura ber, in the sandy fields near her breed ing grounds. The eggg aro covered with sand and pocked at night, and the terrapin seeks the water again be fore the hot sun reaches her. Old trappers say they have known terra pin to be killed by the sun while mak ing their way to the marsh after lay ing. The crow is the greatest enemy to the terrapin, hunting out their nests and destroying the eggs by whole sale.-Baltimore Sun. Gas as Fuel. v . The use of gas as a fuel and source of power has made wonderful strides during the past decade, and present in dications point to a still more marked advancement in the methods ci pro duction and systems of ?ghting, heat ing and power supply, says Mines and Minerals. The systems of incandes cent gas lighting, so prevalent and popular at the present time, depend for their efficiency wholly upon the heating power of gas, rather than on its luminosity. Water gas or pro ducer gas will undoubtedly be the fu ture heating and lighting agencies, and along the lines of their production will be directed most of the forces of in vestigation and improvement. The future trend of gas production will probably be in favor of generator rather than retort gases, which ought to result in purer gases, i. e., gases of a fairly constant chemica^ composition. Ireland's Land Holders. There are really very few large land owners in Ireland. Most of the wealthy Irish landed gentry derive their incomes from sources other than their Irish estates. For instance, in the King's County there are 600 land lords, of whom 100 are possessed of over 1,000 acres of land and 200 per sons own less than 300 acres. There are only two landlords ii. the county who own estates of considerable size. One is Lord Digby, who is the owner of 30,000 acres, and the other, Lord Rosse, who has 22,000 acres. In the County of Cork, whoch is. of course, the biggest county in Ireland, there aro 8,000 landlords, of whom 3,000 own less than one acre of ' nd. Of the re maining 5,000 landlord* there are but. twenty who possess over 10,000 acres; of these twenty estates at least ten are insolvent, and consequently thc owners do not receive a penny from them in the way of income. Altogether there are about 30,000 landed proporle tors in Ireland, but it is doubtful if one of them receives anything like a big income from his Irish estates. London Tatler. Englishman's Use cf Holidays. People ma" argue that there are too many bank holidays in England, and there is undoubtedly some reason in the contention, but for all that no ono will ever persuade the average Eng lishman that a bank holiday is not ono of the very best things in life. It is the onion that animates the salad of his labor. In the midst of his labor ious days it shines ahead of him as the lights of home shine to the mariner. He saves up his money for it, he studies maps and railv ay guides for weeks ahead of the auspicious morn, and he even buys a new pa'r of brown shoes for its greater glory. All these things may appear as vanities in the eyes of the bustling American, who cannot be persuaded that men were intended for any purpose in thc world other than one of hard and grinding labor. But people have come to think that the expectation of such occasions as bank holidays-the pleasure of a whole day spent at thc seaside or in green woodlands, and the entire freedom from the environment of one"s normal existence-lend to a toil of zest, a spring and an elasticity which manifest themselves in the character and qual'ty of thc work. That is the theory, a1; all events. Of course, where such festivals are celebrated by brutish debauchery they are occasions of evil, but the working classes as a whole arc certainly beginning to free themselves from the charge that they cannot keep holiday without getting drunk.-London Globe. Cave Bears Caught in a Trap. News has reached Frfessor J. C. Merriman, head of thc palentological department of the University of Cali fornia, that a cavern bas been explored near Baird, says a San Francisco special in the New York Herald. Mr. Sinclair, the geologist, who has con tinued the work in the cavern made famous by the discovery of the ursus spelaeus. ot cave bear, reports the dis covery or a branch cave replete with fossil material. Upon entering thc newly opened cave he found tho surface of thc cav ern floor littered with the bones of tho giant cave bear, just as they had lain there for thousands of years, since the egress of their lair was filled up and they were trapped by the slipping of thc earth. Thc bones found in the main cavern were buried deep in silt, and it was questioned whether or not tho origi nal animals had lived in the cave or their bones had been washed in by subterranean waters. The discovery of Mr. Sinclair proves conclusively that an ancient den of the monsters has been uucovcred. Spaghetti as a Weapon. Judge A. M. Aucoln of the Second City Criminal Court was confronted With a delicate and puzzling question in thc case of Frank Klem, a Gorman merchant. Is Sphaghetti a dangerous weapon? That was the question. Mrs. Kiefer charged that the merchant assaulted her with a bunch of spaghetti, and the corpus de licti was clearly proven. Judge Aucoin, for the benefit and guid ance of jurists throughout thc land, held that spaghetti was not a danger ous weapon, but that despite this fact an assault with spaghetti could be made, and the person so offending was amenable to the lav/ thc same as if the weapon used had been a bludgeon of a meat ax. The testimony showed that Mrs. Kiefer sent to Klem's p'acc for five cents' worth of spaghetti; that when she received it she considered it spoiled and sen: it back, and Instead, of getting her money refunded she says abuses worn heaped upon her through her messenger. Then tho lady called on the grocer In person. The merchant, it. is alleged, at sonic point during the Babylonic colloquy threw the spaghetti in the lady's face and threatened to throw a weight at her. The Court thought this fact was clearly established. "Spaghetti is not a dangeraus weapon," said the Court, "but the defendant is guilty of the assault and will be held for sentence. -New Orleans Times-Democrat. Use Pe-rtHia For Cou Catarrh-4 Congi In every country of the civilized world Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and in tellectual needs of the charges committed to thrir care, hut they also minister to their bodily needj. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease these wise and prudent Sisters have found P?rima a never failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Cathode Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., road as follows: Dr. S. Ii. Hartman, Columbus. Ohio: De-xr Sir:-"Tlie young girl who used the Feruna was suffering from laryngitis, and los* of voice. The result of the treatment waa most satisfactory. She found great relief, and af ter further use of the medi cine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured.?-Sisters of Charity. The young girl waa under the care of the Sister* ot Charity and used Peruna for ca tarrh of the throat, with good results, as the above letter testifies. Send to tlie Peruna Medicino Co., Co lumbus, Ohio, for a free book written by Dr. Hartman. LST-:*'.~V-l-w-r-.V-^-'N -4.-...-.. ..-.-J.-.>-~i>^i,i?s FOR GRA&??TES. K?vrK TAKE DOWi> A Winchester Ta] a strong shooting trap or duck shooi modified choke or? ing, lists at only less. This makes reach of everybc Shotguns outshoo double barrel gun WINCHESTER REPE Al Mother of Her Country. Six men held the title of "Father of His Country" before Washington. Few seem to know that there was a "Moth er of Her Country." She was Maria Theresa, the great Empress cf Aus tria, according to the New York Press. It is said she made only one mistake in the course of her reifrn-consenting to the partition of Poland. On the edge of the document given her to sign she wrote: "I consent because so many great and learned men will have it so, but after I am dead and gono people will see the consequence of thus break ing through all that has hitherto been holy and just." Her daughter was the unhappy Marie Antoinette. Sr. Louis And San Francisco R. R. Offers to the colonist half fare, plus $2.00, to points in Arkansas, Missouri. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories, on th? following dates : Nov. 4 and 18, Dec. 2 and 1G, Jan, ? and 20. Feb. 3 nnd 17, March 3 und 17, April 7 and 21. YVrite for advertising matter, rates and information to W.T. SAUNDERS, G. A.P.D., Atlanta, Gu. RUBBING IT IN. He-if you wefuse me I shall put a bullet thwough my bwain. She-The idea! How could you? He-I suppose you think I'm talk ing like a cwazy man? She-Oh, no. like a sharpshooter. Philadelphia Press. 8100 Reward. 8100. The readers of this paper will bo pleased to Jearn that thero is at least ono dreaded dis ease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo is the only positive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's CntnrrhCure is taken inter nally, acting directly up jn tho blood and mu cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy up; the foundation of tho disease, und giving the patient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have so much faith In it? curative powere that they ofter One Hun dred Dollars for anv case tha't it falls to cure, ifend for Hst of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Basle has thc on'.y zoological garden in Switzerland._ n. H. GREEN'S SONS, of Atlanta, Ga., an tho only successful Dropsy Specialists In tho world. Soo their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this papor Thc man who is always on time often has to wait. FITSnermauontlycurod.No fits or nervous nessafter?lrst day's uso ot Dr. Kline's Groat Nerveltestoror. Atrial bottlo and treatlsefreo Dr.H. ll. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. I Detached bits ot human skin live two to ten 'lays. Mr?. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childroa teethin^.softea the gums, reduces lnflamraa tiontaUaya pain,euros wind colic. '25c.abotl.lo A Jlcr?iner takes on thc avcrago 120 street car rides a year. Fruit acids will not stain goods dy willi PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. There is now one lunatic in Ireland for every 173 of the population. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken ol ns a cough cure.-J. W. O'JBBIEN, 8?2 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Mina., Jan. 6,1931 Thc man of many parts seldom parts his name in tlje middle, . ?ghs, Colds, Grip and' .essruan's Letter. The following letter is from Congressman Meekison, of Mapoleon, Ohio: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0.: Gentlemen: "I J have used several * bottles of Peruna * and feel greatly * benefited thereby $ from my catarrh J of the head, and # ^> feel encouraged to % believe that its J continued use will n fully eradicate a J? disease of thirty . years' standing. ' $ DatM Meekln80n. -DavidMeekison. < Dr. Hartman, one of the best known! physicians and surgeons in the United! ?states, was the first mau to formulate Pe-j nina. It was through his genius and perse-! veranee that it was introduced to the medi cal profession of this country. If you do not derive prompt and satisfac-i ton.' results from the usc of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state-i ment of ymir case and he will be pleased' to give youvhis valuable advice gratis. i Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitorium. Columbas. Ohio. fare. lUkttgraduatM In butine**. Write for Special .'lie? COLL?GE* Klcanu>a.l,Va.-Ulrmln?bani.Ala, I REPEATING SHOTGUNS ie-Down Repeating Shotgun, , full choked barrel, suitable tinand an extra int?y^^ngeable Cylinder bore barrel, $42.00. Dealers SL^em for a serviceable all round gun within dy's pocket book. Winchester t and outlast the most expensive is and are just as reliable besides. 7/,'G ARMS CO., - NEW HAVES', CONN. Cl anil 03 S. Forsyili St., Atlanta, Ga. ALL, KINDS OF MACHINERY Reliable Frick Engines. Boilers, all- Sizes. Wheat Separators, all Sizes. BEST IMPROVED SAW MILL ON EARTH; Large Engines and Boilers supplied promptly. 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No article should be" accepted by the publie unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it ls not genuine CHESEBKOl'GH MANUFACTURING CO, 17 State Street, New York City. 10 DAYS' TREATMENT FREE, Eavo cado Dropsy aivl its com? plications u specialty for twenty yezrswith tho most wonderful sncccB3. HavocurcdmanythoM* and cases. ?3.E.&.G.SraV3S0HS, Box 13 Atlanta, Qa. WANTED ' At once to qualify for pood positions which we will guarantee tn writln? under a $5,OOO deposit to promptly procure them. The Ga,-Ala. Bus. College, MACON", GEORGIA. I TBESOLOOALTO?al Telegraphy, i roamville Ky., (founded in 180?, wltl tenrh I you tho profession quickly and securo position for you- Handaomo ca'.alogue rtiax.