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TWO VERDICTS. She was a woman, worn and thin, - Whom the world coudemued for a single sin; They cast her on the King's Highway And passed her by as they went to pray. \ He was a man, and more to blame. But the world spared him a breath of shame. Beneath his fett ha saw her lie. But raised his head and passed her by. ng?x They were the peoplB who went to pray At the temple of God on a holy day. They scorned the woman, forgave the man ; It were ever thus since the world began. Time passed on and the woman died, On the Cross of Shame she whs crucified; dint the world was stern and would not ' Aad they buried her In Potter's Field. The man died, too. and they buried him, In a casfcet of cloth, with a silver rim. - And said, as they turned from his grave |g away, "We have buried an honest man today." iI ******** ro mortals. knocking at Heaven's gate, kx! face to face to inquire their fate, toarried a passport with earthly sign, t she a pardon from Love Devine. ye who judge 'twixt virtue and vice, ilcb, think you. entered to Paradise? t he who the world had said would win, r the womau alone was ushered in. life's Possibilities. jj by edgar temple field. ^ it was at the Waldorf-Astoria dur- j ; horse show time, and the dinner ir, the busiest time of the whole r at that wonderful hostelry. Jniformed attendants flew here and re in breathless haste, waiters and mnibusses*' hovered distractedly >ut the flower bedecked tables in grand dining salon ard the palm den,and through the rich corridors red a ceasless stream of elegant men in trailing silken gowns and sperous looking men in Tuxedos j swallow tail coats cut to reveal dazig segments of shirt front. ?he riot of luxury, feasting and en- ; rv?AT?f war nt its heicrht wheil two ! inet in the office?tiro men of 40 naabouts, with that indefinable self-conscious power that marks icces8ful business man. y the g?ds, if it isn's Ned V' exelaipied tho taller of the stopping suddeuly with outhed hand. iller!** cried the other, joyfully g the proffered hand. "I'm 0 see you, old man." mother moment the two were 1 [ in a couple of the big, ?-li&e leathern chairs which the millions have provided for purpose of at once com5 and impressing the hotel is and were giving an acof themselves in true American Q. y had not seen each other since xb before they had separated our years of intimate compaap at a fresh water ' college, to , and seek their fortunes after npetuous fashion of western n have prospered, I hear," said i "and have become an out-and>w Yorker in fact and senti- j * i, I've had my ups and downs," 1 Teller with a little laugh, "but 1 Ion top now. As for being a eon- ' ted New Yorker, well, Mrs. Teller, most eastern women, doesn't care 2 the west We've never even dene conventional trip to California, prefers crossing the pond when 1 travel." ^ l the last words was all the comency of the man who has had a ' 1 light of it and won, bat Frank ly forgave the little tonch of vanHe had been through it all him- 1 Phen there's a Mrs. Teller," he smiling. [)h, yes, and a Jack Teller the nd," replied the other. "You ] t see that boy, Ned." [ want to," said Frink, but some- { g wistful in his voice struck his id. . knd you?" he asked quickly, rely you've not remained single, t>oy?" ['ve never married," was the brief 1 rrhy,you're the very fellow to have nance, I should think," went on i sr. "You used to be a sentimen- < hap at college, always writing es and all that" . rink laughed. : Fes, I had my romance," he said. f tfell, Fm sorry it doesn't seem to i had a happy ending," said Teller sinoerely. "A wife is a great help to 1 ||jk a man. I'd like to tell yoa before you ^ meet her," he went on, bending for? ward earnestly, "what mine has done for me. She's made a man of me and 1 ggl' proved that I was worth the job. She's j ( ~ been more than a wife to me. She's-1 . been my good, honest, loyal chum. | There are not many men who can say i that of their wives: 1 "No, I fancy not," assented Frink, < smiling, j "It's wonderful the understanding < she had of the way a man feels, an inv t experienced girl like her," proceeded ( the other. "Yon see she was a stenog- j g|. rapher in our office when I first met j her, and I fell in love with her at first ] ;v sight, almost^ I'd made a little pile, jj ana wnen we were married jl inongm; things were coming pretty much my way. But hard times settled in and I ^ lost everything. For a long time it n t; . was hard work to get bread and but- , ter, but that girl stood by me through thick and thin. When I was sick for a year with rheumatism she went back to office work and kept me and the ( boy with what she earned, with never a word of complaint or regret through \ it all. I tell you, old boy, she's got ] the stuff in her that heroes are made 1 oi Goodness knows where she got ( it, that courage of hers. I never j i'.r asked her about her family, and she's * not one to talk much,but I fancy they ( were ordinary enough. I believe she 1 came from some little 'town in New s? York state, and I know she never had ? anything much in her life. But now the struggle is over and I can give her 3 about what she wants, thank God, I ' tell you, Ned, it's a pity you let one ^ disappointment spoil your life. ' There's nothing so sweetens existence as the companionship of a good * woman." 3 ?? ?it? . ! i:t_. _ L.J i "Ana nounng poisons it nae a uau one," said Frink, bitterly. % ^ "But surely the good ones outnum- 1 ber the bad. Forgive me, Ned, but < isn't it rather narrow to let one woman < prejudice you agaiust the -whole sex? ( <: - Of course, I don't know your ] ?tory " J "It's not pleasant," said the other ^ man, knocking the ashes from his 1 cigar with nervous fingers. "It all ' happened the year I left college. I ^ met a girl in Denver. She was beauti- < ful and clever, and you're right about 1 my being sentimental, Teller, I fancied 1 because her eyes were pure and bright < as the stars in heaven that she must be an angel. She was poor, too. Her father was a drunken, gcod-for-noth- 1 ing fellow, and she was very nnhappy, and I pitied her. Ah, I was very faf gone, indeed. We were going to be married when I had made money enongh, and meautime I was happy as?well, as happy as a fool. And then one day as we were walking down the street together we met a man, a low fellow, with a dyed mustache. I knew him. Ho was a shoestring gambler who came down sometimes from the mining camps, and as vile a cnr as ever-breathed. To my amazement he stopped and spoke to me. 'What are yon doing with my wife?'he asked, angrily. I supposed he'd been drinking, and was about to brush him aside, when I .happened to look at her, and what I saw told me all. She was cowering before that beast, with every vestige of color gone from her face and her eyes fastened on his with such a look that in a flash I knew that her fear of him was no new tiling with bcr. " 'Great God, Lucy,' I cried, 'tell me this isn't true.' Bnt she only gave a little moan, and so I turned away and left them there. I never saw her again." There was a moment's pause. The orchestra, from its perch on the landing of the marble stairway, was playing an air from "La Bolieine," repeating the refrain over aud over again with passionate insistence. j "Isn't it possible there was some mistake?" asked Teller at last, a little awkwardly. "No," said Frink in a hard voice. "Her father came to sec me afterward. She was getting a divorce quietly, he told me, and they had agreed to keep me in ignorance of the whole affair. Of conse, the black- j guard threatened to shoot mo if I didn't marry his daughter, bnt wheu he saw I was not afraid of him he let me alone. They came east after that, I believe." "Perhaps she wasn't as much to blame as he," observed Teller, tlioughtfuily. "Perhaps?she was very young. But such training in deceit doesn't turn out the women who make good wive-, and divorced v^omen are hardly in my line. No, there .was no excuse for her, and it was only my luck. You fell in love with the right woman, and I fell in love with the wrong one? that's all." A woman come down the corridor as be spoke the last words, a tall, elegant woman, in a modish gown, whose gleaming folds clung closely to her slender lignre. A boy of eight or nine years held her by the hand, and both looked out on the world with the same eyes, great, beautiful, gray eyes, at once proud and sad. As the woman's eyes met Friiik's they dilated suddenly, and he started with a sharp breath. How had she come there just thou? ths very woman of whom he had beeu talking? As he started up Teller glanced around and then rose also with a happy smile. "Ah, Lucille," he cried, "I have met an old friend, Ned Frink. He must be your friend, also. Ned, this is my wife." The joyous pride in his friend's voice made Frink wince inwardly as he bowed ceremoniously. "I'm very glad to meet Mr. Frink," she said calmly. How well he knew her voice. "You'll dine with us, I hope, Ned," called Teller, over his shoulder, as he started on with the boy. "Thank you, no. I leave for Denver in half an hour," replied Frink. Then a sudden surge in the crowd brought some one between them for a moment, and the woman turned to him abruptly. The pitiful appeal in her eyes went straight to Frink's heart, and he felt liis own eyes grow dim with tears. "He does not know," she said simply. "He never shall," cried Frink. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. T.if? without lausrhine is a dreary blank. ?Thackeray. Wisdom and goodness to the Tile ?eem Tile.?Shakespeare. Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her works. ?Emerson. In most things success depends on mowing how long it takes to succeed. ?Montesquieu. Words are but lackeys to sense, and crill dance attendance without wages [>r compulsion.?Swift. The world may be divided into people that read; people that write; people that think, and fox-hunters. ?Shenitone. The talent of success is nothing nore than doing what you can do well without a thought of fame.?Long'ellow. v Let us hope that science, commerce md labor will flourish; for the shedling of blood is a thankless business. ?Bismarck. It can not be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune's :avor?opportunity, death of others, >ccasion fitting virtue, but chiefly the nolding of a man's fortune is in his >wn hands.?Bacon. There are two modes of establishing mr reputation; to be praised by honest nen and to be abused by rogues. It s best, howe ver, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.?Colton. Man was born to be rich, or grows ich by the use of his faculties, by ;he union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production, rhe game requires coolness, right easoning, promptness and patieuce n the players. Cultivated labor drives >ut brute labor.?Emerson. To be entirely just in our estimate )f other ages is not only difficult, but is impossible. Even what is passing, n our presence we see through a glass larkly. In historical inquiries the ndst instructed thinkers have but a irni ed advantage over the most illiterate. Those who know the most ap* proach least to argument.?Froude. Man With a Musical Heart. There is a man in Washington who is puzzling the medical profession because of the peculiar formation of his heart He is known as "the man svith the musical heart." He is a Russian, but he goes by the name of Tames Lewis in this country. His real name is Joseph Minkowski. For the last few years he has been traveling in America, having visited Germany, France and Great Britain. He ?arries with him a paper signed by >ver 15,000 physicians, whom he jlaims have examined him and proaounced hi* case without a parallel. DuriDg his stay in this city he has heen examii ed by a clinic of students md a number of eminent physicians resides. His heart as measured by ;he X-ray is 9 by 11 inches, and his ;hest expansion 6 1-2 inches. The aeart beats have a decided musical ,A anmafhinn HITA thA scratching >f an unvibrating string. A moment's insight is sometimes irorth a life's experience.?Holmes, i <~?Ly \ "cjS-; . . . - viii . r' i?-' ' ' ?< ' ? r- i' ; ^ j-lassS v ". ^ . ' V^;- *- ' ;?' - .' 44An Empty Sack Cannot Stand Upright*" &(jtither can poor, vveak, thin blood nourish and sustain the physical system. For strength of nerves and muscles there must be pure, rich, vigorous blood. Hood's SarsaparUla is established as the standard preparation for the blood by its many remarkable cures. CENTRAL AMERICAN THRIFT. The Oaly Way the Murdered Mao's Brother Coold Have the Murderers Punished. "There is an amusing bide to the recent settlement of the noted Pears case," said a gentleman lately from Honduras, "and it throws a strong light on the true native character. It also illustrates the shrewdness of Ben Pears, the brother of the man who was murdered. Mr. Pears insisted at the outset that the people implicated in the crime must be punished, and I know he had set his heart on having that done. "However, when the Government simply asked a $10,000 money indemnity he said nothing further about his demand for personal retribution, and moved heaven and earth to press the collection of the claim. He was accused of being cold blooded and mercenary, but he paid no attention to the slurs and kept working to that one end. At last, after infinite trouble, the Honduraneans were brought to the scratch and handed over $10,000 cash to their financial agent, with instructions to pay off the indemnity and stop the confounded row. "Then Pears made his great strategic play. 'If I allow you to keep that money, he said, in substance, 'will you do as I asked at first, and punish my brothers murderers:' Would they: Will a duck swim? If you knew how hard it is to get coin from a Central American Government you would understand with what avidity they grabbed that proposition. Pears wanted General Manuel BoniUa, Governor of the Coast Department, removed fir direct complicity. Boniila was supposed to have a first mortgage on his Job, but the way he was yanked out of it was a caution to boa constrictors. I I doubt whether he has caught his breath yet The other demand was for the arrest and punishment of the soldier Avho did the actual shooting. He j was promptly hurled into a dungeon, and I wouldn't be in his boots for all Latin America. 'Did the senor want anybody else arrested?' asked the polite officials. *Xo.' 'And did he really waive claim to the $10,000?' 'Yes.' "So that settled it and everybody was happy except Bouilla and the soldier. The case will have a salutary effect down there. Hereafter petty military tyrants will probably thinktwice before they jeopardize their own skins by molesting strangers."" . Effect of Attitude. Perhaps in no State of the Union has climate so much to do with the character of the people as in Colorado, is the contention of a writer in Ainslee's. He says in part: "Go into Colorado; climb the long ascent from the level of the Missouri, and then as you emerge from the train into the handsomely improved streets, and among the unsurpassed brick and stone residences of Denver, feel your head swim with the lofty altitude and ? ? * V. ?AA1!oa 4V?n+ fho mc rurtiicu ttil9 mcu iccuu^ LUU ?. tuv miners went on a mile further Into the air, that they are working and taking out millions of dollars of gold to the present day a mile higher in the air, at Cripple Creek, at Leadville and a dozen other places; it will make you pause to think what exaltation there is in dwelling there always, what staying powers the pioneers must have had. Wait a day or so, until the vertigo has passed away, and the exhileration comes to you that always comes when you have climbed a mountain and stood upon its top and gazed out .over a wide world that expands below you; then you will begin to feel that electric, that nervous surcharge, that indomitable, undiscourageable, almost towering spirit of elevation and still further elevation that makes Colorado almost the liveliest, the most irrepressible, the most determined element in the American body, social and poltic." A Toacbiaf Incident. Captain Peyton, of the Manchesters, narrates a touching incident of the battle of Elands Laagte. Those wounded just before dark lay there until 5 o'clock in the morning. One man of his regiment remained throughout the bitterly cold night with his arms around him to give him such warmth as was possible from his own body, both having been drenched by the heavy rain just before assaulting the position, with no better covering than their wet khaki uniforms.?London News. Sweat and fruit acids will sot discolor goods dyed with Putsam Favkjjub Dim. Sold by all druggists. Rough On Alflred. "Good-bye, Alfred, darling. You have cheered me up. If 1 get lonely and depressed again I'll just look sr. your dear photo?that's sure to make me laugh and laugh and laugh."?Puck. Con't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be magnetic. full of Ufe, nerve and vigor, take No-To 13 ac, the wonder-woricer, mat mueB weam. mou strong. All druggists, 50c or 91. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. A cynic suggests as an appropriate motto for unmarried women, "Hope on, hope ever." Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is cnly one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets Inflamed you haTe a rumbling sound or Imperfect bearing, and when It 18 entirely closed Deafness Is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Chevkt A Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A family divided by strife may be said to be in reduced circumstances. How Ira Tonr Kidney* f Dr. Hobb*' 8ranurTis Pills core all kidney Ills. San* pie free. Add. Sterling Reined j Co.. Chicago or N. Y, No matter how often a clock may go on a strike its hands refuse to stop work. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens tho gums, reduces Inflammation. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up children's Coughs and mid?.?Mrs. M. G. Blunt, Sprague, Wash., March 8,1394. No spring medicine yet discovered csn cure the lazy man of that chronic tired feeling. Kducato Your Bowel* With Cascaretr.. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forevor, JCc. i&c. If C. C. C. fall, drngglstsrefund monoy. There is a horrible rumor afloat that Oom Paul whiskers will be popular this winter, _ '' V: ' r% v-g&iitcic; HOR FARM AND GARDENj A Pointer for Bean Kaisers. I do not know just how true it is, but I have read that the common black butter bean will bear continuously through the seasou if the pods are all picked as soon as they are large enough to use. If any are allowed to ripen, the plant has fulfilled its mission and will die.?New York Weekly Witness. Know Your Cow. A proper daily ration will supply, in appropriate forms, the protein needed to form the nitrogenous materials of the body and the energy required for heat and muscular work, and a proper feeding standard will call for surficient digestible protein, fats and carbohydrates per day to meet these needs. But I- - ?. i 111 just what toese weiguts snouiu ue is a matter of considerable uncertainty. Differences in breed and individual peculiarities of tbe animals, aud in the food and handling as well as other conditions known and uuknmvn, bring it about that the best ration for one cow may not bo the best for another. The feeler must know his cows and fit the food to their wants. But in so doiug he nmy be greatly helped by feeding standards. Shallow or Deep Cull iration for Corn. We have been from boyhood a be- j liever in shallow cultivation of corn, j even when the work was done with a j plow by most farmers. The first cul- j tivator we remember seeing was like a small spike-toothed harrow with plow handles attached. It'mellowed the ground to make easy hoeing, and killed many weeds when they were small, which was au inducement to use it frequently. But we never knew how much gain there was by the shallow cultivation. At the Nebraska experiment station tbey tested four cultivators on as many different lots one of which worked the ground six inches deep,aud the others went three inches deep. Where the soil was worked six inches deep the yield was 59 bushels per aero. On the others one gave 6b bushels per acre and the other two 69 bushels each, a loss of about one-seveuth by deep cultivation.?American Cultivator. Oarinjy for Sheep. There are no secrets about the bait way to care for sheep. The man who owns a farm aud does not keep sheep making an excuse for not doing so k AHA 1\ l*/l 4* /\ f A 1* A AAV A LUCttUSU UiOJ Uif lidiu iKJ tatvT? tai v v/if is either iztioraut of sheep husbandry, or simply lazy.* Sheep are about the most comfortable animals to take care of that we have about us. They are quiet and gentle and are not very particular about their feed if they are kept iu good health. They need to be led regularly and given sound and wholesome feed, but the feed need not be of the costliest kind. Good, bright hay and a small amount of corn will keep them in good shape during the winter aud grass is all they wan-t in summer, although if there are briers, elders or any other scrubby bushes in their pasture they will eat them up by way of relish. They should be protected from the storms of winter, and salted regularly the year through, aud for the amount [ of labor involved they will make better returns than any other kind of j stock. The Open Pantnre Ditch, Many a farmer that would not think of having anything but a covered drain in his meadow or grain held still keeps the old-fashioned open ditch in his pasture. Yet the pasture drain ditch is always a nuisance and frequently a source of expense. The soil of the banks is constantly being -1 -.1 i__ u.. ___ i_i._ iU_ U_AL and if he does not take this into the account he makes the same mistake a merchant would should he estimate his profits by the amount of cash which he received and neglect to take account of stock. The department of agriculture suggests that the farmer, instead of selling off his crops, feed them to live stock on the farm as far as possible, "if the business of stock feeding is , carried to the point where feed is purchased in addition to that grown on the farm, a considerable addition may , in this way be made to the fertility of ( tbe farm at an almost nominal cost, ] since it is assumed that feed will not , be bought unless its feeding value will ( at least pay its cost. ^ This commendable system of indi- ] rect purchase of fertilizers in feeding \ stuffs is practiced largely in England and other European countries, and ac- j counts for no small share of the profits of stock-raising in those conn- < tries, though of course these advan- j - .... ; .. <v : T : tages will not be secured unless the manure produced is carefully saved and used. The Good Point* of Small Cheese. Small cheese are best for home consumption. Cheese are to a certain extent porous, aud the unbroken rind forms a shell of protection. When this rind is broken by cutting, air enters, and the shield that the product formerly enjoyed against moderate changes of temperature no longer serves it. Mold generates aud travels along the seams aud cavities, if the air be' slightly humid; or natural moisture is dried out- if conditions happen to be the opposite. In either ?rent the quality of the cheese deteriorates, especially if several weeks elapse from the time of cutting before it is consumed. T-S 1 P 1 A .1 ror average sizeu ianmies, .iu-pounu cheese are much better to buy or make thau 30 or 40-pounders. These smallsized cheese, while manufacture 1 on a limited scale, are not produced in sufficient quantities to supply the demaud. I think that in no way can an increase of cheese consumption be more effectually induced than by the more general manufacture of such light-weight full cream stock. Dairymen who produce cheese at home for their own use should not attempt to have them weigh less than five pounds or more than ten apiece. This of course applies to the cheddar vairety, and does not mean to include brick or other styles of cheese of foreign introduction. By so doing they will always have a fresh and healthy article to place upon their tables, for a small cheese being consumed within a few days after cutting has no chance to deteriorate, if given ordinary care. I have been familiar wi h cheese and cheese making since childhood, and I speak from firm conviction when I say that no healthier or more nutritious food exists than this when properly made and carefully served.? George F. Newell, in New England Homestead. Maiketinff Hie Onion Crop. The method of selliug onions at harvest time and delivering to the railroad station direct from the field has many advantages over that of putting them in store for future sales. Probably mcst important is that, wlton toL-fln fi-nm tlio Hol/l tlioro is nn loss to the grower from shrinkage. More or less dirt will always adhere to the bulbs, which, with the outside skin, comes off by future handling, and the onions also lose moisture. Yet the practice of storing the crop for winter sale3 is becoming somewhat prevalent. Especially is there a disposition to hold the crop following an advancement of prices during the preceding winter. The disadvantages which follow holding the crop are the deprivation of the use of the money which a ready sale would bring and the risks. These are several. Perhaps the first to be cited- would be the loss from shrinkage in weight. Much depends upon the manner in which they are kept, the place of storage, the temperature of the storage room, and whether dry, welt ripened and cored when put in store. If not, they are liable to sprout Sprouting causes the bulb to grow soft and unmerchantable. If the crop can be stored in a building adapted to the purpose and kept continually almost at freezing point, there will be comparatively little shrinkage. I would prefer them to become chilled, or frozen some on the outer edge of the receptacle in which kept than stored in a warm cellar.- But they must not be allowed to freeze and thaw repeatedly, neither should they be handled when frozen, bat allowed to thaw out gradually and pat upon the market at once. When frozen they should be kept in that condition till wanted for disposal. Some persons keep a part of their crop by storing in their house cellar, where they become offensive and disagreeable to those living in rooms above. Onions intended to be kept for late sales should'be harvested with the tops uncut They are much less liable to grow, as the tops, being usually free from moisture, will absorb any moisture that the bulbs may have. Being dry, they will sustain a greater degree of cold, and will be kept in a better condition. The tops will have to be cut when marketed, unless a sale can be made with tops on, which is sometimes done when onions are commanding a good price. There is yet another risk in holding the crop which is oommou to all crops, the danger of depreciation instead of appreciation in market value. Anyone who continues to bold any crop ^fter it is ready for market, in a sense becomes a speculator, and should take into consideration the danger of a falling market. The writer has known instances where crops of onions were kept through the winter and then found no sale, being finally thrown away, a total loss. ' Unless a farmer has abundant capital and is able to bear the loss of a part or the whole of his crop without embarrassment, the surest way is to sell when he can get a fair price.?John M. Smith in Orange Judd Farmer. An Unpopular Game. A game that was introduced among town boys about a week ago has already become unpopular, despite its uniqueness. The boys place a comrade in a large bag, and when a man comes along two of the lads are tugging at the bag as if in efforts to lift it and carry it away, svhile the other youngsters are out of sight, but on the watch. The two boys at the bag, panting as if out of breath, appeal to the passing man for help, and nine cases out of ten the request is com- ' plied with. In his anxiety to give the boys a lift the man pluuges right in and raises the "boy in the bag" off the ground. Immediately he is startled by cries of "murder" and "help," which come from the bag ana inform him that he has been made the victim of a boyish prank. In most 1 cases the victim joins in the laugh,bnt ( a few nights ago a fatherly-looking individual upon whom the joke was * phayed got his dander up and seized | the kid in the bag,roughly pulled him ' fovth and then, turning the much- ^ frightened lad across his knee, admin- 1 istered an old-fashioned spanking. 1 In that neighborhood the game has'' 1 become unpopular because of the J difficulty of getting a boy to go into 1 the bag.?Philadelphia Eecord. Tragedy of a Collarette.L ' M.ce and rats are not to be encour- ' aged when they begin to show a taste ^ for flat life. An uptown woman vis- 1 ited the shopping district the other 1 afternoon and carried home with her ' collarette that was mostly tails. She lives in a sort of flat where no one ' speaks to any one else and, therefore, s one of the other tenants was snr- * prised when the next morning early A brought the woman with a collarette * to her door. "I bought this yesterday," said she in tragic accents, '"look at it now." ' The rats had eaten away every one . of the big fluffy tails during the night. } ?New York Sun. | r > wasueu uj ma rams iuiu mo uuiauui, and in tbe case of heavy freshets this washing sometimes amounts to a landslide. The whole line of the ditch is disfigured and the owner of the pasture is put to a great deal of expense in keeping the channel sufficiently open to allow the water to run at all. Weed seeds find it a place where they can lodge and grow without disturbance by the mower, and from which they can in turn send out new myriads of seeds to resow the adjacent fields. Too often in summer time stagnant pools collect in these flitches and the cattle seek them for drinking purposes. As they readily become foul with the droppings of bite farm animals and with decaying vegetation they become a menace both to the purity of the milk of the cows and to the health of all the farm stock. Being opeD, they prevent the pasture being included in the rotation of crops, or, at least, make it extremely inconvenient, for the reason that the plow could not run close to it and it would become an obstacle to the free passage of the teams at all times. Added to these things is the fact that it takes out of the pasture a considerable aera, and we can readily see that to oat a covered draiu in its place is a wise proceedure in almost every rnse.?Farm, Field and Fireside. The Fertility That Crop* Use. From a table published by Professor Ormsby npon the manorial value of farm products, which shows the amount and value of fertilizing constituents carried away from the soil by different products, it can be seen that the farmer who sells a ton of hay 3ells fertilizing ingredients which, if purchased in the form of commercial fertilizers would cost him about $5.10; that if he sells 2000 pounds of wheat hs sells an amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash which it would cost him $7.91 to replace in his soil in the form of commercial fertilizers. Or, looking at it from a somewhat different standpoint, a farmer who sells, for example, $10 worth of wheat sells with it about $2.63 worth of the fertility of his soil. In other words, when he receives his $10 this amount does not represent the net receipts of the transaction, for he has parted with $2.63 worth of his capital, that is. of the stored no fertility of bis soil. . ' **.' - " Vv><; SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Florida boasts of a plant that greatly exceeds any other known annual in size. It is the Acnida australis, belonging to the Amarantaceae and has just been described by the Kew Bulletin as having branches that certainly reach about 22 feet in length, and probably attain 25 feet. The island of Malta is the only known spot where the remains of dwarf elephants are found. There are several places on the islaud where the bones of these miniature pachyderms have been unearthed, and hundreds of skeletons have Ik en secured in whole or in part. One of these, whose teeth and bones showed it was a fuhgrowu specimen, was less that two and a half feet in height, and could not have weighed over six hundred pounds when in the flesh. A notable example of electrical development in foreign countries is the application on the Kussian river Volga ofjsuction dredges. The Volga dredge is electrically self-propelling and controllable. It is in two parts, the electric installation of each half consisting of a powerful generator directly to a fore and aft triple expansion engine. Each half measures 216 feet by 31 1-2 feet wide and 9 feet deep. At light draught the hull draws four feet; the working draught is 8 inches greater. This double dredge can be operated as a whule, making a bottom cut sixty-two feet wide, or each half can be operated separately. A machine devised to crush pine wood into pulp for the manufacture of paper has just been shipped from Nashville, Tenn., to a Florida paper concern. The * Nashville American says this marks the introduction of the paper busiuess into Florida. The machine is the work of a Southern inventor named Thomas, and for the first time enables paper to be profitably made from pine by eliminating the resin. The process is kept secret. The material to be used in Florida is pin slabs, the refnseof the mills, and can be hid for almost nothing, so that what is now practically a waste product will be utilized, immense crematories having to be constructed to destroy it. A sample of the paper in the unfinished state, manufactured from the material, on being torn apart, disclosed a fibre that had the appearance of canton flannel. * Geologists are of the opinion that the vast territory now known as Wyoming once had numerons fresh water lakes and a climate approaching the semi-tropical, and that the animals whose bones are from time to time coming to light inhabited these lakes and the adjoining swamps in myriads. They sank into the mnd in dying and their bones were covered with other deposits and became petrified. The large beds are found at points supposed to have been the mouths of great rivers, the animals after death having floated down these rivers to places where they were deposited in these estuaries, thus accounting for the vast deposits which characterize certain localities and which have proved such a study to scientific investigators. HOW RAISINS ARE SEEDEDIngenious Machines That Tnrn Oat Ten or Twelve Tons Daily. Unlike the Eastern imitation, the California seeded raisin is subjected to a dry temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit from three to five hours, immediately after which the fruit is submitted to a chilling process, and while in this reduced condition of temperature is passed through cleaning or "blushing" machines, which remove every particle of dust and the cap stems, thus making it a pure and wholesome article. It is then taken automatically, by elevators, to a room where, spread upon wire trays, it is exposed to a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit, which brings the fruit back to its normal condition,and iu this "processing" the berry is converted into pectin, that delicious jelly which gives to fruits their best flavor. 1UO UVlOiUO XI Cb T VUt U throagh this alternate heating and chilling, to keep indefinitely and resist climatic influence, are psssed through seeding machines, each of which has a capacity of from ten tp twelve tons daily. The raisins are pressed between rubber or similar surfaced rollers, which at first flatten the berry and press the seeds to the surface, when an impaling roller catches the seeds betweeu its needles or teeth, affixed to its periphery, deftly removing them from the fruit, while the latter passes on, minus its seeds, but preserving every particle of its flesh. The seeds are removed from the roller by a ''flicking," or whisking, device, and are sent along to the seed receptacle, finally ending their journey in the engine room, where they are burned as fuel. . Four hundred and fifty carloads of ten tons each, or 9,000,000 pounds, of seeded raisins were shipped from the Fresno district last year, and a very much larger tonnage will be turned out this year. Some estimate can be formed of the possibilities of the Fresno seeded raisin plants when it is stated that their aggregate capacity for this season will approximate 1700 to 2000 carloads, while it is probable that 1400 cars will be the output. Each seeding plant has from five to twelve machines of ten tons daily capacity per machine. Some of the packing-houses cover a ground space 150 by 225 feet and are three stories high.?California Vinyardist. East Greenland Esquimau*. The Amdrup Arctic expedition, which has returned from East Greenland brings back some stories of grue j arum? finds nmnnrr prfirtp.t. F.snnimnn colonies. It appears that all the east coast of Greenland from 65 degrees 35 minutes to 67 degrees 22 minutes must have had at one time or other Esquimau inhabitants, but the colonies ate now all extinct, though ruins of the towns and relics of instruments, weapons and household articles abound. The imdrup expedition has brought back many specimens of these finds. At the furthest point north reached by the expedition was found a large and well preserved dwelling house, 3ontaining skeletons of about thirty Esquimaus. It is probable that these ,vere people who emigrated from Angnasalik about the middle of the ceu;ury. It is improbable that they starved ;o death, seeing that the explorers ilso found remains of whale and seal lesh and skeletons of dog% bears, vhales and other auimals. ? Copenhagen dispatch to the London Chronicle. 9 A wedding invitation in Cairo, Egypt, ^tends for three days. There is casting during all the time, and the louse ana street are UDeraiJy cleco- j mted with flags and lanterns. ' ' i -v r .. - - ; * ?HNQ" LEARY OP QUAIL flow This Versatile Naval Officer If Adali* isterinf Oar New Isle. It Is no tf strange that among our diversely gifted people there should be found here and there a man with an aptitude for kingcraft There have always been plenty of Americans who would have reached one, too, if thrones had been open to competition. But the division of labor has not gone that far and hitherto the deserving person has stood no chance against the tenth transmitter of a foolish face. So many a potential monarch among us has had to look on while others muddled the royal business in a way to make him grit his teeth. Sucfc a man was Com1 A niander Leary of toe boston ixuv; Yard till a turn of affairs led the government to take him away from routine duties and anoint him king of Guam. Not that there was a formal coronation, for that would have offended popular sentiment And as to any future legends that he was burning cakes in a peasant's hut at the time or that he was at his plough clad only in a tunic and had to send home for his toga, we may say in advance that there is nothing in them. The one authenticated fact is that be. became king of Guam. As king he has justified the hopes of all that knew him. There was nothing of the Bourbon about him?no blindness to the mistakes of his predecessors. He saw, for example, where men like Louis the Pious and Edward the Confessor had failed, and he soon wrote home that "Having disposed of the priests, rapid progress will be made and no further resistance will be encountered." Rapid progress was made, such progress as is seldom seen in a Pacific archipelago. The people were lazy and producing just enough food to keep them alive. In his ukase of October 4 he commanded them to plant cereals and vegetables. He has required every adult native to contribute to the support of the government. He has compelled each one to maintain twelve hens and a sow. He has ordered them to bring tneir produce to the palace and sell it In short, he has started them at the regular production of wealth out of which they are to discharge their debts and pay their taxes. In this there is a resemblance to the policy of Peter the Great, but Guam is more backward than the Russia of Peter's time, and the reforms are more sweeping. He may be compared to the Hohenzollern who beat idlers over the head with his rattan and made the apple women knit at their stall. But behind Frederick William was an army of 70,000 men, the best drilled force in Europe. On the other hand, when the Navy Department asked the ruler of Guam if he wanted more troops he replied that the only thing he needed was an ice machine. Where other kings required standing armies he wanted only ice water. That, as an American, he felt he must have. And it is no mere matter of issuing decrees. These decrees are obeyed even when they run counter to the strongest popular traditions. A light and transitory marriage tie, or no marriage tie at all, is one of these traditions. Yet when the decree went forth that people should marry, the entire adult population made a rush for licenses, and the officers had more than they could do to meet the demand. These are the rumors that come to cs from Guam, and of no man Is It easier to believe them than of the present ruler. It should encourage them who fear that we should l>e unequal to our new duties. Even for a queer anachronistic job like this we can find our man, and he fits in a good deal better than the average porphyro* genitus. Bocks Deao Wifb Locked Boras. There was a battle royal between two lordly bucks in the Canterbury woods the other day. A sportsman from that village was furnished ^!th ample evidence of the battle when he drew a bead on one of the combatants and saw him fall as a result of the shot He hurried forward to claim his prize when he was astonished to find that the horns of the wounded buck were Interlocked with the antlers of another and that he had dragged his foe to the earth with him. The sportsman killed the remaining buck, which was thoroughly exhausted from the life and death struggle he had been engaged in. The hunter cut off the heads and brought them to McAdam with the horns locked so securely together that no one could separate them unless by destroying one or other set of antlers. Mormonlsm. This la a question that should Interest every one. 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