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iv . A REFLECTION. , The only man permitted To enter Fortune's gate Is he who keeps on fighting And never yl< Ms to fate. ?Profitable Advertising. 5 New Mimiilal Jtraraey. ^ r The morning was a cloudy one. There was a closeness in the air that seemed to betoken a coming shower. Few people were on the streets, and the street cars had but a small percentage of their usual quota of patrons Stm it was early yet, and these volatile June days had a pleasant way of turning from tears to smiles at shortest notice. As the Painesville car checked its speed at the stop before the Y. M. C. A. building, a tall young man in a gray summer suit swung himself aboard. was perhaps five and twenty, with 7 - clear-cut features and fine, dark eyes. He took a seat next a window and his By -v L glance for a moment roamed up and down the roomy car. Two seats behind him, across the p' aisle, sat a young woman: a young woman who was nice to look at; a f-:- young woman upon whom the newcomer's glance briefly and discreetiy & v rested. She looked up and caught his gRp glance. %< When his face was turned away she ;V slyly drew a photograph from the ornamental bag that dangled at her KtV belt and carefully studied it. Then BP. she looked over at the young man's profile and nodded with satisfaction ^ as she slipped the photograph back. ? The car was running up Prospect street smoothly and swiftly, and just ?? as it slackened speed at Perry street the young woman seized her umbrella and, with a slightly heightened color, stepped across the aisle and looked down upon the young man. ^ t "I beg pardon,' she said in a clear y and pleasant voice, "Is this seat reIIC served?" The ydung man looked around quickc "The seat?" he hastily replied, y think not Did you wish to take it away?" "I wis hto occupy it," said the girl, with great dignity. ? "Of course," said the young man; ry-"why don't you?" ^ The girl sat down beside the youth with as nonchalant an air as she could assume. The young man looked about the car a little uneasily. There were ja?v plenty cf whole seats vacant. He seemed a trifle troubled. Then he shyly looked around at the girl. "I notice," he said, "that you asked M me if the seat were reserved. Do they ^ reserve seats on this line?" g**-- "One would imagine you were fro-i jjp^T Boston," said the girl with a laugh. "You want to twist word meanings in the very first breath." "One would know *you were a Weotag. - ern girl," he said, but he added no exlp~ planation. "So breezy and unconventional." sho laughed. "Then you are a stranger In gg* the city?" "Yes," he admitted. "I don't think there is any use of trying to conceal it This is my first visit to Cleveland. Would you like to know my name?" "No," she answered hastily. Let's be primitive and have no names. We - don't consider names necessary in a suburban car acquaintance." "Then you are accustomed to this? I this sort of thing?" he asked. - "To tell you the truth," she answer ed, "I'm something of a novice at, it. But being an entire stranger to our manners and our customs you, of course, wouldn't be expected to find that out." "But come," she cried, "you are losing all the scenic effects of this delightful trip. This is famous Euchlid avenue, and w.e are running througv the East End. Aren't the houses pretty?" "The lawns are lovely,"he answered, "and the trees are splendid." 'They are a specialty of ours," she ^jd. "And so, I think, are pretty girR" he boldly added. "I'm afraid." she lightly remarked, "that being from Boston you are not a qualified judge. There, this is Wade Park. Lovely approach, isn't it? And over there is the Case School, and there are several of the buildings of the Western Reserve University. And if you look closely through the trees on this side, you will see the halls of my alma mater, the Woman's College." "I salute it," he said and slightly lifted his hat "In the name of advancing women I tiiank you," said the girl with a little inclination of her head. "It's very nice of you to take all this trouble." he said. "I'm sure I appreciate is very highly. By the way, please let me introduce myself." "No," she said hastily. "You must be very cautious about confiding your name to Western strangers. Don't forget that you are no longer in the East" "We are running through East Cleveland now," she said. "There is a continuous row of these charming houses from the city through East Cleveland and Collamer " "Collamer?" he interrupted. "Why, that has something to do with my getting off place. It's either the second stop this side, or the other?I'm to ask the conductor. You see I'm partially expected. An old collage classmate has invited me to visit him at his home. Then something called him from the city for a day of two, but he telegraphed me to go right to the house and make myself at home. I'm a shy man?don't laugh please and I hesitated about imposing on strangers. So I left my baggage at the hotel anl thought I'd just come out for a call and see how the land lies." "You have a rather poor opinoin of western hospitality," said the girl. "You have much to learn." "And may I ask where you are going?" he inquired, with amazing assurance. "It's going to be a lovely day after all," replied the girl. "It will be a lovely ride. I'm going to Painesville and back." "And may I go with you, my pretty maid?" He knew he was brazen, and yet he actually felt a pride in his newfound boldness. "I was just about to ask you. kind sir. she said," cried the girl with a merry laugh. "But only on three conditions." "Name them." "You will pay the fare. I will furnish the dinner, and neither of us is to express any curiosity as to the identity of the other." "Accepted and filed." said the delighted youth. "My friends here whom I have never seen do not know on what train I am to arrive, and so they will rot expect me at any particular hour. I can take a day off as well as not.'* So -hey talked and laughed and enjoyed the smiling fields and the green ridge?, and the blue sky. And the voun^ man from Boston, the shy stuff en*. Ihe diffident professor fairly ! bubbl"d over with the pleasure of this j little Journey. ; Whhn they finally whirled into the i lrttle town and halted by the side of the pretty park, the young man was I quite loath to leave the ear. I But they took a stroll down the i street to the river, and out on the new | bridge, and up in the ancient cemetery, : and gazed admiringly at the beautiful I view of the valley, and came back to j the hotel with fine appetite. And after dinner they stolled across | the park and along the pleasant highI way to the beautiful seminary grounds, and there they entered the car when it overtook them. And all the way back the young man from COSIUII re^icuuuji jcim-iuwu-'i this day happiness was nearing the end. "We are close to Collamer now," said the girl. "Oh." he cried. "Then perhaps you can help me to find my friends? They are the Morgans. And presently they alighted and stood the roadside. "One moment," said the girl softly. "I want to tell you something that may surprise you." "I think not," remarked the young man from Boston. "You are Jack iuorgan's sister, Alice." "What a shame! How did you know me?" He drew a photograph from his inner coat pocket. "My portrait!" she cried. "Where did you get it?" "It was the one thing of Jack's that I coveted, and he let me have it" "You've spoiled the fun," she pouted. "It was spoiled for me," he laughed. "But. do you know, I didn't feel at all aware you knew me." "Ah. but I have a photograph, too," she cried. "And I went down town on ! purpose to try and find you. Jack wanted me to. AncT?but what a hor- J rid thing you must have thought me?" "I didn't think you anything of the I sort." he stoutly asserted. "On the contrary " "There, please don't get sentimental." "But you must admit it was a sentimental journey." "Nonsense," she said. "And you really liked it?" "There is omy one other journey that two can take that I fancy may surpass it," he said with another astonishing attack of boldness. She blushed as she turned away, but she didn't ask him what journey he meant.?W. R. Rose, in Cleveland Plain Dealer. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Nature and wisdom always say the same.?Juvenile. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.?Euripides. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.?Franklin. Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.?Sidney Smith. Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.?Fuller. Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.?Jeremy Collier. The less we parade our misfortunes , the more sympathy we command.?O. ' Dewey. A crowd always thinks with its i sympathy?never with its reason?W. | R. Alger. There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.?Hood. Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.? Aubrey De Vere. The innocence of the intention abates nothing 01 the mischief of the example.?Robert Hall. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.?Livy. Fature Sources of Coffee. According to the treasury bureau of statistics, "the people of the United States are sending out of the country more than $1,000,000 a week in payment for coffee consumed in this country, all of which could be readily produced in Porto Rico. Hawaii and the Philippine Islands, which have already shown their ability to produce coffee of a high grade, commanding good prices in the markets of the world. Porto Rican coffee has long been looked upon as of a high grade, and for many years has commanded high prices in the markets of Europe; and the developments of coffee culture in Hawaii during the past few years have also been very satisfactory in the quality of coffee produced and the prices realized. In the Philippines the product is of high grade, and the fact that in physical conditions and climate the islands are very similar to Java, the greatest coffee producing region of the world, suggests great possiblities to those who desire to see American money expended under the American flag. The fact that the J United States is by far the greatest coffee consuming country in the I world, and is steadily increasing her consumption, further suggests that J American capital and energy may turn their attention to this promising field now opened in the island where American enterprise can safely invest in business ventures.?Gram's Magazine. News from Tristan <la Cnnha. An interesting account of Tristan da Cunha, that solitary island in the middle of the Atlantic, between America and South Africa, is given in "Annales Hydrographiques," by a German captain who recently visited It. There are sixty-three inhabitants on the island, he says, and their time is spent in fishing and breeding cattle. They have between five hundred and s>x hundred cows, and as many sheep, and they also have an abundance of butter, milk, eggs and vegetables. On the other hand, they are often in need of flour, tea. coffee and tobacco; though, as there are only five smokers on Tristan da Cunha, the occasional dearth of tobacco cannot be regarded as a national calamity. The German captain found the islanders very sociable. They provided him and his men with a supply of fresh meat, and in return received } some articles of clothing, which were I much needed. A Kon inzi. "Here's a distinguished scientist who says that after all there is nothing in germs." "Nothing in germs? Nonsense, i \7hy. look how much the doctors have j made cut of them." j _ i There are 15,400 uninhabited' islands j in the Indian ocean between Maiagasi car and India. Ihe Grnsshopper's Untimely Knd, "Just watch me," said the gra shoppor, Preparing for a ilight; "1 feel so vigorous today, I'll jump clear out of sight!" I watched him as ho rose in air, He kept his word no doubt, For down he eame into a stream Where lived a hungry trout. ?St. Nicholas. The Game of Cities. What boy or girl knows how to , play the game of "Cities?" This is how you begin: I ask you the question: "What city in the United States am I thinking I Of?"iou reply by naming some city you j think I have in mind. ii you ao not guess rignt uie ursi j time I say no; that city is too far ! north, south, east or west from the one I have in mind. For instance: Supposing I am thinking of San Francisco. I say to you: What city in the United States am I thinking of? You answer Boston. No. I reply; Boston is too far northeast. Then you try again, this time naming a place further west and south of Boston, say, Philadelphia. I tell you that Philadelphia is still too far east. Thus you continue, naming cities further west until you say San Francisco. when it will be your turn to think of a city, or until you "give it up." when it will be my turn to choose another one. If you can keep before your mind's eye a picture of the United States, with the position of the many eolers renresentine the states, vou will find it of immense service in locating tne direction of the various cities. Rrl-an an<l the Tur-key. "Oh! I'm so glad Bri-anis com-ing. He is such a dear lit-tle boy," crt?d Dot. "What a lot of things we shall have to show him. It seems fun-ny to think he has ne-ver been in the country be-fore." "Here they come!" cri-ed Marie, rush-ing to the gar-den gate; and the children kiss-ed their lit-tle cou-sin un-til his cap fell off. After dinner the three children made for the lai myard. "You see, there's such a num-ber of things you've ne-ver seen. Bri-an ? chickens and ducks and geese and pigs and?" "I've seen lots of zem," said Bri-an. a lit-tle in-dig-nant. "We lias chickens for din'ner, and ev-er so- ma-ny years a-go, I don't 'xactly 'mem-ber when, we had a goose, and we has tur-key at Ch'is-'mas." Dot and Mar-ie laughed. "But you have ne-ver seen them run-ning about, have you?" Be-fore Bri-an could make up his mind what to say, they came up-on a brood of duck-lings, and his shout of de-light told them the sight was new to him. Then the chick-ens and the gos-Hngs and the lit-tle pigs, all were fresh and de-light-ful to the city boy, and his cou-sins were as happy as he. But his ro-sy cheeks grew a shade pal-er when he saw a big tur key strut-ting a-bout with out-spread tail. "He doesn't look much like the tur-keys in the shops, does he?" said Dot. As the tur-key took no no-tice of them, Bri-an's courage soon came back. Sud-denly he gave a great shout, and point-ing to the tur-key'?: wat-tles, he cried ex-cit-ed-ly, "Why. the tur-key's got a trunk!" Dot and Mar-ie laugh-ed so much at Bri-an's dis-cov-ery that Bri-an began to laugh too, al-though he did not know why; so it was a ve-ry happy par-ty that mo-ther call-ed indoors at last But all the time he stay-ed at the farm no-thing plea-sed Bri-an so much as watch-ing the tur-key, and p. lien he was quite a big boy his cou-sins used to re-mind him of the tur key's trunk.?Cassell's Little Folks. They Lived 600 Years Ago. In the early part of the 14th century two exiled Italians left behind them forever their beautiful native city of Florence. One of them was Dante, whom you have all heard of as the poet; the other was Petraeco, the father of Petrarch, the poet. Petrarch was born July 20, 1304, at Arrezo, during the second year of his parents' exile, and was named by them Francesco. He was destined to be as famous as his father's companion in exile. Dante. From his earliest childhood Francesco, or Checco, as his little companions called him, loved literature, and daily the longing to be a great writer grew in him. His father, a passionate man, could not give up the desire to see his son a jurist like himself. The story is told that one day in anger he threw into the fire all his boy's most cherished books. Francesco pleaded so hard for his treasures that at last his father rescued two books which were only half burned, and these two were "Cicero" and "Virgil." This love of letters nothing could I kill. It is true that, yielding to his father's wishes, he spent seven years of his life at Montpelier and Bologna studying law, but he always regarded these years as "not so much spent as totally wasted." and after his father's death he gave up the study forever. Free at 22 to devote himself to literature, he placed himself under the patronage of influential nobles, a necessary step to a literary man of that day. We marvel at the number of books which came from his pen. Though all the world knows him best for the beautiful love songs which he wrote in Italian, his list of Latin books is very interesting. Then there was the Latin poem about Scipio Africanus which brought Petrarch the greatest honor of his life. Largely because of the interest it aroused, on Easter, 1341, Petrarch was crowned with the laurel wreath. Petrarch's life was a long one, so long that he found time not only to become one of the foremost writers but to collect a library, to make a collection of coins, to arouse interest in preserving old manuscripts, fast becoming lost to the world, and in many ways to awaken the people of h>s time to a love of the old Greek and Roman writers. One day in 1374 they found him fast asleep over a book in his home at Arqua. When they tried to waken him they found that he was dead. So was the wish which he had once expressed to his friend Boccaccio fvlfillcd?"I desire that death find r.ie reading or writing."?Chicago RecordHerald. 1 What the Wave S?i(l to Molly. One day not very long ago Molly and Tom went with mamma to the beach. Mamma sat and read while "~"V MoJIy and Tom built castles and forts, waded in the water, caught a j jek'y fish, and did lots of things. ?y and by Molly got tired of play- ' In;;, so she sat down and watched the ! wave? as they splashed up the beach. , At last one little wave almost covered j her with water, and then she jumped j prutty quick. I can tell you. "Flease don't run away," said the wave. "I wanted to tell you of an j adventure of mine." And it gave a i splashy chuckle of delight "Dear me." said Molly. "Do you have adventures? I thought you did j nothing but play all day." "No, indeed," said the wave. "V?'o i have lots of adventures. Once I I helped wreck a ship?but I'm not go- . ing to tell you about that. This was ! a funny happening. Yesterday T was ; playing down there by the bulkhead j under the long walk. Lots of land i people were leaning over the wall to watch us dance. Pretty soon along j came a little girl and her mother. The i little girl was crying hard 'cause she was hot and tired and cross. They ; stopped to watch us and the little girl climbed up and looked over the wall, while her mother held her tight, j And all the time the big tears were ! a-rolling down h^r face." And the little wave gave another chuckle. "I don't think it was very funny," j said Moll}*, frowning. "Don't you?" asked the little wave. "Why, I thought so. Now, please, don't get angry 'cause I haven't come ! to the funny part yet." "So the little girl cried," it went ! on. rippling along the shore. "And I : kept a-wondering how to make her j laugh. I dashed myself against the j bulkhead ever so many times, but it | wasn't any use. I couldn't jump high i enough you see. And the little girl's tears came so fast she couldn't see ; through 'em." Here the little wave stopped and j ran off toward the ocean. "0, come [ back, do, please, little wave." cred | Molly, "and tell me how you made j her laugh." The wave came splashing in again < and curled around Molly's toes. "I j J J ? H/-1/? o Krtllf if Rllf uiuii i iiinixv )uu micu auLrut n. uuv if you really and truly want to know?" "Of course I do," said Molly, clasping he hands. "Well," said the little wave, as J* rolled up a pebble. "I couldn't do if all by myself, you see.. So I though? and thought and then I remembered by great-great-great uncle, Seventh Wave. So I ran off quick to find him, 'cause I was afraid the little girl might go away 'f6re I came back. And I met him rolling in toward shore. He was foaming with anger and was going to tear down that bulkhead, he said. I told him all the story and after a while he promised to do what I wanted. Then I hopped on his back and away we went rolling in. the little girl was there still, crying hard, and lots of other land people wer? there, too. Everybody cried, 'Look that mon-ster-ous wave!' Thoy didn't know it was me on uncle's back that made him look so big. So wecame crashing against the bulkhead. And just as we struck it I jumped high in the air and dashed my spray right into the little girl's face." "And then?" asked Molly. "And then?the little girl laughed," said the wave as it slipped back into the sea. "Molly!" called mamma. "You've been standing there for ever so long. Was it a day dream, little daughter?" Molly rubbed her eyes and laughed, but never a word she said about the story the little wave told her.?Brooklyn Eagle. STRIDES IN MATCH-MAKING. Great Part Played by Machinery ? Cuba Unconquerable. The consolidation of two large match companies recently effected in London attarcts attention to the great growth of the business abroad, and, curiously, its apparent inability to secure a foothold in Cuba. The union of the Diamond Match company with the Bryant & May concern makes un uuuutcuxj' me laigcsi, iucuii'uiui>vu vits kind in the world. An idea of the total output of matches is to be had by figures furnished by the Atlantic Match company, one of the strongest competitors. Five hundred million matches are said to be made daily in Europe, and these figures may be doubled for the United States. One factory in Ohio alone is credited with turning out 100,000,000 finished matches in 24 hours. Fifty million feet of lumber are used in the United States in the manufacture of matches, and some $20,000,000 invested. What an important part modern machinery plays in this industry may be imagined when it is said that only about 15,000 people are employed. "There are but a few statistics to give," said a match representative recently, "to convince one of the strides in the business. American matches have been able to secure a foothold in Europe because of the superiority of American machinery over tools that were in use 25 years ago. In Cuba, however, machinery is almost unknown. Matches are handmade, and yet we do not seem to get in. Some attribute this lack of success to the popularity of the small wax match made in Havana, which boys peddle on the street for almost nothing. There are about nine of these factories in Havana alone, and it would be a strange Havana, indeed, without the ragged little matchboy. Cubans will not use any other kind of a match."?New York Post 1 - . The Wealthy Indian. White men and women are employed to take care of the babies of the Osage Indians, of Oklahoma, who feel so rich that they scorn the thought of work for themselves, and insist that that is what white folks j are for. These Indians live in shacks j 01 tepees and dress in full Indian ! costume, which is made of the finest J materials and includes beaded shirts i and moccasins and th gaudiest of red j blankets. They drive the best horses and carriages to be had. Each mem- I ber of the tribe, man, woman and j child, has an income of $400 a year, j This is the interest on the proceeds j from the sale of their lands in Kansas, j and also from the leasings of their j * x i tribal lands ior pasturage. iueie am ; about 2000 members of the tribe. Knll Took Secon<l-Storv Room. Missing a young bull, weighing over ! 300 pounds, Henry G. Wagner, a farm- ! er of Strausstown, Pa., instituted a search, and found the animal looking out of the second-story window of a j vacant house. With the assistance of neighbors the animal was driven down j a winding stairs and out of the build- I ing.?Philadelphia Record. I And Also Lawyers. Bobbij ?Pa, what happens when ! cars are telesconed? Father?The pa??eng<!!? see stars, my son.?Smart Set. HOW MOLES OPERATE, 'j 1 WHEN A WALL IS IN HIS WAY, HE ' GOES OVER IT. ^ i Makes Life MUoruhle for the Gardener In a Most Provoking Way ? Has IJoth Kyes and Kars ?Ills Curious Semi-Human Hands?Gets Out of Sight Quickly. 1 Of all the animals which assist in making life miserable for the gardener perhaps the mole is the most provoke ^ ing. Just as a certain bed of choice seeds has been worked into perfect condition, the mole, which may not j have been near the garden for a month , comes back as though by special ap; i pointmetit, and plows that bed front , end to end. Back and forth he Works-, through the loose soil, close to the sur- j face, heaving up a little ridge of earth wherever he goes. He rapidly des- j L _ J t. iL.i :~ -ili troys me oeu, uiuugu max 15 xiui at an his object in coming; He is really out Ml a hunting expedition; he is hunting foC earth worms; slugs, grubs and insects which live in the ground and on Which he depends for iood. When he has finished his meal he leaves the bed, and pushes through the turf of the lawn until he reaches the garden wall perhaps. This proves a little too hard for him to plow through, so he comes out into the open, runs at quite a fair speed across the walk, and then burrows into the turf again on the opposite side. He probably does this at night, and next day the seeds which he turned up during his hunt through the bed will die. If the sun is hot they will be baked in the lossencd earth, or, if it rains, they will probably be washed away. When the gardener discovers the damage, he will stride about the lawn, stamping in the loose turf with his heel, and we can hardly blame him, if, under his breath, he says some very unpleasant things about the mole. Then he will probably set a mole-trap in the hope that his little enemy will come that way again. And there he may have another disappointment, for the mole is quite as apt to stay away until a nice line of young peas or carrots has begun to show above the ground. Then, some night, after a shower of rain has softened the soil, he will suddenly return, uproot the line from one end to the other, and disappear as before. But ir, as sometimes nappens, ne returns along one of his old tunnels, he will probably meet his death. At one point along the route he finds the roof of the burrow crushed down somewhat, and he has to give an extra heave to force his body through. That heave presses on the platform of a mole trap and releases a number of sharp-pointed iron prongs which, driven by a powerful spring behind them, pass through the body of the mole. When the gardener comes along and lifts from the soil the limp body, around which the ants have a Iready gathered, it will be seen what a curious little creature the mole is. From the tip of his nose to the root of his tail he measures something less than six inches, and his total length is increased by a rather short straight tail, sparsely covered with short hairs. His body is covered with a beautiful, solft, lustrous fur, which may look any one of a number of colors, according to the light in which you see it In one light it will appear dark brown, and in others black, dark silver-gray, or purple, possibly, and perhaps the most astonishing thing about rt is the fact that an animal living in the soil should be able to keep his coat so beautifully clean and bright In front, the body terminates in a naked, cartilaginous snout, on the upper surface of which, close together, are two oblong nostrils. The snout is very flexible? so much so, in fact, that the animal sometimes twists it around and puts it into his mouth, from which he afterwards withdraws it with a "pop" resembling the sound which might be ? '? a mlniatiirp rnrk T UdUC ill uiamu^ u uiiuiuvo. V don't why he does this, unless it be to wipe the soil off his nose. When his mouth is opened, it wili be seen that it is full of little teeth of several sizes and shapes, and that it somewhat resembles the mouth of a diminutive Pig. At the first glance one would say that he had neither eyes nor ears, but buried deep in the fur are two little shining black dots, which are doubtless big enough for anything he ever requires to see, and about three quarters of an inch behind them are two very small round holes which lead to the ears. His forearms are hidden by the skin; his curious, semi-human hands alone being visible. The fingers are united, forming broad, leathery plams, which in life are flesh-colpfed. They are armed with large, slightlycurved nails and are excellent tools for digging with. The hind feet are small and slender, naked on the under surface, and clothed with fine, short hair on the upper surface. Wnen the mole wishes to enter the ground he brings the back of his flat hands together in front of his nose, and, digging them into the earth, makes a stroke just as a man does when he is swimming. He repeats the stroke again and again until he is soon out of sight below the surface. As he goes through the earth, he twists his head from one side to the other, and up and down, searching for earthworms and other dainties, of which he cats great numbers in the course of twenty-four hours. When he finds an earthworm he seizes it witn tne outer surface of his forepaws, and crams it into his mouth, bit by bit, munching all the while, like a greedy boy eating a banana. When he is fed in captivity the crunching on the gritty particles in the bodies of the worms can be neard at a distance of several yards. When in his burrow a mole can move backward almost as fast as he ca,n move forward, and when for any reason he moves over the surface of the ground, he runs on the edges of his front paws, with the backs of the latter toward each other. It is difficult to believe how quickly a mole can work his way into the earth, unless one has actually watched and timed him. Last spring a kind neighbor sent me word that her gardener had, with great trouble, caught a mole which had been playing havoc {? fViQ iwr/lpn and asked if I did not Ill bllV MVM, wish to come over and examine it. I accepted the invitation, and, finding the mole an unusually fine specimen, I at once began taking notes on the speed with which he could bury himself. The flower beds were well cultivated and soft from recent rain, and at the first attempt Mr. Mole was out of sight in five seconds. Just as his tail was disappearing I caught hold of it and pulled him out. to give him another trial. At the next attempt he was gone in little over three seconds, and again I pulled him out. to see if he could better this splendid record. He did not try it again at oncc. but ran about, as though searching for a particularly likely spot. At last he found it. and down went his front paws, with his long snout between them. I could see that he was going to break the record, and just as his tail was going into the earth I put out my hand to seize it. But, alas! my fingers closed on the air; my friend the mole had struck right into one of his old burrows, and my kind neighbor has not spoken to me since.?Ernest Harold Baynes, in Hartford Times. HARNESSING JOVE'S BOLTS* Protection Against Lightning Still a Field "-/jy^Ins'entor*. A severe electrical^-^torm visited St; Louis last week andN^considerabie property damage resultecf>^liile several persons were more or less seriously injured. In recent years St. Louis seems to have become a favorite target for Jove's missiles, and the frequent repetition of such disasters has mnvnd thr> Post-Disnatcll to re mark that it is time some steps were taken toward the possibility of controlling the discharges from the artillery of heaven. Our contemporary suggests that 150 years ago Franklin showed that lightning was nothing more than untrapped electricity, and that since that time no progress has been made on the lines which he started. It is argued that if Franklin, with his primitive apparatus, could harness the lightning on a small scale, modern science, with all the resources which it has at hand, should be able to subdue the thunder-storm. The Post-Dispatch also calls attention to some experiments made in recent years by an English scientist, who erected tall poles about his estate, topped with lightning rods, and stored the electricity caught in Leyden jars. There seems to be no doubt, in view of the statistics compiled by meteorologists, that damage from lightning is steadily increasing in this country. Various causes are ascribed. Some scientists say that the destruction of the forests has resulted in an increase in the number and severity of electrical storms. Others say that the centralization of industry resulting in vast emanations of steam from every city in the country, has tended to increase the amount of vapor in the atmosphere and resulted in more frequent storms. But whatever the cause the fact remains. Latest figures show that more than 500 people were killed by lightning in the country last year, while the property loss ran high into the hundreds of thousands. Of course, as has been said, 500 people out of 75,000,000 is not a great number, but the loss of that many lives yearly from any cause which might be removed by proper effort is appalling to contemplate. Moreover, the property damage is a factor of no small importance, and one which cannot under present conditions be entirely guarded against. There seems to be little doubt that science will soon be called on to take up the question of wholesale protection from lightning. The writer quoted above favors an endeavor not only to make the lightinng harmless, but to make it the servant of man. This is a tremendous proposition. Electricity has been put Into service to a remarkable degree. Today it furnishes man with heat, light and power. It carries his messages for him, furnishes him quick transportation, cooks his dinner, lights his room. Yet we do not know what it is. No man knows whence it comes or whither it goes. Its most tremendous and ten rific demonstration is in the lightning. Men who attempted to follow the example of Franklin have met death as the result of their temerity, and we have no assurance that an effort to enlarge on his ideas might not result in disaster on a larger scale. "D,,* +t,A aTnarlmonto r?f fhp FnE'lish UUl IUC tAj;v.i 1U1VUI.U WA 0 scientist spoken of above seem to have been entirely successful, and there appears to be no reason why they should not be followed on a larger scale. In the cities immunity from danger might in all probability be procured by the erection of very tall poles, equipped with proper conductors for carrying off the current from the clouds before it has time to concentrate into a destructive discharge. This experiment has been tried with success. But so far as the country districts are concerned such safeguards are, of course, Impossible. And as to utilizing the electricity taken from the clouds in the manner suggested, it would probably be not so much a question of catching as of holding on.?Louisville Courier-Journal. The Duty of Keeping: Cheerful. It may be that some enthusiastic and laborious German statistician has already accumulated figures bearing upon the question of length of life and its relation to the enjoyment of l^hgth of life and its relation to the enjoyment thereof; if so, we are unacquainted with his results and yet have a very decided notion that people who enjoy life, cheerful people, are also those to whom longest life is given. Commonplace though this sounds, there is no truth more commonly ignored in actual everyday existence. "Oh, yes, of course, worry shortens life and the contented live to be old," we are all ready to say, and yet how many people recognize the duty of cheerfulness? Most persons will declare that if a man is not naturally cheerful he cannot make himself so. Yet this is far from being the case and there is many a man who is at present a weary burden to his relatives, miserable through the carking care of some bodily ailment, perhaps, or some worldly misfortune, who, if he had grown up into the idea that to be cheerful under all circumstances was one of the first duties of life, might still see a pleasant enough world around him.?The Lancet. Snapohootlng a Submarine. While the new submarine Sirene was making a trial trip in the roads at Cherbourg, the lookout reported that two young men in a small boat were apparently taking photographs of the vessel's every movement. A steam lauch was sent in pursuit, and the men were arrested and brought to the submarine. Their camera was seized and the plates extracted, smashed and thrown overboard. One of the men was found to be a dockyard hand, and the other the son of a tradesman. They were not kept in custody, but a strict investigation will be made into the matter. Owing to no fewer than 20 submarines having been laid down this year, none will be begun in 1902, but five will be begun in 1903, while in 1904 26 more will be put in hand, making 68 submarines in all, to be ready for service by 1906. Three will be ready early next year and 17 others in 1903. Buffalo, a village until 1832, and at the date of its incorporation as a city having a population of only 8000, is now the second city of New York. Its population, now 352.0Q0, was only 42,000 in 1850. EXPLAINED. "How did the horse shoe come to be regarded as a symbol of good luck?" 'Well, the first patent granted in America was to a blacksmith."?Chicago Record-Herald. The Typewriter Invention. A statistician has proved that the invention of the typewriter has given employment to 600,000 people, bnt he fails to state how many cases 01 weak stomachs and dyspepsia it has Induced. All people of sedentary occnpation need Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters. 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