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; ' ' HER 1 HOUR OF y A ROMANCE OF $ h \ ' BY MARGUER &'. / r "AY, Mollie," said Nolan, in an off-liand manner, , j "what's that fellow in the leggings doin' up here?" The sun had passed the meridian, and the shadows were beginning to fall on Nolan's side. The hop-field code of courtesy demands that when a man Is picking with a "lady" he give her always the shady side. But Nolan, in his perturbation of mind, forgot his manners. "Nothin'," came indifferently from Mollie, feeling the rays pelting down upon her head, and remembering the thoughtfuluess of the fellow in the leggings in pulling the fullest vines down on her side. "Say, Mollie," asked Nolan, persuasively, after a half-hour's silence, during which time several couples had changed sides so that the girl might have the benefit of the shade, "what was he hangin' round you all mornin' . - for?" jvothin ' Tlie black eyes were stubbornly glued to their work, while beads of perspiration stood out on the round, tanned cheeks. Thereafter, vine after vine was C reached and stripped in oppressive silence. At length, after having decided to adopt a 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 he talkin' to you about, anyway?" "Nothin'!" Mollie's chin went into the air and her lips snapped together like the blades of a jack-knife. The beads of perspiration had grown into rivulets that trickled from nose to chin, and splashed into the basket. The foreman of the field rode by several 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 sun began to redden behind a bank of smoke and . dust, the joyful sound of the quitting ** bell 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 you, anyway?" But the maid only threw a defiant "Nothin'!" over her shoulder as she iV. was joined at the end of the row by a foil foil attt in lo/frrln r?c HP 1-> o K1 o ot* a ?au AVUVn ui xuc uava cj to lost their defiance, the lips rippled into smiles as she pushed her sun-bonnet back and looked up into the laughing face under the sombrero. "Great place, isn't it?" the tall fel'v . said, half to himself, as he x watched the pickers filing by?Chinamen, Indians, ^aps, and whites of every brand, and all sorts of conditions. There was the objectionable element of "hobos," of course, in plentitude, but the majority of the pickers were the men who, after harvesting their own meagre little hay crops, packed their wagons, loaded in their families, - whistled to their dogs, and started off for a three or four weeks' camp.in the hop-fields. With these families it is ^ a regular institution, and the one interesting occasion of the year. Here new acquaintances are made, foot-hill gossip exchanged for tule district sc&n dais, flirtations and romances spring 'up, flourish, and die, with the hops, and most of the "back country belles date their social debut from the Saturday 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 Lead just a trifle higher than usual when familiar faces looked up and saw her chatting with this stylish looking fellow in the corduroy 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 conridered good form. '"How long have you worked here?" the tall fellow asked her, shortening his stride to fall in with her little trip. f Mollle, delighted to be called upon for Information, gurgled out everything she knew about the liop-fields; the advantage of beiEg 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-looking personage could be a common picker, like Mike Nolan and Pinny Smith, and the rest of them: "Are you visiting at Hoptown?" "No," the fellow laughed, "I'm a citizen, 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 Chemistry, felt herself on an intellectual level with this college senior. As they neared the camp she was conscious of a double row of curious eyes peering at her from under tent flaps, but tucking her chin up into the air, she walked along as oblivious of them, apparently, as if she and this new friend were alone in a wilderness. Before picking-time the next morning 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 the inhabitants of the northera. Nolan, his wrath cooled by a night's repose, became aware of this fact when he waited at the usual trysting place by the first row of poles, and saw the tan sombrero looming up in the wake of the blue sun-bonnet. The rest of the 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 consolation. But Mike Nolan was not the only one suddenly effaced from the girl's fickle memory. There were Pinny, and Spike and Big Terry, into whose young and susceptible hearts her black eyes had burned big holes, now not even seen when they passed her on the row. The eyes under the sombrero lost nothing of the situation. This little girl was undoubtedly pretty after a sort of wild-rose type, she certainly was the only one in the field who could BRIEF JTUUMPH THE HOP-FIELDS. ITE STABLER. lioli) to make the long hot days ondurable to him. Her eyes had a "why of widening when he talked to" her, which was highly agreeable to him, and he spared 110 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 admiration put a fine gilt edge on his self-esteem. "Is it possible you have never been to San Francisco?" he asked her, one day. "Xo. I've never been there." she admitted, apologetically, "hut," she hastened to add, in order to dispel any idea of rusticity that admission might have given, "I've been twice to Red Bluff, and we live only nine miles from Coon Creek." "Have you ever thought you might like to live there?" he pursued, reaching up to pull down a cut vine from the pole. His glance was very direct this time, and liis tones full of meaning. It was pretty to see her eyes and cheeks glow with a deeper hue, so intent was be on noting the effect be could produce with the slightest touch. He did not wait for an answer, but went on. "Wouldn't you like " But just then the 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 the settlement together in silence?little Mollie's feet touching the ground only In high places, her foolish little head 'way up in the clouds, the man's thoughts miles away from the scene about him, and the hope of his heart centred on getting on the 'varsity football team. By the end of the season Miss Mcllie'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, on/1 onliO/1 f f n f nl nAn aIiicIati kuu uuu icuviitu iuc lauu v that not one of her old friends at Coon Creek possessed a particle of culture or style. 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 determined to show them the size of the gulf that now yawned between herself 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 frock, and are radiant and ready for the frolic. But Mollie, with a reckless slash into her summer's earnings, burst upon the scene, on the eventful evening, an animated billow of frills, | and flounces, and furbelows. As the frolic progressed, the tall ' fellow with his sombrero under his arm, watched the scene from the doorway with an amused, wondering smile, j The big dining room that seated 500 hungry pickers three times a day had been transformed in less than an hour into a dancing hall. The tables bad 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 sides, was studded at regular intervals with empry oornes, into eacn or wmcn was stuck a tallow candle. After the good old-fasliioned 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, be : crossed the room to ask her for a dance. From the opposite doorway J Spike had started toward her at the 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 in his surroundings lie walked slowly, and Spike, she saw, was gaining. In a second he would be within speakiffg range and all would be lost. The next Instant she rose to her feet, turned her back on the crestfallen Spike, and reached her hand toward the tall fellow, approaching in i his leisurely, indifferent manner. When the accordion began to wail out "The Blue and the Gray," the man found to his surprise this little backwoods beauty could dance. She didn't hop, nor "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 was stopped, and there was a mad stampede for the counter, over which pink lemonade and cookies were sold. The leggined fellow, however, led the radiant little erirl out into the moonlight. which had transformed the denuded redwood hop-poles into endless colonnades. Regardless of her slippers and flounces, everything but the dominating presence of the man beside her, she strolled down the row on the rough bare ground. When they regained the ball room pro tem., the music had struck into the long, swinging strains of "Creole Belles," Again they circled round and 'round, never pausing for a 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 usual 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 accorded the other fellows, he turned and consoled himself with the Henessy girls. When at last the dance was over, when the accordion had wheezed out the plaintive strains of ^Iome, 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 be any better than this. Her companion did not tell her that he was going away the 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, after repeated protestations of remembering her until his dying day, and promises of coming up to Coon Crock to visit Uncle Sy's dairy ranol? the very first chance he got, lie took her hand to say "good-by" and bent so low her checks flamed up as red as her lips. But she could not have been so angry as she pretended to be. because, after the lights were out all up and down the line, they were still saying "good-by." It was not a long walk to Iloptown station, and next day the tall young fellqw, again in tweeds and a Panama hat, tramped up and down the platform. impatient to be back into the stir and bustle of the life he had left, and recounting to himself for the hundredth time his chances of getting on the 'varsity team as half-back. "Hello, old man!" lie shouted, as hejumped on the step, wondering at this gathering of the elans. " "Ilello! Hello!" a volley of voices echoed as he entered the car. ".Tust coming down from Shasta," one of the fellows explained: "my sister and some friends of hers in the ear. Come on!" The train moved slowly when it crossed llio trestle. Mollie had counted on that, and hurried to the end of the hop-field so she-might get a last smiling adieu from the car window. Four, live, six windows slinned by. and her heart beiran to fail, but at the eighth, there lie was. looking toward l:cr, too. The black eyes widened as the window. came abreast of her fence-post. Yes, liis 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 iook. the same smile she had lived upon all these weeks were bent upon the new face. It could not be possible that he had forgotten hex already! Still, trusting little Mollie waved her handkerchief, and then hex bonnet. His head was turned in her direction, but he had dyes for no one but this trim-looking" girl -with the 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 turned hack to the hop-field, a great, dry sol: in her throat and an empty ache in liei heart, the one or two Coon Creek people she met let her see they had learned they were not expected to speak to her. At a turn in the road she passed n hilarious group of pickers exchanging tin-types with he?rty promises of meeting again next year. fSmiy was there, lavishing peanuts and gum on The crowd, and though he saw her, he did not look up. 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, walking home with the red-haired Henessy girl.?San Francisco Argonaut. MUU5L AND LUCUWIU riVc.5. The Utnal Keinlt of Tlieir Coming Together. The spunky and stubburn 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 out in about ten seconds, making a great waste of big game and a lot of work for the section men. It was on Tuesday last that the engineer of a freight train on the Bangor afid Aroostook road, as his locomotive rounded a sharp curve on a down grade, saw on the track a few rods ahead three moose?a big bull, a cow and a calf. He sounded the whistle expecting to see the whole family make a break for the woods, but they stood their ground, and the bull, with a snort of defiance, braced himself for the combat, swinging his great antlered head as though he expected to toss the locomotive skyhigh. The shriek of the whistle sent men nrar 4-Via f Ano nf norc OV.U1 X. J IU?J V? C4 IV^O VI iuv setting brakes, while the engineer had the brakes on locomotive and tenderclamped up so tightly that the wheels were sliding and smoking over the 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 was 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 the calf being thrown some distance from the track, while the carcass 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 Aroostook road. A few days ago a train on the Intercolonial 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 ti:eu, nnciing that the footing was bad on the ties, 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 the 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 circumstances was he to get wet. The man went 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. The 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 him 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 refused his wife, when she asked hiin for fifty cents for the church, and the thought made him feel so small that he had no difficulty in getting out of the log.?Grace Church Bells. A Man. A Scotchman had reached the summit of his ambitions, says Everybody's Magazine, in attaining to the magisterial bench. The honor seemed to him a great one. and he tried to live up to it. With his head high in the air he swaggered along till he went bolt ui: against a cow which had not the manners to get out of the way, but continued to browse by the roadside in mild unconcern. "Mon," cried the indignant owner, "mind my coo!"' . "Woman," he replied, with fine dignity, "Im no longer a mon. I'm a baillie-"* I Flimsy English Building. It used to be affirmed that English i building if tardier was more thorough than American. But this view of the case will no longer serve. American building is decidedly more thorough and serviceable. I have yet to find a house in all London which is not the prey of drafts. Indeed, 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 this shell-like quality of structures constantly surprises and annoys the foreigner. It is all very well for him if he comes here to spend a few summer weeks. Then he lauds the "delicious coolness" of the climate and fails to realize that in winter stealthy air currents would crepp upon. him from every quarter. There are hundreds of houses in the smart regions of Portland place. B^yswater, Knightsbridge and Kensington, where an utter lack of repair prevails, where sometimes the wind almost whistles below the ill-joined doors, and where frnm nil hllf ntlft fttlS IS Ultcrii auowii, aawaaa or two apartments. And yet for lodgings 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 Conservator. 11 Coughed 1 L'-Ly | "I had a most stubborn cough | I for many years. It deprived me | 6 of sleep and I grew very thin. I I a then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, i and was quickly cured." p R. N. Mann, Fall Mills, Tenn. y ??nwn I Sixty years of cures I and such testimony as the I I above have taught us what I I Ayer's Cherry Pectoral | | will do. I I We know it's the great-1 | est cough remedy ever I S made. And you will say | I so, too, after you try it. I I There's cure in every drop. I 3 Tbree sizes: 25c., 50c, (1. All drngflits. g I Consult your doctor. If bo says take it, fl then do as be says. If he tells yon not H to take it, then don't take It. He knows. Leave it with him. We are willing. ? - J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. E f^L^woes. I (/M> THE BEST SHOE II w^}** AMERICA ff TAKE NO 1 SUBSTITUTE I **] II IP YOUR DEALER DOM V\ ) I J K?T CARRY THCM* Vw ' A POSTAL CARD TO U8 N^\ y/ WILL TELL YOU WHERE ^5^5^ YOU CAN GET THE*. CRAPDM&-TERRY CO. LEADING SHOE MANUFACTURERS OF THE SOUTH. LYNCHBURG VA. | Our books are complete treatises g men who know. ^ My skin was sallow, I had a bad taste in my mouth in the morning and my breath was offensive at times and occasionally I had a bad headache. By the use of Ripans Tabules I am now | in a condition to attend to my daily duties, my appetite is excellent and my digestion much improved. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. | Indigestion Pains $ X RELIEVED IMMEDIATELY BY a[ |CAPUDINE1 $ SOOTHES THE STOMACH wj Sold o-t Drugstores ^ ^ 2il 50a. Ill* Pr?ftWt? Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In bulk* j Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." I PAY srox CASH FOR m1ibounty land warrants issued to soldiers of any war. Also Soldiers' Additional Homestead Rights. Write me at once. FRANK H. REgLB, T.O. Box 148, Denver, Colo. Red Seal Shoes ........ [SHOE eoj Money Savin' Catalog W~Give the name of this paper when writing: to advertisers-(At. 50, '02) El""KURES WHERE ALL EiSE FAILS. Ej ua Best Cough Syrup. Tn?t? Good. Use P| 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. Crisfield, Md., is now the chief source of terrapin supply, although a few are sent to market each season from the Choptank River and the waters of Talbot County. For some years the dealers at Crisfield and other points have been gathering the j diamond backs, a few at a time, and keeping them in pounds staked off in the water. Nearly all the good Chesapeake terrapin left are now imprisoned in these pounds, it is estimated. It is 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, $36 a dozen; five to six inches, $14 a dozen, and under five inches $2 a dozen. i nere seerns 10 ue a giuai, uia^i chancy between $G0 and $2 a dozen, out of all proportion to the size, but terrapin are distinguished for more qualities 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, the 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 increased, however,, before the diamond back is found on the banquet board. Orders from consumers are usually placed with city dealers, who may or may not be 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 Philadelphia are thus drawn upon at times by Baltimore dealers to meet demands, but as a rule it is this city that is asked 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 $S0 or more a dozen. As only the wealthy can enjoy the delicious dish, and as most of those who in a- .*i - ? ?"U /vi? rtnArti'nl TvtormQ H OQ1 T*A ciuue jl in men opci-ioi j,uvu11? as good an article as they can get, the cost is usually from $60 to $75 a dozen. Large sizes readily bring $100. Catching terrapin for market was once more or less followed as a business all along the bay shores, but it is now practically an incidental of the waterman's life, as the scarcity of the 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. Dredging for them with drags somewhat resembling the crab net was lucrative at one time, but is now almost forgotten. The few found are 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 intervals of about six inches in spots which look to him as though likely to hide the prey. 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 ffom sight in its ooze. In these places the "prodder" hunts usually after the first winter thaw off ice. The terrapin then seems to rise almost to ihe top of the mud and sink again, leaving a 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 I with the rod. The novice is unable to ! distinguish between the sound made upon the wood and the ring of a terrapin's back, but to the experienced hunter it is quite different, and he seldom makes mistakes. The old hun? i ters say that the terrapin never Hibernates in deen water, but always seeks the shallows or the 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 stored in a dry temperate room or box until ready to be sent to market. The desultory collector or one not regularly in the business usually ships his terrapin to market in small lots soon after securing them and they are kept in the storage houses of city dealers until wanted. They are usually placed in a dry room or large box and left to shift for themselves.. One local dealer states that his firm has had $15,000 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 arrange for marketing the season's supply. The scarcity of the genuine article and the regular 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 substitute masquerades an the banquet board as the highly prized diamondback. 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 ? ? rela the place 01 us mui L* aiiovw.^ tive at stately functions. Many golden come from the West. The meat of these plehian cousins of the lordly diamond hack is not as dark, but only to the educated taste is much different from the real luxury. The golden and Biloxi articles are also increasing in value as the demand for them grows, and those of good size and other marketable 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 the Eastern Shore. The "slider" often attains large proportions, weighing as much as twenty pounds or more. The "red-belly" is g, smaller species. The larger variety occasionally sells for as high as $2.50 apiece, though the average price is from 75 cents to $1.50. ! The smaller variety sells for from 75 j cents to $1.50 a dozen. I These terrapin bury in the 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. The female, before she deposits her eggs, is most sought after, as the numerous eggs add greatly to the richness of the prepared dish. The feJ male terrapin deposits her eggs ranging from twenty-five to thirty in number, in the sandy fields near her breeding grounds. The eggs are covered with sand and packed at night, and the terrapin seeks the water again before the hot sun reaches her. Old j trappers say they have known terrapin to be killed by the sun while making their way to the marsh after laying. The crow is the greatest enemy to the terrapin, hunting out their nests and destroying the eggs by wholesale.?Baltimore Sun. Gas as Fuel. The use of gas as a fuel and source ; of power has made wonderful strides j during the past decade, and present indications point to a still more marked ! advancement in the methods of production and systems of lighting, heating and power supply, says Mines and Minerals. The systems of incandescent 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 producer gas will undoubtedly be the future heating and lighting agencies, and along the lines of their production will ho ftirootpr! 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 chemical composition. Ireland's Land Holders. There are really very few large landowners 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 landlords, of whom 100 are possessed of over 1,000 acres of land and 200 persons own less than 300 acres. There are only two landlords in 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 are 8,000 landlords, of whom 3,000 own less than one acre of land. Of the remaining 5,000 landlords there are but twenty who possess over 10,000 acres; of these twenty estates at least ten are insolvent, and consequently the owners do not receive a penny from them in the way of income. Altogether there are about 30,000 landed proporietors 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 may argue that there are too % many bank holidays in England, and there is undoubtedly some reason in the contention, but for all that no one will ever persuade the average Englishman that a bank holiday is not one of the very best things in life. It is the onion that animates the salad of his labor. In the midst of his labor- j icus days it shines ahead of him as tne lights of home shine to the mariner. He saves up his money for it, he studies maps and railway guides for weeks ahead of the auspicious morn, and he even buys a new pair 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 the 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 the seaside or in green woodlhnds, and the entire freedom from the environment of one's normal existences-lend to a toil of zest, a spring and an elasticity which | manifest themselves in the character i and quality of the work. That is the theory, at all events. Of course, ! where such festivals are celebrated by brutish debauchery they are occasions of evil, but the working classes as a whole are certainly beginning to free themselves from the charge that they cannot keep holiday without getting drunk.?London Globe. Cave Bt . s Caught in a Trap. News has reached Professor J. C. lvlerriman, head of the palentological department of the University of California, that a cavern has been explored j ~? Cm TTYiinricrn near x^aii u, s><ia k^cm. ?m.uv*v<wv special in the New York Herald. Mr. Sinclair, the geologist, who has continued the work in the cavern made famous by the discovery of the ursus spelasus, or cave bear, reports the discovery of a branch cave replete with fossil material. Upon entering the newly opened cave he found the surface of the cavern floor littered with the bones of the giapt 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 the earth. The bones found in the main cavern were buried deep in silt, and it was questioned whether or not the original 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 uncovered. Spaghetti as a Weapon. Judge A. M. Aucoin of the Second City Criminal -Court was confronted with a delicate and puzzling question in the case of Frank Klem, a German 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 guidance of jurists throughout the 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 law the same as if the weapon used had been a bludgeon of a meat ax. The testimony showed that Mrs. Kiefer sent to Klem's p7ace for five i cents' worth of spaghetti; that when she received it she considered it spoiled and- sent it back, and instead of getting her money refunded she j says abuses were heaped upon her | through her messenger. Then the lady called on the grocer in person. The merchant, it is alleged, at some j point during the Babylonio colloquy ! threw the spaghetti in the lady's face j and threatened to throw a weight at j her. The Court thought this fact was j clearly established. "Spaghetti is not ! a dangeraus weapon," said the Court, j "but the defendant is guilty of the j assault and will be held for sentence, j ?New Orleans Times-Democrat. " ~ . /; SISTERS 01 Use Pe=ru=na For Con ^ V VV\"WWV\VVVWXVVVXVXWXVVVWVVXX vv1 In every country of the civilized world Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, hut they ^also minister to their bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and tc protect from climate and disease these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., read as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir :?t(H9e young girl who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngitis, anl loss ot voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after further use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured.??Sisters of Charity. The young girl was under the care of the Sister* o: Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat, with good results, as the above letter testifies. Send to the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for a free book written by Dr. Hartman. osnnM FOB GRADUATES. j^fflgyTiisaji I Mother of Her Country. Six men held the title of "Father of His Country" before Washington. Few seem to know that theje was a "Mother of Her Country." She was Maria Theresa, the great Empress of Austria, according to the New York Press.* It is said she made only one mistake in the course of her re;?ro?consenting to the partition of Poland. On the edge of the document given her to sign she wrote: "I consent because so many great an^ learned men will hare it so, but after I am dead and gone people will see the consequence of thus breakj ing through all that has hitherto been holy and just." Her daughter was the unhappy Marie Antoinette. St. Louis and San Francisco R. R. ~ '-1 1?i* ??- 4>o nn | uners ro ids coiodist duji impiuo to points in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories, on the following dates : Nov. 4 and 18, Dec. 2 and 16, Jau. 6 and 20. Feb. 3 and 17, March 3 and 17, April 7 and 21. Write for advertising matter, rates and information to W. T. Sauxdebs, G. A. P.D.f Atlanta, Ga. RUBBING IT IN. He?if you wefuse me pBhall put a I bullet thwough my bwain. She?The idea! How could you? ' He?I suppose you think I'm talking like a cwazy man? She?Oh, no, like a sharpshooter.-? Philadelphia Press. I Sioo Reward. S100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's CatarrhCure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroyng the foundation or the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. | Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Basle has the only zoological garden in Switzerland. H. H. Gbeen's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this paper. I The man who is always on time often I has to wait. PTTCnormanentlvoured.No fits ornervous I i- J. J. I.' p . nessafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Ne rveRestorer. $2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr.R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Detached bits of human skin live two to ten days. Mrs. Winslo w's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. abottle A Berliner takes on the average 120 street car rides a year. i Fruit acids will not stain goods dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. There is now one lunatic in Ireland for every 178 of the population. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken ol as a cough cure.?J. W. O'-Bsiex, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1903 The man of many parts seldom parts bis name in the middle, ? -' ~~ ' " .- NS - " " ' - - i'ggr*: r ' *. *. R CHARITY? \ ighs, Colds, Grip and) essman's Letter. I S* \ r\\\\\\\\\\^^ ( -vvvvw vvvvvtvvv/vvvvvvVVVVVVWVM ' The following letter is from Congressmen Meekison, of Napoleon, Ohio: * ? The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0.: ] JgS Gentlemen: "I '1j& have used several <1 ! I bottle of Peruna J, benefited thereby ]I from^ my catarrh 11 ^ continued use will ! fully eradicate & ;|'! i I D?vid KeeWnwm. ||' ^ ?David Meekison. tmnttmti 11 . - : ? ' Dr. Hartman, one of the T>est known i physicians and surgeons in the United States, was the first man to fonr.dlate Peruna. It was through His genius and peneverance that it was introduced to the medical profession of this country. ~ ./jl If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna write -1 at once to Dr. Hairtlhan, giving a full statement of your 5jase and he will be pleased to give you-his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The % Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. Ohio. 1 1 ?? :m UgLri vol ll u 9111 fare. 12,000 grreduste# la business. Writs for Seeckft KnS COLLKG Eft. KlchmoaJ,Vs.-BlrmInghsm.Ala. I REPEATING SHOTGUNS H ;e-DGwn Repeating Shotgun, with fl , full chokea barrel, suitable for ing, and an extra interchangeable fi yhnder bore barrel, for field shoot* fi $42.00. Dealers sell them for B i serviceable all round gun within fi dy's pocket book. Winchester B t and outlast the most expensive s and are'just as reliable besides. B !N^RMSCO^^E^iAyE}\CON^^ Aver) & McMillan, 51 and 5S S. Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. | ALL KINDS OF S,4%3Bt MACHINERY I- - v : \c v*a?m ml all Sizes. Wheat Separator*, all Sizes. " .". -Ssi BEST IHPBOTED SAW HILL ON EARTH: J Large Engines and Boilers supplied promptly. Shingle Mills, Corn Mills, Circular Saws, Saw Teeth, Patent Dogs, 8team Governors. Full line Engines and Mill Supplies. Send for free Catalogue. Capsicum Vaseline Put up in Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Superior to-Mnstard o* any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will' / ? stop the toothache at once and relieve head* ache and sciatica. - ? We recommend it as the best and; safest ex* ternal counter-irritant known, alee as an external remedy for pains in the ^he?t-and stomach and all rheumatic,neuralgic andgouty eom plaints. A trial wilKprove what we claim for it, and it will be found to he invaluable in the household. Many people say "It is the best ai all your preparations. Price 15 cents, at all druggists, or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in poetage^^ stamps we will send you a tube by man, ^vTT< r ., No article should be accepted by the ptfblle unless the same carries our label, aa otherwise' ' ' it is not genuine . * CBESEBR0U6U MANUFACTURING CP, 17 State Street, New York City. DROPSY 10 DAYS' TREATMENT FK&' Have made Dropsy and its estimations a specialty lor twenty jars with the most wonderfQ iccess. Havo cured many thou* ideates. S3. S. H. 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