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?! ' > ' * ' . . " : : . ' ? ' ) WANDERLUST. I am homesick for the hills; They call me all day long To hear the music of the streams, The pine tree's whispered song. I am homesick for the hills; Sly soul longs for the balm. O, to be there, among tfiera, Their solftudes and calm., O. to be there, among them, 'Neath sky so blue and clear, ' Where the world of men seems far away, And God so very near! I am homesick for the hills? Green-clad, with spruces tall. Where golden mists come creeping down, And nurple shadows fall. And T long to sit at sunset On high places that I know. And watch the rose and crimson flush Upon the banks of snow. I am homesick for the hills. Where life is full and free. Where the air is like a draft of wine? There's where 1 fain would be! 'And my straining eyes look westward, My heart with longing fills. > For J h'ear the pine-trees calling? I Am homesick for the hills! j: ?Florence M. Cooler, in (lood Health. I J 'V ? V 1 0M9?me?e0?me9?oe?$tcEB? ;' e!s? and now ooe? niw | she'll never i know. RS990 e?o?$ aa3??????ooo?oo?e?ooc908aa?s , So it happens in other places than ' high altitudes, after all. x. "I thought it was all dead," the ! man said, pushing away his finger- jj howl and taking two faded envelopes j1 from his nocket. Thev were scented t1 r'i faintly. 1 ] .'"It's funny how things go on iiv- 1 C ing, isn't it?" he mused, removing c the letters and spreading them on the 1 ( table. They were dated August, 1 189S. "I got them in the Philip- 1 pines," he explained after a pause, c "and I replied to them in an ordinary j 1 way. I don't know why I kept them, Ix or, perhaps I should say I didn't know 1 & then," he corrected slowly; "but IJ c - . know now. It's very curious, isn't ' He took it for granted that c tboughts so familiar to his own mind 1 should be intimate to his friend. t "I saw her again to-day," he said, "and it's all come b^ck again, just | as it was. Of course, she doesn't 1 know," being only a man, he elim- c inated mere instinct from any mental t "onH upvpi* xvll] Rut ^ |TA WVVWWt v* " ?? ? *? , the first time I saw her down in that Jj dingy little newspaper office in Kar.- . sas she brightened it up like the scent 1 and color of a rose garden. She sat 1 there in tho evening with the light * shining on her fair hair, all gold and fluffy, and the skin on her white 1 arms glistening like ivory?and jr? a .evening dress." He emphasized that J3 as being in some way final, and re- 1 lapsed into silence, wandering in the a soft twilight of memory. * "I was a country editor then." he said, suddenly rousing himself, "and s she had come as society editor while c the other was on vacation. She had 0 that trick of bringing things with v her, flowers and books and?and * things ?you know?" ; ? He sought vaguely for terms in the speech of milliners and perfumers. a "Ribbouy and lacy things, you know^Jic plunged at last. ? t "It made the old place feel awful ^ uncomfortable and shabby. We got " to straightening things up while she was out, getting the windows cleaned and the floors scrubbed, and I began v mnrnincfi inarpjifl of nifhts L .WUVmIIU^ UiVI ?wvv*?v? v? It felt cleaner. # "The pressroom w:\s down in the c basement, and the comps. and press- j3 men took to coming up Quite fre- * quently. I knew what it was brought them," he said sagely, "but she .. didn't. She just worked on qtftte in- ' noeently. t j "I hadn't spoken to her,'' he ex- ^ plained, taking a knowledge o? some r ? tender sentiment for granted, "and ! before the other one came back ! went out with the Twentieth Kansas . to the Philippines. I wrote her from j there, just an ordinary letter, and c she wrote these two back. There's f nothing in them I can't show you. They're just ordinary." ^ i They were quite ordinary. The t writing was characterless; the verbi- ^ age commonplace to the point of ^ weariness. She probably had been ~ only an indifferent understudy of the r plain and useful person who usually t filled the chair of the society editor on that country paper. They indi- catcd neither humor or affection, y And he had kept them stowed away g fo- years. * " r 'I saw her once, after I was rnus- , tered out," he said, putting the let- y ters away in his breast pocket. "And ' she seemed just the same, as fair and ? fresh and fragrant as ever. We y talked to each other casually. Some- f how, I don't know why, I didn't even 'speak' to her then; and I came en , here. A month afterward I read of her marriage to a row of apartment houses and a coal mine." He seemed to be groping back in his memory for some rag of a fluttering passion, some shadow of romantic regret. But he found none. The sentiment seemed close all through the years, but it moved on a parallel track. It was not in his train. 44 A row of apartment houses and a coal mine," he ruminated, speculating on the probable income, and feeling dollar's worth of change in his pocket with reckoning figures. "And ?I got married, too." That last he was cheerful about. But the habit of being cheerful and s consistently tender about his own < marriage was habitual. "Then, of course," he said, "I forgot. Or thought I had . . And I hadn't. ! . . . It's a funny world, isn't it?" He looked for exterior comment on the inexplicable humor of things to s explain the situation, skipping the i .thought that visualized the tender J places as fingers searching for a ? wound skip the contusions. < mmmmmaBmmmmmamBDammmMwmmmtmmmmmmmmmniimmvi ?She never knew how it was," he said, quietly defying contradiction. "She didn't understand. I never said anything; how could ^he? And now she's living here, in the sametown, with the row of apartment houses and the coal mine. 1 wonder what he's like." He felt his own biceps in the primitive insJnct of the savage man war-, ring for his own. "Bald, perhaps." he said, "and flabby, and ?I wonder how she likes it. She didn't look a day older; just as fresh and rose-pink as she was when she brightened that ola office. And she doesn't understand." "'Oh, the tears we waste'," his friend quoted, 'and the years we waste, and the work of our head and hand, belong to the woman who did not know (and now that she can never know) and did not understand.' " "No," he answered; "not that. It couldn't have been that. It's just some blamed nonsense that's got under my skin and keeps there. But it's curious?I thought I had for* gotten."?Home Magazine. MAKING CLOTH FROM TWINE. [Herman Experiment to Secure Warmth - and Cheapness. A few years ago some one wh? sinew* how* great ivas the warmth that night be secured from a few newspapers employed as a bed covering in ivinter tried the experiment of foldng the same material under ordinary dothing in the daytime. Then came nto use a flexible but heavy paper o? i special kind for coat linings and mdergarments. The paper was ailed fibre chamois, because, while t was made out of cheap fibre, it vas soft and flexible and looked a Iitle like chamois skin. Much more re:ently the attempt has been made in ksrmany to produce garments from rood or paper fibre, not by cutting j >ut large sheets and sewing them at he edges, but by spinning it into bread and weaving it into cloth. This plan differs from the one folowed in manufacturing a certain imtation of silk, and is apparently heaper. When ribbons are made by he so-called Chardonnet process ! rood is sufficiently dissolved by chem- ! cals to become like thick mucilage. .Tie substance can then be drawn out nto extremely fine and rather tough hreads and worked up into cloth rrT* i nVi rrt?of O <? eill/ AQP TiPA. rujuu uo cam uvw. jluv |/? vluct of the latest experiment is aptarently not lustrous, and the threads ,re composed of paper which has not teen treated with fluids which alter ts appearance or character. Xylolin, ,s the article is called, can be ' deached so as to look like cotton or inen. but, while not so elastic, it is aid to be less expensive. It can, of ourse, be dyed, and by using threads f different colors pretty patterns are btainable. Warmth rather than :reat durability is its chief recommendation, apparently, though as it oes not attract mpths it might make good substitute for wool. The attempt to manufacture cloth iut- of paper twiae is said to have made repeatedly in the United itatcs. Several patents for the purpose were taken out years ago, but j or some reason it was not found ad- j isable to operate under them. Now hat the inventors' rights have exlired, it is said that the idea is reeiving a trial in this country. Aparently, though, the principal expernient with xylolin is being made in rermany. According to a recent conular report the yarn can be woven nto almost any fabric, such as dress oaterials, tents, bathing suits, imitaion Panama hats, carpets and grain tags. Since xylolin is odorless it may aak<; eicellent bags for sugar, coffee ina salt. Tapestries, not printed, but woven n colors, as well as toweling of xyloin, are alike being produced. Not >nly can the yarn be used in coarser abrics, but it has also been tried sucessfully in hand-made cushion laces, lie yarn can be readily used in kniting and pleating. Woven xylolin roated with a waterproof dressing Iocs not seem to crack by wrinkling u* friction, to the injury of the water esisting coat. One would imagine hat a fabric of paper yarn would eadily ignite and that a lighted natch falling on a paper rug could >e exceptionally dangerous. It is as;erted, however, that a burning natch stem will do more damage to t woolen or jute rug and be more ikely to lead 10 disastrous conseluences. While not uninflammable, tn ordinary rug of paper yarn will >urn scarcely easier than a wooden loor. Some criticism has been offered tbout paper cloth, with an inclination o compare it to sheet paper or rub>er, whereas even underclothing nade of paper yarn has been found >y experience to be satisfactory. Modern authorities on hygienic clothing iecry the wearing of garments that ire so woven as to permit only a very slow exchange of the toxic emana;ions of the body with the outer air. Accordingly, advocates of xylolin lone for a wider use of woven or tnit paper cloth garments, not only nmcng people who cannot afford to )uy more expensive clothing, but also imong well-to-do classes, because the ?aper material is cleanly and readily laundered. Even caustic soap, instead of injuring it, is said to make :he fabric softer. Canal Zone Has 50,000 Inhabitants. The department under Senator Blackburn has just completed a census of the canal zone. The tabulation Is not completed, but result shows nearly 50,000 persons, including Anion and Cristobal. About twenty per cent, of the total are white. , % %^TuriousAM j The Germ nil Kaiser employs four chefs, a German, an Italian, an Englishman and a Frenchman, so that j he can have his meals served in any j style he may fancy. Sausage is one j of his favorite dishes, however, and j he has a fresh supply of frankfurters I made every day. Compulsory spraying or dipping of calves is said, by Wyoming cattle owners, to result in heavy loss, owing to the pungent odor left on the skin which kills the natural smell and renders the mother unable to recognize her calf. Near Laramie over 100 | valves died thus from starvation. Napoleon was born August 1Z, ! 1769; Wellington was born April 29, i 1769. Therefore, on the day of Wa- | terloo. Napoleon was forty-six, lack- I ing two mouths, while Wellington was not quite two months over forty-six. Nearly every house in Japan has in the main reception room a raised ; platform on which sits the familiar j idol of the Dal Butau (Buddha). If , the family hold to the older faith of Shinto, there is also a statue to the goddess of mercy, Kaunon. Around these idols are arranged the swords, armor, ornaments and the j ihdi, the sacred tablet which bears the name of tke dead father, and the date ?f his death. The shrine containing the relics is made from the holy , sun wood (hi-no-ki). This recess in the. Japanese home is the heart -' lifrt o?r1 o/wroanATlH c UI tUC 1 ilXU II J? iilCy auu to that niche in the mansion of an- j c-ient Rome, wherein were placed the Lares and Penates. / The historic plains of Abraham will be dedicated as a national park at the celebration next year of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Quebec, provided those most prominent in the commemoration are able to have their way. At present ; the plains are marred by a rifle factory, and instead of listening to the demand that they remove to another site, the owners of the plant demand more room. Portugal is making an effort to reclaim 10,000,000 acres, nearly onehalf the country's area. t Berlin University is the most numerously attended ^eat of learning ! in the world. It contains 7774 matriculated and 1330 non-matriculated students. All the States of Germany and every country in Europe, from Norway to Sicily, from Ireland to Russia, are represented in its classrooms. In a recent picture of the govern- j ors of the various States and Ter- ( ritories seventeen were shown to have smooth-shavei\ faces, three wear beards, two goatees, and eight are noticeably bald-headed, while feur were pictured wearing glasses. A PRESERVATIVE OF WOOI). Successful Experiments Made in Belgium with Coal Tar Extract.' Vice-Consul J. A. Van Hee, of Ghent, says that recent experiments in Belgium made with a new coal tar extract, known as "injectol," have given satisfactory results. He writes: " "The experiments were principally devpted to the treatment of wooden poles and blocks used in street paving. The product is a liquid, of a dark brown color, very thin, and of regular density. Its degree of viscosity changes very little with atmospheric variations. One of the principal advantages is its pentration into certain woods without any pressure. For the antiseptic treatment of compact woods, using the apparatus similar to the "Breant" system, the time necessary for the pressure and soaking into of a given quantity of injectol is considerably less than for ii linnir? inrUiirlintr i UUJ UlUCi u.iinociyi.1^ 1141UU, V- - ? ?0 creosote. "It has been found that where creosoted poles in the ground have only resisted decay for a few months, those treated with injectol remained unattached after three years. Similar experiments were also made with railway sleepers, treated with different antiseptics. Some were soaked in a mixture of coal creosote, creosote and chloride of zinc, and two were treated with injectol. After having been left for two years in 3 steeping vat composed of miscellaneous decomposing substances, it was fonnd that the two treated with injectol were still in good condition, while the others were almost completely destroyed. Similar results were obtained with wooden blocks for street paving." 1 , Poetic Justice. Here is one instance where a man ! was known to get ahead of a woman. In Warrensburg, Mo., a woman had a man arrested for allowing his cow to trespass on her property. The man was lined $1 and costs. During the trial it came out that the woman's property was overgrown with tall weeds. The man filed a complaint against the woman for violating the anti-weed ordinance and she was fined $5.50 and costs.?Kansas Cit/ j Journal. , j BHnflHHaBMHaDMBHB'MaBHHnB [CUBS ARE WORLD'S CHAMPIONS. [ Chicago National League Baseball Cops the Coveted Rag. The Chicago National League basej ball team Saturday afternoon, at Benaett Park, in Detroit, won the world's championship, defeating the Detroit j American League team by the score of 2 to 0. It was the fourth sucgpssive victory for the Chicago team in as many days. The "rooters" who had followed the j Chicago team from the home city i swarmed down to the diamond when I ! the ninth inning closed, and showered them with congratulations. Then several hundred of them formed in line and marched down Michigan avenue, headed by a band, cheering and singing in celebration of their victory. Saturday night, President William H. Yawkey of the Detroit American League, added as a gift to his players for winning the American League pennant $15,000 to their share of the receipts from the world's series which closed in their defeat, making $36,973.36, which the local piayers will divide. The share of the Chicago Na tional League team in the world's re- j ceipts is $32,900.03. Secretary Bruce of the National Baseball Commission announced that the total attendance at the five games which were played in the series was 78,086 and the gross receipts $101,728.50. The receipts were divided as follows: National commission, $10,172.85; Chicago and Detroit baseball clubs, $1S,311.13 each; Chicago National League team, $32,960.03; Detroit American League team, $21,973.36. Had the American League team been successful in the series just closed and won the world's championship ontop of their capture of the American League pennant,- Mr. Yawkey's gift, It was announced, would have been $30,000 instead of $15,000. SIX PERISH IN FLAMES. Father and Five Daughters Meet Death in Burning Home. Six members of the family of Solomon Frank at Gloversville, N. ,Y? the father and five daughters, were suffocated by smoke when their home was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. The dead are: Solomon Frank, aged 40 years; Sarah, 21; Dora, 19; Rosa, 17; Minnie, 12, and Mary, 10. The father lost his life in endeavoring to save his children, following the discovery of the flames by the mother, who, with two small sons, made her escape. The bodies of the other victims were found in the ruins. GRIEVANCES OF BOILERMAKERS. ? Will Fight Organized Labor and Government Inspectors. At the closing session of the Amer lean Boiler Manufacturers' Association in Atlanta, one of the important questions was that of deaiing with organfeed labor. It was decided to unit* In fighting the demands of these em ployes. The association also declared against what it designated as unjust interference of government inspectors and mechanical engineers who are charged with acting as attorneys and in legal adviser capacities with purchasers to the detriment of the business of the manufacturers. FILIPINOS OBJECT TO PRAYER. i leimsi Aee?mhlv Will Be Onened With-^ out an Invocation. A Manila special says: Great interest is shown in the opening of the first Philippine assembly, which will take place thi3 week, and the arrival of Secretary Taft, which comes at ai opportune time in the inauguration of Philippine home rule. At the caucus recently held the first brush occurred over a motion to have the assembly proceedings opened with prayer. This was defeated by one vote, on the broacl ground that affair; of church and state should be kept UtaVAUW* J AMERICAN LOAN FOR CHINA. Imperial Government Will Use $25,,000,000 for Public Works. Advices from Manchuria state that the viceroy has obtained the approval of the Chinese imperial government to an American loan of $25,000,000. The proceeds/will he used in the construction of public works. ALABAMA COUNTY GOES DRY. Opellka and Phenix City Now in the Prohibition Ranks. In the election in Lee county, Ala-( bama, Monday, the prohibitionists won by an overwhelming majority. Every beat on the ticket voted for prohibition, with the possible exception of one rather Isolated beat with a small vote. ^ The total majority for prohibition is estimated to be between 800 and 900. Opelika, the largest beat in the county, cast 376 votes for prohibition to 76 against. Phenix City was car. :ed by the prohibitionists by 177 to 55. , . * ..." " - ~ GAME OF HOODWINK Being Plaved Upon People of South By Oil Trust. MANY CONCERNS BOGUS While Masquerading as ' Independent'* Certain Companies Are Disclosed as Being Part and Par eel of Parent Octopus. Hampton G. Westcott, vice president of the Standard Oil company of Ken* ! tucky, testified Monday in th3 hearing at New York of the federal suit against the oil combine that in several of the southern states the Standard had found it expedient to sell much of its products through companies which the public believed to be independent Mr. Kellogg, counsel for the government drew from the witness that the Standard Oil company of Kentucky, which acts as selling agent of oil in Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama bad purchased numerous small independent selling companies and through many of them sold oil to the consumer. Mr. Westcott'threw a side light on the business department of the Standard, concerning which the federal counsel has been seeking information since the beginning of the inquiry. Mr. Westcott testified that each month the main office of the Standard Oil company of Kentucky at Covington, sent to him not only the reports of the business operations of the Standard, but statements concerning freight shipments and sale of oil by all competitors. These statements, according to Mr. Westcott, gave the name of the consignor, the consignee, the amc / t of oiL'shipped and any informal/n that , might be available. One of the most startling of the disclosures made during the day came when Mr. Westcott testified that for several years the company has had a bureau set aside for the sole purpose of keeping down the prices of rival concerns. The bureau, which was under the supervision of W. E. Bemas, was given every detail of information concerning companies rivaling the subsidiary concerns of the Standard Oil company by spies in the employ of the latter corporation. Mr. Westcott testified that he had often mace reports as to tne prices of oil charged by rival companies in his state, and he forwarded the reports to the statistical bureau ' of which Bemas had charge. After Mr. Westcott left the witness stand, a government official connected with the inquiry said: "For years we have known of the existence of the bureau, but have noi before been able to find out anything about it "When it was created it meant a beginning of the end for the oil companies who remained independent. I negard Mr. Westcott's testimony as the most important we have had at the inquiry." It was further learned that the bureau is still in existence and is located on the sixth fioor of the Standard Oil building at No. 26 Broadway. Mr. Bemas, however, left shortly before the inquiry was started, and is now said to be in Japan. SEPARATE SCHOOLS NECESSARY As Outcome of Racial Antagonism in Hattiesburg, Miss. A resolution calling for separate schools for Italians, Syrians and Russian-Jewish children in Hattiesburg, Miss., was adopted by the local board of education. It will be presented to the city council in an effort to obtain funds for erecting separte school buildings. Recent race antagonism in the vicinity, especially against Italians, is the cause for the resolution. FESTIVE CRACKSMEN AT WORK. Safes Blown in Two Georgia Towns and Much Loot Secured. Professional cracksmen, who have recently been operating in southwestern Georgia towns, Monday morning burglarized two stores at De Soto and another at Cobb, smal ltowns near Americus. Safes were dynamited and hundreds of dollars secured, while other hundreds represented in checks * and postoffice money orders were scattered broadcast. TRIO OF HOBOES KILLED. Were Stealing Ride on Freight Train Which Was Wrecked. Three tramps, who were stealing a ride, were instantly killed in a freight wreck near Campobello, X. C., Monday afternoon. The accident was caused by a derailment and thirteen cars were piled up in the wreckage. None of the train crew were injared. / 4 - ? > SEA ISLAND GFOWEBS ????? \ 1 ] Have Special Conference With Delegates to International Cotton Congress in Atlanta. . ^ ; A called meeting of the Sea Islands v" Cotton Association of Georgia and Florida was held on the third floor of the state capitol at Atlanta Wedaes- v day morning, when the visiting foreign spinners were invited td meet. ' with them to discuss the best mettodsu .i. ; of bringing the producer and constsoer of this staple closer together, to theelimination of the broker and middle- >\J| man. "What we want to do," said VicePresident J. R. Williams of Alachua, Fla., who presided, is to sell oar cot- |jgg ton direct from the planters of Soaih. Carolina and Florida to those English spinners who handle our produce - and cut out the middlemen in Sarahnah and Charleston. "We are going to hold our crop this year; put it in warehouses at our homes instead of storing it in Satan- r nah. Why, we never know what tber '$? men we sell ft to in Savannah- get ' from the English spinner who massAW After a lengthy discussion, which- v was heartily entered into by the spin- liners present, it wcs decided that this* action 'could not take place in a <Jay and the best way to get at it waa to draft suitable resolutions stating how this trading could bo accomplished. The spinners explained that it would-' have to be made plain to them that they could get as good service by~ dealing direct with the planter-|Ufl|gjS through a broker, who took all blame and responsibility for bad and*. damaged cotton. The growers were urged to -be ful in the selection of their seed; the^ <nHMn{na <\f fhair* /?mn ftiui flnaH* tt(K 6?wnuiB v* M?v? wjtr ???-V ginning and baling. OPPOSE NEGRO BISHOPS. Sectional Question Crops Out in Epia11 J- copal Convention. During the very heated discussion, on' the question of the negro in the church, which came up unexpectedly in the house of deputies of the general Episcopal convention in Richmond. v Va., Wednesday afternoon, Rev. C. B. Wilmer of Atlanta was subjected tc' hisses by the southern delegations because of the support afforded by him in the position taken on the question. , by the bishop of Michigrm. The inci dent goes to show the sectional envision on this question which is apparent every time the question is advanced. The southern delegations are opposed to the election of negro bishops. The diocese of Pennsylvania &rsfc brought the matter up to the convention with a memorial for the appointment of a bishop to preside over the colored churches in that state. praSiSS . COMER CALLS EXTRA SE8S10N. ? , i Alabama Salons Ordered to Assemble 1 in Montgomery November Z. Governor Comer, Wednesday after- i noon, called an extra session of the Alabama legislature for November 7. , The call provides for regulation or railroads, securing reasonable rates, preventing discrimination and preparation of the proper means of securing obedience to enactments; revision oi fertilizer act, the idea being to make it possible to sell cotton seed meal i with less than S per cent ammonia ? compulsory education and a few minor matters. PETITIONS FOR PROHIBITION Being Circulated in Montgomery County, Alabama?Election 16 Wanted. Petitions for an election cm the eitm- j ination of whiskey from the county ? were being circulated in Montgomery, JT Ala., Wednesday. A majority of the qualified voters are required to bring the call for an election. Enthusiasm is high and the prospect is that TJ per cent of the men will sign. EX-CONVICT IN GREAT LUCK. ig^A Left Prison to Wed Wealthy Sweet* heart, Who Remained True. V 'l Miss Clara Leach, a wealthy woman | of Worcester, Mass., has just heea \ wedded, to John W. Mahr, a former ? convict. The romance behind the Wi wedding involves the unwavering de- / j votion of a woman for a business man J she loved despite the disgrace follow- J ing his arrest, for larceny and forgery 1 and consequent conviction and incar- h ceration for nearly four years hi jatL j BUPFALOE8 FOR NEW YORK. /? Part of Bronx Park Herd Shipped from* Jp New York to West New York city, America's greatest j| source of buffalo supplies, baa skipped W fifteen buffaloes, constituting tbe ini- ?$ tial gift to the national game preserve, J to Oklahoma. The fifteen buffaloes were the best Jw of the Bronx herd of forty-eight There t1 'were five bulls and ten cows. 7\ \