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TT .E TRI-WEEKLY EDITIO WIN NSBORO, ScO, MAY 16, 1899.4 SALSE 84 FRIENDS. \ot he that counts my error., Not he that hols me baek With do: vro:ds to .how -me Wherti: ad how I lack; Nor he that se INy fattliags; And, seeiug them, is free To take m ne:tsar' by them IF's not the friend for me. But he that Ilarns my virtues, Who takes m e at my be t; Who notes my greatest failings Aud overiokAs the rest; Who, after .I havt" striven And il:vo not i:.i1 is freo 14i:h wor.s e a1 tion He is the friend 'for He tbat fore .er warns r.o Of t:hgers in my way, 'lho doubts my strength to meet them And cv--r bits me stay, Mnay truly seek to shield me, May wish me well, but ho Whose faith is inspiration He is thr friend for me. -Chicago News. HAPPY HOLLOW HUNT. EAR old "Happy Hollow" was our home - an ideal little poet's valley, nestling in t h e mountains of East Tennessee, a n d surrounded b: splendid mountain t; ranges. The name was most appro priately given to that hollow, which was happy in fact as 'n name, where, in company with m boyhood's boon companion, Plato great ugly brindle cur dog, as true an faithful as dumb brute ever was have bad many an exciting boyish ro p and ramble in the days long go . ne morning in the early fall of 18 , while Plato and I were out for a r. bit hunt in the upper end of the Ho ow, I had an experience which I I am in no danger of forgetting until life itself is forgotten. It was my Ion eenth birthday, and my father had resented me that mrrning with a lo g-coveted treasure in the form of a otgun. It was a single=barrel, m1u e-loader concern," and would :dou less be considered quite anti-" aa d.byboy friends of this advanced . a - "breechloadtr an& theiain merl as. At all events, it was entir'ely up dete then, and I am able to re- 1 call f w prouder, happier moments of' my l: e than when that gun-I have it ye rst came into my possession. On t e morning in question I had it on m shoulder, feeling like a verit able apoleon Bonaparte going forth 6o on ner the world. The rabbits must have heard the news, however, for, hunt as he would, old Plto conld not start a single one of the . They were ordinarily plenti ful en ugh. At ~ength, weary with walking, II sat dofrn at thie very foot of the mountain, which formed an almost perpenilicular wall above my head. Just t) the right of me was the I direaclec "Danger Line" of the moun tain ra ge--a rocky, barren, desolate strerch fr belt across the mountain, with he ~e and there a cave sunk in or a huge rock jutting out. When all the res4 of the mountain sides were clad in the green garments of spring-' time, o01 the russet robes of. autumn, this stijetch of sterile, untimbered land shpwed, naked and glaring, like I an ugly!frown on nature's face. It I was som4e unpleasant freak in the con structio4 of the mountains that Inever knew thd reason for, but I know that "Danger' Line" was universally avoided, Jby white and colored alike the latter deelaring that it wasi "hanted,r' and the former that there were ra tlesnakes, and even worse things, t~ be encountered there. My~ mother -aud positively forbidden me I ever to gh' into that part of the moun tains, and~ hitherto I shad seen it only from a di tance, curiously. I had sat there under the shadow1 of the m untain in the sweet autumn stillness ~for perhaps ten minutes, tired, halt dreaming, half wishing my-1 self at home, when I was suddenly aroused ti life and interest by a furi ous,~excit a barking far up the cliff1 above' mej and slightly to my right. At first I doubted my ears. I had never knewn Plato to cross into "Danger Liine" by so much as one step beforet, and so I was at a loss to account fqr it. And yet that was Plato's w qi-known voice I heard; there could be no mistaking it with me. Ther~ was something strange, romantic, a-pout it all, and I was burn ing with desire to see what manner of game he cofild have treed up there. * I rememnbe-: la niy mother's warning and faItereJ . It has. been my experi ence that 'v en a boy falters in the face of d ti, d'isobedience has scored a point anid trouble is near at hand. * There was| my new gun, as yet un *tried, e:c.ep) at lifeless targets, and, after all, peihaps it was only a squir rel. Li sho-t, my thirst for adventure got the. bett .r of me, and my determ ination to follow Piato was fixed. The ' next t'aing Ilo be decided was how to get there. t[ could tell by his bark that Plato w'as a considerable distance *above me, ai d the height was well *nigh inacces ible. But I was youwng, strong and tactive, as mountain boyfi are apt to be1 and I have sometimesi thor.g'ht tha if a fourteen-year-old 4 boy' d@er ed to climb a sunbeam . he col.a s accomplish the task.; . The mount '-side was covered with small un der wth, and with ' of this I (eterminLed t .the~ a.scent, ~ the e aand, slowly anzl Iboriously T pulled myself up from bush to bush with the ,ther, guiding wy course by the ?easeless barking of Plato up above ne. At the enI of about an hour of such toil I reached the top of the first bUif, where. for a width of something anore than a hundred yan was level Trounud. reaeiug to the foot of the next blni, and, wih lo climbing now to do, it was the work of lbut a few nomteuts to reach Pluto. Coming up to him 1 fona him sta tioned at the end of a huge hollow og, and baying with i:re animation than I had ever :now"n him to do be fore. I don't knw.v why it was. but a I reached his sid' something s:opped me, as though a sirorg hand had been laid u;on my shoulder, and my ,aoc.er's warning came into my mind. I turnl my _uce toward home, and ' r one !momec: 't av'. cnscieuce twitted me and n:v res.lu:ion weak ened. But I sh-ok oi the spell and stooped to look into the hollow log. It was as dark as night within, and I rould distinguish nothiug. I ihen went aronnd to the other end, but found that there was no hallow there. I beat upon the lo_ and listened, but do sound came forth save the echoes. I could think of nothing else to do, so I knelt down, cocked my gun, pointed Lt into the log, pulled the trigger, and -"bang!" rang out on the mountain ir. Instinctively .I sprang from the log, and aluost simultaneously with the shot came an answer from within, in the most savage, the most blood curdl.ing, hideous sound. 1 think, that I have ever heard, al accompanied by a noise of scrambling out. of the to, which filled my whole being with fright. I had never known Plato to r-un from any living thing before, but h preceded me in the flight this time. Long as it takes to tell it, we mere scarcely started when out of the log came tumbling a great, furious hungry bear, bearing down upon us like the shadow of an awful death. I n shut my eyes now as I write of it, and feel the shiver of fright run through me, as I felt it at the sight f that bloodthirsty beast, nearly fifty rears ago. On we dashed, and nearer Bruin came, the blood streaming from is angry face, where the shot from :y gun had taken effect. On, on! and nearer, nearer, and yet nearer the nfuriated croature behind us! And :hen-horrors! The brink of the great bluff was reached! Straight lownward, with not a tree, not a riendly bush to aid me-a descent. impossible, even with ample leisure mud greatest care! Far down below me smiled the ser ne beauty of Happy Hollow. There vere, the cows , the horses, the sheep, rowsing quidtya' themse wM the lear old home with the maple before ;be door, under whose friendly shade [ had probably rested and listened to he music of the mocking-birds for he last time. And then mother's warning came again before me-too ate!-distinct and reproachful. To attempt a descent were certain leath, and death equally as certain as just behind me. Reloading my un was now out of the question, and, ad it not been, the shot it carried vere too small to do more than far :her incense the murderous pursuer. Poor old P!ato stooll cowering by ny side, trembliug and whining pite mlv, and in the bitterness of nmy de pairin1g heart I accused him of it all -not dreaming of what was to follow. The supreme moment had come, nd I was almost palsied with fright, ith not the strength or the resolu ion to raise my gun Lo strike a last ~eeble blow for myself. Within ten feet of me the bear rose >n his hind feet to what appeared to ny frightened vision an almost in rediblc height. He was preparing :o spring! I knuew the end was come, mnd I tried to pray. The power of peeh, of thought even, had deserted ne. As he sprang upon me, I iought to close my eyes, but that rivilege, too, was denied me. Another moment and I would have >reathed my last, when, as if by a oble inspiration, all his wonted cour Lge regained, Plato mst the spring Ld planted his teeth in my vicious ssaiant's throat. The bear clinched vith him, and I sought to turn-like coward--and fly for my life; but I ~ould move at best only a few feet ackward, so weali and unstrung vas I. The struggle was fierce for a moment, ut I saw that it wa all over for my lear old brindle playmate, and I re lized that it would be but a question >a few seconds before the monster vould turn on me. There was a crash at nmy feet, a iving way of the earth! The igreat -ock on which they struggled for life Ld- death had broken loose from its norings, carrying the ugliest bear nd the noblest dog I ever saw, crash ng down the awful precipice, to ntilation and death below. It was the middle of the afternoon when I, a tired, weak, sick and re entant boy, reached home to receive he blessings and forgiveness of my ond and frightened parents. At the foot of that bald cliff, just there he fell on-the lovely autumn lay in the long ago, you can find it ow-unless impious hands have re noved it--a stone slab on which is udely chiselled this:.inscription: 4Sacred to the menmory of. '2who ga~tehslife to save ATRIEN~D. in fe' eet of where I am yriting now, snoozing snugly in the ~venn sunbeams, where they play on the floor through the open win w,ia large and beautiful Maltese at coiled nu in restfuZ; oblivion to 4ting, on 'in immense e wearer of which once r making an end of me. BURIAL OF KAIULANI, SEVEN DAYS OF WEIRD MOURNING OVER HAWAII'S PRINCESS. Old Customs Itevived - A Waving of Plumes and Chanting of Lamentations Over the Casket-Midnight removal of tle Bocly-Hearse Drawn by Natives. The remains of Princess Kaiulani now rest in the tomb-in Hawaii,where hie the bodies of all the Kamehame has, except the great liamehameha, wvho was buried, like Moses, no man knows where. The funeral took place on Sunday and fully 25,000 people at tended it. It is Hawaii's supersti tion that the death of a member of the royal family is accompanied by the severest rainfall of the year. The con ditions attending the death and burial of haiulani bore out the superstition. The rain began falling in torrents a ter she died and continued until after she was buried. The hours of the funeral, however, were bright and clear. All that the military and civic pomp of civilization could add to the strange old Hawaiian funeral customs went to make the ceremony one not easily forgotten. For nearly seven days there was not an instant when some ceremony was not in progress. Soon after her death kahili bearers began waving royal yahilis or feather plutmei over her body. Every bearer,whether a man or a woman, wore the yellow feather cape, which was a sign of Hawaiian royalty. The bearers stood rigidly erect and the waving of the plumes was done according to a for mula from which it was a point of honor not to vary. At the beginning each bearer held his kahili in the "Carry arms!" position. At a signal the kahilis were extended in a hori zontal position till they touched tips with those on the opposite side of the casket. Each bearer then waved his kahili to the right, then to the left, repeating each motion, and then hold ing the plumes aloft. finally returning to the first position again. During the week several kahili bearers fainted from sheer exhaustion. The body lay in state at Ainahan until the Friday preceding the funeral and was then removed to the Kawai alias church. The ceremony of re moval was weird. It took place in the middle of the night. The sky was heavily overcast and threatened rain. Kahili bearers walked beside the hearse, waving aloft torchee made of oily kukui nuts, spitted on bamboo poles. Following the hearse came members of the royal family in car riages, then friends, old servants and retainers. Among the last were many Mele women, -Avio hand-- down irom generation to generation the histori cal chants reci.ting the valor, great deeds and history of the Hawaiian people. They wailed and chanted throughout the journey to the church. Others wailed in cadence, while some of the old servants broke out in la mentations and expressions of per sonal grief. The darkness, the weird light of torches, the absence of the constraining presenceofthe white man and the white man's cnstoms, r-evived i.n-many of the Old H lawaiians thoughts and feelings of earlier days, and they b)roke into hula hula songs and dances accor din g to the ancient custom, which has latterly fallen into disuse since the hula has become discredited. At the church, a short service wvas held and finished at 2 o'clock in the mning. The church decorations were in sympathy with the customs on such occasions. Throughout Saturday rin~i fell in tor rents, but the remains were viewed by thousands. After the funeral the quiet of the scene wvas broken *by chants or by wailing and lamnentations of old servants of the pr-incess, who recited incidents of her life. Their words were extemporaneous, spoken in a chanting, melodious way, some times accompanied by a swaying of the body, which was ke1't up until the speakers dr-opped from sheer phy sical e.xhaustion. The services on Sunday were those of the Anglican church. The funeral p ocess;ion was le l by the marshal of the republic, A. H. Br-own, his depu ties and a company of mounted po liee. Then followed memnbers of the royal family, eivil M4iicials, foreign consuls, representativ-es of societies andl the clergy. ir-cluding the Catholic bishop. The hearse was drawn by 2:30 natives, uniformed in wvhite trous ers. blue sweateis, white hats and blue and yellow cioth capes. From the church to the tomb is two miles, but the entire distanc'e was lined with spectators. The services at the tomb were very simple. The comn was placed next to that containing the body of Princess Likelike, Kaiu laui's mother, and near that of Kala kana. Unnttered Thoughts. No man or woman who snor-es will ever believe it. Many an individual who has saved another's life has not been able tc save a cent. A man who is not in business is al ways credited with getting into mis chief. A sumcient income is appar-ently a little mor-o than we ever posses=. You never hear anything abo'ut a person's vir-tues, so long as one vice is apparent. Some one says that the cause of many unhappy moarr1iages is that m:ex will go on proposing when they expect to be refuse-i. A wvomfan is never so pleased that it storms as when her new fr-ock has failed to come home, and she ceuldn't have worn it, anyway. Listener-s never hear any good of themselves, but hear a lot o.f bad about other persons. Sorrow makes the eyes re:1, the hair- white, and the feelings blue-in fact, it is quite a national afition.-New York Woarl 1 "BY-PRODUCTs." How Chem-Ats and Other Inanious Per. .on Makt- Us- ,r Waate. To such an extent has the utilization of by-products been carried in the stockyards of Chicago that now the only waste in a steer is the gastric juice, and what was formerly ihe waste Is now worth more than the meat. The horns go into knife handles of backs for combs. The white hoofs are sent abroad to return as ivory, w i> the black hoofs become handle- for knives and canos and are made into a dozen other things, the so't -internal parts 'eing resolved into jellies and Candies. Frim the bones are procl.ced pia-o key,. dice and bone-black. Glue, gelatine, neat's-foot oil, and an imita tion whaleboue are made from the sinews. The clarified blood is taken by the sugar refiners,-while the rest of it berome; buttons and 'fertiliz:rs. The int:stines serve a; casings fo sausage, and the bladders as cases fo snuf . The tail tuft is an insiguiticant part of the animal, but when steamed, dried and washed it becomes a curled hair that sells readily. As a result of this care and economy, the tiaun,eial returns from a steer, as estimateI by one in the business, are: From the meats and compounds of meat. $IO; from the hide, hair. horns and hoofs, , 25; from the fats, blood, sinews and bones, S15: from all othe- waste, 315, or ., recieived from the by-products. But not alone in the stockyards are by-products carefuliv husbanded. Many laruga industrial :c.rporations employ ehemists to search for by products with a view to increased pro fits and reduced waste. The ,roduc tion of alcohol from waste r.olasses is well known, and the recent :onver sion of rig-iron slag into cemnent ha3 been noted. To these may b. added tiling made from crushed tree bark, acids from plum and peach pits,jellies and an inferior kind of champagne from apple cores, prussiate of po'a -h from castaway shoes, carbonic acid gas generated in the processrs of beer making, and window weights from the iron recovered from tin cans. More notable, perhaps, are so-ne products from corn. Indian maiza contains a kernel in which there is a yellow germ. Under che:nical treat ment this germ vtelds an oil which, when refined, is a competitor with cotton-seed oil in the substitution for olive oil, and which may be vulcanized and made to do duty as rubber. What are called rubber boots and shoes are being made from thisimitationrubbez at a cost far below that of the genuine article. -The Manufact'arer. A Poison Bottie 'anted. I,The Chemist andDrp 'st,we leara, aebttiruyot?reau a - re-grftesuriZr. Ior a good tell-tale po sonbottle, and has received many valuable sugges tions in reply. O.ne of them is that the neck should be at right angles to the body of the bottle, instead of in a line with it. This idea also reaches us from another quarter. Another, of a more fanciful kind, is that the user sl uld be warned off by a death's head and cross-bones of the poison label. Bnt the main thing is the ap peal to other senses than that of sightr. The bottle must be able to signal "'poison" in the darkness. One in geniou3 person, as we showe 1 the other day, proposed to appeal to the sense of hearing by means of a sort of mnusic-al cork. The senses of taste and smell, of course, are out of the questiou. The sense of touch remains, and this or nothing can be our safe guard. This sense may be simulated by differences of form in the bottle or by differences of texttfre. One comn p'etitor for the prize suggests strips of sandpaper pasted on the sides. But while be is about it, why not have the roug-hneis in the texture of the bottle Iitself, and1 combine the two safeguards in a triangular bottle with "toothed" edges? If anything further is wanted, put the neck at right angles, as afore said. Any person who persisted in the abuse of the bottle in spite of these precautions ought to be brought nder the habitual inebriates net. - London News. Heatlth in, the Navy. Good order and discipline, the clean liness of the shaip--nothing, not even the daintiest of summer cottages, is more clean than a well-ordered Ameri can warship-wvere maintained at the camp throughout its entire occupancy by the battalion, and the fact that, al though exposed to a malarious climate in the torrid atmosphere of a tropical summer, at a spot located but a few~ score miles from where our poor fel lows of the army were succumbing by hundreds in the fever-laden air, the entire loss of life in the marine batta lion was due to the casualties of battle -not one man died of disease--shows what can be done by well-regulated and well-drilled organization in All de partments of a military body. There was no lack of medical or oth r neces sities; nothing essential tp the effi ciency of the force as ,g~hting body, to its health, to the protection of the njen from adver-se cohditions of life in the field during th9 rainy season of 4 e tr-opics. had been neglected or for gotten; and whi it is true that the base of supply wa close at hand and the problem of tr sportatiom inland -omi the wvater'. we did not have te . be nmet, it is sare ~ume from the dmir-able order an system displayed, at any such a~ culties presented Sld hare bee -come.-Harp er's. flton~ *er 0. W. \Every joke odd hare a point,' s id the editor, he handed back ~me unavailable frrings. "think you.-li find mine al. p at ated proped'y," ireplied Mr ikers.-Judge. j~Billboard advertisements are postei hisome places by malchines that reacl: ~the top of a fifty)foot wall withou IHOW A NMAN KEPT HOWSE LEARNED THE TRICK DURI4CAFIVE-! YEAR STUNT IN- THE ARMY. He Conceale That Fact Fron His Wife. JJoe Ono "3They Losf ' heir sr:r V . nr1 ti. C'a iryminan }"iiledi the 1il! an. i H t (7:an, IErcacit of Ts. ' The youing man had never told his wife that he had done a five-year stunt in theregular army of the United Staies. Without any particular rea son for it somni men feel a bit shy mentioning their service in the regu lars. Perhaps the fact that, up to about ten years ago, the army was looked upon as the last resource o tha ne'er-do-well, may have some thing to do with it. Anyhow this young war department clerk didn't ha;pen to mention it to the girl when he cane to Washington a couple of years ago and e.urted and married he:", relate. the Washington Star, that he had spent almost a five-year stretch among the yeL.ow, blasted-looking mountitins of Arizona, helping his tro p to hunt for the elusive Apa,he Kid. He told her that he hal been ja uming a-ound down in the south w 'st. and h told the truth, for it hanting that red rascal of an Apache waln't la-nuing around the southwest then nothing is. She considered it o ld that :e knew so much about sol dieit,g. that be went around the house on :unday mornings illy t whistling the trumpet calls, and that he knew ho"- to spiel Indian talk that Indians understood. Or course, she never stopped to won-ler over his habit of going down stairs sideways. She never thought of him as a sol dier, and so she con!d ;-ot know that all men wrho h>ve been cavalryimen iuvariably go down stairs sideways for the remainder of thei: livcs. It is a habit born of their service fear of tripping themselves on stai:s with their spurs. They keep house in a pretty little place out in Mount Pleasant. They have had considerable difficulty in keeping a servant, as a good many Mount Pleasant folks do. Their last servant wearied of the"lonesonmeness" cne evening list week, packed up the ti;ings that belonged to her, and probably a few things that did not be lo::g to her, in accoilance with the rule in such cases, and departed, an nouncing that she was not to return. The young wife wept dismally after the servant's departure, and her hus- 1 band, sympathizing with his wife's rel nose, endeavored to assuage her grief. "Let 'er go," said he. "i'll stay home from the office tomorrow, and Iyou can bundle oftr bright and early iud ~get --nother te. -)oa't rush yourself to death over it, either. I t can run this shack fo: one day, I I guess." "But if I and away after the noon hour what will you do for your lunch, you poor old monkey~ thing?" she askei him, solicitously affectionate. "Never you mind me," he said. "I'll get along. You watch me." So, on the following morning, iii rectly after breakfast, the young wife, with many foieboudings as to the rack and ruin she would ind, and not a bit of her wi-k done when she r Itur-ned, set out for the down town dis- I trict to beg, orro~w or steal a house servant. ".i.tll be a give away, all right," Imur-mured her husband to himself, but I'll do it all the s:une."' So he set to work. First, he washed the dishes. Soldiers of the regular ar-my of the United States wvash dishes Iwithi a practised skill and a thorough ness such as few womecn, with all due consideration, exibit. Hie mnade a nice job of the dis : washing and then took a pair of shears and~ cut a lot of scalloped borders out of old newspa papers for the china closet. Then he put the di-hware away all neat and orderly. T1hen he sta:te1 in at the kitchen. He polished the stove first, so that the kitchen cat raised her back at her own image in it. Then he got I at thbe paus, pots. skillets and so on, and made them look like new. Then he swept out the kitchen, after whichI he got down on his marrowbones and gacve it the most bu sine~ss-like .ecruib bing it had e ve.r hlad a military- sru b binig. Thus the kithlen was all fi';ed. Then he~ went upstair-s to their. room and mia e the bed. A man who h::.s madec up his bunk in quarters in ~ the United States army for any space of time doesn't need to get any points from the women folk as to how that job should be done. Then he ~ sprinkled tea leaves around and swept the whole npstairs portion of the ~ house, after which he~dlusted it thor- ~ oughly. Then he descended the siairs and began the policing of the dining room, sitting room and parlor. He . changed the furniture all about, changed the location of some of the I pictures advantageously, gav-e the I piano a better position and cleaned ~ and swabbed the whole outlit until it looked as if.balf a dozen ordinary ? servants had been policing it. Luuch hour had r-oiled around by i this time, and so lie went to the kit. chen. neatly fried himself some bacon and eggs, and made himself a cup of ~ coll'ee on the gas stove, after which he cleaned up the dishes he had used ~ and smoked a couple of pipes full of C tobacco and reflected. He had ez pected his wife back by that time, but ~ she didn't come. He began to think of how she'd no doubt be worrying about the the dianer- then, and so he decided to get the dinner himself. He put on his coat and went out to the market to buy the dinner. He picked out a fine, thick steak and the neces say vegetables, and rather astonished temreman with his workmanlike nianner of buying. Theretofore he had simply been the bill payer att the market store. IHe had a fine dinner agoing by half after 3. He knew that his wife would. not be gone later than 4 o'clock, so at i 3.4.5 he put the steak on to broil. Then he set the table with a whole at of neatness. not forgetting the bunch of flowers that he had bought it the market for the purpose of idorning the table. His wife walked in. sary, footsore md ravenous, at two minutes past 4 >'clock. She paused at the thresh aold and looked about her. The hall iad been policed with great thorough less and she could not understand. rhen she walked into the parlor. Her ace assumed a dazed expression. "Wh, Jack," she said, "have you mgaged a servant yourself?" "Nope," he replied. "Just been assing the time myself a bit, that's When she saw the set dining room, he spotless and shining kitchen, with ts glistening utensils, the broiling teak, and when she went upstairs Lad saw the miracle that had been rrought there, to, she simply sat town in a rocking chair and stared at ter husband. She was able to speak tfter a while, and then she inquired: "But where did you learn to do it Al?" He grinned, and went to a little old runk of his that was stowed away in he spare room. He dug into this for while, then he brought out a parch cent paper. He took it over to his rife and handed it to her. It was an rmy discharge. The space after the rord "character" was filled in with he word "excellent." There was an ndorsement at the bottom of the dis harge signed by the colonel of the e;iment, saying, "This mal is a.fine oldier, both in garrison and camp." "I had to take my turn as cook of ny outfit, you know," he said after a rhile, "and all of us have got to know tow to police up and keep things lean." "But why did you never tell me 'on were a soldier? Don't you know perfectly adore and idolize sol Liers?" she asked him, and he could nly grin and look sheepish. EGGS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. irginia Hens That Have a Monopoly in Snpplyipg Them. For eight years Mr. Hamson Borden, Virginia farmer, has supplied the Vhite House at Washington with ggs, beginning when General Harri on was chief magistrate. Mr. Bor ent's eggs go exclusively to the presi en's table. He is depended upon to ieet all demands from the White iouse. Mr. Borden usually ships two crates week, each crate containing thirty ozen eggs. Eight .crates -is the r:e it number he ever shipped in one reek. Each 'egg 'is personally in ":ect3d by hi:n before.J>eing placed-in he White House crate, -uud' only the 2rgest and choicest are selected. very one receives a vinegar bath and tag bearing the shipper's name. The ggs are kept fresh until shipment by eing put in a room of low tempera u! e. Mr. Borden's farm is situated five ailes northwest of Woodstock. A ong row of concrete one story houses, lose by a little sti:eam that has its ource near the mountain a few miles way, attract one's attention. These re the henhouses-a dozen of them 'ach with a room ten by sixteen feet. .ccommnodations for one hundred 'hickens are provided in each room. Che ceilings are high for henhouses, .nd there is an inviting air of cleanli iess about them. Each house has a eparate yard, though Mr. Borden ~ives the chickens the run of his farm. -e feeds thema three times daily,fresh aeat and pulverized bone forming an maportant part of their menu. "How did I come to go into the hicken business, you ask." said Mr. :orde:3. ".[t was about thirte"n years ,go, when wheat began to recede from he dollar mark. I determined to make uy wheat yield a dollar a bushel, and chose the ben to help mue. She has loue her part nobly, and my bo&dh ill show that I get more than a dol ar for my wvheat year in and year out. "When I began the egg business, 1 Ieternmined to place my eggs on the >resident's board. It took me five -ears to do it. Though p-esidents hatge. I hiold my contract, and I hink tlbat is an evidence that I give at isfaction. "The number of hens I keep ranges roma eight to twelve hundred, and I add three hundred pullets annually. I ind the various strains of leghorns, ith a sprinkling of 'red-tops,' the test layers. I give little attention to ancy varieties, the old reliable valley hickens serving my purpose bettter han I anticipated when I went into he business." A Chain of Endless PrayiO. A new use for the endless c6 in idea a correspondence has beeg put in iractice by a religious Cathusiast rhich bids fair to encompass the whole ivilized wvorld if somebody does not ut the string. The original letter onsists of a simple prayer, to which 3 appended an urgent request to re eat that prayer three times a day for ine days. In reward for this it is comised that the supplicant's most arnest w 'sh will be granted. Then llows instructions t.) send exact opies of the letter to nine friends. In onclusion it says warningly that to mit sending the nine letters is a great in, to be followed by unfailing punish tent. -New York Press. Centenarian Duchess. Jane Dowager Lady Carew of Voodsdown House, County Water .rd1, Ire., who has just entered upon er <me hundred and first year, d1nced .t the Duchese of Richmond's ball at lrussels on the night before Water oo. She was then Miss Cliffe, the aughter of Major Anthony Cliffe of los and in the following yeair, -181F, he marriedi the first 1.o:d Carew, rhom she has long survived. CHARACTER OF THE 'TACALES Not Incapable of Adopting Our Modern Czvilization. A writer in the Nenesten Nach rich! ten, Munich, describes the T ' the dominant race in the Philipp' in the main as follows: They are not incapable of adop civilization in the modern sense, they are a very mixed race. The ad mixture of Chinese blood has produced very good results. The number of mestizos whose father was white is also very large, and it is these descend ants of the Spaniards who fight the battle of freedom. Nor are the Tagales themselves without civilization. They have shown much natural strength, have advanced from their original home in central Lazon to every part of the Philippines and t ssimilated: many Malay tribes. Two eneme they have, which are more dangerous than either the Spaniard or the Ameri: cans. They are indolent and their morals are lax. The Spaniards have done much to civilize them, but to this day many return to the life of a hunter after some years' residence in towns and villages. They wer, nevertheless, in a pretty advanced state of civilization when the. Span, iards came. This is easy to see-in thd Igorrotos, a kindred race, which re mains heathen to this day. The Igorrotos live in fine villages of ,we built houses, and their agricnltur$ system is really worthy of admiratioJ The Tagales themselves are ardent Catholics, but they retain many heathen customs. Their)gneo is to get a son into Jh church, but they do not observe celibacy very - strictly. Many of the mestizos, Chinese as well as white, are wealthy men, and as these lead in the move ment for independence, it will be dif3 ficult to conquer the islands. To Harness the Ocean. It has been matter of observation these many years that the ocean could do any amount of work if only a har; ness could be devised that it would work in. The tides rise and fall, bu it is only in rare cases that tide-water turns a wheel. The waves are. never at rest, and motion is force, but the.; motion of the waves is rarely put to harder work than blowing a horn or ringing a bell on a buoy. At _ time, when the state of business fa* all sorts of new industrial ventues, is interesting to notice the ap of two schemes for making the furnish power for use ashore. One - an invention patented on yanuar y which aspires to turn the ides to-, count as a power for drivjngte + wheels, running electric moto making compressed'irC-_I an inlet or pond which tie tide - fill, and in which the water - retained-by a 4am.~- ' a series of reservoirs on- it, by a frame work, is part of itsap rats, and the general idea is to; .h the floating reservoirs from the poai3 at low tide, and get power as long.M the tide continues to ebb froi-iedt'J waters thus stored.' The other scheme = for the utilization of wave-motion pos' vides for a collection of bz~ anchored off shore, which are to press air which is to be stored in a reservoir and used to 'run engineb' Some large buoys are making now feW use in testing this plan, and it is .an nounced that the devie is to have an elaborate trial next summer on the south shore of Long Island. Both of these schemes are saidto have enougl9 1capital behind them to make a thor ough test of their possibilities.-Ear Iper's Weekly. His Usual method of Action.' 4. He is an extremely diffident fellow this south side youth, but is also enJ amored.of -a f&i aiden. She likes him right~ back and is 'not averst giving him help in emergencies. Bit she findseit a difficult matter toge her admirer to respond to the calls society, for he sinks into a condii~ o f too many feet and hands when in the soiA.1. whiirl. But she has her 'hopes. IQuite long ago, whantheb.iA had reduced the previously depos~ snow into glaring ice, they set .o~i to walk to a nearby home to engage ii Ithe attractions of progressive euchre and chocolates. He was very tend4.r and solicitous lest she tumble, shi and fall upon the icy sidewalk. No~ big owed with the certainty 9f fate overtook him and he smote the earth with a crash heard blocks away. Thereupon a look of intense anguish sped over his face, forhis spine seemed - shortened. The "girdle" was in tears of pity. She clasped her han$s and I loved him for his woes. "Oh, Charlie," she murmured bro. kenly, "does it hurt?" "No," hie gasped with a.sickly grin. "Of course not. You see, I always sit down that way." Now she loveshimforhis courage and lability to tell a fib to etricate himself from a painful ad unplessant posi tion.-Chicago Chronicle. A Remarkable 3lurder in Englad. - Biddenden, a quiet country village in Kent, was recently, the scene of remarkable murder. The rector's daughter, a middle-aged spinster, ha quarrelled with several parishioners ' and wrote to six of them to meet her at church on a certain Snday, as she wished to make up. It happened to rain, so that only one of the persona addressed, a Sunday-school teacher, atted church. After -- ther com-. mumnon, of which both p4,rtook, the woman invited himinto'th'e Westry and asked the curate to be a wituiss to the reconciliation. She then drew.,a re volver and shot the teacher dead She had several spare cartridges on1 person, so that it is inferred that -she had intended to shoot all the persona to whom she had written. .She -was perfectly calm after her act and hae kent 8ilent about it-Na2{w Yok