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'ci ~ -. IF II- 4 EST BLI H D 144 TRI WEEKL Y EDITI(D WINNSBOV s.C., APRIL 17. 900.AWRNN TO PARODISTS. THE LOVE OF LOVES. BY MADISON CAWEIN. I have not seen her face, and yet She is inore s.ceet than anything Of earth; than rose or violet That April winds and sunbeams bring. o; all we know, past or to come, Of loveliness none can forg't, She is the high compendium; And yet I have not touchel her rol"e, and still She Is more dear than Lyric words Of music, or than strains that fill Witli brooks and throats of summer bird Of all we mean by poetry. That rules the soul and charms the will, :!e is the deep epttomre, And still She Is my world, ah, pity mr: A dream that fles whom I virsue: Whon all pursue, whoe'er they be, 1ho toil for art and dare and do; The shadow-love for whom they sigh The far Ideal affinity, ' For whom they live or gic d1y die. Ah, me! -anturday Evening Post. 8 A 5targ of llpnotisni. 8 STRAL body wi not an expressio entirely withot meaning for x when I first m, Simcox. If any or had then asked n what t h e ter: meant, I would ce: tainly have ma.e some attempt to di fine it, although my definition woul just as certainly have been vague an Runsatisfactory. It was through Clarence that I mE Simcox. The two had been frienas i Ceylon, as I understood, though h.o or why I never knew, and it alwa3 seemned strange. Clarence's busine: in Ceylon was coffee planting, and i seemed that Simeox's was astri bodies. The only natural thing abot their old acquaintance seemed to 1 that Clarence always knew queer pe< ple, and surely Simeox was queer. Wby, how oltdo you take me I be?" he asked me suddenly one dal when I had said that something < other had happened before his timi And when ranswered that he looke to me to be about forty, he laughe quite heartily. It so happened that this converse tion took plade as we were walking tc gether to Madison Square, where w We-e toisit an exhibition of paini .ings, old and mocern. Wien w6 had spent about half a hour ranging through the gallerie: Simeox and I found ourselves stani ing before a portrait of a Spanis where about the time of Qneen Eli2 beth. The figure was dressed armor, except for the head, which c bare, and ahowed a fine head of da chestnut hair. 'This i4 the picture I wanted y to see," si!d Simeox. "Let's sit do on this settee and take it all in." I could not remember that Sim< "had said anything to me about seei any picture in particular. "Well, what do you think of i1 Simcox asked me pi esently. "Fine," I said. "I suppose it is," said Simeox. ,suppose it is fine. People have b< - saying that about it for three hun~ years. I suppose al! the lords ladies of the Spanish Court said it'a fine when they first saw it. I was I int'You're not quite so old as all tha of hiterjected. thinking of the-myst - "No,age. so old. "'he said, smniiing, "not qa the Court 6nd I wouldn't have beei is~one critirsaT2tag ?Uther But l) might, have made, though I nev heard that they did." "What's that?" "Simply that it isn't true to life "But you don't mean to say it isr lifelike?" I said in asto:nishment. "What I mean .is that it isn't; much like the original as it mig: have been. It would have bet just as easy .for Velasquez i have made it perfectly true. don't see why he didn'tL-I never die On the whole, it doesn't flatter H: Highness. His jaw was not near. such a cruel looking square thing * that. And yet the painter has take the trouble to curl and lengthen an dandify the mustache almost out< recognition." *"Why, Simeox," I said, "you tai as if youj.new the original in t1I -flesh!" "Well," he said. "I don't and I dc Yon see, my dear fellow, to know: man's astral body is about the sam, thing as knowing the ma- in what yo call 'the flesh.' You use the crud term of a wornout medimval philosc phy. An astral body may produce a times a faint impression on the eye but it stands to reason it must b exact." It occurred to me at this point thia Simcox needed fresh air. I had neve: before heard any one talk in this glib matter of fact way about astral boiiies Elither Simcox was crazy or there wa something uncanny about him, il spite of his brisk, happy, everyda: manner. "Oh, jou're surprised, are you?' he said, chuckling to himself, "I migh have guessed that a man who talk: about knowing people 'in the flesh would be. Let's have a practical dem.* onstration" "Good heavens!"Ilexclaimied. '-Yot don't mean to tell me that you are go ing to raise the ghost of this old Span iard?" "'-v ~'e~Ikon't 'raise ghosts,' " Simeds e;with some impatience, 'oi mnthem, Bat if yonae I When we got tohis rooms and Ihad seated myself as comfortably as my nervous state of mind would allow, Simeox busied himself rumaging in the drawers of a rolltop desk. "I don't need any very elaborate apparatus, you see," he said, "hut there is one thing somewhere in tb-s e drawers, if I can only find it, that ought to help a good deal. Ab, here lit is." He produced what I at first took to be a glass paperweight. On closer inspection it turned out to be a Japan. ese crystal ball, very clear and exquis itely mounted,bnt not mounted on any carved stand, like most of those I have seen. "Just hold this, will you?" he said. I took the crystal in my hand. "You had better sit here," he said, "with you back to the window. I want the light to come over yont shoulder." I ought to say that in that windot 0 frame there was no curtain of an3 o kind, only a brown holland window 0 blind, which was rolled up. In front ? of me. as I sat with my back to the 0 light was nothing but an open carpet ed space. Indeed, bareness was the most obvious characteristic of Sim cox's room. It was more like a law t yer's office than a private sitting room. e "Now, I am going to stand behind you, if you don't mind," he said, and e acted accordingly. - e In obedience to his instructions I held the crystal in my lap with both hands and looked intently at it. Once I could not resist the temptation to d look behind me and see what he was d doiag. He was standing with arms extended, waving his hands about. ;t "Never mind me," he said. "Yor keep your eyes fixed on that crystal." After that I kept my eyes on tht s crystal constantly. Presently a mist seemed to shut out the point of light t on which I was gazing. It was a white mist at first, but turned to a t dark brown. Out of the mist pres e ent y came the gray glimmer of armor: - then above the ara ir I could make out flesh tints; then the curling chest o nut hair, the peaked beard and the tmustache. The face was more clearly r defined than it was in the portrait I - had been looking at. d "Now," said Simeox, speaking from d behind me, "was I right? Isn't the chin much more humane than Velas quez made it?" "Yes," I answered. "And the e mustache is smaller and the hair closer cropped. But it is a wonderful' likeness, on the whole." a "It is,'? said Simeox. "And now " you know what an astral body is. - Let's go and have some oysters." l waol: thing was gone. I was!) a- So we went out and got some oysters. in Some months later Simeox himself as was gone. But I got by mail a marked rk copy of a small scientific pamphlet. It was printed in England. The on marked passage was a terse statement vn of "Case 10-Mr. X., New York, U. S. A." The essential facts of the fore 'X going story were given in half a page ng of print. I was "Mr. X." "Clarence," I said next time I rr et ?" that interesting person, "who the deuce is Simecox?" "Simeox? Didn't you know. It "Iseems that Simecox is a big man. SiLn ~en cox i-s Meffler, the English doctor :ed iexpert on hypnosis and hallucina aid tions."-San Francisco Ca!l. ras ____________ -Lucile's Snake Story. t?" ILucile Caldwell, a ten-year-old r Sionx City girl, is the heroine of a big, but true snake story. Miss Caid ite well took home from O'Neill, Neb., at the scene of the story, 256 sets ot ere rattles from~ rattle.iuakes. to prove it. - -- ?so girl's tale in Tier own er words: "My uncle and I were walking along the banks of the Niobrara River, with .cut thinking of any danger, when, all 'in an instant, we were surrounded Iby a swarm of loathsome rattlesnakes. asI never was so frightened in my life. itMy uncle began killing them right mand left, and handed me a heavy stick :and told mc to defend myself. We Istood side by side, and as the snakes c rawled toward us we killed them. It iswas a fight for life. When the battle y was over the ground was covered with idead and dying snakes."-Minneapolis n (Minn.) Times. Not Accordinn to the Rlegulatlons. k Lord Roberts, the British comman eder in South Africa, is very popular among the rank and file, who usually refer to him as "Bobs." He began [ Ihis career in 1851 as a Second Lieu tenant in the artillery, and fought and Iworked his way up with remarkablea success. No one better understands e"Tommy Atkins." When near a bar racks in India one day he wasa-1 noyed by several terriers belonging to the soldiers The owners rushed e forward, kicked the quadrupeds, andf humbly apologized for their pets' mis-< Ideeds. The Colonel listened and then] said: I "They undoubtedly make good secu tries, but I don't like the way theyc salute their superior officers."-Phil adelphia Saturday Evening Post. 1: Animals That Are Not Dying Out, tBuffaloes and elephants are by no ~ means approaching extinction as rapid- I tly as is commonly supposed. Tm-I mense herds of buffaloes roam about I the vast northern plai is of Australia, but bloodthirsty natives are also n-I merous in that region, and buffalaI hunters carry their lives in their V hands. Also, according to the latest 1 anmber of the British North Borneo cHeraMi large numbers of elephants tbe unthJtgles of that colony. -th of.;Sanadakan sureo~ 0i TALES OF PLUCK I ANDABEUE A Fatal Hunt. MANY sportsmen say that no other hunting can compare in interest and exhilaration with the stalking of the chamois or the ibex among the peaks. of the snow covered mountains. The danger of the sport does not lie in the game, but in the nature of the hunt ing grounds, and many a hunter has sacrificed his life in the chase. Half % century ago a gallant young Irish nan named Peyton met with a terri ble experience among the mountains )f India, which he thus de cribes: 'We arrived in Cashmere and lost 2o time in getting into the Wardwau Valley, famous for the large horned bex. The country was all under snow, and as the snow continned to all for several days we were obliged :o remain indoors, and Surgeon Wray, rho was a splendid musician, amused :lie villagers by playing his violin to :hem. "At last the sun came out, and we ieard several avalanches slipping lown the mountain. Our men were nucu averse to going out, and I must :ay I thought they were right. How sver, poor Wray in a jocular tone said ye 'fanked.' This settled the matter, nd out we went. "We proceeded up the valley about ;even miles along the banks of a small -iver, which divided the mountains a both sides of it. We saw a fine ierd of male ibex, but in consequence )f the heavy snow we were unable to :reep round by a circuitous route and talk the herd from above. "So we four spread a blanket in a avine next to where the ibex were nd sat down close together upon it, keeping ourselves warm. "Suddenly we heard a noise like listant thunder; then spray and stones ollowed. Our men called out, 'An valanche is falling!' Although I had een several falls, this seemed to me iite different, more like a landslip. [t covered a breadth of at least one iundred yards, three or four hundred rards long and fifty or sixty feet in lepth. "This enormous mass, like a small nonntain tearing -with its rock and arth, moved toward us much too nuickly for us to get out of its way by -nning down before it. The whole :hing-looked weird and supernatural. cut off our escape in that direc tion. Ov our left was a very wide trench, which separated us from a shoulder of a mountain large enough to protect us from the approaching avalanche if we could jump the chasm and get shelter under it. "I pointed out to my companions our only chance of escape; by this time the avalanche had approached within fifty or six::y paces of us. "I led the way, made a spring for my life, lauded safely on the side of the chasm and crouched under the shelter of th.e hill, which was -only three or four paces from the side I jumped on. "Looking around, to my horror I saw my poor friend Wray and the other twvo men dashed forward by the avalanche and buried under a mon tain of snow. My dear old servant, Abel Khan, who had all the nerve and activity of an ibex, could have jumpe the chasm, butE th,e Meini wauc'TZrmy heavy Lancaster rie on his back. ".Che thought haunts m-e to this day. Had be had a fair run he would have saved his life by clearing the chasm as I had done, although it was~ a big jump. "By this time Patto Khan, brotne' i of Abel Khan, who haid been left to watch the ibex about a quarter of a mile to our left, came to the cave in which I had taken shelter. He had witnessed the whole occurrence and had seen his brother killed. Ho cried most piteously, lamenting over the loss-of his brother and myself, who he thought was killed also. "I called out: 'Putto, fate has been hard upon us! I am safe!' "He seemed bewildered and cried ut: 'No, you are only the spirit come back to tell me! My beloved brother and our young sahib are gone.'" " i SingIe-Uand Fight With Five L!ons. Occasionally a foolish andl inter neddling spectator- in a menagerie vill endeavor to show his brilliancy y experimenting with the animals. lore than once this tendency has vell-nigh cost a performer his life. I ecali one instance when a performer vas doing an act in a cage containing ive lions, the late W. C. Coup, the >d circus man, was wvont to relate. fe bad just begun his work, and the' ions had taken their positions. In the niddle of the cage, facing him, was ne large lion, and at either end sat wo others. Of course a big crowd Lad collected in front of the cage and as pressing heavily against the guard apes. Suddenly a countryman of the mart kind was seized with a desire o distinguish himself and attract a ittle attention. Slipping inside the opes he stooped down and took up e ragged little dog that was crouch-,' ig at his heel:s. Theo instant he'. fttd the cur up to the level of the!c age every lion gavo out a roar andc iade a wildleap for the yellow mon-i For a few moments the performer 1 as completely lost to view, buried i aderneath the writhing bodies of the I m claw had split his and upper lip. N1 and the tatteredidition of h;% clothing indicated ise had suffered severely. Althothis face wa9 IT bathed in blood, h od his ground and plied his rod the heads and noses of the grog beasts until they were momelry driven back. L'at they had iasblood and were furious.- Before lould reach the door they were atL again, and in the onslaught his t arm and hip were frightfully lated. His grit, however, was indtable, and he struck and jabbedt and left like a gladiator. Finally howls of pain from the lions revel the fact that he was getting tinpper hand of l them, and at lastsy were driven howling and whinin.to the corner= of the cage and he aed out of the door. No soorer she safely out side the cage than became uncon ScbOUs. It was a good thin,r the conniry man whose folly histirred up the ti lions that he contril to make his escape from the grcds before the circus men got hold ainm. This in cident is simply typica hundreds of others perhaps moreteresting and exciting. It will, hever, serve to indicate the constant -rils that sur round the trainer or 7former, many of which arise fro sources over which he has no coyol.-Saturday Evening Post. A Pull of Smoke ThSaved Him. William Albertson, Spokane. in describing an early iniug experi ence of his, said: "In]e seventies I was in Arizona with aarty prospect ing the country. A that time the Apaches were makinghings lively in that region, and whil nominally we were on good terms whthe Wallapal Indians, they were soreacherous we could place little ppeudence on them. Our horses ere turned out to graze at night, an each morning one or the other c'us went out to round them up. (ie day when it came my tarn for th; duty I located the bunch on a mantain side and drove them toward to camp. I then started to do a littleprospecting. I had a rifle along forprotection from the Indians, as ouragreement then was that on no accou.t was a shot to be firec unless Indian were' sighted. I found a 'float,' ani on top of the mountain a better oi, and this led me to descend the other side. I had ot down the benches, when my eye Lit on a hill, which. I felt sure was a ood prospect, and I itarted for it. E[ those days, like thti1giis "r, '1 'ad a heye like an 'awk,' and in-the distance I suddenly saw a little puff )f smoke. It was gone in an instant, but I e meanin&; Indians and""3rupromp fire. Without any steady ascent of th tending all the time t and keeping a wary red devils. Before they were getting in had to make a reaching the ere rock and began knew the shot camp, and sure e some of the bo But if I hadn't a had gone on, it won up with me. Later.Char the Government guide, teIda made our oc waGeeral Buller wo of it auneale. Howeve escribe fiin eord behain we left suf ou li,and 1- us to establish Crack, -en the famous Mc n ie was later located there t ey compromised with us, and I re ceived $5000 as my share." A Dangerous Moment. One naeed not be a solitier to stand in need of courage. A clergyman may find himself confronted with as nerve-siaaking an ordeal as those more generally expected by the man a b:ar. In his retrospect of "The Lights and Shadows of a Long Epis. copate," Bishop Wipple tells of a mo nent when he found it extremely necessary that his courage should not fail him. The Bishop was about to preach in one of the cathedrals, when there en tered a divinity stndent whose brain had becorae deranged by overmuch study. He went forward, as if t sit with the others. "On reaching the chancel, how eer," says the Bishop, "he stopped, ad taking a revolver from his pocket, )oited it at me. I felt what was coming before the reyolver appeared, and knowing that the young man was short-sighted, and that he would prob.. ably wait until sure of his aim. I walked with quick, long strides trough the chancel, which is very eep, grateful that I had been an thete in younger days. "At the chancel steps I made a cap, seized the young man by the ~ollar, and turned him sharply round vith my knee at his back, while I said o the congregation, 'Will some one ake charge of this man? Ho is ini ane. "It all happened so quickly that 1 one moved till then. The poor llow was led out and the service vent on. It was found that the pistol mI a hair trigger, and that all the hambers were loaded, making it a arvel that no tragedy had occurred." You'ng George aun<i the Rat. George Fladiska, aged1 fifteen years, store boy, coming down North Me. hanic street in Cumberland, M:1., the 'ther evening was surprised by a rat arting up his, trousers leg. The rat ak its teeth in his flesh and the arder he shook the tighter the rat eld on, and at last he darted into. VSl's Creek to drown the rat, but the ratewas& deep that he-was nearly n's~ielf. He got rid of the a~tws badly bitten. Tehgter all chocolate i.s in color MWEST KiD m U . far IS MORE NUTRITIOUS AND CHEAP- I an ER THAN ANY OTHER. bt of (r:,titU1de That the Poor of Pails Ore to Schwitzer-flis Famous uread of Made From Freshly Ground Wheat- c0 IIow This Novel Food is Prepared. n HE poor people of t Paris are in debted to a man I with a German i . name for amethod di of getting the best s( bread at the low- s< a est price. This d m a n bears the s name of Schweit- c zer, and the par- e - -pose of the so- a Sciety which uses Io is method is to establish in all the opulous centres of France coibina on milling andbaighsewic -ill nrnish 100 kilograme-220 ounds-of nutritious and digestible rhite bread, from an equal amount of rain at the lowest cost of production. The model establishment is at La illette, Paris. In this bakery the laily sales rose in three months from >36G.70 to "772, and a corresponding ncrease was noted in the branch ioases, which are patronized liberally n the wealthy quarter of Paris. Offi ,ial analyses demonstrate that the 3chweitzer bread contains more nutri tive nitrogenous properties than ordi nary bakers' bread, and more than double the phosphates in the latter. The bread, known as family bread, is sold to the working classes at 4.82 cents for 2.2046 pounds-which is 1.92 cents less than the usual price. The Villette establishment is a building of iron and stone 515 feet long, situated on a canal, and con structed at a cost of about $193,000. A steam engine of 150 horse-power supplies the power and produces the electricity necessary for lighting pur poses and for charging the accumu latora of the delivery wagons. Just as coffee is better if freshly roasted and ground, so, Schweitzer says, bread is better if made from freshly ground wheat. The flour in this mill, which is a part of the estab lishment, is ground only in quantities sufficient to meet the daily needs of the bakery. The wheat arrives in a boat, which is moored in the canal; elevators hoist it into bins, whence it is carried by .n immense elevator to the top of the . - into the different mill cleaning and separating s. After all foreign substances have been removed and the n _ nt circuli ed in such a mar ceomplish the huskin and its granulation int same time. These grini vable, but do not touch; s stead of ci-nshing the wvhet producing a flour in which thi ach only is r-etained, the outer an arder portion of the wheat, contair |ing gluten and other nutritive proper |ties, is retained in the flour. Th bran alone is expelled. |Attached to the mill are the work for kneading the meal, water an< yeast into bread. All of thisi done mechanically, the works bein separated into three stories. Specia yeast is prepared in the upper stor; in rooms heated in winter and coole< in summer. The yeast, flour and th< salted and filtered water are carrie< down by machinery into kneaders ii the form of half cylindrical tubs, rota ting on two pivots placed in the axi of the kneading troughs, so that thi tubs may be placed at a lower or highe: angle to accelerate or retard the knead ing. One person can attend to tw< Schweitzer kneaders, regulating th< distribution of the dough, and thu: the kneading of 4109 pounds of dougl an hour is accomplished. The steeli arms of the mixing ani kneading machinery, some of whiel are ntationary and others mobile stretch and work the dough much bet ter than hand power. The wheat, salted water and yeasi automatically enter one end of the tub and dough in an endless skein of pale yellow issues from the opposite end. This dough finally falls on tables or -the ground floor, where it is weighed -and made into bread of every shape and dimension. Small wagons are charged with the shaper, which then go to the raising room. Each floor has a fermenting rooms kept at an even temperature. The dough, after raising. is carried by wagons into the baking room, where it is placed in Scnweitzer ovens, heated by gas from retorts arranged in such a manner that the gas does not enter the oven, and the heat is so regulated that the baking operation goes ou anutomatically. Twice a day-once before dawn and in the afternoon-ten large two-borss wagons (which will be used until the electric carriages shall have been built) distribute the bread in the dif ferent depots of the Societe Parisienne in Paris. In connection with this model es tablishment is a laboratory for the chemical examination of the samples of wheat submitted for buying. T bese, upon their arrival, are ground and passed through a sieve by a small hand bolting mill, invented by Schweitzer, which determined imame diately the nutritive volume of the grain in gluten and nitrogenous mat Schweitzer has mills, ovens and kneaders of various dimensions that mer to grind his own wheat an1' ke his bread from an unadulterated ai wholesome product. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL io So great has been the improvement He storage batteries of late that, ac rding to an English engineer, a car An iw requires 500 poands of cells that !o years ago needed 1000 pounds. I It has been discovered that the hu- A an voice is produced by forty-four fferent muscles. Fourteen of these 0, rve for the emission of 16,380T unds, and the others aid the pro action of some 175,000,000 different unds; that is, these forty-four mus es go to produce millions of differ-0 at tones, which acoustics distinguish P s absolutely distinct one from the P ther. H A very long electric raitway is to be nuilt in Ohio, connecting Toledo and A Torwalk and passing through seven r eight smaller towns. The total ength will be sixty miles, half of rhich will be on a turnpike road. The p )ermanent way will be of substantial onstruction, as a speed of forty miles n hour is proposed. Still higher peed can be made upon a straight lectric road running on its own right f way. Professor C. E. Bessey announces, n a letter to Science, that he has ob bained evidence that trees, includin; such species as oak, hickory, willow, ottonwood, elm and box elder, are rapidly advancing in eastern Nebraska. The areas covered by them are grad ually creeping up the courses of the streams and spreading out laterally. In some cases, the "tree belt" along rivers has, within twenty-five years, increased in width from 100 feet to half a mile, and even a mile. Paper is proving a very satisfactory material for driving ropes. . At the English factories of Wolverhampton, the rope is made like that from other materials, and contains three main strands, each made up of a number of continuous strips of twisted pulp paper. The material is made water proof by treatment with boiled oil. The rope is fairly emooth and wonder fully pliant, and in recent tests for driving machinery it has been only slightly polished under conditions that have caused cotton rope to be come badly worn and frayed. Its actual tensile strength is supposed to be considerably less than that of ope. in evanescent cloudlets Scatter air- near the earth are hrongh th o, ar up aterally is sc e of oil of limes wa, inntes passing through a three feot long, but the wind transports the odors far and rapidly. r Rev. John M. Bacon, who has been investigating the subject, mentions a g smell of burning fat that was drawn o by the wind into a stream much more . than seven miles long but of little o width. He mentions the record of a ~boat's crew that was enveloped in a edense wr eath of wood smoke when 400 miles at sea; and also that of a - smell of priLneval forests that seemed .to have been borne by a cyclone across the A tlantic to the coast of France, Irrigation in Siberia. SIf the winters are long in Siberia and very cold, on the other hand the summers are extremely warm and dry. The small streams of water dry up during this season, and agricail ture suffers much from this state of things. jTo remedy the evil, the following is what the inhabitants of certain dis tricts do. Daring the winter they collect the snow which, as is well known, fails in abundance in these regions, and accumulate it at the bot tom of some narrow valley. They press it and make it compact so that it will be more resistant to thawing. At the end of the wintor they cover the enormous piles which they have thus formed with branches, straw, manre or earth, in order to protect the snow against the rays of the sua Iand the exterior heat. Then, when after long days without rain the temperature is much elevatedl and the water of the streams begins to dry up, the snow, in spite of th3 it's covering, commences to melt, and by means of a ditch made for this purpose, the 'sater which runs down supplies the river until the return or the winter. The Fate of the Keely Motor. The big steel globe which stood for Imany years in the workshop of the late John W. Keely, on Twentieth street, above Master, and which played a big' part in some of the puzzling performances of that incomprehensible inventor, is now doing splendid ser vice as an advertising medium. The globe is still mounted on the heavy frame that Keely built for it, and han been chained to a ring in one of the llagstones in front of the old workshop on Twentieth street. Its suirtace has been painted a brilliant yellow, antl black letters an inch high have been utilized to make the advertising matter conspicuous. -Philadelphia Itecord. Where Miarconi's Plan Failed. Experiments with the Marconi sys tem of wireless telegraphy have been tried lately between De Aar and Mod der River with stations at various in termediate points. Messages have been successfully sent between Orange River and Ensli during the last day or two, but great difficlty-was experienced, and little further success has been attained Fowing to the odd fact that the ex traorinary amount of iron in the neighboring hills played all sorts of pranks with the system.- Cape Town teoa.."eats Once Too Often. 3larence Douglas, of Purcell, OkIla. na, a few weeks ago wrote the fol ring poem: MA' AND Y(ATIMz v grand to stand upon the virgin plain. Vhen stars are beaming in the sky, d hear ttte distant thundering train. nd see it gashing by. a small a thing man seems to be, ith such immensities in view; .rain of sand beside the sea, t fragile drop of dew. proud and boastful man, take heed, ehold te mighty works of God. ou art a little thing, ideed & grass blade in the sod! When Editor Williams, of Ardmore, klahoma, saw the poem he too his n in hand and wrote the following trody: ow sad to stand out on the lonesome plaini, When clouds are heavy in the sky. nd be exposed unto the wind and rain, While she you love is dry. ow small a thing man seems to be When be is wet theough to the hid. eeause her dad will not agree To let him woo inside. , proud and boastful man, take heed, The old ciap's big and roughly shod. Lis better to get wet, indeed, Than lie beneath the sod! When the poet saw the parody be bouldered his trusty rifle and started overland for Ardmore. The editor as in when he called. Then a shot -ang out, and there was a vacancy or a live newspaper man in that ricinity. A trial ensuing, Mr. Douglas ras found not guilty by an Oklahoma ury, and the incident was declared -osed. Now, let Kipling and Austin go to Oklahoma. There they may ind protection from the parodists and satirists. There alone, apparentil does the sacredness of the sublime songster's calling find the recogai-. tion that is necessary to keep it from going to pot.-Chicago Times.Herald. The Largest Tree in the World. In Nassau, the capital cityof the ,,t Bahama Islands, they say "the tree in the public square"--not the trees. Now the public square of Nassau as auite as large as that of most cities of the size, but there is only one tree in it, and that tree literally fills the square and spreads its shade over all the public buildings in the neighbor- - hood. For it is the largest tree. in the world at its base, although it is hardly taller that a three-story houss. It is usually known as a ceiba, or a silk cotton tree lit the people of the-. low islands of the West Indies cal the hurricane tree. For no matter iatter how hard the wind blaara otduistri ib* of last s rin all the alms a of the her trees of Nassaa vers'_. overturned,'lht the great hurricane. tree, although it lost all its leaves, did not lose so much as a branch. Its trunk throws out great curving. wing= like braces, some of them twenty fset wide and nearly as high. These ex tend into the ground on all sides and brace the tree against all attack, while -, the great branches throw a thick shade overhead. In the tropic sun. shine of midsummer hundreds, even thousands, of people gather in the cool of its shadow. A very old picture in the library at Nassau shows the tree as bigas it is at present and even the oldest negro in the island cannot remember when it was a bit smaller. What Decided Hima. A man engaged in the building trade took it -into his head a Sunday or two ago to attend service at the place of worship of a comparatively newly formed body on the west side When the service was over he con. trived to put himself in the way of one of the leaders and priucipal support ers of the church, and drew him into - conversation. "I like your service,' said the builder. y"Do you? I am glad," was the re "Yes." the builder went on. "I think I shall come here on Sandays." "We shall be pleased to see you, I m sure," said the other. Then the builder, revealing how his great heart pulsated, asked in a rather eager tone: "Ah, you're going to build a new church soon, I sup pose?" "Yes, we're thinking about it, some diy," answered the churchman. "Then," continued the builder, "you haven't a irember in my line in the congregation, have you?" "I don't think we have." That decided the builder. "sYei,, he said, "I think I shall come herea and the two separated. -Chicaj~ News. He nosge to the Occasion. There was a bit of fence opposite Rowley's drug store in T--, Ken., and as it proved convenient to loungers it was broken down more once. The owner, after putting it-in order a second time, fastened a barbedl wire on the top. There was fun fo: the clerks for a while watching thosj who, when just about to sit dor:, suddenly concluded that business called them elsewhere. One day a farmer in from the country longed up to the fence and, without noticing the barbed wire, drew himself up and 'tat down equarely. Ho didn't jump, he didn't swear; he merely got up and remarked, coolly: "I think I've dwelt on that point long enough." Harper's Itzar.. ecience at SEh'ool. The following comes fromt ~n Aus ralian school magazine. "If wE break a magnet in halves each piece ecomes a magnet. If we break each piece in halves eacht of .the smalle: pieces becomes a magnet,1 until we ome to something which. we cannot plit p. Each of these pieces which cannot be split up fuether is called a