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wood's Siesta By IMUan Ducny They bad bean married but three noftths when Profeflaor Sherwood formed the abominable habit of toss? ing hlmeelf on the dining room couch Immediately after lunch and snoring away the half hour before It was time to return to the high school. Of course be did not know it, but the bahlt was a harrowing one?to the onlookers. And many and many a time young Mr* Sherwood groaned and clenched her fist at the sleeper. Naturally, though, she did It when Mr. Forbes, the teacher of mathematics, did not see her. As for the teacher of mathematics, a young man and good looking, who boarded with them, be always rose laughingly from the table and moved about on tip-toe when the first snore crossed the ripple of his and Mrs. Sherwood's conversation. It hurt the young wife?this obltv lousness to her presence. She might have endured it had there been no ?pectAtom As It was she always ex perle iced an unpleasant aensatlon of feelltg that the teacher of raatheraat Ice waa aware of her chagrin and that It amused him. And sometimes she wasat quite sure which she bated more, the sleeper or the other. But after Mr Forbes had gone she often stood long before the coucb regarding her husband closely. "W.iat a teat for lore!" waa her cus? tomary soliloquy, aa aha roused blm to th< duties of the afternoon. Like the proverbial fly In the ointment. It can bit ored her whole outlook on life for bar. She dreaded that noon hour. Finally thing* came to auch a pasa that she positively hated the kiss that the roueed sleeper always bestowed before leaving Eventually she hit up? on, a means to avoid It. At the last moment hist as she called him she scurried away to remote regions of the bouse on some Important pretext. With maecullne density, for the ?rat few daye, the man discovered no I Intention In these maneuvers One 1 Jay. bowever. something?a flash be ! Again That Kits. caught In her eyee?made htm after her. The klaa that day was placed somewhere In the region af her ear, and to the man's intense ?srorUe ehe said quite angrily: 'Deat be allly. Arthur. It s perfect? ly ridiculous to kiss me every time ymm leave the house!" Professor Sherwood bit his Up at rebuff The next day he made no attempt > the noon day kiss. And then, per? lt waa a week later that some? thing, oot his wife's touch, roused him from sleep. He oouli not place the sound exact? ly Half in dreamland as he was, It eaaee to him as an echo from another load And yet It was potent enough to make Ilm open his eyes wide and ehrten, all care. I Ills wife moving around In the kttchen was all that he heard. The sound was not repeated, and later In the stress of his school work the In? cident was forgotten. The next day, curiously enough, that very same sound awakened him This ttxae he waa sure It was part of the - wotk a day world and not a dream. He eat op on the couch and knit his brows In a net work of tine lines. For a moment he groped around In a maze, trying to classify this very tangible ?eound For it was a sound that he knew, recognised, but yet could not place "Ob! You're awake!" was his wife's exclamation ss she came In to call ales. The day following circumstances were similar That very same some? thing had Paejgad him sgaln Hut this time h*? Jumped up atgefhjy And al? though he had not gj Pet interpreted the sound In a word, he ?trode iwiftly tnto the kitchen Mrs Sherwi <>d I l gatl Uly piling the Hlshe*? Mr rOTtOH waa Walking down the gafdaa path, itftdaeg along Mke a college youth The day after Tnlng to keep awak.? snd only J i<t on the border of that dreamland < SjatTp, he caught It again Rut this t'me his brain was not so re? mote. Now It no-ant something to htm. He flew to the window At I he gate was ||M loaflhof of mathen jauntily raMng hu hat to Mrs gher wood who gfai on ?tio vcrand't ft was but i atomeal latef th >f Pre feaaor Sherwood left the house by Hi - door, atsaiaitai if beatad htm si ? went If ill That evening he h d l?r. ami Mrs. J I. ? Mnce Ward, of either to his wife or Forbes. Prepar? ing an examination might have ac? counted for his taciturnity?but it didn't And now several days followed In which the professor's glum humor was Tery marked. He scarcely looked at bis wife. And one who would thought u bride would have melted Into tears at such treatment. She didn't. The professor noted, that If anything she appeared more contented than ever. "She s tired of me," was his Inward conviction. 'She didn't care ror me after all." Then he grew furious. Thai was no reason why a woman? a good woman!?should?should? He left his thought unfinished. And new a time came when he lay wide awake t.ach noon on that couch where he had had so many pleasant siestas. Furiously each day, he wait? ed for that rousing smack that at first he had puzzled over. There was no question In his mind now as to what It was. The sound had been filed. He knew what It was. No wide-awake person could mistake it. But to think that Etnily?bis wire should? "I'll kick that young jack-a-napes out of the house tomorrow," was a conclusion he arrived at one day. That day the smack had been repeat? ed. "He's too good looking anyway. And Emily?she's only a kid. Why she's never had any other fellow but J me." If was rather unprofessional talk, but If the truth must be told the profeB8or always did his thinking In the vernacular. He wasn't very old himself. The neit day he spent only a fleet? ing moment on the couch. He Just let them see him there, eyes closed. Then, teeth gritted, he took his place at the door between the dining room and kitchen It was slightly ajar. Somewhere overhead he heard the teacher of mathematics humming a tune. In the kitchen his wife was busily scraping the plates. The pro? fessor felt the cold sweat of nervous? ness on his body as he waited. To look on at his wife's perfldty was no joke. In his throat he swallowed hard at his conscience on account of bis eavesdropping. And yet he must? something drove him to It! When the footfalls of Forbes de? scending the stairs, came to him. he clenched the door In the Intensity or his feeling. Then just as the teacher ?of mathematics reached the hall floor j that kiss reverfterated loud and clear. 1 The professor grew rigid. The out? er door slammed. Again that kiss This time, dignity thrown to the winds, the professor thrust his head through the doorway. And he was Just In time to see his wife, not more than a foot away, kissing with whole-sou lerf ardour the hack of her own band. Al? so, there was no way In which she could hare reached the hall except by paaelng her husband. The professor gasped. The gasp startled the wife from her self-ab for ty? ing rite. Rigidly erect, she gazel at him. But the professor was roeppmg his genuinely beaded brow, and di1 not see It At last when he looked et her a rippling laugh Issued from her lips "Your rleep?made you warm. Ar? thur." *l wasn't sleeping!" The profewwr confronted his wifo with a peculiar look. "I haven't slept for a week." "Ton haven't slept for a week!" Her tone was properly surprised anr she laughed girlishly. -No. 1 haven't" -But I thought you?" "Well. I haven't," he Interrupted seriously. He put ont two arras and placed them on her shoulders. To? day I was going to kick our respected i teacher of mathematics out of the house." Ourglee of laugher came from the woman. "Poor, innocent Mr. Forbes," she beamed up at him. There was a moment of silence while the professor sralled back. Then suddenly he caught her to him And now a perfect Imitation of those re? sounding kisses echoed through the house. When he finally released her It was with a low laugh of satisfac? tion "What a trickster you are, Nail. You've certainly put me through the third degree." he said whimsically. "I don't believe I'll ever be able to sleep again wlthouv being haunted." She pointed a threatening finger it him. "If you do." she blushed, Til really do It?really and truly!" "What?" he laughed. "Kiss our pro fessor of mathematics?" She nodded. He wagged his head teaslngiv "Maybe old Forbes wouldn't let you. "Poof!" she snapped her fingers In bis face. "A woman can do anything she likes with a man?even to keep? ing him from his noonday siesta!" At which the professor only laughei happily and rushed away. New Geodetic Arc. All accurate surveys are based upon .wlmnry ares determined by careful trlaiu-ulatlon An ;ire of this kind of great future Importance h;ts been cow plated bj the coast and geodetic stir \ t] It extends from central Ttiai to a point near S;m DlOgO, on the Pacific eoast. a length of more than 1,200 ?lies Not only *m this arc be of ut? most use in the sursey of the regions ?djseenl to If. hut It will also add val? uable facts for the Investigation of the true figure of the earth. There are now about 11,000 mllei of primary trlanculatlon In the United Stutes I'robnbly no 0th< r branch of engineer? ing Is so romantic as this, tho en? gineers having to traverse all kinds of country, Sashlni tl.elr signals from bin to bill tm i from mountain to mount* lit ? d cndurlni every vieissi id I litnate Youth's ! fii Columbia are In the city \lsiting Mr. Pit Brow Women. Tfie pit brow women work at the tooufhs of English coal mines in sheas open to the weal her at the sides. The work which they perform has to do with the sorting of the coal according to size and quality and the freeing of it from stones. There is some lifting to he dime and some pushing. There is some risk, but not a great deal. Wo men have been hurt by the catching of their clothing tu the D?'" ig and machinery, but of Into there u.is he-".) more care than formerly lu covering the parts of the machinery which proved dangerous. At the present time accidents are rare and contincd for the most part to the crushing of fingers. There is dust constantly ris? ing, and this makes the work untidy. Women working in COM get black faces as well as men, but they wear cloths on their heads, which keep the dust otit of their hair, and the fact that they are In the open air. together with the constant muscular exertion required, is on the whole beneficial to their health. Many of the girls ure flue figures and all have good color. They prefer the occupation to domes tic labor or employment In factories. The wages they earn range from a shilling to 2s. 3d. n dny. In the vari? ous colliery towns there are upward of f>.(XKJ women thus employed.? Ex? change. An Elastic Appetite. The American black bear has nn ap? petite that may be appropriately term? ed elastic. lie will kill a thousand pound steer and capture the tiny Held mouse for a meal with equal Indiffer? ence. If n pig or sheep Is uot handy to his reach he will dine on n colony of ants or a nest of wood grubs, lie will feast on dainty birds' eggs or sweet stores of wild honey and on the foulest carrion with like gusto. He will tish for the savory trout, but at the same time snap any warty toad or slimy lizard that may happen along that way. lie will seek the luscious wild plum when It has rlpen<nl or the wild grape among the branches where the vine clambers and bears Its fruit, but will not miss the oportunlty to make food of any snnke that may lie In ambush there for birds that come to peck at the plums or grapes. The bear has a comprehensive palate. There is scarcely a thing In the animal or vege? table kingdom that will not tickle It. The Strength of Rings. Some elaborate calculations, backed by experiments, have been made to de- i termlne the "breaking strength" of i rings. It appears that a ring of ductile i material like malleable Iron will be pulled out Into the form of a long link before It breaks and that the ultimate strength of the ring Is virtually inde- I pendent of Us diameter. Fracture finally occurs as the result of almost pure tension, and the resistance to breaking la a little leeo than twice that of a rod of the same cross section sub? jected to a straight pull. Ah the ring increases In diameter there appears to be a alight approach toward equality, with double the strength of a bar. Thus a three Inch ring made of three quarter Inch trou broke at nineteen and one-half tons; a four inch ring at nineteen and nine-tenths tons and a six Inch ring at twenty tona, the strength of a bar of the same metal being ten and one-half tons. A King Full. When a man charged with disorder ! ly conduct was arraigned by Patrol? man Queen before a chief magistrate In the Adams street court, Brooklyn, the court asked, "What'e your name T" "Thomas King," waa the answer. "Ah," said the magistrate, "a queen captures a k!ng.H *Tes, but it wasn't a straight deal," retorted King. "Sure It was." interrupted Queen. "This mnn Is a fourflusber." "What's your busi? ness?" "1 dig for n living," answer? ed King. "So vou are a king of spades." laughed the magistrate. "Yes. hut beaten by a club." answered King. "Can vou come across with $2?" "A deuce of n tine." s|*>ke up King, "but I'll see you." He hnnded over the money, and Clerk Hesterberg raked, in the [k)t. "I see a Joker's no good in j this game." said King a* he was leav? ing court.?Exchange. New Ways of Serving Old Dishes. The clever hostess can always show her ingenuity by a touch of novelty In the serving of some of the time hon? ored courses at her dinner. Haw oys? ters, for instance, produce a very orig? inal effect when served with maple syrup or whipped cream. A very palatable fish pudding may be prepared by mixing the finely chopped fish with sugar, raisins and a bit of vanilla extract, serving cold with a custard souce. A delicious dessert Is onion Jelly with caviar sandwiches and maraschino cherries. Try it.?Judge's Library. Classified. "You say you are your wife's third husband?" said oiip man to another during a talk. "No, 1 am her fourth husband." was the reply. "Heavens, man!" said the tlrst speak? er. "You arc not a husband?you're a habit" Duty Done. The pleasu u t man of honor enjoys In the COO* louanefl of having per? formed his < uty Is n reward he pays himself for i I his pains.? l.a Bruyere. Look Pleasant, Please! Senior to I hotogmpher? Which way shall i turn eye? Photographer Toward thai n. pleaae. (siu'u reads, "Terma Cash i Cornell Widow, Sometimes ? noble failure serves the world ns fnl fully as a distinguished Hucceee, and Mrs J, M Dl( GALLANT MAINE SINKS T8 REST WITH COLORS PLYING, PLUNGES TO BOTTOM OF GULP. Solemn and Impressive Ceremonies Mark Sinking of Hulk of Battle ship. Once Pride of Uncle Sam's Vavy?Accorded Signal Honors by Americans ami Cubans on Last Voyage out ot* Havana Harbor? Salute-, I in d. Flags at Half .Mast Havana, March 16.?Under lower? ing ski s and in a heavy, tumbling sea, the old battleship Maim-, resur? rected after fourteen years' burial in Havana harbor, today plunged, with her crlors dying t<? her everlasting rest, six hundred fathoms deep in the sapphire waters of the Gulf. The sinking of the hulk was carried out precisely as plann? d, marking the end of the great work begun more than a year and a half ago After imposing ceremonies In the morning, which ended with the formal transfer of the custody of the bodies of tb* heroic (bad sailors, by tne mayor of Havana, Julio D. Garden:.3, to Hrig. Gen. W. H. Blxby, chief of the engineer corps, i\ s. a., as the representative of the United Statt*, the coffins were taken aboard th? armored cruiser North Carolina, Where they were deposited on the quarter deck completely covered by a great mound ?>f floral tributes, under a guard of honor composed of marines. Minute guns were fired by the North Carolina and the scout cruiser Bir? mingham and the batteries of Caban. as Fortress until the ships cleared the harbor. Soon after 8 o'clock the navy tug OseeOla, aboard which were the Unl ted States minister. Arthur M. Beau pree, and the staff of the legation. Hrig. Gen. Bixby. Col. William Black, Lieut. Col. Mason Patrick and Major Harley B, Ferguson, constituting the Maine commission, passed lines to the stern end of the wedge-shaped wreck and started seaward. Two flanking tugs attached lines to either end of the bulkhead, which then became the afterpart of the hulk, to steady and steer her. Her decks covered with flower-'1 and palms and a great American en? sign floating from the Jury mast where the mainmast formerly stood, the Maine was taken to sea on bei laet voyage. On deck stood Capt. John O'Brien, famous as "Dynamite Johnny." skipper of the filibustering steamers Dauntless and Three Friends, acting ax tho Maine's last pilot. As the wreck passed the American pquadron the crews manned the rallt. the marines presented arms, the scar bet-coated bandsmen on the quarter deck played the national anthem, while minute guns boomed a requiem. Passing out of the harbor, silutes ware fired, the flotilla, headed by the Maine, proceeding in silence with the flags at half-mast. At 4t35 o'clock the three-mile limit was crossed. The American cruisers took up a position to the west and tho accompanying vessels to the north and south. Meanwhile, the wrecking crew went aboard the hulk and made ready to carry out the arrangements for the sinking. At 5 o'clock another whistle from the North Carolina sounded and an? other gun was fired. The cruiser In? stantly threw open the valves and Capt. O'Brien jumped aboard a tug alongside, which steamed a little dis? tance away. Then all eyes in the great fleet were fixed on the wreclc; the crews of the warships were lining the rails. All was silence but for the washing of the heavy seas. For ten minutes no change was visible In the trim of the great bat? tered hulk, which pitched heavily as the huge rollers struck her. Then she was seen to be sinking at the bulk? head end. Soon the waves began to wash over her deck. As she remained pitching and wallowing, each moment setting deeper and deeper, the stern was seen to rise. In a few seconds the hulk was almost vertical, showing Drat the propellers and then the full keel. The next moment there was a tiasb of black and white, as the great ensign flying from the mast struck the waves and disappeared. Simul? taneously the decks were Mown up by the ai? pressure and with incredible velocity the Maim- plunged down, Paving no trace save flowers tossing on tho the surface of the s?'a. LIM It o\ WILEY'S RESIGNATION llobK Opponents of Pure Food Law Kes|MCi?-ib|o. Washington, March 17. Dr. Wi? ley's resignation aa chief of the bu? reau of chemistry i?f the department of ngrlculture, submitted and accept? ed in the \ ? ry brlei >al possible mac - ner by Secretary Wilson, In regarded as a rather unfortunate occurrence for the Administration coming at this Mm. . When asked ^v ?< 1 bought of the resignation, Ftepresentntlve Lever, of South Carolina, the rank? ing member of fhe committee on ag? riculture of the House ->nd personal frb nd of the doctor,! said: ? i res 'f'i tne resignation of I >r. Wiley as the culmination of the com? bined action of the manufacturers who are opposed to the pure food lew and wish to break down its enforce? ment. Pr. Wiley lias not resigned un? der lire, but in my opinion, feeds that he personally has become objection? able to th.- people and that it Is let? ter in th.- interest of the future of the pure food law that he step aalde *o that the personal element r;>n be elim? inated, i regard his resignation as an unfortunate personal sacrifice t i the maintenance of the Integrity of the pure food law, which he, more than any other man, had enacted. 1 con? sider Dr. Wiley one of the m<?st i o trlotlc men In the country and per? sonally regret his resignation very much.*' It is an interesting fact that Mr. Lever has recently received a letter from Dr. S. C Mitchell, president of the University of South Carolina, asking him to use his personal In? fluence tO get Dr. Wiley to make the addreaa at Founder'a Pay at the Uni? versity next year. says SEABOARD SURELY COM? ING. Georgetown Man Convinced the sy* teen is Making foe Charleston. Charleaton Evening Post. The Seaboard Air Line is certainly coming to Charleston, and its route will most probably be by the way of Georgetown, acc ording to the state? ment made here today by a George? town man who said that all through his section there is talk of the hig railroad system means business and that Charleston as well as the city on the Sampit is to share in the benefits of the new railroad development. Construction is progressing rapid? ly according to the Georgetown man. and it will not be many weeks before the road to Marion will he open, and the trains of the Seaboard Air Line will he moving into and out of Georgetown ov.r the tracks of the Georgetown and Western Railroad as far as Andrews, whence the road will use its own tracks. The Seaboard Air Line is not ad? mitting that it is engaged in the ac? tive construction which is in progress about Georgetown, but everybody seems to know that thi3 system is haying the work done. On a stretch of roadway toward Charleston, 90 pound rails are being laid and trestle and culvert construction made for the use of a lumber mill, according to the etatements of the contractors. but nobody is foolish enough to accept the statement that such a substan. tlal roadway would be built at the cost that this work is being done, simply to haul lumber. A number of the other sections of rMlroad work are also being done on similar pre? text of improvement of transportation facilities of lumber mills, but these sections are all fitting in as a part of the system of the Seaboard Air Line, which will doubtless be publicly an? nounced In time. The Charleston and Northwestern railroad, which is projected eut of Mount Pleasant, having been char? tered some months ago is also thought to be part of the system. Here again, It is announced that the road is backed by lumber companies, but it will be doutbless seen in course of time that the character of construc? tion will prove of a more substantial and enduring character than such as would be built for the transportation of timber. It is in connection with this road that talk centers of Mount Pleasant becoming the terminal ?.f the Sea? board Air Line rather than in Char? leston. The plan which is talked about is for extenalve freight terminal tracks of the railroad system, at the foot of Society street, thus saving the cost of trackage arrangements with the Coast Line and the Southern Rail? way on Charleston "Neck."' Arrange, menta would, however, doubtleee be made f<?r part use of the union sta? tion by the system f??r its passenger bushiest*. Do \ot Burn Grass, Tin? Progressive Farmer, Once again we Und in almost every neighborhood some blackened field where the foolish farmer has burnt off tin- grass and vegetable matter with which natui,. was seeking to enrich his famished fields. When will our people learn that only through th. humUB-?this decaying vegetable mat t,.,.? can any field he enriched without eXpeUSO to tile oWtOT? Alld Vo hundreds of thousands of dollar worth of this Invaluable form of fer Milser will i.onverted int.? ashei for.- planting time. Well did th. ' it.' i ?!?. Knapp de. I.-. re thai the Ilm? ha* come when Sou* hern should "use less fire nse" in dealing \< Ith Ihel The hand-shaking season i-5 one igaln upon us. but then, there at some folk- who w?i shake wh>*the they arc running for office or not editora, for Inatance Hartsville Mes s nger. E. I). SMITH IN WILSON RANK Senator ITrrldm Whoa* He Will sup? port for Nomination. Washington, March 17--Senator B 1?. Smith, of South Carolina, who lias up to this time refused to com? mit hims< If to any candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and who l.a - several times denied ru? mors that he had allied himself wnhj th? supporters of this or that aspir? ant, now definitely places himself in the Wood row Wilson camp. His reasons for espousing the cause of th 5 Governor of New Jersey are set forth by the Beltator as follows: v *'i have heard Governor Wilson speak on three separata occasions. Ort tWO Of these OCCasiOBS it was wh<*rT* others sasptrtng for the Presidency als? 1 spoke. At the Jackson Day ban? quet, hold in the city of Washington, Democrats aspiring for the Presi? dential nomination spoke together with him. In Philadelphia, at the Periodical Publishers' banquet, I heard Governor Wilson. Aspirints for the Republican nomination also spoke. On both occasions he impress d me as being a profound student of the philosophy <?1* government. I con-/' slder that his expressions as to the theory of government, and the com? parison of this theory with that now In practical existence, were by odds the clearest and most convincing of any expressed on these several occa stons. He. of coarse, as ? student ar\(A college presfdent would be considered, and is a considered, by a great num? ber a theorist, but his every utterance Indicates that he has a clear comprc. henplon of the fact that the so-called 'practical politics' is but another nam^ for the corruption and corrupting' tendencies that must sooner or' later undermine the very foundation of our republican form of government, by increasing the army of malcontents as well as the unjustly protected number of those specially favored. . "I believe that Governor Wilson the most available candidate that the Democrats have in the field for the Presidency. His work as Governor of New Jersey in bringing into the field of Democracy a state otherwise hope? lessly Republican, his elimination of boss rule and corruption in that Stated illustrates his ability to put into prac? tice as a National Executive the theory that he advocates. I am con? vinced, in the light of his political career in New Jersey, his public ut? terances as a candidate for the Presi? dency and, above all. the frenzied op-| poposition towards him of certain newspapers, periodicals and indivi? duals, that he is the most favorable candidate the Democrats can nomin? ate for the Presidency against any nominee of e Republican party. 1 SCHOOL DAY APPROACHING. Many to Take Part in Exercises and Many More to bo Heard From. "School Day," the day of all the year which pup?3 have been looking forward to with great expectations of pleasure, is approaching rapidly and the committee in charge of the pro? gram are rounding their work into shape so that every feature of it car^ be carried through without a hitch Jk\ Haw on the eventful day. Mr. W. i? Scott, who is in charge of the ar? rangement of the program exercises, has heard from many schools and I oys and giils making known to him the contests in which they will take part, but there are still a number of' schools which he has not heard from, ami many pupils who should take part in the contests who have not yet signilied this to be their inten? tion. Schools and pupils have until the A ret day of April In which to make their entries, any pupil being entitled to enter any of the contests for which he Is legible or as many of them as he or she desires, and they must make thes 1 entries by that time or they will be debarred from taking part in the contests. Prof. Scott has a great deal of work to do In con nection With the program and it will be conferring a favor on him for the pupils to let him know what contests they expect to enter as soon as they can make their decisions. School Day wilt be held on Saturday. April 13tn^ this >ear. and Superintendent of Ed? ucation Haynsworth and the commit? tee In charge of the program have l>een much pleased to note the in? terest which teachers and schools are taking In the event and if this in? terest continues, and it la verj iik? ( t<? Increase as the time approaches! the Soh '< i Day exercises this year are expected to he much more successful than they were last year, when every* hud) \\ is well pleased with the sue* I cess of the undertaking. Nowaday* when one says he is "from Missouri" all that is neceasai: 1- to produce ?? hone' dawg.'---D.ir ilngton NVws Christmas in France. Christmas In France is not a spa* 4 ;ial day for family meetings and meny mai inn It Is essentially a re ' Igiout *? h 1