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Show Japanese Superstition. But there was always something Jaand stir-i- n her, and beckoning Do her man. you superstitions of ing could household the she about till arrange must wait The LIGHT. a hitherto verv strange sort of a his in was a deeper wnt' he nngs a could see the way ojien that made Marts brain know he had galvanic battery pan are very numerous. sVvs silenced for the time, But the doctor untroubled calm, heart throb till she officer And when he ordered an ice ha a thouaaad ejo Tlwlgt:t the lhiladclphia lVs. They her and And tbs day but on. did cot fail to notice that never again grow dizzy for Johnny's sore throat, rriu hi right. r, luandage ! en oxeit vorlA Yet tne light of the bright and tells him she sent are harmless, on vaa Margy tired, never anything but heard it painfully. W ,ih the dj ing iub. in the is it cruel? Oh. Mrs. Scott ups can are you. and they intrenched vet so him to give her boy medicine, ready to come and go at his bidding. I want to The min.l hag a thouaaml ejem, cone, but help me, help me, fur stortYes, its death! argument, reliable littlo see tho did not to He him I figure freeze household that not to And the heart bat aaa. how ran I? them. And the world at Yet the light of a whole life iit ing from her couch at earlh'rt daw n, -- You eanno -- ay it any longer, you best hes gone. even ridicule cannot destroy born with window When love la done. and and leaning from the on being went a Holme dying It wait. The Spectator. I arms stretched out toward Holme and dart: not sa. it, Margy as suited them Some of these superstitious in the orthodox inculbo to me any longer for good He did not hear the restless moral or educational purpose, i lira otT some day to murmur of her heart, ns she sank her alone. I shall- carry you suddenly left thus And lessons of Benevolence, neatMargy, at of in that g'.g you laugh with cating A chosen, head npos the sill and whispered: bv main forcehad she life the ness mid habits of cleanliness. to come of your Must it indeed ho so long? Ive tried so, but I v ant you a and despairin penitential slower footsteps room is never swept immediately BT BHTEH VKASCM. and tried, and there's notxxiy, indeed sweet will, and not for babie9 ing heart went about her atsimple Johns aro the What fashion. to them. como the after the departure of the inmate titer isnt, who would She listens do work again. because I you a Cl AFTER 1L love Margy, At them, luck. for the quick trot of his horse, fear of sweeping out the Mary! Mary! must I stay? b it what aro tiny and their poky window Bride the and neither How could he know, unless she told Stephen Johns opened hie eye very in the evening, alone marriage ceremony ot into tlte him, ihe struggles with which she took old father, to come between you and as she sits ns he ran aid'. In she feels that she shall die of the quiet nor the jroom wears nnv clothing Be kitchen that morning just from Frank- up again, each morning, the life that me! their mrrriage lest color a the and longing. purple to how know don't You lin, in tho early train. There was had grown so hard, had grown into .'on dissolved, purple IBeing a color But the days have no time for broodlittle Quaker saint: you Pheeb Margy composedly pouriny out coffee die prison house that barred her from love, 'weeks round: and the fly most liaBle to fade. If the cup of I wonder if there is anything in ing, and lettering her toast, while oppo- him. Stephen Johns had but few n more thoughtand are taller I'aee medicine is upset By ueeident during and site to her sat a tall young fellow, and fewer friend beyond ins your eiunpcs'.t ion but more helpless and ab- tiie illness of a person it is n sure sign and ful, Stephen all! after beamed with satisfaction, political "set, and after Margy had and tender mercies, whose eyes sorbed than ever. of his recoverv. This looks as if the and who was apparently eajoyii'g hie vainly canvassed tho family, and fixed Something there certainly was that and very are long But the nights Japanese had faith in our w ho flamed up into Margy s face, and darkbreakfast very much, indeed. spun the only cousin, Betsy, And as the little Gray Mster still! Throw physic to the dogs. There choked her words, ami ened mi her eyes, That was tho beginning it; and might take the place, that worthy lady she whispers to are some curious ideas in regard to the at window, stands she was but sho said them softly. now it had gone on into t!e most de- signified by letter that herself in very pity, The poor, poor the finger nails. They must not be on Dr. Warren. crippled with the rheumatia that George, you know I lived along Clare! liberate r ut liefore starting on a journey lest without you and life was only empty, part, duly abetted, we are forced to she was thinking of going to the W BE CONTINUED.) person at hiBe (TO I now hut disgrace fall upon the should wasn't belong very hard; House herself to be taken care it odd. by Miss Margaret Hardiag. they Neither destination. breath to you so, that it takes my Margy sometime thought that bo had of. is Not a Leap Year. 1900 lest cat's claws should cut must at I But night, it. about to think some WV of a in himself her away And the doctor waited patiently possessed The year 1900 will not be a leap grow out. Children who throw the to cult fashion, when he bode her eeat wonth or more waited till midsum- not leave them jut yet: help tomefind though divisible by 4 without a parings of the nails into the fire are me of year, it; help herself in hi chair, that first night of mer. But there came a day when tho find a way out All centennial years not a in danger of some great calamity. If remainder. their meeting; and that the drape he long brown house grow so lonely with- someone to take my place. 400 are common years. a piece should fly into the fire whdo of Her place! the darling, a if any but multiple gave her then had chained her life to out her, that the very walls soemod to 1 COO was a leap year, but 1700 Thus the person w ill soon die. labor, consecrated so reone by poverty, his. llcrtio was a long time in gritting call her name, and Dr. Warren neither will cutting and were 1800 not, and The could howling of a dog portends well; and it goon came to be that solved as ho closed tho door upon its and chaste 1900 be, though all are divisible by 4. death. If a woman steps over an there was a walk, a view, which the echoing chambers that there must be touch tho hem of her garment. The reason for this is to make the egg shell she will go mad; if over a doctor had discovered rn hie drive an end of thi dreary business. Margy, we will not waste any more and civil years occasionally razor it will Become dull; if over a solar a been man, about tho country, that Margy onght Margy bad walked into Holme that happy hours. I havent to start them off together as whetstone it will Break. If a man - to see, or a book she ought to read. weeks agree last In these to seems it me, dress the saw he and gray afternoon, it can be will In short, the thousand and. owe with it toddling accompaniment turn when I have been silent and waited. near as may be whenever the calen- should set Ins hair on fireif lie tellgoa without told done are they disarranging' Children " mad. Y'ou who Johns toll will Stephen into the store, as he stood upon his tbiepn that bring people together too much. lie an oni (imp) will pull out their . are so willing to tome; the rad- brood doorstepi lie gave her a little and we will bo married first and think darThe solar year is 365 days 5 hours tongues. The wholesome terror of ios aqrfJHrnx, the never q nit finished time, and then strode into the store. about it afterwards. I won't touch a 49.62 seconds long. The the oni, ready to run away with his talk, the ever happy meeting and de- She was turning over flannel which thing in the brown house till you come 48 minutes is 865 49 five hours civil days has caused many a Japanese year licious parting, came to these two in Stephen was measuring in an absent to redeem it from its desert wildness, Thus the tongue,to the old, old fashion since Tine was a way; and when it was cut and folded, and you shant buy a wedding gown minutes 12 seconds long. speak the truth. youth . The Japanese have a horror of the till we como back from where I moan civil year exceeds the true solar year a voice at her elbow said, abruptly. baby. by 22.38 seconds. Chore wa but one type of wermn- darkness they always keep a light Margy, I want you! Leave those to carry you. To harmonize matter for three burning to ward off ghosts. Ihe hood with which Dr. Warren was children with their father and come The sweetness of it, the glimpse familiar but one to compare Margy nt with me. into the bright future, away from all year the year is 365 days long, which junkmen believe in a ghost who - with 48 minutes 40.62 seconds Ilia the last Mr. Wanes. to them and politely comes Before the astonished Stephen had these narrow lines, and out into the is 5 hours The anBorrow a dipper. father's wife, he never had a mother, time to protest that he wasn't coming dewy freshness of a new made world short, and on the fourth, or leap-yeato asks it is 366 days long, which is 17 hours swer decides the fate ot the junkman. shallow and selfish, whose hearties home, indeed, till ten o'clock at night, with him ! 26 minutes 28.86 seconds longer than life wae as empty of leva as her eon Margy, tor a wonder, had slipped out But Margy did not waver. If a dipper with a bottom is bestowed upon the ghost he uses it to grew to be of faith. Could he ever tho door, and at the doctors side was George, dont, dont! shutting out the solar year. The civil year exceeds the true solar bail water enough to swamp the forgot the day when, a he joined the already going down tho long street the rare vision with her hands, dont make it. any harder, darling, year by 22.38 seconds. This only junk, but if the Bottom can be knockarmy, a surgeon of volunteers, eke under the maple tree. Presently, ' formally ronounced him, and, gathermakes a difference of a day in 3,325 ed out and thrown at him lie disapthey left the turnpike, and tumod into than it is. I must stay with them yet her fortune, fled awny to 1aris, the bridle-patyears, but it has been thought to be pears. In this last case the act the Holme folks a little while. up that ing there to wntch the downfall of her called Lazy Lane. And there, half Margy, and his tones grew stern, the easiest way out of the difficulty to must be accompanied By an incantahusband's people and her son's. Since hidden by the bloomy hedge-rowI will not live this life of watching, make common years those centennial tion, or the ghost turns into a sea tho monster then, on batte fields, he hnd indeed brown hat bent down over the golden waiting, wearing away the time till years divisible by 400 that would cappa a many-clawe. had flitting vision of earnest women, head, and said something very close I can have you for myself. I will not otherwise be who will drag the junk to the Botwiping the damp from dy ing brows, to a cheek that glowed liko the morn- stay in Holme, with you so near and tom. Rather Odd Creed. but they had ail passed away with the ing. The Japanese are a gentle, sensiyet out of reach, like any cloistered in excitement is caused Some the brilliant panorama of the war; he Y'ou are trifling with me, or, Margy, Tin tired; let us rest at tho nun. tive race, very much under the influcould not givo them name or place. rock awhile. for ho could not say that, you exag- middle counties of South Carolina by ence of their emotions. Love with And in tho quiet business life he had Y'ou have brooded in the advent of a new religious sect, And he turned aside into the mead- gerate duties. them is a serious mutter, often one laid out for himself, the old recollec- ow, and, steadying Margy foot on tho your quiet way till they aro all the whose apostles have started out on a of life or death. Disappointment in tions of his homo had but deepened ulipixiry stones over the stream, lifted world to you. It is you who are cruel crusade. They believe in three heav- love or desertion frequently ends in Life on earth is their impressions. You ens and three hells. in your devotion to them alone. her up to the low rooks that sentinel.Sometime the girl Becomes suicide. heaven No. 1 and hell No. 1. Then So Margy wa to him a ed the path and threw himself on the don't think of me! and implores the gods to an ' avenger a is hell heaven where a and of A there revelation devolim And he seized her hand9 so passion Eva moss beside her. girlish curse with death the destroyvisit or I want ately that the finger tips grew white people or rather their souls stay er of her had come to him through the open Margy, I want my wife! The passions which peace. 11 between death and the judgment, and I have beneath his grasp. door on that c hi (Violin r evening, and her this minute! thrill ami torment the human soul Iso could never aflor shut it from hie been very patient, but to have you so Decide now, at once, between them then a permanent heaven and hell. are as intense in far-wa- v heathen JaAnd in ono of the hook he otterly given over to the little Joints, and me. Their views as to to the creation are heart. which lands those boast a as pan And after a long pause in which he rather novel. Apostle Jenkins cites brought her Margy found a folded and ail these ties that are nothing to no to among tho leaves, which she the first chapter of St. John to prove higher civilization. me, i more than I can bear. You will read her struggle in her face I shall leave Holme if you do not that Jesus Christ was present at the possessed herself of and read: give Stephen Johns notice this very I will go abroad creation. He said Jesus and God were Contented. Mm ty, do you know what booh I w aight that ho must provide himself come to mo now. ith another housekeeper, teacher, and put an ocean between us, that the only two beings who could create drowsing over when you fame a wooing is our best having, Our content me, you uaoirhty child, cut of tout dark! seamstress, mother! there may be an end of all silly looking- something from nothing. The devil Ui l.ivenofthe Samis, an old CaUioli. If my mother still lives, came from space, which was never says Shakespeare; but it is only the Mangy had looked up quickly at the -back. It is y ram since cwpv that my father had. tic diisi. uml 1 was but a boy, bo I can playful threat, but something about and I never heard that she died, I created nor had it a beginning. Tho few who really know what the word leaning over his chair a be read the concluding word struck her into will find her and tell her I have rebeginning of creation was for the ben- means. There is an old lady, howns his books are all the vaimntaace I it, andever The efit of God's offspring. The souls of ever. have of him, I carry ihraa with silenco, and she turned her head aside nounced my heroic dreams. shall living in a quiet New England and toyed with tho coral lichen cups, saints are bloodless and cold. Such men, which were not created by him, ate alxiul tle world. I was thinking over, town, who is actually a contented Maury dean that crushed beneath her arm. lofty spirituality as yours is out of my had an embryonic existence in God. night Die Bernard and iiruaoa I had And yet, my darling, if you weren't reach, quite. I Jenkin will content myself is from North Car- woman. One day she was sitting in Apostle hnacvn, end the last ten years have shown me that the old lielit it not utterly darkeo- - ust all that you are, 1 shouldn't love with ordinary mortals, with the gay olina. Ilis sect is known as the true the porch, placidly knitting, when a ed among men ; and 1 had coma even to be- you half so well. Am I unreasonable trillos my mother loves so well. And lights. There are about 200 true book agent appeared. After finishlieve that when a woman grows old, or baa to ask my poor Clare to come back forget you, you that dont lights is South Carolina, and a few sumo crushing sorrow, she, too, may rater business part of his interthe to ing the has she world know in North Carolina and Georgia. renounced, the first syllable of love. tuto sanctity. Hut alas! for the goldo-fcaire- again saints of my boyhood tho t'ath- - to lay aside her lilies to gather roses But Margy only cried softly, she view, and inducing her to subscribe 1 shall feel that I have robarieee, the Thoreaas, the dear Sami Claras f lor me? could not speak; her hands clasped Mineral Manures for Onions. for Scenes from Joppa. in twelve 'limn. Just then, caiue Uie quick tap at bed a convent when 1 taka Onion need rich soil. It can hardmy gray over her eyes to shut out the harsh he remarked; (he window that all my heart thrilled to, ter away from, her fasts and her picture so suddenly thrust into her ly bo too rich, but barnyard manures, numbers, and in the doorway stood the tile Gray Nice farm you've got here. Jus tor, with her sober robe and the knotted vigil, but why did she come into my dream. unless thoroughly decomposed, are Yes, we think so, said the old cord at her waist, and pals face ail alieht Yoart that night, out of the cold, if He looked down upon her with al- not the thing to fertilize with. They f with devotion My dear oor Clare lady, taking up her knitting again. rite didn't mean to stay? most scorn. Had he indeed flung his are apt to be filled with weed seeds. Must be lonesome in winter Still Ana when I learned te knew, ae my Margy drooped her head until whole life, his future, his very bqing They are in the way of cultivation if though. lie art does, that the saint was ns cloudy 4 last her eyes were veilod from sight into the as used which sick would a and pillow top dressing they muko no. not too lonesome; I dont uwnu, no pnrrhment picture ia gray and ia the sleeve of hor gray gown. Vis- laborer's lap hoad as solftly as his own? the land loose and porous if plowed likeOh, wold; but enshrined ia rosy girlhood; end ions to have it so lively you cant, of a distracted of household, Into hands that would guide other under. baling tmr voeation beneath happy wells, hear yourself think. tiow (viuM I help asking her, ae I do bow, to egleeted children, of tho mother mens children and never his? need a rather firm soil under Onions Could I guess the wind whistles some tayhersweot hitndin mine and takeamitber trust she had kept bo long and of what sho even begin to know what love them, with vow, a vow which pledge her te mu!" enough loose, lino through these trees, about the time it still bound her to, that when it was meant now it had come to this? llad loam near thejust surface for a seed bed. of the Ami with this letter, the dawn of done and equinoctial. they were all site had tried the sanctity that lifted hor above all Manuring with mineral fertilizers obsweetest rams also the to make them. Thebe, Tare and the other women in his day, Maybe it does, I wont sny it Margy so viates folded all her these eyes objections. There is a don't; but it only makes me thankstruggle, tho warring question of her rest, she conld see nothing beyond but in with its cold ehaMeness that she no further advantage in top dressing ful weve got At first there was no talk of a tired-ou- t enough fire wood. woman, ready to drop into longer thrilled to his words? with potash or phosphate, that it How is it about hooks? I dont marriage. The doctor awmed all her grave for very weariness of it all. But he could not believe it; she was tends to make soil more hold hi little Gray Sister as compact. supposeyou have a library in town? But the doctor was watching her from head to foot, and pale Onions, unlike mod other crops, can vowed to him, and unwilling to break changing color, and she know she must writhing ell, no, not to call a library, with the conflict. Bending down, be grown year after year on the same in upon ho sweet tenor of her daily speak it out: said she cautiously, not wishing to I will not take my answer now, and with ground increasing success. life, lie gloried ia the an any ynood The poor children how can 1? he in softer tones; If the plant gets what potash and hear her native (dace disparaged; that lighted up tho men. and poor de- What will become of them with you said, but theres books in circulation. will tell me, and you will go to phosphate it requires, it tails of tho Johns' bouaehyhl The Stephen Johns! apparently Mis Miles has got Pilgrim's Proand with sleep the does not need morning that the soil he kep't Nonsense! He will turning and shaping and contriving, some good will come light. mellow to any great doptli. as most gress,' and Ive got Uncle Tom's th darling little womanly device that bowespun body to lookgetafter them; Cabin. So once a year we almost Sadly, swap. silently, they walked other crops do. brought freshness and grace Into the and they can come to you for every home Have any lectures or concerts? the together through falling vugfy yellow house, the sweet cheerful day help; Or,, with a low laugh Husband dew. Very tenderly Dr. Warren bent says there's good speak-i- n Preserve the "Woodpeckers. irw,i she taught to 1'hooV and Tare, cant we find a wifo for Aim? in caucus, some of it real violent; over the little hand as he left her at Woodpeckers are among the few of her patient acceptance of Stopbnn hi Vision of certain airy Scotch girls, her and it wnnt eelI as an amiable cipher in bis home all panier and chignon, and of the lockedhome; andin Margy felt, as she our feathered friends who remain in you, youcome toto hear singin, sir, herself ourSundav school. her just northern that room, climates the Uhese were all parts of her vocation. horrible widow Beck, who of late had during the winter. Sometimes it end had como, the dreflm wa over. As they flit from tree fairly makes the tears to tree, arrayed rud went to set forth in her the poor manifested extreme interest come into my eyes to hear them litia Stephen Henceforth for her the cloister and the in their crimson crowns, the red Clare" tho doctor loved. Johns, came to Margy then; but re- cell; she must not, could tle creaturs tune up. leave not, makes a tempting mark But, of course, it was nut is the membering the utter stolidity of the her trust at least, not now! "'11, well, said the book to the thoughtless sportsman abroad victim and his consummate turo of man, certainly not of Doctor Ive seen a good many folksagent, Through the long night she watched with his gun. ' Warren, for this acquiscor state to proposed that indifference to the rosy wiles, she and thought; she could not The woodpecker, of all birds, should call themselves contented, but I cantina long. To see ha darling answered: save In wild groaning, and by pray, be dont think any one of em could protected by fruit growers. early The come No, that will never be, I think. I 'Vearawny her life ia cares and work light she penciled a note; old idea that their picking up to you. Shut up in this from once whoa didn't him. want her woman true to marry that parted injured lonesome any place, and making the best for mo. I will find some trees is long since exploded. wait George, t& dawned upon him, began to vex and him for her own sake, and They of it too! nobody else one ; there must bo in all the world some are in search of grubs and beetles liv- ever travel!Why, I dont suppose you mother for those my children; but uuul I i alter him. And he potca cut, and- (hail, for the children's! ing on the tree, and destroying it. Tho Well, they might get along with uml her 1 cannot, cannot come! right fiercely, too, to Margy owe eveOhjes, Raid the old lady, primlv, woodpecker has the great advantage oo found infinite tired an he when her of very She would not trust herself to see of variety Bridgets, and the ding, not too well pleased at hearing her-se- lf these attacking out with tbs long older girls could go to boarding him, or she would melt enemies of tho tla sofa, lootowearied in his away at the expense of her bepraised orchardist while they are dormant in loved arms and give him all ho asked; but days worry read or walk with him. school. we travel ns much as town, their winter are and There's thus no nap. in for unable you killing yourself! that Margy, to most folks. money thq sent Bridget into Holme through tho Last his summer we went escape of over life must at this I the store, vigilance. You fear. Theres not give youre till mist, who gave it into his six miles to camp meeting, and two ranch left when the bills aro paid, any morning to somebody else, and com to me. hand. years ago we went to Boston and Silo, Silage, Ensilor. She answered hint lightly and seem- - how, and that little goo in committee's The Holme folks were all astir with A silo is simply a thats forty-fiv- e miles, chibs. tho and tossed fodeprin; fnligue. place where away the now! The doctor was Ix.g'y had going, der is Companion. in ia a a and preserved Well, theyll have to manage, I gone. Ih- brown house succulent condi-tl?n'- ., standing fag to the window, shut, and an Il m:,y bo a" Pit, a box, a mow, flood of moonlight that metis her snppos as best the can, but, my d:r-fin- ngjnt frti.n Iranklin a bill a putting or a trench in the earth. look room even buildiug and After each rain the he folded in outline her his spiritual, anus, the window and valuin pare ground should Ensilage is tho term applied to the be cultivated but laughing and talking like a very havnt I managed long enough with- for sale! to lightly or prevent evapprocess woman. She had threw aside the out yau? Tim will como to me? system. Ensile is the word oration Society in Holme was of the opinion of moisture. The loose dirt of Vision of tho long brown house, the expressive action vaatter so simply with the few earnest of 1 he ha jilted making Hardin silage. F.nsilor stands for the person serves as a covering and shields the words that made him know that she, wifj its pure sweet rooms, so sunny poor thing! Her Margaret chan only so stloto ho hoi and come to the ensile tulE. him; rich, life await- - know. Toor fodder for silage by earth from the direct effects of drv- using lonolj,. too, longed to thing! the process of ensilage. mg winds and the heat of the sun. EDISON'S FIRST BANK Cnpi 6snd I i ig -orge. l- -ve The Story a Soigo. long-sufferin- g love-makin- g r, h s, d leap-year- s. . new-creat- ed hor-wl- oo-tft- to er sir!-Yo- g. uth's He W Snrh Afriid of Bobbtd in Bill Try r. ' H, , 'i Di The other day a smooth fa.j. ke cTen doth Ul. jpttf.fi fr t wearing hand.-om- e a soiled collar and a playing all awry, and slio.-- that neVtr rienced the skillful manipulate a bootblack, and finger never experienced a manicure his dhow on a Washington enr and talked in the jolliestwavo1 circle of newspaper friends, jj, ed like a tramp, but ho really troftim of the most famous menin the . i and his name is known in even---' eT,'in t! of the globe. Of course he ii,', l)llult man. His name is Thomas' si.uxin ;y many i Edison, and he was hoy and news butcher on a f0W1Ii water railroad in tne Btickew During a little luncheon EdisJ-- in the tween hearty of 1,: favorite oeverage, told in his "ehouUl t 'C. way tho story of his first a,.;,.' tanee with any large sum of roliny.' It was in the days when he sron s - , s T -- . Q struggling along with his earlt mil8t ventions, and didnt have hi V talists to bark him. In faqVowt didnt have any hank account ig' dust self, and hardly knew what one'. BCa,m Bank checks were things he c.Baj tba' had occasion to use, and had 5' as much idea of their value as T ' man in the moon. Edison had finally sold hispa-on the gold and stock indicator pe nion M 1 . . the Western Union Telegraph cnP aT1d panv for f40,000, and was eot. 6 ar over to New York to get his mr lie had heard of Wall street hat'd ar its hulls and hears, and had tJRfcharc told that it was full of sharks,' , hard G; would fleece a man very quick. he made up his mind that Walls, tye iov, was a very dangerous place, that if ever he had ocra.-do- to'ow b there he would he lucky if he .1 Kich; away without losing his ov tue an and umbrella. At that time Gen. Le&rts r?ir ' lovt-rpresident of the Western Union. morning Edison came into the. d to panys general offices To rlos ced, bu' the sale of his patent. After aBton I preliminaries he was given for f40,()()(). He looked at it curiously for j was st mentor two, and appeared e day n puzzled wlmt to do with it. ,ddin!r. knew he had sold a patent to ,ng of t YVestern Union company for ar me, 000, hut he did not see any m Gen yo his Observing perplexity, ferts told him that it lie Moulds me, Ge e the Bank of America, in of e he would get the check cashed. ( I started, said Edison, after oruf fully folding up the check and - " fi toward Wall street. So unwh was I in regard to that way lier ey ing business that I thought tvliior jealo' the way that if any man shiij von 1,., eomeup to meond offer me twof , - Walls-ge- of thousand dollar hills for that of paper, I should give him cp ijJ' ba cheek very quick. at 3 ou On arriving at the Bank of bas ica he hesitated about entering.-jaY ing still that something tnigh wrong. At last, however, lienicJ'"; ed up courage and detei mined tewfectio it. He knew that Gen. Lefferts a woi told him he would get his money now . so braced ahead and half trend. lv shoved his check out to the 1 i.. ier. an1: The latter scutinized it closely: No n Edison a piercing glance, and he. something which Edison could k a a understand, as he was hard of . year. mg. That was enough. He wns:fa1U! more than ever convinced that rs. . Ai check wasn't worth $40,000, years! again thought ns lie rushed or jjov the bank with it that any man1' T cat ,. ,. would give him $'2,000 could away with the check. He hurried hack to the lies Union and said he couldnt get f f money. Gen. Lefferts then man with him to indentifv him. said. This man is Mr. Thonu- . , , ' Edison, to whose order the ch ! drawn. ..y Mr. Eife Why, certainly, said the cashier, very ob.seqmo'1 how would you liko your k in what shape? Oh, any way to suit the hat doesnt make any difference ue, ..V, so long as I get my money. in Edison was given $40,000 bills. After dividing the r0" two wads of $20,000 each, he5 ss,e one into each trousers pocket, And toned tip his coat as tightly as sta:rgj get sible, and made a break to of Wall street ns quick ns he 'ei,o ha The next day Edison began ww1 Y !,, j his first laboratory in New bff F. D. Mussey in Cincinnati Com W cial. old ln ; of his io Deaths at the Eiffel Tower, snriet workmen the Intalkingwith Eiffel tower I was surprised to of a number of fatal accidents1 have never been made public L sure that these amounted too a hundred; but the eensus wot!'- r T4 Be taken until all was over. French say, omelets cannot be f evoni Thi without the breaking of ruly Mercury. wond to to; ' t A puzzling fact, noted by note ' Me Y'ork Tribune, is that niultit' by . t t.e impelled who are t f o. people hunger for land to leave EurP it t.-- .. t 1 e ! come to this country appear ;o a their land hunger as soon be arrive. They settle crowded tenement district conh large cities, where their it little better than what 'vaT j. old homes, and absolutely f have go AVest, where they faQ land for nothing. fr t . , J It- ' .ih r ki to |