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Show I f c ? i ! I ti ! war not. tb wllUlag roa Would la It tasty heart laeioaa No chello of perfume; r talk, In Im nr grot. not. would huUd. If love Bwr By wr No bird No flower eooipleoent bloom. The aunaot doade would toe thlr dye. The light would fed from buty,i eyea. Area - comuro. And aomelhlng mled from hell end oot Would lee vo the world. If lov were not. A wUdornoe of I loom! Florae u Eerl Coetee. 7 wonderful 1" . f ' The Hon. Xaf Blesifl eouldal Col Ed cjJAre, seeing denyjt. and there was n frog In Col. Jests throat, with seat Sharkey, tb proud n wireless message to JlaflF Gray at York the high ball refectory.- Sun. IffSSf K'i 1 W&-J?fJON- 2 ome-wher- e L Left. ' "Dont I know It?" remarked Col Jim Jones, In mournful memory of whom the fithea at the Aquarium ntUl keep the water salt with their tears. "Dont 1 know Uf And in It would knock tannin In willow hemlock out of the market for making leather. If there wa only enough willow. let me tell you something . "There were pickerel In a marshy pond up la old Steuben and trogal My, myf Vbat frog. "But the biggest of the big frog lived in n collection of eloshy bog where it we Impossible for anyone to get at them, much to the aggravation of all wbcf went trogglng In that pond, and particularly to Uncle SI Etevena, n robust and honest cltlxen who lived sear on aide of the pond and loved to gather frogs. "One day ha caught a pollywog of mating site, which wn just putting on tb finishing touch to mak It n full frog, and aomahow the Idea struck him to tak It bomt and set what It would develop Into. Me put It tn bis spring, and a It grtw h mad a pat of it. "It got ao It knaw SI aa well a If h was a Dog, too, and SI found that he could tench it trick. It understood everything Unde SI said, and used to go with him to the pond when he went trogglng. bopping along at hi eld Ilk n kangaroo. . "Uncle 81 naed tn his piece of red flannel tied to a hook, and hit pet frog would alt and watch him flit It under the nosee of wild frogs end split It mouth from shoal-i- r to shoulder when St would haul pa In, just a If it wa laughing at frogs livsd, end where no man could get. while Uncle SI Just stood and stared after him with bulging eyes and open mouth. 'Joshuas gone crazy! said he. The strain has been too much for Joshua, and hes lost hla mind! And thats tb wy It looked, too, hot It wasnt io, as Uncls 61 discovered when Jo'hua came sailing back by and by, having In tow a frog almost as big as himself with the baited book In Its Jawl "Joshua had made up his mind that hsd had about enough of the sass of those frogs out In the swamp, and bad rigged himself up with n book and flannel-- frog-fishin- g fht fun, - 1 "On day the frogs out on those swampy beg had been more aggravating than ever, end Unde 81 and hie pet frog bad made things blue around there. In the afternoon Joshua 81 had named the frog Joshua seemed to be keeping np an unusual lot of thinking about something or other. "Suddenly he made break for tba woodshed, where Uncle SI always kept his line and hooka with flannel on 'em. Joshua went, humping Into tb abed, and pretty toon came hump-ta-g out again. "He had on of 61a lines wound round hie body. Just below hla fore found that he could teach It tricks, legs, with a foot or so streaming out behind, that end having the hook and the red flannel on It. He went bouncing along down to the nond like a rubber ball fired out et a cannon, soused In and struck out for the swampy part where tb big and sassy 61 Treasure r boys wbo were diligent) searching t j the sidewalk. "Lost it, mumbled oef tho boys, without looking np. f s "Ah," said the man th Interest, and dropped on hla knee Be rooted about a while and look op. "What was It you lost The asked. . repll one of the youths. By this time half a 4 am men, two more boys, and a dog kd Joined la the search, and the crpd was beginning to thicken. Also! excitement grew, and tb throng cased n street railway motorman tot kv nervous frenzies and to taka It pi of his gong. At last tb first seed for tb lost grabbed the boy wh earned most his feet Interested and set bln "Here, you," he carcaanded, "tell us whata lost, - Do ?y heart" he shook the boy until he sept tears of Wa anger, and wiped them 1 ' with M dirty paw. "1 lost cent," he wsbd. , "Lomme alone, you stlfT, will yuhilts my cent, ," - not yourn." Then the crowd Dallas New. . quidiy melted - . King tvopolds $71300 Rug. "King Leopold of Belgam owns on rug that cost a comfort)! fortune la ltaelf," aald J. F- - CaldnH, who represents an Eastern ettpet manufactory. "I have seen th rag, and It la 15, beauty. Klnf Leopold paid COO, or 175,000, for It i saw th rug when It waa on exhibition la Vienna. It wan made !i tba Orient and lfl land tufted. It! age k Its principal value, and it ha) been mder th feet of royalty for pribably icentury. The mg is very large wneaigtng probably 1 ' lost Whats tb matter tmanded tht man. stopping to look i w littl i tajj: or old siramr The non. Laf Oleeeon of Delhi, heed helper of 8eiiete Clerk Whipple eed dlapeneer In chief of Republican pellblndere In New Yprk, bed In bla budget of Delaware oounty wonder on bin Uit vlilt to the' Amen Corner at the 'fifth Avenue hotel nothing that he thought 0 much of a the new of the cutting down along the of the Delaware headwater of a wllfow tree eight feet In diameter which had gone hollow at the butt and tooLaa n menace to all who might paa that way. ."And the wonder of that tree was," aald be, "that It had grown from n tick n raftman cut etxty year ago from n willow tree fifty mile down tho river and ued a a cane to aid him on hi homeward trip to Dela ware county on foot, and which on hi arrival there, be tnck la the rich, toft aoll on the margin of the river. "There, et It le well known that Willow cutting will do. It took root and thrived and becama the mammoth tree now no more. Next to Billy Deary the willow tree beets all for catching on and thriving, added , the Hon. ' feet 1 Few rugs Hip that time to America, though thnflllonWes frequently .ooo for pay aa much tf 15,0 some. Few carets aw Imported, aa they can be mad much better by machinery than 1) hand, and .America hlse made gooda txcels in all hand-ma- d ruga, Large numbers however, are Irajrted every year from Turkey. Persia, trabla and all parte ri the Orient W have no labof-tap-abof competlu with their ruga." loulavill CourieJournaL 60 by 75 tumping around Jha plae first rets. rllne, wum out and flashed the flannel under th noses of soma of em, hooked one and lugged It horn. H brought la noon. twenty-nin- mwm' 'dhei ; "The willow cutting bad akea root vtt course, and had there, tb years, lifting Joshua df with it, and preserving hla skin wsl the taw ala tn Ite sap. Uncle it pi thought and the world of Joehua whfitd 6 I always thought uer the use he put the akin to pfit he took it boms. H sewed up thiutk and used the skin for fd bag fur . years. j vrlllot "Wonderful wonderful will tak root and thflrf Simply It The oter their paA-dle- d he died. If Love Were Not t. of the swamp that d ovsr to rtaum hi paging. He couldn't extricate UmiTPd there mtr e that after "There were pickerel in that pond, think 1 told you. 1 should say thsr west "One day Joehua ' was returning from trogglng excursion to the swamp, fetching in a prize, and when it wn half way home Unci 81 saw a . th llg splash la the water la hie wake, O, herThUp Womantcreas were il and her skin wa and saw Joshua give a tremendous brown. This woman acoa th sea: hump to hlmselC He cam right on. her hair a gliwilng. sable erewn. And though, and landed bte catch; but his This woman aero th sea; left leg was off at th knee. And ah loved a na, are, she loved a man, "On of those pickerel had fastened Aa enlr a trn Meets can, ' on as much of Joshua as It could get But tha frown of ft waa on her plan. This woman aoroaitb sea. Into Its mouth and took It along. he called her O. the dart were ton' that 61 waa a handy man, and as "Unci sweet. soon as he sew what ailed Joshua h This woman aerottth sea; she loved th t at hla very feet cut a stick off of a tree and fastened And Thle woman aeroei th It on to th frog as b wooden leg. The For hta skin wta tat and hla eye were wound healed up, tbe akin grew down e pushed la la eareleaa, soldiery over th wooden" leg, and la a few And way, n her teles, a soldiers may, told And days Joshua was stumping around the rohla woman acroaath aaa. 1 le . place first rat. "His swimming days were over, though, and with tbem hit usefulness ns a frog catcher waa gone, although, unfortunately, Joshua did not think no himself, and on day Uncla SI almost fell In a taint when be aaw that frog seated on a big slab and paddling over toward the swamp, hla frog tackl with him, and his wooden leg sticking out In front of him Ilka veteran of the warn." " 'Somethin will happen to that frog ylt, sure an settln hens! said Uncle SI noon as b could catch hla breath. "He waa right Day after day tor a week Uncle 81 gased out over the pond toward the awamp, watching tor Joshua, hut Joshua sever cam back. ".1 knowed them aggravatin frogs over there was plson mean.' said Uncle El at last, but who'd ' thunk they'd a took nd van tags of a crlpplsT "Year passed. There came a tlm when It was to th advantage of that part of old Steuben that Uncle Sl'n pond should be drained, and It was. "Th swamps bogs became dry land and were covered with n nice growth of timber. One day Uncle SI was tramping through it, and ht saw a tree with a funny-lookin- g object near the top. "Curious to know whst It "could L. ha chopped the tree down. Words cant express th astonishment of Uncle St when he discovered that the strange object was the skin of a tremendous freg, one leg of which was fast to and part of the top of a branch of th tree. "Uncle Si was puzzled but fh minute It came to him that the tree was a willow and that it had been a willow tree from which h cut the wooden leg for Joshua yearn before, all wan plain. " its lost Joehua. said he, 'and hit wooden leg!1 "And so It was. The poor frog had got stuck by his wooden leg In th No priest earn thereto bleat her leva This woman (croesth era; She thought him trut ae th atara above, This woman aero the tea; But he went avey d ah waited long. And crooned to ha et ltd a mother-tonAnd worked and toi-- and thought no wrong, Thla woman icn the tea; O, th man th Vvd fortot her Thla woman acrom the tea; Forgot her face, forgot her shame, Thla woman atm the tea; For he mated with tn of hla fair-fackind He' bound to tar nth tie that bind be 00 laugh at throne that be toft bo- hind, Thla woman arrow the tea. Robert V. Carr, ts at Paul D la patch. e. 1 ed Aw Appeal ta Maud. Cam Into the garden. Maud, And ae how tba weeds have grewm They're getting ao thick. And growing ao quick, I cant pull 'em an alone. 80 come Into the garden, Maud, And gtv me a helping hand. There a lot of wltchgraao In the lettuce, alaa' And It'a growing to beat tho bandl Come Into the garden, Maud, And do weed the onions flretl Th lettuce la bad, 'And the beets make me sad, But tb onion bed la tb worst, Bo put on your bloomers, Maud, And tackle th peaky weed Without any fuse. For wo la u. If evar they scatter their aeadat Coma Into tha garden, Maud, For tb black bat. night, baa flown. There'a plenty of work. Bo don't try to shirk And leave It to me alone. Just quicken your motions, Maud, And banish that haughty eneer And knbel down in th dew. For It' right up to you To help get this garden clear! Somerville Journal. , A No vat Team. The owner of Urge ostrich farm In aoutbern California has trained a pair of these huge birds to drive as he would driv horses, hltchlag them to light buggy or trotting cart, which haa in 1U design a third wbeeL This .U to prevent the vehicle from turning over. It li by no means an easy Usk to drive such a wlerd team, aa yon can not pull up your "horses" by reins. If you did It would probably result In serious Injury to the valuThe only way to guide able birds. the conveyance la to hit the offside bird on the opposite side to that which you want him to go. ' Another objection to thla kind of "horse la that if he should catch sight of bit of banana peel, or something equally attractive, he doe not healUte to make a dive sideways for It As ostriches go like the wind, and can make a sudden dead stop, the Jerk the rider receives Js. not n pleasant ont, if piece of orange peel should happen accidentally to meet th eye of hie strange "horses." , A Chemical Detective. preceding night; thus putting an end to the fearful risk that the Webb took when attempting to pass our tort, and blotting from onr record a part of th glory that tradition would have added to the gallantry and valor afterward Grant. accorded the Fourteenth Rhodv Island Hs never found It through long year. With aU tbeir power to disenchant. Heavy Artillery, -- and whtch w are No hootllo boat could gtv him pause: proud to write, stopped forever the Rivers and mountain could not daunt; juggling with the guna that was salt Ho never found that hindering word Th oteadfast man whoso nemo waa most be uaed to goad ua into action. In those historic 60s ye never enGrant. Harriot Prescott Bpofford In Bt-- Nlcho- - countered another such memorable test of courage and bewildering susSoldier's Early Experience. pense as on that doubtful day In the To th veteran every occurrence time of our novitiate. through which he pasted la dear, On the Field of Bull Run. especially so the little striking events The autumn maneuvers of the army of his early soldier days, writes an Eastern veteran. My regiment, the will be held on tbe battle field of Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artil- Bull Run, that bloody square marked lery, was stationed at one time at Fort by Centerville on the east, Groveton Jackson, on the Mississippi river, 40 and Gainesville on the west, Sudley miles above Us mouth. I recall that Springs oa the north and Manassas d of our battalion were on the south. The changes that have fully schoolboys like myself all willing to come over that historic ground since grow beards and to become sturdy the Civil War are few. The troops and there will be, according to Gen. fighting men. Our officers, too, were new to the Corbin, 30,000 that go down into business of war having been made that part of Virginia might be guided such after a hasty study of the first through the pines, woods, cornfields and pastures of the Bull Run field by seventy pages of the army regulations making It plain that we must have the topographic maps need by Beautraining as well as pluck! that w regard, Johnston and McDowqJl in were all supposed to have in order to July, 1861, or by tbe field maps used by Jackson, Longstreet. Lee an Pope escap the whipping and final annihilation aald to be In store for us at In August, 1863. Bull Run rolls slugthe horny hands of our opponents, the gishly from Bull Run mountains to Texas cowboys A little later 1,000 of Aquia Creek, and Catharpln Creek, these cowboys were compelled to Youngs Branch, Cnb Run alt strat-ebl- c streams pour Into it at various tether their mustangs and lay down their arms by us but this is a di- points in tbe fighting ground. A majority of tbe farms are owned by th gression. A little episode of camp life while tame folk, or tbe children of the same at Fort Jackson will serve' to show folk, who tilled them In 61 and 63. how promptly we took our first deDaring Wartime Deede. gree In riding the "goat," through casemate to parapet, when n genuine, "By the way." said the Captain,' g cause for alarm came gal- "Sergeant Sam Grlmshaw received th loping Into camp in the majestic form medal of honor for seizing an nnex- Cant. How history repeats Itself. You'll say, a hen you remember Grant. Who, in bis boyhood days, once sought Throughout tho lesion for can't." Ho could not find the word that day. Tho earnest boy whose name was one-thir- - soul-stirrin- Truly the way of the transgressor Is hard and his Ingenuity la kept busy eluding the constantly - Increasing methods of detecting him.; The latest device la extremely subtile, and it will be clever thief who can aee hla way scienclear out of the trap which tific mind haa prepared for him. It was Invented by chemist of chemical powder, Budapest, and la of yellow color, which haa tha curious property of dyeing the ekla of the person touching it a deep blue. The color la not removable by any knowm means, and washing tt only makes the color deeper. However, after about a fortnight It begins to wear off, and at the end of about three months all traces of the coloration will vanish. Sword 278 Ysart Old. Dr. J. W, Peck of Amoret, Mo., In Kansas City yesterday, has an heirloom In the form of a sword 276 years old. Dr. Peck declares it Is the oldest Sword In the United States. It was brought to this country by his greatgrandfather more than 100 years ago, and has been handed down In his family through the succeeding generations. The aword bears the date 1629. during the time when Christian, king of Denmark, was carrying on hla thirty years war with Sweden. It bears a picture of the warrior monarch. Oa one aide la an inscription la Germaa aa follows: "I am a good blade if you use me well" Another Inscription on the reverse aide says: "He who hath no lov for the beautiful hath no heart In his body." Kansas City Times A Queer Pst Many people have wondered why th Empress Eugenie always carries about with her, wherever she goes, a little wicker basket and many speculations have been made as to Itg contents. The basket Is lined with cotton wool and in that soft substance It la the emneatlee a hedgehog! would not and she only pet presss dream of allowing it. to be attended by any one but herself. 8he has rather a superstitious attachment to the cuHoua creature, and believes that it has talismanic power of insuring her sifety and general' Work on Simplon Tunnel , The Jungfrss to ring, which may fairly be said to rival the Simplon tunBulls Fatal to Famtly. nel la approach, completion. In It is a remarkable coincidence that this case, howerrqthe boring is up. Instead of throsgk fhe mountain. A on- the tame day that John Etewait of Westford, Vt. waa killed by a bull height of 5,109 jvia has already been his brother, W. D. Stewreached, and there ntill remains about on his farm 710 yards to hort. The aim is to get, art of Bakersfield had a narrow escape from death by an enraged bull on his by a funicular iij0t to the Mer de W. D. Stewart saved him-selGlace, whtch ofeig one of the finest own farm. the attacks of the Infuriated from, of In the world. panoramas Kwy aronnd a hay crib knlmal dodging by The boring, wh.ci will b the highest In Europe, win fc fished In time for built for sheep to feed from. the railway to It opened at th end Well Paid English Lawyer. of 1905. Contrary v medical anticipaEdward Clarke, KC' Is aald to Sir men the tions, gplendld health be the best-paiprofessional man In working at thi gesent great elevaEngland. He distinguished himself in tion. the baccarat case, the Bartlett case and the Jameson case, Is A member oi! A Great Organization. was . for , six years Here Is a sus-- y 0f the Salvation parliament, and solicitor general. His earnings at law army operation ,tt the social sida: are about f217 an hour. If he works There are 180 &,! shelter depots, a day, 30Q days in a year, with accommo& jnn for 13,S0i,' and ten hours le 3C31.000 a year. income hla no fewer thaa I, ',73,000 bed have been provided during the last year. Benevolent and Useful. There are koteen prison-gatArland Eaton has caused to Deacon homes, with for 538, by the roadside, near hit be placed and 3,000 sat! , ,ry tb.s have been in Hancock, N. II. a farm buildings, passed throws g,,,m during the last stone trough to furnish- - a watering twelve months. faf,re are 11 rescue from a never-fallin- g water supply public homes accotE"- - rE3: s,719. end 5.700 It Is Inscribed, "Eaton. Spring. satisfactory r " jjave been passed and Us Intended to comland col- memorate tbe settlement of his famthrough, wh" onies contra and give v ;; gores,CT.ooo In town. men. ily temporary eu, ent to well-bein- d e 1797-1904.- n - A - is , c : -- ?&? OjT &?( of our surgeon, Dr. Carpenter, who brought the startling news that th rebel ram Isaac Webb was on the way down the river, having passed New Orleans flying the Confederate flag. The Isaac Webb was formerly one of tugNew Yorks fastest ocean-goinboats. Her speed was 17 knots an hour. W were mighty quickly formed Into lines and marched double quick up to th big Parrotts overlooking the river. We carried our Springfield which we loaded and stacked, then shotted the guns and the Parrange rotts, and trailed to point-blanevery well known ship course of tbe river within our view. Then w impatiently awaited tbe coming of the ram, and while we waited toyed with our Adams apple, screwed up our knock-knee- d courage (that so Voefully wabbled again) to ths fighting pitch, and remained full of speechless wonder and surprise. But wher was the Webb? We stood up, looked, listened, then looked again but the calm and peaceful river gave no sign of her approach. Th suspense was so great that it interfered with our breathing; we- - could hear nothing but the tap, tap. Up of an organ which seemed to have risen and to be lying near our tongues. But where was tha ram that our doughty doctor had told us was coming? At every successive point on that part our view we of the broad river-i- n looked, fully expecting ber to poke ber nose around and come on defiant. As the day wore on the oppressing atmosphere became more clear. W stood erect, feeling quite jubilant, when suddenly a startling exclamation caused all eyes to turn. "Look! lock! What Is that coming out of the west?". Glancing backward wo saw something, riding swiftly, and to our imaginative minds suspiciously toward the fort. Could It be possible that our rear was to bs . the point of attack? One more gulp of the Adams apple and a silent remembrance ct tbe misdemeanors and shortcomings of onr career, a hasty prayer then, suddenly out of tbe clouds ct dust came our relief, bringing Intelligence that tb yam had herself been rammed and sunk, after hiving been driven ashore by the Union gunbott Richmond, which hfcd "P the river th g h k dust-hidde- ploded shell and throwing it to a distance before It exploded. In this way he saved tbe lives of several men. George Hunt prevented a fuse shell from exploding by crushing a handful of mud Into tho hole where the fus was sputtering. He received no medsL Patrick Glmley, a private In Company G, First New York light artillery, la 1864 tas caught between the lines when his command retreated. H crept back to the abandoned works, pnt three chargee of canister In on of the guns, and blazed away at th enemy on th point of entering th works. This led to the reoccupation of the works by the Union troops, and twenty-si- x years later Gimley received a medal of honor for that exploit: "Samuel E. Eddy, Company D, Thin Massachusetts, went be. yond tbe firing line to bring In th regimental adjutant, who had been wounded. Eddy was run through th body with n bayonet and pinned t the ground, but he shot his assailant and saved the adjutant He received a medal of honor. Two of our boy who went Into th zone of fire after tbe charge at Kenesaw and brought in a wounded comrade did not receive medals. Orion P. Howe, a Illinois, drummer of the Fifty-fiftwent under heavy fire at Vicksburg to report to Gen. Sherman the need of more kmmunitlon, and was given a medal of honor. Lieut S. G. Grubb and Dan R. Anderson, who put out the fire In Shermans great pile of reserve ammunition at Resaca, when It was struck by lightning, have no medals. ... "Nathaniel Gwynne, a recruit of the Thirteenth Ohio cavalry, had not been mustered when th charge at Petersburg waa ordered, but he went In and lost an arm. He was ' given a medal of honor la 1865. Gen. Adelbert Ames received a medal of honor for remaining on tbe field at Bull Run. He was then a lieutenant , of tbe Fifth artillery, and although verely wounded, directed to the last the fire of a section of Griffins battery. In all, about 2,500 medals of honor have been issued, 864 of thes going to officers and men of th Thirty-seventh Maine, who volunteered when their time bad expired, to remain In service until after the battle of Gettysburg." Chicago Inter Oeean- - .. tb h r |