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Show i Sfc INDEPENDENT. c joxuux, ri srmNavrULB. UTAH , Lou Dillon, 1:58, insists that the mare is still the better horse. Every girl la fond of a lore story when the right man tells It to her. Bankers, who meddle with the buzz-saw buzz-saw ef speculation must expect to get hurt. As to the other battleships, the Missouri Mis-souri proceeded to "show them" her heels. Elderly gentlemen who wish to get married should Join the United States senate. It may be, of course, that no charming charm-ing young widow really wanta David Bennett Hill. There is no doubt that the shipbuilding ship-building trust was ingulfed in a sea of its own making. Paris, not satisfied with her reputation reputa-tion for race suicide, has adopted the motor baby carriage. There are several old men in the Senate, however, who can't marry young wives Just yet. We cannot understand why the re ported illness of the Sultan of Turkey snouia "give rise to alarm." If Japan cannot get into a scrim mage any other way some lively foot ball team might accommodate it. There are even some girls who do not think that it is a terrible crime for the right young man to kiss them. The sultan declares that the Macedonian Mace-donian rebellion has been entirely sup pressed, and oh, how he hopes he's right! And yet this youngest of all Brit- i ish cabinets isn't so doocid young. Fif ty-one isn t a juvenile average age, by any means. It will not take argument to prove that the defaulting Princeton bank cashier was respected and trusted by business men. Several carloads of splendid scenery accompanied by Sir Henry Irving have arrived In New York preparatory to a tour of the country. T J T-i , a .... juuru iioseoery s remarK tnat "you cannot prevent a storm by sitting on -the barometer" is one that Mr. Mor gan will fully appreciate. PattI says that her coming tour i3 positively her last. Of course. No Pattl farewell tour would be genuine iacKlng this announcement. It is said that swamp mud, when suitably prepared, makes a good sub stitute for coal. Thus far, we believe. no swamp mud trust has been organ izes The Chicago professor who wants to see prayer meetings enlivened by an occasional college yell seems to be a good subject for fervent prave er h F gU lllifaj- .Carpet s-an. ha olrf Joseph Lelter Is paying his debts at - the rate of half a million dollars a year, but what credit is it to a man to pay his debts when he makes half a million a year? A Russian newspaper has struck Uncle Sam a sharp blow on the wrist by making disparaging remarks about his navy. But the old man has not noticed the slap. Germany wants to dig the Panama canal. The man who Is looking for a sure thing to bet on will make" no mistake in acting in accordance with the "tip" that she won'L If Russia should deem it necessary to call on France for aid in the little unpleasantness that is likely to occur in the far East the reform In the British Brit-ish army will not have been made too soon. "New York is just like Sodom of old," declares the lady who is known in Zion City as Mother Grinwald. "I don't believe you can find ten Just men in it." Well, there's Russell Sage, for one. Will the New York clergyman who advocates euthanasia in the case of hopelessly Incurable and suffering patients pa-tients kindly Indicate what he expects to do with the existing statutes regarding re-garding homicide? Those Northwestern university co-eds may be willing to give up cream puffs and chocolate eclairs but if they are like other girls it is going, to take a superhuman effort to wrest their fudges away from them. The British soldier's discovery that he could get intoxicated by eating charges of cartridges containing cordite cor-dite give3 a new danger to war. The devil has-evidently been at work during dur-ing the summer trying to evade the canteen law. Yes, Ann is 18 and Mary 24. Now, Ann's beau is as old as Mary was wnen Ann lacked six years of being as old as her .beau now is, and the difference dif-ference between Ann's age and that of her beau is one-seventh of her beau's age. How old is he? The people who attempted to assassinate as-sassinate that Russian governor general gen-eral the other day are all dead. The Russians don't believe in wasting public pub-lic money in matters of this kind. Forty-four coal mines in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania have closed down because there Is an oversupply of coal, though few consumers out this way had noticed it. A Frankfort, Ky., millionaire has married his son's widow. She has several children, and the question now Is, Shall they call him pa or grandpa? Of course, in order to make the tory have the conventional ring, it had to be stated that John Daley, who died at the age of lux years, never smoked or chewed tobacco. , Titles are rapidly disappearing In London. Those not already claimed by American heiresses have been temporarily tem-porarily withdrawn from the market. Possibly Job would have lost his reputation for patience had be been called upon to have business dealings with a South American republic. MIDGET WOULD BE ALDERMAN Qlr of Boston May Have Four-Foot Representative. The smallest man in Boston wants to represent Ward 3 in the Common mmn . council. xne Doom began as a joke. It may end by creating a four- foot city representative, Fred V. Mc Donald, of Charlestown. Young Frederick has seen exactly twenty-live summer suns come and go over the top of Bunker H11L He attended school, flew kites and spun tops like the rest of the boys in Charlestown, but unlike them he re fused to grow. Forty-eight inches was Frederick's height when he appeared before the registration commissioners and claimed claim-ed the distinction of being a voter. He wore knee breeches and his chin came to the top of the railing, but he succeeded in convincing the officials that be was twenty-one. On election day a boylike person ap peared In Precinct 4, a smooth faced ruddy cheeked youngster, in the same knee breeches that had startled the registration officials. McDonald was me Bmanest voter tnat had ever marked a ballot in Charlestown. The little voter was a straight 6emo- crat, but the dignity which he as sumed was too much for the humor of the big democrats of Precinct 4. Somebody said: "We'll send Freddie to City Hall, knee breeches and all. The Joke was forgotten by all save tne boy. Be thought about it, and the more be thought the more City Hall seemed a possibility. He began to cultivate the democratic leaders. When they dropped into his place or business on Chelsea street, he listened gravely to funny stories; he even told them himself; he talked ward politics until the wise ones be gan to look upon the smallest man in town as a remarkably well informed citizen. Recently some of the precinct chiefs rot together and cast about for a rep resentative for the Common Council. Somebody suggested the small man. The next day one of the "big ones" went to Frederick's place of business. He took the young man under his arm and led nlm aside. "We're going to send you to City Hall. What d'ye think of it?" McDonald squared his four feet and eighty pounds of stature, then smiled serenely Into the eyes of the "boss." I can make good," he replied briefly. Thus it is that the campaign crv In Precinct 4 of Ward 3 Is "Vote for the BsrTL aian for councilman, usnc The government seems lhcmrerr Revolutionary Pensioners. Three of the five women on the revolutionary rev-olutionary war pension roll are New Englanders. They are Hannah Newell Barrett of Boston, Mass., aged 103, pensioned by special act as the daughter daugh-ter of Noah Harrod. who served two years as private with the Massachusetts Massachu-setts line; Esther S. Damon of Ply mouth, Vt, 89, pensioned as the widow of Noah Damon, who served in the Massachusetts line from April, 1775, to May, 1780; and Tthoda Augusta Thompson of Woodbury, Conn., aged 82, pensioned by special act as the daughter of Thaddeus Thompson, who served six years as private in Col. John Lam's New York regiment. Horses Made Deaf by Lightning. A few weeks ago the barn of a Walled Lake (Mich.) farmer was struck by lightning. A team of horses were in the building at the time and over since then they have been stone deaf. Their owner is obliged to drive them with open bridles, flourish the whip when he wants them to go and pull on the lines when he wants them to stop. They are utterly irresponsive to the old words of command, even when shouted at the top of theii1 owner's own-er's voice. 0Q W The mariner's compass Is not what it used to be before the introduction of iron-plated ships. The steering of these vessels is difficult because khey are magnetic themselves. Tied Legs of Deer. The apron , strings of Mrs. J. H. Stineford of Bewerbank, Me., came in handy one night recently in tying the legs of a deer her husband had wounded but not killed. The animal got caught in the underbrush and was unable to go further. Hastily removing remov-ing her apron, Mrs. Stineford tied the animal's legs and then ran and notified her husband. Saturday, Wedding Day. ' Saturday is to be the fashionable day for weddings this season. Heretofore Here-tofore the last day of the wek has been eschewed by brides, but Dame Fashion has dictated a new order of things, and every autumn and winter bride to be derigueur must be married on Saturday. Immense Potatoes. H. W. Brooks of South Wheelock, Vt., bears the palm for large potatoes so far In that vicinity, haying two potatoes which weighed nine pounds, one that weighed four pounds and three that weighed 15 pounds. Three Thousand Years Old. A highly finished sun chariot lately late-ly found in a moor of Seeland in Denmark Den-mark is thought to be at least 3,000 years old. 3 ves 1 A Compass. w 2 m - w WILL WRITTEN ON DOOR Strange Method ty Which Miner Left Last Instructions. There is fortunately no provision in the law as to the exact nature of the "parchment" on which a will should be written.. It has frequently hap pened that property worth large sums of money has been distributed in ac cordance with the wish of the former owner as a result of directions left in tne most accidental manner. Wills that have proved valid have been found "carved on the trunk of .trees. scratched upon stones, written on the soles of shoes. One of the most remarkable of these freak wills was that scrawled on the door of a miner's shanty in British Columbia. The accompanying illustration gives the entire will which, with the signature; comprised only fourteen words. Tim Merrick. who willed his estate in this highly original manner, was n miner living near the town of Golden. Since his coming to the district, in 1863, he had worked steadily, and, it was supposed. with great success. One day, in 1886. he was found by one of the mounted police lying dead in his little cabin. The place was searched for papers but none of any special value were found. Merrick's will was discovered, however, written with chalk on the inside of the door of the cottage. It read: "The State may have all they find. I've got no heirs." The authorities made a hasty inves tigation of the premises, but without discovering anything, and the search, as far as they were concerned, was abandoned. New York Herald. DIE BY THEIR OWN HAND. Seven Aldermen of Peszer, Hungary, Avoid conviction by Death. An amazing tragedy, and one. in all probability, without precedent, has taken place at Peszer. a small muni- cipahty in southern Hungary. The entire municipal council, con- sisting of seven persons, all related to each other, committed suicide. The reason for this is as remarkable as the act itself. It appears that an opportunity arose to sell a forest which was municipal property. me council resolved itself on this occasion into a family council, and the utmost care was taken by the seven that no hint of the idea of purchase or sale should transpire in the neisrhbor- hood. With the secrecy of Blotters thev held meetings to discuss the matter, Tl 1 1 f in hi i ii ii' and concluded were drawn up by themselves, and as they were the only members of the council no outside signatures were necessary. The sum paid for the forest was considerable, but, instead of passing into the municipal exchequer, it was divided into seven portions, and each of the related councilors appropriated a share and kept it for his own use. . At last, however, the whole affair was discovered ic a dramatic manner, when, rather than face the consequences conse-quences of their action, the x seven councilors held a hurried meeting and there, and then put an end to their lives. Paris Herald Water Carrier. The broiling sun of Morocco destroys de-stroys all microbes before the drink leaches the consumer. Grew Through Ax Eye. Postmaster J. C. Ralph of Southwest Harbor, Me., has an odd curiosity In the shape of an ax blade dug up in the Stoddard grounds at Manset with a large treeroot through the eye, protruding pro-truding with large rootlets two feet or more on each side of the opening, showing a big growth of the material after it had strung the ax on as a trophy. Ancient Legal Paper. Whitman King i3 the proud possessor posses-sor of the most ancient legal, paper among the 'Kings of South Raynham, Mass. It is in the form of a deed, drawn up by Philip King and Samuel Hall, bearing the "date of 1698 and signed by-Gov. William Bradford. Record for Potato Picking. At Sprague Mills, in Aroostook county, coun-ty, Me., tho best record for picking potatoes is reported by a young woman and her two daughters, who picked in one day 300 barrels, besides doing the housework. Record of Motorist. A prominent Cleveland (Ohio) motorist mo-torist holds a unique record. He has been arrested "thirty-feeven times for exceeding the speed limits of various Cities nnd toTns, JrfSffl iisiii ms In Imitation of Tiling No prettier effect can be had i finishing of bath . rooms, firep etc., than that ot tiling, as eve ancients seem to have disco ven building baths. Up to the p ' , time, however, tilins has what of a rich man's luxur not cheap enough to be use cuously 1 an ordinary dwellin where wainscoting is made to t&x place very largely. With the lnh duction of a new material, howeAj the wainseotinsr will be reDlacea I something which can hardly he from the high-priced 'tiling noftfl use In fine residences. This imitaA tiling consists of an enameled jl' board made up of a composition w takes an enamel finish of any des color, and can be stamped and n into slabs of any desired size. wi' grooves depressed at fre5 of vals-to Imitate tilen of ,-.-roaa and shape. In these groove of plaster-like material is in enameled surface of the miln mg periorated in tnerc Enameled Pi;Id Board. able the plaster to penetrate the 1 amel and adhere to the underlyM pulp. The board is not only cheajr to manufacture than tbe small tfe, but is much more convenient to pi-dle. pi-dle. The enameled finish makes it 1-pervious 1-pervious to water, and it can also fr made fireproof by special treatmA with chemicals which is a neces when the Imitation tiling is to be ui! In connection with the fireplace. pulp board Is originally built up o: plurality of thin paper boards cemet ed together, being finally eompres and enameled on one surface, whjs the back is provided with staplesw which the boards can be fastenedbi position. The inventor is William N. Corrjll of Starlake, N. Y. - . New Adjustable Wrench With a large shara of the machlny wnicn is used In our manufacturing In dustries the builders furnish special wrenches, which will only fit nutsof a certain size and are intended to be used in connection with the one qa-chine. qa-chine. These, of course, need no adjusting ad-justing to fit the nut and, being ready for instant use, ara a great convenience conveni-ence and save time for the machinist But there are many instances In the everyday work of the machinist, and some other classes of labor, also, where a wrench which can be rapidly set to any necessary size will prove a great advantage to the man who Is handling it. The usual form of wrench requires the turning of a thumb-wjheel . . , ,-, , . . , k.' IU it ,) w VA I MUSI ter or an men, ana tnere can do no movement of the jaw without turning this screw. Here is a wrench which has the movable jaw perfectly free to slide from closure to its widest opening, only coming to a stop wherever wher-ever the cam block is set. This cam block rests in the certer of the slotted handle, .and Is so pivoted that its edge is eccentric to the pin on which If? revolves. Whether the block is tilted to stop the .Jaw close to the fixed head or to allow it to slide freely the whole length of the opening, the cam block engages the rear of the jaw in such a manner as to afford a strong support for a movable jaw. It requires no rotation of adjusting screws, but only a simple turn of the block an! a sliding movement of the loose jaw to set the wrench, which probably has quite as much expansion as the majority of light wrenches in common use. Ellsha F. Hirst of Richmond, lad.; Is the Inventor. Remarkable Pipe Line. The new eight-inch pipe line from Bakersneld to Point Richmond, Cal., a distance of 280 miles, is now discharg ing oil at the refineries on the coast at the rate of 20 000 barrels a day. Ow ing to the thickness of the oil at ordi nary temperatures, causing it to flow at about the same rate of speed that molasses would, it was necessary not only to reheat it at each of the pumping pump-ing stations, which are located about twenty-seven miles apart, but also to cover the transmission pipes with as bestos throughout their entire length to retain the heat in the oil until the next station was reached. Even now it may be necessary to erect additional reheating plants should the oil thicken up in winter. The , pipe line itself holds about 100,000 barrels of oil. The chief use to which this oil is being put- on the Pacific coast is for fuel, and both railroad ar.d marine engines are rapidly being adapted to its con sumption. Spontaneous Combustion. A writer in Cassier's Magazine gives some Interesting statements in regard to fires from spontaneous combustion, showing how the combination of two or three substances under the right conditions will start a fire without human hu-man aid. Thus, damp lampblack VIU ignite in the rays of the sun, Tand the same can be said of cotton waste moist with lard or other animal oil New printer's ink on paper, when in contact, with a hot steam pipe, will ignite quickly. Iron chips, filings or turnings should not be kept in wooden boxes, and the oily waste which Is not infrequently thrown among them adds greatly to danger of fire from this source. A Pertinent Question. Tou ought not to -trill your neighbors," neigh-bors," said the missionary. "How else can we properly assimilate assimi-late them?" aske.1 the cannibal kinjt i in m 'Vlrftd- ii HOUSE TO COST $600 SIX ROOMS AND A HALL IN THE STRUCTURE. For a Small Family Such a Building Is the Most Practical That Could Be Devised The Costs in Detail. . OF.-, f of a smal Will you kindly publish plans small dwelling house containing six rooms and a hall I shall build the house. myself and would like to have the job completed fcr about six hundred hun-dred dollars' outlay. is. While there are many styles SITTING ROOM Ground Plan of House. f of house that might be suggested, the accompanying plan of ground and upper floor are probably as convenient conven-ient as any that could be suggested. This house is 24 fe?t by 25 feet, and 19 feet high to the roof, and it had no cellar. This, of course, could be ILadded, if desired, at a small increase of cost. It would be well to construct la veranda along the front, and this J should be not less than five feet wide. The front hall allows ample room for Tie built beneath the stairs. Should a cellar be required the closet could be doneaway with, making room for the cellar stairs. It would be well to have sliding doors between the dining room and sitting room. The kitchen, it will be noticed, is the largest room on the lower floor, and can be used for a dining din-ing room In the wi-.ter season if de sired. ,The height or the ceiling down stairs is nine feet, and of the upstairs eight and one-half feet, f The upper- story is divided into three .good-sized chambers, each open ing into the hall. There is also a small front room, which may be used as a sewing room or study a3 desired. The cost of such a house as is sug gested depends much upon the interior finish. The following bill of material is based on current prices: Cedar posts J 7.00 Dimension lumber, 4,876 ft 78.00 Inch lumber, 2,500 ft., at $14 85.00 Koof boards, 1.000 ft. at $12 12.00 Shingles. 9-12 thousand at $1.75.... 16.62 Flooring. 1 1-4 inch, 1,325 ft 33.13 Cornices 22.70 Chimney 18.00 Lath and plastering, 465 yds 92.80 Interior trimmings 32.70 Clapboards, 2.000 at $22 44.00 Upper Floor Plan. Doors and windows 59.60 Outside steps 6.00 Painting 60.00 Hardware, nails and building paper 26.50 Incidentals 56.05 Total J600.00 Feed Roots After Milking. A hint to dairymen who feed roots to their cows, as many do at thi3 season sea-son and later, is afforded by a reader of Jersey Bulletin: "It is best not to feed your cows too many beets, mangels, man-gels, rutabagas and potatoes, as they give the butter a bitter flavor. At this time of year the garden furnishes a lot of extra roots good for feeding cows, while the farm supplies rejected small potatoes, apples, and sometimes immature cabbage heads and rejected leaves, all of which is excellent cow food. But it must be fed with proper caution, which is always after feeding the regular ration and the milking finished, fin-ished, and in small lots at a time. While it is true that a change of feed, rich or poor, does not affect the relative quantity of butter, fat in the milk, all strongly flavored foods do add a decided flavor to tbe milk that no subsequent manipulation of the milk can entirely eradicate. When the above articles are fed in too great abundance, no amount of cooling, pasteurization pas-teurization or other system of doctoring doctor-ing can hide or remove these flavors except by allowing the butter to become be-come rank enough to smother them. And that Is getting out of the frying pan into the fire." Restful Simplicity A new house wh!ch has just been erected in a Western city Is an - ex ample of modern simplicity in the way of decoration. Beauty- of colors in carpets and wall paper has been sought, and beauty of line in furniture, but there is very, little of what we call bric-aracand in some of the rooms there are no pictures but plaster casts above the mantels and- in the larger wall spaces. It is a relief to go into uncluttered rooms and have a chance to think or read without the distinc tion of pictures and chinaware. Cheapest Gas in the World.. What is claimed to be the lowest selling price of gas for household use obtains in the town of .Widnes, Eng land. Recently we gave some statis tics of municipal ownership in English cities, showing the practical results attained by proper business manage ment of the plants. Another good les son for our "city fathers" is shown in the gas works of the above mentioned town, where the total annual consump tion is about 250,000,000 cubic feet, and the majority of the consumers use penny-in-the-slot meters. The sell ing prices of gas within the borough are 32 and 28 cents for household use in lighting and cooking respectively, and 24.3 cents per thousand cubic feet for motive power purposes. At the same time the low selling price has not been obtained ; by reducing the quality, of the gas, ts Its illuminating power has been' maintained at eight een candles, wnereas tne statutory standard Is but fourteen csnules. Japan's Granary. Korea Is the granary of Japan. A n J J M 1 TT -v II Qljitm fioCMjj HlTCHEN It 5 12 I: I I mm ! werel I I VERANOA I I I - GHM6EB CMAMBEB I- rM cw T1TIM I ii mmi II m ' . . . ... .J41-.-1 1 35C-! ii i it i II. II"- T III B ' ' " 1 1 ROOF Dinner at the Mableys was a mova ble feast. Sometimes they had it at 8 o'clock, sometimes at 5:30, and some times not at all unless they went to the restaurant around the corner and had it there. This irregularity in dining was not due to an aversion on the part of the Mableys to methodical habits. On the contrary they are the most systematic people alive, and would have preferred to dine promptly every evening at 7 o'clock. For many years, however, the accomplishment of that desire had been prevented by the vagaries or their long succession of cooks. One evening when Mr. Mabley came home at 6:30 and found that dinner had been stone cold for more than an hour he dismissed the present Incumbent of the kitchen, and early the next morning morn-ing went around to the employment agency and hired a new girl. That girl's name was Mary Barker. Mr. Mabley talked to her kindly but firmly. "Mary," he said, "we will sign a con tract for one month as a trial term. I will pay you the exorbitantly high wages of $7 a week, and if, at the end of a month, you have furnished us with three meals a day, well cooked and properly served, I will -give you a present of $10 extra." Then he wrote out a contract in which it was specified that if, in one single instance, Mary Barker failed to have an appetizing dinner ready for the Mableys to sit down to at 7 p. m. she should be forthwith dismissed, and Mary signed it in the presence of witnesses. For one week after the advent of Mary Barker the Mableys were happier hap-pier than for any corresponding period in their housekeeping career. The reason they did not continue to live In such idyllic conditions was not the fault of Mary Barker, but of the manager man-ager of the firm where Mr. Mabley was employed They've made a lot of changes in i the staff down at tbe office," said Mabley Mab-ley irritably. "After next Monday I shall have to report at the office about 2 o'clock. From 5 to 7 I shall be allowed al-lowed a recess of two hours, after Lawyer Who At the last meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association, says Law Notes, the President, George B. Rose, delivered an interesting address on "The Bar of Early Arkansas," in which he set himself the task of rescuing from oblivion some memories of the early leaders of the Bar and reconstructing the conditions under which they worked. Among them is presented the curious figure of John Taylor, whose picturesque and terrible character might well furnish a hint for a modern Sir Walter Scott, If we were fortunate enough to possess a successor to the great novelist "John Taylor was only a sojourner in Arkansas from 1837 to 1844, but a.oEemarJial2lea2ian that he Everybody who heard him agreed that in capacity for invective, for withering, wither-ing, blustering, envenomed eloquence he excelled any human being that ever spoke, and that he seemed possessed of a demoniac power. He was a tall, lank, red haired man, repulsively ugly, with little green eyes that glistened like those of a snake, and with a fashion of licking out his tongue that was strangely serpentine. He talked to no one save on business. When he settled in-X.ittle Rock, whither he had come from Alabama after he had been defeated in his candidacy for the United States Senate, all the Bar called on him, but he received them with repelling coldness, and returned no visits. He had a wife, but nobody ever saw her -wonderful thing considering consid-ering the small size of Little Rock at the time. During the seven years Tomb of Zachary Taylor "Z. Taylor. Died 1850." That is the inscription on the tomb of Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the United States. A correspondent who recently visited vis-ited the tomb of "Old Rough and Ready" says for over half a century it has lacked the care of a kindly hand and is fast falling into decay. Apparently nobody cares. The tomb lies five miles from Louisville, Louis-ville, and is off the road. Ivy riots over the weather-beaten blocks of granite. The fastenings on the door are red with rust. So far as is known no key has turned the locks for fifty years. Visitors are rare. It is doubtful if half a dozen tourists visit the tomb during a twelvemonth. - Love Making in Japan. The Japanese, with their true artistic art-istic feeling in all the affairs of life, excel in the art of writing love letters. let-ters. Etiquette in Japan obliges people peo-ple to always speak scornfully of their own qualities and possessions, and to enhance those of others. -Thus a Japanese lover finds it doubly easy to praise his heloved and depreciate himself, as is the way of lovers all the world over. Here Is a good example ex-ample of the Japanese love letter: "Beloved! Touching my forehead in the dust before thy augustness, I entreat you to listen to my despicable words. Miserably I long for you, who are set as far above me as is the red eye o Fuji-San from the peasant in the valley. Miserably I desire the sweet consolation of your beneficient The Four-Leaved Shamrock I'll eek a four leaved shamrock. In all the fairy dells. . And if I find the charmed leaves, O. how 1 11 weave my spells! - I would not waste my-magle might On diamond, peat I, or gold; For treasures tire the weary sight-Such sight-Such triumph ia but cold. But I would play the enchanter's ptwt In casting bliss around: O! not a tear nor aching heart Should In the world be found. Should In the world be found. To wcrth I would giver honor, I'd dry the mourner's tears; And to the pallid lips recall The smile of happier years; ' And hearts that had long been estranged. And friends that had- grown cold. Should meet again like parted treaxns. CONTRACT WITH MARY BARKER which I shall have to go back and work till 10 o'clock. That's what I call a dog's life. It's a shame to work a fellow that hard." How about dinner?" said Mrs. Mab ley. "Mary is under contract to have it ready at 7 o'clock, and you will have to eat about 5:30." "That's so," groaned Mabley. "But I guess we can talk Mary over all right. She seems a real nice sort of girl." Mary Barker was undoubtedly a "nice sort of girl," but she refused to be talked over in the matter of changing chang-ing the dinner hour. "Here, is me contract," she said. "Would yez," she asked, "want me to go back on me wor-r-rd?" "Bother your word," muttered Mabley, Mab-ley, irreverently, but Mrs. Mabley, who had a highly developed sense of honor of her own, frowned upon him reprovingly reprov-ingly and said: "Heaven forbid. I am glad. Mary, that you regard a promise as something sacred." Nevertheless she spent the greater part of the following forenoon In trying try-ing to persuade Mary Barker that her duty to her employers called for the preparation of a piping hot meal at 5:30 o'clock instead of at 7. But all her arguments were unavailing. So for the remainder of the month Mr. Mabley dined alone down town at 5:30 and Mrs. Mabley, in order not to waste the excellent food prepared by Mary Barker, dined alone or with invited guests in her own home at the specified speci-fied hour. When the month was up they talked about a new contract. "Do yez want me to sign for sivin o'clock again?" asked Mary. "No!" thundered Mabley. "Don't mention any regular time to me again. Get the meals ready at any old hour that suits you. Maybe they will happen hap-pen to hit us at least once a week." " Under the new arrangement dinner and the Mableys manage to coincide rather oftener than that, for Mary Bar- ker is inclined to be accommodating. Of course, nobody is really happy, but then, as Mabley philosophically remarks, re-marks, that would be too much to expect ex-pect in this dyspeptic world. New York Times. Was a Terror of his sojourn he never crossed any man's threshold, and no man crossed his. In rid'ig the cireuit he always rode alone, permitting no companionship, companion-ship, and while in attendance on court he would, if the weather permitted, live in a tent pitched in the neighboring neighbor-ing wood, where, he might not have to look on the hated face of his fellow- man. Yet this modern Timon, a thou sand times more embittered and malignant malig-nant than he of Athens, was a devout Christian, assiduous in his attenaauce at church, and always speaking with intense religious conviction. But his strange, Invisible wife did not appear on the Sabbath. As a lawyer he was a terror. His knowledge of law was prcvsious and his memory of author!- tiesVftist superhuman. He could common law pleadings wora ior wora as they appeared in Chitty without looking at a book. " He was a master of every technicality by which his adversary ad-versary could be humiliated and overthrown, over-thrown, and when he arose to speak none could resist the fierce torrent of his fiery eloquence. He spared no one and feared no one; but while he never suggested a resort to personal violence, he always carried two pistols pis-tols in the pockets of his long black coat, in readiness to repeal any attack. at-tack. 5 In 1855 he reappeared one day. in our Supreme Court, much aged, but still erect, proud, scornful, and malignant, and after looking around on such of his old opponents as survived, departed without speaking speak-ing to any one, and went forth upon his lonely way, whither no man knew." , 1 . -T -i J And the neglected spot Is the last resting place of the hero of the Black Hawk and Florida wars. Here is the dust of that great soldier who with 4,000 American riflemen drove in retreat re-treat -20,000 Mexicans under Santa Anna at Buena Vista. Here are the remains of the American Cortez and President of the United States. He who conquered the swamps and everglades ever-glades of Florida and made Mexico surrender is forgotten' by his countrymen. country-men. Not one in ten thousand knows the place of his sepulchre. The plaintive words of Rip Van Winkle are appropriate, "How soon we are forgotten when we're goner-Cleveland goner-Cleveland Press. love, I who am beneath your honorable honor-able loveliness as far as the ox In the fields is beneath the crane flying in the heavens. Sweeter is thy face than the peach-blossom, more graceful thy form than the swaying of the honora-able honora-able bamboo. Will not the souls of our august ancestors smile graciously on our wedding, that your honorable greatness may coir? sate my despicable despic-able shortcomings?' In such a style do Japanese lovers write to one another, but after marriage mar-riage the Japanese husband 13 forced by his code of manners to say to a friend: "Will you honorably deign to enter my despicable house and visit my miserably degraded wife?" She has become one of his possessions and must be decried as such. And mingle as of old. O! thus I'd play the enchanter's part. Thus scatter bliss around; And not a tear nor aching heart Should in the world be found, Should In the world be found. The heart that had been mourning; O'er vanished dreams of love. Should see them all returning. Like Noah's faithful dove. And Hope should launch her blessed bark On Sorrow's dark'ning sea, , And Mis'ry's children have an ark. And saved from sinking be. O! thus I'd play the enchanter's part. Thus scatter bliss around; And not a tear nor aching heart Should In the world be found, . Should In the world be found. Samuel Lover AMERICAN OYSTERS TH2 EE ST. United States Leads Easily in the Mat ter of Sea Foods. In the part of Australia in which I live we get oysters as big as a saucer," said Mr. Thomas Lewis of Adelaide, to the Washington Po3t. "They are twice the size of any I have seen in the United States, but in quality there is nothing to recommend them, for they have no flavor, and are so tough that It takes a pretty- sharp knife to make any impression on them. Still, there are people who manage to eat them after they have been stewed s-afScieut-ly long. In other parts of our country coun-try we have a better grade, approach ing nearly to your American oyster, but hardly its equal. In fact, after my acquaintance with the Chesapeake bay products, I am firmly of the opinion that in the matter of sea food the United States leads all nations, an assertion as-sertion that will be backed up by any man of wide travel." . . How's This ? W oITpt Cm- Huiiilrl Iol!a!-B Bewrd for but fin of atarrii that cti.nit 1 c iri by IU:I'b Oattarh Cure. K. J. I'H EKEY & t (.. P rops., Toledo. O. We. the nn-1 rsitrned, have knows F. J .Cheney for the lnt I5yers,udlel1rv6fcim perfectly honorable ia all liualucas transaction" and financially able to carry oat anr obligations inaf'.c bv their firm. West & Tbuax. WUo!eaie lrusirti. ToleSo. O. - Waldixo, Kisxax & Makvix, Wholesale Urag-tBta, Urag-tBta, Toledo, O. nail's Catarrh Cure ia taltea Internally, acting directly upi'n tbe blood and m-icoua anrfea of the ByMem. Testimonials dent free. Price 75c pel bortle. Bold by all DrusKiMs. Hall's Family Pills are Uia best. Waste Power. The waste gases from a modern blast furnace are said to be capable of developing 10,000 horse power; if utilized in a proper gas engine. The Scientific American recites this fact, and adds that the lost power from three such furnaces would be capable of pumping back all the water used by the Niagara Power Company." . VASELINE. F.vprvbodv knows the srreat value of this remedy a the household, but everybody des not know that tbe imitations oi n, w'alch some second class drufrsrists aisnon- orublv ix-lra o.t on t .ievr customers, nave . . . i . . 1 1 V. J .... little or no value, n uav smnuu uo uuun-stood uuun-stood by tho public is, that it is not a mere q iestion of comparative value between "Vaseline ana meiniiianoiis, uui man ma imitations do not effect the wonderful heal-ia heal-ia results of the world renowned Vaseline," Vase-line," and that they are not tho same thin g nor made in the same way. Beside this, many cf the imitations are harmful, irritant irri-tant and not safe to use, while true Vase-lino Vase-lino is perfectly harmless. Perfect safety therefore lies in buying only original bottles and other packages put up by the Chesebroueh Manufacturing Co. Attention is called to their Capsicum Vase-lino Vase-lino advertised ia another column. Recipe for a Millionaire. Cesare Lambrose, who has been studying American millionaires, gives the following as essential to the making mak-ing of a millionaire in America: Quick perception of the value of a deal, quick decision in making it, perfect mental equilibrium, thrift approaching to stinginess, absence of general culture, insatiable thirst for profit, comparative compara-tive honesty. Mother Gray Siret Powder for Cbtldrnfc Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse In the Children's Home ia New York, cure Constipation, Feverihness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move vvd r?gulatethe Bowelsand Destroy Worms. Over 30.000 testimonials. tes-timonials. At all DratrsiPts. 25c. Sample FKJEE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N.Y. READING AS A SCIENCE. The Acquisition of Knowledge Proper-erly Proper-erly Portioned Out. Edith Wharton writes: "The mechanical me-chanical reader, as he always reads consciously, knows exactly how much he reads, and will tell you so with the pride of the careful housekeeper who has calculated to with in naif an ounce liio ua.il j uuuBunrprTOB-or tooa TlWi household. As the housekeeper. to go to market every day at a certain hour, so the mechanical reader Eas often a fixed time for laying In hf intellectual stores; and not infrequently infrequent-ly he reads for just so many hours a day. The statement in one of Hamer-ton's Hamer-ton's youthful diaries, 'I shall now commence com-mence a course of poetical reading, beginning be-ginning with fifty hours of Chaucer, and I gave him one and one-half hours last night It leaves me exactly forty-eight forty-eight and one-halt,' is a good example of this kind of readinar." Day of the Muscular Man. It would perhaps be extravagant to say that there never was a time since the days of King Arthur's round table when physical strength and health were so highly regarded as now. But nevertheless it Is a fact not successfully success-fully to be denied that " physical culture cul-ture during recent years has been given more than ordinary attention, and many, men who are healthful and strong have been remarkably successful success-ful in the various vocations of active life. The days ot the fop, the dude, the lackadaisical daady are past. The popular society man nowadays must be a huntsman, a golfer, a horseman or famed for some particular athletla quality. Kansas City Journal. Papa Cares for Ladder. "And now," whispered the lover, as he caught her in his arms, "what shall we do about the rope ladder? We shouldn't leave it hanging there." "Don't worry about it," replied the damsel. "Papa said he would pull it up again, so we couldn't get back." Philadelphia Press. AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Postum Food Coffee since it came upon the market eight years ago knows from experience the necessity of using Postum Pos-tum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Postum was first put on the market I was suffering suffer-ing from nervous dyspepsia and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or coffee. Finally I decided de-cided to take his advice and try Postum Pos-tum and got a sample and had it carefully care-fully prepared, finding it delicious to the taste. So I continued its use and very soon its beneficial effects convinced con-vinced me of its value, for I got well of my nervousness and dyspepsia. "My husband had been drinking coffee cof-fee all his life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to shift to Postum and it was easy to get him to make the change for the Postum Is so delicious. It certainly worked wonders for him. "We soon learned that Poftum does not exhilarate or depress and does not stimulate, but steadily and honestly hon-estly strengthens the nerves and the stomach. To make a long story short our entire family have now' used Postum Pos-tum for eight years with completely satisfying results as shown in our fine condition of health, and we have noticed a rather unexpected improvement improve-ment in brain and nerve power." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. - ' , ; , Increased brain and nerve power always al-ways follow the use of Postum in. place of coffee, sometimes in a very marked manner. - Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellvilla." - |