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Show father, who straightway left his heaped up desk and hurried home. The last VAHITAS, JTARITATUH. A NEW-FOUN- D had come. Sensation of a Man When First He She was a very Biok girl, Indeed'. Saw Light but her not could eyes speak, Mary Her father, sitting by the window were If the eyes of one who had never eloquent Large and bright pareading hla stock report, glanced questioned and watchel seen were suddenly opened the world they thetically at her, and with the gloomiest proceedings. They propped her up, would be a strange sight. We Bee not forebodings. Just so had her mother and when suffocation seemed near, a only by means of the physical powers looked, Just so had her mother breath-d- , little ether numbed the suffering. of the eye. but by experience. A blladi man whose sight is restored, cannot Just eo had her mother's eyes gilt-ereHer glance went so often to Rebecca wHth a dry lustre that told of the1 his own wife until he touches recognize who hovered uneasilly lo the backInward fever. her face or hears her voice. A man ground, that they asked her what she He sprang to his feet with a suddon wished. She lookedat the closet aad who had never seen until he was SO rebellious gesture and waited over Rebecca understood, and for the last years old has sent to the Problem, a for the blind, a remarkable "Where she leaned wearily forward upon time the party dress was spread out magazine the back of a chair placed in front of before her. SlSppers, stockings and fan account of his experience when tho her. The disease of late had taken an were placed by it, and th drooping bandage was drawn from his eyes in asthmatic turn and so for several rose from the day before laid alongside. the hospital, and he was, as it were weary days and nights she had been The drooping rose lay by the shim born again into the world. "What I saw frightened me, It wa unable to He down, she glanced up mering silk. And Mary fought for so big and made such strange emotions. wltE a smile as her father drew near, breath and regarded the two with her I called out in terror and put out my "Is there anything you would like to dark eyes, so singularly alive and In have my dear?" he said, bending over telligent She looked at the drooping band. My fingers touched my nurse's and adjusting the light shawl more rose and from tit her glance travelled' face. I knew Bhe was there, for sh-to her father and slowly a great tear had Just taken the bandage from my cflosely around her. "If there is anyeyes, and I knew what I was touchiag thing at all, tell me of it, and I will welled up and splased upon the counter but I did not know it was I saw. be only too glad to get It for you." pane. He hid his face in his arms and ' 'For mercy sake, what is it?' I "I really have everything I want, prayed for fortitude. The laboring breath came more and asked. floudy dear," she said in the hoarse "The nurse answered me soothingly, crackling voice characteristic of her more frequently. With her eyes she fingers in her hand and trouble. Implored the merciful either and the taking my them from her mouth to her moving "Everything but health," was their doctor could not deny her. The agonizto her eyes, chin and forehead. nose, ed rattling grew easller. Fainter and mutual thought.. " 'It is my face that you see. Look! but she looked "Isn't there one thing that I can buy grew the aspirations, You know tins is my mouth my chin, so and the long vigil -her gratitude, he askyou and bring home and these are my eyes.' wore on. Late In the afternoon she ed anxiously, as he caressed her hair. "Soon I knew that I was seeing what died. was familiar to the touch of my fingers "Why, father, you know as well as I a human face. But the sensation was do that I have everything a girl could still one of terror. I seemed so sma.ll need," she said. beside that expanse of human features, "Have you all the pretty things that which was so familiar to my fingers, so ether girls have?" he sold with jeal-niJove. unnatural to my new sense. "When the nurse moved away from "I haven't any party fixings," she my cot I felt a new sensation, which Bald, "but that is because the doctor was so agreeable that I laughed aloud. forbid me going out at night But I The nurse came back, but not bo close may soon be better, and then you can as before. buy me a lovely pink silk dress with " 'What Is that?' I asked. lots of lace on it and satin ribbons." " TTou' are looking at the blanket "Would you really like one?" he askwhich lies across your feet,' she 6ald. ed, bending over her. " 'Blankets must be very beautlfv.t "Yes, Indeed I would, and I'm going to have one Just as soon as I'm better," thing,' I said. " It is a red blanket, she explain she said, brightening perceptibly under ed. the thought . "And pink slippers and " Then I thought I knew why peopink stockings, and a fan and arose for my hair why, daddy, you will ple spoke of the beauty of the red rose. This was my first knowledge of colors. hardly know me!" "I tell you what!" he exclaimed. "I saw, a.d yet did not know that I saw. How could I know, at first that Joyous in a boyish Impulse. I'll buy It those new and wonderful sensations right now and then it win inspire meant the birth of a sense of which T you to get well sooner!" knew nothing except In theory? Of I She gaaed into his delighted eyes, course I was expecting to see, but was and her own grew brighter. "Tou do it, daddy!" she cried forgetthis sight this Jumble of extraordinary sensations? ting her cough. "Bring lit home tcA me see it IH feast my eyes cn it "The daz ling light first convinced Lady who does your little brothtr most resemble? me, for I hbd always boon able to disevery day and It will encourage me!" And through all the shops that fay Chlmmle It's hard to say, ma'am. tinguish between night and day. But went an enthusiastic man, who wished He cusses like pa an' he's lazy as ma, I could not recognize objects with my new found sense until I had translat-- i to buy a pink silk gown for a and steals like Uncle Jim! It must old girt, small tar her age. Into its speech the language of the other senses. Two Famous Playfellows. Lave lots of lace on it and satin ribbon. And be must not forget the pink slip"The one lesson cf the blanket was When Ge era! Sherman was a small ross was sufficient to teach me the color red. pers and stockings, a fan and a boy one of his intimate playfellows thes$ for her hair; and he gabbled James O. Blaine, says the Lippincott's Yellow was a different matter. The things over and over that he might Magazine, The two boys, together with nurse brought me a cool drink. I could cot forget them. And the store people Hoyt a younger brother of the general recognize her by sight norw. The thing became Infected with his enthusiasm were out driving one day, when, at I saw In ber hands I knew to be a tray and, at last Just such a gown was they passed a Tag waving In the after I bad lelt of It. Suddenly I felt a Blaine placed a thrill of disgust found, and the sympathetic saleswoman breeze, "Jimmle" -of with his nose and the slippers thumb on the tip matched It carefully What Is that thing on the tray? 1 toa selected dainty made a very disrespectful gesture and stockings and asked. lt makes me sick.' " "It Is a lemon you said you likod lace fan, tying thereon pink eatin rib- - ward the banner. "Did you mean to do that at the lemonade. wx " Then It Is yellow. It Is the coror I And that night Mary's flag?" demanded "Cum pie', Sherman, dress a gala place, Indeed. She had the his loyalty outraged. that nauseates me." "Yes, I did," declared Jimmle, "Any object close to me looked trespread out upon her bed, where she carefulcould look at it and examine It stoutty. mendously large. I had ofter rompel she 111 pot w ith children, yet when I first set eyes "Well, if you do It again. ly. The slippers and stockings she on a baby It looked gigantic at either hand and the tiny fan you out" furled scd unfurled, and coquetted over The first day I at by the window I Nothing more was said and the drive rose she On the wxf put my hands out to feel the pavement put proceeded cajoyably. It with her father. The and wilted soon home the flag was passed again and in her hair, but It "That must be the pavement, I and bts In the nick of time was said. I'm going to feel of it to mak and again Jimmle Blaine put was so nose and sure.' thumb to the Up of his put Into water. And the evening forth. the gayest known for along time. 'My goodness! laughed the nurse. was week this over took a the The pavement Is two stories below.' Cumple reined In the horse, Every night for firmand daughter struggling Jimmle and gently but The first meal I ate was an odd ex'repeated, and the father bethe Into both cheated themselves ly lifted him out of the wagon. Then, perience. V hen 1 saw that gTeat hanl -ay had Improvad la spite of Hoyt'i remonstrance that with a huge fork approaching lief that the stimulus was a reaction inevitable to lo dodge her hf&Jth. But the that was not the proper way tret mouth, the Inclination Youth's Comset In. and one evening Mary burst into guest he drove off, leaving Jimmle to almoFt Irresistible." when as he sobs as test mlVes and home in try tramp the ten pettilatt tear panion. patient Rfbecea, the maid, would bare might Ask a Postman. unfurled the dress upon the bed la Blushed. This Congressman front of her. Young Rharpskloa What are dead she Iowa said, of Beck." yea letters, dad?" "Tou know well. Representative Hedge Old Sharpens A NIMAT and E angrily between her sob, "that I can terday seat'd himself In one of the to entrance to do an agIt at and are, the dead lottT, my boy. you Just Bf ver wear it, doorkeeper's chairs 111 are me. torment visitors Well, always the houae, where Young Sharpshlns Why do they gravate and for much a to call them longer!" oonrfng with Inquiries rombrs. tct be trouble you Old Pharpskins Because they are "Wl",l you fake a card In for me?" Her father was In great distress on and her his a In asked all Inanimate. (A,ad a soft chuckle tlro'l Inquirer. to find fom'riK daughter to answer 1 10 refused cents tears. rfh "Cards showed the old man's appreciation of In each," ec' Mary tnirse and to sat the of their Mr. caure but, Hedge, quite abashed, having got hr,mc.) Ally Sloper. tell the juami the ail cf Hr around, the evening. everybody silent and fcu!ky, amaznipnt t insurance societies have British voire had become a whistling wfclsprr timid Inqnirr bogan tr dig In Us jcats, and were which a dime swollen established he the fact that total and and placed clearly producing her hands ever. live hand. abstainers lowan's than In the longer than "moderate cold, but her eye brighter more a a lower Insnr-sn- e was of Mr, drinkers" had and deserve than Joke rlre gx.e That her Nxt morning rate. Rome companies provide Iledg cow Id stand. Giving back the tomptetely and her breathing was a h in camt crcfcslon. fed he special whn department for teetotalers. doctor The coin, fAlflcVd. away hurried snd very grave The southern states are producing The pay roll of th navy Is $20,000, to sk a colleague to attend to his half COO the lumber cut In America. fhe to a year. He 'phoned pa Sat for the day. Bide-"wi- THE THERMOMETER. SENSE. se d . . 17-ye- bed-roo- d ddF ft m-w- y4 t Scales of Measurement Were Adopted. b Why should the freezing point boiling and tha 32 marked degrees point 212 degrees on the Fahrenheit thermometer scale? Most students know that its inventor divided the despace between these points into 180 180 grees instead of the simpler intno de- -. 100 the of simpler degrees instead grees used in the Centigrade Bystem, but few understand how this number came to be chosen. A writer thus explains the matter: The thermometer was really invent ed by Sir Isaac Newton. He started is scale with the heat of the human iody, and used as his instruments a glass tube filled with linseed oil. Tha lowest figure on the scale was the freezing point and the highest point boiling water. The starting point of this scale ,as mentioned, was the heat of the human body, which he called by body round nlmber 12, as the duodecimal system was then in common use. He divided the space between the freezing point and the temperature of tha body into 12 points, and stated that the boiling point of water would be about 20, as the temperature must be nearly three times that of the human body. When Fahrenheit took up the subject a few years later, he used the Newton Instrument, but finding the scale tot fine enough, divided each degree Into two parts, and co made the measure between the freezing and boiling 24 points points Instead of 12. Fahrenheit then discovered that he could obtain a lower degree of cold than freezing, and taking a mixture of ice annd 6alt for a starting point, he counted 24 points up to body heat. By this measurment he obtained 8 for the freezing point and 53 for the boiling point. His scale now read: Zero; freezing, 8; body heat, 24, and boiling water, 53. It will be notlceJ that this scale is Identically that of Newton's, only starting lower and having the numbers doubled. It was this scale that Fahrenheit worked for a long time, but finally, finding the temperature division still too large, he divided each degree Into four parts. Multiplying the numbers Just given by four the thermometer scale now In use results. The chance choice of Newton of the figure 12 to represent the body heat determined the present thermometer scale, even as the yard, foot and inch measures originally came from measures of parts of the human omly. nnd as the width of a railroad carriage W2s determined by the track, which in turn was determined by the width between the cart wheels necessary a load which could comfortably Le drawn by a mule. American Inventor. Why Two t q era . o y IN THE HALLWAY. First hall Boy Do you think Pro- fessor Blatz Is an M., D.? Second Hall Boy No; every package that comes for him Is market "Professor BJatz C. O. D." FACTS ABOUT JAPAN AND RUSSIA Corruption is declared to be unknown In Japanese politics. Among the Japanese one divorce takes place for every four marriages. The proportionate circulation) of newspapers in Japan is about the samo as In this country. A Japanese private soldier is paid 70 cents a month; a major general Is paid $131 a month. In time of peace the Japanese army, consisting of 421,000 men, costs but $18,500,000 a year. Russia has the largest number of soldiers and reserves of any country on earth "except Germany. This is the fourth time Japan his made war on a foreign nation, except for early barbaric expeditions against the Coreans. The word Japan comes from the Portuguese pronunciation of the Japanese characters, meaning the land of the rising sun. A Japanese officer who has not reached the rank of major at the age of 48 is compulsorily retired as unworthy of further service. The emperor of Japan Is the direct descendant of the emperor Jimmu, who ascended the throne 2,664 years ag, making the dynasty ofter than any other dynasty that exists or ever did exist The true name of Corea Is "Choson," meaning "land of the morning calm. It Is by this name that the country is designated in diplomatic papers at uia state department at Washington. Japanese soldiers are fed on rice, salted fish, dried seaweed and pickled plums a diet that Is almost universal tn Japan, except In the navy, wh :ra rations of meat are served. Soldiers are allowed meat when on campaign, but rarely eat it Ni-Ho- n, He Saw the Joke. Here Is a true story relating to a Briton told by one of the desk clcrki at the Walc'orf hotel In New York. "An Englishman, recently a guest here for several days, saluted me pleasantly at the deak the morning after his arrival and asked how I was. I replle an the spur of the moment, that I fell 'out of sight The Englishman, who was a great dude, didn't quite comprehend that lingo, but nevertheless he thought It pretty good whea I explained to him what it meant Well, next morning he stopped at the 4esk again, and saluted affably, and when I asked after his health he replied, a little hesitatingly, evidently recalling my remark of tha previous toornlsg: "'Ah, by Jove, I really feel ai though you cawn't sec me, y'know." to-tea- r WISDOM. BROOM When buying brooms get good firm, ones, but as light in weight as posible. the windows wide before commencing to sweep.Pblladelphla Open all Evening Telegraph. When not in use, keep the brooTi hur.g up. The cellarway, where It and damp, Is a good place. When using a broom your back use your In one direction with long Sweep tho carpet with against it don't sweep-wit- h arms. Sweep light strokes the pile, not To keep on using an old stubby worn out broom Is the poorest kind of economy. Not only does It wear ih9 carpets, but It takes double time anuV strength to do the sweeping. Every broom should bsve an occasional bath In salt water not only the broom-corIn good condito but of the accumulation, dispose ted dust and microbes. to-kee- The Deadliest Poison. Cyanide of potassium arid hydrocyanic or prusale acid are considered ty most people to be about the most poisonous of known substances. This Is an error. They are the most rapidly act Ing of all poisons, but not the mosxt potent. Orw drop of pure prusslc acid plard In the eye of a large dog will kill It within two seconds and such a dose will kin a man. But there Is an alkaloid In aconite root, called psmd.v conltln", one part of a a will of kill moderate which grain size an!mal. This 1s the deadliest pois- n A word must be said against the uncleanly habit of using a broom splint to test a cake when baking. Not only Is there a danger of disease grms, but much of the broom corn Is colored with arsenic. cover to slip over when brushing down the fall or sweeping a dusty piazza will be found a great convenience. Sew up, on known, bring 300 times as toxic as canton flannel, and make a aHd. r.arrow hem, and run a stout tmsslc the bent. When ready to use The valn of the farm animals in slip the bag over the broom, draw up the United 'tates, as shown ty the ag- the tapes and tie securely. A light' Horses, $1.. weight flannel Is easily washed. Keep, ricultural department f.ifrt.OO0.O.V; toulfs, cattle, several unbleached for the walls and. $168,000,000; t,ZW and colored for the porch and, when soil sheep, t.us.ooo.oro. d wash thesa. ho,, A broom the-broo- three-hutxlred-th bag-shape- d, tap-throug- ; )(); m |