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Show A PAIROF EARS. We axe wandering from the Permit me to return to it. Wiat wan the message sent by one boarding school friend to the other t It mu t be known. The examination would not fail to reveal it." ' The examination did reveal It, since the message was opened and read. The young beauty in Paris wrote to her schoolmate In Sceaux: 'I have Just consulted Dr. Z whom all the young women in Paris are questioning about their complexions. I generously send you his prescription: If you want to iave a fresh complexion throughout the year bathe your face dally, during the month of May, every morning, wita dandelion Juice, Alice Z' " "What! Has dandelion Juice been the cause of a Jealous husband's cutting off an innocent man's, ears and making the Palais de Justice echo with the absurd lawsuit?"' "As you see, monsieur." From the French, in Green Bag. juestion. The. Incident occurred in the clerk's office of the Talaia de Justice, where all eorta of things are deposited, (stolen HOW HAY SHRINKS CARIBOU SLAUGHTER. drama. the Work Goea In Newfoundland SteactMy. On For years we have heard of the articles, corpus deliclt, and object movements of the Newfoundland caribou as parallelling over a small tending to prove .criminality. Last area the enormous migrations of the April a young lawyer, with lorgnon raised to hi3 eyes, was amusing himbarren ground deer. So numerous were they, so well established the self by examining this Judicial time of their Journeys and so well He went from brasa watches to known their routes, that it has been revolvers, sjilvor snuff boxes to burgthe custom of those desiring to kill lars' plunging, like the youth ot them to camp oa the roads which they the old tala, Into a guar of philosophihave always followed anl to slaughter cal reflections. the animals a they walked or swam ' ' Suddenly he noticed In a sort of velrifle shot Much of this huntwithin vet case, two singular objects, round, so ing called, was anything but huntflat, very peculiar in form and brown could take place only during and ing In color. They looked like India ruba such migratory movement It reber or parchment. more the battles held on cersembles '"What are those?" he asked, turnestates on the continent of Eutain ing to a young clerk who was acting as where hundreds of beaters, passrope, EuidHw the forests and the fields, ing through "'Why! Don't you see that they are drove out the birds and animals abidears?" there and herded them by-- some ing The Suicide This soolclde's called "Pars cf what?" . stand, where Emperor or Prince, or DOWN ON THE OYSTER FARM. off. I'm skeered I'll git my new clothe "liars cf a man." Duke fired gun after gun at the game -. all wet. -'Cut off?" as it moved along. The slaughter of Beds of Virginian Waters Give Work "Ccrtpinly, cut off." hundreds or of thousands of head of to 15,0 0. BLIND MAIL CARRIER. DEAD. "With what? A saber? A knife? A game In such a case depends merely In Eastern Vlrgina there are several razor? thousand acres of oyster farms.where Though Sightless, Arnold Scott Wat on the endurance of the men who hold "A Catalouian poinard." the gun to the shoulder and pull the oysters are raised by artificial methods a Postman for Twenty-eigh- t Years. Then, drawing a steel blade from a on artificial beds. . trigger. Arnold Scott, who was totally blind leather Eheath, he added: The Inhabitants of many parts of where but nevertheless earaed his living for "litre Is the instrument by whicli theThe "natural" oyster bed Is naturcoast are deof Newfoundland the many years at Bernardston, Mass., by ooyster breeds and matures the af iresaid ears were amputated." severesurfer often and poor plorably the mail, died this week aged .The words evidently referred to uorcd ally. There are thousands of acres carrying for food. Fish constitutes tkelr ly 78. He had been blind since he reachdrama. Curious, like men of his age, of such beds in the Cbeasapeake bay flesh chief all and the fqpd supply, ed the ase of 21, his sight having been the young lawyer stopped and ques- tystem of salt water. In such ceo food obtain furnished the is they by the oysters breed by the millions, anl destroyed bv the explosion of a cantioned his guide: reasonaIs caribou seals. but It and non on the Fourth of July. as they are too close together there "A tragical , adventure! Oh, my ble that people so poor be allowed . For several cannot a all reach years after this accident they satisfactory flear sir, pray tell me about It!" a certain latitude In the killing of the he did not think It possible for him growth. deer which annually visits them, but "Very well! It isn't a long story." work, but finally he bejan such If taken when small from these "nat- to do 'So much the worse!" killing, of course, should be regto saw wood for a living. About "Don't Interrupt me. About three ural" beds and strewn along on the bot- twenty-eigh- t ulated by laws properly enforced, years ago he started car- which should months ago. Just at the close of winter toms where there are no oysters naturlimit the destruction to the mall for one or two families less somewhat than the annual Int strange affaJr occurred In an elegant ally, at the rate of 600 to 1,000 bushels rying and presently was making two trips such mature acre, per crease young oysters Tflla near Sceaux. occupied by Comte of the herd.. In the case rea day the length of South street, to one In some md for the market, de S. with his wife, and extremely ripen the postoffice and back, one In the ported, the animals do not appear to In and rest two tho have been killed for food but merely years. pretty woman, with whom he wa3 forenopn and one in the afternoon. for 13 the joleasure of .butchering. The a profit in such work when In love. There You have divined He had 'a whistle that he blew as was in defiance of law, 2 destruction that he was an Othello under tho mask intelligently managed, of 25 to 44 he came to the houses, and if there carcasses were left to rot and the cf a, man of fashion?" per cent Probably more than. 100,000 were any letters for him to mail they fell. where acres of "artificial" oyster beds are would be brought out. Ife would re they No, I knew nothing about him. In Newfoundland, as elsewhere, the A Bengal tiger could be no worse. made to grow an oyster crop 1n additurn In the same wav, blowing the winter has been a hard one. Near One evening." late 1a January, he re- tion to the acreage embraced In the whistle at the houses where he was the south coast ' the caribou, driven ' turn od from Paris by the Tallway, his natural" beds. Tbe area of "artltl-rial- " to leave ma!l. beds Is Increasing rapidly '' each ' When 'the mall was given him &t from the woods by stress of weather feet half benumbed by the cold and ' ' bis eyes smarting from the glare of vcar. the, postofflee he would put It Into his have come out In thousands. They In the open like cattle In a pas the snow, and dashed Into the villa One singular feature about the oyster pockets, of which he. had more than feed ture and may be killed by hundred! without ringing or knocking, like a is this: They all look exactly alike, the average man, and Into two bag or thousands. The reported destruo ' over Is shoulders. siting to his wife's there being no difference between the hurricane, gding straight Occasionally g t!on, if half true, shows to what t these letters, he would room. Do you know what he saw male and the female externally or In- In dlstribut'-ibecome con'used, and then some one pitch of savagery men may be rousetf there?" ternally; In fact, the art of man Is not on the roa- looked at what he had by the sight of game. Yet these New "Aha! Here's the key of the drama. sufficient to distinguish one sex from fcundla-aders-, In this respect, are nc and straightened him out. What did be see?" '.he other. worse other than people who hava When a youth. Mr. Scott was fond g "A very young man , Another unique feature Is this: The and traineducation had much better fishing and hunting, and eon after who seemed to be pressing the Coun- male In buffalo oyeter "lays" as many eggs as the years ago, days his sight he would follow the ing. Thirty tess hand." ; female "equal rights," we perceive. trout brooks about Bernardston with one might sometimes see an exhibi"The deuce!" The eggs of the male are call el success. He also cultivated a small tion of similar savagery on the part "Net doubting that It was some ad "spawn." of well dressed men and women, who patch of land. mirer, he rushed to the weapons deo-An ordinary full grown Oyster Is supfrom the car window would shoot fourHe frequently boasted that for orating the wall, snacthed th's dagger, posed to lay a million eggs a year. In teen years he had done most of his with pistols at a herd of buffalo lumand. In Ices time than requires to tell pawning season the water Is full ot own bering along 'ide of the moving train. cooking, cared for himself, shavIt. cut off the stranger's ears." The Newt undland Incident has these eggs, and when the "mLt" aa-- l ed himself end cut his own hair. The "noth of them?" the "spawn" come In contact, and the Introduction of the rural delivery leen brought to the notice of Sir CavThese are the articles you see so water is at the right temperature, Ufa shortened the old man's route consid- endish Boyle, the Governor of the carefully preserved In that case. Jus- is Imparted to the microscopic egg anl erably, arid since Christmas he bad Province, himself a keen sportsman, tice keeps them as evidence of eriml-Dallr- It drops to the bottom, where. If It suc- been unatle to do any work. New and to the notice of the Government, cow In session. Stringent measures ceeds In grasping hold of something, York Sun. should be taken to prevent a recur"But the young wife?" uch as another oyster or shell or rock, . exclaim-tdrence of the wholesale slaughter of "Walt! The fair Countess The Regular Order. or anything to bang onto the Gny crea"My dear, you are mistaken! My ture begins to form Its shell and. Scrator BrrT. of Arkansas, seldom caribou, not alone on the ground that and wasteful, but for th lar. monsieur Is a stranger! My dear, In a few weeks becomes visible to the spins a yarn, but when he does It Is a It Is cruel of the province and Its people grod you hive cut off one ear; spare the eye. Naw York News. prx-rnft. One diy this week he enterIt has receciy become more or lest ether. I beseech you!' But you know tained a few cf his friends by relatln? th fathlon for Americana to go to tlecr are always still mora Infuriated The Guide's Logic. the tribulation of the Bender family, to take salnron and Newfoundland Besides. the by the sight of blond. Elijah Is a guide In the Sierras, and who lived In one of the chills and fever and each one who goes till caribou, more Ms young wife tried to soothe very capable In bis calling, but not dlstrSct3. Info there the country a cerbrings : one of the folding minds cf his section him lh more he ImaglJed that she wa wipe-- out the re"Death had ab-amount of tain money and trade. In vacation time lait tire family," said the Senator, 'fiva In league with the visitor. He did not of territory. Much of this money It distributed summer the head of the Stanford Unitop till both ears were hacked off." hi 1 ti rest among poor people, beys and Eirl? having where It Is of "WVI. what was the fellow Coin? versity Geological Department In the country church yard. Howtv-ruse th If caribou great disappear Elijah's aervlcoa. there?" the rate kept un tn about lh? a good share of the foreign sportsmen to San Francisco the According "Ill tell you. Did yti ever read same ratio the deaths, so thit lr will ceae to visit Newfoundland, to amls-tant- a fairl y was far from c!XTe?s. fory by Ualzac called "Message? A Wave, the pedagogue and his the very aerloes loss of many people aeemed (rood men, fcul daft. Out tonne man Is accused by a friend ol "One Czy thre wa another d5'h H whom they now employ. Forest and an old Indian' burying ground was carrying a Inter to a young marrfoi day th family, ar.d when the unl-- ik ?. Stream. Professor called re woman. Except for the existence of a located, and in diggin, th , who th some arrow choice came upon head. rr.rt him at the rf secret love the situation was Identical. Dees Used In War. !yr: bis rulde'a geologiThe franker who called nt the vEIa Thinking to U yrv.-'Whr fi'hff?' are There at last two recorded arar Seaux was bringing a message, a cal and ethnological knowledge, he d i y u want to s?- turn "WJv.t In which bees have used letter from a boarding school friend, laid: as nr. war. askH the In of defense When meapons "Elijah, do you know bow these arwhich by crince he handed to her Just "'t we r. t 1 ak him when th f :f.rr-a-l the Roman General LucelJus was warcame here?" rowheads at the mow-i- t Otblio appeared on tha win ta1 fa'"""' ring against Milhiidates, be sent a "Growed thar." replied Elijah, very fcene. You knrw the resL" force against the city of Themiscyra, "Ynu t see him about positively. "A minister!" "Nonesnse! If yoni were to take an ran tr II yr. p,ip always Lur'.-- vn fit As they bereiged the walls, the InYca. but the young man, as yoi irrow-beahabitants threw down on them myafternoon so thit 'i and put It oa your table and 3 o'clock in th riads of swarms of bees. These at may suppose, will not let matters rest and Vave it there for a ran In to feoJ hrn pit time tin year's time there. As Comte de 8. can not give do you think It would encp began an attack, which resulted stotk.'" grow?" In the raising of the selge. These back his ears, he Intend to make him TaJn't no noneee-oseauther!" reAbout a doughty little In sects were also once pay damages. Complaint has beea torted Elijah. "If you was to taka Morse. three-leereused with equal success la Englanl. A brought with a demand for valuation potato and pjt It on your table, and horse Is at prent Chester was beselged by the Danes ro ferve as a basla for estimating tk leave It thar a years, da you think the subject cf an action at law at Liv. end Norwegians, but Its Saxon de lamsees which win not be less than It would grow," erpoul. The animal waa foaled wish ff nders thre f down on them the Lee only thre limhs. but he has bred fo ir- M.00 franca." hives of the town and the selge was leira-ewinners of races. It has be?a "What are yon ayln? A hundrM Mrs. Skemer WEiiet teacher says soon raised. thousand frs noa apiece. Come, that's Willie never gets his arithmetic sums lifted with a crufeb, and It wai men . . . right at all. Mr. Skemer Mebbe It'll tioned la court that one of the par- When a run Inslstj that he bun cm "Would yon give youra for that be all for the beat. Ha may tarn out ties bad Intended to exhibit the horse you before, don't give him neediest la the Isle of Maa as a genuine Manx to be an expert aaerVchaage artUt fifn?" pain by contradicting him unless yw Vjrse Chicago Tribune. No. of course, not; but that ian't the Philadelphia Free. think It la going to coat you money. bric-a-bra- c. toc-ls- . iff a-a- des-rerate- ly 1-- - . . - ' good-lookin- J v d ut b-v- n . tow-head- a.-K- tst r ba - 1 re-:r- ,-t s d , d d t.. IN STORING. It Varica from Five Per Cent All the Way to Thirty. According to a bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, the variations in weight of hay are more marked than in almost any other farm product. A considerable difference In shrinkage occurs between hay cured in dry weather and hay cured when the atmosphere Is more or less moist. For this reason the shrinkage of smallhay in a dry climate is usually humid more regions. er than In the At the Kansas station small quantities of thirteen different kinds of bay burled In the snow from four to six months shrunk 4.5 per cent oa an average, ranging from 14 per cent loss to 3 per cent gain. Five tons of very dry timothy hay stored In a mow for six months at the 7 per Michigan station lost nearly 5,600 test pounds another In cent, and of the same kind of hay in a good condition placed in the mow July 8, lest 776 pounds, or 13.8 per cent, by February 18 following. Practical men estimate that hay usput in the mow in good condition ually shrinks about 20 per cent by the time it is baled. The Utah station has reported a loss of a little over 15 afper cent in a ton of timothy hay ter It had been kept in the barn nine months. A stack of timothy contain, lng a little over two tons and built In the open had gained a little over 1 per cent during the same time. The result with clover hay at the same station showed a loss of 3.75 per cent during nine months when kept In the barn, and a gain of 10 per cent for the same period when, stacked out of doors. At the Missouri station timothy hay in the stack lost 12.5 per cent by spring, and when stored In the mow about 7 per cent. A stack of second growth clover put up at this same station In July had shrunk about 30 per cent In weight by the following March The results of experiments conducted by different stations show that the degree of maturity at which the hay Is cut Influences very largely the shripkage during curing. At the Pennsylvania 6tatlon early cut hay 29 per cent In lost on an average late-cu- t while hay lost only weight, 21 5 per cent Timothy cut when Just beginning to head lost 75 per cent of water fa curing; when cut at the beginning cf the blossoming period, C6 per cent; and cut a little later, or about th osual time. 57 per cent a The Michigan station found shrinkage of about 60 per cent la curing clover. At the New Tork State station meadow fescue mixed with a little red clover lost In one lot 62.C8 per cent and In another 58.25 per cent during curing. The moisture retained la cured fodder varies In different klads. Atwater stafs that for New England timothy hay retains on an average 12 per cent and corn fodder 25 per cent. ft Meaning of Civilization. Civilization is unselfishness In ao tlon. Society Is the product of Individual sacrifice and mutual helpfulness. It advances to the better fulfillment of Its end the happiness of all, by the multiplication of sacrifices In the Interest of the common good. Every member of a community Is Interested In every other member. Tho poorest family, the most abandoned criminal, affects the whole body social which would be better off without either. No better test of practical, enlightened citltenship than Its capacity to grasp the solidarity of society. America has more accurately seized on the relations of society to Its mem bers to the whole and to each other than any other country. We have much to do In this regard but our common school system and our legislation for the defective, dependent, and delinquent ciaases prove a clear conception of duty, which, as time passes, must be more and more fulfilled. The class distinction of other countries stand la the way of the community of feelin? necessary lo protect and promote social mell being as a whole. The civilization of a lan,i with a recognized privileged aristocracy Is selfishness Incorporated and legalized. Louisville Herald. yt ade-quate- ly Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, it the only man In all the history of the Senate whose service has tnclndedl three distinct term separated by periods of political retlremenL It Is all right to be kind to dumb beasts, but yon have to draw the Ua on some men. |