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Show POLLY ATK1N3. Mr. Drake was an man and his daughter Polly, was a sew fashioned girl. "I do wish you'd dress more In keeping with your sex, Polly. As a girl with your face and figure you might be the belle of the oounty. Why, then must you needs go and turn yourself into a bad imitation of a boy." "You are too for anything, father," cried Polly, in resentful tones, "The woman of the future will take her place besides man In the reserve forces of the Empire. See If she won't and how proud I shall feel to know that this, my humble effort, has done something towards bringing about the fulfillment of that grand Ideal," she added, with ardent enthusiasm. The Ladies Rifle Corps was Miss Polly Drake's very latest pet hobby, which she had conceived and taken up with even more than her usual ardor. Some thirty girls in the neighborhood had already been Induced by her to enroll themselves as members and they used to meet every week on the rifle range, which the 'Squire had allowed them to lay out on his estate for drilling and target practice. On the whole, they comported themselves in such a manner as made Polly distinctly proud of her corps; and one was now anxious to show them off before some military expert, whose commendation (she was sure) would serve as a useful to her Incredulous father. Hence the Idea of the Bham battle. A day or two afterwards the Squire said to his daughter: "By the way, Polly, I've got a man to come and officiate as umpire of your sham fight" "That's good, dad. Who Is he?" "Our old friend, Major Merllees." Polly's face suddenly clouded. "Oh, well, you needn't feel uncomfortable about meeting him again, Polly. He's forgotten that affair long ago, blees you. Indeed I hear rumors ef his being engaged to another girl." "Is he? I'm glad of that," answered Polly, with ostentatious unconcern "I was afraid I might have wrecked bis life. He said I had." Next evening Major Merllees duly arrived. He waa a tall, handsome man, of about S3, of soldierly bearing and frank .pleasant manners. Finding himself alone with Polly In the drawing room before dinner he at see took the opportunity to set ber at ease. "Let us both entirely forget the occasion of our last meeting," he said. "That Is dead and burled. We now Beet as comrades as fellow workers la the great national project. I can't tell you how pleased I am. Miss Drake, with this scheme that you have takes up. If properly worked your Ladles Rlfie Corps may be the germ of the greatest revolution In matters military that the present age haa aeen." "I am so glad to hear you say that Major Merllees. You, as an expert In such things, speak with the greatest weight My father has done his best us all along. to pooh-pooHut why. Miss Draker "Oh! Because ha is still wedded to the old fossilized Ideas about women. He says that we should be altogether eut of place on the battle field." "I can't for the life of me, see that Catties are won, nowadays by straight shooting, and w?nen can shoot quite as straight es men." Next day Major Merllees and Polly rode over the ground where the sham fight waa to take place. The former's practiced eye Quickly noted the favor able positions for a defending force, and he proceeded to examine them la detail. At length, he made his skeleton. It was a long ridge, flanked oa bee side by a wooded bill, and approached from the frost by a level of gras fields. "Of course," said the Major, "as we are dealing with such small number, both the attack and the defense must be of a skeleton nature. My Idea Is that this ridge should be occupied, la Imagination by a defending force. And you, with say, a third of your company should be posted in that wood there, to cover the right f.ask; but that you should careiully keep your presence secret from the attacking force until the last momer-it- , so that you can them as they advance up the slope. The other twelbird of your company will form the attacking force They will advance against your right In line with an Imaginary brigade extended along the whole length of the position. Of course, they must not be apprised beforehand that you are potted In the wood. Indeed, the sac- out-of-da- eye-open- h He" ex-pa- ns en-Bla- de bullets. Of course, the two things, I are not in the least parallel. shouldn't mind shells and bullets one bit But wasps, that might crawl up your sleeve, or down your neck, or ating you on the nose and make It swell up the size of a potato that's another thing altogether. Isn't' It?" "Quite another thing," admitted Major Merllees. But "Ah! you're a man of sense. father is not like that He would never understand. He would be sure to make no end of stupid jokes about 1' So you'll promise not to tell him, won't you?" "All right I won't give you away, Miss Drake," answered Major Merit Poultry Notes. Canker may come from filthy, water vessels. It Is eas- ler avoided than cured. Ducks and geese should have plenty of bedding. Leaves or clean straw make good material. Hatch fall chicks If you have ample house and shed room to protect them from storms, otherwise don't Dusting dirt should now be barreled for winter use, while easily obtained and dry. Lay in a plentiful supply. Lining nests with green tansey is said to be a good preventive of chicken lice. Change every week or tea days. A good tonic for moulting fowls la make by soaking rusty nails in cider or vinegar and mixing their food with allme-covere- eea. e He' didn't. The Squire himself did that at Drakeworth Church some two months later, when Miss Drake unaware that she had been the victim of an artful little conspiracy between her father and her gallant admirer i enounced the role of Polly Atkins and retired Into domestic existence as Polly Merllees. It , The Suicide Impulse. Psychologists, teach us aipw that crime, like disease, comes in epld9n les, and that waves of deviation from the normal standard are apt to sweep communities at stated times' and Intervals. Some particular form of de pravity of mental aberration becomes rampant, and from Its frequent occurrence attracts widespread attention, only to subside as some other manifestations of "undlvulged crime, unwhlpped of Justice," takjis Its place. Thus tho public mind, particularly that of the professional reformer, Is led to the erroneous conclusion that mankind Is Regenerating and that there Is now little to be saved from what Addison was pleased to term the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. The latest lllustratloa of the contagiousness of a bad example may be found In the number of death by suicide that have been reported la the newspapers from all parts of the country. Now suicide Is not a new development and it has existed from time Immemorial In all countries and At among every condition of men. are monarch three least European helr lives, known to have takon hundred years, one of during the last of Sultan Turkey, Abwhom, the late s dul Asslz, became through the medium of a convenient pair it scissors. Added to these are at least a doxen princes of the blood, the more prominent of whom perhaps was Prince Gaston of Bourbon the son of the late King of Naples, who was married to the Infanta Isabella of Spain, and who cut his throat In the presence of his wife. Other notable are of Instances those of Gen. Sir Hector MacDonald, the late Duke of Bedford, Count the Chamberlain of the Court of Vienna; the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Munster, the Spanish Duke of San Carlos, Grand Chamberlain of King Alfonso: the Marquis Rappolo, stepfather to Queen Marguerite of Italy; rcron Brack, the Austrian Cabinet Minister, and others too numerous to mention. The saddest case of all perhaps was that of gallant old Gen. BourbakL one of the greatest heroes of the Franco-Germa- n war of 1870, who attempted out his brains when the raw to blow and untried conscripts Intrusted to Ms command fled en masse across the 8wlss frontier. Luckily he recovered from the severe wound and lived for many years, as his biographer states, honored both at home and abroad as a particularly gallant and splendid specimen of the eld French soldier. Up to the present time, however, the Inhabitants of the United 8tatt eem to have found their lot a hap pier one than the subjects of the Eu ropean pnrs, though If reports la the newspapers can be trusted, we ee"m now to be running them a very elo second. Thus we have had more than one case of harl karl, with a strict aherne to all the details ef the Orient. Medical New. As-wa- self-destructi- Wol-kenstei- self-inflicte- d d n, Whitewash your coops now, before cold weather comes. Mix plenty of carbolic acid in the whitewash and put It on thick. In shipping young poultry at this time see that they are well watered and fed before cooping, and do not crowd too many into the coops. Buy geese for breeding early In the autumn that they may become acous-tome- d to their new quarters before the breeding season arrives. Now is the time to store a good lot of dry earth. None Is better than drained and dried peat or muck, and none will absorb more gas and liquid. If poultry can be given the run of the orchard from now on, they will be able to destroy largo numbers of In sect pests that prey upon the tree and fruits. Chaff Irom the barn floor or straw Btack Is a good ' material to give the fowl3 to scratch over; it can be thrown on the floor of the poultry house at this season. she comes When a hen is off the nest without laying, and walks about distressed, hanging down her wings. In some cases she remains on the nest A tablespoonful of castor oil may set tho matter right Sharp, fresh coarse sand Is lndisrensible to fowls shut up during tho winter months. The time to lay up a store la now, in barrels under a Bhed to keep dry. Iton't neglect this until frosts set in and you can't or won't bother getting it in thinning out a flock of geese always retain the old birds, as they will often live and breed during the life time of a generation. Geese have been known to hatch and raise their young when 25 years old. The old geese are not salable In market, and as they are better layers and more careful moth ers than the young geese the latter can be marketed with more advantage and profit than by selling off the old blrla. egg-boun- d The Bulldog Broke the Spell. A big black cat strolled into the county jail the other day. The negroes upon the first floor saw her and one of them said: "Gee, I wish co't was In session now." "Why?" asked another. "See that black cat, blank's as ac of spades. That's shore good luck for this nlggah. I wish my trial was to come off tomorrow, I'd ahore com clear." Just then Sylvia, the Jail bulldog, turned a corner of the corridor and spied the cat The dog pounced upor her, caught ber by the back and gav her one upward, shaking tosa. The cat dropped to the floor dead. "Lawdy. Lawdy!" walled the same negro, "Oh, good Lawd. that's bad luck. Um-r- m. but I'm glad my trial's not comln' off this week. I'd shore go to the pen for ten years. 8ome nlggah' got ro suffer fo that black cat" Kansas City Journal. n The Cow Arrested. Policeman Edward Cook, of Pittsburg, arrasted a cow at 4 o'clock thl morning which ba been dstroyin gardens In crlsfocratlc Atlantic avenue, and fcent her to No. 4 pollC3 alatlon, entering a charge of malicious mischief aeainst her. No owner turned up for the animal at tho hearing before Magistrate Kane, and the cow was remanded to the stable. In the meantime volunteers were called upon o milk her, but among the to know how C. M. Shartel, th republican nonv "cops" none appeared to do It Four policemen were, thereffiie for congress In the 15th congressional district of Missouri, was bom in fore, detailed by Sergeant Thompson Crawford county. Pa. His ancestors to do the ork. and after an hour of the wer tnrdy old Pennsylvanlans and bard labor, di'rtr. which three bucket the and mn were kicked were soldiers fn the War of the a the War of 1S12, the Mexican knocked over several times, about TJio secured. Itallon fif milk was War, and the Civil War. few Is still under arrest PhiladelA man cast bis fortune to the phia Ledgsr. winds when he bequeaths It to hi Button books Ooat horns. teirs. Rev-ftlitlo- HAS RARE LUCK IN BOOKS. A Plant With a Servant. hear of a plant Did you ever Collector Finds Missing Volume of a Set Under Queer Circumstances. A University of Pennsylvania professor became sidetracked from a discussion of Hobbe's ethics the other boys day and started to tell the coincidences the about something that had come under his notice. "This morning," said he, "one of my friends who had been rummaging about some old university documents came across a stack of old published Philadelphia newspapers during the '40s and '60s. The papers themselves were very Interesting, but the most striking point was the date of the first paper I picked up. It was dated April 20, 1842 Just years old to the day. "It reminded me somewhat of a friend of mine who was an enthusiastic collector of old books. She has an Immense collection of old volumes and finds great pleasure in picking up rare prints in the course of her travel. Three years ago she purchased a set of old Shakespearean quartos while in Holland. The set lacked one volume, and for this reason was sold at a remarkably low figure. Last February, while my book- - collecting friend was visiting In Ohio, she happened to run across an old six-ty-t- After glancing trough) "bookshop. the musty volumes she found the very quarto, same binding and size, that had been missing from her Holland purchase. She looked at the flyleat and was amazed to find on It the same signature that was inscribed in the sister volumes of the collection. Of course, she bought the book immediately. Philadelphia Telegraph. Emotional Hair. Once in a while we hear of persons whose hair has "turned white in a night," and wo have wondered why It was. This and other phenomena may be accounted for by the fact that hair Is "emotional. Not only is "emotional" hair well known to medical specialists, but every hairdresser of experience recognizes it frequently in connection with his own customers. With some peculiarity constituted people the hair Is affected by every passing emotion and not only does H reach the extreme crlsplness or limp ness within a very few hour, but It varies in color vastly. This latter peculiarity Is o well recognized by every hairdresser that some members of that calling are prepared to say definitely of a given regular customer: 'Blank la not well, or he has some great trouble on his mind Just now." Many a man who appear exceedingly gray on one day Is comparatively dark haired the next, and cases are known where the single white locks of hair that sometimes are found on a head otherwise wholly en black have ulsappeared almost I That come again. tirely and then black has gone tuft white to say, the like the surrounding hair, and ha then become white again, and o on. We all know what use Shakespeare end other dramatists and poets have upon ma, the influence of emotion AAJUaw cel most the of one but human hair, saia world In the detectives ebrated In regard to this very subject: "When I have put my hand sudden man I was ly on the shoulder of some th arresting I have actually heard 1 that rustle of his hair, or thought 1 have seen all the hair at least about the car palpably move like that of an animal, and when that man na hair, been sentenced afterward hi that ha.A before seemed to be crisp and bristly, ha appeared dank and thin." Philadelphia North American. keep- ing a servant to do work for It? asks George F. Atkinson in the St. Nlchol as. Well, the Indian pipe keeps one. Some time when you are in the woods where this plant is growing, dig one up, and you will see that Us roots are short, thick and all In a bunch. Now the servant lives In these roots, and it Is a plant too. But It is a very minute plant called a fungus, and this fungus is so small that we can not see it without the aid of a microscope. This fungus servant is like tiny threads, and it grows into the roots of the Indian pipe. At first one might think that th Indian pipe nad no leaves, but by by looking closely we see that It has small pointed scales, white or pink in color, attached where we might expect the leaves. In fact, these are the leaves, though they look so different from the green leaves which we are accustomed to see on most trees and flowers. Some one may ask what these funny leaves on the Indian pipe are for. Well, we do not know that they are for any use to the plant, at least wa do not know that the leaves of the Indian pipe can not do the work for it which the green leaves of the trees and flowers do for them. Plants with green leaves can mak their own starch food. With the help of sunlight they make starch from one of the gases In the air, which becomes mixed with the water In th leaves. The Indian pipe plant needs starch food. Just as all plants do; but since it has no leaf green, it can not mak its own starch. The fungus servant In Its roots can get the starch food leave very easily from the decaying In the ground. Pome of this It tura over to the Indian pipe, and perhap takes' some other food In return from Its master. can tak Very few green plants withroots starch food through their hav also out help. Many of them these fungus servants in their roots, the same as this Indian pipe, so that they get their starch food In two way This Is so with a large number of the orchids, with the oaks and other trees at times. These plants have not lost their green color. , ie Others, for example, pine-sapcoral-roo- t hav s orchid, and lost their leaf green, and at the same time have fungus servants In their roots, or can take the starch food through tbelr roots without any help. pine-drop- Teeth as Age Ouldea. A writer on the horse asserts that the lower front teeth. If healthy aad natural, are practically an accurate guide. yesrllng has very short teeth, with deep cups In center, the two end ones being shorter than the other. A has short teeth, with shallow comparatively trips. has two long teeth In the center, with two short or "colt" teeth on either side. A has four long teeth with one short one on either side. A has six long teeth, with deep cups in the centers A has shallow cups In th A two-year-ol- d four-year-ol- d center teeth. has the center teeth worn nearly smooth, th cups of tec ond pair .hallow. has th seeend pair An 8 year-oltwo A d worn nearly smooth. Is commonly spoken A lOyear-old of as a "smooth-mouthedhorse; that Is, no cups. A the animal grows older the teeth become worn In proportion. The corner of the end teeth become rounded. ! Tall To fpll Dry. .... the rr wffti - v..nlnn r hit0 deero of. ), tha I . v..-iA 14 tnOTS tin knew man . . tntirh . Ti,,nn nnntrsi , mm ..... rcnrl u u i A UUBIUVS9 m " " " j j did j perlenee and the examination of many he than about driving bargain t khnnt drlvlna- - horse took hi wife sets of teeth. for an outing, but before he started "Is thl The Wool of th World. Inquired of the liveryman. anwool production for "Perfectly," safe?" world The horse perfectly at "unless you Of C67.CS 1903 2. 6, OOO pounds. was swered the liveryman, tall." his under to America North supplied get this smonnt low the rein The business man hesitated to start, 204.450.000 pc'"'9 Central and South but was encouraged to proceed by the America 510,000,000 pounds, Europe, assurance, "If you Just kefp th rein 939.7Cl.O0rt, Asia 274,000,000 pound. away from his tall he will be all right' Africa 13 4.425.000 pounds and AustraWhen he returned in the evening the lasia and Oceanlca 50,000,000 pound liveryman Paid, "Well, I see you have had no trouble." "Oh, no," said the A sclen'lfic authority says the popman of business. "Wo bad only one ular impression that the stings cf the shower while we were out, and my tarantula and the American rntk wife held the umbrella over bis tail perle are roisnou9 Is erroneous, but while that lasted." the wound Inflicted by a tarantula li no worse than a wasp sting. The bishop of London has received As an original stockholder In th s subscription of $25 from an undertaker who described the erift as Pennsylvania railroad , Colonel Wil thank offering "because trade h&J I Ham Davis, of Huntington. N. Y, use been so brisk of late," a pass issued, without limit. In UZ " - I n. ' -- ' . -- - |