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Show raw SilUa o iurfTT", ' ff i7raatfSasoirrr?sa i I In the extreme northwest of Thibet, a at a height of mountainous regi above the sea. It feet 15,000 nearly , a navigable, river and soon becomes QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS a considerable tpfflc is conducted upon AND EVENTS. reaches the it, where its bed almost is nearly due east v - clouds, t Its direction Empire FaraUel for some 800 miles. It receives nuLares da la Chines from bo Si' tributaries merous large Tbose of Europe and America, I when sad, Lhasa near' south north and of Wonder a third of a water is It at nearly low the Taaaspo River la Thibet. mile wide and of unknown 'depth. In' longitude 94 .degrees. east it. makes a Man. The Health-Foo- d sharp bend to the .south and passes His eyes are balls of polished steel; through the HiBayas In a coarse His lungs are sponges dried; known only to the savages who dwell ts 11U blood is Upon its precipitous banks. .When last In veins of leather hide. seen by an explorer the Tsangpo la at a height of from 8,000 to 11,000 feet, His muscles creak like pulley ropes but when it emerges in Assam it is When hurried into play; only 400 feet, above sea level. From this point it pursues its sluggish way, Kis hair is like piano chords for another 800 miles as the Brahma--putr- a Some chords are lost, they say. to the Ganges and the bay of. His hearts a little globe of punk- -. Bengal. There has been. a long con- -, A house of constant gloom. troversy, into the details of which It is not necessary to eater, as to wheth-- 1 For love can never burn within. er the Irawada or the Brahmaputra is Because there isnt room. the continuation of the ; Tsangpo. His appetite has dwindled down Though there has been as yet no direct ' evidence the laBt expedient of throwTo fit his little food, Till fruit is "water in a poke ing in marked logs in Thibet having failed the generalconsensus of scienAnd bread is "so much wood. tific opinion is in favor of the Brahm Hot apple tarts and pumpkin pies aputra and- the latest English gazet- teer describes.lt under this name. It He reads of them aghast; stew chicken and is hardly to be expected that pure sciAnd waffles brown ence will be much benefited by the liftAre terrors of the past. ing of the veil which hangs over this he vest hla slips part. of the river's course. But there And, smiling, from can be little doubt that it hides scenes A' tiny box of tin. With capsules brawn and pellets pink of magnificent beauty and grandeur which thrill the .expectant world and All rattling within. give it new and tfobler conceptions. Then, with a gulp,' he swallows down The imagination fails to grasp the reHis dinner from the can ality, as there is no other instance on health-food school. earth of a large river dropping 8,000 This product of the in 150 miles, plunging with the feet Man! The Concentrated mad of a mountain brook hemmed to rush Eat in What Coll, Aloysius by ranges whose peaks are from 13,-0to 22,000 feet in height. The naFolk-TulChina tive testimony is conclusive as to the most difficult questions One of the of at least one existence and ethnologists have that Thibetan territory is left. fall before to deal with is the existence of parallel ascent from the plains of Its attempted . in tale any Almost any legends. been Assam has absolutely prohibited country can be matched by a similar hitherto by the Indian government on of the tale told In some distant part reasonable the ground that entirely world. There is not a mythology or a a is almost there that the; certainty that can claim cluster of be killed by the savage would explorer look for we might originality. If Mishmls, who are Intolerably jealous tc such originality at all we should of the presence of a stranger in their in it in the land of the Mongols, This would necessitate a puthe vast Celestial empire which for country. in treasure' nitive costly expedition untens of centuries was apparently com-- ! evil an no means and life in by which and touched by western culture, mensurate the of gain having sathas a language utterly unlike any isfied what witl) after all, is, pure curiosity. with which Europeans are familiar. The Thibetan officials while prealso, Bhould 'race of similar That peoples so far as they are able any; possess similar traditions .is not sur- venting man from entering Thibet, for' white so be should prising, but that this reason forbid Thibet- some unknown with peoples of quite dissimilar race ans even to attempt to descend the rivI ointa to some link of kinship which er own frontier. The their beyond There fathomed. is, we have not yet has been explored, however,' for instance, the Rip Van Winkle le- Tsangpo with the exception of this 150 miles,, Irving gend, of which Washington opposition of the notwithstanding American The so much. writer, Thibetans and thethe made difficulties presented of course, borrowed the idea from mountain in the the regioft by highest from the classic and Christian myth men. not white by world, though tale of Eplmenides and of the Seven tell Sleepers of Ephesus. The Chinese Missionaries Flash Preferred. us how Wang Chi, a father of Taou-!lswas one day gathering firewood. Speaking of the recent killing and Coming to a cave, he found some old eating of two missionaries by cannimen therein playing chess, that game bals of Fly river, Guinea, the Portland The savages do cf immemorial antiquity. While he Oregonian says: stood and .watched the game one of not eat missionaries because they have the players gave him something to any religious hostility for them as put ln his mouth. After he had preachers of a new faith; they only of watched for some time, one of the eat them because, as old men remarked to him, You have rum and tobacco Aheir flesh is far been here a long while; you should more palatable than that of any. other He went out of the type of white man. In the Judgm:nt go home now. cave, but on picking up his ax he of a cannibal, the meat of a missionfound the handle had crumbled to ary is better eating than anything dust. Returning to his home, he found else except the flesh of a young child, of tobacco and it a place of strangers; he had been another while These cannibals not chess of ardent that game spirits. watching centuries had passed by. We might seldom spare the lives of American fancy this to be a sarcastic thrust at and European sailors for the simple the slowness with which chess is some- reason that their fles'h is so Impregtimes played, but Chinese are not nated with the flavor of alcohol and of tobacco as to be as unpalatable as wq generally given to that sort. There is another tale, which find that of crows, gulls, buzzards and we suppose peculiar to Wales, but other carrion consuming birds. w4ich is really almost universal that of the dog Gellert. In different verWhy The Bon Lav Him. sions of the story, the faithful creaman who used old An ture is not always a dog; it is a falcon, to work onnewspaper that sent Sir the paper In the or a weasel, or a pole-ca- t. to find LivingMorton Stanley Henry Chinese tale it is a pet ichneumon stone, of the explorers this tells story who watches a woman's child while return: A messenger came Into the she goes tP fetch water. A snake comes office with a note from Stanley, saying, stealing in and would bite the child, I am registered at the Astor house, but the brave ichneumon attacks and and . may be seen there by represenkills it. Having done so, it goes forth tatives of the Blank. Two of us were proudly to meet the mother, but im- sent across the Street to Interview the mediately on seeing it stained with great man. In the course of conver-- ; blood she concludes that it has killed himself to a cigar her child, and in her rage she slays sation ahe helped on table; lighted one, the of box out it. The child is found alive and well. and began to smoke. It didnt occur-tIn almost every collection of him to invite us to Join him. By we read of a mermaid or river and by he aaid, Gentlemen, excuse me becomes who spirit or the wife of a human being, but at last a moment, and pressed a button on deserts him. One specimen is the the wall. To the boy responding, he familiar story of Meluslna; another said, Fetch me a Manhattan cocktail, version has been told for us by Sir and when the mixtureso arrived drank much as sayLewis Morris In his poem, The Phys- it before tfe without j New York Press. The Chinese tale ing How. icians of Myddfal. resembles those of Europe in a very marked degree. A farmer one day Optical Telegraphy. discovers a woman bathing in his well, In the last maneuvers of the Gerher clothes hanging on his pine-tre- e. man army experiments were made Annoyed at what he thought both im- with the acetylene light in optical modest and intrusive, be hides her telegraphy. Up to the present night clothing, and when the woman walls messages and signals hare been transfor it and begs to have it back, he mitted by means of the lime light. asks her why she fouled his water. Acetylene, mingled with a .certain She answers that the Creator made the amount of oxygen, was found to give well for the use of all. "He has meant a candle power three times greater you for my wife at any rate, replies than that of the lime light. By lta the man; so he retains her garments means signals could be flashed by day and she becomes his wife. At last, to a distance of five miles and' by after having borne a son and daughto a distance of fen miles. ter, she finds the clothes and an irre- night Hitherto signal corps has been sistible longing comes over her to compelled rthe to transport the necessary put them on and return to her old life. oxygen in heavy cylinders. For the to her children, she 1 Bidding good-b- y generated light oxygen vanishes on a cloud. Probably she acetylene in fifteen minutes by means of a small is one of the of Asiatic retort and stored In a gas bag. mythology. London Household Words. . , - Dla-ceurar-iar Folk-LerU- ta Yes. sir. HAD A CORNER IN CORN. "Durndest experience I ever had, paid the old farmer, who was cautioning hla son against speculation. Come mighty nigh ruining me. .You fellers here In Detroit dont know nothin 'bout it. You kin squirm an wriggle An git on yer feet someways, but there me an Jim was out there in the las xovr o townships with no bank fur to draw on an both our farms mortgaged up to the hanle. Tlow did It happen, dad? inquired the son, who had been on the right side of the market often enough to make himself comfortable. Me an Jim started In fur to corner corn. I see n piece in the county paper tellln how the thing was done, ian I read it to Jim. Jim was the excited nan you ever saw, 'and calculated that there wasnt nuth-i- n anybody else could do that me an ,him couldnt do. So we slips round an bought in all the corn in the cuun-;tpayin an average of 35 cents a bushel. We only give out cash where we had to and the rest got our jint notes. It jest bout filled up Jims double-deckbarn, and when the stuff was all cornered there we sat back and counted up what we was a goln to make. Ike Simmons kim round and wanted ter git ten bushels ter keep fer seedin. I asked him a plum dollar a bushel and tole him he neednt take it less he liked. We argied and then we clinched, and he was wrapping me round a apple tree when yer maw interfered. Me an Jim had four or five pitched battles like that and was figurin on gittin shotguns at wholesale by takln two when we found out that all the farmers were up there buyin corn from the counties jinin. They were so dinged mad they wouldnt give us nothin fur ours, an we had to haul It sixteen miles and sell it to a banker with a elervator fur twenty cents a bushel. Took me ten years hard labor ter git even, and I never had no use fur corners or speculators, or bankers Desince. Keep outea it, me boy. Press. troit Free And the seat is all right? Yes, sir. I am glad. Do you know that out home the ofher day I was sitting on the fence and a cow came up and stood before me for ten minutes, and my wife was telling me afterward that X neither raised my hat nor asked her to take my seat. EXPLAINED. all-fired- est y. boulllon-concentra- He Why does a woman always hold up her skirt In that manner when out walking? She Because she has no trouser pockets, I suppose. THE HTKEXrOI'H ERA. Public writers and speakers who are followed by the general public, catch on to a certain word or phrase at certain periods as a boy catches the measles, said a well known Washingtonian, according to the Star of that city. It is strenuous now. For the last few words the prime favorite has been passing. If a man died a headline to his death notice was like this: The Passing of Hoodie Foodie. The passing of the old century was an opportunity seized upon as a girl seizes a peach ice cream on a warm day. Epochs, periods, ideas, modes of customs, cowboy, frontier bad dress, backward. looking comic men, opera, and pretty much Dobbs met his friend Turner in the was passed. else Loneverything to were both train. They going and gramall Its right, don, and stopped at the same hotel. matical, and I callproper to the attention name: his Turner registered of criticism. not for the habit purpose E. K. Phtholognyrrh. But a new child is born. Everything Dobbs noticing it, excalmed: and now, everybody is strenuous such are what you assuming Here, a mans vigorous temperament to from a foreign, outlandish name for? Are a dog fight. ,you in any trouble? Well have a strenuous administraNot a bit of it, replied Turner; a strenuous president, a strenution, 'and I am not assuming any foreign ous vice president, a strenuous foreign name. a strenua What kind of a name is that? de- policy, strenuous campaign, we lead will new ous and congress, Dobbs. manded it does not alter That is my identical old name, strenuous lives. Butsome of us have a the frigid fact that persisted Turner, and it is English, chase for the strenuous copper cent, too pronounced plainly Turner. I cant see how you make Turner1 all right. out of those thirteen letters. Besides THE SWIMMING SEASON. what is your object in spelling that When Willie came home last night way? asked Dobbs. Well, you see, nobody ever noticed he was more convinced of the uselessmy name on the register when I wrote ness of schools than he ever was Asked the nature of his latest it Turner, exclaimed the latter; but since I commenced writing it Phtholotrouble, he explained that postpone gnyrrh' I set them all guessing. They had been one of the words in the wonder what nation I am from; what spelling lesson of the day. The teachmy name Is.. I can now hear people er had directed the pupils to write a talk about me all around. It is as I sentence in which the special word said before, English spelling. Phth, should appear. there is the sound of t in phthisis; Along with others, Willie announced that he did not know the meaning of olo, there is the ur' in colonel; gn,' there is the n in gnat; yrrh la the word, and so could not use it in the sound of er In myrrh. Now, if a sentence. The teacher explained that that doesnt spell Turner what does it meant delay or put off, andj s. it spell? encouraged the youngsters to try. Wll-- i lies thoughts were on pleasanter things than school, and his made-to-- 1 SHE SAVED MONEY. Boys postpone She heard him rummaging around order sentence was: in the attic. Then his strident, rau- their clothes when they go swimming. Willie wishes he lived in Jacksoncous tones came drifting down the ville. Buffalo Express. stairs. he in Where thunderatlon, THE GEORGIA NEGRO. growled, is that last summers fedoraAn old Georgia negro rose in prayshaped straw hat o mine? The time has come, she murmured er meeting the other night and said: hoarsely to herself, and then she Bredderln and sisterln, I been a straw hat that mighty mean jigger in my time. I had donned a fedora-shape- d was hidden behind the piano. It was a heap er ups an downs specially wrapped around with liberty silk, and downs since I jined the church. I stoled chickens and watermllllns; X it looked bully on her fluffy hair. Here It is. she said, when she got cussed, I got drunk; I shot craps. 1 I slashed udder coons wit' my razor, and to the top of the attic, stairs. cleaned it with lemon juice and fixed I done a sight er udder things, but it for myself. Saved you 317.35 for a thank de good Lawd, bredderln an sisterln', I never yet lost my religion. spring hat. Like it? Then the man was unreasonable and churlish enough to storm and to deLITTLE LACOH3. mand of her when she Intended to beLoftera Kotort. gin wearing his shoes and smoking his pipes. I have broken the house! cried the Few married men have sense enough jubilant winner, raking over great to know when theyve landed right. stacks of green currency. "Pardon me! said the dealer, but Washington Post. I see you are from Chicago. How do you know? WAKEfCU "Why, because you are a housebreaker. It is needless to add that t&e sequel was a duel in the grove. , . bo-for- e. Tit-Bit- Optlmltm. The pessimist laughed a sardonle laugh. We are wretchedly wealthy as a people! he exclaimed. Yes. yes! replied the optimist, exBut the case is not nearly so citedly. bad as it would be if everybody who had a chance to buy the present site of Chicago for 310 and a red blanket had done so! The pessimist made light of this, but ridicule is ever the weapon of a weak cause. Detroit Journal. Whoever says, when clouds are in the sky. "Be patient, heart, light breaketh by and by,n He trusts in God. k 4 . awe-inspiri- . t the unknown,1 Whoever says The "future trusts unto that power alone He dares disown. "to-morro- w, The heart that looks on when the eyelids close. And dares to live when life has only woes, Gods comfort knows. ng ex-pe- . m, non-consum- - non-consum- double-entendr- er es folk-stori- es swan-maide- n, cloud-maide- ns Or. Strlclalatlng While the structure of the music of strldulatlng organs of beetles is extremely simple, they sometimes possess contrivances, for varying the pitch. The general structure of such an organ la a hard surface covered with atrlations, over which some other member of the body furnished with a rasping edge or- area is rubbed. When the striated surface Is divided into parts with finer and coarser markings variations of pitch can be produced. - ' Richest Viaduct In Warld. France la to have another record that of the highest viaduct In the world. The minister of public works has approved of the plan for ja viaduct to cross the Valley of the Sloule, in the Alller, on the railway between ParThte new viis and Clermont-Ferranaduct will he 378 meters long and 183 meters above the bottom o f the valley. d. I t I f a a a a "I cannot take my eyes from you. an- . declared Lawyer Morris, you are other man in every way. And the book. Shake hands you have made me shed the first tears I ever shed over a novel.r Van Vliet'a eyes shone. "You are sure?" "Sure! Yea, I am! I dont nind tella publisher ing you that I have let a a at thing, the big it. Its have peep Well, Im glad, I m ! ovel of the year. glad! Ive some news for you also. Gwendolen refused Deb King point Dlan&. The Astranhams are on the way home. Now are you happy? Well that dont make me any hap-pibecause because O, bang It all, Morris, I want to Introduce you to sorje one tbat'B waiting for me! Dont go away." He was back In five minutes, nervous and radiant. With him was the small females, neatest of gray-cla- d blue-eye- d and blushing like a shy child. Im very glad about the book," reiterated Cecil, but It Isnt the book or the girl this time. It Is the girl first and then the hook and both are successes, Im sure you will say, Mr. red-cheek- j ds . er . folk-iegen- - Whoever sees 'neath winter's field of snow The silent harvest of the future grow, Gods power must know. Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep, Content to lock each sense in slumber deep, Knows God will keep. X folk-loris- ts 00 V Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod. And waits to see it push away the clod. He trusts in God. a. . There Ara Eight Wonders. one has heard of the seven Every Recent experiments by Professors wonders of the world the hanging Some of my brightest Dewar and Llveing have demonstrated' Author gardens of Babylon, the leaning tower in existence of the the atmosphere me of am to while come Pisa, the Colossus of Rhodes, the I thoughts of free hydrogen. proportion of Egypt, the statue of Jupyramids asleep. The presence of free hydrogen in the at Athens, Diana at Ephesus. To piter Editor You dont get enough air has not heretofore been satisfactorthese must be added an eighth number, sleep. ily shown. It is regarded as probable no less remarkable than the alon acount of the high velocity of though it is the handiwork others, that, of nature, MISSED IT. SOMETIMES HE the hydrogen molecule, free hydrogen: not of man. This Is the Tsangpo rivHe had given up his seat in the cannot be permanently retained by the; er, which is the highest of all navistreet car to a woman and stood hold- earth, and that there must be a con- -j gable streams; which flows for almost of minaccession of hydrogen to this; 1,000 miles at an altitude of from 11.-0tinual ing on to a strap for a couple utes. Then a puzzled look came to planet from interplanetary space. to 14,000 feet above the sea level. his face, and he turned and queried: For the greater part of its course it is wouldnt "I my good men,; fight, Did I give up my seat to you, a sluggish body of water, hut aa it But he said called: the peacemaker. ma'am? me a thief, sir, explained one of the nears the coast its current Increases in You did. sir, and Im much obliged, "And he called me a lasyj velocity and the river becomes a ragcombatants. she replied. cried the other. "Wen, saidl ing cataract, sweeping all obstacles loafer, I thought I did, but I wasn't quite from its pathway and often inundating at the peacemaker, serenely, I wouldnt the sure, Im rather absent-minde- d country on either bank. The over a of difference yon fight opinion; times, you know. Did I get up at has never yet been explored .Tsangpo may both be right once? throughout Its entire course. It rises - m. 4A 00 FREE HYDROGEN IN THE AIR 1 n, - er life was a dream, but Cecil lived In a dream. All that he had written of a sup- -, positlous suburban life had long since been burned. What he wrote to replace it was alive and human it was what he saw, what he felt, what was and la. The Little Teacher! . simple existence, the Joy, the sorrow of every day was painted with the zest and in. terest and charm of novelty. There came a day when he closed the last chapter and. his heart beating with enthusiasm, tied up the package and sent it into the great city Iron which he had been over four months an alien. It was the end of summer. the red The orchards were fruit-laderose hips scarlet on the bushes. The , wheat fields had been shorn and were becoming green again. The years work was being completed also. It was harvest time. It would be two week before be could expect to hoar from Mr. Morris. How Bhould he employ this time? The old ways, the sweet ways with rest and peace. Then the armor must be girded on for the work of the world. But first, first, he must go to see the Little Teacher. a DOLLARS IN ODD SHAPE. sonal belongings were all in a small ocroom he The and cheap trunk. Sempla Coin Tested by Heinz Rolled was a like box, Like Ribbons. dry goods' cupied unpalnted Under the law, a silver dollar may BY ELIZABETH CHERRY WALTZ. walls, floor and door of be a grain and a half over weight or (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) pine. A strip or two of rag carpeting "And, aa you said the description partially covered the floor. There was a grain and a half under weight, and of life in a suburb of working people a cheap iron bed, a cheaper table and this limit of tolerance applies to all was the only weak thing in the book, washatand covered with white oil- of our silver coins. In other words, I am going to spend three months In cloth. He was expected to "wait on they are not allowed to vary more a cottage attic and get the atmosphere, than that much from standard. In Mr. Morris. the case of gold pieces, the limit Is The lawyer looked up from his desk half a grain either way, up to the and back again before he spoke. What eagle; a variation of as much as one he glanced at was a pale man of 28 or grain being permissible in the ten and 29, who looked older. His face was twenty dollar pieces. Whenever a sensitive and was rather too sweet for fresh batch of dollars is turned out a positive manliness. When the lawyer at the mint, samples are forwarded to finally spoke It was to say: the treasury at Washington, where "It will not hurt you or the book. they are put through a very curious Have you given up your trip across process. Each dollar is first weighed and to Vienna? on exquisitely delicate scales, to make Van Vllet looked uncomfortable. sure that' it is heavy enough and yet "Cant do both, can you? not too heavy. Vhen it is passed be"No and really the book comes first. tween two steel rollers again and If It is all right but that, why not put again, until it Is flattened out and myself in the way of making that transformed into a thin strip of silver a sort of ribbon a foot and a right. Mr. Morris thrust his hands Into his half in length. Then it Is put beneath a little machine provided with several pockets and walked up and down the room. small punches, by which hundreds of "Look here. Van, I am pretty certain tiny disks are punched out of the the Astranhams count on your going metal strip. Now, the object of this over. It is actually a question between la to obtain samples of performance Gwendolen and the book because Mr. metal from all parts of the dollar, inAstranham Intimated to me that asmuch as it is conceivable that one He Sat Under the Tree. King wanted to join the party portion might be richer in silver than and we all know what Deb is after. hlmself which meant to fill his water another. The little disks are shuffled A rather peculiar look came about pitcher from the cistern and make his together, and a few of them, taken at Cecil Van Vllets mouth. own bed except on Saturday when the random from the lot, are subjected to "So It Is the book or the girl con- housekeeper from below took posses- an assay. Thus the fineness of the ' tinued the lawyer. sion and cleaned things up. material of the dollar is ascertained A dreamy smile flitted over the face From the window at which he wrote with absolute accuracy, and, the of his hearer. on a small table with wobbling legs weight having been already deter"And which one Is It, Van? the panorama of life unfolded to Cethe value and correctness of Then came a quick movement from cil Van Vlieta wondering eyes. He saw mined,coin are perfectly known. The that the silent man and then a decisive ut- the dally routine of life among the sample pieces having been found cor'' terance. struggling masses, he saw suffer- rect, it is Inferred that the entire batch great "The hook then I like the girl, bet- ing, merriment, misery, death and the Post ter than I wish I did. But maybe the happiness of the youthful and careless. of dollars is all right Saturday book can win the girl but the book In the small yard below the German School fellow of E.tarhaxy. first at all hazards. woman. spaded and sowed ae'id and se:: Lady Mary Hamilton married, in exout plants and vinea He often went treme youth. Albert, reigning prince was small white down to help her and In the sloping roof of a rewarded by presented a cottage there was set a deep dormer hot bread and coffee. He took long of Monaco, to whom shecrown the son and prince. empresent heir, window that looked over fields of long walks and lunched or dined at erald wheat and on the brown clods wayside placeB. Sometimes he rode on This marriage was annulled by the that, later, would be covered with hay wagons passing in and out and pope in 1880; and shortly afterwards, waving corn. On a gentle slope to the sometimes he walked miles under the Mary became the wife of Count who has by her a son and left there were orchards where pink starlit heavens, almost feeling his way and white waves of bloom stood out 1 . the dark and yet with a consciousdaughter. The former is now in resiagainst a aky of the palest blue. On ness that never before had he been dence at Queens college, Oxford, the hill was an old brown house and awake. which he entered at the same time as here went on the panorama of pastoral had fallen his friend and schoolfellow. Count In a month the old life life as before the city crept out It was from him. The charm of simplicity Maurice Esterhazy. He la much more a remnant of the past century. Here was with him day and night. This of a Scotchman than of a Hungarian the dawn smoke rose, the men went return to primordial things had awak- in appearance, and bears a strong reforth to plow, the noon bell rang for ened the truest life In him and while semblance to his uncle, the late duke glowed he grew more robust and the oolor of Hamilton, who was up at Christ dinner, the night lights through the small window panes, the tame into hla face, be drank in real church in the 60s, and whose burly coundog barked at the night passer. Below life as a thirsty man takes long figure and florid, clean-shavso and around this remnant farm, there draughts of water. for were familiar many tenance In behind the slope but quite out of years on 'every racecourse in England. sight of the white cottage lay the school house, a frame structure surChild ran. Thirty-Seve- n mounted by a bell which calls the now puts in a Austria, Salzburg, children together. It was a favorite claim for the record birth rate of a walk of Cecils, for he liked to see the single family. Johann Sterner, a farmfluttering colored aprons and gowns of er, married his wife, Martha, nineteen the children over the green sward and yeara ago, when he was 52 and she was the trim form of the Little 25. In the nineteen years since they Teacher. She had smooth brown have had thirty-seve- n children triphair and blue eyes, cheeks red lets three times and twins twelve as roses and she wore print gowns while the babies have come such as Cecil Van Vllet had never seen times, singly four times. Of the chilalong before. When she sang with the chil- dren thirty-fou- r are living, and they dren It was in such a sweet anil hap- are all healthy and normal. The py voice that it thrilled the heart like thirty-sevenwas born a couple child a wild bird's song. That was the rea- of weeks ago, on the day on which son he Uked to stay where he could the father celebrated as hla 72d birthhear It and he so often sat on the The mother is still in robust bench under the beech trees that the day. Who knows of a record to beat health. teacher, aa well as the children, came this? to know him. To them, as to hla cottage housewife, Delaware Without m Representative. he was a medical student, living cheap There are fewer contested seats in over the summer. Even that made the The German Woman Sowed Seed, Congress than la the somewhat In awe of him. one for many years. were small houses, some of them mere people previous any in the lived The Little Teacher deand 6f boards cabins are and shanties practically no contests in brown farm house that had survived There bris. It was the vanguard of civilisa- the tidal wave of progress. After a the Senate, though the session will tion, the first roll of the wave that time Cecil walked home with her and open in December with Delaware, one no repmeant the growth of a city. with her under the low brown of the original states, with .In the attic of the white cottage Ce-e- ll sat resentative. boxes The martins built In Van Vllet had taken up his abode. porch. for them. Roses that nailed there aa He left his old life behind him, 1 ue demand for state and governhold the perfume as well as to seemed ftniigh it was a thousand miles away. all the wealth of color in the air and ment lands In Minnesota la greater He wore what the college boys had this season than It has been for many and a sunshine nodded from bushesThe that once dubbed old years. - were rooted deep and strong. cheap suit of that clothing. His per- Wanted An Attic. , De-br- ett Fes-tetic- en . th Fifty-seven- "hand-me-dow- ns th |