ff — \ — of the river—22 feet wide—just the| width of the steamer, and the scraping and scratching of the branches on either side awoke me, We stepped out on deck, and saw the most wonderful sight of all, “The Gates’ as it is called. Here the stream is so narrow that the branches of the great cypress meet overhead, and the gray Spanish moss hangs down like a long delicate veil. It all seemed very uncanny, as if the witches were after us, with gurgling water and the disturbed birds screams dng and crying like lost children. The next morning when we left the Oklawaha and passed into the Silver Spring, the water suddenly became as clear as if eut off with a knife. Im- mense gar-fish and cat-fish swam about in shoals. A large hawk perched on an old dead trunk, and a great blue heron winged his stately way, slowly over our heads, ‘We soon landed and with regret bade good-bye to our pleasant fellow travelers. We reached Eustis at half past five for it had taken &ll day to make 70 miles, At Rustis we spent nearly two weeks, surrounded by lakes and pine woods. tradi 16 HOUSE. Keven Resoptnge ANIMALS BinDY] § Romine sFise fio Rugs Fags SHELL HEAPS aw » + | INDIAN ROUNDS, LE | Seas Reuss | A DY-WAY OF ST. AUGUSTINE, — Bach day we drove through the deep sand, the horse just walking; but it was lovely, lazing along after this fash- fon, through pine woods, tall straight Arees with a sheaf of leaves at the top, and always the gray moss swinging gracefully in the breeze. pi Mattresses Of Moss, ‘This Florida moss, by the way, 1s not moss at all, but a kind of minute pineapple, and it seems that both it and the pineapple are true air plants, There i8 no underbrush in these Flori. da pine woods except now and then patches of scrub palmetto, which looks like the erdimary ornamental fan palm that we cultivate for ornament in the north, except that it never grows high Ror hag any trunk. Coming over a little rise we would perhaps look down on a pretty lake, its banks lined with orange groves. Every drive we took showed us several new Jakes so that this seems well named the Lake Region of the state. Colonel T-— has a beautiful home among the pines, and there I plucked my first orange and grape fruit, my first lime and lemon, There, alse, I saw the fragrant blossom, the green orange and the ripe, yellow fruit, all growing on one trea. One of the finest groves we vigited contained 1,000 trees, cover with oran many of the trees were full of bloom. These bride's flowers look like white wax stars among the rich, dark, varnished leaves, and the trees met overhead, forming arches under which we drove—one of the most attractive sights imaginable, We pulied all the fruit and blossoms we wanted, It Is a fascinating. experi- ence to stand under a large orange or grapefruit tree, and look up through the branches, the leaves so rich an green, with golden globes fois, ang from them, their weight sometimes bending the branches to the ground, and all this wealth of vendure grow: ing out of white sand. | Picnicing Among The Oranges. On the first day of March we drove to the young grove in which my hus band and son were interested, there picnicing In the pine woods alagg: | glide and sucking oranges by the dozen: This reminds me that when oranges are ripe—and the season is six months long—you never take & water bottle with you when you go driving through Florida. The mornings and evenings have been cool enough for & little fire, but the days are like those of our northern June, We saw bananas growing, and the long purplish blossom is very odd. The fruit grows exactly upside down. Eustis Park is a pretty place; just a drive through pine woods almost clothed in Spanish moss. They bury this moes in the sand to rot off the out- glide, the inside fiber making a good substitute for halr which is used in the manufacture of mattresses. There are several factories, I am told, In the State which make fine mattresses out of this moss. In the Park the gray squirrels chase each other up and down the branches, and we counted 14 in less than two minutes, The blue herons fly continually back and forth, and the little ponds through the park are full of white water lilies, Next week I will tell you about a real south- ern darky baptism. C G. G. — ) An ancient gentleman telling of Alex andria in Washington's day, announced that breeches were hung on hooks and the wearer donned them by going up three steps and then letting his person down into them from above. Such breeches hooks can be seen at the pres. ent time In the Roberdean home in Alexandria, st An old lady has recalled that the first beets for women's werr came in |fashion In 1828, ‘They wore laced at {the sides and galters and boots both bad fringes at the top. ! — In the new uniform recently adopted by the Chinese army the only badge distinguishing a general from a private ‘is one of three gold buttons on a sleeve, RCD LL ELS -A Permanganate of potash is being successfully used In India as an antl dete for the bite and wyenom of the dreaded cobra. a —— | Gold colns usually remain in elreus 1tion twice as long as copper Ones. “ - LEASING PUBLIC LANDS, DANGER TO THE HOMESTEAD IN ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE LIVE STOCK GRAZING. Measures Pending in Congress to Allow Stockmen to Fence and Graze—Difficulcy Lies im Protect— ing Rights of Settlers, There is a strong movement afoot, and several bills have been introduced in this Congress to provide a system of renting or leasing the public graz ing lands of the West at a small charge of from one to five cents per acre. There are some 300,000,000 acres ot western public lands which come under the general classification of “Grazing Lands,” some of which are extremely barren in character—almost desert and are capable of sustaining live stock at the rate of only about one head of cattle to 30 or 40 acres; other lands where there is more rainfall, are much better for grazing purposes, ana some of the best of them are capable of sustaining a steer on probably 2, 3 or 5 acres, Many of the latter class are, however, suitable for homesteads. The difficulty. has always been, as it is today, to provide a rental plan which will give stock raisers a sufficient con- trol of the land to warrant them in fencing it and improving its grazing capacity, at the same time leaving the conditions such that the settler and prospective home-steader will at all times have free access thereto, Under the improved methods of farm- ing advocated by the Department of Agriculture, and the new drought re- sisting crops which are being intro duced by that Department, large tracts hitherto considered fit for nothing but grazing, are being constantly brought under the head of agricultural land. The climatic conditions of the inter mountain region are extremely varied, and the settler (where he {3 not hin- a leasing bill which will give some pro- tection to the overcrowded grazing lands and at the same time afford the honest gettier an advantage at all times to establish a home, i8 considered to be a dubious question, Chairman Lacey's leasing bill does not seem to be much of an improvement upon the measures previously brought before Congress, Unless “the small stockman and the homesteader, with 26 or 60 head of cattle or a band of 100 or 200 gheep, feels that he is to be protected, and not driven out of business by the big outs fits, he will kill this bill as he has killed all such previous bills which have been presented, Viewed from a broader standpoint the danger to the country lles in tying up mnder lease large areas of fertile country which are suitable for home- making under their present natural condition without irrigation, and which and better are Intro ledge i8 gained of them, methods of farming them duced a STARVATION SELDOM OCCURS. Doctor Proves Theory That Terror « More Frequently €auses Death. Dr. Richard A, Terhune, dean of the physicians of Passaic, N. Y., by whom he was always spoken of affectionately 8 “Doctor Dick” died at his home re- cently of Intestinal cancer. He had not eaten anything for over a month, and to the last bantered his brother prac- titioners on the fact that he was a liv- ing example of his pet theory that no one would die of starvation if he had plenty of water to drink. The aged physician, who was a stal- wart man, became {ll about seven months ago. He speedily diagnosed his ailment as Intestinal cancer.,and gave out a fatal prognosis of his own case, All the Passalc physicians and segres more from the neighboring town and cities called on him in the months of his illness, with many suggestions as to treatment, but he turned a deaf ear dered by stock growing interests which ars naturally against any development of their regic stantly encroaching 1 ing domain and here and there, of a very great agg: gate extent, where he can acquire successful foothold to carry on agri cultural operations. The Lacey Leasing Bil. One bill in particular has been intro. duced by Chairman Lacey of the Public Lands Committee of the House, and is apparently intended to protect small stockmen as well as to provent any re- strictions against the settler, In the’ first place it provides that no eorpora- | 13 tion ean lease government land. A! man whe had 8 homestead or owns a pieces of land, may lease as much as 3,200 acres, which in most grazing lo calities would not be an excessive amount. The measure provides that such leases shall not be transferred, and that where they include watering places there shall be left open a “right of way" for other stockmen to pass through the land and to use the water for thelr stock. It also leaves the leased land open at all times to home stead entry by actual settlers, On the face of it this looks equitable, and as though it might be administered 80 a8 not to work to the detriment of gettlement and of the small stock- holder, On the other hand it seems apparent that it would be exceedingly diffienit to prevent a big cattle corpor ation from hiring a dozen cowboys to take up homesteads In their own names erecting thereupon shanty residences, as hag been done in thousands of cases in the West, and simply to hold their claims and thelr 3,200 acres each, of leased land, for the benefit of thelr employers; so that a single cattle bar on might easily acquire the use of 30 or 40 thousand acres. Hard for the Homesteader, It is also not at all certain that once holding a lease to the land and with a fence around It, the cowboy might not bulldoze Intending settlers into passing on to some less hostile region. No homebuilder, unless he be made of ex. ceedingly stern stuff, cares to attempt making a home In the face of a Win- chester or of threats that If he at tempts a settlement, his fence wires will be cut, his grass all eaten off and the place be made so hot for him that he will wish that he had never gone Into the cow country. This course has been pursued by the stockmen with great success In many western sections, aven where the settler was trying to make a home upon free public land, where the eattlemen had no shadow of legal right to fence or hold it. That the legal leaseright to fence the land and keop other stockmen off would be Judea | to repel settlement goes with. saying. Whether it will be possible to frame settling and , is con- ir graz- 4 localities, the findln finding w {that to all and only employed such pallia- FROM ANASTASIA ISLAND. ~OLD FORT MARION, i themse Le ives Dr, Perry A. es ag # and his ¢ AVE IDeasu to himself Tk ne. After a time “Doctor Dick” found he could no longer retain food, and gave up eating. For five weeks nothing except water, and now and then a little medicine passed his lips. One Sunday night several physicians dropped in to see him, and he took the opportunity to enlarge upon his non- starvation “You see,” he began with a smile, “l eannot retain anything but water, oy I am strong and abl ¢ to move {ree r about in bed. I am provin . my old theor y that no one ever real a of hunger, So-called death fon rhe is simply due to terror, If there is plenty of water to be had. “1 will call your attention to the caso of a young girl that came under my own observation. She was ill with a disease which was pronounced in. curable by skilled physicians. That girl did not eat anything for forty- eight days except about half a soda cracker a day, Did she die? Not a bit of it. On the contrary she got entirely well, and in the forty-eight days when she did not eat, she pursued the even tenor of her ways, went to parties and danced, too.” ay 1," theory are gradually settled as further know. | THE MAGIC STORY. I was sitting alone in the cafe, and had just reached for the sugar prepara tory to putting it into my coffes, While I dreamed and sipped, the door opened and closed, admitting-—Sturtevant. Sturtevant was an undeniable failure, but, withal, an artist of more than ordinary talent, As | raised my eyes $0 his I was conscious of mild surprise at the change in his appearance, He was not dressed differently, yet there was somes thing new and strange im kis appear ance, | noted the brightmces of his usual lack-luster eyes, and the health. ful, hopeful glow upon his eheek, with increasing amazement, “Have you lost a rich | asked. “No,” he replied calmly, “but I have found my mascot,” “Brindle bull, or terrier?” I inquired. “Currier,” sald Sturtevant, at length, “1 see that I have surprised you. It is not strange, for 1 am a surprise to my- self, Iam a new man, a different man, —and the alteration has taken place in the last few hours” “Do you know an artist who pos. pesses more talent than 17” he asked, presently. “No. Do you happen to know anything in the line of my pro fession that 1 could not accomplish, if } applied myself to it? No. Tomorrow my now career beging, Within a month ? shall have a bank account. Why? Because | have discovered the secret of success.” The Strange Story “Yes,” he continued, “my fortune {8 made, | have been reading a strange story, and, since reading it, I feel that my fortune is assured, It will make your fortune, too. All you have to do is to read it, You have no idea what it will do for you." “You amaze me,” I said, wondering “Won't you tell me the story? I should like to hear it.” “Certain. I mean to tell it to the whole world. This morning | was gtarv. ing. I had gone to three of the papers for which I had done work, and had been handed back all that had sub mitted. Then I found the story and read it" “But what is the story, Sturtevant? “Walt; let me finish. 1 took same old drawings to other editors, and every one of them was accepted at once.” The walter Interrupted us at that moment, informing Sturtevant that he was wanted at the telephone, and, with a word of apology, the artist left the table. Five minutes later [I saw him rush ont into the sleet and wind and disappear. One night, on the street, I encounter ed Avery, a former college chum, then a reporter on one of the evening papers, “Hello, 014 eHan®™ ke sald; “how's the world using you? Btill on spare? “Yes,” I replied, bitterly, “with pros pects of being on the town shortly, But you look as if things were coming your way. Tell me about it.” ~~ His Friends All Hear It. “Things bave been coming my way, for a fact, and it is very remarkable, You know Sturtevant, don’t you? It's all due to him, I was plumb down on my luck when I met Sturtevant. He told me a story, and, really, old man, it is the most remarkable story you ever heard; it made a new man of me. “It must be a remarkable story,” 1 sald, incredulously. “Sturtevant men. tioned it to me oned. 1 have not seen hin since. Where is he now?” “He has been making war sketches in Cuba, at two hundred a week; he's just returned, It is a fact that every- body that has heard that story has done well since. There are Cosgrove and Phillips,~friends of mine~you ion't know them. Sturtevant told them the story, and they have experi. » ne same HAVE, vy are not the only ar you know the st asked. 1 try its off ™m ff ex with the uncle?” those . results + world } I see ] minute, « and ed. —and was vw him joi an whom he nated as Danfi rth atten distracted for an ins both : emi gone, n the had de tion wa when | looked again, appeared, If the truth be told, I was hungry. My pocket at that moment contained exac tly five cents; just enough to pay ny fare uptown, but insufficient al A stand the expense of filling my stomach. There was a “night owl" wagon in the neighborhood, where | had frequently “stood up” the purveyor of midnight dainties, and to him I ap plied, He was leaving the wagon as | was on the point of entering it, and | accosted him. “I'm broke again” I said, with ex treme cordiality, “You'll have to trust me once more. Some ham and eggs, | think, will do for the present.” He coughed, hesitated a moment, and then reentered the wagon with me, i! had dis 0 nti nued « on pane 9. THE MARCH HAGE AND THE WELSH RAREOIT, ——————— — A Fair Paleal Atlorney. Migs Florence $i, King of Chicago en- | Joys the distinction of being une of the few women patent attorneys registered in the Patent Office at Washington. Fifteen years ago Miss King, then an ignorant country girl, earning her 11v- ng as a dome chanced to over- hear @ quarrel between two families which is taken to court for ment, Miss King was subpeenend, as a witness, and among ether undreamed of things which dawned upon her in the course of the trial the occupation of the court stenographer was the jos t interesting, After court adjourned ¢ ques tioned the court stenographer on what ke had been doing and his ans- wers settled the vexing question of a profession for herself. Bhe was not satisfled to remain a domestic; more genteel employment of a school teacher, which her family had suggest. ed, did not appeal to her. “1 will be. come a court stenographer,” ghe said. At this point In the story of her life Miss King sald with a smile: “Having become court stenographer I wanted to become the court.” In May, 1805, Miss King was admit. ted to practice at the She specialized on patents, and soon relinquished court reporting to devote herself to her practice tie, Wi settle | the | bar of Illinois. | TAKE 2: SHOTGUN FREE [ s BOYS! Were us today sends ng your name and addr id we will bold one of t fine puns for you and toll youtww yowstam get one PYIENR Dowit ddlagd Send mo Wo have bought nu number of these guns and are giving them away. We guar antec you can earn one ina day easily Many bave earned ong in an hour, Nochesp well. Our plan does all the work. Bimply say you want 4 gun and you will be surpris simp our « easy IL is Lo get the gur not delay or somebody will get ahead of you. Write today, We refer you to any bank in Des Mo Waonre a responsible firm and does we agree. Never will you have another chanog 80 don’t delay. Write at on. DESCRIPTION. 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