What no the Children Drink P
Don't Rive them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
(IKAIN-O? It Is delicious and nourishing,
and takes the place of coffee. The more
(inAiN-0 you Rive the children the mors
health you distribute through their sys
tems. GRAIN-O Is made of pure grains
find when properly prepared tastes llkf
the choice grades of coffee, but costs about
% us much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 250
Poverty Is the grindstone that sharpens
a man's wits.
Visit to the IJlorioum Mountains ol
North Carolina.
Now in the time togo to Ashevllle, Try on,
Henileminville and Pinehurst, N. C.. to es
cape the disagreeable March weather; easily
reached from New York, via the Southern
Rsiiwav on perfectly equipped vestibuled
I rains. Theie resorts are attracting attention
nil over the country, and are visited daily by
a lnrge number of tourists and health seekers
The Southern Railway has tickets on sale at
grent.lv reduced rates. Write for descriptive
booklet of Winter Homes in the South, giving
prices of board, etc.. to Alex. 8. Thweatt.
Eastern Pass. Agt., 1180 Broadway, New York
It's an ill wind that blows the doctoi
good.
What Shall We Have For Dessert'.
This question arises in the family dally. Let
us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious
and healthful dessert. Prepared In 2min. No
boiling! no baking 1 Blmpiy add a little hot
water A set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange,
Itaspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c.
V a state lunch in China usually consists
of 14 j dishes.
Te Care s Cold In On* Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QCININI TABLKTI. All
druzgl-ti refund the money If it fails lo cars.
K. W. ÜBOVK'S slguature_ls on e&cb box. Mo.
Like nearly all Natal rivers, the Tugela
is not navigable.
Mrs. Wlnslow'sSoothing Syrup forchildren
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion. allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c.a bottle
When n fellow falls in love he rises In his
own estimation.
Spring Humors
of the Blood
Come to a certain percentage of all the
people. Probably 75 per cent, of
these people are cared every year by
Hood's Sarsaparilla, and we hope by
this advertisement to pet the other 25
per cent, to take Hood's Sarsaparilla.
It has made more people well, effected
more wonderful cures than any other
medicine in the world. Its strength
as a blood purifier is demonstrated by
its marvelous cures of
Scrofu'a Saltßh?um
Scald Head Boils, Pimples
All kinds of Humor Psoriasis
Blood Poisoning Rheumatism
Catarrh Malaria, Etc.
All of which are prevalent at this sea
son. You need Hood's Sarsaparilla
now. It will do you wonderful good.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Blood Medlolne.
Cough Syrup
bronchitis and iucipieu t consumption. Price 25c.
Getting liOgt AbroaJ.
"The greatest trouble I had while
f.hroad," said a mau that had re
turned from Europe a few days ago,
"was in getting from one place to an
other. I went to the station togo to
Naples, but when I spoke of Naples
the station man looked puzzled. He
insisted there was no such city. I
went into the geographical location of
the city, and he looked relieved.
"Oh, you mean Noppallee,' he said,
placing the accent on the first sylla
ble. I vent to Noppallee.
"Wheii I asked togo to Florence, I
had the same experience. After go
ing through tbe same performance I
went to Flo-ren-chee, with the accent
on tbe 'ren.'
"I thought I would never get to
Brussels, and when I was about
ready to give up and goto some other
plaoe, tbe station master started me
to Bruxels."—lndianapolis Press.
Backaches
of
Women
arc wearying beyond dea
criptlon and they Indloate
real trouble somewherom
Efforts to bear the dull
pain are heroic, but they
do not overcome It and
the backaches continue
until the oause Is re
moved.
|^Lydi^tJPlnWvii^
does this more certainly
than any other medlolne•
h has been doing It for
thirty yearsm It Is a wo
man's medlolne for wo
man's Ills• It has done
much for the health ol
American women> Read
the grateful letters from
women oonstantly ap
pearing In this paper*
Mrs. Plnkham counsels
women free of ohargom
Her address Is Lynn,
Mass.
ADVERTISING {>l^^
HPUeiAMJOHH W.IHOBRIB,
IjClialUll Washington, D.c;
laHHBRSiBBafe
NATURE'S MIRACLE.
He who loves not a noble tree
No fellowship may claim from me.
Deop in the earth its great ro ots spread,
lint heaven's own blue surrouuds its head.
It holds tbe joy of summer morn,
Tho strength of winter'f wildest born.
flod's birds find shelter in its arms,
Secure from everything that harms.
It bows when B~ath winds wander past,
But breasts unharmed the fiercest blast.
"I'is Nt.—ire's miracle to me,
lier fairest work—a noble tree.
—Ninette M. I.owater, in the New York Hun.
i MOLLY'S DRESS. 1
$ BYMIRA L. COBBE. A
Moilv was determined togo to the
party, and yet she knew she would be
the worst-dressed girl in the loom.
Her frocks were shabby, aud none of
them more so than the one she would
be forced to wear if she accepted
Frank Gillmau's invitation. With a i
deep sigh she rose from the bed where
she had been lying thinkiug the whole
mutter over, and turned towards the
tiny closet where all her dresses hung.
Beaching into its musty recesses,
Molly drew forth a muftli bedrabbled
gruv dress aud looked at it sad y.
When new the preceding summer it
had served as a best gown, and iu that
capacity did enough service to have
been placed upon the retired list, but '■
"Aiolly was not as considerate as that, j
With considerable ingenuity she had i
transformed the coat basque into a
low-out evening waist, and the long |
sleeves into pretty little puffs. Around
the neck she had draped a little cheap |
chiffon, and above it her soft whito ;
neck had emerged like a lily. Now, I
however, the dress was crease 1 and
stained and tho chiffon rumpled. She
might attord new chiffon, but that 1
would not cover the stains or a great I
tear in the skirt. All the other girls
were going to have new dresses, but
that was something beyond her scauly
purse.
"Ob, dear," she sighed again, tosa- '
ing the dress aside and sinking back !
on the bod, "if I were a girl in a story
book I'd have some convenient garret
togo to au.l there I'd find a handsome
piano co , or, or a lamp mat or a bed- <
spread, or something equally useful, 1
out of which I'd rig up a dress that ;
would make all tho other girls turu i
green with e ivy. As lam just Molly i
l're t : sß,a clerk on livo dollars a week
I can't have a new dies-!, o h, dear!
ch, deaf I" r.nd poor Molly buried
her pretty fuco in her linnds and
sobbed bitle ly. She was only 20, and
it was so hard to deny herself all the
things of her ago most Jove. At last
she roused herself, and sitting down
wrote a courteous refusal to Frank
Gillmau's invitation, although her
eyes were so blinded with tears that
she could scarcely write the address.
Not waiting, for fear she would change
1 er mind, Molly caught up a shawl,
and, throwing it around her, rushed
out to the nearest letter box and
dropped the letter in. As she saw it
disappear she caught her breath, aud
would have given worlds to have re
called it, but it was too late, and she
returned to her room very much de
pressed in spirits.
A boardiug house is not the most
cheerful place iu the world, and Molly
thought hers had never seemed so
gloomy as it did that evening, and
when sue went to bed at la-t she
sobbed herself to sleep.
The party upon which sho had set
her heart was not a great social event,
but to her it was of vast importance.
It was merely a dauce given by the
young men in the store where she
was employed, aud Frank Gillman
yas the floor walker of Molly's depart
ment. For some time she had noticed
I'iut he had paid her special attention,
pverlookiug little things she Baid and
ilid, but it was not until she had read
his note, which was awaiting her when
she reached home tho preceding night,
lhat she realized that he regarded her
ivith any special favor.
When she took up her position be
hind the counter and tied her black
apron about her waist, Mtdly saw that
Frank's eyos were fixed upon her faoo,
which still bore tho tra.'es of her
weeping, aud she tried to smile at
him, but her eyes filled with tears.
Tho young man noticed her emotiou,
but was too busy togo over and iu- i
quire into the i auso of it for sevoral
hoars. When he did so she had re
aovered her self-possession aud merely
laughed away his inquiries. Wheu
Frank received her little note, how
ever, he began to understand that
something was worrying her and he
resolved to discover the cause of her
iepression. During the days which
followed, however, Molly avoided him !
constantly, and he felt that he must
have offended her iu some mauuer or
Dther, wheu he overheard a little con- i
versation between another girl and !
her which enlightened him wonder- ;
fully, it was the day of the party, ;
»nd all the girls were chattering about
it upon every opportunity.
"Say, Molly," whispered one of the ,
j;irls to Molly, as tho two were sortiug
ant some of their stock towards the
3lose of the day, "what are yon going
| to wear touight?"
! "I'm not going," Molly replied,
with a little catch in her voice.
"Not going? Come, now, that's
too bad. Didn't you get a bid?"
"Yes."
"Then why don't you go?" was the
astonished question.
"Because I have no fit d'oss,"
Molly replied, the tea's standing in
her eyes. "I won't go in debt for
anything, aud you know I have noth
ing except what. I earn, since my
brother died last winter."
"Oh, that's too ad," retnrned her
companion, carelessly, turning away
to wait UDon a cu<tjmer and Mollv
after making a dab or two at her eyes,
continue I her work, unaware that
Frank had beeu listening to her little
confession. A few moments later she
was waiting upon a disagreeable cus
tomer, and he was calling to the cash
girls to hurry, yet he managed to give
her a tender, bri.gbt smile as he passed,
that lifted the heavy cloud which was
hanging over her, and she started
for home with an almost light heart.
As she was hurrying along the street
she heard some one call her name and,
looking around, saw Frank. Her
cheek flushed, and she looked a?
though she would have liked to have
1 run from him. He gave bo* another
| tender look, saying, as he took bet
baud anil drew it through his arm—
"Why didn't you tell me your rea
' son for not accepting my invitation?"
"Because," Molly began, and then
hesitated.
"I know what it was. I beard you
telling Nelly this afternoon," Frank
continued, looking down at her blush
iug face.
"Oh, graciou«!" Molly said, hall
cryiug. "I wouldn't have had yor
kuow it for anything."
"And why not?"
"Because I wouldn't," Molly re
turned, striving to draw bur band
away froui his arm.
"sfou are silly," Frank snid, with
considerable euergy. "Is there any
disgrace in being poor? It is a good
deal more to your credit that you
weren't willing td make your liin lkidv
wait for her money so yon could have
a new dress, thau if you had cheated
her. I'd sooner starve myself than
do as most the fellows do-go into
debt as deeply as they can; so you see
I admire .ust that quality in you."
"Well, it's the right thing to do,''
Molly replied, softly.
"indeed it is, ami now I want you
to do me a favor, will you?"
"Of course."
"I want you togo home nnd put on
whatever dress you have, no mattei
what it is, and I'll bring you some
roses and we'll goto that party. Nc
matter what your dress is, you will be
the prettiest girl there, to me at least.
Will you?"
To her surprise Molly said yes, aud
hu-ried along, her heart beating so
hard she could hear it.
Without waitiug for any dinner sh»
rushed up to her room and again took
out the desj isel di ess. At night per
haps it wouldn't look so awfully bad,
she though', as she shook it out anil
began to spongo the stains, aud by
tho time she had pressed it with a hot
iron she begged from the cook, it
really was improved. Removing the
soiled chiffon she replaced it with a
little lace, cheap aud somewhat torn,
but cleau, and when she added a bow
of ribbon to hide the mended place in
the skirt Molly felt that it looked al
most liko anew dress. She had scarce
ly finished dressing wheu Frank ar
rived, aud putting on her wraps she
ran down to meet him,her face flushed
and her eves sparkling. No one was
in the hall as she came down, and
Frank bent and kissed the face which
had become so clear to him, saying as
he did HO
"You know that I love yon, don't
you?" and Molly could only look hei
answer.
Wheu they reached the hall where
tbe dance was to be held, Frank gave
her a large bunch of flowers he had
been carrying and lelt her at the door
of the dressing-room. A few moments
later be called for her and started
when bo saw what a transformation
happiness and a dozeu roses had
wrought. She had pinned a great
cluster of them in the torn lace, their
glossy leaves aud velvety petnls hid
ing ail deficiencies of the trimming,
while one of them nestled in her soft
brown hair. Her cheeks glowed like
companiou roses, and her eyes were
like stars. He said nothing, but
Molly knew by his admiring look that
be would not be ashamed aud she felt
satisfied.
After spending tbe most enjoyable
evening of her life, Molly said,as she
aud Frank were walkiug to the street
cars—
"l've had the bost time I evei
had."
"Have you dear?" Frank returned,
pressing her arm to his side. "Are
you willing to maks lue the happiest
mau in the world?" and his voice
trembled as he looked down at the
little figure.
"How?" Molly whispered, without
looking up.
"By promising to marry me," he
returned, and Molly's answer must
have satisfied him, for he said as they
parted on the steps of the boarding
house—
"Now mind, Molly, this dress must
be kept. We'll put it under glass
and keep it the parlor, won't we,
dearest?" and Molly answered, as she
unlocked the door—
"ies, we'll keep it, for it showed
me that you care for me and not for
my clothes."
On CV»o«ins » Country Ilnusp.
"I would say to any ono wbo is
thoroughly iu earnest about a country
home—make it yourself. Xenophon,
who lived .in a time when Greeks were
Greeks, advised people iu search of a
country place to buy of a slatternly
and careless farmer, since in that
event they might be sure of seeing
the worst, aud of m king their labor
aud care work the largest results.
| Cato,on the other hand, who represent
ed an effeminate and scheming race,
advised the purchase of a country
i home from a good farmer and ju.li
; cious house builder, so that the buyer
might be sure of nice culture aud
equipments—possibly at a bargain.
It illustrates, I think, rather finely an
essential dill'erence of the two races
and ages—the Greek earnest to make
| his own brain tell,aud the Latin eager
I to make as much as he could out of
' the braius of other peop'e. I must
say I like tha (Ire k view bast." ,V
r-1 thur Reed Kimball, in Scribner's.
[FOR FARM AMD GARDEN. £
A Houxe Oi-clil«l.
One of the most popular orchids
grown for cut-flower purposes is Cy
pripedium iusigne; and it is also val
uable as a house plant, though pos
sibly seldom so grown. Its spikes of
solitary flowers on stiff stems make it
the most convenient orchid to have
abo it a house; and the lastiug quality
of the flowers—from four to six weeks
each—makes the plant equal to many
that produce more flowers, but indiv
idually last but a short time. The
quaint "ladies slipper" flowers open
a brownish yellow in oolor, turning
quite yellow with age. When grow
ing and blooming, an abundance of
water is welcomed,provided the drain
age be perfect. They are usually
grown in pots, packed with moss or
peat. During the summer, they may
be kept barely moist and partly
shadecL—Meehau's Monthly.
A Dry Summer.
This past season has shown to many
farmers who scarcely need to have
waited until now to learn the lesson,
the importance of making preparation
each year for a season when the grass
in the pasture will be short, cows
shrink in their milk, calves aud young
Btock grow smaller, and in both ways
a loss will be occasioned that cannot
be made up by good feediug after
ward. Wheu the price of milk and
butter was the highest they had tho
least to sell. Those who had ensilage
iu the silo or greeu fodder to cut atd
feed out were fattening their pocket
books, while the mau whose fore
thought did not come until afterward
was growing poorer. It is as neces
sary for the farmer to prepare for a
dry, hot summer as for a cold winter,
for both are sure to come every year,
even though they sometimes are a lit
tle delayed beyond the scheduled time.
Look to the Colt*.
The farmer who will closely watch
his colts at this season of the year and
seo that all their wants are satisfied
will make money by it. Water should
be supplied several times a day aud
always before feeding. By frequent
watering they will not drink so much
cold water at a time, which is some
times attended with serious results.
Sen that they have a variety of food
and at regular hours, for they know
wheu meal time comes as well as peo
ple do. Oats and wheat brau and
good clover hav make the bost feed
for young stock, as they supply mus
cle aud bone growing material.
Soe that they are not exposed to
rainstorms—but that in dry weather
they have a run in the paddocks and
fields. Have warm beds for them to
lie upon wheu they sleep —for they
need refreshing sleep like all animals.
Keep them growing. Not a day should
pass without some growth, or what
lias been fed to them has been wasted.
To get value out of the feed o:ie must
get weight, growth, size, and if colts
nre well fod and treated every day's
fend will increase their value- Rocky
Mountain Husbandman.
Worn File* nnd Srrno Iron.
Save your cross-cut files, the three
cornered ones, after you have worn
them out. Old cross-cut files make
excellent rake teeth for a garden rake.
It takes only eight of them to fill the
rake head, setting them in two inches
apart, which is a good distance to
have them. They will rtrve you
longer, aud almost as efficiently, this
way, as at first. And, in fact, all
rods, bolts, plow points, and scrap
iron of every sort should be saved and
laid away iu a couvcuient place for
thorn, ready for use, wheu anything of
the sort is wanted about the farm.
Almost everything may be utilized in
some way.
Old horseshoes make good lvooks for
hitching posts,and a wornout ax stuck
into a block of wood serves well for a
miniature anvil wlieeon to clinch
nails, rivets and such like work. An
othor ax, fasteued securely, edge up,
is convenient for clipping wire, nails,
old hoops, etc. Besides, since the
late rise in iron goods, old scrap iron
is in demand, and can be sold to ad
vantage. Gather up the scrap iron
about the.farm and lay it away. You
will see chauces to utilize it sooner or
later.
{■rowing Winter Cucnmbers.
Sow the seed for raising the plants
in some warm place, and as soon as
they are well up, transplant into 6-
inch flower pots, bury the pots in the
soil of the greeuhouse up to the rim
and keep well watered with water not
too cold. It takes about five or six
weeks to raise good plants from seed.
After the house hail beeu prepared and
properly warmed up, we set the plants
over a trench 15 inches deep, nearly
filled with fresh horse manure, ii 1-2
feet apart, one iu a pot or hill. This
was about April 1. In the fall and
winter, wheu tliey make less vine, two
plants to the hill is better, aud at this
time they may be set ouly 3 feet apart.
Now, having strung out our plants,
we run a high temperature, 100 de
grees mid-day beat will not harm them
for the first two or three days, reduc
ing the temperature to 60 degrees or
so at night. After they are well
started, a mid-day temperature of !»0
degrees is sufficient. Water freely
and now watch closely for lice.
As soon as tbe plauts begin to run,
we put up trellises, using galvanized
wire fasteued to the supports with
small staples; placing the wires 8 or
10 inches apart from near the ground
to near the top of the house. We tie
them to the lower wire loosely, so as
not to girdle and kill the vines, using
the same material as in bunching
vegetables. They should be kept tied
up as fast as the shoots get big enough.
, Pruning should be carefnllv attended
to. When the sun runs bigb anil hot
it is easy to scorch the ends of vines.
When I have found, from any cause,
plants lucking the vigor and the
healthy growth of their neighbors, I
have applied a small quantity of ni
trate of soda, not more than two table
spoonfuls to a hill.—New England
Homestead.
Benefits of the Dairy to the Soil.
Professor W. C. Latta of Purdue
experiment station, read a paper at an
Indiana dairymeu's meeting in which
he said that the persistent growing
and selling of bay aud grain without
making returns to tbe soil must sooner
or later result in failures. It is nec
essary to concentrate tbe products
that leave the farm. Butter, cheese,
cream and milk are among the most
highly concentrated products that
leave the farm. A ton of batter, rep
resenting many tons of bay, takes
from the farm only one-tenth tbe fer
tility that one ton of bay does. Com
paring tbe losses in soil fertility on a
100-acre dairy farm as against tbe
losses wbere tbe entire crops are re
moved, we have tbe following result:
Assuming that a 100-acre farm, sub
jected to a five year rotation, viz.: 20
acres of corn, oats and wheat, and 40
acres of bay and pasture, would raise
1000 bushels of corn,4o tons of stalks,
S'OO bushels of oats, 500 bushels of
wheat, 20 tons of straw, aud that the
meadows and pasture would yield two
tons of hay or its equivalent in grass
per acre,a little calculating shows that
tbe total amountof feed grown and the
amount of milk aud butter that could
be produced from these foods is about
as follows: Total food stuffs, 200 tons;
total milk, 164 1-1 tons; total butter,
6 1-2 tons. Fertilizing ingredients:
Food stuff, 5804 pounds nitrogen,
5877 pounds potash, 2114 pounds
phosphoric acid; milk, 184 pounds ni
trogen, 61 pounds potash, 66 pounds
phosphoric acid; butter, 18 1-2 pounds
nitrogen. Cash value of fertilizing in
gredients: Food s'.ufl's, $142i'.24;
milk, 3375>.2(>; butter, $2.1)4. The ; e
figures are believed to be approximate
ly cor:ect, aud they speak volumes.
Trimming the Orchard.
The lato winter is probably the best
time in the year for the trimming of
tbe orchard. It most certainly is the
best time in the year for the farmer if
his convenience is takeu into consid
eration, There is comparatively a
lull iu his work nt that time and be
can give his trees the time necessary
to trimming them in the right way.
Trimming a tree is one thing that
cannot be done in a hurry. A man
can easily cut off a branch, but he
cannot grow one. He must cut of!
only the branches that require cutting
to benefit the tree, being careful to
cut none that will leave the trun!- ol
tbe tree exposed to the hot sun ajd
wind of summer, or one that will de
tract from the symmetry of the trees.
No-two trees are of the same exact
shape and each one must be studied
individually before touching with
pruuiug kuife or saw. This takes
time.
So many things must be taken iuto
consideration that no set rules can be
given in regard to trimming trees.
Where there are heavy winds during
the seasons when the trees are full ot
leaves and ladeu with fruit, the limbs
should be kept trimmed so that not
too great a weight should be borne by
tho main steins. For the same rea
son the limbs should be closer to the
ground. In au exposed posiliou the
tree should be rather heavier upon the
south side, aud when young should be
inclined a little in that direction.
This will tend to balance the heavy
south winds and also furnish a shade
for the trunk of the tree during the
hot months of the year.
Too great care cannot be takeu iu
healing the stubs of the cut limbs.
Many a line tree is ruined by the
checking of this stub. Waters will
rim into the crack thus formed aud
the wood surroiuiding will begin to
decay. This will in a very short time
reach the heart of the limb, weaken
ing it. The life of tbe whole branch,
if not the tree itself, is but tbe ques
tion of a year or so. Its doom is in
evitable.
It should be borne in mind that the
trimming business can easily be over
done. It is far easier to cut a tree
than to grow one. Think well before
putting the knife to a branch, and if
you are iu doubt as to whether you
should cut it or not—don't. Be sure
you are right and then proceed, but
better to let nature have her owu
sway than to ruin a tree by over prun
ing. One can see and judge of the
importance of the limbs and branches
while there is no screen of leaves to
interfere with seeing all of them in
their relative position to each other
and the tree. For that reason, if no
other, winter is a good season for
trimming the orchard.—J. L. Irwin,
in Farm, Field aud Fireside.
Poultry Note*.
• Exterminate the rats before the
vouug chicks aro out.
A tablespoonfu! of salt should be
added to the morning mash for layiug
he us.
Do not put over 10 or 11 eggsuuder
a sitting hen at this season of the
year.
Do sot let the young chicks get
chilled. For the first week at least
they should be iupt where the tem
perature never gooS below 80.
Those hens intended for this sea
sou's breeders should be separated
from the flock aud confined i!» yards
where special care may be give.!*
Do not cross pure-bre 1
There is nothing to be gained, a* a
breed cau be found in its purity
will fill any one requirement and nc ae
will fill every one.
Steam wagons are to be etr>.- i0 7 e< l
in hauling borax in Oregon.
JENNIE CREEK'S INVITATION.
An IndiHiia Girl Bidden to the Paris Fail
a® a (iuent of the Legion of Honor.
Miss Jennie Creek of Millgrove,
Ind., wlio is the youugest member ol
the National Humane society ol
France, has been invited tp attend the
Paris exposition this year at the ex
pense of the Legion of Honor.
Miss Jennie is an orphan aud still
lives with her foster parents in sight
of the spot where her heroic act
averted a wreck which would have
cost the lives of a good many people.
It was the afternoon of Sept. 10, 1893,
that Jennie, then but 11 years old,
was playing along the ledges and
ravine ol her uncle's farm. She came
to the Panhandle railroad and to hei
great surprise found the railroad
bridge which spanned the deep gulch
it this point almost burned away. It
lad taken tire from the burning grass
which had been set on lire by a red
lot cinder from a passiag engine. In
he distance she heard the World's
'air train coming. There was no time
;o summon help, and as the train
Irew nearer a happy thought passed
;o her mind. Trembling with fright,
»he tore off her red petticoat, and,
standing in the centre of the track,
(raved it valiantly above her head.
Engineer Frank Williamson, who had
jharge of the train, reversed his en
yino and stopped on the brink of the
laming bridge.
The story of the little girl reached
the passengers, who picked her up
ind carried her through the coaches
md showed their appreciation hy pre
senting her with no small purse.
\mong the passengers wore many
irom Frpuce, returning home after a
visit to the World's fair. When they
reached their native country the So
liefcy of the Legion of Honor was told
jf America's little heroine. President
McKinley, then g >veruor of Ohio,
was asked for the child's address, and
a mouth later little Jennie received a
tivo-pointed star, aa emblem worn
only by those who have performed
exceptionally bave deeds.
'i'ho French Legion of Honor wat
founded by Napoleon. At first he ex
jluded women as recipients of de ora
tions, but through the solicitation of
Josephine this order was rescinded.
But ono other American girl has be n
thus honored, it being the lowa school
teacher who savel her pupils in a
cyclone by tying them together. For
mouths after the stopping of the train
the little girl received hundreds of
letters. One of the school readers
used in the primary grades of Indiana
has the story of her act. Each year
she has been urged by the officers of
the society to attend tbeir meetings
in Paris, the Society offering to pay
her expense*.
A few weeks ago Miss Creek, who
s now 18 years of age, began a term
it the Marion Normal college. The
badge of the I.egion is still proudly
worn l>y her, audit is more than
arobable that she will accept the in
citation.
Shell* Broke Up Meal*.
The late U. W. Steevens wrote from
Ladysmith to the Daily Mail of Lon
lon as follows:
The liveliest day's bombardment
pet. A party of officers who live in
;he main street were waiting for
areakfast. The new president in the
aext room was just swearing at ser
vants for being late, wliep a shell
:ame in at the foot of the outside
wall aud burst under the breakfast
.•ooui. The whole plac» was dust aud
ihunder, aud the half-acrid, half-fat,
ill-sickly smell of melinite. Half the
loor was chips; one plank was hurled
lp aud struck the ceiling. All the
•rockery was smashed aud the clock
hrown down; the pictures on the
.vail confirmed to survey the scene,
■hrough broken glasses.
"Much the same thing happened
ater in -the day to.the smoking room
)f the Koyal hotel. It also was iu
labited the minute before, would haw
oeen the minute after, but just then
was quite empty. We had a cheerful
uuch, as there were guns returning
'rom a recounoisance, aild they have
ulopted a thoughtless habit of coming
iouie past our house. Briefly, from t>
.ill 2 you would have said thut the
jarth was being shivered to matchwood
*nd fine powder. But a!as ! mau ac-
Mistoms himself so quickly to all
things that a bombardment to us, uu
ess stones actually tinkle on the roof,
s uow as au egg without salt."
Ye*-What.
A good story is goiug the rounds at
Harvard college concerning a last
fear's graduate; a dutiful son and au
ndustrious student, yet withal a
fomewhat liberal youth. At the be
ginning of his second year his father,
.vho was just setting out for Europe,
taid to him:
"Xow, Harry, you get your degree
»ud I'll send for you to come over and
ravel all summer."
Hurry was delighted. "Father,"
said he, "J. will." He studied faith
fully all the college year, and in June
iveut through with flying colore,
i'hen ho cabled his father:
"Yes."
But the father, alas! had forgotten
□is impulsive otter. He mused over
;he message, wondered, aud then
■abled back:
"ies, what?"
The son was in turn perplexed, but
oeing a well-trained lad, he did not
remain long iu the dark, and tired by
luteous zeal, cabled ba.-k:
"Yes, sir."
Letters of explanation followed,and
ae is now making the "graud tour."
—Atlanta Journal.
Lending Up to It.
■Miss DeMuir —Pano, this is Mr.
Galloper —no, I mean Mr. Pacer.
The Young Man—l beg pardon, but
ny name is Trotter.
Miss DeMuir —So stupid of me. I
tnew it had something to do with
aorse"", though.—Chieasro Tribune