THE CHANCES OTHERo HAVE.
"I might be riob, I might be great," I heard
one sadly say,
"Could I have had my master's olianoe to
start upon the way;
Had be been placed where I was placed, men
would not praise his name;
Had I been favored as ho was I would have
greater fame!
They that ignore me now would all be syoo
phants, to dance
Attendance on me here if I had only bad his
chance."
The wires whereby men's messages are sent
beneath the seas.
The gleaming rails o'er which men speed
what time they 101l at ease.
The graceful domes that rise until they seem
to pierce the sky,
The mighty ships that cleve the main as fast
as eagles tty,
The disks and tubes through which men see
o'er space's broad expanse,
Are not the him who sighed to have
some other's chance.
The songs that live through centuries are
not the songs of men
Who longed for favors others knew and
tossed away the pen;
The names upon the noble arch that makes
the artist glad
Are not the names of men who yearned for
ohances others had!
O' all the wonders of our age that rise at
every glance
Slone came from him who might do much
had he some other's ohance.
—3. E. Kiser.
I —THE— |
I Errifl Horalio Forgot. |
X BY ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL. X
"Him— Horatio Miser married?
No, be basu't ever been, quite!"
"Quite married?"
"Yes, not quite."
Lucretia ndjustel her sewing
glasses and sorted out two or three
patchwork squares. The suggestions \
of a story were iu ber face. Theu she j
was rocking gently, and the rocker
gave forth its familiar creak which
was a suggestion, too. When Lucre
tia's chair creaked iu that way, her
hearers settled into their chairs and
waitel. It was only a matter of wait
ing
"Well, there's them that are absent- i
minded and there's them that are ab- |
seut-miuded," Lucretia said. "I sup- i
po.«e you've noticed that? Horatio
Mixer's the lattermost kind—land,
yes! I have not been to the North
Pole nor to the Soutli Pole, but if I
had 've, I shouldn't ever have run
across his equal anywhere on the way
—not for absent-mindedness.
She tried a pink triangle with the
chocolate and then a blue one.
Neither exactly met her ideas of har
mony, and fiually, with a sigh, she
substituted a vivid green.
"Yes?" some one said,suggestively.
"He was never entirely married, you
eaid, Lucretia?"
"The greeu'll do," she decided, and ,
then returned to her story. "No, but
he got pretty near it.—as near as the
postoflice!" i
The creaking waxed a little trem
ulous, as if tho chair were laughing
with Lucretia. Of course every one
else was. There was somethiug con
tagious iu Lucretia's silent mirth.
"To this day I haven't got over it!"
she gasped. "Nor I guess Cicely
Gove hasu't —nor Horatio. He hasn't
been lo the postoffice since. My little
Jerry gets his mail."
She threaded her needle slowly.
"Poor Horatio!" she smiled. "No,
he hasu't been since he came so near j
getting married. Laud, yes, I sup
pose I might as well up aud tell the
whole story! I've got jour appetites
whetted up!"
"I should say so! Mine's as sharp
as Uncle Nehemi' Castlo's scythe!"
Polemia Dunn exclaimed.
This was a neighborhood pleasan
try, b.it Lucretia's mind was on
Horatio's narrow escape from matri- j
motiy, aud she let it slip by unappre
ciated.
"It was this way: nobody but
Horatio Mixer could 've doue it.
Laud, no! But Horatio's equal to ,
anything absent-minded under the
light of the moon! He and Cicely
concluded to get to the parson's and
gr"-, spliced. Cicely'd got all her fix
ings ready, and there didn't ssem any
use putting it oft' any longer. So
Horatio harnessed up. It was a good
two miles to the parson's. They
•tavted along about two o'clock, so as
to get there betwixt hay and grass, so
to speak."
"Wall? Well, Lucretia?"
"'Twarn't well," chuckled Lucretia,
aufeeliugly. "Horatio's unlucky star
rose early that day and soared! I
calculate 'twas right up overhead by
the time they got to the postotHce.
Cicely said she guessed they might as
well stop and get the mail—poor
Cicely! —as 'twas weekly paper day.
So Horatio went in and shut the door
of matrimony behind him. Cicely
* heard it slain, but she didn't realize
what it meant. She set out there
holding Horatio's horse and waiting.
She waited two mortal hours!"
"Lucretia!"
"Two—mortal—hours. Theu Cicely
she climbed over the wheel aud went
home. The horse kept on waiting—
land, he'd have waited till crack of
doomsday! He was acquainted with
Horatio."
"But Horatio, Lucretia?"
"Horatio? That's what I say! Well,
you see he'd run across Hannibal Bin
ney, and that reminded him of
Hannibal's yoke of steers. He'd been
planning, off and ou, to swap his
mowing machine for them. They got
arguing, and argued themselves out of
the back door, across lots, to Hauni
bal's. It was two hours or so later
that Horatio came back, towing the
steers. He hitched them on behind
his wagon and climbed in, as self-con
gratulating as you please. He was
real tickled.
"Some of the neighbors were out
on tho lounging seats,and they spread
it round what Horatio did next It
made a good story, after they'd found
oat about Cicelr. Horatio took ud
tho reins, looking kind of puzzled,
thoy said: 'Warn't there something
else I was going to do?' he ruminated,
out loud. 'Seems to me there was au
errand. Now where was I going to
from here?'
"He scratched his head consider
able and then he looked relieved.
" 'The parsonage! That's it! I was
going to the parsonage on an errand.
Get up, Molly!' and he rode away,
with those two steers capering along
—he'd forgot them!"
Lucretia's bright bits of patchwork
drifted to the floor in a rainbow
stream. She glanced across at
Polemia, and began to laugh again.
"Land!" she gasped.
"Land!" echoed Polemia. "Well?'
" 'Well!' I'm glad you think so.
You're the only oue! What do you
suppose that muu did then?"
"Went to the parsonage and—
and—" But imagination faileJ.
"That's just what he did! Went to
the parsonage—and—and set there ic
his wagon, with them steers gaspiug
behind, trying to remember what his
errand was! Well, after a spell ol
racking, he—remembered. I guess
there's where we'd better draw th«
curtail), my dears. The sun's got be
hind the meeting-house, and it's time
to b'ile the kettle for supper."
And Lucretia went out and left hei
guests sympathiziug with pool
Horatio,
"Didu't Cicely ever forgive him,
Lucretia?" Polemia went to the dooi
to call out.
Lucretia's voice came back to them
plaintive with the softening effect o:
distance. "Cicely? No, she didn't
She said she'd find a man that could
get as far as the parson's front door
She said if ever she died, Horatic
Mixer'd forget to bury her. Pooi
Cicely!"
"Poor Cicely!" Polemia echoed,
but her heart was with Horatio.—
Youth's Companion.
THE THUNDERBOLT'S CRASH.
An Up-to-IJate Romance at the Nationa
Capital.
"Do not be angry with me, father,'
pleaded the beautitul young girl ic
the striped shirt waist. "1 know 1
am your ouly daughter, and all that,
and for many years you have beeu
both fa'her and mother to me, but you
ask me what is impossible."
"Then you have come to defy me?'
sternly demanded Monas Moneybags,
as a scowl darkened bis face.
"Not to defy you, father, but to ask
you to be reasonable. You desire me
to marry Henry White because he
once jerked you out of the way of a
trolley car."
"I do. He is a jerky young man,
and I want him for a son-in-law."
"But, think, father. He is simply
a clerk and his salary is about sl7 per
week."
"I know, but I have promised him
your baud. Any time yon are out of
soap and pins you'll find me
ready to chip in."
"I cannot do it, father," said the
daughter, as she looked into the glass
to see if the powder was all wiped off
her chiu, "1 love Count Kolinsky,
and if I caunot marry him I will
never, never wed. He is a man of
millions, aud as his wife I can have
every wish gratified."
"Daughter, do you forget that I am
your father?"
"I do not—but—but "
"You will marry Heury White. But
for him I should now be buried."
"father, I won't do it!"
"Girl!" hissed tho father, "I am
worth $9,000,00i). I should have left
it all to you. Now you do not get a
cent. Here is a new will which leaves
every dollar to charity. I will sigu it
anil then drive you out to do second
work for a living. Behold!"
But as he drew the will toward him
and dipped his pen into the ink, the
nine weeks'drought which had hovered
over Maryland .and Virginia and
burned the crops to tinder was sud
denly broken. There was a flash of
lightning—a crash of thuuder—a
sudden downpour, and as the girl
looked around at her father she found
him dead. A hunk of thunderbolt
weighing 51 pounds 5 ounces had
hit him on the jaw and knocked him
out with the new will unsigned.
Two weeks later she became Count
ess of Kolinsky, and on her marriage
day the jerky Henry White was sun
stroked, and died without recognizing
his washerwoman.—Washington Post
Cat* on Ocean Llnem.
Every large ocean liner carrying
passengers always has on board from
six to ten cats, these being appor
tioned to various parts of the ship, as
well as appearing on the vessel's
books as regards the rations they
draw.
And, eveu beyond this, on most of
the great liners, particular employes
are instructed to feed daily as a part
of their duties certain cats in their
part of the ship. And there is pro
motion for pussy as well, for any cat
that is particularly amiable, clever
and inte v esting is permitted to enjoy
the run of the first or second or third
class saloons, according to the popular
vote. In this way certain of the first
class saloon pussies have become
quite celebrated, especially ou the
long voyage boats that goto India
and Australia, and the stewards of the
various classes are quite commonly
eager to push their own favorite cat
into first place. Of course, savß Tit-
Bits, there are amazing favorites with
the staff of the ship that are fine
hunters aud do not seek "society."
When the ship is in port a certain
man has the duty of feeding the cats
at regular hours, and of entering the
rations in a book, but every cat on the
ship that has been long there seems
to wait with eagerness for, and to
recognize at once the professional rat
j catcher who always goes to work iu
the hold of every passenger liner
' when it comes to dock, and who li v *s
I by ridding ships of rats.
[FOR FARM AND GARDEN! !
Harrowing Sod Land. '
To obtain the most satisfactory re- '
suits in harrowing a piece of newly '
turue.l sod ground, where the plow
ing is a lap furrow, it should be bar- 1
rowed the same way as the plowing. ]
If the plow has left the sod kinked up <
iu places, or the sod does not lie down 1
as flat and close as it should, it will i
pay togo over the whole surface with i
a field roller. This not only presses 1
the uneven surface down smoothly,
but leaves the ground in better shape i
with once harrowing than if harrowed 1
twice without rolling. 1 t
t
Energy of Been.
Indefatigable industry, energy and j 1
perseverance are the peculiar charac
teristics of the honey bees. They 1
begin their life work at birth in caring 1
for and nursing young larvee, and at 1
about 16 days old they become honey '
and pollen gatherers, and during the j
honey harvest, iu the early dawn, ;
when the balance of God's creation i
are asleep, they sally forth on then
daily mission, and when evening's twi
light has cast its sombre mantle over
nature's face they may be seen return
ing laden with sweats which, but for
their unequalled energy, would be
forever lost. They fear not the sun's ;
scorchiug rays and regard not the rain
nor the storm. They deserve a nice
house and a clean yard, and they will
provide abundantly for themselves
and a surplus for their owner if treated
fairly.
Why Incubator Chick* Die.
At the Fhode Island station careful
investigation has been made of the
cause of death of young iucnbator
chickens. The total number of dead
chickens examined during the spring
and summer of 1800 was 826. It was
alleged that nbout one-third of the
chicks had been more or less in
jured by uneven lieat during incuba
tion. Another common cause of |
trouble was in overcrowding of
brooders, resultiug in death by suffo- j
cation, trampling, etc.
Tuberculosis was found to be very
prevalent and 15 per cent, of the
chickens were more or less affected.
For guarding against this disease, it
is recommended to gue the interior
of the brooders all the sun and air
possible on pleasant days. Bowel
troubles were a common cause of
death. Feeding should be as nearly i
as the time of tho attendant lenders
profitable a continuous operation, but
by no means a continuous gorge.
Sometimes too much animal food is
given, but in moderate quantities
animal food results in rapid growth.
Lack of animal food sometimes causes
diseases of tho liver and gall bladder.
The Dnfttructton of Woe In.
There are two classes of weeds
those that come from seeds and those
which are propagated principally by
means of their roots. Weeds which
spriug up from see ls can be destroyed
by successfully bringing the seeds in
the soil to the surface, where they
germinate. The seeds of some weeds
have great vitality and remain iu the
soil for years. Some are inclosed iu
clods and retained for other seasons,
but when the clods are broken and the
weed seeds exposed ti warmth near
the surface they are put out of exist
ence by the harrow as soon as they
germiuate, for which reason it is im
possible to clear a piece of laud from
weeds in a season, unless every clod
is pulverized. The oft-repeated in
quiry, "From whence come the
weeds?" may be answered, "From
tho clods." The weeds that spriug
from roots are cut up, checked and
prevented from growing by frequent
cultivation, because they caunot exist
for a great length of time if not per
mitted to grow. If no leaves are al
lowed on such plants they perish from
suffocation, because they breathe
through the agency of the leaves.
The advantages derived by the soil iu '
the work of weed destructiou reduces
the cost of the warfare on the weeds,
for every time the harrow or cultivator
is use 1 the manure is more intimately
mixed with the soil, more clods are
broken, a greater proportion of plant
food is ottered to the roots, the loss
of moisture is lessened, aud the ca- '
pacity of the plants of the crop to se
cure more feed is increased. The
cost of the destruction of weeds
Bhould not be charged to the accounts
of a single year ouly, as thorough
work during a season may obliterate
the weeds entirely or so reduce their j
number as to make the cost of their
destructiou during the succeeding !
years but a trifle.—Philadelphia
Record.
Thinning Tree Fruits.
Thinning tree fruits has been prac
ticed for a good many years, yet few
fruit growers are in favor of it, if we
may judge by the number that do not
do it. The fact, however, that the
most successful orchardists do thiu
and that they attribute much of their
success to it is a strong argument in
its favor. Some of the growers along
the Hudson river were thinning their
apple crops twenty years ago, and, as
a result, got a good yield of beautiful
fruit nearly every year. The most 1
qoted peach grower iu Michigau has
his peaches thinned every year aud
the bill for the work is considerable.
This last is the reason that thinning is j
not more widely practiced. Men I
heeitato to let goof the money that
the work calls tor.
Compared with the benefits received
tbt cost i3 slight, and may be counted -
AS part of a permanent investment
For trees that have a tendency to j
overbear there is no better treatment, ;
and some of the American apples,
pears, peaches aud eveu plums liuv6
this bad habit. Thinning tkd fruit j
from the beginning of the tree's ex
istence get 3 it into the habit of bear
ing about the same amount of fruit
each year and gives a double advan
tage—that of haviug fruit iu the years
when others have uone and iu pro
longing the life of the tree and in
creasing the number of crops it re
turns in its lifetime.
The writer has seen pear trees so
loaded with fruit that each individual
pear was below medium iu size aud
the limbs of the tree had to be propped
to keep them from breaking. Higher
up in the tree great limbs were hang
ing lifeless, having beeu broken by
the weight of fruit in previous years.
He could but think how much better
it would have been to have thinned
this fruit by three-fourths, that the
tree might have been saved mutila
tion aud the market have received a
pear that would have attracted at
tention.
A man can thin fruit very rapidly as
he merely passes his hand along the
limb pinching off oue after another of
the fruits and permitting them to
drop. The cost will be generally
fonud to be less than might be ex
pected. Orchardists will do well to
give this jr.ictice a fair trial—Farm,
Field aud Fireside.
Utilizing Springs and ISrooks.
In case* where there are springs,
and small brooks near a homestead,
advantage should always be takeu of
them for watering stock, forming ice
and fiih pouds, and supplying cool
water for the milk and butter dairy.
Also for cooling aud keeping lresh
meats, cooked vegetables, etc., in
hot weather. Clear water, flowing iu
a perennial brook or from a never
failing spring, is the cheapest water
supply known, and the homo that has
such an appendage near by is worth
certainly a hundred dollars more than
a like farm without it. It saves well
digging and watering troughs, draw
ing and carrying water; enables the
owner to ha\e a series of small pouds,
where he can raise fish and save ice;
and there is no better locution for a
few scuppernong and other grape
vines for the family supply of grape 3
from August to October, thau tho
sandy, mellow I auks of such a stream.
Cool spriug water, flowiug through a
latticed or wire-netted (lairyhouse, is
just the thing for keeping meats,
cooked provisions, butter or milk
sweet and nice iu summer time.
The water of a spring may be con
ducted, first, through a series of
shallow basins or troughs for setting
milk and butter pans, vegetable dishes,
etc., so that tho water would bo con
stantly flowing around and from them
in the dairyhouse; thence into a small
pond, where carp, trout or pike could
be grown, and around the sides of
which grapevines might bo set aud
trained to trellis or I ar; from theuce
to another small lake for ducks aud
geese; and perhaps, if descent aud
space permitted, iuto a third pond,
where osier willow,sweet aud coopers'
flag aud other desirable water-loving
and valuable plants might be grown.
Perhaps if there was much level
ground near the stream —soil fit for
gardeu crops or corn or any farm
crop, or for pecan or othor nut trees
—tlie little farm brook might bo
turned and made to flow liithor and
thither iu a way to irrigate large plots
of soi', where the crispest and sweot
est vegetables could be grown and a
never-failing supply of water to be
given to many things that, too often,
fail and languish on the upland for lack
of moisture.
Keep up tho Summer Milk.
A very large share of Vermont
farmers are dairymen. Every one of
them lias a bai u more or less tfell
equipped for the winter feediug of his
stock. They all labor iu summer,
sowing, cultivating and harvesting
crops for winter use. A large share
of taem carry, to all intents and pur
poses, dry cows only iu the winter,
working hard all summer simply to
keep the cows alive during the winter,
while they are bringiug in little or no
income.
These same men, however, often
take no thought of means of summer
feediug of cows. They depend solely
upon the pastures. It happens all too
frequently, however, that the pastures
dry up anil the cows shrink seriously
iu their milk flow. It is a difficult
thing to tide backward. A cow once
shrunk in milk seldom regains her
former yield, and then with difficulty.
It seems the part of wisdom for the
farmers to divert some of the energy
which they now devote to the growing
of food for the maintenance of dry
cows to the growing of food for keep
ing up the ln'lk flow during the sum
mer. The larger use of soiling crops,
such as oats and peas, Hungarian,
rowen and tiie like, is well worth
while. Considerable amounts 11117 ' )0
grown without very great expendi
ture of time or money, aud they are
excellently well adapted to help out a
short or dry pasture.
There i j , perhaps, nothing better
for this purpose than silag.'. It has
beeu very thoroughly demonstrated
that » pound of digestible dry matter
can be placed in the cow's manger by
way of the silo cheaper than in auy
other mauuer. The silo capacity of a
dairy farm should be made large
euough, in my judgment, to euable
one to use silage all the tima The
silo intended for summer use, how
ever, should be deap and with a rela
tively small surface area, to avo'id
what otherwise might prove to be
large losses owing to fermentation.
The stave silo is now coming rapidly
into vogue, and is proving so very
; useful for most purpo;e% an l is so
readily put up and comparatively so
inexpensive for its tonnage capacity,
j that it is to l>e hoped that the number
; of silos iu Vermont will rapidly in
crease in the near future.—Director
|J. H. Hills, Vermont Experiment
I Station, iu Field and Farm.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
There are Ave counties in North and
South Carolina that spin more cotton
than they raise. Th j total number
oi bales spun is 395,000 and of Lalea
raised 18O,00iX
The Russian agricultural depart
ment has recently discovered in
Kirghiz Steppa on the eastern shore
of tho Caspiau sea immense naphtha
springs of a quality which is said to
be equal to the best American naphtha.
The hydraulic mining pits in Cali
fornia materially changed the land
scape in many places. The pit of a
hydraulic mine in Nevada county, Cal.,
which was washed out some 50 years
ago, is again covered with a growth of
pine and other trees, and patches of
brush again dot the once verdureless
■"lopes.
A special report of the agricultural
department tells about a new use to
which skimmed milk is being devoted.
By a process of dedication the caseiu
of the milk is reduced to a dry state,
and it can then be molded into any
desired form, colored, etc., after the
manner of celluloil. The new prod
uct can be adapted.to the mauufac
ture of billiard balls, oilcloth, book
bindings, paper sizing, eto., and
skimmed milk being practically a
waste product in many sections the
material ought to be inexpensive.
Folds of rock, with allied phenom
ena, are reproduced for the instruc
tion of geological students by a novel
apparatus devised by Professor G. A.
Lebour of the Durham College of Sci
ence. Two parallel wooden rollers,
about four inches in diameter, are
mounted about three feet apart, and
are provided with gears and a crank
to rotate them slowly in opposite
directions. A sheet of rubber is
lirmly attached to both rollers. The
rubber is stretched by rotating the
rollers, when layers of cloth, clay or
paste are laid ou it, and on reversing
the rotation the folds are shown grad
ually growing with the contraction.
At the last annual meeting of the
Geological Society of America, Pro
fessor 112. C. Russell called attention to
tho recent discovery that many of the
swamps and lakes in the southern peu
iusula of Michigan are rich in calca
reous marl, suitable for making Port
land cement. Although partly com
posed of shells, the Michigan marl is
princpally a chemical precipitate which
is still being formed. The precise
method of its formation is not yet
understood. The supply is practically
inexhaustible. Large cement works
have lately been constructed, others
are in contemplation, and Professor
Russell says that Michigan can easily
take a ieadiug place in that industry.
An interesting experiment was car
ried on during the year just passed by
Sir W. Thiseltou-Dyer, who tried to
ascertain the effect of exposing seeds
to a temperature of 330 degrees centi
grade, or the temperaturo of liquid
hydrogen. The seeds selected were
mustard, peas, vegetable marrow,
musk (for its extremely small size),
wheat, and barley, and the samples
used in the experiments were of the
best quality, selected by expert seeds
men. The seeds wore then sent to
Professor Dewar, who in the first
instance sealed them in glass tubes,
cooled them first iu liquid air, and
then transferred thein to the hydro
gen, where they remained for more
than an hour. The seeds were then
planted and germinated as usual. Iu
another experiment seeds were im
mersed in liquid hydrogen for six
hours, being actually soaked iu the
liquid, and when planted germinated
| without showiug the slightest effect o)
| the treatrneut to which they had beer
subjected.
The Sunfiml Ant.
The native Brazilian, far removeo
as he usually is from doctors and sur
geons, depends upon a little ant tc
sew up his wounds when he is slashed
or scratched. This odd creature ia
called the surgical ant, from the use
to which it is put.
The ant has two strong nippers OD
his head. They are his weapons foi
battle or forage.
When a Brazilian has cut himself,
for example, he picks up an ant,
presses tho nippers against the wound,
one on each Bide, and then gives the
bug a squeeze. The indignant insect
snaps his nippers together, piercing
the flesh and bringing the lacerated
parts close together. The Brazilian
at that moment gives the aut's body
a jerk and away it flies, leaving the
uippc-rs embedded in the flesh. To
be sure that kills the aut, but he has
served his most useful purpose in life.
The operation is repeated until the
wound is sewed up neatly and thor
oughly.—St. Louis Post-l)ispatcli.
Spnech lle«torod h.v Klcctrie Shock.
H. T. Steffev, a venerable wagon
maker of Rising Fawn, Ga., was
stricken with parulysis 10 years ago,
and lost his power of speech. The
other day Mr. Steffey was called upou
to do some work which involved the
handling of electrical apparatus, and
received, through accident, quite a
severe shock. Great was his surprise
to find that the electrical stroke had
restored his speech. At first his ut
terances were imperfect, bat they
continued improving, so that now he
has completely regained his voice.-
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.
New Shoe r»«tening.
Shoes can be rapidly fastened ou
the feet by a new lacing device, which
has a series of leather or cloth loops
attached alternately to either edge of
the upper, with a single stroug cord
threaded through the loops to draw
them into a straight line when th»
. string is tiffbtnued
Some Desirable Stamps.
Nothing in a small way is moro
suggestive of the change that has
taken place in the fortune of war, and
iu particular of the fortune of the
Orange Free State, than the postage
stamps bornci by the latest mail-letters
from Bloemfontein. These stamps
will not improbably be much sought
after by philatelists. Three varieties
to hand are respectively of the values
of "half-penny," "een-Denny," "zes
pence" (sixpence), and are colored
light orange, heliotrope, and light
blue. All alike bear the tigare of a
tree, whose symbolic meaning is
accentuated by the word "vrij"
(freely) above it, being part of the
legend "Orange Vrij Staat." All this
is familiar enough. What, however,
makes the little colored squares in
teresting is the evidence they bear of
the British occupation. Immediately
beneath the "vrij" of the Taal in
scription are stamped in black letters
"V. B. I." And"V. E. I. 'just now
to the Free Stater means a very dif
ferent thing from "vrij." —London
Daily News.
The Romance Spoiled.
A story has been going the rounds
that a secret chamber containing a
skull and crumbling bones had been
found in the historic old Virginia
mansion known as Lower Brandon.
The secret chamber was discovered
indeed by Miss Gulie Harrison,
daughter of the present mistress of
Brandon; but, according to the young
lady herself, as quoted by a Rich
mond correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, gruesome remains of poor hu
manity alleged to have been found
existed only in the vivid imagination
of some romancer. The floor of the
secret closet was covered with the
dust of ages, but was empty of else.
As to the use to which this myste
rious room was put or its purposenone
of those acquainted with its history
know. It was possibly constructed
for the uuromantic but highly practi
cable purpose of concealing the silver
ware and other valuables of the early
owners of Brandon.
A Garden on Shipboard*
When Captain Taylor, of the Ameri
can ship Kenilworth, arrived in Phila
delphia from Leith, Scotland, on a
recent trip and opened her hatches he
was amazed to see what was appar
ently a green and growing field of
grain, extending the entire length of
the vessel. Then he remembered that
the Kenilworth had carried from San
Francisco to Leith a cargo of Cali
fornia barley. When she left Leith
considerable ballast in the shape of
loose earth was dumped into her hold
to give her the necessary stiffening
lor ber transatlantic run. During the
passage, which occupied over a month,
the loose grain which clung to the ves
sel's side dropped down into the earth
and sprouted. The barley was sev
eral inches high, and the hold inside
as green as a park hillside.—Philadel
phia Record.
The Sargent Flesh-Eater Alive.
The United States possesses at Ka
diak Island, on the southeast coast ot
Alaska, a few living specimens of the
largest carnivorous animal now in the
world—a monster bear—which has not
at any timo been brought into captiv
ity. Professor Langley has been try
ing for two years to obtain live speci
mens of this and other great mam
mals of Alaska, for the National Zoo
logical Park, in the hope of preserv
ing the species.
What Shall Wo Have For Dessert!
l'lils question arises In the family daily. Let
us answer It to-day. Try Joll-O, a delicious
an<l healthful dessert. Prepared In 2 mln. No
boiling! nobaklngl Simply add a little hot
water A set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange,
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c.
Atlanta, OH., now claims an estimated
population of 127,000.
11. M. Norton. St. Paul. Minn., says: Please
send me one bottte Frey's Vermifuge for en
closed 25c. I cannot got a bottle in this city.
The chance of two finger prints being
alike Is not one In llfty-four billion.
The Best Prescription for Chills
AND Perer is a bottle of GNOVL'I TASTSLVH9
CHILL TONIC. It la simply iron and quinine tn
a tasteless form. No cure—uo pay. Price Cue.
Tbe flower trade of London exceeds lu
value $10,000,000 per annum.
To Teachers.
Those attending National Educational Con
vention, Charleston. S. C., can take a aide trip
totbe mountainsof Western North Carolina,
the " Land of the Sky." on their return from
the Charleston Convention. The route of the
Southern Hallway. New York to Charleston,
is in close touch with the mouttain region of
North Carolina. The peak ot the "Land of
Ihe Sky." Mount Mitchell, the highest moun
tain of the East, rises 8711 feet, and is one of
forty-three peaks which look down on the
highest of New England summits. Those
going to Charleston by the Southern Railway
pass through the historic battlefield section
of Virginia. Interesting literature of the trip
will be furnished upon application. New
York to Charleston, for the occasion of Na
tional Educational Association, one fare for
the round trip, plus t'i membership fee. 'lhe
train tor Clin Hut-tin leaves New York 3.25 P.M.
and 12 10 midnight. Full particulars at 371
and 1185 Broadway. Alex. S. Thweatt, East.
Pass. Agt.. 1185 Uroadway, New York.
Counterfeiting may be a dangerous
gntr.o, but forging Is all write.
Better Blood
Better Health
If you don't feel well to-day you can be
mnde to feel better by making your blood
better. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the great
pure blood maker. That ia how It cures
that tired feeling, pimples, sores, salt
rheum, scrofula and catarrh. Get a bottle
of this great modiolus and begin taking It
at once and see how quickly It will bring
your blood up to the Good Health point.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Blood Medicine.
DON'T STOP TOBJCCO SUDDENLY
It injures nervous 9vstem to do so. DAfifl.fillßfl
is the only cure that Really C'liren
and notine.H you when to stop. Sold with a
guarantee that three boxes will cure any case
DIPA PIIDfi is vegetable and harmless. It has
DAuU-uUnU cured thousands, it will cure voti.
At all druggists or by mail prepaid, gI.OO a bo*;
8 l>oxes, $2.40, booklet fre*». Wri*e EUREKA
CHEMICAL CU. La Crosse, Wb.
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