THE OTHER FELLOW'S JOB. The farmer look duwouraged, He hate the rake and hoe; He wanta to try the city, Where money aectna to grow; The other fellow gets the grain, And leave for nim the cob. Bo in hia heart he coveta The other fellow' job. The busincaa man ia worried, Both enda will acarcely meetj Lat month he loat a million Upon a deal in wheat; He look with longing to the farm, And drop n tearful aob; It aeema to him like heaven The other fellow'a job. The doctor notea with envy The lawyer' bouncing roll. And wiahe he had studied With niackatone a hi goal; The clerk i far from catinhed, He sees the artiat'a daub. And criea, "Oh, how much better! The other fellow' job. 'Ti quite the atyle to gnimbli And sigh for other atara, To wiah we were transported To aomewhere, even Mar: And if we reach the Happy Land Thia thought the joy will rob, For aome will aurely covet The other fellow'a job. Commercial Telegrapher' Journal. I The Fifteen- I Minute Way. By Annie Hamilton Donnell. It whb decided definitely In the tiny sitting-room upstairs between bedrooms. Mrs. Torrey put It Into its first words, but It had been brew ing In all four minds. "We must go to housekeeping," Mrs. Torrey said. "George, we will!" "Mary, you're a Jewel shake hands!" was Mr. Torrey's reply. He had been waiting for this a weary while. Across the table two study books wore slammed down. "Mama, honest? Oh, that's good!" from Maurice. "O goody!" from nine-year-old Alan. The entire family, then, had been waiting. "Yes, we've boarded long enough. I think we've been pretty patient. Now we'll rent a house and I'll make you three boys some popovers! And you can bring your friends, George, and the boys can entertain theirs sometimes. Why, It's nearly four years since we came East, and here we are in a boarding-house still!" "Well, it sha'n't be so any long er," said Mr. Torrey. "We'll go to housekeeping to-morrow!" Mrs. Torrey smiled leniently. 'That's like n man," she said. "If we find a house in three weeks we shall do well." She was a small woman; an air of fragility sat upon her becomingly. Her big husband, adoring her with out disguise, resolved to shoulder the responsibility of moving. It wbb six o'clock the next night when the four Torreys sat down at their end of the long boarding-house tea-table. There was subdued Jubil ation in George Torrey's face, but he ate his supper without disclosing the cause of it. It was not until he got into the sitting-room upstairs that he broke forth. "Well," he said, rubbing his hands together genially, "I've engaged a house. Didn't take me long, either." '.. "George!" But his wife's tone es caped him in his self-gratulatory mood. He beumcd at his wife and the boys Impartially. "Yes, I had it all down fine Inside of fifteen minutes. Takes me to go house-hunting! I hadn't been on the car two minutes before I ran plump on it In the advertising column in the Times: 'To be let pleasant house, nine rooms, sunny, convenient, good neighborhood' everything there in black and white, you see! 'Here's luck!' I said to myself, but better was to follow. I glanced out of the car window, and there I was on the very Btreet yes, pretty near ly opposite the very number! Took me about three winks and a half to stop the car and hunt up tha'. bouse! It suited all right, and lefore an other ten minutes I'd engaged it, and to-morrow we'll " "George!" Mrs. Torrey's tone was now Impressively noticeable. It was distinctly calm and clear but notice able. There was patient tolerance In that one word there were pity, kindness, affection in it. Mr. Torrey stopped rubbing his hands together. "George, you are exactly like a man but, there, I suppose I knew It when I marriod you. But I never looked ahead to your engaging a home for your family in fifteen min utes! That proves your sex conclu sively enough! You never thought of closets and back yards and expos ures and pantry shelves, of course." The tone was gathering gentle sar casm now. "Or whether the win dows faced to the south, or any thing. My dear, engaging houses Is a woman s work. It never occurred to me that it was necessary to say o. I have cut out some advertise ments In all the papors I can find. and to-morrow I shall make a little beginning. Of course It will take considerable time more than fifteen minutes," she concluded, In a fine climax of irony. "But, Mary" Mr. Torrey was re coverlngslowly. Jubilation had irlven place in his honest countenance to surprise, chagrin, disappointment meek acceptance. "But, Mary, I've engaged the house " Only a rare presence of mind tripped him up mere, on me verge of adding that he bad paid down a month's rental 10 bind tue trade." "I thlnit I shall try the one nn Liscomb street flrBt, and work grad ually downtown," romarked Mrs Torrey, musingly. She was sorting over some little newspaper cuttings as sho mused. There was ia her face and attitude the air of a general on me ove of a groat campaign. Thore was heroism, too, as of one who fore saw personal sacrlflco and discomfort She sighed a little foroseelngly. i . . 1 1 mi -. i u wen, go anead, go ahead, my dear!" George Torrey laughed Out In the sudden relief of U-IKUTIl, i.i. He ha. I n Hll.vd Hllddw. ly what a little thlnx Mcrv WAR nnd bow determined her chin was, and now sne loved campaigns. Women were queor, but one of them was dear. "Go ahead, and find a place wito an uie windows to the south ana an tne nlosots right!" "That's what I am planning, dear. ....,... biuu; ma small wniniio "There is the right place for ua (aomewhere, and I shall not spare uuw or yams 10 una it. it will very naoiy vae a 101 oi nunting and trail jng ana aowu stairs, but I shall do my best." Thus quito as suddenly as the flf teen minute house had beeu engaged It was snuffed out of existence, so far as the consideration of It as a Torrey residence went. "Found a southern exposure yet?" Mr. Torrey asked, with unfailing po liteness, each day, when the little family assembled for the evening. And It was becoming noticeable that the answers lacked variety and orig inality as much as the questions. "Not yet," was the Invariable re ply. It had not occurred to the deter mined little house-hunter to look at the house which Mr. Torrey had en gaged. She had not given that an Instant's serious thought. The very ridiculousness of the in cident robbed it of Importance, and made it a thing only to be laughed at. Men were such funny creatures! Here had she beon systematically searching for a house for almost a week, und a man took fifteen min utes! It was presently a full week. Mrs. Torrey was very tired. She nodded in her chair evenings, and her hus band repented of his teasing. He made frequent resolutions to tease no more, but the bantering little query slipped between his lips be fore he knew It with persistent regu larity. "No, I haven't found any southern oxposure or northern exposure, or eastern or western!" she flashed back the eighth night with considerable spirit. "And I've been to forty-three places! It's the work of a lifetime, do believe! Of course there are places enough, but Just when you're trying to think over one will do, you open a closet door, and it's too small, the closet, I mean, or else you can't find any closet door when there ought to be one. There was a place on Cabot street that I came near de ciding on till I saw the chlna-closot, and a place on oh, I don't know what street, but It would have done very well except for the drawers where I should keep my tablecloths. I wasn't going to fold them again. And the boys' room in one house was too small, and so on, forty-three times! I'm discouraged, but" here spoko the chin "I shall begin again Monday morning." On the following Thursday Mrs. Torrey's tired face was the one to show Jubilation at the boanlinu- house tea-table. The lines of weari ness trailed off and were lost In the evident elation. It bespoke success. The "threo boys" scented popovers In it. It was hard work to wait for the family assembly upstairs. "Found a south well, well, don't keep ub waiting, mother!" Mr. Tor rey began, as soon as the door closed behind them. "You've something up your sleeve needn't tell me!" "Yes, I have," she laughed. "And It's a house! O George, boyB, I've found the dearest little place!" "Not everything exposures and closets and drawers and everything?" Mr. Torrey demanded, unbelievingly. Exposures drawers closets back yards pantry shelves every thing," recited the house-finder. "At last, after all my work well, I think I deserve it! Of course there's the coal-bi but never mind that. It's a darling little house." 'Good!" cried Mr. Torrey, heartily. "I congratulate you, Mary. Of course you bound the trade?" "Did what?" "Engaged it." "Of course I did nothing of the kind. I didn't decide all In a min ute like that, of course. I'm going to sleep on it." May never get a chance " be gan her husband, but relented. The shadows under the email woman's eyes undid him. 'I guess it'll still be there In the morning all right," he reassured her; but sho did not need reassurance. "I think I shall take to-morrow to rest and think it over," she said, calmly. "I don't want to decide too recklessly. Aud then day after to morrow I'll go and look it all over again, to make sure. It pays to be prudent." "M-m yes!" muttered the Impru dent man who required but fifteen minutes. "Perhaps so! Perhaps so!" But he remained privately uncon vinced. The next morning but one an ex cited little woman appeared at George Torrey's place of business. "Why, Mary why, my dear!" that gentleman exclaimed, distressed at once by the palpable signs of trouble. "I've lost it, George! My lovely little house! Look oqt of the win dow don't look at me or I shall cry! It's all to do over again all all!" "There, there," bo soothed her "Tell me all about It." And Mary, sr'iwn suddenly weak, told all. 'Soine one had engaged it already it wasn't to be let at all, but th9 child didn't know, i suppose I goo my slips mixed, and there weren't any dates, anyway." "The child? Slips? Dates?" Had househunting gone to her brain? "O dear, yes, how stupid you are! Can't you understand? The newspap er slips I cut out! That one must have been a week or two old. Tbe woman said some ouo engaged the house a while ago, and sho forgot to tell the child. She was away and she O dear, the woman was away, and the child showed me over the place and never knew It was engaged already. And, O George, we'll bonrd till we die I never can begin again! I could never find another beautiful little house like that, never! Thore was the loveliest set of drawers for table linen. And the back plaza and the perfectly splendid great clos et big en'ough to sleep In and hooks everywhere " "Mary, you take the next car home and go to ,icd. Don't get up till I come. Then we'll go round to that that little place I er hunted up, you know. It belongs to me for a good fortnight yet. I didn't let on to you. but I paid a month'B rent down. Mnybe you'll think it's batter than boarding, anyhow. Cheer up! We'll measure, for carpets and things, and have a fine time buying them! You've got to let me run things now; you'ro all done up." "Yes, yes," she murmured, meek ly. "You can do anything you please, George anything. The fight has all gone out of me. I'm ready to board or keep house anywhere." "It's a pretty good little place, now I tell you," he bustled cheerfully, getting her under way for her car. "Don't you do any more worrying. Leave things to me." They went together that afternoon. Sho was still too worn and discour aged, even after her hours of rest, to take much notice of directions or streets, but allowed herself to be led, lamblike, by the cheerful George. She kept remembering on the way more and more charms of the lovely house she had found and lost. "We could almost have kept house In that closet!" she lamented. "And, O Oeorgo Torrey, the parlor mantel!" "Never mind! Never mind!" said George, with splendid courage. "Just wait till you see my houso! Here we are." And lamenting still, she suf fered herself to be led In. The rooms were bare, but full of cozy possibilities. In the one they entered flrBt lay bars of red-gold sunlight from the illuminated west. Mrs. Torrey gazed about her listless ly. "George." The llstlessness suddenly took swift wings. "George! Oh, wait a minute wait right here! I'll be back In a moment!" She hurried from room to room came hurrying buck. She was laugh ing radiantly, sheepishly. "George! George!" she cried. "It's my house! My lovely little house! Do you sup pose I don't know the parlor mantel and tho coal-bin and the closet! I recognize everything now. It's my darling little house!" 'No such thing," he retorted. "I discovered this house myself it took me less than fifteen minutes." "And me two weeks! George, I give u,. house-hunting Is a man's work. I might have been making popovers here this very minute!" Youth's Companion. The Inventor ol Sherlock Holmes Secures a Pardon For George Edalji ENGLISH POLICE GUILTY OF ATROCIOUS BLUNDER. TEMPEIS.tTCKE OF tTPKIt Allt. Sir Conan Doyle Proved That They Started With Conviction ot Guilt and Distorted Evidence Young Lawyer Got Seven Year Term For Mutilating Animals, Fishing Dogs. Stories of fishing dogs always are interesting. I remember one of a dog which always accompanied In master trout flBhing went with hirn In lieu of a landing net. The water usually fished was a club length where the limit for takeable trout was eight Inches, and the intelligent brute, the moment a trout was firm ly hooked, would swim out, take it gently but firmly in his jaws, swim back to the bank, measure it off with his tall, and immediately chuck it back Into the water if it happened to be under the limit size. I have heard of an angler who had a dog that used to swim across the river when tbe angler got his flies hung up in a tree at the other side, and climb up the tree and disentangle them. Then I had a friend who had a very clever pointer who would point anything fur, feather, or fin. He was a first rate retriever, too. One day my friend had him out with him In a boat pike fishing, when he hooked a most terrific, tantrum my old pike, which lashed and gashed in. a most furious fushlon. In went the long-legged pointer to retrieve the game. Snap went the vicious pike's wicked jaws as the dog came up, and the poor brute's forelegs were clean bitten off close to the body. In his anguish the dog managed to swim to the boat, when snap went the sharp, horrid jaws again, and off came about seven-eighths of the dog's hind legs. His master got him back Into the boat, rendered first aid, and carried him to a veterinary surgeon, who treated him so skillfully that the stumps healed beautifully. Of course ho was no good any more as a point er; but he made a first rate dachs hund. FlBhing Gazette, London. Henry Clay's Popularity. The greatest popular idol in a polit ical senHe the country has ever known was Henry Clay. Only one other American statesman ever possessed the quality called personal magnetism to the sume extent that he did, und no other ever had a more enthusias tic personal following. Ho was an aspirant for President from 1824 to 1848, but never reached the goal. He received thirty-seven electoral votes in 1824, forty-nine In 1832 and 105 In 1844, but never enough to elect aim. Clay was elected Speaker ot the HouBe of Representatives on the first day of his term in that body and was five times re-elected. He was twice elected United States Sen ator, once unanimously by the Ken tucky Legislature, and held several other high offices. If there ever was a popular idol in the politics of this country, it was Henry Clay, but he could not be elected President, In dianapolis Journal. Fish as Seed Carriers. Long ago Darwin asserted that fresh water fish played a part In the dissemination ot aquatic plants by swallowing the seeds in one place and voiding in some far distant spot. The truth of this assertion has fre quently been questioned. Now Prof. Hochrentlne, of Genf, claims to quve proved by a series ot experiment that seeds which have been swal lowed by fish and waterfowl do re tain their geriulnatlve power even after they have passed through tho digestive organs. When planted they grew up In a perfectly normal man ner, It somewhat more slowly than ordinary teed. Oestarrelcblscha Flscherel-ZeUung. As the result of an official Inquiry ' Into the case a free pardon has been granted to George EdalJI, a young Birmingham lawyer, who was convict ed four years ago of mutilating neigh bors' horses and cattle nnd sentenced to seven yenrs' penal servitude, cables the London correspondent of the New York Sun. Investigations led by Henry Labouchere and Sir Arthur Cnnan Doyle havo established his complete Innocence and demonstrated that tho pollen blundered as badly as they did In tho recent and famous Beck case. Sir Conan Doyle's Interest In the peculiar case of Edalji was aroused by numerous printed comments on it, the widespread public effort to get the Home Office to pardon. the man, and by letters asking him to take it up from the standpoint of a detec tive. He became convinced finally that the conviction of EdalJI was due to police stupidity and persecution owing to a preconceived belief that EdalJI was guilty. Sir Conan had no hesitation after personal Investiga tion Into tho case in pronouncing it similar to the Dreyfus case. George Edalji was convicted in 1903 of killing u pony brutally and maliciously at night and of sending various anonymous letters to himself, his father and police officials, in one of which there was, by inference, a threat to murder a police official. The so-called expert In handwriting In the case admitted afterward that his con clusions about the letters were all wrong. Edalji was supposed by tho rural police to be the leader of a band of lawless men in and around Wyrley, Staffordshire, who went about in the night and at exactly ten minutes to three o'clock In the morning disem bowelled horses, cows and sheep. The country became aroused by tho dep redations of the gang. EdalJI was accused in anonymous letters to the police and a watch was put on his movements. When he was only twelve years' old Edalji had been the victim of a series of anonymous letters, for send ing which a former servant maid in the family was finally put under bonds to be of good behavior. The new series of letters, as Sir Conan showed in his public letters to the London Daily Telegraph, had all the characteristics of tho old series, ex cept as to handwriting, and one of them contained tho boast that the writer could change his chlrography as he pleased. The disembowelling of tho pony for which Edalji was arrested oc curred three-quarters of a mile from his home on the night of August 17, 1903. While he was In Jail await ing trial another horse was disem bowelled. After he was convicted three more horses and some sheep were killed on three occasions, and for one of these crimes a miner named Farrlngtoti was convicted. An other man named Green confessed that he killed his own horse, and he was railroaded out of the country to South Africa, having withdrawn his confession, and no attempt was made by the police to prosecute him. Edalji is the son of an Episcopal clergyman of Parsee origin. He was always a studious boy, and his mates say acts of cruelty were abhorrent to him. He went to various schools, studied law, took all the prizes that came his way, and when a little more than of age wrote a notable law book. He practised law in Birmingham. He advertised for information as to the anonymous letter writer who was us ing his name, protested that he knew nothing about the crimes and then went about his business. He lived at the vicarage at Wyrley with his father, mother and sister. Moreover, it has been proved that EdalJI was a victim of myopia, so that even with the most powerful glasses he could only zee a few inches and that after dark he could, not see at all and would havo to grope his way home unless he was familiar with every Inch of ground. It was proved by Sir Conan that the pony for the death of which Edalji was arrested was seen safe and sound at 11 p. m., and that when It was found bleeding to death at 6 o'clock the next morning the veterinary testified that the cuts wero less than six hours old. It was known positively that Edalji had entered his home at 9.30 o'clock on the evening of August 17 mid did not leave it again that night. The house was guarded by no less than twenty detectives. EdalJI's fa ther tostlfied that they occupied the same room, and the father said that he locked the door from' tho inside. In view of this fact and the Inability of EdalJI to see at night Sir Conan wrote: "You have to face the supposition that after returning from a long day's work in Bliiuinghani he sallied out in a coat which he was only known to wear in the house, performed a commonplace mission at the boot shop In the village, then, blind as he was, hurried off for three-quarters of a mile, through difficult, tortuous waB, with fences to climb, railway lines to croBs (I can answer for It, having myself trod every foot of It), to commit a ghastly and meaningless crime, entirely foreign to his studious and abstinent nature; that he then hurried back another three-quarters of a mile to the vicarage, arrived so composod and tidy as to attract no attention and Bat quietly down to the family supper, the whole expedition from first to laat being under an hour." Sir Conan showed that the Chief Constable of Staffordshl-e, Captain ti, Hon. U. A. Anson, had written to Edalji's father back in 1893, '-hen the first neries Cl anonymous letters had reflected on his son, a mere lad: "I may say sconce that I shall not pretend to believe any protestations of Ignorance which your son may make." From that time on the noliro nf Staffordshire were prejudiced, Sir Conan sayB, about young Edalji, and wnen, ten years later, the outrages on animals began and the anonvmous letters started up accusing him, they were convinced from the outlet thnt the young lawyer was guilty. The night on which the pony was kilted was rainy. The police found a coat which Edalji had worn at home that they said was damp. His father said It wasn t. They found some razors that were damp. That was probably true, because the air was filled with moisture. They found some starchy substancos on the coai which they said was saliva from an animal. They found two stains which were blood, but which were not damp. They found mud on the man's shoes, which was explained by the fact that he was walking about the village early In the evening. After hundreds of persons had gone over the ground the police found footprints which showed heels run down and, as Edalji's heels were run down they said the footprints were his. It had been raining viol ently after the pony was attacked. They admitted that they saw no one leave the vicarage after 9.30 o'clock In tho evening and did not attempt to oxplaln the discrepancy that the pony must have been slashed at least three hours after that. They produced a witness who swore to the handwriting of the let ters, in which EdalJI, if he wrote them, must have accused himself. They explained tho 'outrages after his arrest and conviction by saying that they were done by confederates to exculpate him, although they never could trace any acquaintance between Farrlngton, a shiftless miner, and Green, a roysterlng boy trooper, and EdalJI, whoneltherdrank nor smoked and who always lived a studious and apparently correct life In the relig ious atmosphere of a country English vicarage. The police also said they- found hairs on Edalji's coat that resembled those on the belly of a horse. Sir Conan pointed out that if the perpet rator ot the outrage had got horse hairs on his coat they would havo been from the side of the animal and not from the belly. When Capt. An son pointed out a hair Edalji's sister at once declared It was a thread and his father asserted that ho could see none. The coat and a piece of the horse's hide were then put together, and when the coat was produced twelve hours later It did have horse hairs on it. Henry Labouchere took up the case, but could make no headway as a Journalist. As a member of Par liament he then urged the Homo Office to do Justice, for EdalJI had been sentenced to seven years' Im prisonment and had been disbarred. The Home Office said it had looked Into tho case and could do nothing. It refused to allow the documents tn ,be seen, "the dossier," as was the situation in tne Dreyfus case. Then Sir Conan began his investigation. Befora he published his conclusions tho authorities took a sudden shift, described by Sir Conan as "Irregular and illogical," and released Edalji without pardon after having served three years' imprisonment. Sir Conan said of this: "Evidently the authorities were shaken and compromised with their consciences In this fashion. But this cannot be final. The man is guilty or he is not. If he is ho deserves every day of his seven years. If he is not then we must have apology, pardon and restitution." The pardon has come. Look to (In Eyes. Eye Btraln produces many physical ills that are not usually charged to tho proper account. Strain of the oye often results in nervous exhaus tion, indigestion, headache and back ache. Authority for this statement is to be found in a recent article by Dr. Luther H. Gullck, director of physical training in the public schools of New York. It is this man's be lief that a third of the children in the higher grades of school and a fourth of all educated persons are afflicted with some disability due to strain of the eye. The relation be tween vision and health Is so close that if the former becomes deranged a variety of evil consequences may follow. The moral to be drawn from Dr. Gulick's articlo is that men should be careful of their eyes and on tha first suspicion of derangement or Irregularity Bubmlt themselves to professional examination and advice. Xo chances should be taken in optic disorders. Washington Star. A Large Salmon. The net fishermen in the employ ment of the proprietors of the great Lax Weir, at Corbally. Limerick, while engaged fishing off Island Point, south of the Weir, on Friday night, Feb. 15, caught a magnificent spring salmon. The fish when scaled was found to weigh 62 4 pounds, and was in splendid condition. It was forwarded for the London market by tbe evening train for Dublin from Limerick ou Saturday evening. IrlBh Times. Supposed Warm Stratum Six or Eight Miles Pp. One of the most Interesting In quiries undertaken In the last few years has rolattfj to the temperatures which prevail at great altitudes. Tho snow on mountain tops indicates that there Is a difference between the situation there and at lower levels, but there was a desire to learn whether the decrease of warmth with elevation continued at the same rate in regions remote from mountains, j One of the best ways to find out Is to go up in a balloon, taking along both a thermometer nnd a barometer, tbe latter Instrument serving to show how high the aeronaut has gone, This plan Is beset with difficulties, however. A balloon suited to such work must be big and costly, and for Its Inflation a good deal of ga Is needed. Again, the decrease lr tho density of the air has a danger ous effect on some men. The high est ascent with a "manned" balloor concerning which there Is nn doubl was made from Stassfurt, Prussia, in 1894, by Dr. Berson. He reached an altitude of 30,000 feet, or nearlj ' six miles. But It Is possible to study the air at that and greater elevations In a more simple and economical manner. Balloons which are only large enough to carry the Instruments are now ex tensively used. The apparatus is shielded with wicker work so that it will not smash If it gets a fall. Then, tn order to Insure its return to the owner, the basket Is suitably labelled and carries an offer of a small re ward. As recording devices are at tached to both thermometer and barometer it is not necessary to main tain a watch on them while they are In service. They will tell their story afterwards. About five years ago two meteor ologists, Telsserenc do Bort (French) and Richard Assmann (German), re ported what they believed to be a curious discovery. They declared that a stratum of warm air existed between helghtB of five and eight miles. It was long supposed that the temperature diminished at the rate of about ono degree Fahrenheit for every three hundred feet of ascent. In time It was perceived that the diminution was not quite uniform nnd that occasionally a thin layer of warm air was encountered at a height of one-half a mile or a mile. Such a state of things as M. De Bort and Dr. Assmann announced, how ever, was strange enough to be rather Incredible, and of late the matter has been studied by other experts. One of these, Dr. Hergesell, took the trouble to watch his balloons through a surveyor's theodolite a kind of telescope and he noticed that when they reached nearly the greatest height they hung for a time at the same elevation, whereas Dr. Assmann had supposed that their up ward velocity steadily Increased un til the balloon burst. This discovery of Dr. HergeBell threw doubt on the existence of a warm layer, for a rea son that can be easily understood. Tho thermometer used in such work Is surrounded with a ventilating de vice which Is expected to overcome the heating Influence of direct sun light, but the device "aspiration" tube. Dr. Assmann calhi It is useful only when the instrument Is moving up or down. If it remains nearly stationary the temperature around the bulb may be ten or fifteen de grees higher than the true shade tem perature. A good deal of doubt has therefore been cast on the theory of M. De Bort and Dr. Assmann. An Austrian expert, Herr R. Nlmfuhr, believes that only those records which were obtained when the sun was below the horizon are trust worthy. Ten of these from French sources indicate, he says, that the tall ot temperature with Increasing height Increases slowly at first, then more rapidly up to eight or nine kilo metres, and then diminishes marked ly. This takes place in all season and Is in agreement with observa; tlons made in other parts of the globe. THE "SWIMMIV HOLE." Cuban Cabbage. The soil of Cuba is very fruitful. Cabbages grow, so large that heads weighing twenty pounds each are common. All vegetables do well. Radishes are ready tor the table within from fourteen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce tn five weeks after aowlng, while corn produces three crops each year. New England Grocer The Etiquette of Looting. It is stated by Miss Loane, an Eng lish worker among the very poor of the English cltiea, that the ethical side of that class of society is im perfectly developed, and it must be admitted that some of tbe true stories she tells in 'The Next Street But One" do show a light-hearted view of property rights. The lrresponsl. billty disclosed In the one below, however, Is considerably mitigated by the saving grace of humor. A friend of Miss Loanu who had been living In her own suburban villa left and went into the country. In the early spring, finding the house still unlet, she went back to fetch her bulbs, and found the garden com pletely denuded. She concluded some hawker or hedge gardener had cleared the place, and troubled her self no further. A few weeks later a very worthy old woman in tho neighborhood told the lady's former housemaid that she had taken the bulbs. "People was beginning to steoj 'em, ray dear," she said, "and I fell sure your mistress "ud rather the was took respectable." It was in the little "snimmin' hole," In the "cow lot" year ago, When my fare wn full of freckles And a stone bruit swelled my toe. That I landed my firat fiah, ' With a pin hook and a worm; And how I did enjoy Being the little au :ker aquirm. Juat how that aurker felt that day At lieing fooled and caught, Never entered in ray boviah head , For I had no time for thought; i A n, t her section of red worm went" Went quickly on the pin, And in the "awimmin' hole" it dropped To lure hi next of kin. Line of rare now mark the plaro Where the frecklea uaed to grow,' And the heart now acta the bruises That uaed to awen the toe; And I know now how the "auckcr" felt When he found himaelf aahorc, For more than onre I've plnyod hia part ' And swallowed "baita" galore. New York Press, Hoax "Did you really enjoy yonf st'jy In Paris?" Joax "I came horns In the steerage." Boston Record. There are times when words fall a man but If he has n wife it doesn't matter much. Chicago Dally News. The way to get rich is to lay up part of your own income and as much as possible of other people's. Son crvlllu Journal. Of modern philosophy H'rc 1 a peep. Beauty ia oftentimes Only clothes deep! -Life. Jennie "Did you hear of the aw ful fright Jack got on his wedding day?" Olive "Yes, indeed I was there and saw her." Tit-BltB. Frightened Actor "The leading lady is tearing her hair!" Stage Manager "Well, what ot it? It Isn't her hair." Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Browne "Mrs. Wythe Bays she thinks that it Is wrong to play whist." Mrs. Black "It is, the way she plays it." Somerville Journal. "You have no sense of humor," h complained. "You can't take a Joke." "I took one when I got you," she bit terly replied. Chicago Record-Herald. Girl (to crying little brother) "Aren't you ashamed of yourself, Dick? Bobble says he has already given you two bites." Dick "But It's my apple." Life. To see the attitudes they strike. You'd think, by jing, That nlniont'fume ia very like The real thing! Washington Herald. Tom "Mamma, let's move." Mam ma "What for, dear?" Tom "Oh, I've licked every kid In the block, an' there's no more fun hero." Chicago Dally News. Shea "How long have you been sick?" Ryan "Five days." Shea "Glory be! An' why don't ye git a doctor?" Ryan "Sure, I got to go to wur-ruk Monday marntn'."- Puck. Mother (to her little son, playing horse with visitor's umbrella) "Don't ride away with Mrs. Bore ham's umbrella. Bobble." Bobble i "Why not, mother? I won't hurt it." Mother "You might, dear. And, anyhow, she'll be wanting It direct ly. " Punch. "Can you give bond?" asked tha Judge. "Have you got anything?" "Jedge," repl.'ed the prisoner, "senca you ax me, I'll tell you: I hain't got nuthin' In the worl' 'cept the spring chills, six acreB o' no-'count land, a big family, a hope of a hereafter, an' the ol' war-rheumatism!" Atlanta Constitution. "Permit me to ask you, madam," safU the lawyer, who was a friend of the family, "your real reason for wanting a divorce from your hus band." "He Isn't the man I thought I was marrying," explained the fair caller. "My dear madam," rejoined the lawyer, "the application of that principle would break up every home in the country." Chicago T-ibune Tailless Trout. In "Whltaker's Almanack" for 1871 Is an account of some tailless trout having been discovered in Loch Macrlchen, in Islay. This loch it 1000 feet above the level of the sea. aud although surrounded by other lochs tn uone of them were tailless tneut found save in it, and there they were In excellent condition. The no tice continues: "At the mines of Wan lochhead, Dumfriesshire and Lead bills, In Lanarkshire, there are, ac cording to Dr. Grleraon, of Thorn hill, streams coming from the sharts, In which trout without tails, and often deficient in fins, are frequently caught. Sunh fish are often blind." Fishing Oasette. ,1'irst Use of ..n. in England. 'The use of coffee in England waa first known in 1657. The first pub lic place lu London where it waa aold was thus advertised: "Made and aold in St. Michael's alley in Corn hill by Pasqua Roses, at tbe sign of hia own head." Guarding the Public Coal Lands. Dr. Edward Everett Hale pro pounded the following question to a company of scientists in Washington some days ago: "What achievement of the past year is most worthy of a commemorative medal?" The trend of tho answers was to ward tho exploit of Amundsen Id traversing the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to tho Pacific, or to tho more significant exploit of tha Wright Brothers, of Dayton, Ohio, who repeatedly succeeded in aerial flight in a machine much heavier than the air. It is a natural tendency of tho sci entific mind to give first rank to Indi vidual discovery or exploit rather than to bring intoaccount all achieve ments, giving first place to that which responds most successfully to the greatest need of the time. Experts in statecraft will, doubt less, concede that under the present conditions of our national develop ment it is quite posslblo for tho great est geueral good to result from somo extremely keen and far-reaching achievement lu administration, and in the mind of the writer such an administrative achievement has ac tually characterized the past year. I refer to the proclamation of the Pres ident withdrawing from sale the coal lands ot tho people. The vaBt Im portance of this act in connection with the preservation of our conl supply has been well pointed out by Edward W. Parker, the Governments coal expert, whose clever curve of increase points out our rate ot gallop ing consumption and tells clearly tho limits of our supply. Review of Reviews. The GHt of (iruclousncss. 'Tls the chief glory ot tbe high and mighty to be gracious, a prerogative of kings to couqtrtV universal good will. That is tha great advu-.ituge ot a commanding position to bo atalo to do more good than others. Thosa make friends who do friendly acts. On tbe othar hand, there are sou who lay themselves out for not being gracious, ""' ou account of the difa culty, but from a bad disposition. In all things thay are tha opposite of di vine g-aoa.
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