THEIR INVESTIGATION B.r Grant CfU'cn ' I . |»i • i.jf . hi liubl I K IIHI A ir\e. au«L Olmstead swung tlHiui to ».urve\ the barren little stn tlon. turning up his i-oat collar as be dl«i so for lb** night wind had a chill breath of fro-i in it. lirswu up • tlx- station was a sorry looking art near which stood a shab by man aw :m lustily "Carriage for the s.'tji Mr ii Hi s way for tlie sani tarlum" Olmsteaul tuaiie Ins way thither, smil ing grimly The four other passengers "VOMITS MB, sin: KAII>. "DO TOt7 KNOW WHT I AM HKRE?" who bad alighted from the train bad preceded b;ia and were now climbing Into the barg* "Sanitarium. sir?" inquired the shab by man an olmstead came up. "AH rlgbt. sir ««it right in Let's have your checks lllit t your baggage." The checks were baDded over, and while tlie driver WHS getting the trunks Olmstead looked over the other occu pants of tlie barge. There were one man aiul three women. The man and two of the women were typical con sumptives narrow cheated and hollow cheeked Now ami then they coughed apuhtnodically They were poorly dress ed and evidently of tlie class who availed themselves ;»f the state's chari ty fund to bring them here. The other woman was of IIU entirely different type She was well dressed and young In the dun light from the station lamps olmstead could see she was decidedly pretty Sin- did not cough, nor WAS »he hollow cheeked like the r«>sf Olmstead inade two mental decisions— that she was a pay patient and that her case was not as yet a very serious one He felt a sudden tfcrlil of pity that she should be here. mo evidently was she at egln nlng. ' she said. Indicating the table. "I should say not." he replied "I be lleve this fare would prove the undoing of a rugged i>erson, tossy nothing of Its effects on au invalid." "Shail yon stay?" she asked. "A week st least," said he"And jour* "1 shall stay for a time, anyway." she returned After that meal they were frleuds. They -trolled about tho grounds to gether Tliej found quiet nooks where they < -Hild discuss fr«>ely the Inefficien cy of the i' -tors, the slovenliness of the nurse-* and the general lack of any thing like system about the pla<-e "Why. It's Just a dollar and cents scheme," she declared angrily one day. "All they are after Is the money of these deluded i>eople who come hero." "I suspected as much l>cfore I came," | Mid he "'Th«-n why did you come?" she asked Quickly. "I wanted to try it. at least," said he She l.tok ed at hlin curiously. "I have my own suspicions about you," she laughed "And *hat are they, pray?" said he But she only shook her head In srnil *ng refusal to commit herself further. Olmstead had Itookn aud magazine* and fruits seut up These he shared with h«*r and she accepted them with « grave frankness that pleased him might i|y Tbej read together, they walked to gefbei they sang together evenings In the so called "music room " Day by ! day Olmstead grew more Interested In her. and filially the Interest changed Into something di-eper lle «tjiv.-d out his first week and his second \i th«- liegiriniiig of the third he realized that, consumptive though ■die might l>e. he had found the one wo man in the world. One evening lust at twilight they «itr«..i.i .1 , I, to a little stream that crossed the ground* The air wa« clear | and I rost \ I ■•■ hind a fringe of pines the rkv flared r«s! and gold •<»f CMII -O. you know it by this time." said t'liustead quietly "What;" die a-ked. "That I love you." said he She caught her breath. Uer face grew ver> rosy Stic turned to him slowly. "Our condition"- she began. "Let nit- fell you something." lie said. "I ain not a tuberculosis patient. Cer tain mi- iv ory hints regarding the gross mismanagement of this place have Iteen whispered abroad I was sent here by the I tally Star t>» investigate." She looked across the stream to the pines and the flaming sky behind them. "That dears yon, l>nt how about me?" she asked very quietly. "I love you." he repeated simply, "and to love nothing matters " Not even my my being here';" she said. 'Not even your being here," he as serted. Suddenly she fell to laughing softly. Her eyes danced she fairly shook with merriment lie watched her in puzzled silence. Presently she came close to him and laid both her- hands on his shoulders "Forgive me," she said, "but it is such an absurd situation. I»o you know why I am here?" lie shook his head. "Well." she said, "those unsavory hints reachc I further than the Star. The editor of i: oi's Magazine sent me hete on i mission very similar to yours." The color had faded from the sky. The wind grew almost biting in its • hill A group of shivering patients in one of the pavilions saw a much en grossed couple walking toward the san itarium. "Which goes to show we have dis covered at least one redeeming feature about this place." the man was say ing Hut the shivering patients were by no menus convinced of it. W ho Were the Wit of Kluf A curious case was trie. It had been ruled, in conformity with a principle of the Roman civil law, that when two perished together in a common calamity and It was un certain which was for a time the sur i vlvor the decision should favor which ever was the more robust. In this case the wife had distinctly the better con stitution, lint as against this it was urged that, as he plunged into save her. she probably expired first. After lengthy arguments the Judge held that, though strong in constitution, the wife would probably have been more timid than her soldier husband and granted administration to his nest of kin. "Charnoter" Storiea. The giving of a "character" to do mestic servants is one of the severest tests of the employers character. An Irish master, being called upon to write a testimonial for a groom whom he was discharging for drunkenness, gave him a good character, but omit ted to mention one trait. The groom returned the letter, objecting that It did not say he was sober. The master added "sometimes sober." and the man was content. The woman who had to recommend the inefficient cook she had kept for seven years only because she was afraid to give her notice went one bet ter. She had covered three pages with undeserved commendations She had placed It In «n envelope and addressed It, and her conscience prickt-il n.-r t.nd ly Then she had a happy idea and broke open the seal, adding to her let ter us a postscript. "God forgive me!" It satisfied her conscience, but history does not relate If It satisfied the other woman. American Hotel Life. At heart Americans still enjoy hotel life immensely, in spite of much re proof from foreigners who consider It In bad form. The American has not really acquired the country house habit, although he Is trying to do so It does not as yet satisfy his longing for a constant change of scene ami entire lu deitendence. Hotel life, condemned as it is by the finely discriminating as un homellke. Haunting and too public, still appeals to the average American as a very diverting Interlude to domestic ex cluslveness. They even prefer It in reality to entertaining or being enter tained after the hospitable, but some what responsible. European fashion.— T,on' bonnet, all were dripping rain, from die stiff jet spirals orna menting the bonnet to the hem of the poor skirt. And the face that looked up at Nan, dumb and beseeching, was childishly pathetic In its wistfulness. The woman held a worn bag clutched ill one h:llid. "1," faltered tlie stranger deprecat iugh "1 g>i caught in the rain!" N:I.I tb."e>v back her head and laugiied a girlish laugh, crisp and in l'e< tious, and the shriveled countenance of the intruder relaxed into a smile. "Pardon UJC," cried Nan, controlling herself; "only It was so evident you had not been under shelter the last hour that I couldn't help laughing. Here, sit down in this rocker near the stove." She deftly unpinned the soak Ing shawl and removed the pulpy bon net. "Dear, dear," she exclaimed, "you've no rubbers on! And your feet are dripping! You're Jusr a bundle of wetness! Whatever will I do with you?" She spoke with the air of solicitude she might have used toward a <'hlld. Nan was only seventeen, but she had many burdens on her shoulders, and she bore them with courage. A year ago, when she had graduated from tlie high school, the hope that she might goto college was strong within her. But her aunt and cousin had condemn ed her desire and derided her ainbl tion. There was no money to spare for such foolishness. There was work to be done at home. The latter fact the girl was given no opportunity to doubt. The maid of all work had been dismissed the week of her graduation, and Nan had been Installed In her place And silently, but with fierce inward rebellion, she accepted her duties. But her father had been a uian of letters and a pro fessor In a university, and she had In herited his love of learnlug So It was with a heavy heart she saw the days slipping by and with them the time she would fain have given to the acquire ment of further knowledge. Today many bidden tasks still remained to be accomplished, and here was this for lorn creature ou her hands "I'm sure I'm sorry to be making you trouble, my dear," piped up the plaintive old voice. "If when after I'm rested a bit you'll be telling me my direction I'll be moving on." But suddenly she went ghastly white. She caught her hand shandy to her side, and her lips turned blue. "Here," cried Nan, "take this!" !??ie had gone for a stimulant and was j back, holding It pressed to the twitch ing mouth. The old woman swallowed the liquid and tried to rise. "Sit still!" commanded Nan. "You're ill! You mustn't stir!" Nan stood before her, tall and slen der in her blue cotton gown, with a j big white apron belted in at her waist. The pure pallor of her skin was ac cented by the blackness of her brows and lashes. Iler gray eyes were wide —tth perplexity. "Walt a minute," she ordered and went Hashing up the back stairs. She reappeared with a load of garments over her arm. "Y'ou're such a xnlte of a thing the clothes that I've outgrown will lit you," she said. "Your bag? Here It Is- safe behind you. There!" She worked rupldly ns the talked. "Now you're dry and comfortable any- > how, If yon do look funny." The old woman smiled up at her gratefully. She did look funny In the schoolgirl gown of red, but the color had come Into her cheeks, and her chilled feet were growing warm in the dry stockings and slippers. "Now I'll make you some tea and toast," declared Nau, hanging the wet clothes to dry. "And then I must get back to— Good gracious, my cake Is burnlngl" She was on hfr knees in a minute and bad snatched the oven door wide open. A smoking, blackened mouud confronted her. And, as 111 luck wculd have It, at that very moment Helena Burnet, her cousin and mistress of tiie house owing to the Invalidism of Mrs. Burnet, came sailing Into the kitchen, j "What's this''" she cried sharply. She j was In street attire, but had been well protected from the storm. "Your cake ruined! And that—who Is that person?" Her cheeks scarlet from embarrass inent and the heat of the oven. Nan was hastily removing the cake. "She's an old lady who got caught In the shower," the girl explained nerv ously. "Did Aunt Ellen come, Hel ena ?" "No, she didn't." snaooed Helena Helena starcii from her cousin to the strange guest and back again. "Do you mean to say you've gone out of '.our head, wasting good food on a tramp?" she shrieked. "Hush!" begged Nan. trembling with mortification. "You will hurt her feel ings!" "Feelings, Indeed!" She glared at the . stranger. "The rain is over now. She can go about her business." Nan stood before her cousin. "She Is sick and cold. She can't go I out of the house tonight. I.et her sleep ! lu my bed. I'll make up a shake down j on the cot." Then, hurriedly, as she I saw angry refusal In the other's eyes, "Don't make me leave you if you value my work!" , "What do you mean?" "Only that Mrs. Hunter across the i street has offered me $lO a week as housekeeper in her home I would have no more labor there than here, where I am paid nothing. And I shall accept her offer today If you make me turn this poor old creature out!" "Well, 1 declare!" ejaculated Miss Burnet. But, aware that Nan was quite capable of doing what she threat ened, she made a tempestuous exit from the kitchen. Overcoming her apologetic objections, Nan assisted the | old woman up the stairs. On the sec -1 ond floor thev passed a bright room, hung with rosy chintzes, with a Jolly | (ire rollicking in the grate. ''l wish I might take you in there," | she whispered. "Mm that is intended for Mrs. Franklyn, who is coming to 'stay here You shall have her chicken j liroth, though," said the girl determin edly. "She can't need It any more than | you do " And when she had tucked the feeble ! body into her own narrow bed she i brought the chicken broth But that night when the dishes were washed the girl climbed to her room she found her protegee \. y ill. She was feverish, and the pain in her side was worse. ' Occasionally she lapsed into delirium. , Nan was frightened, and as the wo man grew worse she sped down the I stairs and across the street for Dr. Meeker. "Pneumonia." lie said. "Exposure, eh? I thought so. Practically hope less. What's (»i n, ehYou want a lawyer:" He bent to listen. "Poor ' j soul, what have you to will?" 'John Meeker," she panted, "don't you know me?" "I'm young I»r. Meeker. John Meek er Is my father. I'm trying to be as good a man. If I can build up his practice that had fallen off I hope to make a home for this little girl here." The old woman smiled and nodded. "You'll get mo a lawyer maybe If you know that 1 am Ellen Franklyn. , No. don't call the others. Helena la i like her mother, cold and selfish. I 1 | heard her for myself today." The physician did what he could and hastened away, ills experienced eye told him she had been ill several days I and that the exposure of the afternoon | was hastening the climax. The law yer returned with him, and the house hold was aroused. The old woman I chuckled, exhausted, but triumphant, as she fell back after signing the will. "I've left Helena a hundred dollars ! to buy that mourning she was so set j on," she whispered "You can get | your learning while he's making the ! home for you. "l'was the line fellow j his father was, I mind well." And not all the wrath or lamenta i tions of Helena Burnet and her moth- I er availed to impeach the validity of the will, which I -ft ihe property of Ellen Franklyn to Nancy Goodwin. "I shan't hold you to your promise now, dear," Charlie Meeker said when I he came to see the girl off to the uui , versity. You are an heiress now. \ Kurdish Tent. The tents of ili#* Kimls. in which they seek the pasitirage of the moun tains in summer, vary much In size, though in appearance and shape they conform throughout to one plan. The covering of the tents consists of long, narrow strips of black goat's hair tua- I terial sewed together lengthways, j Along the center of the tent this roof j ing is supported ou three to live poles, i according to the size, and stretched j out by ropes which, made fast to the | edge of the i o.ing. are pegged secure j ly to the ground. The poles within tlio j tent being of some height, usually j eight to tt a i'II-i, the edge of ihe tent- I ing does not nearly reach the ground, | but wails are formed of matting of reeds, held together by black goat's j hair thread, which is often so arranged ! as to form patterns on the yellow mats, j —Blackwood's Magazine. A MURDEROUS WEAPON. TLI«* Lxplohlv** IZII rpoon, THE WIIRIC Itix ll trr'n « K«*liance. , The explosive harpoon, which is the : modern whale hunter's chief reliance. ; is a truly murderous weapon, six feet iln length and strong in proportion, made chiefly of malleable iron and ad mirably designed for tlie slaying of the immense creatures. Its most striking feature next to the bomb head, which is operated by a time fuse and explodes j'ln the vitals of the w hale, is the anchor like device that prevents the harpoon "drawing" out of the body again under the terrific strain of the wounded mon ster's frantic efforts to free itself. This consists of four hinged barbs, which I lie along th" shaft before It Is fired, but which ate forced apart and Imbed themselves in the whale's b>)dy after he is lilt, so that if the prize escapes, whicli sometimes occurs, it is only by | breaking the rope. When "lish" are numerous and there is a chance of killing more than one in a day a novel method is adopted with the first victim. When It is seen to be dead a hole is bored through Its back Into its stomach and air Is pumped into It by a pipe from the steamer's engines until It is inflated like a great balloon. | The orifice is then closed with a wood en plug, and a man is left alongside in j a small boat to establish ownership, while the whaler steams off In quest of other prey. As many as flve whales have been killed by a ship In one day, four is not an unusual "bag." and threes and twos are commonly got. A single ship killed twenty-two In a week, and the record year's work for one is 258, an amazing number when it is re membered that on stormy days it Is Im possible to cruise at all, as tiie sprays bury the gun, and that during the win ter months fishing is abandoned. Dur ing that period the whales "strike off" the coast to escape the Ice floes, to which the rorquals are not partial, be ing In this respect unlike their arctic congeners, whose habitat Is now the re motest section of Hudson bay aud the channels which strike north from Its farthest bounds Into the polar sea It self.—l echnical World. The Proper-lie* of lorainr, Travelers in Peru and countries where cocoa grows chew the leaves of this plant for the purpose of allaying the sense of hunger and the feeling of exhaustion that accompanies It. At first the leaves were thought to possess food elements, but now It is known that the cocaine they contain merely allays the irritability of the nerves that produce the sense of hunger. Cocaine is au alkaloid made from the cocoa leaf, which lias the effect, of completely destroying the sensibility of nerves. The discovery of this active principle of the cocoa leaf explained fully and satisfactorily the effect produced by chewing the leaves. An infusion of the leaf might I»<• used with good results In allaying the gnawing appetite that fol lows some forms of fever or hi cases where the sense of hunger is due to a diseased condition of the stomach. Co caine should never !>e used except on the prescription of a trustworthy physi cian. because It is dangerous. The co caine habit is more readily formed than either the morphine or the liquor habit and is far more rapid In its work of de duction. l*roof. "They tell methat Skinner has Joined the church. I»" you believe he Is in earnest ?" "He must be I saw him put a dollar in the contribution box."—St. Louis I'ost-f Mspatch The Portuguese say no man will make a good husband who doesn't eat a good breakfast SNAKES OF SARAWAK. |li«- Pythons Are and Feed on I'TN* IIIHI Children. lii t!»o Sarawak Gazette Is an article cm the >11■ • I;f's of that part of Borneo. Of the | M niii'iis reptiles It says:"The cobra (Nnj.i tripudians) Is a black snake whl« li raises Its head to Btrike when irritated, at the same time ex panding the hood at either side of the neck. Ii spits at intruders and hisses like a cat. whence it Is known as '"ular tedomr puss;" in some parts, too, as '"tedoug niata liari." The word "te dong" in Sarawak is apparently ap plied to ail large snakes which Malays consider to be poisonous, and, as our Malays are but ill acquainted with these animals, quite a number of large but harmless forms are designated by this term The hamadryad (Naja bun garus) is ;i brown snake,-considerably bigger but rarer than the cobra. It is rather shy. but when cornered, like the cobra, it raises its head and ex pands the hood before striking. Its food is chiefly other snakes. "Less dangerous than these najas I are the vipers, of which the most common species is the green viper, j which reaches a length of two feet or j more. The head is large and shaped i like an ace of spades. T his creature Is j a tree snake and very sluggish. The i 'bungarus' are of several species, one, | Bungarus fasclatus, of length up to | four feet, being black with yellow i rings. It is called the "ular buku tebu' I (sugar cane jointsi by natives. There I are also sea snakes of many species. 1 The tail of a sea snake Is flattened I and oarlike." Sarawak has other snakes: "Of the | pythons there are two species. Py j tlion reticulums grows to an enor j inous size, over twenty feet. It is : very fond of pigs, but varies its diet | by various animals, Including even j children. The oil of this snake is used ! by Malays as for ' bruises. The other species of python, j Python ciirius, is interesting In that j it* llesh tastes like that of fowl—at least, so Dyaks say, and they are au j thoritii son snake flesh, for they eut 1 u number of the large snakes." A PUGELT SOUND NAME. I'oyiilliiit and the Experience of th« M»«i» IteixponNihle For It. The name Puyallup is of Indian ori gin. :is old as the memory of the white man. In "Pioneer Reminiscences of Ptsget Sound" the author. Mr. Meeker, says that he accepts the odium of in flicting that name on suffering genera tions by platting u few blocks of land Into village lots and recording them under the name Puyallup. He men tions Incidentally that he has suffered from it. The tirst time I went east after the town was named and said to a friend In New York that our town was nam ed I'uyallup he seemed startled. "Named what?" "Payallup." said I. "That's a Jawbreaker," came the re sponse. "How do you spell It?" "P-u y-a-l-l tip," I said. "Lot file see. bow did you say yon pronounced itV" Pout inn out my lips like a veritable Slwash and emphasizing every letter and syllable MI as to bring out the I'euw for Pity and the strong empha sis on the aland cracking my lips to gether to cut off the lup, I finally drill ed my friend so that he could pro nounce the word, yet fell short of the elegance <>f the scientific pronuncia tion. Then when 1 crrwuwl 'h« Atlantic and encountered the factors o# the hop tr.ule in London and was bidden as a guest to a dinner to introduce me to the assembled hop merchants, when I saw a troubled look overshadow the face of my friend who was to Intro duce nie I knew what was troubling him, and my sympathy went out to him. "Let ine introduce to you my Ameri can friend from"—he began boldly and then hesitated "my friend from Ainer- Ica." lie continued, and then turned to me with an imploring look and blurted out: "I say, Mr. Meeker, I cawn't remem ber tb.it name. What is it?" But when letters began to come to m« addressed "Peulope," "Polly-up," "Pull-all-up." "Pewl-a-loop" and final ly "Pay-all-up," then my cup of sorrow was full. 1 am sure, however, that there will never be but one Puyallup. Britx'U 'I heft*. Iniriiig the Soutli African war an Im niei.se stone monument was removed at Cape Town during the night, and no one knows to this day by whom or why It was taken. Some years ago, in broad daylight, a clever and bold gang of thieves carried off a valuable fountain fourteen feet high from Uxbrldge with out exciting the suspicions of any one and quite recently an omnibus was calmly removed, horses and all, while standing unguarded outside a public house In London and has never been seen or heard of since. It would seem, indeed, that it Is often far easier to steal a l»iill» ft \i.sil. Willi h Somewhat Tfrril) IIIK < limits. Detained :il tlie Siberian village of Kri vochokovo, M. -Inles I,egran re -1 membered that lie hud a letter to a j not >i Me of tin* j riro and liastened to j present it. M. Guutfer in his book on itussia describes in M. Legras' own ' word< the cordial hospitality with 1 which he wax cived and also tells of the dillicult.v which concluded his ; charming visil "They had nelaiiicd me till 10 o'clock I i lb • evening." h ■ writes, "by repeat ing -Why : >■ you in a hurry?" and 1 v\..~- on the i iiit of making my depar ' tin -11• ■:i 1 h ;rd the mistress of the house - iv in a low voice to her hus . baud. 'Shall I for the carriage?' :To wli. ii • i' .died, 'No.' At this word iit shiver |i s had made me send away ;iie < >:!chmaii. was unaware of what ; ' . refusal meant, else he would have : s.ii.! ' > me. Here is a sofa; sleep here.* "My situation was perilous, but what i -ould I do? At the end of u few rno- J nient • I ro-.e to take my leave, and, having asked if I could get a cab, was ! aiel with the reply that at this hour ' none could be obtained. "Krivochokovo is a village whose | population constitutes the very flotsam ; ni\ 1 jet ,i <>f Siberian civilization. 1 Ihe village has neither streets nor lights iu>r police. It is considered a cutthroat spot, where honest people shut themselves tight at night. "I had neither stick nor revolver, and 1 had on me a large sum of money. Finally, I was ignorant of the exact position of my inn, situated over a mile away. First of all, dogs threw themselves upon me. I shook them off and started as I -est I could. "The night wis inky black. Amid the irregular i-.iuiers of houses there was no regular street by which to guide myself. As I hesitated 1 heard a 'Who is that?' It was a watchman of a pile of wood who hailed me. He di rected me. and. giving me a large branch that would do as a stick, he said: 'You are wrong, barine, togo about this way without a revolver. The place is not safe. May God pro tect you!' "As I approached another cluster of houses a watchman sounded his rattle menacingly and dogs flew at me sav- \ agely. When this watchman approach ed 1 induced him to accompany me. lie informed me that the evening be fore a traveler who was staying at my hotel, having started early to catch a train, had been a -sassinated about ten paces from there. Finally we reached the inn. It t>ok a long time to make them open ihe door, but I finally got In side and reached my room, trembling with fever and fatigue, and fell down helplessly, only conscious of having I passed an hour and a half whose re | membrance will remain with me long. I As for my so amiable host, whose hos ! pitality might have cost me my life, he ; will doubtless never know of this ad venture." The !<•«• of Greenland. The largest mass of ice In the world i is probably Ihe one which fills up near | ly the whole of the interior of Green l land, where it has accumulated since j before the dawn of history. It is be- I lioved to now form a block about 000,- ! IMIII square miles In area and averag j ing a mile and a half in thickness. Ac | cording to these statistics, the lump of I Ice I- larger in volume than the whole i body of water in the Mediterranean. , and there is enough of it to cover the I whole if the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with a layer about | w.rii it'll' > thick. If It ncie cut Into ' twn convenient slabs and built up i equally upon the entire surface of i "gallant little Wales" it would form i a pile more than 120 miles high. There j I Is ice enough in Greenland to bury the j j entire area of the United States a quarter of a mile deep.—London Globe, j _ Die Rrlwht Side. "I don't see how I could possibly be i any worse ofT than I am, sir " "Then cheer up. You've got nothing i further to worry about." Pittsburg Dispatch. There never was any pariy, faction, ! sect or cabal whatsoever In which the most Ignorant v. ere not the most vio lent, for a bee is not a b'isier anluia) | than a blockh j«l Pope The Home Paper | of Danville. I Of course you read j UMIi \ i i THE HeOPLEIS I 1 Kopular * 1 APER. | i i Everybody Reads It. i | | i Published Every Mornin r Except Sunday I No. ii E. Mfiho . ng St.i ♦ Subscription 6 cei VV, i eK. AN OR.AN j GROVE- Hoo famll!;ir with the scarlet glob ule- t'l.M hang all over those trees, wit'. ori>!e< and robins shouting ap p rt.il. and tanagers with Indigo birds si; tine i:i the apple tree overhead, that you iT.uiiOt fully see and appreciate the charm. But you certainly have not for gotlcn the glory of a Mcintosh red ap ple trr • in October or Indeed a whole orchard ■>f r!pe Northern Spies, Spitzen buri < and Kings Vet the orange has a glory all its own. It Is the gold of the orchard You thought the trees grew In groves, "but her • ihey are In long, reg ular rows." That was a word borrow ed from the wild . 'autres that in fpan ish days came up vl-ee they miglit and were sel lo , i i lanted. They grew as those \,; ip , iunions grow at the edge of the orchard or as pines nnd ncudes gro«v But your modern orange trees arc own in long rows to be cultivated with plows and horses. The real orange tree should stand about twenty five or thirty feet high, with a trunk of five or six inches. Its foliage is dense and a rich green. It is a srrand Iree to sit beneath at midday and drink f'te Juices of the fruit Instead of water It is distilled perfectly. But these trees are ro inn and low headed, and one must *to:>p to sret beneath them '1 hey are made of the grafter shoots that cam" up around the old trees after the freeze. They are more convenient to spay, to protect from the blizzard, while the fruit is more easily gathered. You can walk all about that orchard and reach half the fruit without a '•« filer. It is a good Il lustration of how good sometimes comes out of evil. "Different shapes!" To be sure. There are quite as many varieties of oramres In Mils o-hard as there are of apples or Hums In most of your north ern orchards fifteen or twenty, at least. The grower knows them all by name and can tell them all bv the sliap" ivd the quality. He does not go nt random and pi»*k any fine big orange for Irs own eating, but he takes his selection the King, or the ITomosasa, or the Jaffa, or the Ruby, or Parson Brown or S:it«uma. or possibly the tanirerine. lie fills his pocket with se lected varieties and then goes to that pine grove over there and peels them as he lunches, ir is very much as we do with our pippins, and Swaars, and Princess Louise, ami Jillidowers.—ln dependent. Aakrd nnil \n*»r«»r«Ml. In the "Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins" (I.ord I! ramp ton) a story is told concerning Jack, the pet terrier which always accompanied the famous Judge wherever lie went. On one occasion, when on circuit and driving to the cathedral of a certain city for the preliminary religious serv ice. Jack sat l-eside his master in the sheriff's coach The sheriff and his chaplain, a most solemn looking, ascet ic high churchman, occupied the oppo site seat. His lordship in relating the story says that the chaplain eyed the dog for a long time with great uneasiness. Then, as they uearcd the cathedral, he seemed to R'-t alarmed anit, Inn state of sjrent agitation, stammerlngiy said: "My lord, may I—ah—er—ask if the dog Is going to divine service?" "Well, I don't know," replied his lord ' ship. "I shail ask him. Jack, would I you like togo to church?" Jack growled and lifted his head to ; howl. i "No." went ou the judge. "Jack says that he doesn't like dry sermons." i.arlnK an Karly Foundation. 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