fculver's Joke 1 ■ >v ■ 1 B\ Suif Clement* Willfs ■ 71 V? 2 ft » S ' hj E. N PMW I "1 don't know any girls; simple rea 111 iUe Nails! • You HW, ;|k> jui.r grew to Is* a woman hater , - treitf-1 '■efore < ih/jittou ever shut* " -I II give juu i coupie til' mail iutro «iu« t <-u> tmck east." laughed <'ulver. "I know a lot Y«»u write a niit* little letter. ami 1 11 * ml it." I cu»--s you'd liavi- to write Hit* lot t. too." chuckled Nartn-I. "I never .itc t<> a woman in my life." "Y»HI never run tell till you try." Culver. "I wish you'd try It would keep ton busy until I iimsli this letter.** lie went on with Inn writing, and \itrtwl KtMHi humoredly picked up a pen Tliere was a pack train going « *ra from the mines tomorrow, and l «- iiiukl understand why Culor waut d to tl> *h off the letters he was writ me lui< k east. The train went down uo u aud Ixi k the next. affording tln-iii bimonthly communication with It** outside world. "Whom shall I address It to?" lie de mantled \|isv I.uev Mears." laughed Culver, ltun t\>" pun scratched over the pa per. Culver's with easy, rapid move ment. N :r'»-i's painstakingly. Il«- was le~s a.. u-toi; .tl to writing, and Culver li.nl • :«4i.-d :ilf a dozen letters before tl.e ottur'n |«-h was still. * u: it laughed over tin* effusion, in wh T tin* writer had pictured his dull hie .:id liad plead<*d for permission to j«en a <-or. -p<.iulei!if, lie explained j : ..ly his r« on* with Culver as busl- , n«*ti piirtu i and chnm and hinted at t.u t . -.f uiatrlniony. Had he io earnest instead of r: . rely M'<-i . a means of killing time wI, le « ui er w .is vccupled lie could ii..t lia*e done letter, lu the He*:- dug Culver eame across j '•* she. *- .I. wltll a W'ieked elmekle. | •*l!;»pe<l tin : to an envelojie and ad | .—. ,| t!». to I.nei Me.irs. auticipat- ! .u_ tli •ei ly lady's surprise when i ■lie si oii|.| ..* 11 the envelope hack hi j th«* New I' ■ iand town. \arl~-l. < ing up the table that evening. i ' •*! the absence of the -»M*ets. but . ticluded that Culver had torn them along with his own odd -! *ets Hud . night no more of the mat ter until a t. •nth later a I'tter enuie • S THE HTFP ■ I •'•!> MHIIKIi AND TUi: OIltL or UIU I'KTIItE. whleh < !eai ly was not from the San Fran- -•■• lira with whleh he had business dealings. • "ulver laughed so heartily when he In! read him the first few paragraphs that he had 1 •come silent, and be would re.i 1 no more, devouring the < oiiteii?• wl .«• ruher chuckled over ti»e _■ rll<h letter the elderly spinster ha l Indited. It was more like the let ter of a acfeoolgirl than of a woman •,t f«*rtv it was u girlish h iter, if not s-hool irtrl.sh. full of e\eu-.'s and explana tloas ''i j*t the writer had heeu tempted to answer Ih><MllS<* of the sincerity of the 'omtiiunleatlou and Culver's rec ounnendatlttiis Culver retle«-ted that it had Ih.-«*u a <apit»l letter and won der.-.! how long he should let it Mil Oil before he should dlsillusn.iiize Narbel w ,th a yrw»M* |«»rtralt of Mi-s Lucy as reineujlier«sl her. Before he decided to stop the fun a photoKraph a picture of a youuK irirl with frank, honest eyes and : a fa<N* that won even Culver's admira tion Though he shouted 111 Ills giee ns hen --n!lf«I Miss Lucy, with her prim ways . I aitfftil ir featnn*s. H>* l id luteiiditl to iiive the hoax away, but this w is too u<K)d to Ih» at*ndoiied. and lie listene«l with a nmlk- to Nar'-.-l's rhapsodies, until one ulglit ItlHke shocked him with the tin tiout" • H.ont that Miss Mears had con j >-.■ ited to oiarry him and that he was gslni; ••:ist to tret her irently n*: he could '"tllver ex « pi t .-d t!i# d- ' litloll H lid sought to dissuade hl« friend, but Niirliel would hare none of !t "It ti ~y Im- yoc nay." he airrefl coldly. "Hut my wnp' la pas«M*d and I am goltur «*ast to ke» It" "Hut "h»**« fortr if she's a dit t»lead.sl «' ilver " Surel. P.lake « don't w;; lit to marry a woman seven year? eld«*r than joumdf." **l shan't have nny woman saying that I broke faith," he said soberly, j "The t i from the mites is ffoirig down toiaoiTow. I shall go with It." He w. «as good as his word. When tt»e train toiled back a r >-s the gaudy j Wastes the forent m deelared that he had • ti \ Utnnl the castliound tin im,: i ilver ga< up his time to tlx [I the li .Il>.- Tltete wa« little to do in the orchard. The plants v mid tiot l-ear tM-fore the following yen hy which time there «..ii!d »«• n nr of track to the mines, •ud they could ship the fruit. Mean w!. Ie II ' had to do wast • see that the tre»»* were Irrigated and that no stray cattle got In. It was easy fOntitli. wltli the help of the men. to «• ' <i[> a shii' k for himself and leave the old house for Narbel and his bride. lie even had time to ride over and tell the men at the mine of the joke, awl "-tH- i at list word came over their wire that the pair w as due to come out with the triln they all gathered at the ran* h tow e|. .me the new Mrs Narbel Tiiey r<«le out to meet the dust cloud which marked the track of the long liuc of wagons a< r<jss the alkali, but' ' the flgtire in fne nungy beside Narbel was so swathed in duster and veils that no hint >f her appearance could be gained, and the men, with many a nudge and smile, fell in behind and rode along. The\ ill turned in at the ranch gate, hut Narbel swung his wife out of the buggy and took her Into the house. ■ Mr- \ irhel will be glad to meet you when she has had a chance to tidy Tip," ! e said, with a grave face, "but she wants the dust off first." Culver tool; the horse to the stables ind then rejoined the waiting groun on i the gi— ;s plot in front of the house. (Culver knew now why Narbel had In sNted upon a grass plot.i They had not long to wait, for presently a gasp from the crowd caused Culver to turn, and there on the stood Narbel and the Very girl of the picture. She was si 1 iig :,.• w a< she acknowledged the various Introductions. Culver was the last to conn* up. for he had not recov ered from his amazement until Narbel called to him. "I feel that I ought to In* very grate fill to you." -In - ii"l in a low voice. ! "even though you were trying to play j a Joke." T! ■ joke nis to he on me," he said lamely. "I don't think there is any joke," she said decidedly. "It was just the work lug of fate." lie turned to receive the farewells of the men from tin* mine, and more than one Joked him on his vivid Imagi nation. It was clear that they thought he had been fooling them, and he was glad that he was at least saved their jeers, but it was with no pleasant an tl : m ■!i ti it lie followed Narbel and his wife into the house. -You budded hotter than you knew, i Jack, wheu you sent that letter 1 wrote in jest." "Hut this N not Lucy Mears," he stammered. "I thought you were go Ing to ki ep faith at any cost." •■Aunt Lucy died a year ago," smiled Mrs. Narbel. "1 suppose no one wrote you I was the only Lucy Mears I i got the letter." "And I got the sweetest little woman oti earth." supplemented Narbel. "And I." wound up Culver, "I don't know whether I should be praised or kicked 1 think I'd prefer the latter." Hut instead he received the praise. A Tj-pieal HunKiirinii VIIInKC. Imagine a very broad unpaved road, ! Hike a dusty, plow»tl tield, and wild gar j dct:- trailing around and over white thatched cottages. Each cottage is one storied, with old world eaves and 1 ■i veranda which runs along the whole ! front The thatched roof seems to lean ! with all its strength upon a toy shaped . colonnade, while the creepers afford a contra t to the whitewashed walls. If you walk down the road at dusk you i will find at each door one of the house- | hold vigorously brushing clouds of dust away from the footpath, while long files of dean, curly pigs are trotting swiftly homeward and lean mongrels "bay the whispering wind" unceasing ly. The men wear linen shirts and kilts. On workdays the costume has the appearance of a long, dingy night dress tied with a leather girdle. On heydays the kilt Is white and stiff, with accordion plaiting, while the shirt is of dainty embroidery and sets off an elaborate worsted waistcoat. The girls' full dress is still more picturesque, ow ing to the harmonious blending of the brightest prints-all shades and depths of blue and red and pink; no other col ors—-and to the graceful fall of the short petticoats, which do not reach the ankle, and rre In tin ted by a slight sus picion of crinoline. Saturday Review. !Sot So Attentive Sow. "Is Tim Pllmmers still paying ntten t!on to Mandy Tompkins?" asked the man who had been away from home for some time. "No," answered Farmer Corntossel. "They don't neither of 'em pay any 'tentlon to the other. They're mar ried " —Washington Star. I lie inrkff. Turkeys are great wanderers. A mother will often lead her brood three or four miles away from home. There they take up their habitation in the un frequented woods. The instinct for sol itude and wild life is very strong after centuries of domestication. Hut a kin dred instinct impels the mother to bring her grown family back in the fall to where she started out with them in the spring This is not done, however, till the leaves are all off the trees, the beechnuts have fallen and have been eaten and the cold winds and some times the snow have made the sylvan retreats inhospitable. VICTORIA FALLS. railed "the Mint neiinlifiil fiem ®f flu- I'lirth'H StTiH'ry." The Zambezi river, carrying a huge volume of wat* r two miles In width, as it reaches the Western borders of Klio desia precipitate-, itself into a cavern ous gorge and thus traverses the north em plains of the country. This great drop In the river has pro duced "the most beautiful gem of the earth's scenery," the Victoria falls. Al most twice is broad as Niagara and two and a half times as high, an Im mense mass of water rolls over Its <-dge to predpitat Itself In magnificent sjilc- : ir I 1 i rdieer feet Into the narrow canyon below. I n loterre-1. the I.hodesiau engineers, without detracting from the natural ( hi ut,\ of the surroundings, threw ! the canyon a splendid «>."O foot 1 t ! '\er bridge and thus opened tho . w v To Tanganyika, to I'ganda, to i Cairo. This bridge, the greatest railway en gine-Ting triumph of Africa, deserves m re 111: i pa- :c_r notice. It consists of a ceiitr i span weighing approxi- , i I 1 ton . ."«*> foot 111 length le The steel work Is of i roll I t e| • h: IS I!Ml pounds to tile ' 'i"i po-ts of the bridge are" ■! I •• t ! u The pull on the »an borage pant u - i about 400 tons. . ntr t I T the construction was ol -l bj in I't g firm of bridge builders tli ■ conli • time ilfty-flve ! we* l Tl w•! ■•! 1 ,- i i >ll was car ried en fro' ib "i bank the material J being taken ro- the i ■r by means lof an aerial . .ec r Iv v. The el«*e- I trfeal coir • of thU • ble way wan .ip ible of • iling with a ten ton load at a lifting peel of twenty feet per minute and a traversing speed of .'!<"! 112 -et a minute An initial difficulty In the construe-J ti . i of the bridge was the securing of i firm 112 "Hilda' on, and owing to the ( crumbiit.g iture of the bank a much ! gi ;.-r «piai:tity of concrete was neces sary than e 'imatcd. Tli • construction was happily unat tended by a lent ; of a serious nature, | on 'i a 112 sj ht accidents to body ! work id •• replacing fnuii England. ' . 112 one pic • of st ei work were record- ' ed. In sp of these delays the bridge ! was link* I lip at 7 a. in.on April 1, If* 15. or i -tly forty eight hours ear- ; lier than i d been estimated a year be- | fore Licit'- >r t Col uiel Sir Percy j j (ilrouard in Scribuer's. ' BOBBY'S ; GHOST \ Hy Colin S". Collins ') > / Oipuright, J9OC, bv Beatrix Rtade ) Carter threw down the pamphlet with an exclamation of disgust. "You'll never get ahead If you read that sort of trash," he admonished. "Why don r you get good b >oks, Hobby?" "These Is good," protested Hobby. "They're first rate. I'll let you have It to read after I've finished if you don't believe it." Carter lied. II was not the first time he had sought to correct Hobby's liter ary taste, and it generally ended in his defeat. Once he had thought of ap pealing to Thomas I'ace, but he had a ' liking for the lad, and to report to the j head of the firm that the office boy was devoted to dime novels might simply result in the loss of his job. It was Hobby who had saved the day when Mabel Kceler had been ac cused of losing an Important letter by ' declaring that ho had lost it himself, j It had very nearly resulted in his own dismissal. Hut Hobby could be sworn j at. and thi had saved the situation by j providing a vent for the "old man's" cho'or. L. < ,• since that night Hobby had been i a .'.ivorite with Carter and Mabel. Th« v ; w > v. e;-e to marry when the long ip cted raise came, and Hobby knew i i . It was true three hours later and the ev >:;s .112 Antelope Andy, the famous lui an I I" •. were drawing to a close wherein he saved tho girl, but did not marry 1 erin oti'i r that there might be another romance In the next Issue \ of the series, when the book suddenly shot i 111■» the desk and Hobby stood at ! attention. Long practice had enabled him to tell tho "old man's" hand on the knob among a thousand. I'ace passed rapidly across the cus j tomer's space and into the cashier's i cage. The clerks looked wonderlngly | at him. They knew that It had been a - "TOO LATE," BMP BRACE. "I AM GOING TO KILL VOU." memorable day on the street, and I'ace's appearance bore the marks of the storm. "Carter," he said hurriedly, "you may let the clerks go, but I wish you would stay yourself. 1 shall bo busy for some time and may need you. Miss Keeler, please get your book." With a sigh Mabel picked up her stenographic book and followed her employer into his private office. Car ter dismissed tin* other clerks and re turned quietly to his books. Hobby made himself comfortable and reached for his beloved literature. He must wait to copy the letters Mabel was taking down, but he had a new Issue of"The Young Pioneers" and a delay did not worry him. For an hour or so the outer office was quiet, the slillness broken only by the scratching of Carter's pen and tho In distinct monotone of Pace's voice ns he dictated steadily. Then with a crash the door was thrown open «au i itoo ick P.race burst in. Bobby sprang up in surprise. P.race was a broken down operator a "ghost," In the slang of the street; a ghost of the past, who now and then came Into the customers' room to beg a "stake" from some old timer who could remem ber when Hrace was one of the lead ing operators on the street and not a broken down hanger on, playing an oc casional tip in the bucket shops on money borrowed from some sympa thetic and prosperous acquaintance, lie could have no business with Thorn as Pace. Brace brushed him aside and strode through th» wicket gate. Carter sprang to Interpose, but was thrown roughly to one side, and followed, expostulat ing, as the excitd man forced his way Into Pace's ottlce. Pace looked up In astonishment. | "What Is It. Brace?" he askd. Ills hand sought his pocketbook. "I've not come for a loan," laughed Brace wildly. "I don't want your char Ity, Tom Pace. I want justice." lie swayed unsteadily, the light of mad ness gleaming In his eyes. ' I want you to give back what you have stolen from me." Pace held out a bill. "You are ex cited. Brace." he said quietly. "Come In In the morula:* and talk It over lam very busy n Tins will fix you up f«the p .-so t. won't it Br: <• iab "d the hiii I': mi his hand a I I it in shreds. "I'ive dollars!" h • lac. •<! wildly. "You think you can get eif with .'?■"? Why, 1 want a inllll" i. You've got it there in the ' sa !'**." You should kilo better than that," prote te<| I'i ee. "V ill know we send everyihi: ;to the ■ fe deposit at "You've titt in .'lit." raved Brace, "I ki. iw Come back!" he broke off as Ca ti tried : > leave the room. The bookkeeper paused for II -cc.inil, irreso : lute. P.race drew a revolver from hi pocket. Carter motioned him tin ! turn it and stepped bai k to the de.-k. I 'J lie incident oemed I > fan Peace's i fury. II - t icd wilnly about the room "You Mined me!" he shouted. "You i stole from me! They tell me \ > i br >i e the*!, ami \V. p ! Hon't *'. The ! papers are full of it." Iledr* it an extra of one of the afieriio i papers and waved it in front of Pace. ! "What of it?" demanded the broker. "Brady gave me a hundred to play : on the (i to!. One hundred dollars on | a two dollar margin. Fifty shares— | and you broke the pool." "I found that the others had broken their agreement, and I had to get out to protect in> self," explained I'ace. "I I had no kin'\v|.i!>;e of your operations. It was purely sell" defense." "You lie," snarled Brace. "You did it to 1111 i\v me. Vou knew that with such a start I could have won hack to the Exchange Vou were afraid of | me and you ruined me." For the first time I'ace showed im ! patience. lie must set certain letters | out in time to catch the night mail. ! "Come in In the morning and argue the matter," lie said. ' I cannot spare the time to 1 Ik tonight." Itraee leveled his revolver. "I'nless you give me Mick the money you stole from me," hi" said impressively, "I j shall --hoot you down like a dour, you | and these others too. Then I shall take ! the money that is really mine and flee. 1 have it all arranged. I will count I ten." Pace's face was headed with perspi | ration. No help was at hand, and this man, driven mad by the excitement of the panic, had them at his mercy. "I i will give In,"he said weakly. "Cotue | over to the safe." "Too late." said Brace, his brain tak ing a new Impression. "I am going to kill you anyway. One, two, three"— i He sank to the floor with a groan. A huge commercial report had knocked him sensele s, nnd Bobby stood trl | umpliantly over the prostrate figure. "I thought it was just a row," he said, "until the 'Cliost' begun t' count. ! Then I remembered that was the way they did with Antelope Andy." He flshed the book from his hip pocket, j " 'Quick as a flash,*" he read, "'Ante j lope Andy, with herculean strength, j seized the chest and brought It down lon the head of his antagonist, felling ! him like ii log.' I guess them half I dime books ain't no good." He turned to Carter, who explained j to the mystified i'ace. "I thin!:. Wobert," declared the broker, "that there Is good in all ! things. We shall have to raise your salary to enable you to Increase your library and so be provided against all emergencies." "1 don't want no raise," protested j Bobby. "(Jive it to Carter or Miss j Mabel. They want it to get married j on." "I ties.- that can be arranged, too," ; laughed Ba< -. "Anil as soon as we can 1 get an a Miic" here to take care of poor w -'II go uptown for a cele bration dinner." "At a ival r-daurantV" demanded | I to''! IV. "At tli 1 !• -t," laughed Face. "Cw;" MiulM'd Robhy. "I'm glad I | saved yer. Tin hungry. I only had n cream puff and a pretzel for lunch." Oil the way up in the street car—the cals li id all ■. one uptown at that hour Bohhy sat M w pen ( 'ai tcr and Mabel. "Them I oiinS Is good," li 1 Slices ted, his mind hat! ing b ick to fie discussion of the afternoon. "I liet you'll 1- t your hoys read theni." RoM>\ aihled. A HUMBLE HEROINE. Molhi r Mitr> T.i nml Ili I' (ro»« of (In l.i ion of Honor. Suiie yr.'i- n n a city in Frauce ill tli.- 'in! i w -re drawn up on the !■:. \ • ■ i hi th habit of char ity w '! : oiit in front of the gov ernor li .• :il. nail this is what he said: "Motlu v try Teresa, when you were tueal.' ye i o aire you rueeived h wound in .n a (Million I mil while as nisi o;, • of the wounded on the field at Ralaklnva. In IW.t the shell from a !; itra.ileuse laid you prostrate in the front ranks on the haitlctield of Magenta Since then you have ln.-en In Syria, in Chin i and in Mexico, and If j you were not wounded It was not lie cause you have not exposed yourself. "In ISTo you were taken up in Hels rhoft'ea covered with many saber wounds. Such deeds of heroism you crowned t lew weeks ago with one of the i ' I heroic actions which history records. A grenade fell upon the am bulance which was under your charge. Von took up the grenade In your arms; you sni led upon the wounded who looked at you with feelings of dismay; you carried it :i distance of eighty mo tels On layin:; it down you noticed that it was going to burst. You throw j yours- If on the ground; It burst. You were seen covered with blood, but when persons came to your assistance you rose up -lulling, as Is your wont. You were seareely recovered from your wound \\ hen you returned to the hos pital whence | have now summoned you." Then the general made her kneel down and. drawing his sworil. touched her lightly with it three times on the shoulder and pinned the cross of the Legion of 1 !• n..on her habit, saying: "1 put upon you the cross of the i brave in the mime of the French people and army. No one has gained it by more deeds of heroism nor by a life so completely spent In self abnegation for the benefit of your brothers and the service of your country. Soldiers, pre sent arms I" The troops saluted, the drums and bugles rang out. the air was filled with loud acclamations, and all was jubila tion and excitement as Mother Teresa arose, her face suffused with blushes, and asked: "General, are you done?" "Yes," said he. "Then I will go back to the hospital."— From"The Companionship of Rooks," by Frederic Rowland Marvin. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. j There is no such thing as a secret. A reasonable probability is the only certainty. Men who have violated the law say it is not hard to do. Romance is like lire—if you play with it you are liable to be burned. There is too little attention given to two mighty important words, "Don't tell." It is a bad plan to seek to make a good inipressi .ii by following every statement with an apology. The trouble i.~ when we do things for our frjends we do things we want to instead of what they would be pleas i ed to have us do. We can't understand why people try to deceive others, but cannot under stand why t'ey should try to deceive themselves. : -- so many seem to do.— [ Atchison < tlolie. Cnre<| lllin. "I wish ii y lmsl>and would not stny j out at night." said the little woman. "Cure hhn," -.iid her companion, "as ] h woman I know cured her husband, . who use 1 to stay out every night. One 1 night in- came in v< ry I.to, or. rather, very early, about "• o'clock in the morn ing I: ■ inn" home very quietly. In fat s. h t »ok o!: his on the front doorstep Then he unlocked the door and went , a lit ioush and slowly up stairs on tipt• ••», holding his breath. Rut 1 ; 'll vis streaming through the I: •vho! oi the door of the bedroom. With .i ..:*i. lie |iu -eil. Then lie open ed lie door and entered. Ills wife spun! I y the bureau fully dressed. "'I didn't c\pect you'd be sitting up for me, my dear,' he said. "'I haven't been," she said. 'I just came In myself.' " HOW BEAST MEN ARE MADE. 'l'lie IMili-ihin mill I lui'l l'metlce itf l li sli Sculpture In < liiua. "Victor Hugo in 'The Man Who Laughs,'" said an ethnologist, "tells of , the sculptors of living flesh those hor ! l'lhie people of the middle ages who kid- I wiped tender little children and turned j them into all sorts of monsters, dwarfs, j hunchbacks and the like, selling them ; afterward for jesters or for showmen's I freaks. j "The hideous and cruel practice of | flesh sculpture --till continues. There is a tril Chinese gypsies who steal ' | children and turn iheni into so called wild men. The practice is, of course, illegal. "A kidnaped child is flayed alive, bit by bit, and the shaggy skin of a dog is grafted on him. This takes a year. At the year's end the poor creature is shaggy, like a bear, from head to foot. "The child's vocal chords are destroy ed with charcoal in an unspeakably cruel way. He can never speak there after. He can only growl and moan like a beast. "He Is imprisoned in a perfectly black hole until every vestige of reason leaves him. Nine months is usually a suf ficlent conlinenieiit to accomplish this. "Finally, speechless, shaggy, lunatic, the victim is sold to a traveling show man and is exhibited throughout China as a genuine wild man or beast man. I am hound to say he looks the part." HOG MONEY. Origin of tUc < minus Ol<l It rim* Col lit of Iter in u<ln. "Hog money" is the uanie by which the brass money which began to be struck in Bermuda in Pifio came to be known. On one face of it was a hog, on the other a ship of that period. These old coins are very rare and high ly prized by collectors. The history of this device is curious and interesting. A Spanish vessel, commanded by Juan Beruiudez, on its way to Cuba with a cargo of hogs, was wrecked there. This was in 151,". Lat er in the same century, when the Eng lish discovered this land, they found a country Inhabited by hogs. It is also interesting to note that the English discovered it in the same way as the Spaniards. An English ship was wrecked there. Is it any wonder that the treacherous coast got from Spanish and English alike the name of Devil's Land? Vet it is one of the most beautiful coasts in the world, and it has been claimed that In brilliancy Mediterranean effects are not at all equal to those of Bermuda. Bermuda is said to be the island of Shakespeare's ' Tempest." The strange noises which mariners heard coming from this island, and which they did not then know were produced by hogs, caused them to say that it was haunt ed and to report weird things of Pearson's. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Money \\ i xi-ly ICx |m-ii<l<-<I Is Safely it nil I'rolitnlily I )i|H'lhliml. Beautified utility is never too costly. Over and over again the cost benefits of public improvements have been proved, defined, established. It is true of public betterments of a sanitary character; it is true of public better meiits that look to commercial ad vancement; it is true of public better ments that have primarily an art val ue. The practical and the ornamental betterment are alike in this that mon ey wisely expended tor good purposes is safely and profitably invested. The limitations of expenditures for civic betterment are of course very oh vlous. The work undertaken must be good in itselt and serve some good purpose. Money expended for a worth less filtration plant, for example, is money woi-e than wasted. Money spent for bad art is not always consid ered as so completely lost as money that might be wasted for worthless sanitary apparatus. The statue causes no ill health and may be avoid) I by passing do\\ :i the next street, while an Impure water supply brings death and destruction to many helpless persons. • Homes and < lariien. K.'lttlif-ll itml Seoieli I'm-IMleili'f, At the eo: mat: >n of Charles 1., the kingdoms of England anil Scotland having l» en united during the reign of Ids father, considerable friction took place with regard to the order of pre cedence of the English and Scottish noblemen. An arrangement satisfac tory to all parties was finally conclud ed, in virtue of which English peers while In England took precedence of Scottish pet is of the same rank, while In Scotland this order was reversed, and the Scoliisli peers went first. Tin* Sli«'|ilier«l'i» Crook. Although most people have seen a shepherd's crook, many do not know the use of it Some people think that ill the shepherd carries it for is to use Jt as a walking stick when he tramps So and from the fold. But the crooked end itself serves a purpose. It enables a shepherd to catch refractory sheep. If a sheep shows signs of running away the crooked end lias only to be placed round his leg, and he Is a tap tive. London Standard. J——M——————— pOLLthe COUCH J«m> CURE the LUNCB "'™ Dr. Kings New Discovery nONSUMPTION Price FDR I OUGHS and 50c&$1.00 Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for ait THROAT nnd LUNO TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. m M! A Plellabl© TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and Canoral Job Work. Stoves, Heater*, Ran*»», Furnaces. «to. PRIDES THE LOWEST! QUALITY TIIE BEST! JOHN HIXSOJN NO. 118 E. FRONT BT. LEGEND OF THE GARTER. <on I riid id )>r> » ernioiiN of the Fitun liution of tlie Oiiler. 1 knew, as c, cry schoolboy knows, tin- l '4)'ii)l that :. certain Countess of . idi try dropj d her garter at a bull ami that tie king, picking it up amid the smiles of courtiers, handed it to her with the li.ipiv nnd now immortal phrase, "Iloni lit qui mal y pense." l.it thW h _ei ii I. I recalled, had had to got! • way of the story of King A 1 fred .111< 1 ih" cakes, the story of Wil li.t;.i Tell and die apple and many an oth. , pre m fairy tale of history. At last Iv ent to Sir Nicholas Harris Nico la- it stor\ < ■ the Orders of Ivnlght ho i;!," where I found a delightful mass of e >ntradi'-tor.> authority produced. I! ia I ■ of the ensign and name of iln > rder -.■.■ ere first told by I'olydore Ver 1 (1 :7t» r.Vn. who wrote 111 the tii • of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. an who s .iil that the lady was"the >|i, ■. ! or the i ag's mistress." Segar, who-..- work. "Honor, Military and civil." ap; eared in hUd, L'oO years aft er the order w.i ■ founded, was the tlrst to • ay that it was the Countess of Sal any. « !her writers say that It was the Conn: of Kent. John Anstis fli'.i'.!i ITIIi. garter king of arms, who published several heraldic works, rldi cul the v ho!:- story. He confesses that a.i a.ith. . of Henry Vl.'s time, who wrote in I.atin J}' whose work is now entirely lost, upheld it. Uaphael Ilolinshed, a chronicler, who died in l.'sti, tells the story In detail and says the lady was the queen, which surely rather spoils the significance of the h geiul. Sir Harris Nicolas him self thinks the story is not improbable, although lie urges the fact that Jean Kroissart, who is the best contempo rary authority on the reign of Edward 111., while he has much to say about the order in his hundredth chapter, does not refer to it.and Nicholas ad mits that this tells very much against the !!;•! 'ed oiigin of the story, but Froi: • lit jijjiy have thought the matter too trivial to i late. I'v the way, I feel very lunch ag .rieved that <}. C. Macau lay in the abridged volume of Frolssart that he pubii heil through the Maemll kins should hive ruthlessly cut this hundredth chapter. It is not, I may add, claimed that the incident caused the foundation of the Order of th • Carter, but only that It gave Edward 111. the idea for naming the order which he had resolved to found in any. case. In the absence of any other solution than that which ri'sts oil these shadowy foundations 1 think we may still goon accepting the pretty legend, but I repeat my expres sion of dissatisfaction with the popular histories that they should lewe sucb matters as this severely ilone. —Lon don Sphere. On«» of Ihr Wntnler* of Pbyalos, An experienced mechanic who was asked what he regardetl as the most wonderful thing for general utility re plied: "The tracking of a car wheel is the most wonderful thing to me in the whole range of science and Invention. Here are two rails, uphill and down hill. round the sharp curves and along false tan rents, and upon them fly at i> in:- than a mile a minute, without Jat or ■ I •. a <!o/.cn heavy cars drawn by an e:i ■ ine v. -i liing sixty tons. Passen gers i -aSize no danger, yet there is only the little flange of a wheel be tween them and eternity. An inch and a half of steel turned up on the inner 112 id - of the wheel holds up the whole train as securely to the rails as If it were bolted there in grooves." THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE. Love is kindly and deceitless.—Yeats. Love can sun the realms of night.— Schiller. They do not love that do not show their love. Shakespeare. Love's a thing that's never out of season. Harry Cornwall. He that shuts out love In turn shall be shut out by love. —Tennyson. The great) st miracle of love is the cure »112 c »)p;- try. La Rochefoucauld. Love is 11: a iter of the wisest; it is only fools that defy him. -Thackeray. Love i.ever de; of tarvati.■:», I'.it often of h'i! "• - lion in nt de i'-ai •! I ~ "" -' j] j fiie Home Paper [ of Danville. I Of course you read ! liilß. iii ! J THE HECKLE'S I KQPULAR I APER. Everybody Reads It. j | ' Publisheu Every Morm: Except Sunday «. : I No. ii E. Ma ho: rig St. i Subscription o cei r YWek. i _____ BERLIN IS MACHINE MADE. EnicliNh Writer fall* It Stiff, It I*l.l ii'itl Uec*tllln«»ur. WHS 1 l'liu made last year or tlie year before: It is lni|>osslMe to say from looking at it. Some of tlie trees in the streets look at least ten years tjltl, Imt t.liey must have I wen planted loiik before the city was thought of. i'lie houses and the streets and the lampposts and the statues are all much too neat and new to have endured the rains of more than one winter. It Is all, in fact, quite too new to be com fortable. One I eels afraid to sleep in an.\ of th houses lest rheumatism should !■<• h inji in wait in rooms where the piaster has not had time to harden. I drove from the station In a "drosh lil" with a mo : trously old horse. Time had bent his forelegs into a very good Imitation o 1 a switchback railway, and as we plodded solemnly along tin' brand new as; halt roadway, with the iiraiul n >\v house* on either side and an occasional brand new electric car, with a brand new driver in a brand new uni.onn, 1 found myself wonder ini; what the old horse must think of It all. One day he may have been grazing in an open field, and when he passed that way a week or so later he found a new broad boulevard, with hotels and shops a.nl churches and great blocks o 1 fiats, all sprung up like mushrooms. Berlin, then, is a great deal too per feet to be satisfactory, it Is the ma chine made, not the hand made, article it was very decidedly made, not born. There is 110 spontaneity In it, no life. Compared to, say, Loudon, it is like a beautiful marble statue to a liv Ing woman. Berlin is, in fact, an awful object lesson to emperors and others who try to make a capital city out of a respect able village. It is easy to put up lm posing buildings—if you have the mon ey—and to cut out broad tree lined roads and have everything neat and nice and fine, but you only make your village bigger and tiner without male Ing It any the more a capital city There is 110 netting away from the feel Ing that Berlin Is a village—a big vil lage, a beautiful, rectilinear, new-out ol'-tbe-bandbox village, but a village all the same.—London Chronicle. The h>n't For the F"l(rnre. "Of course." said the bachelor girl, "I am lonely, l>ut I am afraid marriage would be out of the frying pan Into the Are." "It's more likely," answered Mis? Cayenne, "to be out of the chafing disb Into the gas stove."—Washington Star There will never be universal peace It Is an idle dream. People will j get married. T A< KAW\NNA KAILUOAD U HLOOMHBUIK* 1)1 VIHION Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In Effect Jan. 1, 1905. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. EASTWARD. 7.07 a. m. dally tor Bloomsburg, Kingston, Wtlkes-Barre :i..d Scranton. Arriving Scrau tou at SM!4 a. in., and connecting at Scranton Willi trains arriving at Philadelphia at 8.48 a. in.and New York City at 8.110 p. in. 10.19 a. ni. weekly for Bloomsburg. Kingston, j Wiikea-Barre.Scranton and intermediate Hta- i IIOIIH, arriving at Scran ton at 12.86 p. ui. and | connecting thore with trains for New York 1 City, Philadelphia and Buffalo. 2.11 weekly forßiooinsburg,Kingston, Wilkes Barre, Scranton and Intermediate stations, j arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. m. 5.48 p. ni. daily for Bloomsburg, Kspy, Ply- i mouth, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving I at Scranton at 8.25 p. m.and connecting there with trains arriving at New Y'ork Oily at o.Sti i a' m„ Philadelpeia 10 a. m.and Buffalo 7a in. I TItAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE ».15a. m. weekly from Scranton, Pittston, i Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediatesta- ! lions, leaving Scranton at 6.85 a. in., where 11 j connects with trains leaving New York City . at S.BO p. m., Philadelphia at 702 p. m.and | Buffalo at 10.80 a. in. 12.14 p. m.daily lrom Scranton Pittston, j Kingston, Berwick, Bloomsburg and interme- ! diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. in. ' and connecting there with train leaving Buft j alo at 2.25 a. in. 4.88 p. m. weekly oin Scranton, Kingston. I Berwick, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta I lions, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. in., where it j connects with train leaving New York Lit} at it).oo a. in., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m. j 9.05 l>. in.daily from Scranton. Kingston, Pittston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and Interlne- ( diate stations, leaving Scranton at 0.85 p. in., j where it connects with trains leaving New ' York City at 1.00 p. in., Philadelphia at 12.00 j p. m.and Builolo at 9.80 a, m. T. K. CLAKKK, Gen'l Snp't. T. W. LKK. Uen. Pass. Agt. llllf'L We want to do ali kinds of Printing | | AP ¥ !l tIUD i 11 It's H. II 111 Pltß. LI'S MM | M ( T } A pri;.t tasty, Bill or \| / ter Head, P< A/A Ticket, Citv , Program, St m E ment or Card j an a^ver^senitn for your business, satisfaction to yor lew TfBB, lew Presses, ~ Best Panel M Skilled fork, A Promptness- Ml can ask * A trial will make you our customer. We respect full 1 * ask that trial. " 999 No. ii R. Mahoning
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