V
WELL -
If
' .Swn.u?ithJTa,"ey of "Well-Enough" men are careless end ovou and free; ' -li
(v$ t0Uand,tney t and they love a bit, and they grow old happily; '
' ' J 0 "1 he hazy distance gleam the peaks of the unknown: ''Fame," . ' ,
(And none that has traveled that dilhcult steep can enter the valley again.
The way ii o'er rocks, sharp and jagged and cruel; through fierce heat, with a dead
i ,. ., n'"8 thirst; r
I- While the water drips cool, far below in the depths of the way that to him is ac
cursed. Eow he longs, all in vain, for a friendly handclasp, for the smiles that were ready
, and true;
But he may not turn back, so he struggles along, with the joy of achievement in view.
And at last, oh, long journey; see torn hands and feet, nd face drawn and wrinkled
. with pain!
He stands at the summit of great desire, to dwell on his priceless gain.
And then ah, the sadness of heart-break! was not that a man's cry of woe?
or he longs to return to the land he has lost to the "Well-Knough" valley below.
Urace G. Boatwick, in New Vork Tribune.
::: THE :::
UNDECEIVED LOVER.
jJOj AM tired of this delay,
si J Marion. I want the mat-
1 O tcr settied definitely, and
I p at once."
0f "You are very unreason
able, nuut," said Miss De
lancy, shrugging her shoulders petu
lantly. "Things of this sort can't be
lurried up In a moment."
"A moment !" echoed Mrs. Gardi
ner. "Why, It's full three mouths since
Grey rclham commenced visiting
you!"
"Set your heart at rest, aunt," said
Marion, with .a glance of triumph
shooting from bneath liei drooping,
blue-veined eyelids. "If ever a man
iwas desperately In love, lie Is the
time of his bachelor freedom grows
hort."
, "But how short?"
Wlll you be satisfied If lie proposes
In a week?"
, "Yes-but he will not.'
1 "Leave him to me!" said the tall
tieauty. Imperiously. "I am as Impa
tient as you are but I know very well
It .will not do to show It."
"It is shockingly expensive," said
Mrs. Gardiner, plaintively. "When I
took the furnished house for six
1 months, I supposed you would lie off
iny hands long before this and the
servants' bills, and the account for the
coupe, with the driver in white gloves,
nd-"
"Spare me the reiteration of house
bold annoyances, aunt," said Marlon,
Impatiently. "You are supposed to be
a wealthy dowager. I, your heiress
niece. What sort of society do you
suppose we could have commanded if
people had known our real status?"
"Well, I suppose you are right," said
Mrs. Gardiner, disconsolately; "but.
dear me, Marlon, if this last chance
..i.i ii f
"It will not fail, aunt. Hawn't I
told you to set your heart at rest?"
Thus ended the colloquy between
aunt and niece, and Mrs. Gardiner
left the room to attend the summons
Of her cook.
' Marlon rose slowly, walked, with the
Step of a princess, to the full length
mirror, framed in a net-work of gilt
passion Tine leaves, and looked into
Its surface.
What a lovely picture smiled back
upon her, flushed with the soft wine
light of sunset. A tall, flexible figure,
gull of unstudied grace; a small head,
royally set upon the slender, snowy
throat, and crowned with braids of
allken black hair, colled round and
round Ip- glossy profusion. Her com
plexion was rather dark, but fine
grained as satin, with a delicate crim
son glow on either cheek, and lips full
and scarlet as newly ripened cherries,
Bvhlle her lovely black eyes, large and
oft as velvet, gave a tender expres
sion to the whole countenance.
"Yes," murmured Marlon Dclancy,
balf aloud. "I have beauty Grey
Pelham has rank and wealth. Are
Hre not evenly matched? What right
bas he to ask for more?"
The thoughts were yet flitting
through her brain, when a servant en
tered, with a sealed missive In her
band.
, "A telegram, miss, just arrived!"
Marlon caught it from the servant's
band and tore It open.
"Miss Delancy," it read, "your rather
Is much worse and more troublesome
to-day, and I cannot continue to take
(charge of him, unless arrears are paid
top at once. If I do not see you soon,
I shall bring him up to New York,
and return him to your care.
k I "SARAH DARBY."
Marion flushed scarlet, and bit her
Up until her small, white teeth gleamed
irindlctlvely.
"What a bother!" she muttered to
berself ; "but It is just like that spite
ful old Darby to carry her senseless
threats Into execution. I must get ten
jflollars from Aunt Gardiner to stop her
knouth with; and the sooner the bet
ter. Perhaps I had best take the even
ing express down to Berksdale at
nee."
She glanced at her tiny' Geneva
sratch.
"Yes, I have time; but I ought not
to waste it now, of all times! One
night's delay may cast some chill
across the glow of Grey Pelham's
Jove; but there is no alternative left
me."
t 'And the evening express carried Miss
jDelancy down to the obscure little vil
lage where her poor, crazed, old father
sras farmed out, at the least possible
rates of compensation, to a hard faced
jwidow with a heart like adamant and
sympathies dried down to the merest
Shreds.
Meanwhile, Grey Pelham, Esquire, In
bis elegant bachelor sanctum, was pre
paring himself elaborately for an even'
ing can on nis rair goddess. It 'was a
room whose adornment and decoration
bespoke not only wealth without stint
or limit, but refined taste and highly
cultured appreciation. Exquisite, llt
'tle bronie groups glimmered on carved
bracktU; itatuettsef alabaster leaned
ENOUGH.
By Helen
Forrest Graves.
from backgrounds of ruby velvet;
paintings that an amateur would have
valued at their weight In gold opened
the glow of Neapolitan skies and misty
Swiss valleys to the eye, and cabinets
of rare cameos and antique coins tilled
the recesses.
But the student and philosopher were
now merged in the enthusiastic lover.
Grey Pelham had lost his heart to the
mystic sparkles of Marion Delancy's
marvelous, velvet black eyes, and
"Love was now the lord of all," ac
cording to the orthodox burden of
song and story,
lie was a handsome, well built man
of about thirty, with brown hair, deep
hazel eyes, and features, which if not
strictly regular, were sufficiently well
moulded, and possessed the rare merit
of expression.
The last sunset rays were just touch
ing the stone cornices of the elegant
mansion that Mrs. Gardiner called
her ancestral Inheritance" not deem
ing it worth while to mention the
trifling fact that it was rented from a
Jewish stock broker at a thousand dol
lars a month when Mr. Pelham rang
the doorbell.
"Out of town?" he repeated, after
the servant. "How unfortunate!
Where has she gone, and when did she
go?"
Now, Margery being a new servant,
had not yet learned the crooked ways
and wiles of the Gardiner household,
and unwittingly answered the truth.
".She's gone to Berksdale, sir, and
maybe she'll be obliged to stay two
or three days, I heard her tell the
missus. It'a at Mrs. Darby's, sir,
where"
"Berksdale, eh?"
Mr. Pelham knew that another train
left within the next hour or so the
last train that night, and he resolved
to follow his bright beacon star forth
with. Poor fellow, he had reached that
desperate stage in love in which all
spots where the beloved one is not are
howling wildernesses.
He slipped a bank bill Into Margery's
not unwilling fingers, and hurried down
the street.
'I will seek her out, and let her
sweet lips decide my fate at once," he
thought. "Marlon! How appropriate
if the sweet Scottish name to her pure
and gentle womanliness! All the Mar
ions in poetry and romance are models
of grace and gentleness, and she is no
exception."
(You see that Mr. Pelham was very
much in love.)
Berksdale was soon reached by the
Iron feet of steam, but, rapid as the
progress was, it failed to keep pace
with the young man's feverish Impa
tience.
It was eight o'clock, with a full moon
shining upon the fresh spring foliage,
when, after having been duly directed
to Mrs. Darby's, he 'set forth on his
walk to the secluded village nook.
'Darby Mrs. Darby? She do be the
one who keeps the old, crazy .gentle
man, and a rare un she is to thump
him round! Oh, yes, sir. Ain't more'n
a mile beyant the big church a red
house, with a big poplar tree in front."
Thus instructed with regard to the
locality. Grey Pelham felt that , he
could not well go wrong.
The red house, with a big poplar tree
in front; presented no very inviting
aspect as he strode up to the wide
open door. The blinds hung on one
hinge, creeklng dolefully in the breeze;
the gate was tied up with loops of
rusty rope, where nails should have
been; and broken crockery, invalided
tinware and heaps of oyster shells
adorned the dooryard in lieu of vel
vety grass and borders of flowers.
Grey Pelham, wondering a little as
to what business could possibly bring
Marion Delancy to such a spot as this,
knocked at the open door, but no one
responded to the summons.
He knocked again, and yet a third
time, with no better success, and fin
ally walked boldly into a little sitting
room, where yawning portals seemed
to Invite entrance. A single oil lamp
burned on the table, by whose light he
could just find his way to a chair.
"I suppose I may as well sit down
here and wait until some one comes,"
h'e said, resignedly to himself.
As he did so, he became aware of
voices in the adjoining apartment,
raised high in altercation, and of a
name spoken in shrill tones a name
lear and precious in his" ears.
"I tell you, Miss Delancy, "tnln't
enough! Two dollars in a week won't
pay his board, let alone the clothes and
the lodging!"
And Marlon's accents, silvery sweet,
answered in low, measured tones:
"Two dollars a week Is & great deal
of money for an old man who can chop
wood, and dig garden, and help you so
much about the house."
"But he won't help. Miss Delancy
he just tits and mopes the whole time.
The doctor says he ought to have
wine."
"Oh, nonsense! I can't afford to buy
him wine! That's all an absurd no
tion!" "Well, he Is your own father, Miss
Delancy; fix It nny way you please,
and It ain't hardly decent to let him
starve."
"You are too extravagant In your
Ideas, Mrs. Darby, What can an old
man like that want of new clothes and
dnlnty fare? I tell you, I can't afford
to pay you more than two dollars a
week; my expenses in New York are
ruinous, and"
"Then you may as well send him to
the poorhouse at once, Miss Delancy.
I won't undertake to keep him short
of three dollnrs, at the very least"
"I don't like to do that," Marlon an
swered, hesitatingly, as if the idea
commended itself to her as not imprac
ticable in some respects. "People .will
talk."
"They'll talk Just the same if you
let htm starve to death here, and
good deal worse."
"It's a great nuisance," said Marlon,
Impatiently. "Well, I suppose I will
have to pay you twe dollars and a
half."
The other woman grumbllngly as
sented, but added:
"Don't you want to see him? He's
talked a great deal about his pretty
girl's comin'."
"See him? Oh, no, not for the world!
It always racks my nerves. You
needn't tell him I've been here!"
"Well!" ejaculated the other; "if you
ain't the coolest one, Miss Delancy! I
don't set up to bo the most devoted
daughter in existence, but If my father
was like your'n, I'd waut at least to
see him once in a while."
"What would be the use? Here's
the quarter's money in advance; nnd
if he gets violent or troublesome again.
Just lock him upon bread and water!
Now, show nie to my room, please, for
I've got to get back In the early train
to-morrow morning, before my de
voted cavalier misses me!"
"Then it's' true that you are going
to marry a rich man down in New
York, Miss Delancy! Squire Frothiiig
ham said you was, but, la! there's
heaps o' reports that haven't no more
foundation than a whiff of smoke."
Miss Delancy laughed triumphantly.
"You will see, three months from
now, Mrs. Darby. That's right; get
the candle, for there is nothing that
spoils my complexion like want of
sleep!"
Grey rclham had sat as motionless
during this conversation ns If lie had
been turned to stone! Honorable gen
tleman that he was, he would have
scorned the Idea of eavesdropping; but
he had been spellbound thunder
struck. Was this cold hearted, cruel
worlding, whose very natural affec
tion seemed frozen in her veins, the
Marion he had worshiped with such
blind, unquestioning idolatry? Was it
possible that he had been deceived all
these months?
Like the downfall of some superb ed
ifice, undermined at once and entirely,
his dream of love crashed to the earth!
He buried his face in his hands, with
a low, bitter groan, given to the mem
ory of the Marlon whom he now knew
had never existed, save In his own
imagination.
Then he rose and went out In the
cool, clear moonlight, staggering like
one just risen from a bed of serious
sickness. He was thankful now that
he had encountered no one thnt he
was free to depart without question or
doubt.
Disenchanted undeceived! The
blow had been a cruel one, but Grey
Pelham recognized the kindness of the
Hand that had struck it, and returned
to New York, resolved to bear It with
what equanimity he could.
Miss Delancy waited, but waited in
vain, for Mr. Pelham's anticipated
call; and finally at the end of three
days dispatched a little pink note, per
fumed with the ottar of roses, to ask
the reason of his unwonted absence.
The servant brought back the note
unopened. "
"Please, miss, he sailed for Havana
this morning!"
A month subsequently the exasper
ated creditors of Mrs. Percy Gardiner
met in the elegantly furnished house,
Just In time to deplore their own dill.
toriness, for that smiling matron had
decamped, leaving an array o debts
behind her that niigut have awea tlie
notorious Mrs. Chadwlck, the Ohio
prisoner.
And that was the disastrous end of
Marion DeSancy's matrimonial cani
paign! New York Weekly.
' Kisses Classified.
Some individual with oceans of time
on his hands has conceived the idea of
hunting through the works of English
novelists for the purpose of finding all
the adjectives used to qualify the word
kiss. The result is as follows:
Cold, warm, Icy, burning, chilly, cool,
loving, indifferent, balsamic, fragrant,
blissful, passionate, aromatic, with
tears bedewed, long, soft, hasty, into
icatlng, dissembling, delicious, pious,
tender, beguiling, hearty, distracted,
frantic, fresh-as-the-morning, breath
ing fire, divine, satnnlc, glad, sad, su
perflclal, quiet, loud, fond, heavenly,
execrable, devouring, ominous, fervent,
parching, nervous, soulless, stupefy
lng, slight, careless, anxious, painful,
sweet, refreshing, embarrassed, shy,
mute, ravishing, holy, sacred, firm,
hurried, faithless, narcotic, feverish,
Immoderate, sisterly, brotherly and
paradisaical. The task seemed inter
minable nnd he gave it up at this stage.
London Tit-Bits.
Concerning- Kline Eyes.
This country uses more than three
thousand million lace eyes and hooks
iu a year. Every man, woman and
child will wear out on an average two
pair of shoes in twelve months. The
majority of people have two feet and
there are twenty eyes and hooks in
each shoe. Use your arithmetic and
see what the total is. It foots up to
two millions more than three billljn.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
iUCjalaJ. ill 11 V
Watering the Poultry.
May we speak agalu of watering the
poultry? 'This Is generally the weak
point In the poultry yard. Bad water
Is a wonderful vehicle for carrying dis
ease. Provide cliin' water and keep
the drinking vessels clean. Have nil
arranged so that the young chicks can
not get Into the water. A shallow ves
sel filled with large gravel and then
with wnter, as mentioned iu a previous
issue, makes an excellent watering
place for young chicks, but both gravel
and vessel should be cleaned every day
or two. I'p-to-Dute Farming.
Reclaiming Muck Farm Lands.
Muck soils, when properly drained,
are of great value, and many lands
which have In in Idle for generations
can be reclaimed to great and lnsting
fertility. Experience, or the use of ex
perience of others, Is, however, neces
sary in their draining. Such soils settle
rapidly when drying, and if tile Is used
It must be laid at considerable depth.
Most of such tolls are underlaid with
sand or gravel. In such cases holes or
wells can be sunk at intervals down
to this sand and the tile !lues run or
emptied Into them. This Is sometimes
much easier than the digging of deep
open ditches Into which to ruu the
tiles. American Cultivator.
,Tnt Itefore Pasture.
It is not an easy matter to keep up
the flow of milk except by heavy grain
feeding during the period when the
pasture is not yet lit to graze heavily.
Just before good pasture wo find It
an excellent plau to tempt the cows to
eat as much of the roughage as pos
sible, so we cut the cornstalks or the
straw, whichever happens to be avail
able, in very small pieces, and after
wetting It well mix a portion of grain
or a few vegetables chopped fine
through the fodder. It is a freakish
cow who will not eat this dish with
avidity, even though It has been pretty
well stuffed with roughage during the
winter. Wo even go so far. for the
6ake of change, as to drop the corn
stalks and give them the cut straw
fixed In the manner specified, later
going back to the cut cornstalks, but
in both cases wetting the fodder so that
the grain used, sometimes cornnieal
and again bran, will stick to It, else
they will mouth It over and eat the
grain without the fodder. Indianapolis
News.
Frlentllic Fni-itilntr
The recent discussions In the Aus
trian papers on the subject of Indirect
medication have been followed by vari
ous articles in the French papers. The
agricultural-bacteriological station of
Vienna Is continuing its experiments
with the cultivation of vegetables, in
creasing by artificial means the propor
tion of salts of iron contained in them.
The Idea is by no means new, as in
1579 Dr. Miraud wrote a book showing
that the therapeutical virtues of, vari
ous vegetables might be increased if
alimented with certain substances con
taining medicinal properties. Iu 1SH0
Dr. Chainpouillon communicated to the
French Academy of Sciences' the re
sults of his experiments with the
strawberry plant and the vino which
had been watered with nitrate and
carbonate of potash. Dr. Champouillon
mentions two cases of dropsy which
were cured by a diet of strawberries
saturated with nitrate of potash and
white wine mineralized.
In 1)7 M. Eniile Levy tried the ex
periment of feeding fowl with corn and
salts of Iron. It appears thnt the eggs
thus obtained contained a fare share of
these salts In a form perfectly nssim-liable-Newark
(X. J.) Sunday Call.
liRfllbllCB.
The radish Is one of the early season
garden crops, quick growing and
hardly. For best development it re
quires rather cool weather, and to
grow tender radishes it Is necessary to
have a continuous growth from begin
ning to end.
As soon ns the ground can be worked
In spring sow large, heavy seed. The
Issoil should be clenn, rich garden soil.
It is advisable to sow a new crop every
ten days, to keep up a continuous sup
ply. In about four to six weeks after
planting the radishes will be ready for
table use.
The rows should be from six Indies
to a foot apart, and the seed covered
about half an inch in depth. Drop two
or three seed every inch in the row. It
will requite about an ounce of seed for
100 feet of row; eight to ten pounds for
an acre.
When grown in hot weather radishes
are apt to be stringy and tough.
Winter radishes are planted tho lat
ter part of July or the first of August,
and are grown the same as turnips.
Being firm and tender they keep well
over winter if stored in pits or a dry
cellar,.
The most popular market radish is
the French Breakfast, Scarlet Short
Top, Chartier and Wood Early Frame.
For winter the White and Black Na
ples and the White Vienna are very
good. Indianapolis News.
Raisin? Hntlinufce Vegetable.
A general discussion of the vegetable
raising was n feature of n recent meet
ing nt Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass,
W. W.Rawson was the principal speak
er, nnd he estimated that nearly 200
acres In Massachusetts aie under glass.
The product Is sold In Boston, New
York, riiHadel-ihia, Buffalo and Chi
cago. The vegetable grower to-day
should have several houses in order
that each may be at the proper teni
pernture.
Iu no other pert of the t'nlted States
has the growing of vegetables under
glass reached the point of perfection
that It has here. Th"re are more than
1200 market gurdcuerg who bring pro
duce to Boston, and the number Ib In
creasing. To-day It Is a problem what
to grow, and the man must study the
market, know how to produce a good
crop by close attention to details, and
confine himself to a few kinds he is
most familiar with, and which are best
adapted to his soil and mnrket. Mr.
Bnwson advocated growing vegetabh s
by electric light, and the use of steril
ized soil. He thought the cucumber
crop could be Increased fifteen per cent,
by the use of the electric light.
Vnrnum Frost, another well-known
market gardener, said It was an Insult
to common sense to speak of growing
vegetables by electricity. He had never
used It nnd never would, nnd It was a
good deal like another "fad" which Mr,
Hnwson had started of painting glass
white. J. C. Stone said be liked to hear
these comments, because when two
mnrket gardeners lived in the same
town nnd disagreed bo well, it was a
sure sign that both were good growers.
American Cultivator.
Thrifty Toinntn Plants.
. This Is how I raised 13,000 tomato
plants after March 10: I planted part
of them in a hotbed ten feet long and
two nnd one-half feet wide, In rows
about three Inches apart. This gave
room to cultivate them. I sowed the
seed thickly In trenches one Inch deep
and covered with soil. When the plants
came up I thinned to nbout 100 to the
row. I planted the other bed the same
way, but this bed was In the plain soil
and was five feet wide and nearly
twelve feet long. This allowed me to
cultivate from both sides. When the
plants were n week old I carefully
loosened the soli between the rows
with a table fork, but did not disturb
the plants. I did this twice a week
till they were large enough to set out.
When they were ten days old I sprayed
them with n gallon of liquid manure
to n pall of water. If the manure Is
used stronger It will Injure the plants,
But how they did grow treated this
way! When about six Inches high I
transplanted to another bed, giving
them more room. This should be done
nbout twice before they are ready to
place In the field. This was the l!0th
of .May here, and the plants had stalks ,
lis large as a lend pencil and were
ten to twelve inches high. I kept up
the cultivating and spraying all the
way through. Perhaps nil do lint know
how to get the liquid manure. Bore the
bottom of n barrel full of holes; place
it on blocks in n slant; fill in a little
straw, then stable manure to nt least
two-thirds full. Place boards under
neath to ruu off the liquid; then pour
on two pails of water. It will run
through in an hour or two. Then pour
on wnter enough each day to keep the
supply of liquid just as youi needs
are. This liquid is Just ns good for
other plnnts. Phoebe Journey, In The
Epitomist.
The Cause of Tuberculosis,
The Cornell University Experiment
Stntlon in bulletin 223, just published,
gives most interesting facts about this
dreaded animal disease, its cause and
how it is spread. It says that the
disease is caused by n micro-organism,
the bacillus tuberculosis, which nre
only visible under the microscope. The
bacilli nre often found in tuberculous
cattle and people, and differ very littlo
iu appearance and belong to Iho same
species. The bacilli escape from dis
eased animals, in the saliva and mucus
from the mouth, also from the pus from
tubercular abscesses that open through
the skin, nnd in the milk of the cow.
Some cows show fifteen per cent, of
them iu their milk.
The Infection and spread of the dis
ease among animals is largely through
the digestive tract, and by Inhaling
particles of dirt or dust carrying bacilli,
or by getting them into wounds of the
skin. The hitter is possible, but not
common. Healthy cattle "nosing" with
Infected ones, or feeding and drinking
after them Is the most usual way of In.
feclion. The infection of calves by
feeding tht'in milk from tuberculous
cows Is a frequent means of spreading
the disease. This upon calves is slow
and sometimes does not show the dis
ease for years. This is on 3 of the very
important ways that the disease is
spread among breeding h.rds.
The disease is often fouud in swine
fed upon milk from infected cows.
Last year the United States meat in
spectors condemned about 20.000 hogs
for tuberculosis. The same result may
follow when milk from Infected cows is
fed to children or adults. Practically
the only way tuberculosis gets Into a
herd of cattle is by the introduction of
n tuberculosis animal. The disease Is
of very slow progress In developing.
If often requires years for it to destroy"
Its victim. The germs pass into the
blood or lymph and are carried to other
parts of the body, where each germ
starts a new tubercle. The tuberculin
test is by far the most reliable way
to determine whether animals have
any trace of the disease. There have
been many unjust things said about
tuberculin nnd mauy cattle owners
have come to fear that it is a danger
ous agent to use. It has been found,
however, that tuberculin is ns harm
less ns need be to the health of the
animal. The dangers that are supposed
to come from It are the results of poor
tuberculin, unclean Instruments, of
other avoidable causes. The tuber
culin Is a prepared fluid. If the ani
mal Is sound when tuberculin Is ln
Jccted no reaction Is observed. If, how.
ever, tho animal contains the active
tubercle there Is a reaction which
shows Itself In a rise of temperature
beginning tor from eight to sixteen
hours after the Injection and continuing
for rroin six to ten hoars and possible,
longer.
THE MODERN FARMER.
ITow He Lives s Compared With Fifty
Veers Ago,
THE farming life of to-day, as
contrasted with that of fifty
years ago, Is a paradise of
comfort and convenience. The
lonely loghouse, remote from market
and devoid of advantages that a half
cycle of time has made possible, would
scarcely appeal to the present day
farmer.
The twentieth century soil tiller has
practically all the modern comforts.
His mall is delivered daily. He has
telephonic connection with the buying
and selling world, affording the best
opportunities for marketing to advan
tage. His home is of recent architec
ture, constructed of wood, brick or
stone, and well furnished. He has
modern plumbing and modern heating,
and with the advent of acetylene gas,
he has modern lighting. At night his
home Is as attractively illuminated as
that of his city brother, for It Is a sug
gestive fact that "acetylene for coun
try homes" has so appealed to the farm
er that of the 80,000 users of acety
lene gas in the United States the farm
er is one of the largest of all classes.
Ever seeking the best, be has not hesi
tated in availing himself of this new
light.
" The continued growth and progress
of this great couutry, ever a cause of
wonderment, has no greater exempli
fication than evolution on the farm.
Already the farmer is becoming the
most envied of men the freest, the
healthiest, the happiest!
Booker Washington's Story.
Booker T. Washington told a story
In the dialect of his race a few days
ago at Cheney Industrial School for
Negroes which will probably be re
membered longer than the more Bert
ous part of his discourse. Mr. Wash
ington said that a short time ago he
was called upon to address the mem
bers of a negro church In Alabama
which was having troubles with its
finances. The pastor had not been
paid In a year, and the running ex
penses of the church had not been
defrayed. The negro educator told
the members of the congregation of
their duty to the church and its pas
tor and expostulated with them on
their unchristian-like conduct All
the time he was talking an aged.
negro In the rear of the church was
shakhig his head nnd saying: "Ain't
g'wlne to pay no mo' money." When
he hnd repeated this several times
Mr. Washington asked the brother
to explain why he refused to help
pay the pastor s salary, and the old
darkey replied: "He preached dom
fame sermons last year and de year
befo'. Dey has been paid for and
ain't g'wi-ne to pay no mo' money."
Philadelphia Record.
Hyde's Luxurious Stables.
James H. Hyde, the storm center of
the Equitable fight, Is reputed to have
the most splendid stables In America,
There Is a special room devoted to
the harness, spotless and shining as
tablo silver. In a case are curbs, bits,
bells, stirrups and whips. There are
carved wooden cases, containing
veritable museum of old stirrups, pos
tillion whips and hunting horns, and a
great hall containing not less than 28
carriages.
Where Money Is Useless.
On Ascension Island, In the Atlan
tic, money Is quite useless. The
Island Is the property of the Brit
ish Admiralty and Is governed by a
captain. There is no private prop
erty in land, so there are no rents,
rates or taxes. The flocks and herds
are public property, and the meat is
Issued in rations. So are the vege
tables grown on the farms.
BOOK OF BOOKS.
Over 30,000,000 Fobllshert.
An Oakland lady who has a taste for
good literature, tells what a happy
time she had on "The Road to Well
ville." She says
"1 drank coffee freely for eight years
before I began to perceive any evil ef
fects from It. Then I noticed that I
was becoming very nervous, and that
my stomach was gradually losing the
power to properly assimilate my food
In time I got so weak that I dreaded
to leave the bouse for no reason what
ever but because of the miserable con
dition of my nerves and stomach. I
attributed the trouble to anything In
the world but coffee, of course. 1
dosed myself with medicines, which
In the end would leave me in a worse
condition than at first. I was most
wretched and discouraged not 30
years old and feeling that life was a
failure!
"I had given up all bore of ever en
Joying myself like other people, till one
day I read the little book, "The Road
to Wellvllle." It opened my eyes, and
taught me a lesson I shall never forget
and cannot value too highly. I imme
dlately quit the use of the old kind of
coffee and began to drink Postura Food
Coffee. I noticed the beginning of an
Improvement in the whole tone of my
system, after only two days use of the
new drink, and In a very shor time
realized that I could go about like
other people without the least Teturn of
the nervous arena that formerly gav
me so much trouble. In fact, my nerv
ousness disappeared entirely nnd ha
never returned, although It is now a
year that I have been drinking Tostum
Food Coffee. And my stomach is now
like iron nothing can upset it!
"Last week, during the big Conclave
In San Francisco, I was on tho go day
and night without the slightest fatigue",
aud ns I stood In the Immense crowd
watching the great parado that lasted
for hours, 1 thought to myself, 'This
strength Is what Postum Food Coffee
l:ns given me!' " Name given by
Tostuin Co., Brittle Creek, Mich.
There's a rottson.
The little book," Tho Road to Well
ville," may be found In every pkg.
UUSINE33TTARDSV
M. MsDO.NAO.
ATTORNET-AT-tAW,
Rotary fnbllo. real estate attnt. Patents
leeilred. coilrrtlrinfl made nromptlv. bases)
In nyn Heat building, kernoldsvllle, Fa.
TJH. b. S HUOVER,
REYNOLDS VILLI, FA.
Itlrtini dentin. 1.. tli a Flxover natldlaa
sain fctrteft. Gertleneps Iu operating.
J)R. L. L. MEANS.
DENTIST.
Office on second floor of First TTa
tlonal bank buiiuiiig, Main street.
J)R. B. DEVEttE KING,
DENTIST.
Office on second floor lynoldsrfIl
nem jisiaio jjuuomg, wain street,
BnynoUlsvlile, Pa.
J NEKF,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACH
Aud Itefil Kstato Agent
Keynohlsvllla, P.
gMITII M. McCRElGHT,
ATTOKN BY-AT-LAW.
Rotary Public end Heal KHtate Agonte. Oel
leotlons will fcfirft ptorni't attention. Ofllo
In the JinynoldHTllle Iianlware Clo. Building,
Main street, 1ujuo1JhiJU Pa.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat No. (red 03 OS (
Kye-No.2 (in 91
Corn No. 2 yellow, ear 611 W ;
No. yeiinw, sneuea oo 51 l
Mlied ear 48 4'
Oats No. S white 8!) 8
No. 3 white 81
Flour Winter patent & SO 6 00
Fancy strnlitlit winters 5 45 5 SO
Bay No. 1 Timothy 1! 75 18 0!)
Clover No. 1 1 75 18 00
Feed No. 1 white mid. ton St 0,1 ! 60
Drown middlings is 6') 18
Bran, bulk 18 00 IS l
i raw Wheat tt 75 7 00
Out ( 73 7 0 0
Dairy Products.
Butter Elgin creamery t 80 8
Ohio creamery m
Fancy country roll in 14
Cheenn Ohio, new 18 14
Hew York, new 18 14
Poultry, Etc.
lions per lb f 14 1'c
Chickens dreased 10 1H
Kegs Pa. and Ohio, fresn 1H 10
Fruits and Vegetables.
Apples bbl s 5) .1)
Potatoes rnncy white per bu,... 30 8
Cabbage per ton js ( gi 00
Onions per barrel y 50 8 Qj
BALTIMORE.
Flour Winter Patent I ft 05 S Z
Wheat No. 11 red 03 gt
Corn Mixed 51 fjt
Ekks 16 m
Butter Ohio creamery -u ii
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Winter Patent I J SO 5 75
Wheat No. red 99 101
Corn No. 2 mixed 60 il
Oats No. S white 80 87
Butter Creamery 114 &
Eggs Pennsylvania firsts 16 17 I
NEW YORK.
Flour-Patents I 09 6 80
Wheat No. S red '
Corn No. S ! JJ
Oats No. S white J
Butter Creamery J
Msgs Stale and Pennsylvania.... 17 "
LIVE STOCK.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
Extra, 14W) to 3000 lbs 18 85 6 50
I'rlnie, 1300 to 1400 lbs 615 6
Medium, 1200 to It 00 lbs.. o 90 6 15
Tidy, low to 11M) 650 ' 68i
Butcher. 900 to 1100 875 4 10
Common to fair 8 50 8 75
Oxen, common to fat K75 401
Common toitood fat bulls snd cows 50 8VI
11 Uch cows, each 16 00 45 00
Hogs.
Prime heavy hops t&80 685
Prime medium weights 683 5 "5
best heavy yorkere and medium 680 6X5 ,
Good pigs and Ughtyorkers 6 40 6 n0
Plus, common to good . 4 7) 4 HO
Houghs 8 7 415
btaga 8 25 8 JO
Sheep.
Extra S S00 6 10
tood to choice 4 75 4 SO
Medium 4 4 75
Common to fair., t.V) 4 00
Lambs 650 6 00
Calves.
Veal, extra . 4 50 6 50
Veal, good to choice aJ 4 50
Vtal, common heavy 80J HJi
The man who goes down with his
engine in a wreck is considered
worthy of great commendation when
the truth is, as all railway men are
aware, that the unfortunate in such
cases lost his nerve at the CTitica!
moment, and hesitated to Jump, de
clares Scientific Engineering. When
an accident is Impending the cool
and collected engineer shuts oft
steam, applies the brakes and opens
the valves, all of the actions taking
a few seconds. Then he looks out
for his own safety. Another man
becomes so fiightened in f.e presenoe
of great danger that he does nothing,
not even the possible, and he Is the
person likely to wear a martyr's
crown.
Remarkable are the revelations
which have come to light with regard
to the Miller "syndicate" swindle.
Schleslnger, who fled to Europe with
a largo share of the plunder, is dead,
and Ammon, who was found guilty
of complicity in the robbery has been .
in prison. But in Brussels a hand
some part of the booty is said to
have been found, and strenuous is the
effort to lay hold of. It. When the
spoil has been once thoroughly Iden-
' Ulied the attempt to get it. will reaci
It j climax. But what hope is there
of just redistrictlon to the original
owners from whom it was "convy
d?" asks the New York Tribune.
Commenting ou the effects of the
iime novel and the sensational play
in increasing crime the Insurance
Monitor says that the criminal classes
in America, are increasing faster than
the pc. '-.Hon and that most of the
thefts a-4 burglaries are committed
y minors or men In their early 20's.