A SONG OK 2Je lilies bloom in her silver tight; JMseems some wonder is waking under xne star-Hovered quiet of middle night. From pole to pole, like a singing scroll, jThe spheral sounds of the Mar -song roll; lne Dir is gleaming with shapes of dream ing; A mystic music is on my soul. The Cloudburst BY DANE 3K TfejQ w yarn before the !Sf ' S8 dnv flint V.vra Kllnu- flip dosort prospector, camped at Old Tehachapi the rocky mountains above liim bad barely felt the touch of tain. Those were the years of drought in California, 1897 and 1S9S; and when the low lands along the coast went dry, it was a drought Indeed in the Tehachapi Mountains, for they faced the Mohave desert. On this day In June a great mirage of heat overspread the shimmering sands, In the semblance of a vast lake dotted (With: Islands and trees; but the heated Bryness of the bed of the Tehachapi River dispelled all Illusions as to the Jake below. It wa9 not the first time that Ezra Bhaw had camped by the river. For live years he had stopped at the same place on his way to his prospects on the desert, and more than once he bad een that dry river-bed bank-high with muddy water. But to Philip West- torook, a young mining expert from the 'Bast, it seemed a very unreasonable precaution to cross the river-bed and vamp upon the hot mesa when there twas such a fine cottonwood tree down In the bottom. "How long since there's been a flood In this stream?" he demanded, when Ezra drove past the cottonwood on his way to a scrubby juniper on the oppo site bank. "Let's see," said Shaw.' "It was two years ago last Saturday." "Well, if that's the case, let's camp (flown under that cottonwood. I'll risk cloudburst to escape a sunstroke any day." It was frightfully hot on the open mesa, but a cool breeze drew up the canon and fanned the cottonwood leaves into a soothing rustle. Far up bove the mountain heights puffy thun flereaps loomed against the sky, radiat ing a sultry, oppressive heat. Ezra Shaw looked them over critical ly before he made reply. "As I was saying," he continued, "It was two years ago Saturday, and the weather was hot and muggy, just like this. You see that mark on the cottonwood tree down there, about six feet above the ground? That's where Itlie water came. Came quick, too. Do ffon want to chance it?" ' "I certainly do," replied Westbrook. Those clouds have hung round up there for a week, and not a drop of rain have they given up, with all their jwind and thunder." So down In the boulder-strewn river tied they camped, and the prospector Boon had a meal cooked and spread In the shade of the cottonwood. West brook was going out to Inspect one of his mines in the Interests of an East fern mining company, and Shaw knew the desirability of humoring him, even , at a slight personal risk. kBut for twenty years he had lived on the changing desert, and he knew Its extremes too weU. ' So while he cooked and fed the horses, hVcast an occas ional glance up the canon. The sug gestion of the act irritated young West brook, who took it for a silent rebuke. "What's the matter with you?" he demanded. "Are you afraid a cloud burst will jump round the point up there and drown you. where you atand?" An Indulgent smile wrinkled the heat blackened face of the old prospector. "Two years ago last Saturday I saw something like that happen," he said. "A teamster was camped here at the time. That's one of his wagon wheels lown there by the lone cottonwood on the knoll. Ho didn't get drowned, but be was sure surprised. And now, If you hare no objections, I reckon I'll book up and pull out of here. It looks kind of black away up there on the fjeaks." "Well, I'd like to rest a little in this hade before we go on, but of course If you Insist " "No insist aboiit it! None at all! You fust lie right down and rest, and I'll harness up and drive out of this river bottom. It hasn't rained in a long time, but If that water up there hap tens to come this way, it will come on the jump. It's ten miles up to where rou see that black cloud, but it's all Sown hill." Without seeming to hurry, Shaw packed the dishes in the wagon and et about harnessing his horses. Yet If he had been alone he would bare worked like lightning. A great bush lay over the deep canon, and the Wrind blew In little gusts toward the towering thundercaps, which touched the mountain peaks with a base of Inky nd frightful blackness. - From that black base rain was fall ing somewhere. And whichever canon bappened to receive that torrent at its bead was sure to be swept like a great lulceway. On those peaks the rain 4Id not fall In mere drops it fell in sheets. In ' the canon of the Tehachapi, caxrtd and scoured by the torrent of IF THE NIGHT. The wonder grows, like an opening rose; The face of heaven with a halo glows: For joy or fearing, sonic charm is Bearing; I leei us wings o er tne worm unclose. It fills me; there, in the middle air, A splendor as of a meteor's hair! The gates of heaven are open; the seven Urcat angels glitter upon the stair. John i'ayno, in The Living Age. at Old Tehachapi S COOLIDGE. the past, a tense silence settled. Even to Philip Westbrook, dozing lazily In tne stiade, the stillness seemed om Inous. He raised his head and ldlv walched the old prospector as he climbed Into the wagon. "Going to leave me?" he asked, a lit tie scornfully. "That's right," replied Shaw. "And if you'll take a fool's advice you'll get out or tins wash quick!" He turned his head up the canon and listened a raiment. Then he kicked off the brake, yelled to his horses, and started for the bank on the run "Pile in behind!" he called back to estbrook. "Don't you hear it roar: We re In for it this trip!" Above the hammering of the wagon wheels against the rocks there rose an unmistakable roar a dull rumble mingled with sudden cracks and crashes. Then a solid wall of browtt svnter, eight feet high, swept majestically round the point above them, rearing Its crest In the air and seeming to lean forward in its flight. Writhing in the deptliR behind, great treetops slashed up and plunged from sight like spectral hands; and, racing furiously before the wave, there raced a little cloud of dust, only to be licked up the next moment by the towering wall of water. One glance at its Immensity, and young Westbrook scurried over the washed boulders of the river-bed like a desert lizard. "You can't make the bank! Catch on behind!" cried Shaw, as Westbrook ran past the wagon. The bank was indeed too far away, the inundation too Imminent. Not knowing what else to do, he obeyed, and the next moment the horses were headed down the canon toward the lone cottonwood tree on the knoll the tree which showed the water-mark six feet above the ground. In a mad runaway the two horses jerked the light wagon over rocks and bushes, fleeing fom the bank of water. Spreading far out across the widening river-bed, the torrent lost for the time its burst of speed. Then a second great rush, like the surge of a tidal wave at sea. leaped high above the point, and rolling on, swept down the middle of the canon. When that tremendous mass of water, twice as high as at first, ap peared, Ezra Shaw knew that he was caught. Yet he pulled the horses into a new course and lashed them Into a fury. Fighting against fate, he now tried to get in line with the lone cottonwood knoll, so that when the water struck them they might perchance be washed against It, If it stood before the storm. Whlshee whlshee whlshee! they heard the sage brush bowing before he wave front. Brr-up! came the slapping water be hind the wagon, and then up they went, while a great surge of Icy water lapped over them, taking their breath like the cold doueho of a shower-bath. For a moment the horses rose with the water. Then, as the bed of the wagon began to float above the run ning-gear, they sank from sight. The heavy wagon wheels dragged them back and down, and the wagon bed swept upon them. But although the leaky wagon bed rocked wildly beneath him, Ezra Shaw did not abandon his struggling team. Gripping the reins, he braced his feet against the dashboard and heaved their heads up from the muddy water. Then the wagon bed crashed into something solid, and stopped. The horses were swept past, and the wagon wheels fouled and stuck fast. They had struck the lone cottonwood that stood upon the knoll, and in a moment there was a bewildering tangle and uproar the horses hung by the heads against the current, great clots of brush and small trees smashed against the wagon bed and stuck fast; and above all was the thunder of the brown water rushing past. For a second the two men balanced where they were and looked at the roaring torrent. Then the old pros pector handed the reins to v embi colt, ana clambered out dn the s ajiug wagon box, now stacked high with drift. Back he came with a lone ulcket rope, one end of which he tied hur riedly to the bending cottonwood. We've got about three minutes to get out of here before the whole Island goes!" he shouted in Westbrook's ear. Til go down and cut the horses loose first, and then we'll swim for it." Then he threw the free end of the rope out over the hprses' backs and slid down into the water. Firet he passed the rope through the slack of their belly-bands and knotted it swiftly. Then, as they hung by this support, he twicbed the relni frem Westbrook, cut the horses apart, reached down and slashed the tugs, and beckoned for him to follow. Before the pressure of the flood the lone cottonwood groaned nnd popped, bending slowly. On each side of the accumulated sung n mill-race of bob bing trres, posts and bushes swept past, and the rumble of huge boulders rolling on the bottom sounded above the swash of the tumbling waves. But deepest of all, like the growl of some destroying monster, came tha roar of the immediate waters, burrow lng beneath the roots of the sturdy cottonwood, washing its little Island of soil away like sugar, nnd- threatening at every moment to root it up and over whelm horses and men alike, as they hovered behind its protecting bulk. There was no choice about it for rhllip Westbrook. He went down the rope with a rush, clutched the first horse, nnd was passed on by Shaw to the second. Then, at the touch of his knife, the picket rope popped like a rifle shot, and they were swept on with the torrent! Huge, sinuous waves, four and live feet high, yet flowing smooth and oily over their new-formed bed of sand, showed where the current ran swiftest, nnd into this Shaw headed his horse, making for the left-hand side of the stream, where, in the perpetnni wind lng of the river, a long sand-spit Jutted out almost toie opposite shore. But hardly had ho reached the middle of the current when there was a great crash behind. Rising on a wave, he saw- the lone cottonwood- and all its mass of drift heave forward and rush down upon them. Beckoiiing frantically to Westbrook, he turned ills horse's head from the shore, nnd drove straight ahead with the swiftest current. Behind, the con fused mass of trees and drift, bound together by a great section of barbed wire fence, spread out like an enor mous drag-net and swept after them. Although at each plunge their horses' heads went through the crests of the waves, Shaw and Westbrook still held to the swiftest current, for to be caught In that tangle of barbed wire nnd splintered wood meant certain death. Already light sticks of wood and masses of punky drift were bobbing round them, but the drag-net of barbed wire and trees was hold back by its greater weight and the catching of scraggy roots. Yet where the current was strongest a great loop, a drifting tangle of wire and cedar posts, reached after them like the feelers of a great monster clutching at its prey. Then the more buoyant of the free cedar posts shot past them and darted on over the waves. In a ruck of sticks and driftwood the swimming horses were carried swiftly round the point of the sand-spit and into the lower bend of the river. Part of the wire fence caught on the point and hung dangling; then, as the other end was sucked past, It tore loose and dragged along behind. But no sooner did Ezra Shaw pass the turn and see that the wire was caught than ho pulled his half-drowned horse to the right and urged him for the shore. Below them stretched out another point; it was their last chance to escape. Desperately the tired horses pawed the water, fighting to gain the shore, yet swept on by the current. As they checked their flight and turned against the current, once more the loops of barbed wire, hurried oq by the swiftest water, reached out to enwrap them. Nearer and nearer they crept, and Shaw saw that they were caught. "Swim for it!" he yelled to West brook, who followed near, and plunged into the muddy waters. Desperately h kicked and floundered, but his heavy boots weighed him down, and he wa9 glad to seize upon a fence-post and float. Just then he saw his horse, freed of its burden, striking boldly out for the shore. Throwing aside his float he lunged fiercely after Jt, and with a final flurry of hard swimming managed to catcb it by the tall. There he clung -until, ig nonilnlously, he was dragged into shal tow water'.,M,H - But Westbrook proved n better swim mer, and was able to gain the shore unaided, while his horse, landing on the tip of the point, barely escaped (he onrush of the terrible barbed-wire fence. Two hours later, mounted on thelt draggled horses, Ezra Shaw and West brook rode back along the clean- scoured river-bed. Scarcely a trickle of water mean dered down the channel In the wake ot that awful torrent. In the dusty road down which the travelers had plunged into the treacherous dry-wash the tracks of their wagon wheels were still clear and fresh not a drop of rain had fallen to lay the dust; but that wagon was now probably ten miles down the canon, its wheels burled deep In the sand, the bed piled up on some mountainous snag. "These cleudbursts are sure sudden," said Shaw, surveying the river-bed ruefully. "I reckon you understand now why I generally camp on the bank." And Westbrook said he did.-Youth't Companion. No Cans For Alarm. The silent partner was glancing over a statement he had found on the cashier's desk. 'Do you mean to say this is all the money we've made this year?" he yelled. "Why, there's been gross mis management here and somebody is go ing to get fired!" 'Don't get excited, Bill," aald the head of the packing-house gently. 'That's Just a little document we've been getting up. There's an Investi gating committee around." Busy Sheffield. Sheffield probably employs more workmen in the steel industry thaa tay ether city In the world. . WHERE BROOMS COME FROM. Crop For 1905 Estimated at 42,000,000, and Worth $15,000,000 Industry Started by Benjamin Franklln--IIowIt Spread to Illinois and Oklahoma Areola, 111., Broom Corn CentreRich Town. o. a. a a a a a a a a. AONi F It really is true, and Ion X as V It has been asserted' as O I o fact, that a new broom 1 )S sweeps clean, what can bo SfOW expected of 42,000,000 new brooms? Forty-two millions Is the harvest of 1905, says an Areola, III., correspon dent of the Indianapolis News. That Is $13,000,000 worth of brooms. Pile them into cars for shipment and they pack about 4000 to the car and you have 10.000 carloads of brooms. Ten thousand cars means t!00 long, fifty car freight trains, aud 'JOO such trains, pulled by 200 big mogul engines, menus almost 100 miles of brooms a string of trains reaching front Indianapolis far east or west over the Ohio or ill Inols State line. I.ny those 42.000,0(10 end to end and the broom trail would be 40,000 miles long would reach one and a half times around the world. The broom harvest Is Just over. It sounds like talking Greek, perhaps, to speak literally of a broom harvest. The broom stand back In the corner behind the door, and it has been a member of your family for a long time, and still you arc not oh social terms with it. Good, faithful, . old servant a little run down at the heel, perhaps, and the stick worn too shiny, but still faithful and constant whnt man's dog could be more faithful to him than his wife's broom it to her? The nation's broom harvest is Just over and It has been a great sight to see 15,000,000 new brooms growing and harvested over In this part of Illinois, which Is the home ot the fine broom that is, the aristocratic broom that yon do not buy unless you pay a quarter or more. Another 21,000,000 cheaper ones have just been taken out of the September weather down in Oklahoma. Those gathering In the sheaves over In Kansas have plucked about 4,000,000 more brooms from nature and another million or two have been gathered In Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas nnd from scattering broom corn fields over the country. There in a nutshell is the summary of the source of supply. The big brooms come from Illinois, Okla homa, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas and from Kansas; the whiskbrooms como from Kansas. While the broom grew, yet it didn't. Nature floes not make brooms with hard pine handles and with straws bound with trust wire and decorated with combine tin and monopoly velvet, but nature does grow beautiful brooms. They are raised like great plumes into the scenery of the broom corn country In August aud September, aud these plumes are borne ten, twelve nnd even fifteen feet into the air by graceful bamboo-like stalks. The plumes them selves are heavily laden with n beau tiful golden seed that bends them more gracefully and adds beauty to the ma jestic plant. It is indeed unfortunate that the man thinks he must improve on nature's bloom, for ho loses much beauty In the process. He strips the stalk of its graceful plume; casts aside the beautiful seed tassels and, with his bent of genius, he applies machinery, and the result Is the broom that wo find standing In the grocery ready for our money. Tho broom Is a corn crop its stalk, though slighter, more graceful and tall er, grently resembles that of the In dian maize. It tassels out in the sum mer like the maize; It is cultivated much like corn, and though it bears no ears nothing but its two foot long graceful plumes it has come to be called corn broom corn. Just exactly where it came from no one really seems to know, but it is in teresting to find that the oroom the kind of broom that we Americans know and have is an American insti tution, though broom corn came to us from India. Older people in the coun try remember when their brooms were made out of twigs and bristles, as nrc most of the brooms used in this day in European countries by the common people. It was during the life of Ben jamin Franklin that a crude whisk broom was brought into his home, and while be was admiring It he noticed a few seeds clinging to the fibres or straws. It is recorded that he had the remarkable foresight to see that here was the teed for a new industry in the Colonies. He plucked the seeds from the fibres and carefully planted them In the spring in his garden and they were the parents of the broom industry in this country. He raised two or three beautiful stalks ot broom plant from them and he gathered the seed and gave it to friends the next year. It was the beginning. Inasmuch as a bushel of broom corn seed is about enough to plant a Congressional township it was not long until tho crop of seed was sufficient to establish the broom mak ing Industry in this country) The Quakers and the Shakers took it op and the first extensive cultivation of broom corn was in the Mohawk Valley, where the first broom factories In this country were opened, poss.bly by the Shakers. The brooms made a great hit, and there was a scramble for them, and the broom corn raisers received as high as $500 or $000 a ton for their crops. With the opening of the Western country the seed was brought out in the new country by settlers, and the first extensive culti vation in the West was in Ohio, some where near Columbus, and In the South It was in Tennessee. In the early 60s a Col. John Cofer, aaaaaaaaaa an Illinois farmer, living nenr Areola, brought some of the seed Into this country from Tennessee and plnnted it nenr tho Coles-Douglas county line. Cofer found a spot peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of the crop, and with in a few year Illinois benme the broom corn State of tho Union. Though at this time it Is second in tonnage to Oklahoma, it is rightfully still regard ed as the national source of our broom supply, for from n limited region ex tending in a radius of thirty miles around Areola, which Is the broom com centre of the country and practically of the world, is grown tho corn from which practically all of the high class and best brooms of the world are maile. The cultivation was taken up around fialesburg, 111., and a colony of Swedes there made sonic success of it. This colony threw oft" a branch to Kansas and that branch took the seed Into that State, and from there the culti vation has extended down into Okla homa within the last four or five years. While It Is a fact that broom corn can be raised with some success In almost every part of the" country in which good Indian corn can be raised, and while also it Is pretty generally de nied that there Is any peculiar quality In the soil of the Illinois, Oklahoma and Kansas broom corn districts, which, after-all, are mere pockets, the fact remains that the production of the corn is limited to these fields and they are closely defined and are the national sources of supply. Attempts to engage In broom corn raising have bei n made In Indiana and other big corn States even in other parts of Illinois but without any success. The secret may, Indeed, bo found in tho fact that the cost of preparing to engage in the cultivation on a good basis Is heavy. In order to raise and market broom corn of tho first grade It Is quite as necessary to build largo drying sheds as It is to build similar shells in the tobacco countries in which to dry the tobacco crop. Peculiar thrashing outfits have to be bought. The crop is cultivated much the same as corn, except that it Is a much faster crop than Is corn. It is planted im mediately after the Indian corn crop is planted nnd Is harvested in early Srploraber. In fact, it is a ninety day crop. The fields in Illinois are from ten to 100 ncreas in area, and are very beautiful. The annual acreage In Illinois runs from 30,000 to 50,000 acres. The harvest Is picturesque. Unlike most other crops, broom corn must be harvested just at a certain time In the growth of the plant just when the seed Is In a milk state. The cor still is green so is tho broom fiber, and It contains a certain percentage of oil and moisture and is very tough nnd flexible. When properly harvested and dried slowly in the shade, it retains lliese qualities to a great extent and tho fiber remains so flexible thnt it can be twisted and tied iuto knots without breaking. It also retains its beautiful green color, and it is this green color which the experienced housewife seeks. She knows that such a broom will wear much longer than the yellow, light or red strawed brooms and that the straws will wear down to a stub and will not break off. Practically all of the green straw brooms are Illinois straw brooms. The Oklahoma broom Is less flexible and most cheap brooms are made of it. Such brooms, shed a great many of their straws. Kansas raises some good broom corn, but tho bulk of her crop consists of dwarf broom corn regular hand brushes, which are made up Into whiskbrooms. In fact, practically all of our whiskbrooms nrc grown In Kan. sas. The production of broom corn runs about one ton to every two or two and a half or three acres. The market prices in Illinois this year opened n round S80 to $90, and in Oklahoma from $25 to $.10. The source of supply Is so limited that it has been possible in the last few years for men to corner the Illinois crop at least once. Then the price was sent up to $1.10 a ton. A ton of Illinois broom corn will make 1200 to 1500 brooms; a ton of Okla homa broom corn from 800 to 1000. Because of the necessity of harvest ing the crop while It is in its right stage of growth there Is an unusually active demand for labor through the broom corn country the last two weeks In August and the first two weeks In September. The trump fraternity has learned this and the members of It begin to arrive In the broom corn sec tion on August 15. They are there for two purposes to get employment for 1.50 a day and board and to do as little work as pos sible at least so the growers say. They nre picturesquely termed "broom corn ennartf-s." Whence they come no one knowcth; whither they go is as grca't a mystery.- All are panhandlers and refrain from supporting railroads with their "substance." While many seem to be men of considerable capac ity the large majority are said to be a very objectionable lot. Great swarms of these men are necessary to harvest, thresh and handle the crop in a hurry, and in the protest of the wives of the growers , to cooking and caring for these men Is said to be found the ex planation of the decreasing acreage in Illinois. Many big growers have gone out of the business, in recent years be cause of their wives, though the broom corn crops brought higher revenue an acre than any other crop grown. REPORTING McK'NLEY'S DEATH Bow the Associated Press Worked to Give tha World Iba Mews. On the afternoon of September fl, 1901, worn out by a long period of ex acting labor, I set out for Philadelphia, with the purpose of spending a few days at Atlantic City. When I reached the Broad street station in the Quaker City, I was startled by a number of policemen crying my name. I stepped up to one, who pointed to a boy with an urgent message for me. President Mc Kinley bad been shot at Buffalo, and my presence was required at our Phil adelphia office at once. A message had been sent to me at Trenton, but my trnln had left the station precisely two minutes ahead of Its arrival. Handing my baggage to a hotel porter, I jumped into a cab and dashed awny to our office. I remained there until dawn of the following morning. , The opening pages of the story of the assassination were badly written, and I ordered a substitute prepared. An Inexperienced reporter stood besldo President McKlnley in the Music Hall at Buffalo when Czolgosz fired the fatal shot. He seized a neighboring" tele phone nnd notified our Buffalo corre spondent, and then pulled out the1 wires, in order to render the telephone a wreck, so that It was a full half hour before any additional details could be secured. I ordered competent men and expert telegraph operators from Washington, Albany, New York and Boston to hurry to Buffalo by the fastest trains. All that night the Buffalo office was pour ing forth a hastily written, but faithful and complete account of the tragedy, and by daybreak a relief force was on the ground. Day by tiny, through the long vigil while the President's life hung in the balance, each incident was truthfully nnd graphically reported. In the closing hours of the great tragedy false reports of the President's death were circulated for the purpose of in fluencing the stock market, and, to counteract them, Secretary Cortclyou wrote frequent signed statements, glv lng the facts to the Associated Press. From Melville E. Stone's "The Asso ciated Press," In the Century. Stated tha Facts. The editor of an Indiana paper be came tired of being called a liar so he announced thnt he would tell the truth In the future. The first Issue there after contained the following: "John Bonln, the laziest merchant in town, made a trip to Bcllvllle yester day." "John Coyle, our groceryman, is'do lng a poor business. His store is dirty. dusty and noxiously odoriferous. How can he expect to do much?" : "Rev. Styx preached last Saturday night on 'Charity.' The sermon was punk." "Dave Sonkey died at his home in this place. The doctor gave it out as heart failure. The fact Is, he was drunk, and whisky is what killed him." "Married. Miss Sylvia Rhodes and Tames Conham, last Saturday evening at the Baptist parsonage. The bride Is a very ordinary town girl who doesn't know any moro than a jack rabbit about cooking, and never helped her mother three days In her life. She Is not a beauty by any means, and has a gait like a fat duck. The groom is well known as an up-to-date loafer. He's been living off the old folks all bis life and don't amount to shucks. They will have a hard life." The paper had no sooner reached the public than a committee was sent to him bearing a petition asking him to continue in the good old way, and stated that they believed him to be a truthful and honest man. Burlington News. The World's Most Powerful Gun. ; Describing the making of the most powerful gun in the world, Day Allen Willey says, in the Technical World Magazine: i "Technically this great 'peacemaker' Is called a slxteen-Inch breech-loading rifle. It is, perhaps,- unnecessary to say that the 'sixteen inches' refers to the diameter of the bore, or the calibre. In fact, this is so large that a man of ordinary size can crawl Inside the muz ele without difficulty. A better idea of the gun can be gained when It is stated that the forgings for the tube nnd jack et weigh no less than 184 tons. The tube Itself Is forty-nine and a half feet In length, and. as the gun is of the built-up type favored by artillery offi cers of the present day. it is reinforced at the base by the jacket, which was shrunk into position. The tube is fur ther strengthened by four sets of hoops, which really make It of four thick nesses of metal between the centre of the tube and the breach." Which Should He Rave Used They were on the golf links when a targe snake was seen nestling in the sand by the bunker. "O, kill it! kill it!" she shouted In terror. . "Walt a minute," he cried, as he be gan to take out a brassie. The snake began to wriggle. . "No, I believe the lofter would he better," ho said, as the snake gtW more nervous. "After all," he said, "I believe I could do better with the masbie." ; . "O, dear," she sighed; "hadn't we better go back and ask the Instructor?" When they returned the snake was gone. Indianapolis Star. ' Why It Happened. He occupied the seat; she was swing ing on a strap. She was trying to ehame him into politeness; he wouldn't shame worth a cigarette. A lurch of the car threw her against him and in the scramble she landed on his feet with both heels. i "You're on my feet," he growled. ! "If you had been on your feet, It sever would have happened," said she fweetly. Detroit Free Press. TfJSINEM UAJtDeV Q MlDOIULS. 4TT0RRITAT-LAW. Notary Pnhlia, raal estata a teas, tttmH loured, collections made promptly 4aa In 8ya:!eate bulldlot , KeyncldsvlUe, Pa, JJR. B. 2 HOOVKil, RKYNOI.DSVILLB, PA. Resident dei'iin. Ii the Doowr kalKlam mn tret Centlenefts In ccratlug. J)R. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST. ' Office on seoond floor of First fTty tional bank building-, Main ttreet, J)R. B. DEVERE KINO, DENTIST. Office en second floor Reynolds-Tin Ileal Estato Building, Main street. BoynoldsTllle, Pa. NEFF, JUSTICE OF THE' PE ACS Aud Be.nl Estate Agent , ReynoldiTiJJ, P gMITH M. MoCREIGHT, ATTORN CV-AT-LAW. Rotary Pqhlla and Kent Ettata 4 runts. Ci leoltons will SAaetva prompt aitedtloa. Ofllo In clis BeyoalUdTllle Hardware Co. Building, Katn street, McynolUsvllle, Pa. MAIIK.BTS. PITTSBURG. Qraln, Flour and Feed. Wheat No. 1 red I 75 77 Kyo No. 2 72 7S Corn No 2 yellow, er Ki M No. 8 yellow, shelled m fit Wlied ear -II 49 Onts No. 2 white M m No. a white g) m Flour Winter patent 4 41 4 80 Fancy straight winters 4 00 4 to Hay No. 1 Tlmnlhy IS 00 MM Clover No. 1 10 flO 10 50 Feed No. 1 white mid. ton I9 60 tOOl llrown middlings 10 50 17 M llrun. bulk KM 16 00 Siraw Wheat 7 00 7 Oat 7 00 7 60 Dairy Products. Butter Elgin creamery t 24 M Ohio creamery 92 94 Fancy country roll 16 It Cheeen Ohio, now 11 19 New York, new 11 19 Poultry, Etc. nns per lb t 14 11V I'hUrkons dressed 19 IS Eggs Fa. and Ohio, fresh 26 30 Fruits and Vegetables. Apples bbl J,-, so 1'otatoee Fancy white per bu.... so ift Cabbage per ton . .. ja on IF) no Onions per barrel (go 2ii BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Fatent f 5 05 j r, Wheat No. 9 red gj 94 Corn-Mixed 6l H Egg" 24 25 Butter Ohio creamery (4 ga PHILADELPHIA. Flour Winter Patent $ 6 05 6 95 Wheat No. 9 red g4 S5 Corn No. 2 mixed 50 51 Oats No'. 9 white 31 99 Butter Creamery 94 2& E.SSS FennsylTanta firsts 94 99 NEW YORK. Flour Patents f 5 OJ 6 16 Wheat No. 8 red W ( Corn No. S 69 60 Oats No. 9 white 81 82 Butter -Creamery 94 96 Kggs State and Pennsylvania.... 24 26 LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. Cattle. Etra, 1,450 to 1,(!00 lhs t 6 $6 60 l'rlme. 1,800 tn 1 ,100 lbs 4 90 6 20- (iood, 1,900 to 1,30) lbs 4 60 4 7" Tidy, 1,0m) to 1.150 lbs...... 4 25 4 40 Fiilr. 900 to 1.100 lbs 8 40 4 10 Common, 700 to TOO lbs 8 00 8 40 Common to good fat oien 8 00 4 00 Common to good fat bulls 8 00 8 60 Common to good fat cows 1 60 8 40 Heifers, 700 tnl.lOOlhs 9 75 4 00 Fresh cows and springers 16 00 60 00 Hoge. l'rlme heavy hogs $ 4 95 I 5 00 Prime medium weights...., 4 95 Best heavy Yorkers...., 4(9) 4 95 tiood light Yorkers 4 R5 4 W Plgf, as 10 quality 470 4 7 Oommon to good roughs 4 25 4 IV Stags M 8 2i 8 75 Sheep. Prime wethers f S 25 6 60 Oood mixed ., 8 00 595 Fair mixed ewes and wethers.... 4 60 4 76 Cullsand common 1... 2 00 4 00 Culls to choice lambs 6 00 7 76 Calvee. Veal Calves $5 00 7 7S Heavy and thin calves 8 60 4 60 The Southern Cotton Association has undertaken a novel experiment, whose results may establish new principles -In economics. In its con vention at Aslioville, North Carolina, It resolved to fix a minimum prlt of eleven cents a pound for the new crop, which it estimates at 9,588,133, bales, or nearly ftve million bales less than Inst year's output. Here tofore the price of cotton, liko that of other farm products, has been fix ed by the freo play of the market. If the Southern Cotton Association can have its way, the rate will be regulated hareafter, at least as to its lower lim'.t, by majority vote, con tinues Collier's Weekly. The prices of sugar, oil, and steel rails are fixed by edict, and the totton growers may be able to accomplish the same thing. If thay succeed they will be essenti ally a trust. Their success woulo? na'.urally lead to the formation of s'mllar trusts among the wheat grow ers, the corn raisers, and the" hay makers. Labor trusts are already in successful operation. Thus the evils of monopoly may cure themselves through the spread of combination to a point at which everybody.. Is monopolist. MIRRORS. If you are fond of home carpenter ing you can make all -sorts ot tilings at trifling expense. Mirrors for in stance come much cheaper If the plate glass is purchased by the square foot and -set Into a framework fash ioned by the home canpenter. The porters of the market place m Pari carry, strapped on their backs, great baskets full ot garden produc X.
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