OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
Bhiee those we tore and those we hate,
AVith all things mean and all thing great,
Paaa in a desperate disarray
Over the hills and far away.
It must be, dear, that lute or soon,
Out of the ken of the watrhing moon,
IWe shall abscond with Yesterday
Over the hills and far awny.
.What doe it matter? A I deem,
We shall but follow as brave a dream
As ever smiles a wanton May
Over the hills and far away.
We shall remember, and, in pride,
Fare forth fulfilled and satisfied,
Into the land of Kver-and-Aye,
Over the hills and far awav.
AY. E. Henley.
r23 THE
H CUP AND THE LIP.
Rick Uncle and a "Fond
Family.
Everybody who knew him won
dered about It. When people had
nothing else to do for recreation
they Invariably turned to wonder
ing what Jeremiah Sprankle would
do with his money when he died.
Sprankle was a confirmed bachel
or, owned to sixty-eight years, had
tetlred from business and lived in a
mall town, where he could keep an
ye on his big Illinois farms.
"Quite right and sensible," said
his oldest niece, Mrs. Greystock, "for
Vncle Jerry to live in a small place.
There would be no sense In his going
to the expense of living in Chicago
when there is just himself. It would
be a wicked waste of money, because
I am sure the dear old man is far
happier in quiet, sylvan surround
ings. We really must invite him up
to visit us, Tom. It is only right to
how him he has other relatives be
sides Cassie Hakem. She hung to
him for five weeks!"
Mrs. Dennem, another niece, was
a diplomat. "Allie, dear," she said
to her daughter, who had golf en
gagements ahead for a month, "I
think you ought to run down and
rlstt Uncle Jerry. You must go to
morrow yes, I don't care if you
will be Inconvenienced! He has actu
ally written up for automobile cata
logues. There's no use in his throw
ing several thousand dollars to the
winds that way. After he has used
horses for nearly seventy years it
won't hurt htm to keep on. Of
course, I'm only afraid 'the dear old
man would meet with an accident
If he tried to run an automobile. You
to down and talk him out of it.
Don't forget that he likes three
lumps of sugar in his coffee! Make
him as fond of you as possible,
child."
"All right," Allie dutifully agreed.
"How much is Uncle Jerry worth
anyhow, mother?"
"I'm surprised at you," said her
mother severely. "As if I thought
lor a moment about dear Uncle Jer
ry's money! Cassie Hakem and Til
Greystock may, but it is Just his wel
fare that interests mo. Tell him
about the automobile that blew up
the other day. n would be much
more sensible for him to give us the
money to go to Europe on."
"I suppose his grasping relatives
ill get it all," sighed Jeremiah
Bprankle's chief acquaintance In the
town where he lived, Eben Smith.
"H might Just as well as not do
aome good with it now. It'd be easy
for hlnto make me a present of that
eighty acres I've always wanted. He'd
never miss It!"
"If old Sprankle only would come
down handsome!" grumbled the man
who was trying to start a cheese fac
tory. "He says he hates cheese, but
then a little bit of money would help
me so nvch. What If he does lose
It?"
"If Mr. Sprankle only knew how
smart Jnnle is at the piano!"
mourned u neighbor. "He could af
ford to send her abroad to study and
never miss it. What on earth will he
tlo with all his money, anyway?"
"You really ought to endow the
whole hospital, Mr. Sprankle," urged
the 200th charity agent who had
tackled the man of means this year.
"I am so fond of Uncle Jerry," re
marked Cassie Hakem in the bosom
of her own family. "He .means so
well and I'm sure is very kind. Eut
for the life of me. I don't see why,
Instead of hanging to his money so,
lie couldn't buy ub that house and
throw In an automobile. Of course,
In time I know we'll have "our share
not that I for the world would have
anything happen to Uncle Jerry. I
m sure he Is good for many years of
life, and I hope he'll live to enjoy
them." -
-'Never mind," Mrs. Greystock
sometimes said when financial strin
gency prevented some desire. "Some
day, perhaps, we can afford to do it
I'm sure I don't know what Uncle
Jerry would do with his money If
be didn't leave it to his nieces. And
we all think so much of him."
"Some day," Mrs. Dennem often
remarked, "we shall build that house
we've always wanted. Not that 1
count on anything, but it is only nat
ural that most of Uncle Jerry's mon
ey should come to ns."
With all this solicitude over the
existence of Jeremiah Sprankle, the
old gentleman managed to peg along,
tintil one day the families of hls'three
nieces were thrown into wildest ex
citement and consternation. Still Un
cle Jerry had not succumbed to years
and illness and died.
He had written that be had Just
married an. aspiring widow with five
heal '.by children;
"if bo wasn't such a riculous, idi
ess
0 A Tale of a
n
otic, brainless old stupid," seabed
Mrs. Greystock, "without sens
enough to come In out of the rain, I'd
say he did It Just to spite us!"
Which opinion was Indignantly
seconded by Mrs.jDennom and Cas
sie Hakem, not to mention the man
with the cheese factory, the charity
agents, Eben Smith and various
neighbors.
The general impression seems to be
that Jeremiah Sprankle has done a
dreadful thing and is beyond the
pale. Chicago Daily News.
i MA XV OLD LETTERS DELIVERED
Claimants Found For Nearly All of
37 Held by Mexico For 30 Years
The Postoffice Department has
succeeded In finding claimants for
a good percentage of thirty-seven
letters recently returned from Mex
ico, where they had been held more
than thirty years. In many cases
either writer or addressee, and in a
few instances both writer and ad
dressee are dead and the letters were
delivered to surviving relatives.
One letter which contained a cer
tificate of deposit was delivered to a
woman in Baltimore, Md., the grand
daughter of the writer. T letters
addressed in IS 75 to a former sea
captain by his wife and mother, both
of whom have since died, were de
livered to the captain in Connecti
cut. A woman in Algiers, La., was
another recipient; of one of these re
minders of bygone days.
The letter with the most interest
ing history and which traveled the
longest distance before delivery was
mniled at I.avirk, Norwsy, November
18, 1S75, addressed to a sailor at
Minatitlan, Mexico, where he had
gone when a boy of eighteen. When
the letter reached Mexico the addres
see had moved to South America,
whence he later returned to Norway
without having received the commu
nication. A quarter of a century ago
he came to the United States. Dur
ing all tl'.re years the letter had re
mained In the Mexican postoffice,
and when it was turned in to the
dead letter office it was sent to the
place of oiigin in Norway and from
there back to this country and finally
delivered at Stanley, Wis.
Others of these old letters were
delivered to persons in Bath, Castlno,
Bremen, Penobscot,: Damariscolta,
Bangor, North port and Lincolnville,
Me.
Greatest of All the Educators.
Erman J. Ridgway, of New York,
editor of Everybody's Magazine, said
in an address at the Chautauqua (N.
V.) Assembly:
"Newspapers are one of the best
Influences in America. They do not
cause social unrest. They reflect it,
voice it. spread it, and focus the ques
tion for us, and, giving us all the
facts, help us to decide our future
course. To the immigrant and the
untaught the. press must for a long
time continue to be a blackboard
where the lesson is written large fot
the sake of their small ability. Tn
the educated and thoughtful the press
must continue to be the great reser
voir that collects the streams of facts
from the rain of events and pours
them down the irrigating ditches to
our thirsty brains.
"Editorials, signed essays, 'special
features, cartoons all these lumped
have a very small part In making the
influence of a newspaper, compared
With prompt, accurate, brilliant hand
ling of news. Ask a man who has
just finished his paper what is in it,
and he will have to stop and think.
But ask him for an opinion about the
big question at issue and he will sur
prise you with his broad information
and clear-cut opinions. The Ameri
can who reads the newspapers knows
what's going on- in the world. The
remarkably high average intelligence
of Americans on all conceivable sub
jects is due to the newspaper report
er. Think of him sometimes when
counting yptir blessings."
,. Sword Making. ,
The necessity of curtailing expendl
ture on war material since the termin
ation of the Boer war has naturally
been felt by certain tontractors as
well as at Woolwich, and some fac
tories have had to be closed.
A new pattern bayonet, as well as
a new cavalry sword, has been adopt
ed far the army, and It is pleasing to
know that the sword cutlery branch
of an ancient industry will ' be re
tained in the country.- Previous to
18S7 most of the sidcarms required
for the British army were obtained
from Sollngen, but since that date the
whole of the steel weapons have been
turned out by British artisans. The
making of swords and bayonets is
confined to a very few manufacturers,
and these are looking forward to a
satisfactory period of remunerative
production. Westminster Gazett".
No Such Lurk.- -The
late Bishop Fitzgerald once
declared that sympathy, far more
than eloquence or learning, made for
success In the ministry.
"Too many of ns, through lack of
sympathy," he said, "say the worst,
the most inappropriate things. Thus,
a young Baptist friend of mine, con
doling with a housebreaker in jail,
droned:
" 'Ah my friend, let us remember
that we are here to-day and gone to
morrow.' " . ,
" 'You may be; I ain't,' the house
breaker answered shortly." Wash
ington Star.
In the Smuggler mine at Tellu-
ride. Col., the rock is crushed undei
ground. This 1: done to effect an
economy lu the cost of the ore hand
ling. Thpre' are two ' crush'srs ah J
they a -e driven by motors.
The most expensive piece of rail
way line In the world is that of the
North British Railway, which runs
over the Fort Bridge. This portion of
the .line, including approaches, is
about four miles long, and cost 40,
000 per mile to construct.
As showing how favorable to com
phor growth the soil and climate of
Florida are, a State newspaper tells
of a tree planted by Capt. J. P. Ren
froe, of Richland. It Is seventeen
years old, forty feet high, Its branches
cover forty feet, and its diameter
twelve inches above the ground is
four feet The hills around Rich
land sem to be specialty adapted to
the growth and development of the
camphor tree In its highest state. The
tree becomes useful for the produc
tion of the gum In a few years after
planting.
- Science has not yet been able to
construct a vessel able to resist the
force of freezing water. Steel shells
have been rent as though they bad
been the thinnest glass.
The following recipe for a water
proof paint for wood or stone will be
found reliable. Melt twelve ounces
of resin; mix it thoroughly with Bit
gallons of fish oil and one pound of
melted sulphur; mix some ochre or
any other coloring substance with a
Hale linseed oil; enough to give It the
right color and thickness; apply sev
eral coats of the hot composition with
a brush. The first coat should be
very thin.
Successful experiments have been
mode in Toulon to use tills in place
of carrier pigeons. They have this
advantage that, unlike the pigeons,
they are always ready to fly, even 4n
the fiercest storm.
The linolite lamp is a tube with a
straight instead of a coiled fila
ment, the advantage being that the
semi-cylindrical reflector throws a
larger proportion of the light rays In
to the space to be illuminated. Late
tests at Manchester, England, Bhow a
superiority over the ordinary Incan
descent lamp both along the axis of
the light and at right angles to It, the
average being fifty-six per cent, great
er lighting by the linolite lamp than
by the ordinary lamp with opal re
flector. Much recent progress in dealing
with whooping cough Is noted by a
French reviewer. The specific mi
crobe has been isolated, and proves to
be a small ovoid bacterium that evi
dently produces no spores. Dr. J. d
Nittls reportB that arsenic, to which
he attributes specific action on the
germ, is a most effective remedy
against against the disease. Dr. H.
de Rothschild has administered chlo
roform Internally, and has had very
favorable results, especlaly In chil
dren, two patients out of nine hav
ing been cured at once, while three
were Immediately relieved and soon
cured, the four others being cured
only at the end of a fortnight. The
Pasteur Institute finds promise In a
serum treatment.
Dutch flatter.
A Florida paper calls the attention
of those consumers who are especial
ly fond of the butter imported to
that State directly from Holland, to
the fact that the same country calls
for more than half the oleo made In
the United States and shipped abroad.
This oleo, which has been duly in
spected and stamped before it goes
abroad, may be justly suspected of
being manipulated on the other side
and converted into the finest brand
f genuine Dutch butter to come
back here and find consumers at sev-enty-five
cents a pound Instead of the
fifteen cents for which it might have
been had before it started on its jour
ney. It is not to be denied that travel
is very improving, and the experience
of the packing-house oleo is a shin
ing example of bow much can be done
by a sniff of salt water and associa
tion with the right kind of people In
the old world. Country Gentleman.
Onions Peeled by Lightning.
. The greatest freak of the lightning
In the storm of Sunday, July 7, in
Hancock County, is reported from
West Brooksville, where onions which
were In a bag were neatly peeled.
Su:n accommodating lightning as this
would ' be more welcomo than the
usual variety. "The incident sug
gests," says the Ellsworth American,
''the possibilities of that future day
when man has succeeded In taming
lightning to his own uses. Then we
may expect to find each well ap
pointed home equipped with its own
lightning apparatus, which would not
only furnish light and beat', but
would peel the nions and potatoes,
sweep the floors, make the beds, wash
the dishes, hunt buffalo bugs, kill the
flies; in fact, do all the drudgery of
housework, Including the semi-annual
bousechasning. And the ser
vant girl problem would at last be
solved." Kennebec Journal.
(11,000.000 on One Acre
Four-fifths of the air wa breathe Is
pure nitrogen; suspended over every
square inch of earth there are about
twelve pounds of. nitrogen, worth
from fourteen to fifteen cents a
pound; over every acre of land thers
are 38,000 tons-of this" the most costly
eieineut of soil fertility, worth over
$11,000,000: Fred -II. 'Rankin. Su
perintendent' of Agricultural College
EiUne.ou, llKrolj,
The Growth of Electricity
Its Beginning
By F. TRACY NELSOX.
. More than once the tasks, the ho
rizons, the hopes of men have been
forever transformed by a discovery
of an Invention which seemed at its
birth a very small matter. Thus was
it when an iron needle, afloat id a
cocoanut, first safely guided, a ship
out of sight of land and sky. Thus,
again, was It when charcoal, salt
petre and sulphur were first combined
and fired in a g in to leave thereafter
the stoutest soldier weak indeed who
should be shorn of his powder flash,
and when Gutenberg divided the sol
id lines of engraved metal into sep
arate letters or movable types, as we
say, did he suspect, do you suppose,
that he was ushering In the democ
racy of learning? As big a factor as
the types of Gutenberg, was the de
vice made public by Alexander Volta
in Paris, In the very first year of this
century. This contrivance was a new
and excellent means of obtaining a
flow of electricity.
Previously in a "pile," as this in
genious roan, Its Inventor, called it, a
current bad been derived from a se
ries of pieces of zinc and copper,
each bit of metal separated from Its
neighbor by cloth moistened in acid.
Volta had now much Improved this
"pile" by putting each zinc and cop
per pan by Itself in a cup filled with
acid. From this "Crown of cupB" he
produced a strong and fairly steady
stream of electricity, with the advan
tage that It lasted for a considerable
time. Much as the cup or cell of Vol
ta has been varied and bettered since
it left his hands, it yet remains es
sentially the device he created and
to him, therefore, is due the honor of
reducing ' to vassalage the gentlest
and mightiest the most versatile and
the most terrible force In the strong
hold of nature. It Is the voltaic cell
which has taught the electrician Ms
business, with result that steam finds
itself in large measures supplanted;
where once it reigned monarch it
Is now merely a partner possessed of
a small and diminishing interest. The
actual test of a really great inven
tion is its fruit fu lnpB3. The voltaic
cell wrb no mere addition to the arm
ory of exploration and conquest; it
entered the field with all the futility
of a multiplier; it endowed old re
sources with the Usue of powers be
fore unimaginable; It gave familiar
weapons a new edge and pointed them
to triumphs not only easier than the
old, but vastly richer in spirit.
It science in the nineteenth cen
tury has won victories more decisive
than those of the eighteen centuries
before, it Is largely because electric
ity has been captured and impressed
for a thousand new services, and thus
It comes about as inventions of prime
dlgntty now make their appearance
at more frequent Intervals. The pace
of scientific progress is quickened pro
digiously and the history of Indus
trial art becomes little else than
the story of revolution. Priceless a
th'e voltaic cell has been in tht past
and valuable as it continues to be, its
field Is narrowly limited In that it
feeds on costly zinc.
Electricity has come to its king
dom by reducing its tax to a reason
able level payable In coal. The dy
namo which enables this to be done,
hinges upon a fact observed by Oer
sted sixty years ago namely, that if
a magnet be moved near a piece of
metal, a current of electricity is pro
duced. New Orleans Picayune's Il
lustrated Sunday Magazine.
The Texas Cotton Crop.
"The law of compensation and
equalization has a practical exempli
fication In Texas this year," said W,
J. Russell, of lllllsboro, Tex. "For
several years northern Texas has been
enjoying an era of prosperity such as
was never known there.
"This season, however, the condl
tions are reversed. In the north the
cotton crop will be relatively very
small, and In some sections the crop
has been entirely ruined by the late
spring and wet weather. In central
Texas there will be only a fair yield,
but the farmers In the southern part
of the State will make up for their
poor crops of the past by a yield the
like of which probably was never
known in that section. It will bring
the total cotton crop of the State up
to the average, if it does not exceed
It. This will give the farmers there
a chance to get ahead, and if neit
year also sees a good yield of the
white staple there will be general
prosperity all over the State.'
"There Is one town in Texas which
receives more cotton by wagon than
any other place in the world. This is
Waxahachie, in Ellis Count'. It is n
town of about 5000 people, and there
is a constant stream of farmers' wa
gons going in and coming out of
town. Probably for its size Waxa
hachie has more wealth than any
place In the country." Washington
Post.
What's I lie Use?
A member of the city council who
has a contract to build the wooden
forms for the sewers sends the hot
message to the Beacon that he in
tends to come In and clean out the
Beacon office. What's the use of
that? With the temperature prowl
ing around ninety degrees, what's the
use of getting mad and smashing up
a lot of newspaper furniture and fill
ing up. the city hospitals with the
remnants of editors? Why not keep
cool, give up the city contract, or get
out of the city council and help the
Beacon In Its work of cleaning out
the graft in eity contracts? That's a
lot better than cleaning out a news
paper office. Wichita (Kan.) Bea.
eon. .
New York City. Pointed yohes
are apt to be becoming, and here Is a
blouse that Includes one of quite nov
el sort. In the Illustration It Is made
of handkerchief lawn with trimming;
of lace Insertion and dotted bands,
but It not alone suits all the lingerie
materials, it also can be used for the
soft silks and thin wools that are
treated in a similar way. Again, it is
adapted both to the separate blouse
and the gown, and If liked the entire
yoke can be cut from all-over lace,
or it can bo made of strips of insertion
held by beading or by embroidery and
the design can bo varied in numerous
ways. Cotton nets of all sorts are
being extensively used for the separ
ate blouse, and promise to be great
favorites for the coming season, so
that it may bo well to suggest that
this model suits them as well as the
materials already mentioned.
Tho blouse Is made with front and
back portions, which are gathered
and Joined to the yoke, the closing be
ing made invisibly at tho back. The
moderately full sleeves are gathered
Into band cults and there Is a regu
lation stock collar finjshlng the neck.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is three and a
quarter yards twenty-seven, two and
five-eight yards thirty-two or one and
three-quarter yards forty-four inches
wide with sit yards of insertion.
Shorter Sleeves Rrtulnrd.
One of the newest sleeves is of what
the tailors call seven-eighth length
just above the hand.
Blonso Sleeves With Over Sleeves.
That the sleeve often determines
the style of the garment is a well es
tablished fact and just now when so
many of the fancy sorts are being
teen the statement Is peculiarly true.
Cuff and Collar Sets.
CuS and collar sets of natural hued
linen, hand embroidered. In brown,
are among the dress accessories which
may be bought ready for wear, and
will be a very attractive! finish for
.oats of brown or natural tone linen.
Pleated Llngerio In Favor. .
The pleated linen . and lingerie
frills have returned to favor, and the
use of frilled jabots at the, neck. 4s
popular and becoming.
I
Here are three different styles of th
over sleeves that can be utilized either
with the blouse sleeves Illustrated or
with those already in the bodice, and
which are absolutely up to date, so
that they can be relied upon to give a
fresh touch to any gown that Is to be
remodeled as well as to serve for the
new ones. The blouse sleeve Is ap
propriate for every thin material, and
there are three styles of over sleeves.
In the illustration the circular over
sleeve is made of plain material
trimmed with applique and lace frills
while it is worn over embroidered
muslin; the full over sleeve Is made of
silk with trimming of applique, and
Is worn over a plain lingerie material,
while the band sleeve Is a bit more
elaborate and is made of silk and ap-.
plique with the full Bleeve beneath of
a fancy net. But the possibilities of
the models are almost limitless. Both
the circular and full over sleeve are
adapted to almost every seasonable
material, and the band sleeve can be
treated In innumerable ways. It cam
be made plain or it can be trimmed
with banding of any kind or embroid
ery can be worked onto the material
or face or embroidered motifs can bo
Inset. It can be made to match tho
gown Itself or of the trimming mate
rial, and Is so. constructed that it can
be used with almost any bodice.
The blouse Bleeve Is made in one
piece, simply full and gathered Into a
straight band or cuff. Huth the plain
and the full over sleeves are In one
piece each, but the plain one is wlth-
out fulness at the shoulder while tb
full one Is gathered at that point. The
band sleeve also is in one piece, but
is arranged over both sleevo and
waist, whereas the two former ar
Joined to the armholes together with
the blouse sleeve.
Newest Sleeves.
The very newest sleeve Is gathered
full but flatly into a long shoulder
and then broadens as it reaches the
elbow. Below this point It fits tha
arm closely and points over the fin
gers. Buttonhole Decoration.
French nainsook can be beautifully
decorated with cut-work embroidery,
the secret of which Is the quality of
the buttonholing.