vot found his atinity to forget that he had pie] sive moment in hor presence, heetle with alternate joy and embarrassment, till they were well along toward the coffee. He orged the ladies to order this that and the other—anvihinge that world defer thc eatastrophs gud pro Jong his rapture. On tenter hoplis of delight and terror, at Inst he 2aw Mow. att strolling across the versnda. He balled bix friend as a deliveror, and Jerry was soon chatting with them, No, he would have nothing: he had just dined; he was going Tor 8 sail with the Hildebrandis Steve winked, grimaced and in 8 dozen ways fricd to send him wireless telrgrams of distress financial distress but Mowatt eurss him, either could not or would not see them. Matters were becoming desperate. Steve saw the walter making ant the J bOL He excused himwelf a moment {and tried to walk jauntily as he ap- proached the cashier's desk. He ex plained that be had “left his money in his other suit” Was be a guest of the Shelburne? No. Then the cashier was “very sorry to sav. but," ete. se Iswn-deckad beauties of | Steve grew red and gray by turns, but furiously for another minute he went back fo his table and sat like RR graven image for a whole minute. Then he twiddled his watch ehain | Miss | Glendetinin, who sat next to bm, no. of North Harbor had him to 2 Sulsh." He called | e cond not see any } vn asp smoER, ‘to cash on the delirium. He had ‘and wis sure he had ression.” x here could ‘make up » bis mind to ace himself for the test be TE the hotel Clerk and a on He tock at Jed him down toward the cottage, Her mother verandah, but Anne, his Ax at a jawn fete. He moped hotel. The next day was Caldwell, worshiping from Miss Glendennin and her Tr go Into the villige church. He 00, and sat droning in a back | during the dull service. When came out he was on the walk, : SP with the reflected "We're going to i dinner at the hotel si upon his arm. { fragrance of her ebon hair. But Mow. Bo chance to say a word, mach less to I make a quick apd dexterous “touch.” ‘He bowed graodily to the iadies and { on the expressive face of his idol, | waiter had brought the finger bovis {iar with anticipation of & liberal fee { smiled faintly and sighed with Pleased hing waiter a dollar. | walked into the cool alr Caldwell felt! i smoking a pipe, * § marry that girl —-vee Mise Glendennin, | see that I was broke to-day at dinner, it easy 10 go bina, dest and dumb all {ike that, Jerry” | grate 6 my pride to resist longer, she You going to say a word ™ _{ Herald, | great hospitals Is the safest of all safe driven home among ite tiwemselves, are found in an 18lck to be cured, and clamoring fo r admission. London Hospital | and unbealthlest district In Hngland, y, | the population 1s 63,823 to the Square 1 mile, ticed the ruby Chinese ring he wore on the chain and leaned over to examine it. Here was a brief but priceless { oasis tn the desert of his troubles. He felt the pressure of her perfect hand He caught the vagne att came around suddenly, ahiook bands with Bteve. and sald good-by. Cald- | well could have throttled him as he stood an Instant grinning into his face. | 11 was evident that Jerry understood | 5} the awful predicament bis friend was | In, and was deliberately deserting him. | But the economical villain gave Steve was gone lke a finxh, As Caldwell torned ronnd he caught | 8 Jeeting look of puzzled curiosity up “She's on to me” he thought, and blushed like 8 schoolboy. Mex Glen. dennin was getting nervous. The long ago and was skulking near a pil Bteve's right hand wandered alinlessly Into hin tronser's pocket, “Eighiy five cents, count ‘en he! thought, grimly biting his minstache Pocket. He felt a hard. round bt of metal, ciutehed it locked ar Miss Gleadennlu and torned purple. He puliad out a $10 gold piece snd tried | to look his gratitode at her. Ie soe ceeded in looking foollsh, bat she relief. The old Indy noticed nothing, Rteve paid the bl ang gave the hob When they A5 8 man feels whose reprieve fs do sugel. Such tart, such sympathetic acumen. such considerate reptird for Lix feelings, bis dignity, his vanity! He told her, in a whisper, that abe was A goddess. In the evening he found that Jerry was yet out on the ‘Water, #0 he borrowed a $10 gold piece from the hotel clerk and hastened to his tryst with Mise Glendennin. It Was midnight when he returned to his room and found Mowart in pajamas “Jerry.” sald Caldwell “I'm going to Hlcan snd I think I can. You didn't did you? Of course nat. You fonnd at once. But I forgive you. Do yon know what she Aid? She saw * wis in f 6x about settling the HU and she managed to slip a $10 gol plage Into | ny pocket while she was exatining | thiz wateh charm, 1a die for a weinan "But are you sure? Know # “1 made ber adinit it to.nieht Firat she aald no, of course, and tried to get angry when I lnsisted on paying hey bark, hat “But what 7" "Finally, when she saw that i= would How do yon took lack bier ten Mowatt smoked furiously for five minutes. Breve, speechiess with ex- itemout, began to lose his temper. “Well” he bawled at last, “aren't “Steve” Arawled Mowatt, tolling back in his chair, “it IT were you | wouldn't have anything to do with Anne~Miss (flendennin” “Why? snapped Caldwell “Well, she bunkoed you out of that fen, that's sll.” “But don’t you see it was her ten, I was paying It back. She put {8 “No, she dida't. 1 slipped that ten Into your vest pocket myself.” John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Record. . Safest of All Safe Fiuces. The fact that a bed in one of our | places for any one who 15 ill has been the working | classes in London by personal experi: | etce. The people who know best, those who have again and again been in the ever-increasing crowd bringing up their on ion Sos AA BS ee Thick s a8 a Eoaren. In Liverpool which is the densest | when it is nooded, CH tw neovied, world power. and supplen Then his fingers stole up into bis vest livered at the gallow's trap. Flo was | : sure now that Anne, hla Anne, was an abundance snd size of eantly with the wheres snltable waiery Narth America sions nor fewer thas Kixty two species and subspecies are Rrger ones. are ; anlmon of ranning | points. drawn ‘Dunkard preacher . living only pach surcess | aneiie. Paris wari be Phe artenian will at Gr took fen years of onuiinuong fore water wis sirack, 8 178 thet. AT 1005 font over fest af boring rod broke amd fell wall and owas dftean gonthe before fT Was recovel A Pipes 1. un depth of ‘ setiranting bow great the business of into the | Row of 00.0001 | . his more frogs af the Ried for gallons per day is obtained from it, the | be nd bee} ng pak g sh Teo, The Engligh ootion wha Bave for so Jong 8 ¢ sn the United Rintex for my LTOTerS, thelr raw ma terial have raised a goarantes fun Wd of! : did you ever unde thi frog? file EH] : : prietor of ihe cafe you have got a whale on the sd of nl Loyour line will do for halt the ilifrog will grab ar anstling rod +t with more avidity thas an animate ob iL Jeet. Ha is like bis namesake in hie | Inclinations i enlar. S2L0.000 for the purpose of prom the cultivation of cotton with British Enipire, It is believed tl pint may be guocessiniiy many places, particularly fo some of the regions that Eagland bas goanived Io equatorial Africa. Malor Ans! who made 8 Journey from Oopdn to Mombasa, recently read a pa fare the Royal Geugrap in which he abd thas 3] grows freely nog the Akabe JUY When wa need axyoen gag for the ealoiom Hebe or for modieatd wh mast now buy it fromm ar $a orer rompresesd nfo hesvy iron cviinders It is possible tim? tn the fatare we mag ‘be able to make it as we want if, Success. M. Jaubert, a French chen Int, has devined nn Fpl calls “oxviith™ which : tadn of the higher oxide of the metals, When water snbrtances ary : esha carblid be tl lene eyels Jawan T % 3%! EPG wwe EVA sows Yop Bd vy Xe dg gaia yon THOT seviiete of xu Hi 3 iw poured on th which will prods fre SOT ohay 84 3 M. Jaw : his Invention in the i temapt Th piaRe & Be veldwer ¢ for submarine basis ET We Saree nd Part of the scheme 6 the assumption of Jasan's WL extraordinary activity of navel sponte ia the p tien for building ship of foreign conniy consideration has plete armor-nlaty to recent Advices now ben made un by a plant in Eng a ened Rre among the world. No other rolis of equal dl eight Inches, and the Moke i i 3 Heth gible to deal with an the fursace and io di intermediary process of der an hydeng ite engineering fag iteelf on ba “ble order, The Salmons. Whether wa consider and euler. paminesz food gual satleidnae 41 ferent members of this group sand iret Among The Ralmonidoe are confined fi tHe northern hemisphere, and north of 406 degrees they are svorywhere abandaat gre found. In pow recognized by Boome of the species, ogishe RTECR 5 5 ¥ ahd arise anade Loin of Farm ¥ gues . . SERULY of Tord | better than a fence without, Hafan, | the rv dunepdedl | Pootiy oveeks and ponde and dre caught ot made ont in be «i | he lives on fies and insects 4 thing ean be said of chickers and all kinds of birds (| Are not as indiscriminate and uncon ventional ax that of the bog. and the Americans have become famous ie the raising end eating of i York Tribute, | ner | building. | at & fault, | ter is culture, 4 i Bre with love i Uy the sige of the | Co ¥irtoris, Anne and Ellaabeth mous, Leing and growing in the seq, | and entering fresh water only Rill others live in brooks, entering 1akes or the Fea as occasion server, hut not habit. unity dang wn wpeien of trond of and Salvelituw Others, jake fahes sppronching euteriny brooks in the #4, at other tigiow re waters, Of thew: art herrings of the Great Lakes northward F The Salman, by Baros W, Evermang, Outing. BEAD ¥ £9 spawning izing to deer ren A AR i A EAS SS A SAAN The Old far! Rath. It Is not so many years sgo when | ¢ pur! bathing of a very primitive king! provailed at the eastern end of Long {nland, and, for aught 1 know, at other Every Saturday marning or afternoon, as the tide willed, througiz out the summer, farm wagaris frandled down to the beach and were swung around ahreast of the line of breakers, Old sek served the purpose of modern bathing pavilhans, and the sea cortuyines were thoes of Taser year's village street, A long rope Wiis fromm under the sents ated hitehedl to the wheel and then sons grurdy ex-whaler or He ew man, in red Baunel shirt sed old trousers tied at the ankles 3ippwdd his wyisy throogth the loop at the end of this primitive {ifeline, znd, wading out, one tant ax clroum=ianees peraiitted, while the women aid ehikdren bung to i and revelled and wallowed and wad, rejaleing in thelr “Saturday tub” From Ruarf Bathing, fo Cmting, Eccentric Dunkard Pastor. There took place af Hanoowk, recently, the funeral of Hey Weiler, an aged Dupgani who bad bern pasior village churohes for more hap years, during which time De aevss hig fish he Be a mer shy oan Ma, Jurih of £ATieE 2¥8 cepted a salary or other compensation, apd never took up 8 ollection He tdrried tore couples and bap tised more people than any other He was an erator of unusual gifts, It is sald that Tbe Berer ware 8 cravat to Such are the five species ge? the west coast of Ameren | the wonall rivers and | the genera Salmo | we the aloy ire wri Ete are the whitefish | and | Mystery of tha i is : that eres that the long | AMERICANS 1 xe FROGS: « Frome, Bay Cuts Proptictor re : “The eating of frogs’ legs ia consid ered a la Francaise” sald an uptown yostasratone, the other day. io one of “14 AX A matter of fact present tinge are table in this dounfry I bave no means of gavsls, an Te than in Fraopes killing frogs for the market bay grown Cin thie conntey, but I am warranted when I say that (wiles as muny am gorved for the American palate syery {day ax on the tablek of the French “IA France the froga are ralsd for ranst part in what have been termed frogeeries. love they grow in hy the hook op sfeared. By thy way, riake to oateh “Never did.” answerad the guest “If ix great sport, “Yen think that A fiy orn plecu nf am} for that red rag toward this “Muh of the old-time aversion to the Indien, The sane IT am sure his habits Prk ee New a] WISE ‘WORDS. Pa BE bi A teacher is not a taskmanter Good things always grieve Lad roen The man wim thinks ads the orowd An fron key may open a; Ronse men are bora wi ZHR Tony Susy. a *opeplled the pro- matter : particniar | But when vou have hing on the | i hook don’t let him drop into the water t | again, or the chances ars that be will [| get a foothold and it wil be impossible i to extricate him. I hsve often hauled | Pin oa bullfrog which isd in his month | | the broken ends of old hooks and other | simfar reminders of past attempts on | his life, { bolifrog hax heen overcome by a better | knowledge af fhe little animal : | he is not half an Bad as fe has heen It han bheon anid that 3 ¥ 2 fap A SR pT th the Brakes | he Veatared She ventured =n the lriny deep A hitvie win by : And yelled far murder, fire, police’ A erab had sine hed Ber tos. Ant though at that momentous time Por sereams were phiinly heaed, Yoel when a loluter spuersd Ber wand She didn’t sup a wond i A Family Trome, “I hear you witre "hard hit’ when you med Mise Casbiley “Not half a9 dard hiv as | w an when | { met her father” < Now York World, 4 BO oR mint A Puftosnpher. do with | therefore, { Finds. The besi melons Are not "tiaye the iargest. Maay of the varieties grown are for shipment to market, and must, uecvssarily possess thick A good melon should be very Eaweer, and should not be stringy when sliced, por should the rind De very | thick. The best flavored cantaloupes the guimil ones, . ! \ Navel Cold Storage Plan For Apples, | We bud a large bay filled to breast - dire | girt with bay and a big straw stack olf in the yard. Not knowing what te the appies, we conciuded to | pile them on the bay aod cover them i With straw, We made a pyramid of Capbles in the midis of the mow, drew i straw and filed up to the platen, ramp i ing it wall around the outside. We | left the dpdHles alone until May 8 and + overhauled them. They wore (n muoeh i better condition than we expected to ¥ EC fnd them. 1 There were pot many rotted, Adtopsilier the rot amd shrink Lage smotinted fo about ten per cent. i They ware shipped to a commission % | house in New York and sold for £3 per : barrel New England Homestead “Ray. don’t allus be worryin' about | yer next meal! Look it me! allus eheerfol tinkin® abso. my bast one New York Journal Worldly Wisdom. Father-—la hooting a wife woe | should never Judge by appearances” Bon “That'zs right. Often the pres tinst girls have the leest money!’ Puck, | th grow lo euch new plant during the | season, 3 610% oem saint Pale ot Them, Canyasser (eaitering oftee)-"1 would Hike to see the manager” Proprietor "Which boy or the typewriter? + Newx @ Thiigy se The Heal Avtiels. “He i a trae philanthropist” “He gives a great desl of advice ™ “Yes But le ls wensily ready tol accompany hiv adeice with enongh cenah to pnt toon oa working basis” Devp diggiog must go before high | The lve i» not fanless that falters | Thi stream of Life rises not ta source. Culture x not character, our “has Taagde will not Hlamine until Yotl cannot estimate 3 man's His santh. Thr Beart wibin to resist evil love the primeval forme, Miss i 1 Professor! aoa # : % . wa ¥ wh { much more gfoiish es of ito oen sesRARN #oseit TH comforts alresdy Wn f £ i Tha only thing that comes fo the man who waits ix {he processions, dust from the x : Washington Suan Heroes never sen thempslves in the AsSington A las Nesr ts Natave's Heart Professor Bughonter- “Don’t fy Poppy Chat? Miss TPobpyhst-"0h Of But thes § think a Pook. Netting For Himeelf, Customer-~"1 want fifteen yards of netiing.™ Clerk-«"For mosquitiee” Castomer—"“Xaw, ¢ Kot! mosiitoes Dave gor enough | “wo Balthwors News Reign snd Rain. Lanree, Mrs. Krauk—"Yes, Fm fond of pets cfg and four dogs ihat I have five | just rule my hose” The prodlem I= not to get an edocs | tion out of politics zo much as to get adduction fate the politicians. —~Raw's ; Horn, RA re EARL OT AIR HR Ee Statoes of Queens, There are hires quests cmiibemor {of “reigniog zt a HE A SASS ated by statues ia the dity of London find the otfey ia {81 dor ia Bt London Chronicle. the lant Bamedd The ii , though | might adve most londeters woukd be pussied 01 Lqygantages of a ge modsium.”—Detrit | Ante { untouched on ber pely splens- Paul's shnreheard, says ihe figure of our | | ate queen at Temple Bar i being : cieared by the corporation. as is also Boek are some of the | that of ber son sod successor at the | xan place. and hat, while their it % to be regretted | loyaity fends Theis to) brigliten ihe obstructive colutsn whieh | Lege these siatues, suough fo inspire east that Dever grew Ow that that Gever few whivh orowns 11, hawiver, saad that at in ha it the church of Bt BUTGOI them ta femave that : bind tie, | that makes 8 woman more sug Pntosian’s in the west, oniy a few yards off, he Yent the Rig from seeing the fue ald effigy of BRITONS Probably Edward pricest of meat fet Prodereaiars, Ereat Vii. 8 three guiness seal view of the slater of Edward VIL Ee wit Some Miracles. Miracles happen every day spon a tine I gave to a friend a fox tern ters will pro- Mea MeCall-"ABU va often near! cats and dogs’ These | mast be the ones” ~Philsdapsn Preys. | nin *uanestion. “How can I make my boarding house pore popular? asked Mrs Sawedee “You mright.” replied the star boant | er, squaring op & Dit of steak, "yuu: evtise it an furnishing all the | Free Press, Cine on fisoirge. “And naw, Gidrge, ing hut practical maiden, “s to share your jot" “You, daring!” “Perhaps you'd better see abont hav. | ~ Baltinire | i for the song of the robin, the cheerful | seniding nf Passtiat ways of the ttle cedarbind and ‘the brilliant plumage and song of the it ing a4 house News put en Worse Yat. “I don't suppose there's anyilong glancing over the report of a socul elf a prominent guest than to dnd ber ote of the most famons of his Blizabeth. regret | Blocks his | Once | rier that had a predilection for chasing | catriages and then barking furieasly at One day a wheel ran over his | right hind leg and for seven months | be hopped on the other three members, | Expert surgeons were unable to restore | the use of the injured limb But the | accident did not cure him of his evil | habit, and with ope le continued te annoy in the Passing alr foe drivers, | | Finally a horse kicked him on bis jeft | fore leg, breaking the bone below the | Knee, When this was put in splints be | had remaining only a right fore leg and | a aft hind leg for locomotion ciimby the miracie! his left fore leg be suddenly discov: inactive right bind fog was as good as ever, and forthwint Then Being deprived of | proceeded to use it as if it pever had | been burt, chasing carriages as usual © said Ethel In “ime the lef fore leg healed and tos day Mr. Fux has four perfectly sound | legs, and Is the pet of the oeigibor- | ood, New York Press Sweden's Death Rave, Sweden's art census records the low. Cshonlda’t like to trust + his hands. | wha Cig in est death rate yet attained by a elvils ized nation. Llwuribg the last ten years it only averaged 16.49 per 1000.—FPhi- patie left aut” wy nless | fr is to find ber rival's Blt in Philadelphia Press. | Re Th Identified. FAA “Golly wog? Not a bit of it. Why. {t's Brown's sew motor, with is sjwed ' shield on and himself bebind it —Neaw York Commersinl Advertiser, T3istryest tt i 1 ¥ ather, “Flerbers has uw lovely disposition” “Yes,” answered Erhel's fatber “Herbert's disposition is reo lovely, 1 Yaur rfare mw Ha: is the sort of will be imposed on without resent. I have Rovwn him to go tha ball game and not want to fight the suipite when he gave an unjust odes | cision agalost the home team. =W ng tington Star. I'm i | plant, i | ers it very important to encourage the park is yours old, rR Care of the Bisckberry, The oinckberry patch is often 8 souree of disappointuwnt to those who do net understand the nature of the The average beginnuer consid. growth of ds many pew cabes as possi. ible for the following season's bear. Ling. Thin tends to weaken the parent i Pouts at tlie expense of the fralt. Only | 8 few pew canes should be allowed Belect those most thrifty in C appedrande and cot all the rest out i When they become weakened from ahethe offes BCE of pruning or cultivation apply a top dressing of well rotted hen manure or hardwood ashes. Cultivate if loon tion of pateh will permit, and If pet, mulch heavily ~C. B. Barrett. in The Epitomixt, —— The pesch In otie of the | yet it is very difficult to potches. When I was a small father had about 300 peach trees o farm, and the Ath year they Liv and 15 hen. aoe Seaes (De wire al desd but dive, and they looked sick. ly. 1 took all rocks from a potato pated and pled them around one eof those panch trees, when i became thrifty and bore fine fruit for twenty years, Now we cultivate our peach or chard until the trees are four and five and then we make a rock pile arenind them, placing the rocks . earefully as not to injure the bark. Fr my | ind we always have fine, healthy trees | aa} good fruit 1 don't know whether the rock would have the same effect on different soils, but we think ft : : The birds, Begrodgid the fruit they take, though * said the higsh- : es every | thing ik settled and 1 have conselited thie respect, enthind, robin § pane any, fruit buds can be formed. PRPRaRy would. ~ A, N. Horn, in The Epiromist. ——— en Birds and Froit T | The farmer does aot complain about the pay be gives bis hired men. He realizes that to get thelr services ho | Bas to compensate them for their labor. bowever, are sometimes they have been working in his interest | in destroying larvae, insects and mgs | for a long time before the fruit has ripe. Even when they are taking thelr pay in eating cherties, berries Pete, they are still destroying insects, i and their stomachs will be found to i contain ik large pereentage of this kind of food. Iv is only a small percentage of the large family of birds that oifends in Chief smong them ix the cedurbind, and oriole A farm wonld be poor lmdesd that eomid pot afford sowe frgit in payment cntisbnd, tae the pretty. oriole, particularly as most of the time | they work hard for their ving. HE fonction at which she considered hag ; Haydoolt, in New York Tribape | Farmer. rsa mr Benefits of Thinning Fraime The benefits derived from thinning fede py be briefly summarised ds borsllowe: First- Thinning preserves the vitalite of the toe by lessening (he production of seed, Bevomd — Thinning, if systematically aid persistently dope, will cause the ee to DERRY cTOPS Ore Yeguarly. Of years are in Groat caxes due to the fact | that the trees are allowed to overhear ane your and during that year, few, it Mast Kind of fro trees cannot produce a Hirge orp and mature Oralt buds at the sane tine Third Thinning lessens the loss oc ensioned by vot and other Pangus of in: fection by contact. It also ino Meas ure provents the appearsnce and the spread uf diseases by permitting better ventiation and drying of the fruit in- glide of the trees, Fourth--Thinning will produce larger frat, Fifth--Thinning will produce a beter colored. fruit by admitting more sche ight (nto the tree Sixth--Thinning tends to ripen up the trait more uniformly Seventh — Thinning will produce a nrere salable and higher priced fruit by renson of the increase in Jiro. higher ¢olor and general appearance. Eighth — Thinning will preserve the shape of the tree and prevents the breaking of overloaded branches Marriand Experiment Station Bulletin, So. 0