Shaker Relic Discovered. • In the did shaker settlement at Son |rea, N. Y., a peculiar relic has been discovered. It consists of a stone about 2^x4 Yj feet and four inches thick which Is covered with inscriptions, though most of them r.re so badly defaced that they cannot bo deciphered. But the words "The Lord's Stoue," aud the date, "18"47," are sufficient to identify the as connected with the wor ship of tho Shakers. It was found by workmen In excavating for a buildins that is to stand directly 011 the site oi the Shaker meeting-house. The stoire is supposed to be a sort of "kissing stouo."- It has been turned over to the Historical Society of Mount Morrl9 and will be preserved in a glass case. No doubt some process can be devised by which its inscriptions can be de ciphered more fully. The character istic Reticence of the Shakers has made information in regard to them difficult to obtain, and anything of the nature of a historical relic will be highly orized. '• That Way All Aronud. Jack—That Miss Beverly, to whom 1 Ix>wed just now is a regular Klondike. Tom—That so? Rich? Jack—Yes; also cold and distant. Rush to the Klondike The railroads are confidently expect ing a big rush of travel to the Klon dike in the spring. It Is estimated that fully 100.000 people will attempt to roach the gold fields as soon as the win ter is over, and with a desire to turn a nimble penny at every opportunity Trunk Lines are beginning to prepare for the expected rush. One of the first in the field is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which will on Tuesday, December 21st, begin tho running of tho through tourist car from New York City to San Francico without change, byway of Philadel phia. Washington. Parkersburg and Cincinnati, reaching St. Louis Wednes day evening. Tcxarkana Thursday af ternoon. El Paso, Texas. Friday even ing and San Francisco Sunday morn ing. This service Is In addition to tho one provided by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Pittsburg byway of Cin cinnati and the Illinois Central to New Orleans ami tho Southern Pacific through to the Coast, the Pittsburg car leaving every Wednesday. The New York car 011 its return leaves San Fran cisco Monday evening and the Pitts burg ear leaves on Thursday. Mother Gray s Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used bv Mother <1 ray. for years a nurse iu the Children's llome. Now York, will make a sleklv child strung and healthy. A certain euro for Stoma-h Troubles, Head ache ami Feverishtiess in Children. They movo the bowels, cure Teething Disorders, destroy worms and never fail. At all drug gists, 25 ets. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy, N. Y. How's rills? We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for any ea e of Catarrh that cannot bs cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. .1. Chenky & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Wo, the undersigned, have known F.J. 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Twenty-three men in every 1,000 serving in the British army are 6 feet and upward in height: 3.0 in every 1,000 are 5 feet 11 inches, and 5S in every 1,000 5 feet 10 inches. There are 785 men in every thousand army men under 5 feet 9 Inches. Chew Star Tobacco—"rtie Best. Hmoku Sledge Cigarettes. A gull can tly at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Mr. Wlnslow's Soothing Svrnp for ohfldrcn teething, softens the gums.seducing inllnmmu tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 26c.a bottle. Fits permnnent.lT cured. No fits or nervous ness ailcr first, day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free l)il. K. 11. Ki.im: LH.. Ml Arch St..Phila..l'a. Piso's Cure for Consumption Is an A No. 1 Asthma medicine.- W.U.V) ILLIAMS, Autioch, Ills.. April 11, 189 L Scrofula and All other blood Diseases are promptly And Permanently Cured By Hood's Sarsaparilla. If you suffer from Any form of Blood Disorder, yon should Take Hood's and Only Hood's. ▼▼▼▼▼T T ▼ T T TJ A ii 4 A ilb A A A 4h A A Disease ► ► can be driven in or driven out. Ayer's Sarsa- % parilla drives disease out of the blood. Many 4 ► >r medicines suppress disease cover it but don't 1 cure it. Ayer's Sarsaparilla cures all diseases J* < < originating in impure blood. ► *4 ' •"■' ; ' \ ►Vr ▼ T REMARKABLE CAREER Of Dr. Tliomas W. Kvnna Who Died Re cently In I'ario. Dr. Thomas \V. Evans, the famous dentist who died recently in Paris, only a few months ago came to this country to bury his wife, and now he has close ly followed her to the groat beyond. Dr. Evans was born in Philadelphia aud decided when only 13 years old to become a dentist. When 18 years old he graduated from the Jefferson Med ical College and two years later went to London. In 1840 he went to Paris and made a great reputation there, re ceiving from the courts of Europe more honors and decorations than have ever been conferred 011 any European of less than royal blood, the single excep tion being Bismarck. Napoleon 111. was among his earliest patvons, aud through him he was intro duced to the family of the King of Denmark. Among his other patients there were the King's daughters, after ward the Princess of Wales, the Em press of Russia and the Duchess of Cumberland; also his sons, the futuro Kings of Greece and Denmark. No American ever had such a foot ing at .Marlborough house as Dr. Ev ans. He was on terms of Intimacy with the family of the King of BeP j glum, the German Imperial family and i at the royal palace in St. Petersburg. I The intimate relations of Dr. Evans ; with Napoleon 111. enabled him, it is uHd. to prevent the recognition of the southern confederacy, even after hs had fully made up his mind to do so find had entered into correspondents with the English prime minister to se cure the co-operation of England. Dr, Evans won consent to a delay, came tc i Washington, saw President Lincoln, and carried back such assurances of 1 the ultimate victory for the Union as 1 to persuade Napoleon to relinquish bis ■ Intention. During tho Franco-Prussian war Dr. ; Evans organized and maintained at his , own expense an ambulance service thai did incalculable good. He personally directed the movements of the Red Cross Society, and it is said, was the only man in Europe who might pass ! .from camp to camp. One of the most interesting parts of his career was the share which he took in assisting the French Empress Eugenie to escape from Paris after the disaster of So dan. He was instrumental in conduct lug her from the city and putting hei on board a vessel that conveyed her tc England. Were it not for him Eugenic might and probably would have shared the tragic fate of Marie Antoinette. Dr. Evans' fortune, which is esti mated at $35,000,000, was amassed largely in real estate transactions in Paris. In this country he owns $5,000,- 000 worth of real estate. Dr. Evans' only relatives are two nephews, Col. Charles F. Muller, of Utica, N. Y., and I. U. Evans, of New York. Bloody Battles. More llvos were lost In the battle of Leipsic than at any other. It took place Oct. 10, 18 and 19, 1813, between the French and the Austrians, Prus sians and Russiajis. The French were 100,000 strong, the allies 240,000. More than 80,000 men perished, and the M'ench were defeated. Such losses throw into the shade the losses of the American war. At Gettysburg 39,000 were killed and wounded; at Chlcka mauga, 28,000. 111 the battles of the Wilderness 0,788 men were killed and at Spottsylvania 0,290. In the final at tack on Kars, during the Russo-Turk lsh war of 1877-8, 8,000 men fell. The losses In the attacks on the Shipka pass amounted to about 20,000 men, and before Plevna some 30,000 men perished. Marius' victory over the Oimbri and Teutones at Varcellae, B. C. 101, is said to have cost the lives of 200.000 T) or sons. At Their Word. There Is a kind of blunt, rude trav eler that well deserves such a reproof as is mentioned in the Golden Penny: A party of English visitors were be ing shown round a famous Scotch ab bey, and one of them said to the guide, "Now, old fellow, we don't want any of your cock-and-bull stories about tl\is place! Tell us what you are sure is true." • Ay, sir!" quietly replied the guide, and he walked on in silence. He led the party through the abbey, and said, "Ye've aeon the old abbey." "Yes," said the Englishman. "Can't you tell us anything about it?" "The exact truth," returned the Scot, "is that 'the abbey is old,' and I cannn swear to any more aboot it," and he left them. Fortune no longer knocks at a man's door. You must have an electric but ton if you want to be In the push. TO MAKE GOOD SEEDS. SECRETARY WILSON DISCUSSES THE CROSS FERTILIZATION. Report That a Way Has Been l-'ouncl to Grow in England Varieties of Wheat That Do Not Thrive There Now—Exper iments in the United State*. "It is not new, at least to us, but I hope they have really accomplished all that the story sets forth," said Sec rotary of Agriculture Wilson after reading an account published in tint London Daily Mail, of what was tie scribed as a discovery of the highest importance, made on the experimental farm of the Earl of Wiuehelsea at Sleaford. The alleged discovery was that the principle of cross-fertilization could bo applied to cereals, grasses, clovers, and all other forms of agricultural food plants. The most interesting statement next to the claim for discov ery was that the Messrs. Garton, who conducted the experiments, said their discovery would enable Euglaud to take the lead in supplying the world with new varieties, and that it would bo posniple to grow the varieties of wheat in England which now are im ported for special qualities not hither to attainable in English-grown varie ties. "The principle of cross-fertiliza tion," added Secretary Wilson, "is not a new discovery. It has been un derstood for years, but not until re cent years have experiments been made to get something out of the prin ciple in agriculture. I see the Daily Mail says the United States has been moving in the direction followed at the farm of the Earl of "Wiuehelsea. We have. For years the experiments have been carried 011 at tho experiment stations, chiefly with reference to the needs of each station. Scientific agriculturists know well that it is as practicable to improve the qualities of wheat and grasses us it is to improve horses and sheep. Ido not think it has been claimed by any of our experimenters that they have succeeded in getting new varieties of wheat that will displace other varie ties. More attention has been given, I believe, to securing better cereals by selection of heads of wheat and other grains, as they develop in fields, or varieties found to be suited to cer tain soils and climates. "It was some years ago that in my own state of lowa experiments in cross-fertilization brought us a new rose. We had the old-fashioned wild rose with half a dozen petals, but with abundance of fragrance and foli age. By crossing this wild rose with a Japan rose, we got a flower of some ane hundred petals, a line, fragrant tiling, with the hardy quality of Ihe wild rose, its rich foliage, and a great increase in the number of its petals. "To jump at the conclusion that the experiments at Earl Winclielsea's farm are conclusive and the beginning of c commercial success seems to me un safe. It takes some time to reach conclusions in such matters. There are circumstances to bo accounted for; the seeds may bring plants that show reversion. But there is 110 doubt that if new seeds are needed, and experi ments are directed to their production, they may bo obtained. | E. W. Allen of the experiment sta* ! tion service said the greatest improve ; inent in seeds in this country was ob tained by selection from the best fields i growers favoring those specimens that promised the heaviest, yield pel acre with the retention of other dcsir ; able qualities in the wheat. Experi | ments had been conducted at some of | the stations with reference to improv ing the value of corn as a food. it i was desirable to impart a greater pro portion of nitrogen to corn. The ex periments had been carried 011 with the expectation of discovering how to get ■ the nitrogen into the soil and then into the corn itself. Some success j had attended the experiments. "Other experiments," said Mr. Allen, "involving a recognition of the , principle of cross-fertilization have ; been made to reduce the proportion of eob to corn. The seed growers are never weary of persisting in these ex periments. The man who succeeds in finding away of producing corn that will have the least possible cob will discover a Klondike in agriculture. A good deal of attention has been de voted to experimentation to ascertain the wheat best suited to smut resist ' ance. Smut is one of the troubles of ; the farmer. If science can add a chemical or other quality to wheat that will make it reasonably immune from smut without losing any good *quali ties already possessed, it will have met a long-felt want.—New York Times. To livtvet Tampered Paper*. Professor Bruylauts of the Univer sity of Louvain lias devised a method by means of which lie believes altera tions in documents may he detected Expose a sheet of paper which ha* been sized and finished, then moist ened and dried, to the action of vapoi of iodine. The portion which has beei. i moistened will assume a violet tint ! While the remainder of the surface ap pears brownish yellow. When n rubbed surface, after exposure t<. iodine, is moistened, it takes a blut color. After drying, the rubbed por fions retain a distinct outline, being paler in tint than the rest of the sur face. The removal of a part of the starch contained in the size is evident ly the cause of this action. Papei which has been • entirely moistened * and dried—as a letter copied in a j press—will also show these reactions, hut less distinctly. The existence ol pencil marks erased by rubbing will also be revealed. The paper which contains the greatest quantity of siz ing will give the most brilliant effects. .Material aid in clearing up disputed I <|Uestions of this kind should be given ( >y the use of iodine in skillful bauds. EITHER WAY, I paw tho now raoon yesternight; O'er my right shoulder fell its light; ' But she, my love, she felt bereft i Because tho moonbeams crossed her loft, I tried to put her gloom to flight— "Some say tho left and some tho right." But still she shook her pretty head— "l wish it was tho light," she said. Then fortune prompted mo to say, ' wed and <-utoh it wither -ray." Cleveland Plain Dealer. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "I see that Timmins is getting out another novel." "Historical or liys , terical?"—lndianapolis Journal, j Whoever sits down to wait for trade , I to come his way will need a thick ' cushion on his seat.—Profitable Ad vertising. , Chuinpleigli—"Does your father object to my coming here?" Miss Flippe—"No, only to your staying." —Standard, j "My wife has a mania for bargains." "Yes?" "Hut when she asks me for a dollar she won't take ninety cents." I —Chicago Record. | Friend—"This seems to be a com ! fortable flat." Harlemice—"lt does. | It makes that impression 011 every ' body who don't live in it."—Puck, j "People are not alike, and what suits one may not suit another." "I guess that's right. What is one man's I bicycle is another man's juggernaut." ! —Puck. 1 "Does Miss Diilliugton play and j sing much when you call on her?" | "No; I am beginning to believe that j she really loves me." Cleveland ! Leader. 1 Mistress—"Bridget, are there any 1 letters for me this morning?" Bridget | —"Only two postal cards, but. there's 1 nothing of importance in them."— Fliegende Blaetter. 1 Tom—"Why do you always call your mother 'the mater?'" Dick— "Any woman who could succeed in marrying off my four sisters deserves the title."—Tit-Bits. Little Bob—"Aw! I could walk the rope just as well as ilie circus man, if it wasn't for one thing!" Little Willy—"What is that?" Little Bob —"l'd fall off."—Harper's Bazar. 1 "Miss Fastidity is very dainty in her manners, isn't she?" "I should I say so. Why, she can even eat corn off the ear without looking as if she had both hoofs in the trough."— Puck. Woggiugs—"Jiggins, can you loan me S2O? I'll return it to-morrow sure." Jiggins—"Can't possibly do it, Woggins; I've got to use the money i week from next Tuesday.''—Roxbury Gazette. * Good Friend—"l liavo reason to suspect that your husband is flirting with other women. You ought to fol low him wherever he goe3." "Great 3cott! My husband is a postman."— ITiegencTe Blaetter. "Our public school system is doomed: that's what it is." "80111c thin' new goin'wrong, Weary?" "Yes. They're talkin' of puttiu.' shower baths into th' school houses." , Cleveland Plain Dealer. I Harriet—"And so Fred .Dullwich has asked you to marry him, has he?" 1 Margaret (sighing and blushing)— , "Yes—night before last!" Harriet— ! "What a stickler he is for formali ties."—Cleveland Leader. I "Of course," said one old farmer to the other, "your boy is learnin' Latin and Greek at college, but is he gettin' any thing practical?" "Oh, yes. In the last letter he writ he tells mo he : is takiu' lessons in fencinV' —De- troit Free Pres. "Now," said the attorney for the defence, "here is a skull. Can you tell us to Avlmt species it belougs?" ! "It's the skull of a lawyer," replied 1 the export witness "How can you tell?" "By the cheekbones."—Phil j adelpliia North American. *"When we reached the station," said ! the young bride recently returned 1 from the wedding tour, "the men j picked my husband u;: .jnd carried him | to the house 011 their shoulders." I "Yes," said a neighbor, "but it wasn't the first time they'd carried liirn home." How a Fortune Was Lost. A London electrician recently in vented an apparatus calculated to greatly simplify a certain process of manufacture. This he perfected in his own factory and provisionally patented. Other interests then occu pied his attention, and, by some mis chance, he forfeited his right to com plete the patent. Illness afterward • intervened, and in his absence the apparatus went wrong, and a work man was called in to put matter* right. He realized the value of the invention, thoroughly mastered the intricacies of the apparatus and straightway drew up a specification and obtained letters patent. Almost 1 at once he disposed of the right to use • the apparatus to a certain number oi ; firms, and found himself in < moment the richer by close upon $500,000. Meantime the actual inventor merely enjoys the right to use the apparatus, in his own works. l'lmu 1 IKIIHII Fat Hoy. Federal authorities on tho Mari" j copa and Prima Indian reservation* ; near Phoenix, Arizona, report the death I of Ne-un-cama, the famous Pima fat i boy, who was but fifteen years old, yet tipped the scales at 140 pounds. Occasionally Ne-nu-cama used to come up from the reservation on a visit, to , Phoenix. Thib was excitement enough 1 for one day in Phoenix. Crowds fol- j lowed him about the street and stured at him as though he were a curio in a museum. He was a great favorite among his own people, and great preparations are being made for his funeral services. | SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ! Paper horse shoes are to bo used (or the horses of the German Army. ! Peru balsam with nine times its freight of collodion is advised by Pro fessor Klein for an elastic and water proof coating for small wounds. Naturalists have ascertained that scorpions and certain kinds of spiders arc able to make peculiar noises for die same reason that rattlesnakes use 1 their rattles—-to warn an enemy that an attack is attended by danger. Some metal backed glass mirrors ol the third or fourth century have been investigated by M. Berthelot. They are of Gallo-Roman origin, and the backing is of lead, which seems to j have been applied in a molten state. For the new power plant for the Big Hole River Mines, at Butte. Montana, six turbine wheels of 1000 horse powei each are being made by the Leffei Water Wheel Company, at Spring field, 111. They are to .e the largest wheels of the sort ever built. Clover sickness, a common disease which often ruins clover crops, has > caused German scientists to make ex periments. They have succeeded ih ! getting cultures of the bacteria tlia produce the disease. They expeel . that soon farmers will be able to in nculate their laud just as human bo ings may be treated. I Even if the steel casting for the stern plato for the new steamci Oceanic be not the largest ever made, us is claimed, it was a huge afl'air t | weighing forty-one tons in the rough, j When trimmed and ready to be placed j in position it weighed thirty-five tons, 1 was thirty-five feet high, and twenty four feet three inehes over the kee) j piece. | The largest dredge ever built has 1 lately been put together iu Buffalo. 11 is one hundred and forly feet long, forty feet wide and tv elve feet deep. The fifteen-ton clamshell bucket will operate at a depth of eighty l'eet, forc ing up ten cubic yards of mud at once. The dredge is named Fill McCool | Finn MacCumhall], who, according to legend, was the strongest Irishman in the world. The length of a light wave at the ciolet end of the spectrum is aboul 1-62,500 of an inch and at the red l-37,000tb. Light travels 12.000, )00,000 tnelies iu a second. Multiply .he dedominators of the fractions here given by 12,000,000,000, and you will ; get the number of light waves (or vi brations) per second for red and vio et. The other colors lie between liese extremes. Al|ihubet of Proverb?. A grain of prudence is worth a pound >f craft. Boasters are cousins to liars. | Compositors give work to proof readers. Denyiug a fault doubles it. Envy shoots at others and wounds lerself. Foolish fear doubles dangers. God teaches us good things by our ,wn hands. He has hard work who has nothing o do. ! It costs more to revenge wrongs hail to suffer them. J Knavery is the worst trade. Learning makes a man lit company 1 or himself. Modesty is a guard to virtue. Not to hear conscience is the way to litence it. One hour to-day is worth two to lvorrow. Proud looks make foul work in fair laces. Quiet conscience is quiet sleep. Bicliest is he that wants least. Small faults indulged are little iliieves that let iu greater ones. The boughs that bear most hang owest. Upright walking is sure walking. Virtue and happiness are mother md daughter. Wise men make more opportunities than they find. You never lose by doing a good act. Zeal without knowledge is lire witli >ut light.—Philadelphia Record. Uiilsina l-lgrict Herons. 11l 1895 a merchant naturalist of Funis bought a piece of ground in dosed l,y a wall, where a sufficient piantity of water could be introduced, [n this field a large space, where there tvere fig trees, was inclosed by wire setting. Then he procured from vests the young egret s. In 1890, by increase, bis heronry contained about tOO egrets. The females lay eggs i twice a year, iu April and June; and I tho young, leaving tho liest. after fif teen dayp, mate the same year. These birds he feeds 011 minced horse and mule meat twice n day—one i mimal, costing there five or six francs, lufficing for a fortnight. Tho nest lings are led by their mother on small : (isli provided for her. Tho dorsal ! plumes are gathered twice a year, in i May and September, but it is not un ; til the bird is three years old that tliu plumes attain their full beauty. Each ! adult bird furnishi us of these per year- that is about 108 grain or 1-70 of a pound lidding per i head 87.- -Popular Science News The -lumping t'occmil ' The jumping bean if Mexico bus n •rival in a South Afr e j cently described iu tin Em. m.legist. The cocoon is very hard, and its habit I of jumping about is due to the effort jof the pupa to force its vin ml This pupa has a chisel-like IIHR.. which 1 ; hammers against the w all of the co j coon until itforees an opt dug through I which escape is possible. l'he ' loleut motions of the piipa niaki the . con seem to jump about just as the - pas modie motions of the inset! m,! i tinil of the seed Teasels makes v I.at >t on mo illy called the jumping Lei. . fioj in il roll about. INTERDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS' No Government Free to Do Eii&ctlj a* It I'lcaecN. uvery nation prides itself en its in t dependence. It maintains armies an< : fleets to protect itself against inter ferenco. It resents everything in th< least suggesting disrespect for itf rights. Yet national -independence moves within extremely narrow limits Even of the strongest nations it can not be said that they are at liberty tc do exactly what they would. When the war between China and Japan ended, why was not Japan fret to exact what terms she chose from her conquered enemy? It was because Russia. Franco and Germany conclud ed that it would not do to have Japat too strong; and they compelled a mod oration of the Japanese demands it material particulars. Cuba belongs to Spain. Why may not Spain govern her own as she pleases? Why is it the business of tht United States to make suggestions ei to volunteer mediation? It is because we cannot afford to have so turbulent a neighbor, and because our pecuniary nnd commercial interests are adversely affected by the continuance of the wai ou the island. The claim of the great powers ot Europe to regulate the government of Turkey rests on a similar basis. Mis government and massacre in Turkey Injure the interests and threaten the peace of Europe. If so lawless and cruel a neighbor will not behave her self, she must be made to behave. That Is what the threat of concerted coercion means. But it is not the weaker nations only that have to moderate their policy be cause of the interests or prejudices ot other nations. England would like un disputed possession of Egypt; but she has to respect the jealousies of France, and so declares that her occupation of Egypt is but temporary. Wben she started her expedition into the Sudan, she took money from the Egyptian re serve fund to pay the mils; but for eign eustodlndians of that fund pro tested, and she had to pay the money back. When Doctor Jameson raided the Transvaal, German resentment at what seemed English aggression named up so quickly thct internation al trouble could hardly have been avoided if it had not been so soon ma (it clear that Jameson's act was unau thorized. But on the other hand, when German expressions of sympathy with Presi dent Kruger became somewhat effu sive, England made ready at short no tice a powerful flying squadron, ap parently as an Intimation of what she could do, if attacked. Russia, powerful as she Is. could not send a war-ship from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus, without run ning the risk of a general European war. This is because Europe has cided that it is best that the straits should be closed to war-ships. An American politician once asked: "What do we care for abroad?'* We: care less for "abroad" than we should If our foreign policy were more com plicated and aggressive than it is: but no nation is so strong as to be entirely independent, of International public sentiment. —Youth's Companion. HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC. Opinion Formed by n Paascngcr on Potomac Fiver Boat. "Do you know what the national fcymn of this country should l>e?" in quired a visitor to the capital of a re porter. The gentlerann propounding th*> question had traveled extensively in foreign lands and has been in all parts of his own country, from Florida to Alaska and between Maine and Cali fornia. The reporter studied a little nnd then answered, "I suppose you mean 'Down Upon the Suwannee River?' " The visitor rubbed his hands delight edly. "You have struck it exactly," he declared, "and I'll tell you why I am moro convinced of it than ever. I went down the Potomac, the other night, on one of the excursion Meam ers. There was n large crowd aboard, nil good-natured and happy at the idea of having nn outing. I sized the crowd up going down, and I made tip my mind that it was pretty cosmopolitan containing people from all sections of the country. "On the return trip T sat with a friend, a native of New Hampshire, and a Northerner throughout. We were on the deck Just below the pilot house. After we had ridden a little time some young people began singing. They rang in the old-time favorites. 'Old Black .Toe.' 'Dixie,' 'Maryland. My Maryland,' which, by the way, causei, some emotion, and other bongs includ ing 'My Bonnie,' 'How Con I Bear to Leave Thee,' nnd others. Each orle caused a few to chime in. but there was no special enthusiasm. "At last the singers struck up 'Down Upon the Suwannee River.' The effect was magical. In an instant it seemed to me that everybody on the boat, in eluding lny reserved companion, had Joined in. The plaintive air floated over the water to the Maryland and Virginia shores, and was wafted up ward in the starlight. When It was finished there was complete silence for a little time. I am not an emotional man, but I felt my breath catch nnd the tears came into my eyes. "My friend put his hand on my knee. '1 always feel a truer patriot when I hear that song,' was all he said."—New York Telegram. •" Brevity is the Soul of Wit." Good Wife. You Need SAPOLIO j—g>mr' 1 -i ■'■urn—b— - N°. 203. j Thfsqnjur lebe'J like • fr'in {ia* a 0-lnch ftlsomlishedf I tdwSSL 511 In mahogany. ■ , 353.95 this i 1W I (Mail orrteri Ailed promptly.) ■ We will mail nriyoue, free of all 3 Charges, our new 1U pn*o Special fata- ■ logtie, containing Furniture, Draperies, ■ Lamps, Stove*, Crockery. Mirror*, Pictures, IJeddiujr, Refrigerators. Baby Carriages, etc. Tnls is the must com plete book ever published, and we par all po-oago. Our lithographed Carpet Catalogue, showing carpets in colors, is also yours for the asking. li' carpet samp.es are wanted, mail us Bc. la si amps. There is no reason why you Should poy your local cent, profit when you can fc;.r from the mil). Drop a linn now to tha mouey-sarc: a. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. APPRECIATIVE "THANK YOU." It la the Smallest Courtesies That Make Life Worth Living. "On every hand one hears of the neg lect to say 'thank you,'' writes Ed ward W. Bole on "Tho Saying of 'Thank You,'" in tho Ladies' Home Journal. "I wonder sometimes if some people really know how little of what comes to them is their due and right, and how much of what comes to them is by favor nnd courtesy. The vast majority of things which come to us, come by pure favor, by courtesy. And we should recognize this. No act ot kindness, however slight, should go un noticed. A 'thank you' is a simple thing to say; it requires but a few mo ments to write it, but it often means' much; it means everything sometimes to the person receiving it. It means a renewed faith in human nature in some cases. A word of thanks is never lost, never wasted. If It sometimes seems to be lost upon the person to whom it 1s directed, its expression has not been lost upon some one else who has heard it. It is certainly not lost upon ourselves. The most of us are quick enough to thank some one who does us great service. But the small courtesy, Just as great as the large ser vice in reality, wo overlook. It doesn't seem worth while to give thanks for smail things. And yet what would we be to-day. and where would some of us be but for the small courtesies of life? They are what make life worth j living. " * • * It is all very well to hava the last Thursday of each November set apart as a day of Thanksgiving. But it would be far better if a grettt many of us carried the spirit of the day into all the other days. Perhaps, if we did so we might have more mercies to be thankful for on Thanksgiving day. * * * Do not let the spirit of thanks stop with nightfall on Thanksgiving day. Let us extend it to all the other days of the year, to the people whoea , lives touch ours. When we receive it favor at tho hands of any one, no mat' ter how small it may be, let us say -ha words, 'Thank you.' If they should be written let us write them. 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