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LtA I HER OK FlaH SKINS.
Many Ways of L'tlllzln; the Refuse o!
the FUlilng (iroundg.
The United States fish commission ;
has been making a collection of leath
ers made from the skins of fish ant ,
other aquatic animals, especially o;
those which promise to be of practica j
utility. Several varieties of fish havt !
skins that make an excellent leathei j
for some purposes. Salmon hide, foi I
example serves so well in this way ;
that the Eskimos o? Alaska make wat
erproof shirts and boots out of it. They !
also cut jackets out of cod fish skins '
which are said to be very serviceable
garments. In the United States frog '
skins are coming into use for the
mounting of books where an excep- ;
tionally delicate material for binding !
Is required. There are certain tribes 1
of savages who make breast plates out 1
of garfish skins, which will turn a 1
knife or a spear. A bullet will pierce j
this breastplate, but it is said to be i
impossible to chop through the mate
rial with a hatchet at one blow. To- |
gether with such a breastplate, these
savages wear a helmet of the skin of
the porcupine fish, which is covered
with formidable spines. Fastened up
on the head, this helmet serves not
only as a protection, but in close en- |
counters it is used to butt with. The j
Gloucester Isinglass and Glue com- '
pany recently manufactured some j
shoes of the skins of a codfish and j
cusk. On the lower Yukon, in Alaska j
overalls of tanned fish skins are com
monly worn by the natives. Whip
handles are made of shak skins and in j
strument cases are commonly covered I
with the same material, it being known ;
under the name of shagreen. Whale '
skins are said to make admirable j
leather for some purposes, while por- '
poise leather is considered a very SIP ;
perior material for razor strops. Seal j
leather, dyed in a number of different ;
colors, is included in the collection of ,
the fish commission. The leather is
obtained from the hair seal, and not
from the fur-bearing species, and Is
used to a considerable extent in the
manufacture of pocketbooks. The I
hair seals are still very plentiful in the !
North Atlantic ocean, and as it is not
difficult to kill them they afford a
very promising source of leather sup- ;
ply. Walrus leather came into the j
market recently, but as the animals
are being exterminated rapidly It will j
hardly amount to much commercially
Another kind of leather now seen on 1
sale is that of the sea eleplVnt. Up j
to within a few years a species of sea |
elephant was found 011 the Pacific
coast, ranging as far north as lower |
California, but the animals have been j
so nearly exterminated that they arc I
now rarely seen. Another species is
to be found in the Antarctic seas, !
chiefly on Kerquelaa island.—New
England Grocer.
A KLONDIKE BRIDE.
Bbe Will Tak 910,000 to See the Tarla
Exposition.
"Here's SIO,OOO for vacation money,'
wifey. Take your mother to Paris and
have the best kind of a time you'
know." That's the kind of a husband
that James L. Hall, a Klondike miner ]
Is, says a San Francisco correspondent'
of the New York World. Lucky Mrs.
Hall went to Dawson City last fall as
a vaudeville artiste. She was then
Miss Lillian Green. Going up the
Yukon the boat on which she traveled"
was nipped in the ice and totally'
wrecked near Sehvyn. After endur
ing the utmost hardships Miss Green j
and her fellow-voyagers managed tc '
reach a camp where the crew of an
other wrecked steamer had found ref
uge. Standing before the camp-fire
with her clothing freezing on the
young woman gave such a graphic ac- 1
count of her adventures that she com- j
pletely won the heart of Miner Hall,
the owner of the camp and one of the
richest men in the Klondike. "That's
the girl for my money!" exclaimed
Hall, and that very night he proposed
marriage and was accepted. A week
later the shipwrecked crews reached
1 heir destination at Dawson, where the
Rev. Fr. Naylor pronounced a bene
diction on the union of the pretty lit
tie actress and the rugged miner. Mrs
Hall's health failed somewhat undei j
the rigors of an Arctic winter, and tei 1
days ago she came down to San Fran
Cisco in company of her mother anf !
sister, with instructions from her hus
band to go to Paris and spend SIO,OO( 1
and wire him when she wanted anj
more pocket money. Besides this Mr
Hall gave his bride a wedding gift o:
$50,000. James L. Hall owns claim No
17, on Eldorado creek, which has pro
duced more than a million in nuggeti
and promises to yield half as much
more this vear.
THE ABSENCE Of AGATHA gggj
JS/* M* U 1 ! ■' lk. 1 1 j' I. ' I,' U/l '*".">"•''>''■ l '•''-J'lf'li'U'u'H' I
"And your soul from this old chamber
Missed In fifty little things!"
—Owen Meredith.
"It Is from Helena." Mrs. Ardell
laid down the letter and twirled her
pince-nez between her taper linger
tips. "She wants Agatha to pay licr
a visit. "Agatha!" exclaimed May in
astonishment. "What does she want
with Agatha?"
May was the beauty of the family.
"She does not speak a word of
French or Spanish!" declared Ida, who
had gone in for the languages. "Nor
sing a note!" cried Grace, whose voice
was her particular pride. And the
three, in quite honest ignorance of the
ill-breeding their amazement implied,
stared across the table at Agatha. Her
mild little mother looked at her, too,
but with covert tenderness. Her fath
er lifted his gentle, absent gaze to the
countenance of his youngest and least
accomplished daughter. And Harry,
the son of the house, paused in his
eager efforts to dispose of all the but
tered toast on the table long enough to
remark that Agatha could make
erackin' good cake, you bet! But this
eulogy passed unheeded.
Mrs. Ardell reread the letter of in
vitation, this time aloud. Mme. de
Vllliers wrote that she had always en
tertained delightful memories of the
visit Agatha had paid her when the
latter was quite a little girl. If the
young lady was as dear as the child
she had been she would love to have
her spend a few weeks with her.
"We called, you remember, mamma,
since she established herself in Chi
cago." May, "faultily faultless" of
feature, and complacently conscious
that her new kimona was becoming,
looked languidly toward her mother.
"She has a great, gloomy old barrack
of a house. I don't believe there's a
bit of furniture in it less than a hun
dred years old. I wouldn't visit there
for the worm!"
"My sister is trying to make her
northern residence as much like as
possible to the Louisiana home of
which she was so fond, until unbear
ably sad memories caused her to
abandon It!" put in Dr. Ardell.
"She has even bought lots adjacent
to her own that she may have a
walled-ln garden, I've been told," sup
plemented Grace.
"Well, I shouldn't have gone had
she asked me!" put In Ida with decis
ion. "She has lots of money, but she
can't be expected to die for many a
year, and—"
"Ida!" Interrupted the doctor, stern
ly.
She colored and became silent. Mrs.
Ardell spoke with amicable haste.
"We have not allowed Agatha to say
a word. Do you wish to go. Agatha?"
"Would I?" glowing with delight at
the possibility. "Indeed, yes. I had
such a lovely time when I visited
Aunt Helena in New Orleans. Of
course, that's a long time ago. I was
only ten then. Now, I'm twenty
two—"
Harry snickered, "That's three
years younger'n Grace, and five years
younger'n Ida, and—"
"Harry, leave the room!" cried May
crimsoning.
But Harry only winked at her and
helped himself to more toast.
"Agatha shall go if she wishes,"
said the head of the house, rising.
"Even If the change Is only from a
western suburb to the South Side, it
will do her good."
"Why, she is always well." May
lifted her brows slightly. "Aren't you.
Aggie?"
"Of course." chimed in Ida. "No
studies to tax her mind."
"No long hours of practicing,"
agreed Grace. "I'm going to my les
son now."
"My Spanish conversation class
meets at 11," said Ida rising.
"O, I'd almost forgotten my ap
pointment with the dressmaker!"
ejaculated May.
Even Harry announced that he
was "goln' flshin' with a feller," and
disappeared.
Agatha, the little brown sparrow of
the house, the Martha who "was soli
citous about many things," had been
gone ten days when old Dr. Ardell
brought a young physician home with
him to dinner. His name was a fami
liar one to the household. His fame
as the most promising young surgeon
of the city had been exploited. The
conservatism of the elder medical man
had mellowed into liberal praise when
he spoke of the intellectual power and
scientific achievements of the young
er. His welcome was assured. He
was flatteringly received by the three
young ladies and their mother. Not
one of them, however, was prepared
for his dashing presence and personal
charm. May rejoiced that her hair
, was elaborately coiffured, and her
' gown cut to show her round throat
, to advantage. Ida kept the conversa
tion scintillating and rather unintel
ligible, by her brilliant remarks made
in different foreign tongues. And af
ter dinner Grace played her noisiest
i and sang her loudest for his especial
delectation. But throughout the din
! ner and the social evening that fol
lowed, Dr. Ryder was frequently per
plexed by the reference to Agatha.
These began when his host made a
little testy remark about the soup.
"You know Agatha is not at home,"
his wife reminded him. "Shu Iways
, attended to that."
Ida spoke of having been allowed to
take a rare reference book home from
the public library on payment of a
deposit. "I might as well take it back
at once," she concluded, with a rueful
laugh. "I had forgotten Agatha WAS
not here to copy out the pages I wish
to study." Grace, turning her music
upside down to find a particular piece,
apologized for its untidy condition by
saying that when Aggie was absent
they did not know where to find
tilings. When Dr. Ryder asked about
the internal management of a certain
city hospital it was his host who re
plied: "If my youngest girl were here
she could tell you about that. She
visits there." Mrs. Ardell smilingly
protested her ignorance of a certain
book. "My sight," she said, "will not
permit me to read much. Agatha al
ways reads aloud to me." Harry ad
ded his unconsidered tribute to his
sister when Dr. Ryder had helped him
to unravel a snarl of fishing tackle
over which he was floundering.
"Jimminy!" he exclaimed. "You're
most as smart as Ag! I ain't had a
real easy time since she went away."
"Where is she?" asked Ryder, his
curiosity aroused.
"Over to Aunt Helena's, on the
South Side—De Villiers her last name
is."
"Not from New Orleans?" quickly.
"That's it. Do you know her?"
"I used to know her well, indeed,
once. I was only a boy then. I'm a
Southerner myself, you know. She was
good to me."
"She an' Ag pull it off together. The
other girls ain't got much use for her,
no more'n I," here he choked over his
joke, "have got any use for the other
girls, see?"
"Good night," said the host, shak
ing hands heartily when the hour for
farewells came. "Hope Agatha will
be back when you come next!"
But she was not there on his subse
quent visits, and he called frequently.
So frequently in fact, that May had
two new gowns in process of creation,
that Ida admitted to her own heart
that she had always admired the Sax
on style of beauty, and that Grace was
practicing the precise amount of ten
derness advisable to bestow in a single
glance when she sang a melting song.
The truth of the matter was that
Mme. de Villiers was ill, and Agatha
could not leave her.
"Of course if you need me more,
mother dear," she wrote, "I'll come
home. But she is rather dependent
on me. although there are so many
servants here. The old house is de
lightful, and the garden will be a
miracle of beauty one of these days."
No one went over to see her except
Harry. In triangular Chicago friends
who live south, north or west may
meet seldom, if ever. Harry's infor
mation concerning his visit was
meager and unsatisfactory.
"She's livin' in a rummy old palace.
She's lookin' fine— gittin' to beat you
slick, May. The lunch was a buster—
that's so. I had a boss time! Say, I
told her ahout the new feller you girls
had got!"
"Who? No? What did she say?"
"Didn't say nothin'. Jest got red
der'n alls out, an' laughed—an' laugh
ed!"
But there came a day when Mrs.
Ardell was left long to her own com
panionship, and in her loneliness a
sense of maternal jealousy smote her
with cruel pain. Agatha might grow
to care more for this aunt of hers—
she must come home at once!
Agatha came promptly.
"Well, you've improved!" May look
ed critically at the little face which
was not pretty except for its fine
teeth, clear, happy eyes, and shining
brown hair. Grace and Ida instantly
j The Chinese • At Different Times l
■: | ( I hey Attempted the 5
The history of the Chinese as invad
ers and warriors is replete with deeds
of reckless valor, as well as of keen in
tellect. When the Spanish discovered
the Philippine islands they also discov
ered that Chinamen had already invad
ed the islands and were a powerful
political and commercial factor. In 1574
I,i-Ma-Hong, a Chinese naval officer
and filibuster, arrived before Manila
with 62 ships. He made a landing, but
after 10 months of hard fighting he had
to withdraw.
Other invasions followed, but were
not successful. In 1602 over 20,000 Chi
namen had quietly settled in Manila,
and thousands were scattered over Lu
zon. In 1602 they concluded they would
take the Island and started an insur
rection, but it was not a success and
besieged her with selfish demands.!
They told her, too, about their new
and distinguished acquaintance.
"Do fix up tonight," May said. She
felt passe beside her youngest sister.
The consciousness made her irritable.
"Don't be a dowdy. He is coming.
Look as well as you can."
"I will," promised Agatha, cheer
fully.
And she did. It was not only the
charming gown of cerise foulard and
chiffon which her aunt had given her
that brought out her best points. Her
father had missed her and inferred it.
Her mother was .happy to have her
back and said so. Harry had given
her his latest slang—with a bear hug
thrown in—which was delightfully re
assuring. And even the selfish ap
peals of the girls had testified their
satisfaction in her return. Then—
there was a remembrance away back
in a corner of her heart which would
in itself have lent her demure distinc
tion.
So not even May could find fault
with her appearance when Dr. Ryder
was announced. It was really with a
reflected sense of gratification that
she duly presented him.
"I have met Dr. Ryder before," said
Agatha. But she was a poor actor.
She turned rosy red.
"Where?" asked Dr. Ardell.
"In New Orleans, twelve years ago."
It was the young physician who an
swered. "My father's garden joined
that of Mme. de Villiers. I was eight
een then—Miss Agatha much younger.
We had some beautiful times—didn't
we?"
"And this," asked Mrs. Ardell In
gentle surprise, "is your first meet
ing since?"
"Not exactly. Tell them the truth,
Agatha!"
Agatha looked up at him imploring
ly. "You do!" she entreated.
"Well, when Harry told me my old
friend lived in Chicago, and when I
learned the little girl I used to know
—whom you all missed so much —was
visiting there, I went over. Since
Mme. de Villiers has been ill I've been
attending her. Now, dear."
Agatha lifted her hand. She turned
shyly the little golden circlet 011 the
third finger until a blazing diamond
was revealed.
"Engaged!" gasped the beauty of
the family.
The mother was kissing Agatha—
her father shaking Ryder's hand.
"And she only speaks English!"
panted Ida to Grace.
"And does not sing or play!" came
a horrified whisper in return. Harry's
ecstatic convulsions would have earn
ed him the title of "The Human Jack
knife."
"Bully!" he cried. "I'll go live with
you, Ag. Gee—whiz!"— Chicago Tri
bune.
SOLVING A PROBLEM.
Gorutuuy'M Treatment of TraiupH In IIer
A Described.
Why do we never see a tramp in
Germany? There are poor people
enough and many must he out of a
job now and then. Yet Germany is
a nation without tramps. Is America
a poorer country, that we count our
tramps by the tens of thousands? I
once visited a so-called "tramp colony"
near Bielefeld. Westphalia, guided by
an expert In such matters, Dr. Hinz
peter, who was for many years tutor
to the emperor. Here I was told the
secret of tramp extermination. Ger
many allows no man to prowl about
the country without giving an account
of himseir. If he is looking for work
he must make it clear that he has
means of support during his search. If
lie has no means of support the gov
ernment offers him these means, but
on the important condition that he
works In return. The government thus
relieves the tramp, but sees to It that
the particular individual does a job by
way of equivalent. Now, if that
tramp is an honest man he will be
grateful for the opportunity of tiding
over his hard times and earning some
thing into the bargain. On the other
hand, if the tramp is merely a loafer,
intent upon living at the expense of
his fellows, the government gives him
such a taste of work that in the future
tramping will have vastly less charms
for him.—The Independent.
Inutructlou to Cnmpers.
To prevent the destruction of the
vast area of forest land In the north
ern part of Ontario the Canadian gov
ernment has Issued a card of Instruc
tion to campers, telling how and
where to build fires and how to pre
vent damage, an ounce of prevention
being apparently properly valued in
that region.
nearly every one of thein was killed.
By 16.19 the island was again full of
Chinamen, and another attempt was
made to throw out the Spaniards. This
war lasted only six months, and, owing
to the failure of reinforcements to ar
rive on time, over 50,000 Chinamen
lost their lives, and, of course, the re
bellion was a failure. In 1662 a Chinese
fleet appeared before Manila and de
manded tribute. In 1762 England cap
tured Manila, but the success of the
undertaking was largely due to her
Chinese allies. Not only in Luzon, but
in nearly all the islands of the archi
pelago, may be found records of efforts
of Chinamen to make conquests of the
country. In every instance they failed
because their forces were outnumbered,
but their persistency shows them to be
made of no weak stuff.
WHERE DOES THE SUN'S HEAT CO?
Cun Energy He Completely Dissipated In
Tills Universe?
According to the ordinary view the
sun is constantly radiating heat in all
directions, and, I think, it is gener
ally supposed that only a small por
tion of this heat encounters material
bodies.at any distance, however great.
If so, the question arises, What be
comes of the residue? Physical re
search lends us to believe that heat
cannot be destroyed, but only trans
formed; yet many persons seem to
think that this lient vanishes like a
ghost without transformation and
without producing any effect. This
may be so, but It is so much opposed
to physical analogies that we should
be slow to accept it unless on the ba
sis of definite observations which, 1
tliluk, it will be admitted are not at
present forthcoming.
Nor can we confine the question to
the sun. The loss of radiant heat
must (on the theory which I am now
considering) extend to all the stars.
A larger portion of tlie heat of some
of them is no doubt intercepted by
other bodies, but some of it must es
cape—vanish. The whole universe is
losing heat; or at least it is losing
motion, for the supply of heat may be
temporarily kept up by the conversion
of motion Into heat (as, for example,
by a bombardment of meteorites),
lint that a good part of the radiant
beat vanishes, thus lessening the total
amount of force—of heat and its equiv
alents—in the universe, seems to be a
common opinion. This theory, how
ever (for of course everything on the
subject is theory), will strike many of
your readers as unsatisfactory for
physical, not metaphysical or theolog
ical reasons. But if this heat be not
lost, what becomes of It?
If the sun's rays and those of the
stars always met with some material
body, however great its distance
might be, the problem would be
solved; there would be no loss of heat
to the universe. The sun may at pres
ent be radiating more than it receives,
and, consequently, cooling; but in
traveling through space it may reach
other regions in which these condi
tions will be reversed. But it seems
plain that If this be the case, the
greater part of the bodies which en
counter the solar heat are dark bodies,
or else that there is an absorption of
light in passing through the ether.
Such an absorption of light and heat
by the other—as maintained, I believe,
by the great observer Struve—would
equally solve the problem; for the
light and heat tints absorbed could
not bo lost, and would probably be
given back by the ether to material
bodies in some manner not yet traced.
Otherwise, it wonld change the prop
erties of the ether.
A third possible alternative is that
radiation, like gravitation, only acts
between material bodies, and that,
though, like gravitation, it acts on a
material body in any direction and fol
lows it in all its movements, there is
no expenditure of force in the direc
tions in which no material body is en
countered. On this theory also there
would be no loss of heat. There
would only be an interchange of the
same kind as if every heat ray ulti
mately encountered a material body.
—W. 11. S. Monck, in Knowledge.
Mulr Glacier Not Destroyed.
"The tales of the complete destruc
tion of the great Muir glacier in
Alaska are absolutely without foun
dation," said A. 0. Hewitt, who has
returned to Minneapolis from the Ter
ritory.
"There can be no doubt that an
enrtliquake or an upheaval of some
sort did visit the glacier, for linge ice
bergs have been torn from It and are
now banked up in the sound about it,
making navigation impossible within
four or live miles of the deposit. The
glacier was distinctly visible through
our glasses, and It appears to be fully
us large as ever, with the main portion
intact. This is the fourth trip I have
made to the Muir. and were there any
great change in its magnitude or shape
I Would notice it at once.
"From an artistic standpoint the
shaking up has improved the glacier.
Heretofore the ice itself has invaria
bly been hidden beneath the snowlike
deposit, but now the mass stands out
like an enormous diamond, reflecting
every shade of the seas and heavens
from its brilliant sides. It will re
quire more than an earthquake to in
terfere with the domestic economy of
the great Muir glacier." New York
Times.
Spanlnrds In Florida.
Florida was originally settled by the
Spaniards, and in the same way that
tlie Old Swedes' Church in Delaware
recalls its pioneer settlers and French
names in Wisconsin recall tlie French
settlement of that State, St. Augus
tine, Tampa, Fernandiua and other
Spanish geographical names recall
tin- fact iluit the Peninsula State was
under Spanish rule for a great number
of years. But there are not many
Spaniards in Florida. The last census
returned the number of such as 118!)
only, a very small total when one con
siders the proximity of Florida to the
former Spanish possessions in the
West Indies. There are, of course', a
grefit many Cubans in Florida, par
ticularly in and about Key West, but
their presence there was in no wise
due to the Spanish traditions of Flor
ida; on the contrary, many, if not
most, of the Key West Cubans went
there as refugees from Spanish mis
government in their own country.
Very Delicate Machinery.
Machines in a watch factory will cut
screws with 581) threads to an inch.
These threads are invisible to the
naked eye, and It takes 144,000 screws
to make a pound. A pound of them is
worth six pounds weight of pure gold.
A MUSICIAN OF NOTE.
Miss Ethel Harraden, better known
in private life as Mrs. Frank Glover,
is a musician who has achieved much
distinction as the composer of a num
ber of tuneful melodies. Less well
known than her sister. Miss Beatrice
Harraden, the author of "Ships That
Pass in the Night," she is equally
clever in her particular bent. Miss
Harraden began composing at the
tender age of 5, and was only 7 when
her first composition was published.
Speaking recently of her work, Miss
Harraden said: "Amongst my most
successful songs have been 'lf ar.
Your Window, Love' and 'As We Love
Today,' the poetry of both these be
ing by Mr. Robert Hichens; a setting
of Longfellow's 'Rainy Day,' for
which I gained the ten-guinea prize;
also a setting of Longfellow's words,
'Ships that pass in the night,' which
MRS. FRANK GLOVER,
words gave my sister Beatrice the title
of her world-famed boon; and' Sweet
Amabel,' words by my sister Ger
trude. A little one-act operetta, 'His
Last Chance,' libretto by my brother
Hubert, and music by me, was played
it the Gaiety theater for nine months;
and it is still a favorite amongst ama
teurs, and is frequently being per
formed. At the London exhibitions,
held at Earl's court in 1897, I was
invited to send on loan to the section,
of the 'Women's Work of the Victor
ian Era' an original manuscript of a
song and orchestral piece."
LABOURCHE ON COCKFIGHTS.
IVhy He Despises It Is Very Plain to b
There is no word so often misapplied
as "sportsman," says London Truth
A man who owns a racehorse Is called
one, although he may never have rid
den a horse in his life. A man whe
backs one man to pummel another,
who knows the rules of the prize ring,
Is called one. And now Mr. Herbert
Vivian aspires to become one of the
fraternity by reviving the noble sport
of cock-fighting. It Is evident, how
ever, that he is not aware of the law
A cock is held to be a domestic animal,
and he would bring himself under the
cruelty to animals act of 1849. But
he would also come under the clause
in that act that imposes a penalty o(
£5 on any one who keeps, uses, or acts
in the management of any place for
the purpose of baiting any bull, bear,
badger, dog, cock, or any other kind
ot animrl, whether of domestic or wild
nature, or shall permit any such place
to be used as aforesaid. Under this
clause there have been a good many
convictions, and it has, moreover, been
held that any one who encourages or
assists at a cock-fight is liable to im
prisonment for cruelty to animals. 1
saw a cockfight nearly fifty years ago
In Mexico, and it seemed a very brutal
performance. The then president was
an ardent supporter of cock-fighting,
and he was byway of owning the best
cocks in the country. He invited me to
go with him to see a fight. Every man
was betting, and his excellency covered
all stakes set against his cocks. 1
lost above £IOO to him myself.
The Italian government is so im
pressed by the. recent terrible railway
collision near Rome that it is taking
steps for the holding at Rome next
spring of an exhibition of appliances
and inventions for preventing railway
collisions.
ftfhere to Locate?
WHY. IN THE TERRITORY
TRAVERSED BY THE
Louisville
4 "d Nashville
Railroad,
—THE-
Great Central Southern Trunk Line, K
KENTLCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA,
MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA,
WHERE
Farmers, Fruit Growers,
Stock Kaisers. Manufacturers,
Investors. Speculators
and Money Lenders
will And tlie? greatest chances in the United
States to make "big money" by reason of the
abundance and cheapness of
Lund and Farms,
Timber and Stone,
iron and Coal,
Labor—Everything.
Free sites, financial assistance, and free
dom from taxation for tho manufacturer.
Land and farms at SI.OO ner acre and up
wards, and 500,000 acres In West Florida that
can bo taken gratis under the U. S. Home
stead laws.
Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District
will make enormous proiits.
Half fare excursions the first and third
Tuesdays f each month.
Let us know what you want, and we will
tell you where and how to get It—but don't
delay, as tlie country is filling up rapidly.
Printed matter, maps and all Information
frea. Address
R. 4 WEMYSS,
Qanaraf Immigration and Industrial Agtal
Lou svllle. Ky _. -