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The statement that popper is an elix ir of life is much strengthened by the fact that in Mexico, where pepper is the main condiment, people more than frequently live to be 110 to 120 years | old. The great objection, however, | to the elixir is that the people while alive have not much life in them. • 5 Australian papers are offering prizes for the best designs for a national flag to commemorate the new era in augurated by the Commonwealth. The most valuable is a check for $2."0, of fered by the Australian Review of Re views, and in this competition the six Australian Premiers are to be the , judges. It is evident that the fast selling books of no particular literary merit, but with the elements of popularity, have changed the standards of ac ceptance in the leading publishing houses. Most of the new novels that are being put 011 the ma rice t now could not have secured a second reading two years ago. They are simply the pub lishers' dice, thrown in the hope that a luck number will be turned. The New York Sun tells a good story illustrative of the effect of American labor-saving machinery. An agent coming into the London office of the concern by which he was employed was asked how the farmers were tak ing to a certain field machine. "I can best tell you," he replied, "by saying that while last year as a rule I sat on the fence watching twenty men do a piece of work, this year it was the twenty men who sat on the fence watching me do it." Could he have put it more graphically? The extent to which the forests have been denuded of timber in recent years has caused thoughtful persons considerable anxiety as to where the woodpttlp necessary for the manufac ture of printing paper is to come from a few years hence. Consequently the news that printing paper can be made from the cotton fibre will be hailed With interest. The Atlanta correspond ent of the New York Evening Post states that a large factory will soon be? established in that city for the manufacture of printing paper from cotton. The project, if successful, will not only lower the price of printing paper, but will prove a great boon to the South by opening up a r. ?v* de maud for its staple product, Englihlmieii and tliu Queen. Curiously enough the great mass of Englishmen knew little or nothing of the sovereign as their ruler. They had only the vaguest idea of the part she took In the government of her realm and her people; they knew prac tically nothing of the controlling and dominant force she exercised in inter national and domestic politics. But about this they cared nothing. It waa sufficient for them to know that she was a good woman, a woman whose heart always went out to her people, who shared with them their joys as well as their sorrows, who was keenly interested in everything that could make them better and happier. And perhaps more than anything else was the knowledge that she was a woman who had suffered much, whose heart had been sorely wrenched, and whoso spirit often tried, and yet through it all she had remained serene, hopeful, al ways an example for right living, al ways an inspiration to the weary and the afflicted. Perhaps that was the real secret, of tlie devotion which she inspired in Englishmen the world over. —A. Maurice Low, in Harper's Week ly. More than a million people are treated in the hospitals of London each year. Of the 080 cotton mills in the South, Texas has 17, Kentucky 7 and Arkan sas 4. 'l'lio number of libraries endowed by Mr. Carnegie is now 80. TO AN OLD CLOCK. BT JAM KB JEFFREY ROCHE, Old clock, if you've come here to give ad vice About Time's flight. And think to scare us with your wheels think twice— Go slow to-night. Dull preacher of one dreary, weary creed s By Death inspired, xhc limits of our patience you exceed And make us tired. No need for you to tell the lapse of life With tick and chime. Who made you Umpire, bidding us to strife, . y calling "Time?" You stand there, like a Pharisee 01* yore, Proclaiming grace, With two admonitory hands before Your smug, flat face. Although you know the time 0? day at home, I A FIRING LINE MYSTERY, g Sftg m Life Secret of Young Bond, Whose Lips a Bullet Sealed. 1"T HE Kansas man laid served with Funston in the Philip pines, had returned safely, had been a town hero for a month or so, and then went on the stump ,in the campaign. Several of the campaign orators met. for a Sun-1 day in a Western hotel where their j roads crossed in their journeys to as- | siguinents, and were comparing notes. ; The man who had served with Funs- \ ton gradually assumed command of ■ the conversation, and the talk drifted ] from a discussion of the question why 1 men rushed to serve in the Philippine | campaign to one of the problems why men, in many eases, unexpectedly, show not only rare bravery but down right recklessness in battle. The Kan sas man, for whom the name Max well will do so far as this article is concerned, said: "As 1 was saying, we found men out there who had been wild, and whose parents were glad to see them enter the army; we found men who had been crossed in love; we found men 1 who had been a failure in life, even if they were mere youths; we found ; many daredevils, and, curiously enough, most of them were cautious 011 the firing line, we found some who had pasts that they wanted forgotten; we found some under assumed names, for one reason or another; we found the usual number of bullies, braggarts and bluffers, and being once under fire was the cure for them. But all these made up a very small number in comparison with those who had enlist ed for love of country, with perhaps a desire for adventure thrown in. "But of all the curious characters I came across the strangest was a man named Bond. He was silent as to his past; he made few friends; there was a glitter in his eye if we were in dan ger which was positively magnetic, and we came gradually to respect his reserve and to be proud of him. There was one man in our company, how ever, whose propensity for nosing into others' affairs was especially marked, and who, it was plain to he seen, was offensive to Bond. The name of Pe ters will do for this inquisitive man. He was a good fellow, and meant noth ing more than friendly interest when he was poking around to find out all about his companions, and we learned at last to overlook his weakness—all but Bond. It was evident that Bond was desirous of curing Peters or of punishing liim for his offensive beha vior. Bond gradually became reckless on the firing line. Any one could see it was not assumed, but was genuine, and this conduct deepened the mys tery as to his past and made Peters the more zealous to find out all about hiin. "One day Bond fell with a wound. Peters carried him to the rear, cared for him, stayed by hint as long as he could, did everything that could be done under the circumstances, like of fering to write home, and all that sort of thing, lie was apparently sizing up his chances of living. He was also thinking whether it was worth while to forgive Peters for the past or to give him a thrust he would never for get. It was about midnight that Pe ters returned to his place with us, and the next morning ho had a story to tell to three of us in whom he con fided." Maxwell paused and, just as his hearers were becoming uneasy, he said this was the story Peters had related: "Boys, we've got a murderer among us, not only a murderer, but the worst kind of a one, a man who killed his father, and who, if it were proved against him. would, up to this time, have preluded that it was an acci dent. He's Bond. It explains why he lias been so reckless lately; lie wanted to be kille.i Matter of conscience, you see. He whispered it all to me, asked me to write home, saying that he was dead and h. I passed away forgiving every one and revealing 1 lie secret. Ills name isn't Bond, hut I'm under pledge not to tell what it is. lie asked me to write without waiting for him to die actually, and he wanted me to get him reported dead so that it would be cabled home*, said his friends would recognize him under the assumed name. It's n. mighty sad story. "Bond told me that he cume from Ohio. His father was a bank presi dent and was found murdered in the bank vauit two years ago. Robbers had killed him and uiuuc their escape, j lie had evidently surprised them. Young Bond was the real murderer. He was just under twenty-one. He had been stealing from his father's private h siness for more than a year so as to keep on gambling with a fast set of young fellows whom a sharper got together regu'wly and was plun dering right, along. Ou Bond's twen- Beware mistakes: It's yesterday in China now. In ltome To-morrow breaks. And somewhere off in Mars or Mercury, no doubt, If it could speak For us to hear, some clock to-night bawls out, " 'Tis Tuesday week!" While one on t'other side of space (may be You'll call it slow) Is marking time at "half-past twenty three Six weeks ago!" So don't get gay with humble sons of men, As some clocks do; One day your wheels will slacken up, and then Good-Night to you! —Saturday Evening Post ty-first birthday there had to be a set tlem u\ of the books, for his father in tended to take him into business part nership. Bond bad to have no less than JjioOt'O to make good his stealings. There was no other way left to him than to steal it. H■ knew all about t'ie bank, the combinations to the locks, the ways of the watchman aud all that, and lie had studied up kuoek out drops. lie left som liquor that had been doctored with drugs for the watchman to drink, knowing tHo man's weakness, and tne rest was easy. He entered the bank from the rear stealthily, having made sure that the watchman was unconscious, had just got iuto the inner vault, when he heard a noise and saw a dim light in the outer room. He know it could not be the watchman, and at once raised his revolver for action and crouched to one side. Then he heard a voice, saying: 'My God, I must have killed him. I didn't know it was so power ful. Wake up, Mike!" "There was uo response, and Bond says lie recognized the voice as that of his father just in time, for he intended to shoot and escape in a rush if possi ble. Then Bond became conscious of his own danger. His father might shoot liim. The father soon saw the open doors of the vault. 'What, does this mean?' lie said. 'Mike, you didn't do this; you couldn't! Who is there? Speak, or I'll shoot. Quick!' Then it was that Bond saw he liad no show and lie shouted to his father not to shoot, and revealed liis own identity. "Then there followed a strange scene In that bank vault. Then* were tin' father, the son and the unconscious watchman together in the early hours of the morning. 'What does this mean, son?' said the father, sternly. 'Has it come to this—my son a bank roL be*?* Young Bond said lie was game, and lie replied: 'What are you doing here? Are you a bank robber your self? Who put Mike iu this condi tion?' You see lie had overheard his lather make that exclamation about Mike, and lie took chances. 'Explain your position on the inside of that vault,' said the father. 'Explain what you said about not knowing that some thing was so powerful when you saw Mike,' said the son. And then the father broke down completely and the son went to pieces, and each, thinking that Mike was about to die, confessed Hi" other. The father had been speculating in the Eastern markets, liad used up a lot of trust funds in his charge, and the ouly way for liim to get out was to rob his own bunk. He liad also left some knock-out drops for the watchman, and it was the com bined dose tlint made father and son think that the man would die. The son owned up to the father, and then followed a discussion as to what was best to be done. "They agreed that the bank must lie robbed; that was th( Ir only salvation. They agreed also that it would lie best for one of them to appear to be de fending the bauk's treasure. It was finally decided that it would be best for the son to wound the father slight ly in the side, take enough money to suit their purposes and leave liis fath er there to be discovered in the morn ing. The old man said lie was so des perate that lie would take chances, and he would tell a story about feeling uneasy in liis dreams as to the condi tion of affairs at the bank and of get ling iij) in the niglit and going down there to see if all was right, of en countering a robber or set of robbers, of having a mighty struggle with tlieni, eliding, so far as lie could recol lect, witli a revolver shot which made him unconscious. He had 110 fear as lo Mike. If Mike recovered lie would be so ashamed of being drunk that lie would invent some story of being gagged, especially as father and son had arranged to bind him with a gag and lie bis bands. "Then father and son planned tlio details of tlic shooting, disarranged the farniiure, bound and gagged the watchman, took the money and broke 1 lie locks, and the father lay down ai\er tcaiiug his clothing and had tlie sun give liim what lie supposed was only a slight flesh wound iu the side, i The old mail was full of nerve, and after the shooting was over hurried the son away and told liim how to act when the discovery was made in the morning. They liad wounded the watchman, also. "Bond says lie went homo and to bed and acted liis part thoroughly when they roused hiiu to tell him of the dreadful acident to liis father. It turned out really to be r dreadful af fair, for both the father aud the watchman were found dead and the bank robbed. Young Bond says be made good his gambling debts aud eu listed In the army so as to get awaj from the storm that arose when it wai found that his father was insolvent It soon became the general theory in the town that the elder Bond had gone there to rob the bank, and had been killed by r real bank robber, and there were those who thought they could remember the uraet looks of certain mysterious strangers that had been seen about town. "Bond's conscience coulfc. fctnud it no longer, he says, and he went ti> Kan sas and enlisted and came out heve hoping secretly that he would be killed, for he had not the courage to commit suicide. He wanted me to write to his relatives clearing up the entire mystery, and telling them that he had expiated his crime. The one thing I can't understand," said Feters in telling the story, "is why he wants me to write all this before he dies. He must have a dreadful conscience. He said to me: T am wounded exactly in the place in which my father was wounded when I shot him. I know I can't live. Just tell the truth about me, and make sure that the boys will not despise me too much. I have done my duty by them and by the flag,' says he. I broke down and wept, I'll admit, and I'm prepared to say there's no living soul but has some good in them. And then there's the duty of deciding what's to be done if Bond recovers. Ought we to give him away? I say no.' According to Maxwell the bugles just then blew for a forward movement, and soon all were lying on the firing line shooting at the Filipinos. Max well made another awkward pause, and one of his auditors said: "Well, I suppose Bond really died and you fellows did the right thing by him even in death." "Die?" said Maxwell. "Great Scott, no! At least, not then. Less than two hours after Peters had told that story Bond came stealing up to the tiring line, and there he lay next to ine all day working like a demon. 4 1 thought you were dying,' I said to him. •Thunder, no,' he replied. Tt was only a little wound. Scarcely bled at all. When Peters wasn't around the doc tor told me it amounted to nothing, but urged me to stay in the rear for the night. This morning he put a lit tle plaster on the broken skin, and here I am again. Did Peters tell you a long story about my mysterious past? Did. eh? I thought so. I told him that yarn purposely. I thought it about time to call him off and make him a laughing stock. Pretty good story, wasn't it? Any truth in it. Thunder, no. I knew I was not hurt. Even if Bond shouldn't happen to be my real name, there's no occasion for getting up such a yarn as that. What's that? Am I hurt? Yes, old man, 1 guess I am.' "I saw that he had been wounded seriously this time. I supported his head 011 my knee, gave him a drink of water, his eyes became fixed and be tween his gasps 110 said to me: " 'Maxwell, I guess you had better tell Peters to write that story home, after all, just as I told it to him. I thought I was dying or near to it last night when I talked to him. I'm— going—now. Be—sure—to—tell—him— to—wri '" "Was he really a murderer and bank robber?" asked one of Maxwell's lis teners. "The army records do not show that lie was," was the response.—New York Sun. New System of Electric Hunting. A new system of electric heat is upon the market. It consists of an electric heater and a blower. The mo tor is of the standard fan type, and is secured to a conical metal case. There is an intake for air at the back. The heater consists of clay tubes wound with fine German silver wire and cov ered witli an insulating coat of enam el. The tubes are arranged radially and the fan and the heater are both closed iu by a metallic casing. The heater can draw air from without the room or car, or in cold weather can operate, using the air in the room or car. Two of these heaters will, it is said, heat a forty-foot car to the prop er temperature. Iu the ordinary sys tem some of the persons in the cars are uncomfortably warm, while oth ers are cold, but with the fan distribu tion the heat is positively distributed. The fan will also prove useful in school buildings, on ships and war vessels. It will be specially valuable when vessels are out of commission where it is desired to both warm and move the air.—Scientific American. Seeking; Indian ItriduH. Letters from points beyond the In dian Territory from parties seeking Indian brides continue to be received by the officials at Muskegee, Ind. Ter. '1 ae latest was received by Postmaster 11. T. Estes, from Oaks, N. D., an. I | was accompanied by a photograph. Ic | said: j "The inclosed photograph is one of a locomotive engine man, bachelor, ! thirty-four years, weight 190 pounds. ' Physical condition perfect. Will go I before any board of medical examin ers. At present employed on one of 1 he largest systems in the Northwest. Ilave been through the country tome years ago. Can you put me in com munication with some good Indian girl? One with some education pre- I I'erred."—Dallas (Tex.) News. 44 Little Lord Fauntleroy" a Reporter. A Washington special to the New York Times says the original "Little Lord Fauntleroy" is now a Congres sional newspaper reporter. He Is Lionel, the oldest sou of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. As a member of the staff of a Washington paper he made his appearance in the press gal lery of the Senate, seeking items. He looks plain and businesslike, and not at all as it would seem Little Lord Fauntleroy might look as a young man of twenty or thereabouts. PROGRESS OF TIIE HEN DEVELOPMENT OF THE POULTRY BUSINESS IN THIS COUNTRY. i\s a Weal til Producer the Amerlcnn TTen Is n lUarvel The Standard of Per fection The Green Duck Huslnegs it* Prosperous—The Pigeon Fanciers. Official census figures will show that as a wealth-producer the Ameri can lieu Is a marvel, says the Chicago Record. As an illustration of the earning power of this autocrat of the barnyard it will ho well to quote from Missouri, the foremost State in (he in dustry. The report of the Bureau of Statistics for the last fiscal year shows that the total number of pounds of poultry, live and dressed, shipped from the 114 counties of that State were 100,088,710 pounds, an increase of 30,- 007,443 pounds over the preceding year. The total number of dozens of eggs shipped from there last year were 34,875,040, making an aggregate value to the producers of poultry and eggs of $12,001,048.54. The relative impor tance ef the poultry industry of that State, as compared with the other in dustries, will be better understood wlieu It Is shown that the total value of all corn, wheat, oats, flax, timothy seed, clover seed, millet seed, cane seed, castor beans, cotton seed, to bacco, broom corn, hay and straw, which was shipped by all the counties in that State last year did not equal the values of the poultry and eggs shipped during the same time by over $17,000. The American Standard of Perfec tion, as drafted and copyrighted by the American Poultry Association, contains the names of 115 various fowls, 114 of which are due to the de velopment of man. Nature made oue —a comely, wild thing which made Its home in the jungle along with the rest of primeval creation. It is a long call from this ancient fowl of ungainly proportions to the lordly I.angshau or the massive Cochin of the present day, but the ancestry is certain. The rela tion can be traced back further than the time of Christian era. Europe, Asia and America have all contributed to the development of the poultry and the many and varied strains that nov- exist arc the result of centuries of improvement. Eng land and America have been foremost In the work, however, and the results accomplished by the fanciers of these two countries in recent years have been nothing short of remarkable. By intelligent breeding these fanciers have produced fowls of all sizes from the diminutive bantam to the mam moth bronze turkey; one a tiny hit of feathered vanity weighing only a few ounces—so small, in fact, that it can be entirely covered by a pint cup and the other a bulky fowl weighing from forty to sixty pounds—as much as a half-grown boy. Results equally as wonderful have been accomplished in color effects. We have fowls fealhcred in every natural color. There are va rieties In red, black, brown and white, with nearly all possible combinations, besides buff and Auduiusiau blue. Not content with this the fanciers have shown that they can lace, stripe, span gle or bar tile feathers of their birds in any way to satisfy their individual fancy. In fact, it seems that about all there Is left for them (o do along tllls line is to put their iuitiuls ou the feathers of their birds. The successful fancier breeds for beauty and utility combined. If be de sires to create a new strain be must be an imaginative soul. He must erect in bis mind's eye an ideal fowl and then persevere in bis endeavor to pro duce one like it. He jots down a de scription of this visionary bird from beak to toe nail. If he prefers to go by the standard be will find that very exacting; every detail is looked to scrupulously; length and color of comb, arch of neck, length and breadth of back, length and color of legs, design and color of plumage, etc. Having decided upon an ideal he mates his birds and starts his strain, picking from each brood the most per fect specimens and gradually working toward this ideal through generation after generation. It is a sort of part nership arrangement with nature, as it were. It requires much time and patience to breed 11 line up to anything ap proaching perfection, but once attained the reward is well worthy of the effort. Single birds have sold in this country for as much as ¥3OO, while in England 51000 has been paid for single speci mens. The breeder does not depend altogether upon fancy prices for indi vidual birds, however, for his returns, lie profits by the increased produc tiveness of his flocks. For instance, in the matter of egg laying, it may be cited that the average American lieu lays about 100 eggs per year. The practical poultryman goes in for bet ter results and gets them. Numerous instances show whole flocks with an average of floo to the hen par year—an increase of 100 per cent. The "green-duck" industry forms an other important branch of the poultry business. "Green ducks" mean impe rial Peking, which were originally im ported from China, and they are raised by the thousands and tens of thousands by artificial means, fed scientifically and marketed when they are from eight to ten weeks old. This Is just before they molt their first coat of feathers, at which time they weigh from eight to ten pounds per pair. Some of them arc feu upon celery seed to give their meat the flavor of the famous Southern canvasbacks, and so successfully that the difference can not be detected. Separate duck ranches 011 Long Island, Ilarrlsburg, Penn.; Trenton, N. J.; Dallas, Penn., and elsewhere produce annually from March 1 to August I from 20,000 to 30.000 "green ducks." marketing them principally in New Pork and Boston. This Industry is also well developed in New England, particularly in East ern Massachusetts, where there are several ranches that produce from 20,- 000 to 23,000 ducks annually; two of the largest being located at South Eas ton and Wreutham. But Long Island leads, Spoenk being the centre of the greatest annual production. Fully 100,000 "green ducks" are grown each season within a few miles of this little village. The three most prominent members of thq large poultry family in this country are the Leghorns, the Wynn dottes and the Plymouth Rocks. The Leghorns are the eggtype. They are long in body, light in weight and very active. Their average frequently runs as high as 200 eggs per year to the lieu. The Wyandottes are strictly an American production. They are short in body, plump, round and heavier than Leghorns. They have full breast development, have yellow legs and skin and consequently show up well when dressed. Their meat is tender, has flue grain and good flavor, and they are the ideal table fowl, either as broilers, weighing from one-half pound to a pound and a half, or as roasters, weighing from three to five pounds. The Plymouth Rocks are very similar to the Wyandottes except their bodies are longer and they will weigh a pound more at maturity. The Barred Plymouth Hock is the great American all-purpose bird; the kind the farmer, the fancier and all swear by. The Wyandotte is a later breed, and is fast growing in popularity, cs- I pecially with breeders, but the old I stand-byes, the Barred Rocks, will doubtless hold their supremacy for many years. Tho pigeon fanciers have kept pace with the poultry men, and the results they have met with are -wonderful. They have given us the gorgeous fan tail, a little bird with a tail big enough to almost tilt its little body out of kil ter. In the case of the fantail the fanciers have simply bred to a deform ity. The improved strain is simply a line-bred monstrosity. Some fellow found a pigeon in his Hock with a tail leather turned the wrong way. He got. the idea that a bird with all its tail feathers turned the wrong way would be a good thing, so he sought a mate for his freak, paired them, and the fantail was soon with us. Along comes another fellow who thought he would like to see a pair with two rows of feathers turned the wrong way. We now have them with three rows, and the end seems afar off. These fantalls have all the vanity of Solo mon. In their coops they droop about with very little show of life, but when taken out they immediately spread their ample fans and strut about as pompous as you please. When placed in front of a mirror the big show takes place. They try to outdo the image in the glass, and the competition is some thing laughable. As a close second to the fantail in the way of a wonder comes the tum bler. There are two kinds, Indoor and outdoor tumblers. The parlor per formers will turn somersaults for you in the most artistic manner possible. The outdoor species will sail up in riio air several hundred feet and then fall suddenly downward, turning over and over as they come down. They right themselves before they reach the ground, soar skyward again and perform the same astonishing gy rations until you tire of the perform ance. The explanation of the tumbler is simple. The breeder found a crazy bird, a little fowl with an insane de sire to turn over continuously. Ho bred tho freak and brought forth the clever tumbler. The Meteoric Theory. The discovery that all the great in terstellar spaces are full of planetary and meteoric life, forming all man ner of subordinate planetary systems, led to the new theory, advocated first by Professor Tnit, the English scien tist. that the entire universe Is of me teoric origin. This startling theory is to the effect that all the suns and moons and planets came from the ag gregation of solid particles brought to gether by I be force of gravitation, the action of tills force producing beat, in candescence and sometimes vaporiza tion. This one great conception serves (o explain all hitherto unexplained phenomena and implies n conception of the cosmos which makes the nebu lar hypothesis as to the origin of mat ter seem weak and insignilicaut. "Uoba" and tlio linn-Boy. A pretty story is told of Karl Rob erts and a bun boy in the employ of the refreshment contractors at Ba singstoke Station. As the train con veying Earl Roberts to Loudon drew up in Basingstoke Station the little bun-boy rushed eagerly forward to see the distinguished General, but was roughly repulsed by one of the railway officials. The incident, however, did not escape the kindly eyes of "Bobs." Noticing the look of deep disappoint ment on the lad's face, Earl Roberts called to him, bought one of his buns, and gave him a penny for himself.— London Mail. The Molecular Theory. The nature of gases was never un derstood until it was discovered that they are formed of molecules which are in a state of very rapid motion in all directions. These molecules are far apart, frequently come together and rebound without loss of energy. At ordinary temperatures a cubic inch of gas contains some hundred trillion molecules. The importance of this theory is tho conclusion drawn from it that heat is the equivalent of these millions of molecules in motion and cold the equivalent of the cessation of motion. This is now one of the elements of physics. Paris Scavengers. Paris has 14!) brigades of scavengers ! n all 2000 men and 000 women.
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