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LIMITATION. ' Taf all phfloeophf may teach. Only ao far can knowledge reach. All that we know, from breath to breath, - Is Life and its great question Deatb. Frank D. Sherman in Llpplneott's. PASTE OK DIAMOND? "Tea, it belonged to poor Turenne,' said Wy&e as be palled the ring from kis finger and banded it to ns for in spection.' "He left it to me by bis will, nd I keep it in memory of one of the best actors and one of the best men I ver knew." Meanwhile the ring was passing from hand to hand, and the universal verdict was that none of ns had ever seen a finer stone. "Turenne was rather a wealthy man," ' eaid one of oar little circle, "bat I - didn't think he could have afforded or - wofeld have cared to spend so mncb money on an ornament as that ring most bare cost." - "He wanted it for some special pur pose which afterward fell through, " re joined Wyse. "I know all about it, for I bought it for him myself. I had quite a little adventure on the occasion." "Tell as the story," we cried. "Well," said Wyse, taking a pnll at bis cigaT and settling himself hack in bis chair, "it is a good many years ago now. I was playing high comedy char acters at the old Princess, and as I bad been working very hard I set off for the south of France as soon as the season closed. It happened that Turenne, who had proved himself a true friend to me, wanted a good diamond for a purpose I needn't trouble yon with, and before I set oat on my travels I told him that if I met with a particularly fine one at a mederate price I would buy it for him, nd be, being too bny at the time to at tend to the matter himself, gladly con sented. I was staying at Nice when there came to the hotel one of those tall, . loquacious Americans who are now so plentiful all over Europe. There seemed to be nothing objectionable about the man, except that he was vulgar and eternally talking about the United States. "On the evening after bis arrival a few of ns happened to be sitting iu the billiard room, and by Borne chance or Other the conversation turned on the rabject of diamonds. I don't know much about the busi ness myself,' said the American, 'but 1'ta told by good judges that tbar's about as good a stone as you'll seo in a day's round. ' "So saying he drew a ring from his linger and banded it to me, who hap pened to sit next him. It was indeed a magnificent brilliant, set in a ring of a peculiar pattern. When the lamp was removed, it seemed to gather into itself tbe light oat of the sewidarkness and 'glittered like a bit of broken glass in the sunshfne. ' What is it worth?' asked iate of the men present. 'That I can hardly tell you,' an swered tbe American, 'seein a friend at ftoenos sent it to me direct, and I bad It ont myself. Bat I'm tired of it and ejdom wear it.' ,. 'Would yoa sell it?' I inquired out -Of cariosity. 'I might,' answered the American, especially as this European trip is clean la me oat faster than I expected, and I don't want to go. home to Vermont skinned as neatly as a cod. Yes, yoa way bare that diamond for 80 of your ' money, stranger, and dirt cheap at that, 1 should say.' "I looked at the stone again, and tbe longer I looked at it the more I liked 31 Eighty pounds was quite as much as my mend wished to pay for a stone, bat what if I conld get one for him Worth 100 for 80? R 'Will yoa trade?' he asked. 'I am not a judge of diamonds my self, said I, returning tbe stone to its owner. 'I'm afraid I couldn't bay with out taking a lapidary's opinion as to its aloe.' " 'All right,' said the American care lessly; 'if. you care to hev it, we can go round to a jeweler's in the mornin. And If be puts a lower value on the Stone than I did yoa can hev it at the price be names, if yoa like to bay. I - can't say fairer than that.' "The offer did indeed seem a very fair one, and I went to bed that nigbt deter mined to secure the jewel for my friend If the expert reported favorably on it. '.'Next morning the American and I strolled down to the shop of the chief Jeweler of the town, and when we en- footing by purchasing some trifle, and then taking the ring from the band of 1 my new acquaintance I placed it before 3 a . j t ine jeweier ana asKea mm to give me an opinion as to its value. " 'A ver' fine stone, sir,' said the possession of so fine a diamond.' . " 'It is not mine. It belongs to my friend here.' 'Ah, if that be the case, then I con gratulate beem,' said the polite trades man. .'. 'What An von nnnnout it in worth?' ; -' " 'Oh, it is difficult to say,' said the Wrmrchman, shrugging bis shoulders. 7on gentleman sinks von price mor' for him; another sinks' 'Yes, but what would yoa giro if fm were to bay it? Would yoa give : 1,800 francs?' "The jeweler did not reply for a few seconds. He popped his microscope once more into bis eye, held the ring op to the light, examined the setting and foil to making elaborate calculations wrth a pencil on a sheet of paper. - i ao not often bay such large tones, bat I will give yoa 2,500 francs for this one.' w Frenchman, assuming that bis offer was Meepted, plaoed the ring on a little Mfee behind him and opened bis desk " M 'Not so fast, said Brother Jona Mmb. . 'The diamond's not for said.' -i " 'Two thousand six hundred franca was the Frenchman's reply. ' A Flourishing Community. The little town of Klingenberg-on-the-r, Main derives so large a revenue from itr : elay pits that the citizens not only pi. v no rates, bat receive annually a nice 11 1 ' tie sum ont of the funds of tbe township. Last year indeed every young man in the township who was drawn for the army was treated to a Christmas present of 15 ' marks from the public treasury. Lei p r.ayter Tageblatt. , THE FIRST IRISH POTATOES. Mr alter Raleigh Planted Them Near Cork bat the People Feared Them. Sir Walter Raleigh was an unprin cipled adventurer and failed as an ad ministrator and colonizer, bat he had a most commendable taste for planting and gardening, and in these branches of effort bis influence remains potent. Three hundred years have passed since be lived in -Ireland, in the county of Cork, on the vast estate which had been bestowed upon him, but the yellow wall Cowers which ho brought to Ireland from the Azores still flourish and bloom in the very spot where he planted them. Near by, at Youghal, near Cork, on tbe shores of tbe Black water estuary, etands the Affatie cherry which be planted. Some cedars which be brought to Cork are still growing at a place called Tivoli. Four yew trees, whose branches have grown and interlaced into a sort of summer bouse, are point ed out as having sheltered Baleigb when he first smoked tobacco in bis garden at Youghal. Baleigb tried to make tobacco grow in Great Britain, but the climate was not found suitable to it. He succeeded, however, by introducing the babit of smoking it, in making it grow in plenty in other places. More important to the world than tbe spot where Baleigb sut and smoked bis Indian weed is another spot in his gar den at Myrtle Grove, in this - same Youghal. This spot is still bounded by the town wall of the thirteenth century. It was here that Baleigb first planted a carious tuber brought from America, which throve vastly better than bis to bacco plants did. This tuber Raleigh insisted was good to eat, though common report for a long time pronounced it poisonous. Some roots from his vines be gave to other land owners in Monster. They culti vated them and spread them abroad from year to year. This plant was the Irish potato. Be fore many generations it became the staple food of the Irish people almost the only food of a great many of them. It was the "Irish potato which came back to America and became tbe groundwork, so to epeak, of the Amer ican farmers and workingman's daily breakfast and dinner. Sir Walter's carious experiment in acclimatization became an economic etep of the very first consequence, and the spot at You ghal which was its scene deserves mark ing with a monument much more than do the places where tbe blood of men has been shed in battle. Youth s Com panion. Raskin' Methodlcalnesa. Never has a man been more method ical in bis work than Professor Buskin, nor more precise in obedience to the rules he has laid down for bis guidance. His working hours have always been from 7 in the morning until noon, and on no account whatever wotua ne ex ceed the limit. Within those five daily hours has all his work been produced books, lectures and business, public and private correspondence. Work in the afternoon has always been by himself forbidden, unless it took the form of reading. His earlier works, of course, were written at Heme or at Denmark Hill or while on a tour on the conti nent. His later ones huve been wrought in great part at tbe flower decked table of his study, overlooking Coniston lake. A wonderful room, that long study of bis, with his Turners upon the walls and ranged in ranks in the great Turner cabinet npon tbe floor, with its book cases of wonderful missals and manu scripts and early black letter books and tbe original manuscripts of a half dozen of Scott's novels, with its superb Lucca della Bobbia "Virgin and Child" over the fireplace at one end and the mineral cabinet at the tther. With what pleas ure did Buskin show them to me on my first visit tbe unrivaled collection of agates and the equally perfect collection of gold ores and the rest. McCl ore's Magacine. . The Chinese Hunchback. I am reminded of a picture I pur chased some time ago. I bought it be cause I thought it was tbe ngliest pic tare I bad ever seen. I tried to find oat the history or meaning of the thing for some time without any success until a few days ago, while studying Taoism, I found tbe ugly man was one of the Taoist gods. In his early days his spirit had the power of leaving his body and roaming over tbe universe alone. When off on one of these trips, wolves came and ate bis body. So when bis spirit re turned it found only a few bones. After banting around for awhile the spirit found the body of a dead hunchback beggar who walked with an iron cane in his lifetime. The spirit crawled in this body and bas lived in it ever since. Tih Kwalei, for that is the god's name, carries a gourd on his back, which, if tbe breath were blown out of it in the heavens, would bring back bis original body. According to last accounts, the breath has not flown out of the gourd. Canton Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. Seen From Balloon. A remarkable sight to be seen from a balloon is the bottom of lakes and ponds. While over Lake Erie Carl E. Myers, the balloonist, says be saw clearly a wreck lying under 73 feet of water. It was that of' a schooner. Bank 40 years ago. At a height of half a mile tbe en tire bottom of a small lake or pond can be clearly seen, and Mr. Myers believes that on a clear day an aeronaut of good vision could see from a height of a mile submarine objects at a depth of 400 or 500 feet beneath tbe water. Prise Samples of Bad Grammar. An English paper gives the following sentence as the perfection of bad gram mar: "Them sheeps is yourn." How about the famous reply of the Yorkshire children when "Dr. Syntax" told them that their mother was - calling them t John Leech, we think, reported and il lustrated it years ago: "Her ain't a-call-ing we. Us don't belong to she." Bos ton Pilot i Sweet Childhood. Tommy Europe's in the east, isn't it, papa? His Father Yes. Tommy And yoa can get there just by starting west and going far enough, cant you? His Father Certainly. Tommy Well, then, whereabouts on the way round do yoa stop going west and begin to get east again? Chicago Record. ERADICATES BLOOD POI , SON AND BLOOD TAINT. CBvnAi. bottles of Swift's Specific (S.S. S.) "7 entirely cleansed my system of contagious blood poison of the very worst type. Wc S. Looms, Shrereport, La. CURES SCROFULA EVEN IN ITS WORST FORMS. Y had scrofula in J8M, and cleansed my L.JFQ'tl fm lt b takin seren pottles of S. S. S. I have not nad any symp toms since. C. W. Wilcox, Spartanburg, S.C I HAS CURED HUNDREDS OF CASES OF SKIN CANCER. Treatise on Blood and Bldn Diseases mailed tree. Swift Sracinc Co, Atlanta. Ga J. A. CAUTHORN, Heal Estate, Insurance and CoilEclion Agency. Corvallis, Oregon, GREATLY REDUCED R4TES :m:.aj-ie tec ei $suth Rji) Pacific) k) FOR THE CALIFORNIA iiDWiNTEB Fair. 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