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Circumstantial The By D O NALD CHAMBERLIN T h « B eau tiful C / p r»«t Of ull tbe trees In America th « cy- press Is III «UIUUII I III« most henutIfllL Ever ft cab mid green, its tiny leaflet* (iMi'iiible the choc eat ferns Young, it I* n tiling of Guinn; older, It U Uiaplr big and Interesting; mature. It becomes majestic, towering, with a long, air.ilgbl. thick trunk, which uiakui tbe beat of durable lumber. It Is a tree o f rapid giow th It is Hardy an.' where In the con» belt and • iitilhwaril It bus no Insect eneuilea or y i-e o " V n. hi could plant a cypres« tree In Ills lawn, enjoy Its wonderful pre-i lice during Ida life, snd bis son nil; id cut il and with Hie proceeds send the grand son to college for a year. W lull oilier tree will afford shade, add lN'iiut> and make fine lumber at the same time? Cypres» trees transplant easily, though they should be mulched tbe llr.I year and I*.k id after occasionally. Ole e established, 1 1. • v tire uble to for age h>t I In-in eli es Cypress leaves have U*en found unchanged lo blocks of mui d e e p down in tbe earth - Breed er * Gazette. A FIERY DOSE By JO H N Y . L A R N E D Tin* lawsuit between tlit* MacGregor When Billy Olcott was invited to mid Mm*All«l«er estutes (mil been do spend n week with his friend Tom Bob- rld iil lu fnvor o f Fergus Mu<A lister, erts he was delighted. U e had met •'»llalli lu Alexander MacGregor. who Tom's sister, Fanny, and had fallen be luí<I ••«■i'll long III |*» hs «* sm I uij of tile oh fore a pair o f liquid brown eyes, s pair lute. Both wore bachelor*, nuil, no I o f coral lips and a pair o f dimple«, tlior lie v Inj.' clilldrou. tlio properly one In each cheek. Since that meeting Mould Imvo gone lu miy W ont to Mac he bad thought o f her by day and Allster hud lila rounin oonllnuod to live dreamed o f her by n igh t H e received »¡ligio. Hut Fergus Imd board tbnt the Invitation on Monday for the fo l Ale* wtiH iiImut to lio liinrrli-d. und. lowing Friday. Then followed tbe aloro there was u iloulil ua to wbelh four longest days o f Billy's life. or lie or bln I'oualn was legally outltiod counted the hours till at last th « day to l lio patato, bo bad ooiiniioticod ault lu glllll It, of bis departure arrived, and an boar MinGregor wus loo lioiiornblo to |a-r before dinner be waa under tbe aam« mil llolon Cliueriiu to become Ilia w ife roof with the girl who had enthralled till It was dooldod whether bo would him. Now for the wooing. I k * rbii or |amr. nud wfieli tbo case Fowl Nam«s. Tom ’s brother, Jim, was UI In bed wna decided against biin bo rolouaod Tbe fnt plumber was lu a philosoph und did not make bis appearance. On brr. lio mudo preparations to loara tbo ical wood. the second night o f BUly's visit he liumostond to bin coualu, and when all “ There Is simply no understanding went to tied at 11 o’clock and was soon wna ready and be waa about to leave woman.** he observed. asleep. lie was awakened by hearing Fergus drove up to tbe bomoatead. "\Vbaddye menu, understand?“ tbe ullglilod and went Into tbe bouae. some one moving about the room. thin carpenter asked. Just to start the Andrew Cummings, a cobbler, waa Whoever u was tried to light a conversation. paaalng Unit wuy at (1 o'cba'k in tbe match. It spattered a moment and "W ell, for instance, a woman doesn’t evening Ho noticed MacAllator'a went out, but not before Billy saw by object to being called a duck." ctialao U*foro tbe gate, :tnd at tbe mo its light the face o f Fanny Roberts. “ No." ment A le* MacGregor came out e v i “ There,” she grumbled, “ the last "And she even smiles If some one dently In a rage and puaaod down the match gone, and I don't know where happen* to refer to her at a chicken " roud MucAllator did not return to Ida to find another! However, I know ex "T o o true.” borne to dinner, and. aluce It waa actly where I left your medicine—In “ And moat o f them will stand for known that be bad gone to the bouis- the closet on the third shelf from the atead d o in g tbe evening, a aervunt being called squatis. broilers or turtle ; bottom In tbe right hand corner. I dove*.” wna acut to And out If possibl« If be don't believe In giving medicine in the wna there lie found bis maater lying “ Yes. yea, but what's the Idea7” dark, but I ’ll risk It this time.” on the floor o f tbe library dead. Ilia "It's Juat (his.” the fat plumlier ex- ! Billy beard her groping and fum skull bad licru fractured, apparently claimed "A woman object* to being with nn Iron laiker that allowed signa called a hen. and a hen I* tbe moat bling, and Anally she came to his bed side. put a glass half fail o f some o f having Inflicted the blow. useful bird of tbe whole blooming liquid to his lips and poared It down Alexander MacGregor was suspected, bunch."- Youngstown Telegram. his throat. Then she left him with but It was not till Andy Cummings I good night. told of what he had soon that Alex Tiny German States. Olcott was one o f the most modest was arrested. Ills story was that Just White It la well known that some of sensitive young men in the world, and before leaving tbe bomoatead Ida cons tbe German states are o f lllllputlan lu bad come In Tbe meeting was a size, few persona ure aivare that It I* be considered young girls to be even trying one to Alex, who bud Juat been quite possible to visit seven of them. , more sensitive than himself. I f Fanny dispossessed He bud upbraided Ida luiiudlug two kingdoms, two duchlea knew tb it she had come lDto his room cousin, saying tbnt he bad not a cent and three principalities in an easy at midnight by mistake to give him a In tbe world and knew not where to go walk o f four and a half hour* A good dose o f medicine she wou.d never get for n lodging. Fergus bud taken out walker, starting from Stelnbnch. Ui over tbe shock. This is the reason a handful of gold pieces and offered Havana, will arrive in half an hour at why he bad not made her mistake them to him Alex bud scornfully de Lk-htentaune. which Is situated in known to her and why he bad permit ted ber to pour down bis throat n clined to take them and bad left tbe Snxe-Meliilngen Thence the road pro- medicine he did not need. bouse lu nn excited state of mlud. --eeds lu one and a half hours to He lay congratulating himself on the I MacGregor's misfortune was too Rauschetigesee* i Keus*. elder bronchi, much for Heleu Cameron, who. despite after which lu n few minutes Olcitna. delicacy with which he bad handled her father’s comuiauds, visited him lu In Schivsrzburg Kudolstndt. ts reached. | the matter and how, if she came to know o f her mLstnke. It would set him Jnll mid sat la’skle him during tbe trial, H alf an hour's walk brings the |>edes declaring that she would marry hlffi. trlnn to Altengeseees ilteuss. younger up In ber opinion. Girls were some times caught by trifles, and he wouldn't whatever the verdict might lie. Since bronchi An hour farther on lies no one sijw tbe murder committed her Hrngn tz.. on 1‘msslnn soil, and tbe last wouder if thLs bit o f sacrifice would ¡ lover was not convicted, but there were stage ts another hour's stroll, finishing cause her to fall in love with him. Tbeu be felt something down In his few but believed that be ImditllliHl his up ut Siaitb.il. Saxe-Altenburg.—Wash stomach where the dose had gone that cousin. Indeed, there w h s n special Imctou Slur. felt as If a red hot poker had been ap I motive for Ills putting Fergus out of plied to his internals. H e started. A i the way, for st Fergus' death be came Over Thslr Heads. dose in the dark bad teen given him, I ngnlu lulo possession of the estate be laidv Southwark. In her “ Sodnl snd and might it not have been tbe wrong ' bad lost. k Political Reminiscences.'' relates this For a time Alex refused to permit experience o f her father, tbe late Sir medicine? Another application o f the H e sat up In bed, his hair Helen *to make the sacrifice o f marry riiotmi* Chambers, during nn election hot poker ing n man who had been convicted by meeting In ISSO. when Gladstone was atood on end and a cold sweat broke out all over him. Fanny had been opinion If not by the courts. But wheu speaking for him In St. t’ nncras: looking for a bottle in the closet In her It was found that If she were not per- "When oiy father arrived the crowd i milted to bear her burden with hint outside the building was so dense that brother's room, not Billy's. She cer i her life would still tie wrecked his par tt M-oiiied physically Imiaisslble for him tainly had given him the wrong dose. Great heavens! Could she have poi ents liegged Alex to withdraw his op- to get In An Inspector, realizing this, ! position. The pair were married pri suggested that lie shoud go over and soned him? A third application o f the poker. vately and lived, not where the tuur- not through tbe crowd. This extraor i der hail ticen committed, bat at Hel- dinary Idea was carried out. My father This time it seemed to Billy that some i en's home. «¿is lifted up with s gentle shove and one had gripped him with redhot pin He sprang out o f bed, ran to Alex drooped under the stigma o f be nropelled along on the heads o f the cers ing considered his cousin’s murderer. neople on all fours This, he said, was Tom Roberts’ door and hammered on He was cut by bis old friends, and hail ind <o difficult, as most wore howler IL Tom came out In his pajamas and I It not l«eeti for his w ife not a human ants Willing bands assisted, and when asked what was the matter. "B rin g me an emetic as soon as you I being would have crossed his thresb- he ren. hisl the Inside of the door be can!" cried Billy. 'T in afraid I’ ve j old. L ife to him was an intolerable was gently lowered to the ground.” swallowed poison.” burden. H e preferred death to such a Tom ran to his sister’s door, called 1 life. On« Exception. One day hLs w ife went to the home Mrs. Blanc said to her daughter one her up and told her to go downstairs stead to examine the room where day: and bring up some mustard and warm I her husband had told her he had had "1 mn certainly easy on shoes. Look water She tried to find out who had an interview with Fergus with a view ill this pair o f elastic sides. I've worn been poisoned, but Tom told her to “ go to discovering n clew to the real mur them three years, and they're as good on and be quick about It.” When she derer. She made a search of tbe room as new I'm easy on clothes too. brought up the emetic she found B illy’s where tbe corpse bad lieeu found and There's my tw eed—Just as fresli ns tbe door open, the room lighted and her under a baseboard caught a glimpse of day I bought tt seven years ago. And brother I ending over the groaning In something yellow. Withdrawing tbe hats, gloves, stia-kliigs-In fact. I'in valid. object It proved to be n gold sover easy on everyth in g” Then for the first time she under eign. “ Except father, eb?” said the daugh stood the cause o f the trouble. She MacGregor had told o f the offer of ter — Detroit Free Press. flew to the closet, opened the door, the gold pieces by his cousin, but had took out a vial and read the label no proof o f his story. Heleu, without Then she put the vial back again and B o m b s In W a r f a r e . n word to her husband, took the sov It Is claimed that during the siege gave Billy a look, but said nothing. ereign to her lawyer. Ue carried it of Parts in I5U0 the Parisians Invent " I took a dose of thnL” said Billy to the only bank In the vicinity, and p<l the ftr«t bombs ever used Being between groans. "W ill It kill me?” nfter nn investigation It was learned short of ammunition with which to "N o,” replied Fanny. that they had received n considerable reply to ibe artillery o f the Bearnals, “ W hat Is It?" number o f sovereigns of the same coin they set lo fabricating It ns best they “ A preparation o f ginger and red age (1S4Si Just I h ’I'M c the «Lite o f the could Old nails and bits o f wire, pepper." murder and on the morning o f the day topper l*nd other metals were rolled “ Is that a l i r MacAltster was killed had paid him flf "Y es; it won't hurt you.” up In leaden envelopes, and the can ty of them. "That's past praying for. It’s eating non* « e r e loaded with these Inipro The piece Helen had found was the vtsisl prob-etlles. my vitals." TRADE M A R K only one that was traced up to tills “ Thank heaven It’s no worse.” "It's bad enough as it Is.” time. Andy Cummings some time lift Bight and Left. “ Hoiv came you to take It?” queried et tile murder was remembered by one A write: says that probably In every 1 o f Ills neigblmrs to have offered a gold language. s in English, "righ t“ orig Tom. This ivas a poser. Billy took advan sovereign to In* changed Into silver Inaili r mlfied merely ''straight.'' The attorney got out a warrant to "straight! wnrd” and thus "normaL ' tage o f another Internal firebrand to search Andy's premises, and five sovpr “ L o ft” a first was no opposite to invent a story. When the paroxysm Q U IC K , C E R T A IN , had passed he said: rlgns. coinage o f ISIS, were found in a "right," ¿it men ui 'w eak." "tnetli “ Just la-fore I came up here I felt stocking bidden under tbe eaves of Ills dont.'' sick nud went to a doctor, lie said I cabin. H K A D Y K O I» I N S T A N T ( » R . had authropomegnphone and gave me Mors Worry. Andy was arrested lie at fir t < < R K V E R K A II .R . Destroy« squirrel«, gophers, prairie dona. > » ( « plnlned having tbe sovereigns In bis "Don t worry Worry affects the some medicine for It. I forgot t6 take rata. A| Apply early In Korin* when th« luinary ductless t: mil* ol the body, therein it before going to tied; got up nnd hunt paita eeta awake aw from W inter'« sleep. Money back possession by the statement that Nine If It ever falla. "W ood-I.ark" for 26 yeara Allster had owed him money, but when causing actual physical ailments." ed for it in the dark. I must havtf got haa atood every teat. It'a crop Inaurance Into the wrong place.” “ Gosh I'm sorry you told me th;it acalnat rodent peate. If your denier haan't pressed for what the debt was for he It, w rite ua. It ivi make tne worry.” — Isiulsville By iIsis time the emetic took effect, broke down and made a confession. nnd I-’ nnny took advantage o f the fact On seeing MacGregor come out o f the Courier-Journal. PO R TLA N D , O RRQOR, to withdraw. W hile Billy was retch homestead curiosity had moved him to W »r ing he thought he heard a te hee In the For sale at Beauchamp’s Drug Store go In anil Investigate the cause of his tv-» n:is always been the mint in next room, wrath In the library he had found on "Confound that girl!” he said men- n tnhle the gold Fergus had offered whli I- he world's history has been Alex. Cupidity seized him. lie was rolnetl nut in-iv every day or week or tally—bn was doing something else month lias a m-iv medal for im.- Oliver physically—“ catch mo trying to shield gathering them In when Fergus ap IN end« Holme* her again. Next time she tries to give penred A struggle followed Audi me a dose I’ll turu It down her own seized the poker by the fireplace, stru. U Iini-ossthle Is the precepL 'Know , tlmvit.” his opponent on the head and killed tin - -tr till i 1 1 - translated into thl« But Hie next morning he felt better him. To divert suspicion from himself be iMiilinl i possible one, ‘ Know what and whs doing a lot o f spooning—not thou ranst work at ' ” Carlyle | with medicine either. had told what he had seen I l Stay ton Mail CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ©N ANY PUBLICATION PRINTED SEE US AND BE CONVINCED OUR CLUBBING RATES ARE ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE C all us up WOOD-LARK" ë^î^GOPHE* ON DEADLY Clarke. W oodw ard Drus Co. Subscribe For The Mail Dictionary Reader*. That th* natives of Nigeria ur# ra ps bis o f advanced form* of education Is apparently proved by this little Inci dent told by Constance Larytuore In “ A Resident's W ife In Nigeria:” "M y husband told tin- that lu the course o f tbe patrol llie} ¡-asaed through a valley where tbe Inhabitant* o f the rocks and hills above apparent ly made their homes In holes and caves. One member o f the party Idly asked what was the scientific name for cave dwellers, tbe word having slipped his memory for tbe moment. No one appeared to be able to supply the word. But then tbe native Inter preter, plodding along behind, came up, saying: 'Pardon me. sir. Don't you mean troglodytes?* "T b e F.ngllsbman. amazed, asked where be had ever beard snch a word, and 'George' replied placidly, T waa reading n dictionary one day and aaw I t ’ “ I cannot Imagine myself reading a German or Italian dictionary for pleas ure and storing In my mind for future use conversationally a specially un usual scientific term. I only wish I could." Spartans Kept In Trim. Tbe ancient Spartans paid ns much attention to the rearing o f men aa cat tle dealers In thla country and England In modern times do to the breeding o f cattle. They took charge o f firmness and looseness o f men's flesh, and regu lated tbe degree o f fatness to which It was lawful. In a free state, fo r any citizen to extend bis body. Those who dared to grow too fat or too soft for military exercise and the service o f Sparta were soundly whip ped. — In one particular Instance, that o f Kaaclis. the son o f Polytns, the offend er was brought before the Epborl and a meeting o f the whole people o f Spar ta, at which his unlawful fatness was publicly exposed, and he was threat ened with perpetual banishment If be did not bring bis body within the reg ular Spartan compass and give ap bis culpable mode o f living, which was de clared to be more worthy o f an Ionian than a sou o f Lacedaemon.—Philadel phia Inquirer. A Napoleonic Famine Scare. Britain was on tbe verge o f a bread famine daring the Napoleonic wars, and In 1800 a law waa enacted prohib iting the sale o f bread till it had been out o f the oven at least twenty-four hours. "Food was so scarce and dear.” writes F. W. Hackwood. “ that a por tion o f the population refused to starve in silence, and rioting broke out In many parts o f England. • * • A royal grant o f £500 was made to one Thomas Toden to enable him to prosecute a dis covery made by him o f a 'paste' as a substitute for wheat flour. • • • The unfortunate seamen fighting Great Britain’s battle on tbe high seas bad to subsist on biscuits so badly made that when tbe weevils were knocked out there often remained nothing but empty shells." A plentiful harvest the follow ing year saved the situation.— London Standard. "Decimation.” A popular error which recurs with unvarying regularity whenever mili tary engagements are reported Is the use o f the word “ decimated" to Imply a crushing defeat or something ap proaching annihilation. Yet. as a mo ment's consideration o f the real mean ing o f the word suffices to show, tbe word Is so used quite erroneously. •‘Decimation" means the destruction o f one-tenth part o f the force Involved, and tbe loss o f one in ten. though suf ficiently serious, certainly does not mean anything like that wholesale de struction usually meant wheu "deci mation" Is talked of. Losses o f one In three or one In four have been sustain ed by forces which still maintained their cohesion and discipline.—W est minster Gazette. How Dr. Holmes FcIL Dr. Oliver W. Holmes was small In stature. Upon one occasion he was present at a meeting which happened to be attended by a number o f very large men. thus making bis diminutive size rather conspicuous in contrast. One o f these men— doubtless wishing to make him feel at ense—came up to him and said: “ W ell. Dr. Holmes. 1 should think you would feel rather small among all these fellows.” “ I do,” replied the doctor: "1 feel like a 3 cent piece among a lot o f pennies.” Suicides In China. The Chinese look upon all suicides with honor except when the suicide is from trouble caused by gambling. Fre quently If a Chinaman insults .mother the quarrel is followed b.v the suicide o f the insulted man, who thinks he lias cast Ignominy on his aggressor by tak ing his own life. Good ld « a . Little Margie had watched a man tune the piano and was told It was for the purpose o f improving the sound. One day when ber infant brother wus crying she said. “ Mamma, can't l tele phone for the baby tuner?” —Chicago News. Passing Judgment. Producer — The comedians seemid nervous. W hat they needed was life. Critic—You're too severe! Twenty years would be enough.—Judge. The Bible. The Bible has been so called only for the last 700 years, it wns formerly called “The Books” or the "D ivin e L i brary.” ________ Frugality, when all Is spent, contra too late.—Seneca.